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Rafe Sagarin is a marine ecologist and environmental policy analyst at the University of Arizona. He continually works to connect careful observations of nature’s diversity with issues of critical societal concern, from dealing with security threats to improving the adaptability of businesses and teachers. His scientific research was among the first to demonstrate that natural systems were being affected by climate warming in the 20th century and he has gone on to use historical data sets from writers, naturalists, artists, and gamblers to re-assemble historical patterns of ecosystem change, including reconstructing changes to the Gulf of California since the 1940 expedition of John Steinbeck and Ed “Doc” Ricketts.

Dr. Sagarin is a recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship for his writing on biologically inspired approaches to security. He was a Geological Society of America Congressional Science Fellow in the office of U.S. Representative (and later U.S. Secretary of Labor) Hilda Solis in Washington, DC. He currently advises the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security as well as numerous first responders and health practitioners, on how to apply lessons from nature to adaptable risk management. He has taught ecology and policy at Duke University, Stanford University, California State University Monterey Bay, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Arizona. His research has appeared in Science, Nature, Conservation Biology, Ecological Monographs, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security Affairs and other leading journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the editor, with Terence Taylor, of the volume Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World (2008, University of California Press). His upcoming books include: Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature can Help Us Fight Terrorism, Natural Disasters, and Disease (Basic Books, 2012) and Observation and Ecology: Changing the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World (Island Press, 2012).

Rick Maurer, a renowned change management consultant, expert, speaker and bestselling author, educates audiences on how to get results from major change without headaches, cost overruns, and hidden problems…or Change Without Migraines™.

Your audience will be inspired and entertained by Rick’s energy-infused keynote. An engaging and passionate professional consultant and speaker, Rick Maurer delivers insightfully to small and large groups of senior executives, middle managers and staff levels. He has worked with business leaders from a variety of companies throughout the world including major Fortune 500 companies, as well as private companies and nonprofits.

Due to the popularity of Rick Maurer’s books, Why Don’t You Want What I Want?, Beyond the Wall of Resistance, and Building Capacity for Change Sourcebook, Rick’s opinion has been sought by CNBC, NBC Nightly News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bottom Line, Investor’s Business Daily, Fortune, USA Today, The Economist, Industry Week, and Nation’s Business.

His expertise helps you identify even deeply hidden resistance, overcome it quickly, and in so doing implement even the most difficult strategic and tactical changes.