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John M. James, MD
Founder and CEO
John is the CEO and originator of the idea for Beginner's Guide. He has had multiple business successes over the past 9 years starting with a quiz bowl preparation company he created while he was a freshman in college. John is a board certified Family Practice Physician, but doesn't practice medicine. During his residency, John also sharpened his entrepreneurial skills by creating several online retail companies with his brother Charlie. These companies quickly outgrew the brothers' basements, and are now a rapidly growing multi-million dollar niche retail group featuring industry leading brands such as Saferacer.com and Scrubshopper.com.

Stephen R. Graves, Ph.D.
Content Development
Steve is responsible for the overall strategy and content development. He also serves as the Founder/CEO of Cornerstone Coaching. In the last two decades has often been referred to as a business and life Sherpa to some of the most successful senior leaders in today's ministry and business landscape.

Graves is the co-author of nearly a dozen books on leadership, business and the emerging faith/work movement. He was the co-creator of Life@Work which is now part of John Maxwell's Injoy company. In the last decade he has become very intentional about growing "next generational" leaders. He speaks regularly, sits on several boards and sneaks off to go fishing as often as he can.

About Beginner's Guide

We live in a search society. Curios George dwells in all of us. Admittedly, some of our curiosity serves no real purpose. It is more snooping than probing. However, there is another component of the mental search engine sitting on top our shoulders that desperately needs information. Like Newbie we peak over the fence and want to know. We are wired to search for answers, inspiration and solutions.

But we don’t need tons of useless data. Our society is sluggish with unused and meaningless messages. What we need are a few timely, straight forward and practical messages that can make a difference in our world… when we need them.

That is why BeginnersGuide.com was started.

Be it management, scuba, backpacking, or anything in between, we have a Beginner's Guide for you.

BeginnersGuide.com is a ‘watering hole’ for your curiosity muscle. We are gathering thousands of cool-clean buckets of information for you to click, read and freely print the information. When you say to yourself…I wonder… If only I knew…. I am about to enter this situation and would love some quick framing up of an idea or issue, start with BeginnersGuide.com.

The drinks are on us.



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