Martha Mayhood Mertz is the author of Becoming ATHENA: Eight Principles of Enlightened Leadership and the founder of ATHENA International, a non-profit organization that seeks to support, develop and honor women leaders, inspire them to reach their full potential, and create balance in leadership worldwide. She is a global speaker in demand on the topic of leadership and a successful real estate entrepreneur as president and owner of the Michigan-based firm Mayhood/Mertz Investment, Inc. Martha was President of ATHENA International from its beginnings in Lansing, MI in 1982 to May of 1999. Now a global board leads ATHENA and Mertz serves as a board member and ambassador, traveling the globe to share its message that women bring a distinctive, transforming approach to leadership, an approach that goes beyond gender to speak to all who would lead in the 21st century. For more information go to, http://marthamertz.com/

Catherine Birndorf, MD, specializes in Reproductive Psychiatry, an important area in mental health which helps women with emotional and psychiatric conditions before, during and after pregnancy and throughout the life cycle. Dr. Birndorf helps patients understand their specific psychiatric problems during times of hormonal changes from menses to menopause. She works with her patients and their families to focus on these pyschiatic issues and provides a range of treatement options during this time of transition in a woman's life. Dr. Birndorf's services include comprehensive diagnostic consultation, psychoeducation, expert second opinions, and collaboration with other treatment providers. She is frequently on the TODAY show on NBC as a health expert who provides both psychopharmacology and psychotherapy. in 2010 Dr. Birndorf co-authored her first book with Lucy Danziger, Editor-in-Chief at SELF Magazine, entitled The Nine Rooms of Happiness. For more information go to http://drcatherinebirndorf.com/