MARY heads Key Associates, Inc. (KA), a leadership development consulting firm committed for more than a decade to helping leaders and organizations move from where they are to where they want to be. KA specializes in using Right Focus, Right People and Right Execution systems and tools to help individuals, teams and organizations align with their vision and goals in order to meet or exceed them.

Dr. Key is a business consultant, a popular speaker, an author, and an executive coach of corporations around the globe. Her clients have included large companies like Ericsson, Nokia, Nissan, Infiniti, Bausch & Lomb, Georgia-Pacific, Tampa Electric, Media General, Circuit City, and Baycare Health System. She works with CEOs of fast growing and mid-size companies where she coaches, facilitates regular executive forums, and consults with participating CEOs.

Dr. Key provided one-on-one consulting and meeting facilitation to CEOs and Inc. 500 winners while serving as an executive director of Inc. magazine's Eagles CEO Program. She has also consulted in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and has served in leadership roles at several major international consulting firms, including Development Dimensions International and Kaset, now part of AchieveGlobal. She has also been the president of a medical device company.

Key received a B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia. She has authored numerous articles and several books, including The Entrepreneurial Cat: 13 Ways to Transform Your Work Life (Berrett-Koehler) and What Animals Teach Us: Love, Loyalty, Heroism and Other Important Lessons from Our Pets (Random House).

DENNIS Stearns is an award-winning Certified Financial Planner practitioner and Chartered Financial Consultant.

As president of Stearns Financial Services Group, he has been providing financial planning and investment management services to CEO-level clients in public and private companies for more than twenty-five years.
A noted expert in scenario building-from stock option planning to community growth projects and Good-to-Great workshops for nonprofit organizations-he has conducted advanced planning seminars for the Financial Planning Association (FPA), American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), Institute of Certified Financial Planners, National Speakers Association, American Institute of CPAs and Charles Schwab & Co.

Stearns Financial Services Group, Inc. (SFSG) is a fee-only wealth management firm and investment advisor based in Greensboro, North Carolina with clients around the U.S. and Canada.

Founded on the realization that capital is difficult to accumulate, maintain and a challenge to enhance, particularly from generation to generation, SFSG has created a high benchmark for successful wealth management for entrepreneurs and senior management of Fortune 1000 companies. SFSG offers comprehensive financial planning and investment management services as an objective, professional advisor to individuals, companies and foundations.

Dennis serves on a number of community and non-profit boards and is a former member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Financial Planning and the AAII national 401(k) advisory board. He played on a championship Pan-American Collegiate Chess Team and has played up to 40 opponents at the same time to raise money for children's charities. He now coaches an inner city chess club and helps at-risk youth learn to move towards their dreams and apply lessons learned from their mistakes.