The Secret

Ken Blanchard is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world. He has co-authored sixty books, including Raving Fans and Gung Ho!. His groundbreaking works have been translated into over forty languages and their combined sales total more than twenty-one million copies. In 2005 he was inducted into Amazon's Hall of Fame as one of the top twenty-five bestselling authors of all time. The recipient of numerous leadership awards and honors, he is cofounder with his wife, Margie, of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a leading international training and consulting firm.

Mark Miller is vice president of high-performance leadership at Chick-fil-A, and a bestselling author, leadership coach, and highly-sought-after speaker. He began his career at Chick-fil-A more than forty years ago as an hourly team member in one of the local restaurants. Shortly thereafter, he became the sixteenth corporate employee when he went to work in the warehouse. Since that day, Mark has worked in many departments throughout the company. He started the Corporate Communications Group, and the Quality & Customer Satisfaction Team, and also led Restaurant Operations, Training & Development, Leadership Development, and more. Today, Chik-fil-A sees annual sales of over $13 billion. In addition, Mark has had the privilege of teaching, coaching, and leading nonprofit organizations both domestically and globally. For the last twenty years, Mark has spent his time serving leaders: helping them grow themselves, their teams, and their organizations. He has authored nine books to date, including the bestsellers The Secret (with Ken Blanchard) and The Heart of Leadership, with more than one million copies of his books in print in twenty-five different languages. All of his books have been based on new research including front-line interviews with a variety of highly successful leaders and companies around the world.

Rick Adamson is an Audie Award winner for his work on In a Heartbeat by Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy (with Sally Jenkins) of The Blind Side fame. Also the winner of several ALA awards and a Harper Audio Grammy nominee, Rick has been narrating fiction and nonfiction as well as corporate and educational projects for twenty-five years. Originally from Maryland, he now lives in northern New Jersey, where he and his wife have raised three sons.