Dan Sullivan is the world’s foremost expert on entrepreneurship and has coached more successful entrepreneurs than anyone on the planet. He is the co-founder of Strategic Coach®, the leading entrepreneurial coaching program in the world, and author of more than 50 publications on entrepreneurial success. Over the past 30+ years, Strategic Coach has provided teaching and training to more than 20,000 entrepreneurs. He is the co-author, along with Dr. Benjamin Hardy, of Who Not How and The Gap and the Gain.
Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and best-selling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work and Personality Isn’t Permanent. Together, he and Dan Sullivan have written Who Not How and The Gap and the Gain. His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and featured in the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, on CNBC, among many others. He and his wife Lauren are the parents of six children. They live in Orlando.
HUMBLE THE POET (aka Kanwer Singh) is a Canadian-born artist, rapper, spoken-word poet, international best-selling author, and former elementary school teacher. He is the author of The Globe and Mail bestseller Unlearn and Things No One Else Can Teach Us. With his tattoos, beard, head wrap, and silly smile, Humble commands attention. He stimulates audiences with ideas that challenge conventional wisdom and go against the grain, with dynamic live sets that shake conventions and minds at the same time. He has performed at concerts and festivals, including Lollapalooza, and has been featured in major media including The New York Times, BuzzFeed, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Huffington Post.
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Nobuo Suzuki was born in 1968 and has dedicated his life to studying new aspects and approaches to philosophy and psychology. After traveling all around Asia, he developed a method of connecting Zen beliefs with art therapies, and now works with clients seeking alternative ways of approaching their life issues. He loves playing piano and writing about his trips and recording his reflections. He is the author of Wabi Sabi: The Wisdom in Imperfection.
Mukund Padmanabhan is the former Editor of The Hindu, one of India’s largest and most respected newspapers. He was appointed to the post in 2016, after having been Editor of the business daily, Hindu BusinessLine, a sister publication from the same group. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Practice at the newly established Krea University, north of Chennai, where he teaches philosophy and related disciplines. As a journalist, Mukund has written extensively on literary, legal and political subjects. This is his first book.
Vaibhav Sharma is a translator and poet from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was mentored by International Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell under the 2023 NCW Emerging Translators Mentorship programme. His work has been published in Out of Print, Words Without Borders, Hans, Modern Poetry in Translation, the Bombay Literary Magazine and Himal magazine. He was shortlisted for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation in 2023 and the Mozhi Prize in 2024. His debut translation, Under the Night Jasmine, came out in February 2024. Courtesans Don’t Read Newspapers is his second translation.
Karan Mujoo was born in Srinagar in 1986. His work has appeared in fiftytwo.in, Tribune, Outlook, Arré, Firstpost and Aainanagar. He tweets on X @mujoo_karan.
Suraj Milind Yengde is Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies and a Ford Foundation Presidential Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. His second doctorate at the University of Oxford explored the intellectual histories of caste and race from the Middle Ages to the present, examining theories of W.E.B. Du Bois, B.R. Ambedkar, Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko. He is the bestselling author of Caste Matters.
