Cindy Henson is the Chief Executive Officer of Henson Consulting Group. She possesses thirty-three years experience within corporations, local government agencies, and non-profits as a business executive and an independent consultant.

Her book,  Jungle: A Journey to Peace, Purpose, and Freedom, is much like Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love – except for the corporate leader. Nearly two decades into her corporate career, Henson was awakened to a lifelong addiction to overworking and “taking one for the team” by a debilitating illness, which led her to the jungle of Costa Rica to pursue a master’s degree in International Peace and Conflict Studies. In her renewed approach to life, she integrates laughter, adventure, generosity, and love into all that she does – at work and in her personal life.

Lisa K. Shapiro is an Assistant Professor of Business at San Diego Mesa College. She holds a degree in Management and Literature, and has also taught composition and creative writing in San Diego.

He new book, No Forgotten Fronts: From Classrooms to Combat, was published through the Naval Institution Press and is based on thousands of original letters written by students from San Diego State who served in World War II. Shapiro spent more than two years researching the correspondence between young service men and service women and one trusted professor.