Working Gratitude - Real People. Real Gratitude At Work.

Bestselling authors Ed & Deb Shapiro are authors of 20 books on mindfulness, meditation, & the body-mind relationship, including The Art of Mindful Relaxation, Your Body Speaks Your Mind, and their latest, The Unexpected Power of Mindfulness & Meditation. They have also been featured bloggers for HuffPost.com & Oprah.com. More at www.edanddebshapiro.com

A president’s club successful Realtor, David Oliphant loves change. A life objective has been to say yes more than no. When new opportunities come up, he looks at each one with thanks. He has hosted a TV show, been a cruise director, a flight attendant, restaurant owner & now Realtor…plus he teaches yoga 3 times a week. David lives a blended life.

Director of University events for DePaul University, Jen Kramer is an award-winning creative event director. In our Working Gratitude we discuss a personal project she undertook in 2018. Year Of Love Project: 365 Days of Love Letters. https://www.facebook.com/groups/theyearofloveproject/

Sylvette Sawyers is a leader in the talent space with a focus on global talent acquisition. Recruiting is her art and passion. Sylvette wants to elevate the contribution of the function and recruiters...beyond the expected! She has lived this passion with great organizations like Microsoft, Gap Inc., as a consultant and now Opendoor, a real estate tech company.

Chief Operating Officer with F&H Solutions Group, Brad Federman is an author, a speaker and a consultant with more than 25 years of experience in human resources, performance management, employee engagement, compensation, recruiting, change management and instructional design. His background also includes sales, marketing, product development and operations. With a B.A. in communications from University of Maryland and M.Ed. in human resource development from Vanderbilt University, he is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, a frequently requested featured speaker, an author of three books and has been interviewed for numerous national publications. (https://www.fhsolutionsgroup.com/)

American soprano, Melody Moore, has performed in roles with opera companies from San Francisco, New York City, Atlanta, England, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. Soon with Houston Grand Opera and Minnesota Opera. A graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, a former Adler Fellow of San Francisco Opera and a participant of the Merola program of San Francisco. A new mommy to a 2 year old puppy, and Melody and her wife live in the San Fernando Valley.

As co-founder and CEO of Thnks, Brendan is responsible for all day-to-day operations of the platform and is the guardian of Thnks’ strategic vision. Brendan is on a mission to improve the way gratitude is expressed within the workplace and between sales teams and their clients.

With a background in accounting Michelle James is co-founder & volunteer executive director of The Downtown Dogs Group. Founded in 2009, Downtown Dogs is dedicated to this premise. All neglected & abused dogs & cats, regardless of age, breed, health or temperament issues, deserve a loving family.

Scott Fountain is Senior VP & Chief Development Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, TN. Baptist is one of the largest faith-based, non-profit hospital systems in the nation with 21 hospitals & 18,500 employees in TN, MS & AR. He oversees the $500 million BMHC Foundation, & is responsible for Corp. Communications for Baptist.

April Kelly was at PayPal before it was PayPal, went on to what was then a start-up, LinkedIn. Her work in those roles gave her great insights about leadership and gratitude that she shares in her book “Gratitude at Work.” She is grateful for technology that connects people and ideas.

Ed and Deb Shapiro, award-winning authors of sixteen books on meditation and personal development, are featured bloggers for HuffingtonPost.com and Oprah.com. They have taught meditation and personal development for over twenty-five years. Ed and Deb share how gratitude is a consistent mindset and part of their work.

Melody Moore is an American Soprano performing internationally. She is very grateful to have a voice beyond singing but also to have found her voice to speak her truth. Having faced significant stage fright over the course of her career, she has found gratitude in moving beyond this and other unrealistic fears. Her gratitude, generosity and kindness overflows into her professional community by mentoring young students with master classes and other outreach. She affirms students in finding their voice and standing in their opinion.

Chip Conley is an author, speaker and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality. He speaks around the world on how to find meaning at the intersection of business and psychology. His latest adventure is as a festival seeker and he is grateful to travel and write about that. He can even find gratitude in the two economic downturns for very strategic reasons and because of what he learned during these times. "The number one fastest way on any continent in the world is to practice gratitude." He expresses gratitude and works to make a difference financially and with time and energy dedicated toward localized transformational organizations.

The Honorable John Kralik, Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles, is the author of the New York Times bestseller "A Simple Act of Gratitude - How Learing to Say Thank You Changed My Life." He is grateful for people who help him in his work every day and he is still in the habit of writing thank you notes to those people. "When you send out your appreciation to others, it is like a wave in a lake. It just ripples and ripples and ultimately comes back to you."