DEBORAH BROWN-VOLKMAN is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a motivational speaker, author, veteran coach, and the President of Surpass Your Dreams, Inc., a successful career, life and mentor coaching company that has been delivering a message of motivation, success and personal fulfillment since 1998. She provides Career Coaching for Senior Executives, Vice Presidents and Managers who are looking for new career opportunities or seek to become more productive in their current role. Deborah Brown-Volkman has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune Magazine and numerous other well-known and respected publications. She is the author of several best-selling books including Coach Yourself To A New Career, Don’t Blow It! The Right Words For The Right Job, and How To Feel Great At Work Every Day.

TOMMY THOMAS, completed his PhD in psychometrics in 1982 and continued the pioneering executive coaching that his father originated and expanded to many more executives and organizations. He teamed up with his father in the continuing effort to study, validate and refine the Opposite Strengths system.

Since that time, over 100,000 people in 1,300 organizations have been taught to use Opposite Strengths and use it as a daily tool to initiate and sustain their and their organization’s success. Dr. Thomas continues that same work today. Opposite Strengths is a dynamic system for personal and organizational culture transformation for executive coaches and organizations providing tools for positive change teaching flexible, nontraditional team skills.