Penny Zenker

The Focusologist

Penny Zenker is a sought-after international speaker, business strategy coach, and best-selling author of The Reset Mindset and The Productivity Zone: Stop the Tug of War with Time. In her career she launched and sold her first business before her 31^st birthday and managed business-unit turnarounds for a global market research firm. Zenker is one of America’s leading experts in the psychology of productivity, integrating the elements of thought, communication, and behavior to provide strategies for adapting to change and maximizing results. 

Zenker’s popular TEDx, with more than 1 million views, and her book, The Reset Mindset, lays out strategies to be more conscious of your choices, more purposeful of your actions and more intentional about your results. By tapping into more Reset Moments, you can realign your values, goals, objectives, and intentions to navigate the complexities of today’s world with grace, clarity, and focus.

Dave Dravecky

Former Major League Pitcher
Motivational Speaker
and Author

Dravecky was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates and pitched for the San Diego Padres (1982-1987) and San Francisco Giants (1987-1989). Though his start in the Major Leagues was slow, it didn’t discourage him. At the start of his second season, he was the National League’s first six-game winner and first 10-game winner. Dravecky was quick on the mound as he had an average length of game time of 2 hours and 20 minutes during his nine complete games in 1983. During his time with the Padres, Dravecky won 13 games with a 2.93 ERA in 31 starts in 1985 and won nine games with a 3.07 ERA in 26 starts in ’86. However, in 1987 he was traded to the San Francisco Giants where he started 18 games for his new team, going 7-5 with a 3.20 ERA and later won the National League West.

In September 1988, he was diagnosed with cancer in his pitching arm and the doctor told him that “outside of a miracle, you’ll never pitch again.” Dave called that day a “huge wake-up call” about life. That miracle came August 10, 1989 where he pitched his first Major League game since his cancer diagnosis. He threw a shutout over the first seven innings — retiring 21 of the first 23 batters he faced. His miracle didn’t last long. Five days after his comeback, he broke his arm while pitching – his bone weakening as a result of his cancer treatment. He struggled with injury after injury until he finally retired from baseball on November 13, 1989. In 1991, Dravecky made the decision to amputate his left arm after he contracted a staph infection that lasted 10 months.

Twenty-seven years later, Dravecky has faced challenges and learned important lessons on how to navigate loss and suffering, and how to experience encouragement and hope. He’s been exploring how we define our true worth, learning that it’s not what you do that matters most—it’s who you are. The experiences of his life has drawn him to discover and share the value and significance of relationships—relationships with co-workers, family members and anyone else on ‘his team.’