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Sam Leith is literary editor of the Spectator, and contributes regularly to a range of UK newspapers and websites. He is the author of Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric[…]
Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College and the cofounder and director of the Connected Commons. He is the co-author of The Microstress[…]
Karen Dillon is an author and former editor at Harvard Business Review magazine. She co-authored The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems—and What to Do[…]
In Arabic, Irshad means “guidance.” My mission: to teach a critical mass of people the skills of moral courage — doing the right thing in the face of our fears.This[…]
Ronda Simpson is a Corporate Facilitator and Instructional Designer with over 20 years of experience. She specializes in skills training, train-the-trainers, and virtual platforms. She is also the author of[…]
James Hibbard studied philosophy at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Depaul University. A former UCI professional road cyclist and member of the U.S Cycling Team, he is[…]
Peter Cave is a popular philosophy writer and speaker. He read philosophy at University College London and King's College Cambridge. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,[…]
Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a longtime student of Zen Buddhism. His studies in complexity theory have led to interdisciplinary[…]
Mike Martin is a War Studies Senior Fellow at King's College London. His books include Why We Fight and How to Fight a War. He is also the Liberal Democrat[…]
Nathan Price is Chief Science Officer of Thorne HealthTech and Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology. Selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of[…]
Leroy Hood, MD, developed the DNA synthesizing technology that made possible the Human Genome Project and is cofounder of the Institute for Systems Biology. A pioneer in the fields of systems[…]
Dr. Christel Gärtner is a professor of religion and politics at the University of Münster. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Frankfurt.
Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times and a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY. His books include How[…]
Matthew L. Jones writes about the history of science and technology, focusing on early modern Europe and on recent information technologies. His books include Data Mining, How Data Happened and Reckoning[…]
Cassandra Worthy is the world’s leading expert on Change Enthusiasm®. She is lighting the world on fire with her refreshingly unique take on not just ‘managing’ but growing through change.[…]
Dr. John V. Kane (@UptonOrwell) is an assistant professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. He teaches graduate courses on analytical skills, data analysis, and political[…]
Thomas Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist who was for many years a close collaborator of the late Stephen Hawking. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge and is currently professor of[…]
Dan Gardner is a journalist and the New York Times best-selling author of Risk and Future Babble and co-author of Superforecasting (with Philip E. Tetlock).
Bent Flyvbjerg is a professor at the University of Oxford, an economic geographer, and Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor and chair at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is principal author[…]
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. He is the most-cited professional philosopher in the[…]
Dr. Ken Dill is is the Director of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University and the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Professor of Physics and Chemistry. His[…]
Ozan Varol is an expert in creativity, innovation, and critical thinking. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Time, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, Washington Post, and more.[…]
Christina Wallace is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where she teaches entrepreneurship and marketing, and an entrepreneur. Her books include The Portfolio Life and New To Big (co-author),[…]
Claire Hughes Johnson is a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe, a former business team leader at Google, and a board member at The Atlantic, Ameresco, and HubSpot. She is the author[…]
Ian Scheffler has written for The New Yorker, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His first book was Cracking the Cube, which discussed[…]
W. Chan Kim is the Distinguished Professor of Strategy and International Management Emeritus and the Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. He is the co-author of Beyond Disruption: Innovate[…]
Renée Mauborgne is the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow, a professor of strategy at INSEAD and Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Fontainebleau, France. She is the co-author of Beyond[…]
Dr. Susan A. Gelman is the Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Classical Greek from Oberlin College,[…]