Lesley Jane Seymour was named editor-in-chief of More magazine in January of 2008 where she led the magazine to a 2009 National Magazine Award nomination for Personal Service for a piece entitled "The Endangered Uterus." Prior to joining Meredith Corporation, Seymour served as the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, where she spearheaded the magazine's signature cause-related programs, including Time to Talk Day, which raised awareness for domestic violence and the One World/One Wish campaign for the international relief organization Save the Children.

Prior to that, Seymour was editor-in-chief of Redbook, where she repositioned the magazine, developed new editorial programs and features and guided the title to a National Magazine Award nomination for Personal Service for its comprehensive Breast Cancer Medbook. Seymour's editorial experience also encompasses serving as the editor-in-chief of YM, beauty director of Glamour and contributing editor for Vogue. Additionally, Seymour is the author of two books: On the Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue and I Wish My Parents Understood.

Dr. Alan Altman was formerly Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, where he taught medical students, interns and residents, as well as fellow clinicians at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.

Dr. Altman is presently a consultative gynecologist advising patients on peri- and post-menopausal issues, hormonal therapy and sexual function and dysfunction. He is also an internationally known lecturer and author of books and textbook chapters. Perimenopause, sexual function and hormonal therapy were the topics covered in his first book, Making Love the Way We Used To...or Better; Secrets to Satisfying Midlife Sexuality. His second, The Betrayal of American Women; Don't Throw Away Those Hormones So Quickly, is due out shortly as an e-book which will be updated regularly on-line.

He was recently elected the President-Elect of ISSWSH (The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health), the premier multidisciplinary, academic and clinical society in the world uniquely focused on female sexual research and therapeutic issues. An important part of his ongoing career has been the education of the lay public on postmenopausal hormonal therapy which his has led to his involvement in the production of a full-length documentary movie on menopause which will be distributed in theatres nationally later this year. Women around the country have found Dr. Altman invaluable as a consultant-by-phone helping them make better choices concerning menopausal health, hormones and sexual issues. He lives in Aspen, CO with his wife of 37 years and bases his consultative practice there.

Christiane Amanpour is the incoming anchor of ABC’s Sunday morning political affairs program, “This Week with Christiane Amanpour,” which premieres on August 1, 2010. In addition to her anchoring role, she will provide international analysis of the important issues of the day on ABC News’ other programs and platforms and anchor primetime documentaries on international subjects.

Ms. Amanpour joined ABC from CNN, where she was most recently the network’s Chief International Correspondent and anchor of “Amanpour,” a daily half-hour interview program. Upon becoming an international correspondent for CNN in 1990, her first major assignment was covering the Gulf War. She has since reported on and from the world’s major hotspots including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Rwanda, the Balkans, and the U.S. during Hurricane Katrina. After 9/11 she was the first international correspondent to secure interviews with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. She has also interviewed other world leaders from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Ms. Amanpour has received every major broadcast award, including an inaugural Television Academy Award, nine News and Documentary Emmys, four George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, an Edward R. Murrow award, and eight honorary degrees. In October, 2010 she will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her “highly distinguished, innovative contribution” to the field of journalism. In 1998, the city of Sarajevo named her an honorary citizen for her coverage of the Bosnia war. Ms. Amanpour was born in London and spent part of her childhood in Tehran, Iran. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

Rita Cosby is a renowned TV host and veteran correspondent, who anchored highly-rated primetime shows on Fox News Channel and MSNBC. She is currently a special correspondent for the top-rated CBS Syndicated Newsmagazine, Inside Edition. Honors for the three-time Emmy winner include the Matrix Award and the Jack Anderson Award. A recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Lech Walesa Freedom Award, she also hosts the National Memorial Day Parade broadcast to all U.S. military installations around the world. Her first book, Blonde Ambition, was a New York Times bestseller. In May of this year she released the most important story of her life, a book entitled, Quiet Hero: Secrets From My Father’s Past, detailing her recent discovery about her estranged father who was a POW saved by American troops. Proceeds go to the USO to help wounded soldiers and their families.

