Michael Hyatt is the Chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S.  Michael has been speaking publicly for more than 25 years and has keynoted more than 100 events as well as having appeared on more than 100 television shows, including several on ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN.  Michael’s blog is the top leadership blog in the world, with more than 300,000 visitors a month.

A published author of four books, one of which landed on the New York Times bestseller list where it stayed for seven months, he’s currently working on a new book for Thomas Nelson called, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World.  It is scheduled for publication in May 2012.  Michael has been happily married to his wife, Gail for thirty-three years.  They have five daughters, four grandsons, and three granddaughters and live outside of Nashville, Tennessee.