Herb Rubenstein is the President of Herb Rubenstein Consulting. He is the co-author of Breakthrough, Inc.: High Growth Strategies for Entrepreneurial Organizations (Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 1999). In addition, he was the lead author of  Leadership Development for Educators (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), and the author of Leadership for Lawyers, 2ed. (American Bar Association, 2008).  He has published over 200 articles and 200 videos on business strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, boards of directors, and improving how organizations function and deliver value which can be read and viewed at www.herbrubenstein.com.  

He taught the Capstone Course at the University of Colorado’s Graduate School of Business in the Global Energy Management.  That course was titled “Strategic Management” and he also taught the course “The Future of Energy” in London and “The Future of Energy Regulation” in Washington, DC for UC Denver.  He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Planning at George Washington University and has been an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurism at George Mason University and Colorado State University.

He has his law degree from Georgetown University, his Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, a graduate degree in sociology from the University of Bristol in Bristol, England, and a Phi Beta Kappa/Omicron Delta Kappa graduate from Washington and Lee University in 1974.  At the age of 67, Herb Rubenstein became a Class A Member of the PGA (2020) and now sits on two Board of Directors Committees – DEI and Places to Play.  He passed the player’s ability test (PAT) at the age of 65 and started the largest PGA Junior League in America exclusively for scholarship kids in Brooklyn in 2016 when he became interested in expanding the game of golf to all children in America, girls and women, minorities and low-income people globally.  He has taught online for almost thirty years.

Debra Alexander is one of the nation’s leading DEI program consultants and speakers in the United States. She grew up in Grambling, Louisiana where her father was a professor. She focuses on individual, team, leadership and organizational performance as well as conducting DEI assessments, designing DEI programs and conducting DEI and organizational change evaluations. She completed graduate and post-graduate studies at American University, Columbia University, University of St. Thomas and the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland; and holds an undergraduate degree from Hampton University. She is the former owner of the Moton Conference Center in Virginia, and a member of the faculty of Georgetown University in the Organizational Consulting and Change Leadership program.