Biographies

Dr. Jo Ann Piña is one of the most acclaimed experts in cross-cultural communication and a leading authority on Hispanic values and culture. Dr. Jo works with leaders who want to have more influence with their multicultural customers and co-workers as well as with emerging leaders who want to be heard above the noise. She assists companies reach their target cultural market and teaches leaders to get their messages across. Dr. Jo is a former professor and counselor at Montgomery College and corporate trainer for Anthony Robbins. Dr. Jo is currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University; she’s also a certified Myers-Briggs trainer and executive communication coach. Her new book, Getting Across…Your Message, Your Ideas, Your Meaning, has just been published. It presents 15 ways professionals can communicate with Hispanic customers and co-workers.

Judith is the expert on getting companies and their work forces un-stuck as they learn to communicate, produce, and create to maximum potential in a way that is meaningful to the rest of their lives. Former owner of a multi-million dollar advertising agency, Judith Parker Harris wrote, produced and directed over 3,000 television commercials for clients like Sears & Roebuck and Shell Oil and pioneered brand advertising for national healthcare chains. Her meteoric rise to the top almost crashed, when she became seriously BLOCKED by the partial paralysis and sight loss of Multiple Sclerosis. Judith grabbed hold of recovery and used it to write an entirely new life for herself. Symptom-free since 1990, Judith has created a 4-step process that she uses to move all of her clients from BLOCKED to BLOCKBUSTER (her latest book). She combines feature film production with her quest to put others on their Block-Buster paths.