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Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management and McNulty Leadership Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive-MBA courses on management and leadership, and he offers programs on leadership and governance for managers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He works on leadership development with many companies and organizations in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. He is the author of The Leader’s Checklist, The Leadership Moment, Executive Defense, Investor Capitalism, Leading Up, and The Go Point. He is also co-author and co-editor of Learning from Catastrophes, as well as co-author of The India Way, Leadership Dispatches, Boards That Lead, The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap, Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China’s Great Global Companies (2017), Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy (2018), and Mastering Catastrophic Risk: How Companies Are Coping with Disruption (2018). Useem is co-host of the weekly program Leadership in Action on Business Radio, and he can be reached at useem@wharton.upenn.edu.

Anne M. Greenhalgh is Deputy Executive Director of the Anne and John McNulty Leadership Program where she serves as chief operating officer. As adjunct professor of management, Greenhalgh co-leads the gateway course for Wharton freshmen, WH101: Business and You, and is chiefly responsible for the design and delivery of co-curricular programming that supports the new academic requirement, The Leadership Journey. She was once voted the Best Lecturer in the Social Sciences by the entire student body at Penn, and she has won the William G. Whitney Teaching Award for Associated Faculty at Wharton on numerous occasions. Greenhalgh has also served as an advisor and consultant. As a Visiting Professor at City University, London, she was a member of the Vice Chancellor’s senior management team and laid the foundation for the University’s learning and teaching strategy. At Wharton Executive Education, she has facilitated sessions for a number of programs, including the China Advanced Management Program (CHAMP), the Security Industry Institute (SII), and Merck. Greenhalgh’s research and publications reflect her dedication to leadership and management education, especially at the undergraduate level.

Jeff Klein is the Executive Director of the Anne and John McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School, and a Lecturer at Wharton and the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He leads the team that designs and delivers Wharton’s portfolio of curricular and co-curricular leadership development initiatives for undergraduate, MBA, and executive audiences. He also directs efforts to create the Penn Global Leadership Institute, and is a co-founder of the Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy. Finally, Klein is the Executive Director of the Advanced Management Program, Wharton’s flagship five-week program for senior executives which runs through the Aresty Institute of Executive Education.

Stew Friedman is Practice Professor of Management, Emeritus at The Wharton School, where he has been on the faculty since 1984. He founded both Wharton’s Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project. He has been recognized as one of HR Magazine’s Most Influential International Thinkers, as one of the “world’s top 50 business thinkers” by Thinkers50, and as winner of Thinkers50’s Distinguished Achievement Award for being the foremost expert in the field of talent. Working Mother chose him as one of America’s 25 most influential men to have made things better for working parents, and the Families and Work Institute honored him with its Work Life Legacy Award. Friedman is an award-winning teacher, and the New York Times cited the “rock star adoration” he inspires in students. He has written two bestselling books, Leading the Life You Want and Total Leadership, which describes the Total Leadership program used by individuals and organizations worldwide to improve performance and reduce stress in all parts of life by creating harmony among them. His most recent Harvard Business Press book is Parents Who Lead (2020). Visit www.totalleadership.org to learn more.

Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, is Director of Research at WisdomTree. Schwartz is responsible for WisdomTree’s equity indexes, and oversees research coverage across the equity index family. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Schwartz was Professor Jeremy Siegel’s head research assistant and helped with the research and writing of Stocks for the Long Run and The Future for Investors. He is also co-author of the Financial Analysts Journal paper “What Happened to the Original Stocks in the S&P 500?” and the WSJ article “The Great American Bond Bubble.” Schwartz is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Melissa Biggs Bradley is the CEO and founder of Indagare, an innovative digital travel and media company that combines curated content with high-touch service and leverages its global network to create extraordinary experiences and a lifetime of meaningful journeys for sophisticated travelers, influencers and opinion leaders who crave new experiences and care deeply about how travel shapes their legacy. Indagare’s mission is to inspire and empower people to change their lives through travel and have a positive impact on the places they visit. Melissa has been recognized as a pioneering entrepreneur in the luxury travel space and leads immersive small-group trips all over the world—from Antarctica to Saudi Arabia.

Finance Professor Jeremy Siegel, known as “the Wizard of Wharton,” has written and lectured extensively about the economy and financial market, monetary policy, and stock and bond returns. Professor Siegel is courted by many Wall Street firms as a consultant and lecturer and has appeared on CNBC, PBS, CNN, NPR, and other national and international news media.

