Dr. Amen is a physician, psychiatrist, teacher, and a multiple New York Times bestselling author. He is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on applying brain imaging science to clinical psychiatric practice. He is a board certified child and adult psychiatrist and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc. in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Bellevue, Washington, and Reston, Virginia. Amen Clinics have the world's largest database of functional brain scans relating, totaling more than 63,000 scans. The clinics have seen patients from 90 countries.
Dr. Amen is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He has presented his work around the world. He is widely regarded as a gifted teacher, taking complex concepts in neuropsychiatry and imaging and making them easily accessible to other professionals.
Arthur L. Costa is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento. He is Co-Founder of the Institute for Habits of Mind and Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Coaching. He served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and an assistant superintendent for instruction and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as on six of the seven continents
Art has written and edited numerous books, including Techniques for Teaching Thinking, The School as a Home for the Mind, and Cognitive Coaching with Bob Garmston. He is editor of Developing Minds: a Resource Book for Teaching Thinking and co-editor of the Process as Content Trilogy, the four book developmental series, Habits of Mind, Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind and Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum.. His bookshave been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.
Eric Jensen began his teaching career in San Diego, CA as an English teacher at the middle school level. His love of learning has been a lifelong passion. While most of his classroom experience was with middle school students, he has taught at every level, including three universities. Eric's academic background is in English, and he is currently completing his Ph.D. in Human Development. He is an active member of the Society for Neuroscience and the New York Academy of Sciences. Eric co-founded the first international brain-compatible learning program in 1982, now with over 50,000 graduates and has authored 26 books on the brain and learning including Teaching with Poverty in Mind, Teaching with the Brain in Mind and Enriching the Brain.
Robert Swartz is Director of the National Center for Teaching Thinking, USA. He received his doctorate from Harvard University and is an emeritus faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He has worked extensively over the past twenty five years with teachers, schools, school districts, and colleges internationally in staff-development projects on restructuring curriculum and instruction by infusing critical and creative thinking into content teaching. He has developed a series of lesson design handbooks, Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking into Content Instruction, co-authored by a number of educational practitioners, K-12, published a large number of articles about teaching and assessing thinking, and has acted as a thinking skills testing consultant with the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the USA. He is presently a member of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Thinking (ICOT). His most recent work, of which he is the lead author of a team of five, is Thinking-Based Learning, published in 2007.
Mr. CHUNG Po Yang (alias, Po CHUNG) co-founded DHL International in 1972 and is the Chairman Emeritus of DHL Express (HK) Ltd. He is also the Chairman of both The Hong Kong Institute of Service Leadership & Management and The Good Life Initiative Limited.
He has a Bachelor Degree (1969) in Fisheries Management from Humboldt State University, California, and a Master of Fine Art Degree (2006) from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. He is a Visiting Professor at The Hong Kong University's Business Department, teaching MBA and EMBA courses, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The University of Macau. He is a fellow member of Thunderbird School of Global Management and Honorary Advisor for the Advanced Development Academy of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
(Cert. Ed., B Ed., M. Ed.) She is currently taking the Doctor of Education Program offered by the University of Western Australia. Since 2007, she has worked as Education Consultant and Project Manager with different HK primary and secondary schools in adopting Brain-based Learning, Habits of Mind and Thinking-based Curriculum Design impacting teachers’ pedagogy and students’ learning.
She has been a frontline English Language teacher for over 16 years and taught classes ranging from Secondary 1-7. In 2002, she was awarded the Certificate of Merit from the Government of the Special Administrative Region Education Department in Hong Kong as having attained Level 4 or above in the Language Proficiency Requirement for English Teacher.
Ricky was awarded the master degree of Education and the master degree of Educational Research Method by the University of Western Australia. He is the Chairman of the Association of Brain-based Learning in Education and served as the project manager, principal trainer, guest speaker, part-time tutor and education consultant of different sections of Education Bureau, Tertiary Institutions, Primary and Secondary Schools in Hong Kong.
Since 2004, he and his wife have become the first teachers to be certified as Brain-Based Trainer by Jensen Learning Cooperation and in 2005 Ricky was recognized as a “Habits of Mind” Trainer in Hong Kong by Professor Arthur L. Costa, the founder of “Habits of Mind”.
