Inspirational Speakers

Navy SEAL Commander; White House Fellow and 2022 IMPACT Award Recipient; Managing Director, Insight Partners; Former Chief Operating Officer, VMware; Director for Defense Policy & Strategy, National Security Council under Presidents Bush and Obama; Bestselling Author of “Never Enough” and “Mission Driven”; Two-Time Bronze Star Recipient; Founding Board Member, National Medal of Honor Museum; Lifetime Member, Council on Foreign Relations; M.A. in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Olympic Champion Skier and Coaching, Sport and Science Entrepreneur Who Helps Individuals, Especially Women, Connect Elite Performance Principles With Innovation and Scalable Impact; CEO and Co-Founder, revvel; Co-Founder, B2ten; Canadian Sports Hall of Fame Member; Governor General’s Meritorious Service Cross Honoree; Stanford Graduate School of Business Leadership Award Recipient; 2026 Team Canada Chef de Mission

Globally-Renowned Expert on Strengthening Workplace Culture by Integrating Mentally Healthy Leadership; Valued Advisor Who Helps Organizations Build Resilient, High-Performing Teams That Thrive in Today’s Fast-Changing World; LinkedIn Top 10 Voice in Mental Health; Host, “The Anxious Achiever” Podcast; Celebrated Author of Award-Winning “The Anxious Achiever” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023) and Bestseller “Hiding in the Bathroom” (2017); Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Instructor; Contributor, Harvard Business Review

Award-Winning Labor Economist and Top Expert on How Companies Are Thriving With a Four Day Work Week; Influential Business Researcher and Policy Advisor Whose Work is Credited With Helping Pass The Family and Medical Leave Act; Professor of Sociology, Boston College; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; New York Times Bestselling Author of Several Books on Work Time Including “Four Days a Week” (June 2025)

Award-Winning Educator, Entrepreneur and Leader Who Helps People Cultivate Courage, Spark Change and Make an Impact Wherever They Go; Executive Director, Berkeley Haas Global Access Program; Lecturer, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, School of Public Health and College of Natural Resources; Honoree, Thinkers50 Radar 2026; Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor (Poets & Quants); Founder, StartSomeGood; Author, “Becoming a Changemaker”

Multidisciplinary Global Authority on Future Readiness, The Future of Work and Corporate Governance; Corporate-Academic Whose Approach Brings a Holistic View of Human Capital Development and Future Readiness to the Forefront; Thinkers50 Radar 2025; CEO, Dean & Co-Founder, Future Readiness Academy; Senior Fellow, Center for Governance, Public Investment Fund (Saudi Arabia); Professor of Leadership and Corporate Governance, Hult Ashridge Executive Education; Former Dean, Hult International Business School (Dubai Campus).

Authority on Human Behavior at Work Shaping Leadership, Culture and Well-Being Through Emotional Agility | Psychologist, Harvard Medical School | Creator of Emotional Agility | #1 WSJ Bestselling Author | Thinkers50 Honoree | TED speaker (12M+ views)

Patternist and Leadership Researcher Studying How Ambition, Power, and Pressure Shape Modern Workplaces; Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School; Former Senior Partner and Former US Managing Partner of WIN, Deloitte; Founder & CEO, the re.write; Founding Board Member, Avasara; Board Member, Rutgers University Center for Women in Business; Advisor, Aspen Institute; Author, The First, The Few, The Only (2022).

Leading Organizational Psychology Researcher Whose Practical Frameworks Enable Personal Development, Career Advancement and Powerful Networking; Top Expert Helping Individuals, Especially Women, Boost Their Status, Power and Capacity to Influence for Improved Leadership and Self-Empowerment; Award-Winning Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Former Management Consultant, McKinsey & Company; Bestselling Author, “Likeable Badass” (2024)

Human Behavior Researcher and Happiness Expert Helping Individuals and Organizations Improve Productivity, Well-Being and Decision Making While Embracing Differences in Outlooks; Professor of Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science; Creator, UK Office for National Statistics Personal Wellbeing Questions; Lead Author, “Mindspace: Influencing Behaviour Through Public Policy”; Author, “Beliefism” (May 2025), “Happy Ever After” (2019) and “Happiness By Design” (2014)

Pioneer of “Everyday Leadership” for Fostering Courageous and Motivated Organizational Communities; Global Authority on Culture Change Focused on Individual and Collective Leadership Effectiveness; Director of the Program for the Practice of Everyday Leadership, Founding Director of the Leadership Development Program, Advisor to Senior Teams on Organizational Dynamics, and Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management; Lecturer, Yale Law School