Liqian Ren, Ph.D., is the Director of Modern Alpha at WisdomTree. In this role, Ren leads WisdomTree’s quantitative investment capabilities and serves as a thought leader for WisdomTree’s Modern AlphaTM approach. Ren came to WisdomTree from Vanguard, where she worked for 12 years, most recently as Portfolio Manager in the Quantitative Equity Group managing Vanguard’s factor funds and conducting research on factor strategies. Prior to joining Vanguard, she was an Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Ren received her Bachelor of Computer Science from Peking University in Beijing, her Master of Economics from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, and her MBA and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Kent Smetters, a professor of business economics and Public Policy, previously served as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury. He co-authored Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: New Budget Measures for New Budget Priorities and coedited The Pension Challenge: Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security. As an academic, entrepreneur, and former government official, his research focuses on public policy, personal financial planning, and corporate and financial risk management.

Laura Zarrow hosts Women@Work on SiriusXM’s Business Radio (Channel 132) Thursdays at 9 am ET, and is the Executive Director of Wharton People Analytics. An expert strategic planner and creative problem solver, she has spent her career helping individuals and organizations thrive through strategic innovation and advocacy. Zarrow led the creation of Wharton’s Lifelong Learning program as a member of Wharton’s Innovation Group, having also served as the Dean of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and the Associate Provost at The University of the Arts. Zarrow holds a BFA from the University of the Arts and an MSEd from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a devoted swimmer, an exuberant cook, and the proud mother of a spirited teenage feminist.

Dan Loney’s broadcasting career spans more than 25 years in the realm of sports, news, and business on a variety of formats, including national radio networks such as The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, ABC Radio, and ESPN Radio. On the field, he’s covered play-by-play for more than 2,100 professional baseball games on the radio and another 500 on television platforms (YES Network and CN8 among them). His abilities behind the microphone have led to work with several universities in the Philadelphia region, including Princeton University and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Abraham Adi Wyner received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Yale University and was the recipient of the Stanley Prize for excellence in Mathematics. His PhD in Statistics is from Stanford University, where he won a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, the Abrams Prize, and the Herz Foundation fellowship. After graduating from Stanford, he received the NSF post-graduate fellowship and a visiting professorship at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Wyner has been a Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of Business for the last 20 years. He has published more than 50 articles in many areas, including information theory, probability, machine learning, neuroscience, and sports. He is currently a co-director of Wharton People Analytics, a fellow of the Center for Injury Prevention at CHOP, and the chair of the undergraduate program in statistics for the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Wyner’s interest in sports statistics led to the creation of the Wharton MoneyBall Academy, a summer program in sports statistics and computing for gifted high school juniors and seniors. In 2020, he was named the faculty lead for the newly-constituted Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative.

Cade Massey is a Practice Professor in the Wharton School’s Operations, Information and Decisions Department. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and taught at Duke University and Yale University before moving to Penn. Massey’s research focuses on judgment under uncertainty—how, and how well, people predict what will happen in the future. His work draws on experimental and “real world” data such as employee stock options, 401k savings, the National Football League draft, and graduate school admissions. His research has led to long-time collaborations with Google, Merck, and multiple professional sports franchises. Massey’s research has been published in leading psychology and management journals, and covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Economist, and National Public Radio. He has taught MBA and Executive MBA courses for 15 years, receiving teaching awards for courses on negotiation, influence, organizational behavior, and human resources. He also co-teaches Wharton’s “People Analytics” MOOC on Coursera. Massey is faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics, co-host of Wharton Moneyball on SiriusXM Business Radio, and co-creator of the Massey–Peabody NFL Power Rankings for the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Center City Philadelphia.

Professor Eric T. Bradlow is the K.P. Chao Professor; Professor of Marketing, Statistics, Education and Economics; Chairperson of Wharton’s Marketing Department; and Vice Dean of Analytics at Wharton. An applied statistician, Professor Bradlow uses high-powered statistical models to solve problems on everything from Internet search engines to product assortment issues. Specifically, his research interests include Bayesian modeling, statistical computing, and developing new methodology for unique data structures with application to business problems. Professor Bradlow is a prolific scholar, and his research has been published in top-tier academic journals such as the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Psychometrika, Statistica Sinica, Chance, Marketing Science, Management Science, and Journal of Marketing Research. He also serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Journal of Marketing Research, and is on the Editorial Boards of Marketing Letters, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, and the Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce. Professor Bradlow earned his PhD and master’s degrees in mathematical statistics from Harvard University, and his BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Shane T. Jensen is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching since 2004. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from McGill University in 1997, a Master of Science in Statistics from McGill University in 1999, and a PhD in Statistics from Harvard University in 2004. Dr. Jensen has published more than 50 academic papers in statistical methodology for a variety of applied areas, including molecular biology, psychology, and sports. He maintains an active research program in developing sophisticated statistical models for the evaluation of player performance in baseball and hockey. In 2011, he was awarded the Sports in Statistics Award for contributions to the statistics in sports community by the American Statistical Association. His work has also received media attention, with articles in the Boston Globe, New York Post, Wired Magazine, and others.

