Corey Blake has spent two decades at the intersection of leadership, psychology, and storytelling. His work has guided alumni associations in collecting more than 1.6 million alumni stories, helped save lower-wage workers more than $500 million in penalties and fees, and continues to inspire thousands of at-risk youth to leave gang life and return to their education. His current passion is the development and transformation of frontline managers and employees at scale. Corey has been featured on the cover of the Wall Street Journal and in the New York Times, USA Today, Inc., Forbes, and Wired magazines. Since 2015, Corey is adjunct faculty at the Stagen Leadership Academy, where he has studied since 2015, and in 2016, he graduated from the 18-month Gestalt Training Program at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. As a commercial actor representing Fortune 100 brands, Corey's face has been seen by hundreds of millions of people around the globe, including in one of the 50 greatest Super Bowl commercials of all time. As a speaker and facilitator, he has delivered unique experiences to YPO, EO, Zappos, Northwestern University, and dozens of business communities. Corey is the co-creator of the Vulnerability Wall (with the remarkable Sunny DiMartino!)—whose clients include Microsoft, ADP, Marketo, and Workday— and the Vulnerability is Sexy^TM card game. His documentary of the same name won 2017 ADDY and HERMES awards for branded content.

Sunny has more than a decade of book design experience and has created interior layouts, covers, and/or digital versions for 150+ books including business topics, memoirs, illustrated books, workbooks, and test prep books with complex math typesetting. With an eye for detail, she oversees the design and publication of all RTC and Conscious Capitalism Press books, and was the co-creator of RTC's Vulnerability Wall. She has over 15 years of experience with Adobe InDesign and offers an online course to other book design professionals. A designer for as long as she can remember, Sunny has also provided layout or creative direction for countless brand pieces over the years. She enjoys hand lettering and helped to pioneer RTC’s live art installations, providing structural design, creative direction, management, and onsite artistry. Sunny has been growing personally and professionally with RTC since 2009. Her personal interests include many things such as line dancing, healthy homes, and longevity—and, of course, always reading.

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Born and raised in Jacksonville Beach, FL, Kelsey Schurer received her Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Virginia Tech University and her bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Florida State University, and she is a Douglas Anderson School of the Arts alum. Previously nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her honors include Winner of the Virginia Tech Poetry Prize presented by the Academy of American Poets, second-place recipient of the Emily Morrison Fiction Prize, winner of the Louis and Mart P. Hill Outstanding Thesis award, and winner of the regional Scholastic Writing Award presented by Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Her work has most recently appeared in Harvard Business Review, SUCCESS magazine, Good Men Project, on poets.org and in Apalachee Review.

As a former college writing instructor at Virginia Tech, an academic writing mentor, and a newspaper journalist, Kelsey is passionate about engaging and growing with all types of creatives. She has experience in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as technical report writing, article writing, copywriting, copyediting, and multimedia art projects, and she has even dabbled in playwriting and scriptwriting. In addition to her passion for the arts, she has also volunteered at a rescue horse farm, a wildlife sanctuary for tigers and lions, and her local church as a starting-point course leader.

At RTC, Kelsey plays an integral role in the creation of the educational courses, including Mastering Trust, Black Belt Communication, and Connecting on Purpose. With years’ experience in story coaching, Kelsey loves to support those who are looking to articulate the language of their lives and need a nudge to do so.

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Andrea Yahr, head of finance since 2016, is in charge of payroll, budgeting, finances, accounting, royalties, book orders, HR, and bookkeeping at RTC. She’s the one who spends 18 hours each year on continuing education in US tax rules and regulations and who has QuickBooks certification as well as a specialization in clergy tax.

With a head for numbers and a heart of service, Andrea brings more than 20 years of experience in taxes and accounting to the table. For more than 15 of those years, Andrea has operated her own bookkeeping and tax company, where she currently supports over 320 clients. As part of her business, she also provides pro bono financial work for her community.

When Andrea is not wrangling numbers, she spends time with her four daughters and her husband Karl. She enjoys reading fiction and watching Netflix. And it’s not just numbers that are music to her ears; Andrea also plays the organ at local churches.

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Liz has been the keeper of the calls at RTC for over 10 years and if anyone should have James Bond music as their entrance music, it’s Liz. She’s heard and kept all the propriety, secret information shared between writers, editors, and clients—and has even transcribed it.

Liz has transcribed tens of thousands of hours of calls and has scheduled thousands of calls. She makes it look easy, but she’s often juggling different time zones, many busy schedules, and tight deadlines. She books calls, answers tech questions about Zoom calls, Uberline calls, Google Calendar, and the other tools RTC uses. She makes sure writing teams have the accurate transcripts they need to create beautiful work.

Liz’s journey to RTC began with transcriptionist training. She had always been organized in school and with a word per minute rate of 88, it seemed like a natural step. Working as a medical transcriptionist for over a year and transcribing doctors’ dictations only marginally less messy than doctors’ handwriting, Liz learned all the obscure medical terms usually reserved for textbooks. She got five-star ratings and rave reviews from her clients for her accuracy and the speed of her transcription, but something was missing.

It wasn’t until she was recruited for the RTC team that Liz realized the missing puzzle piece: working on books that brimmed with purpose and stories helped her enjoy work even more. Today, Liz works with a notebook at her desk, so she can make notes, and a foot pedal that lets her control playback of the audio files she’s always transcribing. When a team member is having problems with a phone call or an RTC client needs something scheduled, Liz is only a quick email away. When she’s not keeping RTC on track, Liz is spending time with (and scheduling and organizing) her family—which includes four children and her husband.

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RTC has a group of artists (not all pictured) who lend their talents to live art installations across the country. They all enjoy working with their hands, playing with typography and shapes, and seeing how their art impacts guests and adds a new dimension to an event.

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