Mellanie True Hills gave her first speech at age four, urging the congregation to open their hearts and pocketbooks for the church children's home, and setting off on a lifelong course of informing audiences and encouraging giving to important causes. In the corporate world, she frequently urged executives and boards to ante up for strategic projects.

She has extensive business expertise—high tech executive at Dell, executive strategist at Cisco, world-renowned Internet strategy consultant, author of Internet best-sellers, business journalist—and has spoken and consulted from Singapore to Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg to New Delhi.

As a high tech road warrior, she had a brush with death during surgery for the #1 killer, heart disease, and then a close call with the #3 killer, stroke. She didn't have typical risk factors—she was simply overweight and overstressed, like many women.

Today, Mellanie builds healthy and productive people and organizations. Her programs and tools, complete with stories from the business trenches, motivate and inspire individuals and organizations to revitalize health and reignite productivity.