Randi Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur, investor, best-selling author, and Emmy-nominated tech media personality. She is the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media, whose mission is supporting current and future entrepreneurs through investment, mentorship, and media. Prior to founding her own company, Zuckerberg was an early employee at Facebook, where she is best known for creating Facebook Live, now used by more than a billion people around the world. A Harvard graduate, Zuckerberg hosts a weekly business talk radio show on SiriusXM and is the author of four books: two best-selling business books, Dot Complicated and Pick Three; and two children’s books, Dot (currently also an award-winning preschool television series on Universal Kids and Hulu) and Missy President. Zuckerberg travels the world speaking about technology, entrepreneurship, her time in Silicon Valley, and, shockingly, how to unplug! When she’s not Facebooking or actual written-word booking, she can be found at the theater—Zuckerberg is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer of both Hadestown and Oklahoma!—or doing her best to unplug at home with her husband and three children.

Americus Reed, II is the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the world’s leading Identity Theorist, who focuses on creating identity loyalty. He has authored more than 50 articles, book chapters and cases on the topic. Reed has been featured by a variety of media outlets, including CNN, CNBC, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, New York Times, NPR and the Hidden Brain Podcast. He teaches customer analysis, branding, and consumer psychology to undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and executive students.

Barbara Kahn is the Patty and Jay H. Baker Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She was also the Director of the Baker Retailing Center at Wharton. Kahn is currently the Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute. She served as the Dean at the School of Business Administration, University of Miami (from 2007 to 2011). Before becoming Dean at UM, she spent 17 years at Wharton as a Professor of Marketing. She was also Vice Dean of Wharton’s undergraduate program. Kahn is an internationally recognized scholar on retailing, variety seeking, brand loyalty, product assortment and design, and consumer and patient decision-making. She has published more than 80 articles in leading academic journals. She co-authored Grocery Revolution: The New Focus on the Consumer, and authored Global Brand Power and The Shopping Revolution. Kahn has been featured by a variety of media outlets, including CNN, CNBC, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR and the Hidden Brain Podcast. She received her PhD and MBA from Columbia University.

Karl Ulrich is Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he leads the School’s San Francisco campus and its entrepreneurial programs. He is also Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research and teaching are focused on technological innovation and product design. Professor Ulrich is also an expert on innovation in China, with particular focus on the China–US entrepreneurial ecosystem. He is a prolific innovator and entrepreneur. At Wharton, he led the creation of Wharton Business Radio, the Semester in San Francisco Program, and the Venture Lab. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Terrapass, the first retailer of greenhouse gas offsets in the US, and Xootr, a leader in urban personal transportation for more than two decades. He has also been an angel investor in more than 40 start-ups. As a result of his innovation efforts, he holds 24 patents. Two of his product designs, the Xootr scooter and the Belle-V ice cream scoop, are in the Cooper–Hewitt Museum National Design Award Gallery. He earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT.

Rob Coneybeer is a Founder and Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, a leading venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage companies. During his 23 years in Silicon Valley, Coneybeer has invested in more than 50 startups, including home automation pioneer Nest Labs (which was acquired by Google for $3.2 billion), and Turo, the world’s largest, fastest-growing peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

Jody J. Foster, MD, MBA is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Dean for Professionalism in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Vice Chair of Clinical Operations for the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Pennsylvania Hospital. After receiving her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in a combined and accelerated BA/MD program with Lehigh University, Dr. Foster completed both a residency and a chief residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology and mood disorders at The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. She also attained her Master of Business Administration, with a concentration in finance, from the Wharton School. Dr. Foster serves as the Executive Clinical Director of the Professionalism Program at Penn Medicine and leads the Professionalism Committees at the member hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. Foster is a noted educator and has received numerous awards for clinical excellence and teaching. She was elected to Penn Medicine’s inaugural class of the Academy of Master Clinicians and has been named a “Top Doc” by Philadelphia Magazine. In her Professionalism role she has consulted not only within healthcare but also with legal and venture capital firms, corporate entities, education, the arts, and major league sports.

