Jeffrey Cohn (New York, NY) is an advisor to CEOs and Boards around the world; a public speaker; and an expert in succession planning, assessment and leadership development. He is currently based in the New York office of Spencer Stuart, a top executive search firm, where he has worked with a variety of organizations, including numerous Fortune 500 clients, private equity portfolio companies, universities and non-profits. Jeff also has designed and launched numerous customized executive development workshops for clients and for the CEO Leadership Institute, now part of Yale University. Cohn was previously a Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School; the Director of Research at Chief Executive Leadership Institute (Yale); and a Director at the Law & Economics Consulting Group. Cohn has published widely in the areas of leadership development, succession planning and strategic management, including articles in Harvard Business Review, Economist Intelligence Unit, The CEO Refresher, and the Balanced Scorecard Report. He also has been quoted in BusinessWeek, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and Workforce Management. Jeff graduated with a B.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. in applied corporate finance from Tulane University.

Jay Moran (Barcelona, Spain) is a leading succession planning expert, an executive coach, and a professor of leadership and international business at IES Barcelona and Saint Louis University.  Moran was formally at the CEO Leadership Institute at Yale where he helped launch multiple CEO conferences and workshops for C-Suite executives and Board members on topics including innovation, leadership assessment, talent management, corporate culture and succession planning.  Earlier in Moran's career, he was a corporate transactions lawyer at King & Spalding and a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting.  Moran earned a law degree and MBA from Emory University and a two-year MPA from Harvard University, where the focus of his study was leadership.  He has published work in a variety of academic and literary journals.