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Ryan Pennington is a firefighter-paramedic from Charleston WV and a Firehouse.com Contributing Editor. He is an international speaker on firefighting and emergency response in Hoarding Conditions.

Ryan is a passionate writer who likes sharing his thoughts and experience with the readers. Currently, he works as a digital marketing specialist, you can check his website. He likes everything related to traveling and new countries.

CTI was founded in 1992 by three of the earliest recognized luminaries in coaching – Laura Whitworth, and Karen and Henry Kimsey-House – whose earlier collaboration with Thomas Leonard gave rise to coaching as an industry. To date, more than 35,000 coaches, consultants, managers, and new career explorers have been trained through CTI. CTI-trained coaches come from varied backgrounds such as entrepreneurs, CEOs, scientists, medical and technical specialists, parents, educators, therapists, and community leaders. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, CTI is the largest and oldest in-person coach training school in the world and the only program to teach CTI's ground-breaking Co-Active® Model of coaching. CTI is also the very first organization accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). CTI's founders, along with Phil Sandahl, are co-authors of the industry bestseller, Co-Active Coaching, now in its third edition with 100,000 copies sold.

Saint Jude Retreats is an alternative to traditional substance use treatment. Saint Jude Retreats provides a program for people with substance use problems that concentrates on self-directed positive and permanent change. Through the program, we offer the opportunity for individuals to self-evaluate and explore avenues for life enhancement.

Sandra Mills is a freelance health, career, and health care industry writer. She enjoys helping people advance their careers.

Open Colleges is Australia's leader in online learning. We offer over 150 flexible online courses that allow you to fit study around your lifestyle. Our accredited courses are designed in consultation with industry and include TAFE courses and other nationally recognised qualifications. We support you along the way to help you achieve your goals. Start your journey towards a rewarding and successful future today!

My name is Sarah Miller and you're catching me at the start of my HR career, writing in some thoughtful way on my blog Whipper Snapper HR and with little thought on my twitter account. Apart from my Social Media shenanigans, I'm a South Australian living and working in Singapore. Previous career aspirations included being a plumber, and being a ferry driver who sang to my passengers on the morning commute. Thankfully, HR seems to be working out well for me.

Sarah Wilson is the community manager for TheLadders. TheLadders is a career resource dedicated to helping to professionals at all stages in their career market, move up, and manage. A New York native, Sarah spends most of her time outside of work pursuing hobbies such as cooking, photography and hiking.

Diversity and inclusion strategist, renowned for her visionary work in culture competence, nationally recognized speaker, and best-selling author Sara Taylor is dedicated to changing the world through the workplace by making organizations across the globe more effective and inclusive and their leaders more culturally competent. She founded deepSEE Consulting in 2002 to provide insightful consulting and strategic diversity training, paired with measurement tools to build individual and organizational cultural competence.In her deepSEE Consulting role as President, Sara has worked with hundreds of national and global companies and their executives, including Chief Diversity Officers, Organizational Development and HR leaders as well as staff at all levels throughout the organization. She helps them to understand the full complexities of today's diverse workforce and to build the competencies necessary to create inclusion and equity. Her clients over the years have included reputable companies such as Walmart, 3M Company, AARP, Cleveland Foundation, Coca-Cola, Marriott International, General Mills, United Way Worldwide, National Credit Union Administration, Ingersol-Rand, Seagate Technologies, Thompson Reuters, Thrivent Financial, among others.Prior to deepSEE Consulting, Sara was the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Ramsey County, Minnesota, where she established a new department to lead D&I efforts for 5,000 employees. She began her career as a Leadership and Diversity Specialist at the University of Minnesota, where she developed state-wide diversity and leadership programs, created and managed a grant program to fund community-based diversity initiatives, and directed the activities of diversity and leadership educators.On July 9, 2024, Sara will launch Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters (Berrett-Koehler) to help individuals tackle their unconscious bias and empower organizations to scale cultural competence to transform their structural and systematic landscapes to become more effective and equitable. She previously authored the 2017 best-selling book Filter Shift: How Effective People See the World, which is used by numerous individuals and organizations across the globe to increase success and create greater effectiveness.She has been an active member of the Society of Human Resource Management, Twin Cities Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practitioners, Human Resource Professionals of Minnesota, Minnesota Society for Human Resource Management, Twin Cities Human Resources Association, Association of Talent Development, and Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research. She’s been featured in and quoted as an expert in Upsize, Twin Cities Business, and HR Magazine and has had several articles published in Forbes and Diversity Woman magazine.Sara earned a master’s degree in Diversity and Organizational Development from the University of Minnesota. She and her husband, Miguel, split their time between their home in the Dominican Republic, close to Miguel’s family, and their home in Minneapolis, closer to their children and grandchild.

Scott is a graduate of St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and a Certified Human Resources Professional. (CHRP). His HR experience has come within the fields of marine engineering, contact centre, gaming and hospitality, retail and information technology.Scott has had the opportunity to provide HR solutions to organizations ranging in size from 50 to 5000 employees (including start-ups), all of which gives him a unique perspective on what it is like to manage in a myriad of environments and organizational structures.He has also held roles recruiting in the agency world, working as a sole HR practitioner and as the Manager of a large HR department – all of which has allowed him to experience the challenges and lessons learned that each of these roles presents! When he isn’t spending time being a Human Resources Manager or blogging, Scott enjoys coaching his daughter's basketball team, mountain biking and traveling to warm places with his family. You can find Scott on Twitter at @HR_ScottBoulton, or on his leadership and HR blog - The Armchair HR Manager.

Sarah Hollenbeck is a writer for rentspree, a homeowner, yoga teacher and marketing expert. When she isn't writing content, you can often find her catching up on the latest marketing videos, taking her dog for a walk or practicing yoga. Sarah prides herself on helping brands and small businesses in a variety of industries expand their audience and improve their marketing strategy.

Julia specializes in Equal Employment Opportunity laws, affirmative action, and diversity/inclusion consulting and training.