Alinka Rutkowska is the CEO of Leaders Press a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling press, where she helps entrepreneurs create books from scratch and then launches them to bestseller status with a 100 percent success rate. She has helped more than 172 authors get on the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Her mission is to help 10,000 entrepreneurs share their wisdom with the world by 2030.

Alinka is an official member of the Forbes Business Council, and her cutting-edge book creation process has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine.

To learn more about Alinka, Leaders Press, and how this anthology and many of the solo books of the entrepreneurs featured here were created, visit http://www.leaderspress.com.

AREVA MARTIN is an award-winning attorney, advocate, legal and social issues commentator, talk show host, and producer. A CNN Legal Analyst and co-host of the 2018 syndicated talk show Face the Truth, Areva is an audience favorite on a long list of shows from Dr. Phil, The Doctors, Good Morning America and World News Tonight to her web-based talk show The Special Report.

A best-selling author, Areva has dedicated her fourth book to helping women worldwide recognize, own and assert their limitless power.

Areva is the founder of Special Needs Network, Inc., California’s premier autism advocacy organization. She has raised millions of dollars for autism, and has played a leadership role in advocating for state and federal laws to eliminate disparities in state funding for individuals with disabilities. Her extensive experience in community outreach and activism has positioned her to become one of the top female entrepreneurs of the 21st century. Those credentials, along with her humble beginnings in North St. Louis and passion for life as a mother, wife, and entrepreneur, make her uniquely qualified to speak on the current state of affairs regarding female leadership, and the need for an empowered female workforce.

A Harvard Law School graduate, Areva founded the Los Angeles based civil rights firm, Martin & Martin, LLP and the health technology company Butterflly Health, Inc.

Dr. Keirstead is an internationally known stem cell expert and serial entrepreneur that led the development of a treatment that restored movement and sensory function to people with quadriplegic spinal cord injury, and a treatment for cancer that has saved the lives of people with melanoma, brain cancer and ovarian cancer. He has also led therapy development for immune disorders, motor neuron diseases and retinal diseases, as well as a vaccine for COVID-19. He has founded 4 successful biotechnology companies, each returning significant value to investors and treatments to patients. He holds Board positions in several prominent biotechnology companies. He was a full Professor at the University of California, Irvine where he founded, directed and erected a building for the UCI Stem Cell Research Center. He was a founding advisor of the California Stem Cell Initiative that resulted in a $3 billion stem cell fund (CIRM). He has been a long-time advisor to several governments on biomedical policy. Dr. Keirstead received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of British Columbia, Canada, receiving the Cameron Award for outstanding Ph.D. thesis in the country. He received the distinct honor of election as Senate Member of the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the Governing Body of Downing College, and was the youngest member to have been elected to those positions.

Jeroen Kraaijenbrink is an accomplished strategy educator, speaker, writer, and consultant with over two decades of experience bridging the gap between academia and industry. He empowers people and organizations to discover, formulate, and execute their future plans by providing them strategic guidance. In doing so, he enables others to realize their greatest ambitions.

He has a PhD in industrial management and teaches strategy at the University of Amsterdam Business School. He has helped numerous midsize and larger companies across the engineering, manufacturing, healthcare and financial sectors.

Jeroen is the originator of the Strategy Manifesto--a cohort that challenges what strategy could and should be like. Additionally, Kraaijenbrink is an active Forbes contributor where he writes about strategy, leadership, and how to embrace complexity in an uncertain world.

Drawing from cognitive psychology, humanism, martial arts, Saint Benedict, and a wide range of other sources; he is the author of numerous articles on strategy, sustainability, personal leadership, and four books: Strategy Consulting, No More Bananas, Unlearning Strategy, and The Strategy Handbook.

Raghavan Venugopal is currently an Executive Director, a member of the C-level team at Wiwynn International Corporation, an industry leader in Cloud Infrastructure Integrator segment partnering with Top 10 Service Providers in the world. Prior to this he was the Director of Engineering and Product Development Strategy at HPE, responsible for Cloudline Servers that catered to the Service Provider segment. Throughout his career he has transformed organizations with his unique Customer centric approach to success resulting in 250% increase in revenue, 40% increase in time to market, 30% efficiency in costs, 50% improvement in quality and 42 new patents in 3 new technologies.

