Jason Jennings
Business Thought Leader and Best-Selling Author
Jason Jennings has spent twenty years founding and leading successful businesses and consulting other companies; teaching them how to achieve their full economic potential.
He was the youngest radio station group owner in the world and his unique and legendary programming and sales strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of the broadcasting industry. Later, he founded Jennings-McGlothlin & Company, a consulting firm that became the largest media consultancy in the world. He spent eighteen months traveling the globe in search of and digging deep inside the fastest companies in the world for his book, It's Not The Big That Eat The Small – It's The Fast That Eat The Slow.Within weeks of its release it hit the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and New York Times bestsellers lists. Published in 32 languages, USA Today named it one of the top 25 books of the year!
Next, he and his research team studied more than 40,000 companies and identified the ten most productive companies in the world for his bestselling, Less Is More, published by Penguin Putnam. In the book the secrets of the world's most productive companies are revealed.
Think BIG - Act Small, debuted in 2006 and profiles the only 10 companies in the world to have grown both revenue and operating profits by ten percent or more annually for ten consecutive years without missing a beat. Like his previous books it debuted on all the bestseller charts.
His latest work, Hit The Ground Running-A Manual For New Leaders, identifies the ten American CEO's who created the greatest amount of shareholder value between 2000 and 2008, tells their stories and explains the strategies, tactics and values that allowed them to achieve such remarkable performance.
When not traveling the world on research and adventure travel Jennings delivers 80 keynotes annually and USA Today named him one of the three most indemand business speakers on the planet alongside Jim Collins (Good to Great) and Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence).
Mark Zandi, Ph.D.
Chief Economist
Moody's Economy.com
Mark Zandi is chief economist and cofounder of Moody's Economy.com where he directs the company's research and consulting activities. Moody's Economy.com, a division of Moody's Analytics, provides economic research and consulting services to businesses, governments and other institutions.
Mark's research interests include macro, financial and regional economics. His recent research has studied the determinants of mortgage foreclosure and personal bankruptcy, analyzed the economic impact of various tax and government spending policies, and assessed the appropriate policy response to bubbles in asset markets. Mark also conducts regular briefings on the economy. He is quoted often in national and global publications, is frequently interviewed by major news media outlets, and is the author of Financial Shock, an exposé of the subprime financial crisis.
Mark was an economic advisor to the John McCain campaign for President, has provided advice to the Obama Administration, and regularly testifies in Congress. His most recent testimony has been on the economic impact of fiscal stimulus and the merits of providing government aid to the vehicle industry. Dr. Zandi received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he did his research with Gerard Adams and Nobel laureate Lawrence Klein, and received his B.S. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