Judy Coyne is the executive editor of More. Previously, she was the executive editor at Good Housekeeping for seven years. She also served as editor-in-chief at New Woman magazine and later at women.com, a website that launched the first branded sites for Hearst Magazines. Coyne has also served as executive editor at Glamour magazine, and has been on staff at both Cosmopolitan and Redbook. Before working in magazines, she was a book editor at Putnam and E.P. Dutton. Coyne is a graduate of SUNY Stonybrook where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in English.

Barbara Jones is the editorial director of Hyperion Books and of VOICE, an imprint that publishes books by and about women. For VOICE, she edits such bestselling authors as Kelly Corrigan, Chitra Divakaruni, Lauren Groff, Nina Garcia and Isabel Gillies and forthcoming debut authors such as Hillary Clinton campaign strategist Patti Solis Doyle and NPR audio diarist Caitlin Shetterly.

Before becoming a book editor in 2008, Jones spent more than 15 years as an editor at magazines such as More, Harper's Magazine, Vogue, and Real Simple. She has published her own writings in many magazines, newspapers and books, including Salon, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, Marie Claire, The Paris Review, Grand Street and in anthologies from Farrar Straus and Giroux and Riverhead Books. She has taught at Yale College and New York University.

Barbara has served as a media consultant for the Women Leaders Intercultural Forum, as a delegate to the Global Women's Action Network for Children, and as project director for a new schools leadership team in West Harlem. She lives in Harlem with her husband and their three children.

Life has made Sally Koslow a novelist. Since 2007 she has published With Friends like These; The Late, Lamented Molly Marx, a Target Book Pick, and Little Pink Slips, inspired by her years as a magazine editor, which included being the editor-in-chief of McCall’s and the founding editor of Lifetime. Her fiction has been translated into ten languages, with Ich, Molly Marx, Kürzlich Verstorben a bestseller in Germany. Koslow is currently completing The Wander Years: A Mom’s Public Display of Reflection, an exploration of “adultescents,” people 22-35 leading lives which to many look unconventional. She contributes essays and articles to More, Real Simple and other major magazines and websites including, The Huffington Post, More.com and AARP.com. Koslow teaches at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute, conducts private writing workshops, practices as a personal writing coach and loves how her work-life has evolved. You can reach her at www.sallykoslow.com.

Former entertainment exec turned certified coach, Pamela Mitchell is founder and CEO of The Reinvention Institute, a dynamic organization devoted to individual transformation. She is a popular and in-demand speaker who gives talks to individuals, corporations and industry groups, who are interested in learning fresh strategies for navigating in the midst of change. As the nation's premier career reinvention expert, she has appeared on Today and been profiled and quoted in top media publications including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, More, Men's Health and Black Enterprise. Her book, The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy, was published by Dutton in January 2010.

Prior to founding The Reinvention Institute, Mitchell spent nearly 15 years in senior-level positions at high-profile media and entertainment companies, including serving as Vice President of International for Playboy.com and Director of Sales and Marketing for Europe, Latin America, Africa/Middle East for Discovery Channel's consumer products group. Prior to that she spent five years managing international partnerships for the financial information division of Knight-Ridder. Mitchell has a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the top international business school, Thunderbird. She is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the coaching industry's top professional organization.

Genevieve Monsma is the Beauty Director of both More magazine and more.com, where she reports on the latest skin, hair, and makeup news, filtered through an anti-aging lense. Monsma has been covering the beauty market for almost 15 years and has written and edited for a wide variety of audiences. She was previously the Beauty Director at Shape where she wrote extensively about the evolving “green” beauty world; the Deputy Beauty Director at Marie Claire where she reported on beauty trends as well as fitness and nutrition; the founding Beauty Director at CosmoGirl where she helped to grow the Cosmopolitan spin-off, turning the magazine into one of the ’90s biggest magazine success stories; and the Associate Beauty Editor at Redbook where she first reported on anti-aging skincare, an interest that now borders on an obsession.

She has appeared as a beauty expert on NBC's Today, CBS’s The Early Show, MTV and VH1. Monsma, a self-professed mascara junkie, lives in New York City with her husband and seven-year-old son.

