Kemmons Wilson

Founder, Holiday Inns and the Kemmons Wilson Companies

Half Luck and Half Brains: The Kemmons Wilson, Holiday Inn Story

Williford Communications

Communications consulting company and publisher with three imprints, whose titles have sold over one million copies. I have produced several books and numerous marketing pieces for Williford Communications and its clients.

• 365 Devotionals for Children
• Pray for Your Child Perpetual Calendar
• Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth about Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line
• PowerServe: 236 Inspiring Ideas on Servant Leadership

American College of Apothecaries

• Effective Pharmacy Management: Eighth Edition

Dave Longaberger

Founder, The Longaberger Basket Company, a 600-million-dollar company headquartered in Dresden, Ohio

• Longaberger Principles: Valuable Insights and Practical Suggestions

Guild Bindery Press

Regional publishing company

• From His Promise: The Story of ALSAC and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• do you know me? dreaming against the odds in an American city (proceeds went to a non-profit agency to benefit inner-city children)
• Hope and Healing: Words from the Clergy of a Southern City (proceeds went to the Church Health Center, a non-profit organization that provides health care to the working poor and homeless)
• The Partnering Paradigm: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Strategic Alliances
• J. William Fulbright and His Time Foreword by President Bill Clinton
• In The Shadow of the Wall
• May I Quote You, General Lee? Observations and Utterances from the South’s Great Generals
• Tennessee Two Hundred: A Quotable History of the Volunteer State

Jim Rout

Mayor, Memphis, Tennessee

• Politics of Change

Alan Palmer

former Mayor, entrepreneur and business partner of Kemmons Wilson, S. Beloit, Illinois

• Who’s Minding Main Street: A Political Primer for Future Leaders of America’s Hometowns