Raghavan holds a bachelor’s in engineering from Annamalai University, India, Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee Tech University, and an Executive MBA from Jones School of Business, Rice University. Raghavan holds 27 patents and has twice been published.

Finding success following an unconventional path supports Scott’s highest priority, the people he cares about. Married for more than 20 years, he’s the proud father of three teenagers and enjoys time with his wife and family. His athletic pursuits include daily sessions at the gym, participating in more than fifteen Sprint and Olympic-size triathlons, as well as completing the Ironman 70.3. Certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Scott graduated from George Mason University’s “Leadership Coaching for Organizational Wellbeing” program in 2018. He is a member of the Sigma Alpha Lambda Honor Society and will complete his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Virginia in 2023.

Sharesz T. Wilkinson is an active Forbes Councils member, strategic advisor, and international executive communication expert. She works with leaders, organisations, Fortune 100 companies, and ambitious individuals in business, entertainment, sports, and politics around the world on how to maintain top-level performance and get results during challenging times. Sharesz T. Wilkinson represents The Speech Improvement Company (TSIC) based in Boston. TSIC has worked with the White House, and taught at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A multiple award-winning international speaker, author, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, her contributions have been published on various platforms including Forbes, BBC, Thrive Global, Authority Magazine, and Hollywood Weekly. She was interviewed in VoiceAmerica Influencers, EPN, Positive Phil Show (US), and more. Sharesz T. Wilkinson is an Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine, and the co-author of multiple published international books. Among the international awards received are the “Visionary Leader Award 2021,” the Global Woman Economic Forum WEF 2018 Award “Exceptional Women of Excellence,” and the “Humanitarian Fellow” Award from Rotary. She was further a nominee for the 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. A Senator in the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF), she is also a member of the Global Woman Leaders Committee. For more information, please visit her Forbes Executive Profile link at https://profiles.forbes.com/members/coaches/ profile/Sharesz-T-Wilkinson-Strategic-Advisor- International-Executive-Communication-Change- Expert-The-Speech/e51c94ea-29a7-4a69-9d2c- 462502d34956

Shiv Gaglani is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Osmosis.org, a leading health education platform with an audience of millions of current & future clinicians as well as their patients and family members.



Shiv’s primary passion is developing innovative and scalable solutions in the fields of healthcare and education. To this end, he curated the Smartphone Physical, which debuted at TEDMED, and the Patient Promise, a movement to improve the clinician-patient relationship through partnership in pursuing healthy lifestyle behaviors. Shiv is also an avid writer who has written two educational books, Success with Science and Standing out on the SAT & ACT. He is a regular contributor to Forbes, which named him to their 30 Under 30 List in 2018.



After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2010 with degrees in engineering and health policy, Shiv began his MD degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (from which he is currently on leave) and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2016. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, snowboarding, skiing, running, and flying.

Trissa Tismal-Capili teaches simple steps on how to optimize performance, boost productivity, and skyrocket profits without stress, overwhelm, and anxiety. She’s on a mission to help business leaders enjoy true success in all life areas—work, money, health, home, and relationships—to live happy, abundant, and free!

She has been a certified professional coach and speaker for over thirteen years, helping entrepreneurs, coaching multimillion-dollar business owners, and advising billionaires.

Trissa graduated magna cum laude in psychology, attended the Coaches Training Institute to refine her coaching techniques, and got accredited by the International Coach Federation. She also got trained in hypnosis and NLP and has earned numerous advanced certifications from different coaching specializations including money, marketing, mindset, and life transformation. She loves interviewing world leaders in business and success, including top New York Times best-selling authors.

Trissa was the host on Balance TV, which aired on Discovery Fit and Health Channel where she interviewed top entrepreneurs who exemplified health, wealth, and giving back. She was also recognized as a top marketing consultant for a multinational billion-dollar company and featured on major media including CBS, NBC and Fox. Her proven track record in bringing together high-profile experts in her live and virtual conferences facilitates a community committed to change.

Excellent at exposing the underlying cause of her clients’ problems, Trissa masterfully turns their biggest headaches from challenging to fun and easy. She loves working with high-achieving, take-charge, big-thinking bosses in supercharging their results to the next level. She helps them eliminate blind spots that sabotage their utmost success without them knowing.

Together with coaching extremely accomplished CEOs, interviewing first-rate experts, and continuously learning from highly successful mentors, Trissa blends her experiences in coaching bosses to their ultimate success.