Pamela Peeke MD, MPH, FACP is a nationally recognized expert in nutrition and fitness. She serves as Chief Medical Correspondent for Discovery Health Television, is the host of Discovery's Fit to Live series, based on her latest book, and is the featured physician of the award-winning National Body Challenge series. She is also a Pew Foundation Scholar in nutrition and metabolism and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland. While a senior research fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Peeke's research helped to define the connection between abdominal fat and chronic stress. She is also the The New York Times best-selling author of Fight Fat after Forty and Body for Life for Women.

Dr. Peeke has been recognized by the NIH as one of the country's leading physicians in its Changing Face of Medicine exhibit at the National Library of Medicine and has been named one of America's top physicians by the Consumer's Research Council of America. She was just named One of America's Top Women Doctors by LifeScript, the #1 medical website for women's health. Dr. Peeke is a member of the Maryland Governor's Council on Fitness, is advisor to the Clinton Foundation and Alliance for Healthier Generations, and participates as a board member, consultant and expert to organizations devoted to health and wellness internationally.

Laurie Puhn is a Harvard-educated lawyer and recognized expert in the field of couples mediation and conflict resolution with a private practice in Manhattan. Her empowering, fast and simple mediation approach for keeping relationships strong and healthy is what sets her apart from other relationship experts. She is the author of the highly-praised new book "Fight Less, Love More: 5-Minute Conversations to Change Your Relationship without Blowing Up or Giving In" (Rodale, Oct. 2010) and "Instant Persuasion: How to Change Your Words to Change Your Life."

Motivational, entertaining and full of strategies that produce immediate results, Puhn's mission is to change the way people communicate with each other so they experience less conflict and greater understanding, appreciation and respect. She participates as the expert guest on many local and national television shows, including Fox & Friends, Weekend Today, 20/20, Good Day New York, and CNN. Her relationship communication advice has been featured in Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, Redbook, Newsday and The New York Times. She is a popular speaker who conducts high-impact relationship-building seminars to audiences nationwide. Visit her at www.lauriepuhn.com

Anna Quindlen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author. Over the last 30 years, her work has appeared in some of America's most influential newspapers, many of its best-known magazines, and she is the first writer ever to have books appear on the fiction, nonfiction, and self-help New York Times Best Seller lists. She also writes the prestigious "Last Word" column in Newsweek magazine. A columnist at The New York Times from 1981 to 1994, in 1990 Quindlen became only the third woman in the paper’s history to write a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page when she began the nationally syndicated “Public and Private.” A collection of those columns, Thinking Out Loud, was published by Random House in 1993 and was on The New York Times Best Seller List for more than three months. In 1992 Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

In 1995 Quindlen left the world of newspapers to become a novelist full-time. Quindlen has written several bestselling novels: Object Lessons (1991), One True Thing (1994), Black and Blue (1998), Blessings (2002), made into a television movie starring Mary Tyler Moore, and Rise and Shine (2006). How Reading Changed My Life was released in September 1998 as was One True Thing, a Universal feature film starring Meryl Streep. Black and Blue, which spent six months on The New York Times Best Seller List, was made into a television movie. Ms. Quindlen’s most recent bestseller, Every Last One, was released by Random House in April 2010.

After training in Milan alongside world-renowned makeup artist Pat McGrath, Tim Quinn joined the Giorgio Armani Beauty team with the launch of the brand in September 2001. His experience as an artist includes work in TV, print and film. Quinn began his career in the beauty industry when he started modeling at the age of 19.  After numerous photo shoots and magazine layouts, he discovered that his true home was behind the camera designing his own individual style.  As the U.S. front-man for Giorgio Armani Beauty, Quinn has traveled internationally hosting special events, training and promoting the beauty line.

His words of wisdom have appeared in More, W, Elle, Glamour, Lucky, InStyle, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. Quinn has worked backstage at several award shows including the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the ESPYs and been featured numerous times on television programs such as Today, Extra and E! Entertainment.  Most recently, he was awarded the title of "Beauty Tsar" at Hollywood Magazine's 2008 Hollywood Style Awards. Quinn has worked with celebrities such as Uma Thurman, January Jones, Glenn Close, Debra Messing, Victoria Beckham, Kim Cattrall, Gwen Stefani, Kate Bosworth, Jordana Brewster and Brooke Shields among many others.

