Paul David Walker, Founder & CEO of Genius Stone Partners was part of building the first leadership firm to align Strategy, Structure and Culture, and has been a business leadership adviser to the CEO’s of Fortune 500 and midsized companies for over 25 years. He is the author of Unleashing Genius: Leading Yourself, Teams and Corporations, and two other books. He has succeeded by unleashing the genius of the people around him and is known to be a visionary leader and master of collaboration. Paul brings a special energy that calms people and brings teams together. He has been, and is, mentored by some of the most profound, business leaders, philosophers and spiritual leaders of our time.

“Paul took our Executive Team through the best team building I have ever experienced.  Not only has the velocity of execution increased, but we are more focused on key strategic actions.” -Bill McGinnis, CEO, NTS

“Paul is the best executive coach I have ever known.” -Lloyd Wallis, President, Rubbercraft

Michael Utvich is an award-winning author and expert in Product Launch and business development marketing. Over the past 30 years, Michael has written nine books on technology. His work bridges familiar elements people can relate to, and creates a third reality that is compelling and clear. He worked as an SME/Expert consultant to develop high technology product brand, market strategy, tactics and execution for Fortune 500 clients and high technology start-ups alike. High technology products often involve complex relationships and intangible concepts, and their value turns on how they enable people to interact, collaborate and build high performance work processes. Michael is known for making distinctions that change the way leaders see and access their markets.

“I've known and worked with Michael Utvich for many years. Michael is a true expert in several aspects of business, management, marketing, branding, and technology to improve the strategies, success, branding, and corporate value of his clients. With wisdom and a sure hand, he brings these skills together, in different ways, to meet the needs, capabilities and culture of his clients.   His recommendations are practical, actionable, insightful, motivating and typically can be put into practice in an incremental way that produces value quickly." - Warren Reid, Managing Director, WSR

Francis Gaskins, a seasoned financial analyst who often appears on video financial news channels including Bloomberg TV, CNBC and thestreet.com," is noted as the Internet's most experienced, analytical web cast producer and interviewer. Often quoted, his scope of influence includes editor (IPOdesktop), Talk Radio, Internet TV, and Video Productions, plus numerous articles and opinions published in the nation's financial media. Is the leading provider of independent IPO research, for professional money managers and individual investors.  One of 'Forbes Best IPO Sites'.  Francis, is widely quoted by the IPO media including the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Business News, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, USA Today, TheStreet.com, CBS MarketWatch. He brings deep insight to Genius Stone Partners clients in the public sector, and is known as someone who presents "the facts" as opposed to spin. His varied personal interests include violin playing. For example, he is concertmaster of the Palisades Symphony. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (finance) and an AB from Princeton University (economics).

Dana Borowka has over 25 years experience in the area of business consulting, helping organizations both nationally and internationally in raising the hiring bar by “bringing effective insight” to organizations through using work style and in-depth personality assessments. Dana is a nationally recognized speaker on this topic and has built a well-recognized organization that provides expert interpretation of in-depth personality assessments during the hiring process, providing stress management workshops and assisting those with communication challenges. He is the author of the book, “Cracking the Personality Code”.

Francesco Barbera is a corporate attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and private financing transactions.  Trained at Harvard Law School, Francesco has represented private equity and venture capital funds in the acquisition, disposition, financing and operations of portfolio companies.  Francesco is also a lifelong student of management, psychology, and entrepreneurship and he presently is engaged in post-graduate studies in the psychology of peak performance.

Michael Glock, Ph.D., believes in the power of ideas, great information design, and the generation of emotional impact that can only be achieved by getting into the depths of the cultural psyche. Having foresight, being a futurist, and designing for it, is Michael’s specific strategic and tactical advantage. Michael is a member of the World Future Society and The International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS), in the United Kingdom, a member of "The Academy of Political Science" in New York, sits on various boards, and has been published in over 200 magazines, newspapers and other media. As a thought leader and artist, his work has been exhibited in New Zealand, the United States, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Michael has expertise in all aspects of brand engineering, identity development, online advertising and marketing initiatives, from strategy and conceptualization to the tactical implementation.