Sean Burke is Associate General Counsel at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and before the US District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey, as well as the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Burke is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (AB, magna cum laude, 1995; AM, 1995) and the University of Virginia School of Law (JD, 1998). From 1998 to 2005, Burke was an associate in the Labor and Employment Law Practice Group in the Philadelphia office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.

America’s trusted voice on money and business, Dave Ramsey is a personal money-management expert and an extremely popular national radio personality. His seven best-selling books—Financial Peace, More Than Enough, The Total Money Makeover, EntreLeadership, Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money, The Legacy Journey, and Smart Money Smart Kids—have sold more than 11 million copies combined.

By age 26, Ramsey had established a $4 million real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age 30. Using the wisdom he gained, Ramsey rebuilt his financial life and now teaches others how to be responsible with their money, so they can acquire enough wealth to take care of loved ones, retire with dignity, and give generously to others.

Ramsey offers that life-changing message as host of a nationally syndicated radio program, The Dave Ramsey Show, which is heard by 17 million listeners each week. In 2009, he was honored as a National Association of Broadcaster’s Marconi Award winner. Ramsey was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2013 and the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2015. Follow Ramsey on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.

Ken Coleman is the #1 national bestselling author of The Proximity Principle, the nationally-syndicated radio host of The Ken Coleman Show, and a Ramsey Personality. Pulling from his own personal struggles, missed opportunities, and career successes, Coleman helps people discover what they were born to do and provides practical steps to make their dream job a reality. The Ken Coleman Show is a caller-driven career show that helps people learn, grow, and challenge themselves in their professional lives. Connect with Coleman on social media and online at kencoleman.com.

 

Pamela Manfredo Curtis, PhD, is the Founder and President of Manfredo Curtis Associates, LLC. In the exclusive world of global leaders, she is regarded as an elite executive coach and a corporate game changer, one who CEOs enthusiastically recommend to one another. Her proprietary approach involves mining the hearts and souls and childhoods of her CEO clients so they can reach their full potential—to lead authentically, to achieve extraordinary results, and to forge deep emotional connections both professionally and personally. For more than 30 years, she has partnered with leaders such as Mary Barra, Tom Linebarger, Matt Levatich, Curt Welling, and John Replogle. Dr. Curtis is the host of SiriusXM’s Corner Office Confidential, a special series on leadership where she teams with her C-suite clients for intimate, exclusive conversations revealing their journeys and sharing with SiriusXM listeners the profound leadership lessons learned along the way. She is currently working on her first book.

Daniel Schwartz is dean of Stanford Graduate School of Education and an expert in human learning and educational technology. Schwartz oversees a laboratory whose computer-focused developments in science and math instruction permit original research into fundamental questions of learning. He has taught math in rural Kenya, English in south-central Los Angeles, and multiple subjects in Kaltag, Alaska; and this diversity of experience informs his work. Among many honors, Schwartz was named Graduate School of Education Teacher of the Year for 2015. His latest book, The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them, distills learning theories into practical solutions for use at home or in the classroom. NPR noted the book among the “best reads” for 2016.

Denise Pope is a senior lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Education, where she specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning. She is a co-founder of Challenge Success, which provides families and schools the practical, research-based tools they need to create a more balanced and academically-fulfilling life for kids. She is the author of Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, which was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal, 2001, and co-author of Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids. Prior to teaching at Stanford, Pope taught high school English in Fremont, California, and college composition and rhetoric courses at Santa Clara University.

Howard Wolf, who has led the Stanford Alumni Association and its staff since 2001, earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology, with distinction, from Stanford in 1980 and his MBA from Harvard in 1985. Before his appointment as Vice President for Alumni Affairs and President of the Stanford Alumni Association, he worked as both an entrepreneur and business manager in the publishing and commercial real estate development and management industries. An active alum and volunteer, as well as an avid Stanford athletics fan, he received the Stanford Associates Outstanding Achievement Award in 2000. In addition to his Alumni Association role, Wolf is one of eight officers of the University and part of its senior management team, with particular responsibility for advising the University's President and the Provost on alumni affairs.

Joe Bankman is a clinical psychologist as well as a lawyer who researches topics such as the consumption tax and the role of tax in the structure of Silicon Valley start-ups. A tax law expert, Bankman has gained wide attention for his work on how government might control the use of tax shelters, and has testified before Congress and other legislative bodies on tax compliance problems posed by the cash economy. He has written and spoken extensively on how we might use technology to simplify tax filing.

