Jean Gruss

Jean Gruss is the principal of Gruss Communications LLC, a corporate communications firm based in South Florida. Prior to starting the firm in 2016, Jean was a business journalist for 25 years. He has written about commercial real estate and economic development for the Tampa Tribune and personal finance for Kiplinger Washington Editors. Most recently, Jean was an editor with the Business Observer, a regional weekly business newspaper in Southwest Florida. He has earned awards from the Florida Press Association and Florida TaxWatch for business writing.

Jean has served on the boards of the CFA Society Naples, the Real Estate Investment Society, the Sanibel School Fund, and the Stuttering Foundation. He launched the Southwest Florida chapter of Medals4Mettle.

His interests include running and racing on the roads and trails of South Florida and scuba diving. He has completed more than 200 dives and is a PADI-certified advanced open water diver. Jean’s favorite dive sites are Pompano Beach and Key Largo.

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Frank Wolf

This Virginian congressman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation drew national attention to childhood stuttering in 2006 when he submitted an article about Tiger Woods from the SFA newsletter to the Congressional Record. The congressman is featured in the Stuttering Foundation's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.

John Stossel

John Stossel is one of the most recognized and articulate reporters today. However, he once considered giving up his broadcasting career because of his stuttering.

“Fear of stuttering can easily become worse than the stuttering itself,” observed Stossel. “The idea that I’m on television and making speeches is still a shock to me sometimes.”

Byron Pitts

Byron Pitts has brought much attention to stuttering with his memoir, Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges, released in September, 2009. The book not only details his speech difficulties, but also his illiteracy until age 12 and his unstable family life. Pitts overcame the odds to become the chief national correspondent with ABC News.

Winston Churchill

Seeking to "remove Winston Churchill's stutter by second guessing the diagnosis" indicates neither a truthful retelling of history nor an informed opinion about a complex speech disorder, say experts in the field of speech-language pathology.

Recent news reports that quote Dr. John Mather, a Washington physician, as saying that Churchill's stutter "is a lie" brought adamant critical response from specialists in the field of stuttering and fluency disorders.

Bruce Willis

While the world knows Bruce Willis as an A-list actor, few know that he struggled with stuttering throughout his first 20 years.

Walter Bruce Willis was born in 1955 in West Germany to his German mother, Marlene, and his American GI father, David Willis. The family settled in David’s hometown of Penns Grove, New Jersey in 1957, and the couple has three other children.