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Today it is my sincere pleasure to introduce Jackie Speer and Deborah Stevens.

They are remarkable and I promise that this talk is going to be very memorable.

Jackie was California State Senator from 1998 until 2006.

She is currently with the law firm of Hanson and Bridget. When she was a senator, she

championed really important issues related to child support, water fluoridation, early AIDS

intervention, breast cancer, child abuse prevention programs. In addition, before she was a senator,

she worked at Electronic Arts as a vice president

of government and community affairs.

Deborah Stevens, who is her co-author on the book that they're going to talk about,

is the co-founder and managing partner for the Center of Innovative Leadership.

This center has worked with hundreds of organizations and leaders helping them think about innovative leadership

and building inspired teams.

She is the author of six books,

including some wonderfully interesting titles,

Maslow on Management, One Size Fits One,

and Revisiting the Human Side of Enterprise.

Together with a couple of other co-authors,

I'm sure we'll hear about during their talk,

they wrote a bestselling book, which just came out a few weeks ago, called This Is Not the Life I

Order, 50 Ways to Keep Your Head Above Water when Life keeps dragging you down. This book has been

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