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Suneel Gupta is the founding CEO of RISE and co-founder of the Gross National Happiness Center in the United States. He is a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School, and the[…]
Julia DiGangi is a neuropsychologist and the founder of NeuroHealth Partners, a neuropsychology-based consultancy. She has nearly two decades of experience studying the connection between our brains and our behavior and[…]
Jason Derulo is a versatile artist who has left an indelible mark on the modern music scene. Drawing from his Haitian heritage and musical influences ranging from Michael Jackson to[…]
Emil Michael is an investor and strategic advisor to many of the world’s most important high-growth companies. He is currently serving as Chairman and CEO of the blank check company[…]
Kyle Buckett is a retired US Navy SEAL, and the co-author of Leadership is Overrated with Chris Mefford, his business partner at consulting firm Culture Force.
Chris Mefford is a business executive with over twenty years of experience in leadership and marketing, and the co-author of Leadership is Overrated. He co-founded and runs consulting firm Culture Force.
Cindy Gallop is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, whose background is 38 years in brand-building, marketing, and advertising. She started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle[…]
Eduardo Briceño is a global keynote speaker and author of The Performance Paradox. His TED Talk, How to Get Better at the Things You Care About, and his prior TEDx Talk, The Power[…]
Christopher E. Mason is a geneticist and computational biologist who has been a principal investigator and co-investigator of 11 NASA missions and projects. Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology,[…]
Igor Tulchinsky is the founder, chair, and CEO of WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset management firm based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He is the author of Finding Alphas: A Quantitative[…]
Lisa McCarthy is CEO and co-founder of the Fast Forward Group, a professional development and executive coaching company, and the co-author of Fast Forward.
Wendy Leshgold is the president and co-founder of the Fast Forward Group, a professional development and executive coaching company, and the co-author of Fast Forward.
Three-time Emmy nominated writer, director, producer, and standup comedian Neal Brennan has become a force in the comedy world. An across-the-board talent, Neal has found success in almost every creative[…]
Nick Groom is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau and the author of The Vampire: A New History and Tolkien in the 21st Century among other books.
Rina Raphael is a journalist and the author of The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care. She writes for the New York Times, Los[…]
Dr. Magda Romanska is a professor of performing arts and media at Emerson College in Boston, MA, and Principal Researcher at metaLAB at Harvard where she researches the relationship between[…]
Prosanta Chakrabarty is a professor of evolutionary biology and the curator of fishes at Louisiana State University. He is a TED senior fellow, an elected fellow of the American Association[…]
Tom Ireland is an award-winning science journalist and editor of The Biologist magazine. He regularly contributes to BBC Science Focus and has written for The Guardian, New Scientist, and BBC[…]
Marjolijn van Heemstra is a poet, novelist, playwright, and space reporter for the Dutch news organization De Correspondent. The award-winning author of three collections of poetry and a novel, van[…]
Mauro F. Guillén is Professor of Management and Vice Dean for the MBA for Executives Program at the Wharton School. He is the author of 2030 and The Perennials. 
Dan Schreiber is the co-host of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, and the author of The Theory of Everything Else. He is also the co-creator and founding producer of[…]
Jessica Carew Kraft is a naturalist and wild food forager, and the author of Why We Need to Be Wild. Her work as a journalist has been published in The New[…]
Ben Stanger is the Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research and a professor of medicine and cell and developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a practicing gastroenterologist[…]
Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts[…]
Larrie D. Ferreiro is a naval architect and historian. His books include The American Revolution: A World War (co-editor and author), Brothers at Arms and Churchill’s American Arsenal. He has served for over[…]
Simon Whitney, MD, JD is an ethicist, family doctor and author. His books include From Oversight to Overkill and he has been published in Annals of Internal Medicine, the American[…]
Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first[…]
Alfonso Martinez Arias is an ICREA Research Professor in the department of systems bioengineering of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is co-author of Principles of Development, which was awarded the Royal Society of Biology book prize, and author of[…]
Dr. Michael McGhee used to teach philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He was a founding editor of Contemporary Buddhism and is author of Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice and[…]
Kevin O’Leary, known as “Mr. Wonderful” and “Uncle Kevin,” is a businessman, TV personality, and investor. Co-founder of SoftKey International, he orchestrated its $4.2 billion acquisition by Mattel. O’Leary later[…]