Russ Altman, MD, PhD is a physician, engineer, and scientist at Stanford University, where he has served as Chair of Bioengineering and is currently the Director of the Program in Biomedical Informatics. He is a former president of the International Society for Computational Biology and the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. Altman has advised the FDA and NIH. He is a founder of Personalis Inc., and his research focuses on how drugs work and how we can use them optimally.

Alan Fleischmann is the founder, President, and CEO of Laurel Strategies, a business advisory and strategic communications firm that advises CEOs and leaders across the globe. Fleischmann has spent his career in the halls of power in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He’s a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Board Member of the Atlantic Council and the Jane Goodall Institute, a member of the Global Philanthropists Circle and the Robert F. Kennedy Leadership Council, and an advisory director on the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall.

Doron Levin is an author and veteran journalist, having covered Detroit and the global automotive industry for The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, and Detroit Free Press. Levin writes for TheStreet.com and other publications. He graduated from Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Keith Rabois is a general partner at Founders Fund. During his venture career he has led investments in DoorDash, Affirm, Forward Health, Faire, Thoughtspot, and Stripe. He also founded Opendoor, which transforms the process of buying and selling a home. Rabois has a unique and unparalleled track record as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor. Over the last decade, he has forged several of the most important new social and commerce platforms. Rabois began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. As a board member, Rabois guided Yelp and Xoom from inception to successful initial public offerings. Simultaneously, he also invested in other like-minded entrepreneurs with early stakes in YouTube, Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, Eventbrite, Wish, and Quora. Earlier in his career, Keith was a litigator at the preeminent Wall Street law firm Sullivan and Cromwell after clerking for the Unites States Court of Appeals for the fifth circuit. Keith holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University and a juris doctor degree with honors from Harvard University.

Jason Stein, a media professional with 25 years of journalism experience across multiple platforms, is a leading personality in the global automotive space. His career path includes international experience within the auto industry, but also professional sports, auto racing, entertainment, and economics. He has experience as a live moderator, daily podcast host, and columnist. A frequent speaker on automotive issues, he is also a contributor to national and international radio programs as well as a weekly segment in Detroit, MI. Stein is currently the global media leader of four international brands and two industry specific titles. He directs the editorial and commercial operations for Automotive News, one of the world’s largest business-to-business media organizations and leads three international Automotive News properties, including Europe, Canada, and China. Stein joined Automotive News as a Detroit-based reporter in October 2003 before transferring to Automotive News Europe’s Munich, Germany, headquarters in 2005. Two years later, he was named publisher of Automotive News Europe, a responsibility that included the management of the news and commercial operations, covering 32 European countries as well as marketing, digital, audience, and event activities. In 2009, he returned to Detroit to oversee the editorial operations of Automotive News. In 2012 he added the responsibility of associate publisher, then publisher in 2013. Before joining Automotive News, Stein was an award-winning automotive columnist, and news and sports writer for several North American newspapers in Ontario, Ohio, and Indiana. In late 2015, Stein helped form the Crain Communications/Michigan State University Detroit Journalism Program for aspiring journalists within the city of Detroit. He has served as a volunteer at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan and Cornerstone Schools in Detroit. He also holds a position as a juror for the World Car of the Year Award and Ford’s annual Salute to Dealers recognition program at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention. Stein holds a degree in political science from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

Janet Alvarez is the executive editor at the personal finance publication WiseBread. She is a CNBC and Telemundo contributor, as well as a Harvard Visiting Nieman Fellow. Alvarez is a formidable consumer advocate and veteran bilingual financial journalist. 

In her more than 15 years in financial journalism, Alvarez has served as director of news and social media for Univision, contributing editor and video host for TheStreet.com, podcast host for TIME Inc. and Charles Schwab’s Insights & Ideas podcast, managing editor of Mint.com and Quicken, US news editor for Reuters Breakingviews, and an anchor/reporter for the nationally-syndicated news program First Business. She was also director of communications at PEAK6 Investments, a major options trading firm, where she was instrumental in the launch of WeSeed.com and OptionsHouse brokerage.

Alvarez has interviewed countless Fortune 1000 CEOs and CFOs, political luminaries, and major fund managers; and has written about everything from derivatives and corporate finance to basic budgeting and savings techniques. She is a sought-after commentator, and is regularly quoted by most major financial publications. She also appears regularly on radio and television programming, and is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on personal finance and investing topics at universities, conferences, and roundtables. 

Alvarez holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, an MBA from the Thunderbird School at Arizona State University, and a certificate from the Wharton Business School’s Business Journalism Seminars.