Celia Cheng-Ying Young was born in China, lives in the USA, speaks Mandarin and English fluently, and  is a master at aligning an organization’s vision/value and its practices. She often helps global companies work in China and has been in the business of transforming and developing effective leaders and innovative organizations since 1986. She helps build truly global organizations thrive continuously in the global economy. She coaches and develops globally competent and multicultural versatile leaders on an individual and team basis in order to help mold a new organization that is open to, and capable of, fully utilizing the “diversity” and “creativity” of its people.

Will Wengert, is an expert in Innovation-including Sustaining, Complementary and Disruptive Innovation Practices. His methodologies yield very short cycle, accurate customer based decision making that yields 50-80% improvement in his clients next generation offerings and strategies. His deliverables include actionable strategies documented with facts, providing measurable results while mitigating risk. He stresses the importance of delivering clients a path for fast-tracking the implementation of clear, objective, customer driven action plans for their teams. Deliverables also include facts to make decisive M&A decisions. He as delivered results over the last 17 years to clients in the consumer, medical and high tech fields within the Fortune 500; including Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, HP, Agilent Technologies, Motorola, Volvo and others. He is the co-author a book on Innovation, “Lead the Pack”.

Jeffrey R. Knakal is a strategic development and investment banking expert. His black-box is seeing “what could be” based on a company’s existing capacities and endowments in regard to next-level corporate and strategic development. Jeff conceived and developed two, hundred million companies, and has modified models through new strategic architecture for a diversity of companies for purposes of increasing earnings of the proper quality and growth, or, Enterprise Value. As such, Jeff increases the value of companies for their owners. This design capability is complemented by his synergistic investment banking expertise. Jeff’s capital formation and mergers & acquisition capability was first developed by working for three world-class investment banks in New York City, and originated first-time transaction events for Fortune 500 companies. Given the integration of these disciplines, Jeff is a turnkey resource. Aside from building new value for companies, he also helps owners prepare for, and execute liquidity events, which may be a minority, majority or outright sale. In summary, Jeff is a special resource applicable to all companies and their owners in regard to creating new value or realizing existing value.

Sudhir Chadalavada specializes in enhancing personal and organizational effectiveness by integrating his passion for enlightened leadership, diverse professional experience and expertise in peak performance. He has more than 25 years experience as a leader, interim executive, trusted advisor, strategist, and marketer for Fortune 500 (Intel, Toshiba, PwC), small-to-medium size companies, and start-ups. He pioneered the implementation of enlightened leadership principles and developed a compelling model for rapid and consistent execution based on his inspiring personal journey. With a unique and diverse background reflecting the global economy we live in today, he integrates the wisdom of the East with the practical know-how of the West and takes leaders on a fascinating journey of stellar business performance and personal growth and fulfillment.

Tom Drucker serves as a trusted advisor and a business consultant to owners, professional partnerships and leaders of every kind of business. He helps his clients solve problems, whether with people or with business results. Tom’s work is unique because he integrates the principles of positive psychology with the methods of process improvement. This combination of skills enables tom to make measurable changes in people and their business performance. Lasting change comes with insight and then learning to think creatively and act collaboratively to create new levels of success. Whether it’s teaching customer service at Cisco, coaching executives at GE on leadership, transforming the HR function at the Ford Foundation, or coaching a team as then take their company public, Tom impacts the lives of leaders by enhancing their ability to harness the collective intelligence and imagination of each other and the people they lead.

Alan Hutner is a multi-media developer/producer/consultant and show host, as well as the Communications Partner for Genius Stone Partners. He had a distinguished career as a Corporate Financial & Business Executive for a multinational pharmaceutical and wellness company with sales over a billion dollars annually when he left. He has consulted with start-ups, raised capital and helped develop business and marketing plans. He left his corporate career to engage the journey of “Self-discovery” and has studied with some of the great consciousness and spiritual masters of our time.  Alan has blended a unique combination of business acumen and philosophical understandings of life, into his own multi-media firm, Alan Hutner Consulting, and now leads The TransitionsMedia team, including hosting and producing the Transitions Radio Magazine (TRM) show. He now also hosts, Genius Stone Dialogues. Alan is also a writer, workshop facilitator, activist and new paradigm visionary, devoted to the art of living in love and truth.