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Kelly Corrigan
Kelly Corrigan has written four New York Times bestselling memoirs in the last decade, earning her the title of “The Poet Laureate of the ordinary” from the Huffington Post.
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Meghan Phillips
Meghan Phillips serves as the Vice President and General Manager for Big Think+, the leading choice for expert-led video based e-learning for soft skills and leadership training. Meghan brings 15[…]
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James Riordon
James Riordon is a science journalist who has written for Science News, Scientific American, New Scientist, Popular Science, The Washington Post, Science, Ad Astra, Physics Today, and Analytical Chemistry. He[…]
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George Bonanno
George Bonanno is an internationally known expert on trauma and resilience. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and has studied resilience in the face[…]
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Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who[…]
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Christian Keil
Christian Keil is the Vice President of External Relations at Astranis and previously served as a management consultant at Deloitte.
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Jordan Friedman
Jordan Friedman is a New York-based freelance writer and journalist specializing in history. His bylines have appeared in National Geographic and Smithsonian magazine, and on HISTORY.com.
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Jim Clyburn
James E. Clyburn is the Congressman representing South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he previously served as Majority Whip. A veteran of more than[…]
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Afra Wang
Afra Wang writes Concurrent, a newsletter exploring the parallel and colliding tech and cultural currents shaping Silicon Valley, China, and beyond.
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Laura Mazer
Dr. Laura Mazer is a board-certified surgeon who transitioned to a career as a full-time educator. She now writes at the intersection of history and medical science, exploring how new[…]
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Jeff Fong
Jeff Fong is a writer, technologist, and housing activist. He serves as National Board Chair at YIMBY Action, an organization pushing for more houses.
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Anton Leicht
Anton Leicht writes and works on AI, political economy, and geopolitics. You can find his writing on Substack at Threading the Needle.
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Beatrice Erkers
Beatrice Erkers manages the Foresight Institute’s Existential Hope program, encouraging thoughtful discussions on tech’s role in society.
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Chelsea Follett
Chelsea Follett is the managing editor of Human​Progress​.org and a policy analyst at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute.
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Blake Scholl
Blake Scholl founded Boom Supersonic with the goal of making high-speed travel mainstream and enabling a new world of human connection.
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Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
The Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is an internationally recognized expert on self-governance
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Krista White
Krista White is a non-fiction and fiction writer, and cofounder of Culture Design Lab. Her books include Culture Design: How to Build a High-Performing, Resilient Organization with Purpose.
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James D. White
James D. White was the CEO of Jamba Juice from 2008-2016. He chairs the board of the Honest Company, and is the cofounder, chair, and CEO of Culture Design Lab. His books[…]
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Byron Loflin
Byron Loflin is Global Head of Board Advisory at Nasdaq, and the founder and former CEO of the Center for Board Excellence (CBE). He is co-author of CEO Ready.
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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson is the founding chairman and CEO of the Chief Executive Alliance and the CEO Leadership Plan Review (LPR). His books as co-author include Admired, Success Built to Last and[…]
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Dean Ball
Dean Woodley Ball is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and author of the AI-focused newsletter Hyperdimensional.
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Anna Greenspan
Anna Greenspan is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Global Media and the Director of the Centre for AI and Culture at NYU Shanghai. Her publications include China and the Wireless[…]
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Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence. He is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and chief scientist at[…]
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Philip Goff
Philip Goff is a philosophy professor at Durham University, UK, whose research focuses on how consciousness fits into our overall theory of reality.
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Barry Ritholtz
Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in 2013, RWM is a financial planning and asset management firm, with over $6.4[…]
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