Award-Winning Behavioral Scientist Tackling Critical Social and Environmental Challenges with Solutions That Promote Climate and Financial Sustainability; Associate Professor, Psychology and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), University of British Columbia (UBC); Principal Investigator, UBC Behavioral Sustainability Lab; Co-Creator, “Happy Climate” Workshop; Editor, “Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies” (2023), Co-Author, “Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species” (2026)

CEO Advisor & Future-Fit Leadership Expert Helping Executives Navigate Uncertainty, Align Strategy with Innovation, and Build Resilient Growth Models; Award-Winning Co-Founder and CEO, Leaders on Purpose Who Spearheads the Renowned Annual CEO Study and Convenes the Influential CEO Summit with UN Leadership; Founding Member, Unilever North American FS Sustainability Council; Collaborator, Harvard’s Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership; Winner, 2023 Tribeca Disruptor Award; Named One of the Top 22 Women Globally Making a Positive Sustainable Impact, Forbes; Named 2014-2021 Harvard Professional of Excellence for Sustainability Leadership; Shortlisted for the 2023 Ideas into Action Award, Thinkers50

Leading Happiness and Well-Being Researcher Who Helps Individuals and Organizations Build Social Connections at Work; Expert on Optimizing the Use of Time, Money, Technology and Carbon to Enhance Happiness; Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia; 2019 TED Curator’s Pick; Co-Creator, “Happy Climate” Workshop; Co-Author, “Happy Money” and “Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species” (2026)

Award-Winning Writer Who Empowers Individuals to Regain Focus, Reconnect with Purpose at Work and Cope With Depression and Anxiety; Bestselling Author, “Magic Pill” (2024), “Stolen Focus” (2022), “Lost Connections” (2018) and “Chasing the Scream” (2015); Executive Producer, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” (2021) and “The Fix” (2022)

New York Times Bestselling Author and Leading Authority on Stress, Well-Being and Optimal Aging; Corporate Advisor Who Teaches Leaders How to Apply Research-Backed Science to Scalable Interventions that Bolster Organizational Resilience; Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Vice Chair for Adult Psychology, University of California, San Francisco; Director, Aging, Metabolism and Emotions Center; Author, New York Times Bestseller “The Telomere Effect” (2017) and “The Stress Prescription” (2022)

Award-Winning Neuroscientist Who Provides Leaders with Research-backed Mechanisms for Creating Cooperative Teams; Social Psychologist Whose Help Organizations Cultivate Courage, Encourage Fearless Innovation and Practice Psychological Safety; Director, Georgetown University’s Laboratory on Social and Affective Neuroscience; Award-Winning Author, “The Fear Factor”

Internationally Renowned Strategy and Leadership Expert Whose Practical Frameworks Help Organizations Leverage Input From All Levels of Their Business To Create Successful Long-Term Strategies; Groundbreaking Researcher Demonstrating How to Leverage Generative AI for Competitive Advantage; Skilled Facilitator of Interactive Scenario Planning Workshops; Strategic Management Professor, Warwick Business School; Forbes Contributor; Bestselling Co-Author, “Open Strategy”

Renowned Climate Change Strategist, Author and Expert on How Organizations and Changemakers Can Lead on Climate; Trusted Advisor to Business and Government Leaders, Investors, Organizations and Communities; Senior Writer, New York Times Bestseller “Drawdown” (2017); Editor-in-Chief, “The Drawdown Review” (2020); Co-Editor, “All We Can Save” (2020); Author, “Climate Wayfinding” (2026); Co-Host, “A Matter of Degrees” Podcast; Co-Founder, The All We Can Save Project; One of 15 “Women Who Will Save the World,” Time Magazine

Applied Futurist and Social Systems Expert Who Teaches Leaders How to Understand, Create and Execute Strategies That Ensure Positive Long-Term Generational and Environmental Impacts; Founder and Executive Director, Longpath Labs; Founder and CEO, Synthesis Corp.; Former Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs; Host, PBS’s “A Brief History of the Future” (2024)

Globally Recognized Authority on the Emotional and Social Impact of Technology on Psychology, Society and Business; Sociologist and Licensed Clinical Psychologist Underscoring the Critical Role of Empathy and Human Connection in an AI-Driven Era; Chaired Professor, Sociology of Science and Technology, and Founding Director of the Initiative on Technology and Self, MIT; Author of Pathbreaking Books on the Human Side of Technology, including “The Second Self” and “Life on the Screen,” The New York Times Bestseller, “Reclaiming Conversation,” and The New York Times Editor’s Pick Best Book of the Year, “The Empathy Diaries” (2021)

