The toughest 24 hours of John Calia’s life unfolded off the coast of Maine in the middle of a winter storm.

A Naval Academy graduate, Calia served in the Navy for five years in the 1970’s. On this particular trip, Calia’s squadron set off into the Atlantic Ocean to test the durability of minesweeping equipment in the intense cold.

On June 7, 2013, Debra Fine experienced first-hand how one single person can alter the entire outcome of an event.

StaciTubbs.CEO

"Moments of crisis are opportunities"
"From call center to successful CEO"

Based in Dallas, Staci Tubbs serves as a chair for the CEO Organization, Vistage and is the CEO of her own business. At school she was a young scientist - studying biology and chemistry at Cornell.

RyanHolmes.CEO

Hootsuite founder and CEO Ryan Holmes grew up on a Canadian potato farm without electricity. He has since gone on to build the world's most widely-used social media relationship platform. Today, his company Hootsuite has more than 10 million users and is used by 75% of the Fortune 1000 companies.