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Kel Mitchell is a two-time Emmy Award-nominated actor, producer, comedian, and youth pastor hailing from Chicago, Illinois.
Cronin has delivered over 300 international talks, authored over 350 peer-reviewed papers, and published in top journals like Nature, Science, and PNAS.
Ashley Goodall is a leadership expert who has spent two decades leading HR organizations at Deloitte and Cisco. He is the author of The Problem with Change.
Jeremy Blain is the founder and CEO of Performance Works International (PWI), co-founder of the social enterprise DiversITy-talent, and the author of Unleash the Inner CEO.
Nik Kinley is Director and Head of Talent Strategy for the global talent management consultancy YSC, and the co-author of Re-writing Your Leadership Code.
Shlomo Ben-Hur is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the co-author of Re-writing Your Leadership Code.
Cal Newport is an MIT-trained computer science professor at Georgetown University who also writes about the intersections of technology, work, and the quest to find depth in an increasingly distracted[…]
Josh Kaufman is the author of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. He publishes research on business, applied psychology, and practical wisdom[…]
Before becoming a Harvard physician specializing in stress, Dr. Nerurkar was a stressed patient looking for answers. When she saw a doctor for debilitating stress, she was told, “Try to[…]
Peter Ziebelman is a consultant and a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. In 1996 he co-founded, Palo Alto Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. He[…]
Mike Maples, Jr is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and the co-founder of FLOODGATE, a leading seed stage fund in Silicon Valley. He is the co-author of Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change[…]
Mark Freeman is the Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society in the Department of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross. His books include Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative and Hindsight:[…]
Eric Markowitz is a partner and the Director of Research at investment firm Nightview Capital. A former investigative journalist, with bylines in The New Yorker, GQ, Fast Company, among other[…]
Dr. Kenneth Stanley is an AI and machine learning researcher (focused on open-ended discovery), author, and entrepreneur. He is co-author of the popular science book, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned:[…]
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD, is an expert on the psychological and neurobiological foundations of social emotion, self-awareness, and culture, and how they impact learning, development, and education.
Guy P. Harrison is an award-winning writer and author of nine books, including Damn You, Entropy!, At Least Know This, and Good Thinking. His work has been featured in Reader’s[…]
Twenty-one-year-old Carrie Berk already has a life’s worth of accomplishments under her belt. It’s no wonder Bella Magazine declared her “an ambitious and dedicated boss babe,” and The Wall Street[…]
Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt was Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist. He founded Google’s Innovation Lab, taught classes on innovation and creativity at Stanford University for more than a decade, and[…]
Blaire Palmer is a former BBC journalist turned keynote speaker. She is the author of Punks in Suits: How to Lead the Workplace Reformation.
Arthur C. Brooks is a professor at both the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, where he teaches public and nonprofit leadership and management practice. Before joining Harvard in[…]
Caragh Medlicott is a journalist and the co-author of The Creative Thinking Handbook and The Focus Fix: Finding Clarity, Creativity and Resilience in an Overwhelming World.
Chris Griffiths is the founder and CEO of OpenGenius, a keynote speaker for organizations including NASA, Disney, and the United Nations, and the co-author of The Focus Fix: Finding Clarity, Creativity[…]
Abigail Marsh is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown University. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University in 2004.
Yushiro Kato is a co-founder and CEO of manufacturing platform CADDi. He was selected for the Forbes “30 Under 30” list in 2019.
Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where she directs the Centre[…]
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist whose research specialized in understanding how our brain creates our perception of reality. She was interested in this subject because[…]