Stephanie Chandler is an American author, entrepreneur, and community builder who traded a Silicon Valley software career for a bookstore, stumbled into publishing, and ended up founding the Nonfiction Authors Association — a membership community helping writers publish, market, and monetize nonfiction books. Author of ten books and founder of Authority Publishing, she runs the annual Nonfiction Writers Conference (since 2010) and advocates openly for suicide loss survivors.
Bernadette Jiwa is an Irish-Australian author, brand strategist, and storytelling expert who has written 10 #1 Amazon bestselling business books - including Story Driven, Marketing: A Love Story, and Hunch - plus two novels published by Penguin Random House. A former business consultant who began blogging in her forties, she built one of Australia's most-read business blogs, created the Story Skills Workshop on Seth Godin's Akimbo platform, and has become one of the most cited voices on the power of narrative in business and human connection.