Our Authors
Andre Thornton
Author of Disrupted, Founder & CEO of Whitman Consulting
Andre W. Thornton is the Founder and CEO of Whitman Consulting, a top ten leadership development firm that helps organizations grow their people faster than their challenges.
A former Engineering Director at Lockheed Martin, Andre spent sixteen years leading teams on advanced aircraft programs and capturing over $1 billion in new business before discovering his true calling: developing leaders.
His book, Disrupted, introduces the 2 Stabilizers and 7 Accelerators that turn chaos into growth—a framework drawn from neuroscience, engineering, and two decades of coaching experience.
Karen Malkin
Author of Queenager, Owner of Karen Malkin Health Consulting
Karen Malkin is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach, integrative health practitioner. She holds a Master of Arts in Health and Wellness Coaching from the Maryland University of Integrative Health (2024), bringing together fifteen years of clinical practice with graduate-level academic rigor in behavior change science, motivational interviewing, and health psychology.
Karen founded Karen Malkin Health Counseling in 2010 and has worked with thousands of individual clients over fifteen years, specializing in integrative nutrition, metabolic health, brain health, and lifestyle transformation for women in midlife and beyond. She currently works with approximately ten clients at a time in a focused brain health coaching model, drawing on her extensive credentialing in precision medicine and genomics.