Adam Grant is Wharton's youngest full professor and top-rated teacher. He is the author of Give and Take, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book that is being translated into more than two dozen languages and has been named one of the best books by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal—as well as one Oprah's riveting reads, Fortune's five must-read business books, Harvard… Read More

Tech savvy Jennifer Pahlka is leading the campaign to upgrade the U.S. government. Her non-profit organization Code America uses technological innovation to make it easier for citizens to access and connect with government information and services. Jennifer created Code for America to convince "rock star" IT designers to take a year off and use their super powers to improve the one entity many of them view as their arch enemy:… Read More

Business strategist, motivational speaker, and innovation expert Erica Dhawan helps businesses decrease friction and increase freedom. A pioneer researcher in the field of "connectional intelligence," she teaches leaders and companies innovative strategies to create more value for customers and clients, deliver sustainable results, and ensure future global competitiveness. As a researcher at Harvard, Erica co-authored Get Big Things Done, the first book on connectional intelligence, the ability to “to drive… Read More

One of North America’s most respected businessmen, Robert Herjavec is most recognized for his role as a dragon on Canada’s Dragon’s Den and a shark on the U.S. Shark Tank. Off screen he is the founder and CEO of the Herjavec Group, one of the largest and most profitable information technology companies in Canada. At age 8 Robert and his family arrived in Canada from communist Yugoslavia with a single… Read More

Dan Goods explains his life and career in one sentence: "After doing the dishes, reading bedtime stories to my kids, and spending time with my wife, I work on other creative problem solving projects around the world." Named “One of the Most Interesting People in Los Angeles” by LA Weekly, Dan Goods created his own dream position as "Visual Strategist" at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dan, along with his team… Read More

As faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School, Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs. While doing research on leadership and innovation for her programs, Hill discovered that while there is plenty of information about both these ideas, there was very little linking the two together to create success. Specifically, she answers the question about what the… Read More

With over 40 years experience, Marc Randolph, co-founder and former CEO and Netflix, has proved to be an expert on business strategies and innovations. By fostering creativity and turning ideas into realities, Marc has created several successful business ventures, including many he founded. Before founding Netflix in 1996, where he served as CEO, executive web producer and board member, Marc was on the founding team of several successful start-ups, all… Read More

Michelle Stacy has been the driving force behind the international multi-million dollar growth of Proctor & Gamble, Gillette, and Keurig. An influential leader in product development, P&L, and sales and marketing, Michelle has spurred innovation and long-term business success through asking “Is it possible?” rather than “Is it profitable?” During her 25 years at Gillette, including its acquisition by P&G, her smart planning and wise management helped expand markets worldwide.… Read More

Disruptive technology expert, Todd Hewlin helps businesses develop plans that can be executed in real life and not just in theory. As co-founder and manager of TCG Advisors, he heads a team of thought leaders and business builders who recognize patterns early, generate hypotheses, and test them rigourously to produce cutting edge insights and trustworthy advice. Equipped with more than 25 years in the tech industy, including management of Symbol… Read More

Founder and Managing Director of the Springboard Fund, Whitney Johnson is a top investor and leading thinker on driving innovation through personal disruption. As cofounder at startup investment advisor Rose Park Advisors, she co-led an in-the-trenches venture that applied frameworks of disruptive innovation to investing. She provides strategic and tactical advice to CEOs of early stage start-ups—advising how to influence opinion, build a movement and connect to the right people.… Read More

Mike Rowe is best known as the host of the ground breaking television hit Dirty Jobs, in which each week he took on the tasks and responsibilities of difficult, strange, and often messy jobs such as sheep breeder, garbage collector, and coal miner. Outside his work on the show, Mike has become one of the nation’s leading advocates on the need and honor of blue-collar work. Mike was inspired to… Read More

As an expert on overstepping boundaries, Gabor George Burt helps companies expand and succeed by teaching them how to eliminate perceived limitations. He provides an informative, step-by-step framework for re-imagining self-imposed limits in his book Slingshot. Gabor is an authority on a new approach to creating high-growth strategies known as Blue Ocean Strategy and Value Innovation. He has been called a visionary for shaping strategies for organizations, which have included… Read More

An empirical futurist and corporate forecaster for 35-plus years, Thornton May has helped various organizations outperform their competition by designing for what comes next. He serves as Executive Director and Dean at the IT Leadership Academy in Jacksonville, Florida; Futurist – External Technology Advisory Board at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; and is Co-founder of the CIO Solutions Gallery at the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio… Read More

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 Earth. A graduate of Stanford University and Stanford medical school, Dr. Parazynski was selected in 1992 to join NASA's Astronaut Corps; over the course of the next seventeen years he flew on five space shuttle… Read More

When it comes to medical care, Lucien Engelen is putting the patient in the lead. As the first Dutch Health 2.0 Ambassador, the technologist and innovator has used his influence to revolutionize patient care through digital technologies and thought shifts in the healthcare world. Lucien is Head of the regional emergency healthcare network at the Radbound University Nijmegen Medical Center and founding Director of the Radboud REshape Center, which creates… Read More