Dr. Karen O. Dowd is a faculty member at the James Madison University College of Business. She has served as a consultant for The Empower Group and the director of Career Services at the Darden Graduate Business School at the University of Virginia.

Sherrie Gong Taguchi is the assistant dean and director of the Stanford M.B.A. Career Management Center and Management Communication. She has served as the vice president of University Recruiting at Bank of America and the director of Corporate Human Resources for Dole Packaged Foods.