Award-Winning Operations Strategist Whose Profit-Driving Good Jobs Framework Improves Investor, Customer and Employee Lives; Professor of the Practice, MIT Sloan School of Management; Named One of the World’s 40 Best Business School Professors Under 40, Poets & Quants; Founder, Good Jobs Institute (GJI); Author, “The Good Jobs Strategy” and “The Case for Good Jobs” (June 2023); Named Among the Top 50 Management Thinkers in the World in 2023 and Winner, 2023 Talent Award, Thinkers50

Leading Expert on Building Movements and Transforming Organizations; Co-Author of the International Bestseller, “New Power”; Co-Founder #GivingTuesday; Hauser Visiting Leader, Harvard Kennedy School; Visiting Fellow, Stanford University; CEO, Brunswick Group; Past President and CEO, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Top Leadership Advisor Helping Firms Remain Profitable While Working Toward a Better Future; Renowned Executive Educator and Expert on the Unique Areas Where Business, Society and Technology Overlap; Researcher on the Effects of AI in Human Spaces; Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, Harvard Business School; New York Times Bestselling Author of “Work Mate Marry Love” (2020), “Wonder Women” (2014) and “The Baby Business” (2006)

Visionary Futurist and Venture Capitalist Funding Dynamic Breakthrough Technologies in Computing, Energy, Life Sciences and Health Care; Leading Expert on New Technology, Innovation and the Future of Work; Renowned Journalist, Speaker and Moderator; Partner, DCVC; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Strateos

Authority on Value-Based Leadership and Experiential Learning Who Helps Managers Craft Workplaces That Foster Sustainable Performance, Vital Culture and Well-Being; Award-Winning Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD; Named Among the Top 50 Management Thinkers in the World in 2023, Thinkers50; Past Chair Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership, World Economic Forum

Champion for Creating Economic Prosperity Through Innovation; Leading Authority on Market-Creating Innovations; Co-Author, “The Prosperity Paradox” (2019); Director, Global Prosperity, Christensen Institute; Adjunct Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2020; Co-Founder & President, Poverty Stops Here

New York Times Bestselling Author and Pioneering Authority on Brain Health, Women’s Brains, and Brain Nutrition; Director, Women’s Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC); Associate Director, WCMC/New York-Presbyterian Hospital Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic; Author, “The Menopause Brain” (2024)

New York Times Bestselling Author and Leading Expert on Human Performance; Foremost Authority on Harnessing Flow to Amplify Focus, Decision-Making and Productivity; Visionary Thinker on the Future of Technology; Award-Winning Journalist; Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Nominee; Author, “Gnar Country” (2023) and Bestseller “The Art of Impossible” (2021); Executive Director, Flow Research Collective

Most Cited Educational Thinker and Expert on Multiple Intelligences, Five Minds for the Future, The Synthesizing Mind, and Ethics in the Classroom and at Work; Pioneering Researcher Studying What It Means to Be Smart in the 21^st Century; Expert on Education, from Pre-School through Higher Education; Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Co-Director, The Good Project; Author of Over 30 Influential Books including “A Synthesizing Mind”

World’s Top Expert on Leadership and Performance in All Parts of Life; Influential Innovator in Leadership Education; Award-winning Wharton Professor; Host of Wharton’s “Work and Life” Podcast; Former Senior Executive, Ford Motor Company; 2023 Inductee, Thinkers50 Hall of Fame; Bestselling Author, “Total Leadership” and “Parents Who Lead” (March 2020)

Changemaker and Trailblazer in Genuine Leadership, Medicine, and Public Health; Retired Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; Former Chief Health Officer, Viking Cruises; Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; Founder, Military Health Corps Female Physicians Leadership Course; Former CEO and Director, Defense Health Agency; Former Director, Washington State Covid-19 Health System Response Team

World’s Foremost Expert on Upskilling, the Future of Credentials and Equitable Workplace Learning Initiatives; Leading Authority on Future-Proofing Companies and Their Employees; Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Degreed; Co-Founder, Learn In; Co-Author, “The Expertise Economy” (2018)

Virtual Reality Pioneer and Leading Authority on Immersive Technologies That Are Reshaping Business and Society; Expert on VR and AR Tools That Improve Workplace Training and Culture and Prepare Companies for the Future of Work; Cognitive Psychologist; Founding Director, Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University; Co-Founder, STRIVR; Author, “Experience on Demand” (2018)

Transformative, Inspirational Leader and Educator Focused on Helping Organizations Build Collaborative, Inclusive and Purpose-Driven Teams That Consistently Achieve Goals; Multi-Award-Winning Harvard Men’s Basketball Head Coach; Co-Chair, The John McLendon Minority Leadership Initiative; NCAA Champion for Diversity and Inclusion Honoree; Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School; Hauser Leader, Harvard Kennedy School