Jeff Galloway – U.S. Olympian, Best-Selling Author, Race Director, President at Jeff Galloway Productions and Fitness Expert
If you find something that you can do that will help others improve the quality of their lives, then it will take on a life of its own.
Jeff Galloway was a U.S. Olympian, best selling author, race director, and internationally respected fitness expert whose influence on the running community spanned more than five decades. A member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Team in the 10,000 meters, Galloway competed among the top distance runners of his era before dedicating his life to helping others discover the benefits of running and lifelong fitness. Through his company, Jeff Galloway Productions, he created training programs, seminars, and events that guided runners of all ages and abilities, inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to pursue healthier and more active lives. Jeff Galloway passed away on February 25, 2026, leaving behind a lasting legacy in the world of running and personal fitness. Galloway was widely known as the inventor of the Run Walk Run training method, a revolutionary approach that allows runners to alternate running and walking intervals to improve endurance, reduce fatigue, and lower the risk of injury. The method opened the door for countless people who once believed running was beyond their reach. He was also the author of 19 books about running, walking, and fat burning exercise, including The Run Walk Run Method, the title book behind his widely adopted training philosophy. Through his books, coaching, and encouragement, Jeff Galloway helped transform the sport of running into a welcoming community where anyone could participate, and his impact will continue to motivate runners for generations to come.
Faisal Hoque – #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author, Founder and Chair at NextChapter, Founder and Managing Director at Shadoka, Author of Globee Awards winning 2022 Publication of the Year for Best Business Book called Lift: Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change
Unless you know and connect with yourself and connect with other people, you cannot certainly connect with your creation and the creation that actually creates value.
Faisal Hoque is an accomplished entrepreneur, noted thought leader, technology innovator, advisor to CEOs, BODs, and the US federal government, and an author with more than 25 years of cross-industry success. He is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies. They focus on enabling sustainable and transformational changes. He also serves as a strategic partner and a thought leader for CACI, and works extensively with US Federal Agencies. CACI is a $6 billion public company who plays a vital role in US national security. He is a 3 times winning Founder and CEO of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ awards. At the age of only 14, he began what would be the first of many businesses; cobbling together stereo components to sell from his father’s home in Dhaka, Bangladesh in order to save the money he would need to support his plan to study in the United States. He built his first commercial software product at the age of 19 while studying at the University of Minnesota, and went on to hold management positions in Pitney Bowes and then Dun and Bradstreet. In 1991, Pitney Bowes recruited him to join one of their R&D groups before he finished his undergraduate degree. As a serial entrepreneur, he has raised venture capital from angels, strategic partners, and institutional investors to fund his innovative business-to-business startups. Over the decades, his companies innovated products and solutions that: provided middleware software for complex, secure transaction processing; created industry’s first set of re-usable software components for integrated B2B e-commerce; and pioneered comprehensive business value management frameworks and platforms. As a thought leader, he has authored a number of award winning books on leadership, innovation, mindfulness, resilience, organizational transformation, and entrepreneurship, including the #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Lift – Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change (Fast Company), and the #2 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller
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