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Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
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.
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Guy P. Harrison
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[…]
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Frederik G. Pferdt
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[…]
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Blaire Palmer
Blaire Palmer is a former BBC journalist turned keynote speaker. She is the author of Punks in Suits: How to Lead the Workplace Reformation.
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Arthur Brooks
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[…]
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Caragh Medlicott
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.
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Chris Griffiths
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[…]
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Abigail Marsh
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.
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Yushiro Kato
Yushiro Kato is a co-founder and CEO of manufacturing platform CADDi. He was selected for the Forbes “30 Under 30” list in 2019.
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Shannon Vallor
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[…]
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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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[…]
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Dr. Jen Gunter
I am an OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician. I write a lot about sex, science, and social media, but sometimes I write about other things because, well, why not?I’ve[…]
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Nayef Al-Rodhan
Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan is a philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist and futurologist. He is the Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Department at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Switzerland,[…]
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Sol Rashidi
Sol Rashidi helped IBM launch Watson in 2011 and is the author of Your AI Survival Guide: Scraped Knees, Bruised Elbows, and Lessons from Real World AI Deployments. 
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Robert Hazen
Robert Hazen is a renowned American mineralogist and geologist, known for his pioneering work in mineral evolution and mineral ecology.
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Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of philosophically liberal values.Born in Germany to Polish parents, Yascha received[…]
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Skye C. Cleary
Skye C. Cleary is a philosopher and writer. She teaches at Columbia University, Barnard College, and the City University of New York, and is the author of Existentialism and Romantic[…]
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Sean Lemson
Sean Lemson is a leadership expert, executive and team performance coach, and the founder of Motivated Outcomes. He is the author of One Drop of Poison: How One Bad Leader Can[…]
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Jewel Kilcher
Jewel Kilcher, known mononymously as Jewel, embodies the quintessential story of resilience and artistic integrity. From her humble beginnings in the rugged landscapes of Alaska to her rise as a[…]
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Matt Beane
Matt Beane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology Management Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a regular contributor to Wired and MIT Technology Review, and author of[…]
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Rebecca Ahmed
Rebecca Ahmed is a business consultant, and the author of The Energy of Success: Power Up Your Productivity, Transform Your Habits, and Maximize Workplace Motivation.
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Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick is a professor of management at Wharton, specializing in entrepreneurship and innovation. His research has been featured in various publications, including Forbes, The New York Times, and The[…]
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Shalinee Sharma
Shalinee Sharma is a math learning expert and the CEO and co-founder of Zearn, a nonprofit educational organization behind the top-rated math-learning platform used by one in four elementary-school students[…]
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Richard Davis
Dr. Richard Davis is the CEO of Kilberry, a leading firm of management psychologists that provides assessment and development services to investors, CEOs, and corporate leaders. Clients include Under Armor,[…]
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