Award-winning broadcaster and author Lynn Sherr recently left ABC News after more than thirty years, including more than twenty as a correspondent with the ABC Newsmagazine 20/20. She has covered a wide range of stories, specializing in women's issues and social change, as well as investigative reports. She has received numerous awards, including an Emmy, two American Women in Radio and Television Commendation awards, a Gracie Award, and, among other honors, a George Foster Peabody Award.

Prior to her assignment at 20/20, Sherr was a national correspondent for ABC NEWS, where she was also part of the network’s political team for every election cycle through 2000. Sherr reported on the NASA space shuttle program from its inception in 1981 through the Challenger explosion in 1986.

She is the author of her memoir, Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News, published in September 2006 and the biography, Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. Her bestselling books include Tall Blondes, a perceptive and highly praised look at one of wildlife's most endearing but little-understood animals—giraffes, and America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation’s Favorite Song. She also conceived and co-edited Peter Jennings: A Reporter’s Life, which was published in 2007. She has also published articles in The New York Times, Town & Country, Reader’s Digest, Mademoiselle, House and Garden, and More.

Today she is a Contributing Editor at More Magazine, a regular writer for Town & Country Magazine, online at The Daily Beast and at PBS’ Worldfocus, on morning radio as a frequent co-host of PRI’s The Takeaway, and in print at numerous magazines. She is a Commissioner on the New York City Commission on Women’s Issues. She is also a member of the selection committee for the John Chancellor Awards. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she served as a trustee.

Deborah Siegel Founding Partner/Director of Content and Community at She Writes (www.shewrites.com), is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, co-editor of the literary anthology Only Child, and founder of the blog Girl w/Pen (girlwpen.com). Her writings have appeared in venues including The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate’s The Big Money, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, More, Psychology Today, and Recessionwire. Deborah has lead myriad workshops and consulted with individuals, organizations, and companies seeking to expand their public platform through books, new media, and blogs. A member of the Women’s Media Center, a Fellow at the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, and a Board Member of the Council on Contemporary Families, she is a frequent media commentator and lectures at campuses and conferences nationwide. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, graphic designer Marco Acevedo, and their twins.

As co-author of the best-selling In an Instant, Lee Woodruff garnered critical acclaim for the compelling and humorous chronicle of her family's journey to recovery following her husband Bob's roadside bomb injury in Iraq. Appearing together on national television and radio, the couple has helped put a face on the serious issue of traumatic brain injury among returning Iraq war veterans. Woodruff is currently a contributor for ABC's Good Morning America, reporting on a variety of home and family related topics. Her second Book, "Perfectly Imperfect, a Life in Progress" was published in the spring of 2009.

A freelance writer, Woodruff has penned numerous personal articles that have run in magazines such as Health, Redbook, Country Living, and Family Fun. In addition, Woodruff ran her own public relations and marketing consulting business for 16 years. Before that, she was senior vice president of public relations firm Porter Novelli, and spent a year in Beijing, China, working for communications company Hill & Knowlton. In the latter position, she helped international clients break into markets in the People's Republic of China. She serves on the board of the Bob Woodruff Foundation which assists members of the military following traumatic brain injury received in service to their country. She is also an Advisory Board committee member of the Quinnipiac School of Communications and on the board of the Oklahoma City Memorial and Museum and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

Susan Wysocki is the President and CEO of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH). She is a woman’s health nurse practitioner and a nationally recognized speaker, writer, and opinion leader in the field of women’s health. Ms. Wysocki is the editor of Women’s Health Care: A Practical Journal for Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Challenges in Women’s Health, a series of handbooks for nurse practitioners. She frequently contributes articles on a wide array of women’s health issues and is published in nursing and medical publications.

She was a member of the advisory committee that developed the position paper by the North American Menopause Society Estrogen and progestogen use in postmenopausal women published in 2010. Internationally, she was a member of the International Menopause Society’s first global summit on menopause-related issues convened in 2008. In 2004, she received a special citation from the Commissioner of the FDA for her work on a campaign to inform women about hormone therapy. Susan is featured in the full length feature film Hot Flash Havoc to premier in 2010.

Ms. Wysocki has earned multiple awards for her leadership within women’s health and the nurse practitioner community. She was chosen as a charter Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She has served as the chair of the National Alliance of Nurse Practitioners and was the founding President of the American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP). An award for leadership was established in her name in 2005.