Dana Denis, MSPH., RD (topic expert: nutrition)

Dana Denis is a registered dietitian with the American Dietetic Association. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California and her Master of Science in Public Health, Nutritional Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has held clinical and management positions in the Department of Food and Nutrition Services at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dana lives with her husband and two sons in Manhattan Beach, California.

Toddi Gutner (topic expert: balance)

Toddi is a dynamic award-winning journalist who has covered the financial markets, real estate, retirement issues, health and women in business for print, television and the Internet. For the last ten years, she was an associate editor at BusinessWeek magazine, where she had a proven track record for groundbreaking, provocative cover stories and special reports on such topics as the hidden impact of the alternative minimum tax, the transformation of the bond market in the digital age, and baby boomers who still want to work in retirement. Toddi became the first woman columnist at BusinessWeek magazine when she created and wrote a popular and well-respected weekly column in print and online called HERS, which focused on women and their financial and professional lives. Toddi also developed and edited a page of brief news items, for which required her to review up to 300 pitches a week, assign the stories and manage the writers.

Before joining BusinessWeek in 1996, Toddi wrote for Forbes magazine for five years where she covered such topics as mutual funds, small businesses, and large companies. Prior to becoming a journalist, Ms. Gutner was as an economic analyst for five years at a private economic consulting firm, National Economic Research Associates in Washington, D.C. where she researched and wrote about electric utility regulation.

Toddi received her Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan.

Michelle Jordan (topic expert: community)

Michelle Jordan is a principal and founder of Jordan, LLC a consulting firm specializing in assisting CEOs and senior executives with their strategic communications needs. The company, founded in 1998, is based in Southern California and works with clients on both the East and West Coasts.

Jordan has spent over twenty-five years in the strategic communications and public relations field, holding various executive positions with firms based in London, New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Jordan, a recipient of many awards for business and public relations, is an accomplished speaker appearing at many industry and professional events and has appeared several times on the Fox TV News Channel as a media strategist. She is an active member of community and charity organizations and resides in Southern California.

Nan Kappeler, BS, AS (topic expert: fitness)

Nan Kappeler is the owner of NC Kappeler, LLC, fitness consulting services. She has spent 15 years working in the fitness industry providing personal training and physical rehabilitation to people of all ages and abilities in the Orange County, California area. She is an accomplished triathlete and conducts triathlon training clinics in Newport Beach, California. She plans to launch her newest triathlon product in the spring of 2007.

Nan's credentials include a B.S. in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland, and an A.S. in physical therapy from Loma Linda University. She is also a certified Twinges and Hinges water exercise teacher for the Arthritis Foundation and certified in teaching balance and mobility classes from the gerontology department at California State University in Fullerton.

Roberta Lee, MD (topic expert: health)

Roberta Lee, MD, is Medical Director of the Center for Health and Healing, Director of Continuing Medical Education, and Co-Director of the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel's Continuum Center for Health and Healing (CCHH). In addition, she conducts a clinical practice in Internal and Integrative medicine at CCHH. The Center is a multi-disciplinary clinic which includes a mixture of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and traditional healers working together to provide integrative medical management with a special focus on the preventative aspects of health. She recently co-edited a text on integrative medicine, entitled Integrative Medicine: Principles for Practice.

Dr. Lee is an Honorary Research Associate at The New York Botanical Garden in the Institute of Economic Botany. Her research interests include studying a cross section of cultural and botanical influences on health, healing, and promotion of wellness in chronic disease.

Dr. Lee attended medical school at George Washington University Medical School after completing her undergraduate training at UC Berkeley. Following the completion of her residency, she served as a U.S Public Health Service physician in Micronesia for five years.

Dr. Lee lectures and writes on the uses of botanical medicine and integrative approaches to a variety of medical conditions. She has served as a member on the ad hoc Botanical Advisory committee for U.S. Pharmacoepoeia and is a medical advisor for the Herbalist Guild. Currently she is regular contributing editor to EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, consulting editor for Herbclip, a botanical news letter from the American Botanical Council, and an Advisory Board Member for the American Botanical Council.

Dennis Parks, MBA (topic expert: walking)

Dennis's credentials for writing about the world of walking have evolved from his "on-the-job" training trying to keep pace with his wife Sue plus years of personal walking adventures from the summit of Mt. Whitney to the jungles of Viet Nam and the streets of most major cities in between. Dennis loves the game of golf and insists on walking the game, course permitting.

Dennis holds an MBA in Marketing and is an experienced corporate leader and communicator. As a communicator, in his career prior to launching WalkStyles with Sue, he wrote monthly "industry expert" columns for several trade publications. Dennis truly believes that walking for fun, health and companionship is the only way to live life and he will help you do it properly!

Ken Potalivo (topic expert: productivity, passion and purpose)

Ken Potalivo is President and founder of ProGrowth, Inc., a business and personal coaching organization established in January 1997. Ken founded ProGrowth because he believed coaching would make a significant difference in the lives of service professionals. His philosophy is anchored in the belief that every service professional is an individual entity and that his/her success is based on fundamental business principles. He has personally conducted over 10,000 coaching sessions and his organization continues to focus on helping successful service professionals lead a balanced work and personal life.

Prior to founding ProGrowth, Ken spent over 25 years in the service industry, specializing in developing and building various regional operations and overseeing their expansion. Ken is the son of a military officer and for the most part grew up outside of the United States. He has a B.A. degree from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, and received his MBA from Pepperdine University after attending the Presidential/Key Executive program there. Ken lives with his wife Betty in San Juan Capistrano, California.

Judy B. Rosener, Ph.D. (topic expert: community)

Dr. Rosener is a professor in the Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine. Her research focus is on gender issues in the workplace. She is considered an expert in this field and is a sought after speaker at corporations, professional organizations and educational institutions.

Dr. Rosener is the author of the path-breaking article, "Ways Women Lead," (Harvard Business Review, November/December, 1990), co-author of Workforce America! Managing Employee Diversity as a Vital Resource (Business One Irwin, 1991), and author of America's Competitive Secret, Women Managers (Oxford University Press, Paperback, Fall, 1997). She is currently working on a book about sex-based brain, hormonal and socialization differences, and their implications for decision making in the workplace. She has been married for 55 years and has three adult children.