Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions

Harry Max is an executive player-coach, consultant, and hands-on product design and development leader with vision and a solid grasp of operations. A servant leader at heart, Harry works with senior leaders and their teams to help them realize their visions by zeroing in on pragmatic solutions to complex challenges.

Max's experience includes having been a founder/CEO, operational leader, and strategy consultant with start-ups, innovators, and global brands, including Apple, Adobe, DreamWorks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, ITHAKA, Microsoft, PayPal, Rackspace, SGI, Symantec, and Yotascale. An early pioneer in e-commerce, Harry was a co-founder of Virtual Vineyards (wine.com), where his designs powered the interaction model behind the first usable and secure online shopping cart.

Harry Max is an autodidact. His undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focused on qualitative problem-solving and sociology. He is also an NLP Master Practitioner and a graduate of the Aspen Institute Technical Executive Leadership Initiative and Hoffman Institute. Max's work has been featured internationally in the Economist, New York Times, TEDx, the Wall Street Journal, and a Harvard Business School case study. And lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mark is agenre-crossing illustrator who has illustrated over 40 books - from children's to business - including several New York Times bestsellers. He has worked with publishers including Penguin/Random House, MacMillan, Pearson, Harvard Business Review Press, Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill, and Wiley.

After creating comic strips for King Features Syndicate & Tribune Media, and for publications like the Atlantic, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal, Mark Hill dipped his toes into into the sea of book illustration and humor for advertising.

He also writes and draws humor for advertising, for clients include Bayer, Cisco Systems, Coca Cola, Fidelity Investments, Google, Intel, McDonalds, Ralph Lauren and Time Warner.

Mark won the Society of Professional Journalists First place Award for Editorial Illustration in 2023, and 2024.