NOTE: Annie is only accepting a virtual moderated chat format currently. She is not scheduling any in-person presentations in 2022 or 2023. Championship poker player, Annie Duke draws from her twenty-year poker career and cognitive… Full Profile

Customer experience expert, Dennis Snow shows organizations across all industries how to stand out from their competition by delivering world class service. For 20 years, he has channeled his past career experience with Disney into… Full Profile

Based in Singapore, Manu Bhaskaran has been following economic, political and security trends right across the Asia-Pacific region for more than two decades, and can provide unbeatable insight into the opportunities and pitfalls offered by… Full Profile

Winner of the Hayek Lifetime Achievement award and named by TIME magazine as one of its “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dr. Dambisa Moyo is an economist with an unrivalled knowledge of international… Full Profile

Growing up in Newark, New Jersey, Dr. Sampson Davis was surrounded by poverty, broken families and drug-related crime. He managed to walk the tightrope between being smart and socially acceptable in a rough neighborhood, and… Full Profile

Liz Wiseman is president and founder of the leadership research and development firm, Wiseman Group, which operates out of Silicon Valley. Her services have been employed by some of the true global giants in business… Full Profile

With a record of success in marketing so impressive that she was invited to serve as Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs under Secretary of State Colin Powell, with responsibility for bringing Brand America… Full Profile

Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author, keynote speaker, and the world’s first Chief Content Officer. A veteran of creating and managing digital content to build relationships for organizations and individuals, she speaks… Full Profile

An expert commentator on technology, business and culture, Nicholas Carr created a sensation with his Harvard Business Review (a publication for which he has been executive editor)article, “IT Doesn't Matter," which initiated debate around the… Full Profile

Retired Brigadier General Tom Kolditz is an internationally recognized expert on crisis leadership and leadership in extreme contexts. His time as a Leader Development Expert spans four decades in the public, private and social sectors.… Full Profile

Ron Kaufman is the go-to guy for motivation. He is the world’s leading educator and motivator, helping companies to transform their customer service and build better service cultures. With his powerful insights and knowledge of… Full Profile

With over eight weeks in space, forty-seven hours on spacewalks and 23,000,000 miles in orbit, astronaut Dr. Scott Parazynski brings an inspirational story and the knowledge he has gained about leadership and team-building back to… Full Profile

Globally renowned neuroscientist Beau Lotto brings innovative science to the study of human perception. His work takes place at the intersection between science and the arts, with a philosophical understanding of the way humans perceive… Full Profile

Passionately involved with philanthropic concerns in Africa, Peter Thum is CEO and co-founder of Fonderie47, a social venture concerned with mitigating the effects of the widespread availability of assault rifles on that continent. Having worked… Full Profile

Swimming champion and one of the first female sports broadcasters, Deborah Gardner is one of the world’s highest rated performance experts. She helps companies and organizations advance to new levels of success by generating and… Full Profile

Janine Shepherd's story reads like the plot of a hollywood movie. A champion cross country skier in training for the winter Olympics, her life was irrevocably altered when she was run over by a truck… Full Profile

Dr. Christopher Thornberg is one of California’s leading economists and Founding Partner of Beacon Economics, LLC. He holds a Ph.D in Business Economics from The Anderson School at UCLA and a B.S. degree in Business… Full Profile

Steve Blank electrifies corporate audiences with actionable tips for how to drive continuous innovation sharing the same battle-tested processes that Lean Startups use to achieve success. Steve is the father of modern entrepreneurship, a serial… Full Profile

Two-time Thinkers50 recipient, Rita McGrath guides CEOs and senior executives to success in the “Transient Advantage Economy.” The long-time Columbia Business School professor is globally recognized for connecting the dots between management theory and practical… Full Profile

Many engineers create remarkable new technology, but few manage to solve the most enduring mysteries of creation. Markus Fischer is among the latter. As head of corporate design at Festo, a German technology company, Fischer… Full Profile

Travel, ecology and science lecturer Dr. David Gallo is Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is a globally recognized expert on ocean exploration and has been for more than quarter… Full Profile

Keith Barry is the world’s leading TV Hypnotist, Mentalist and Brain Hacker. As a world- renowned performer, Keith has toured for many years showcasing his mind-blowing skills in every corner of the globe. Keith has… Full Profile

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Gretchen Morgenson is known for her hard-hitting reporting on what really happens on Wall Street. Throughout her 40-year career, she has exposed corporate scandal, untangled financial fiascos, and raised public awareness that… Full Profile

Christian Rangen is an entrepreneur, business school lecturer, author, strategy and innovation consultant and a lifetime adventurer who loves kitesurfing deserted Brazilian beaches, trekking across rain forests and snowboarding steep mountains. Christian holds an MBA… Full Profile