Alive! Authors Network

Dr. Jo Ann Piña

Dr. Jo Ann Piña is the expert on expanding leaders’ influence in today’s multi-cultural and global workplace. Dr. Jo is the leading authority Hispanic values and culture to facilitate breaking through the Latino market. She assists companies reach their target cultural market and leaders get their message across with influence and persuasion. Dr. Jo is a former professor and counselor at Montgomery College and corporate trainer for Anthony Robbins. Her impressive success almost crashed when she was diagnosed with Stage 3 kidney cancer. Cancer free for 10 years, Dr. Jo brings her wisdom and processes to leaders and companies internationally. 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 Parker Harris

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 BLOCK-BUSTER. (her latest book) She combines feature film production with her quest to put others on their Block-Buster paths.