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Dan Pontefract
Dan Pontefract is the founder and CEO of Pontefract Group, a firm that improves the state of leadership and organizational culture. He is the bestselling author of four books: Lead.[…]
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Bill George
Bill George is a senior fellow at Harvard Business School. He is the author of Discover Your True North, The Discover Your True North Fieldbook, Authentic Leadership, True North, Finding[…]
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Amy Herman
Amy Herman is a lawyer and art historian who uses works of art to sharpen observation, analysis, and communication skills. By showing people how to look closely at painting, sculpture,[…]
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Lauren Smith Brody
Lauren Smith Brody is the founder of The Fifth Trimester movement and the author of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby,[…]
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Lisa Bodell
FutureThink CEO Lisa Bodell ranks among the Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and is the best-selling author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She’s a global leader on simplification,[…]
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Robert Cialdini
Dr. Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence, earning him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. His[…]
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Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor of medicine emeritus and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of[…]
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Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Power of Habit, which spent over three years on bestseller lists and has been translated into 40 languages,[…]
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Andrew Bustamante
Andrew Bustamante is a former covert CIA intelligence officer, decorated wartime military veteran, US Air Force Academy graduate, and successful Fortune 10 corporate advisor. After 15 years in service to[…]
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Daniel C. Dennett
Daniel C. Dennett is a distinguished American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist known for his influential contributions to philosophy, evolutionary psychology, and atheism. He is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor[…]
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Susan David
Susan David, Ph.D. is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. Her #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Emotional Agility, based on the[…]
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Claire Shipman
Claire Shipman is a regular contributor to Good Morning America and other national broadcasts for ABC News. She joined the morning broadcast in May of 2001 and is based in[…]
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Frans de Waal
Dr. Frans B. M. de Waal is a Dutch/American behavioral biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. His first book, Chimpanzee Politics[…]
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Judith Butler
Judith Butler is a post-structuralist philosopher and queer theorist. They are most famous for their notion of gender performativity, but their work ranges from literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist[…]
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Chris Voss
Chris Voss is known as “The Master Negotiator,” a title he earned throughout his time serving as the lead crisis negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI[…]
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Alan Alda
Alan Alda has earned international recognition as an actor, writer, and director. In addition to The Aviator, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, Alda’s films include Crimes[…]
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Linda Hill
Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is a founding partner of Paradox Strategies (www.paradoxstrategies.com), a consulting firm. She is[…]
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Dan Pink
Daniel H. Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. His other books include the[…]
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Sheila Heen
Sheila Heen is the Thaddeus R. Beal Professor of Practice and has served as a deputy director of the Harvard Negotiation Project since 1995. Heen is a founder of Triad[…]
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Amy Cuddy
Dr. Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist, bestselling author, award-winning Harvard lecturer, and expert on the behavioral science of power, presence, and prejudice. Cuddy earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University[…]
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Cal Newport
Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He is best known for his work on the intersections of technology, culture, and productivity. His research and[…]
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Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans is a Professor of Finance at London Business School and an expert in the use and misuse of data and evidence. He has given the TED talk "What to Trust[…]
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Michael Kaufman
Michael Kaufman is an advisor, speaker, and writer who has worked in fifty countries with the United Nations, governments, corporations, unions, schools, and NGOs. His focus is on engaging men[…]
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Cass Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law[…]
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Gorick Ng
Gorick Ng is the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right, one of Thinkers50’s top 10 management books. Harvard Business School[…]
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Jon Acuff
Jon Acuff is a New York Times best-selling author of seven books, including his most recent, Soundtracks, The Surprising Solution To Overthinking. Published in more than a dozen languages, his[…]
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Alisa Cohn
Named the Top Startup Coach in the World at the Thinkers50/Marshall Goldsmith Global Coaches Awards in London, Alisa Cohn has been coaching startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for[…]
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Nathalie Molina Niño
Nathalie Molina Niño is the co-founder & managing director at Known Holdings, a builder capitalist, and the author of Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs. She’s an entrepreneur and[…]
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Tal Ben-Shahar
Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar is an internationally renowned teacher and author in the fields of happiness and leadership. After graduating from Harvard with a B.A. in philosophy and psychology and a[…]
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