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

Living proof that one man can, if he is passionate enough, make a difference, Charles Best combines education, philanthropy and technology in all that he does; how many speakers do you know who allow the audience to choose how his fee is spent? From high school students to top-level businessmen, nobody can fail to be inspired by Charles' endeavors. Working as a teacher at a Bronx public high school, Charles… Read More

Widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on business and management strategy, globalization and innovation, Vijay Govindarajan (known as VG) is a Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business. As the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric he pioneered the concept of reverse innovation to refer to innovations first adopted in the developing world. The invention of this concept was… Read More

To succeed in the modern commercial world, business leaders need to transform their thinking and recognize that constant change is necessary to stay ahead. Top innovative companies recognize the power of disruptive innovation, the game changing ideas which can revolutionize a market or an industry. Luke Williams, author of the international bestseller Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business, is respected around the world as being at… Read More

Andy has earned a reputation as one of the most disruptive and effective advisors in business. He is a thought leader and thinking partner to executives and their most critical ideas. Driving growth and change for Fortune 50 leaders, mid-cap companies, and adventurous entrepreneurs, Andy’s dramatic results can be seen everywhere. He has provided strategy for the leadership of companies such as GE, Disney, Gap, the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Capital One,… Read More

“The ultimate thinking machine" (Forbes), Ray Kurzweil has an astonishing track record of innovation, particularly in the healthcare field. Inc. magazineplaced him #8 among US entrepreneurs and named him “the rightful heir to Thomas Edison." He is quite simply one of the world's greatest living inventors, thinkers and futurists. Among the now everyday inventions for which Kurzweil has been the leading innovator are the CCD flatbed scanner, omni-font optical character… Read More

An expert in innovation and change management, Frans Johannson is in demand for speaking engagements throughout the world. Raised in Sweden by an African-American/Cherokee mother and Swedish father, he lives his life at the crossroads. He returned to America for his education, where he earned a BSc in environmental science from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Frans' first book, The Medici Effect, was nominated as one… Read More

Bowdoin College graduate Peter Sims is much in demand for his expertise in entrepreneurship and innovation. His book Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries is a member of the Wall Street Journal's top six advice books for entrepreneurs as well as being chosen by The Washington Post, Inc. Magazine, and AmEx OPEN as one of the best business books of the year. The book he co-authored with… Read More

A quote from Jay’s celebrated TED talk: "My idea of a perfect world really can′t be designed by one person or even by a million experts. It′s going to be seven billion pairs of hands, each following their own passions." Dr. Jay Silver is the Founder and CEO of JoyLabz/Makey Makey. He has invented many creative platforms such as Drawdio (Time's Top 15 Toys for Young Geniuses) and Makey Makey… Read More

Founder & Group CEO of Karrikins Group, Peter Sheahan is known internationally for his innovative business thinking and thought leadership. Peter has advised leaders from companies as diverse as Apple, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Hyundai, IBM, Pfizer, Wells Fargo, and Cardinal Health. He is the author of 7 books, including Flip, Generation Y, Making it Happen and, his latest, Matter. One of the very earliest analysts to recognize the revolution in… Read More

AUTHOR and THOUGHT LEADER Tony Seba is the author of Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation—How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030, Solar Trillions—7 Market and Investment Opportunities in the Emerging Clean-Energy Economy and Winner Takes All—9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech Strategy. EDUCATOR He is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford University where he teaches entrepreneurship, disruption, and… Read More

Known as the original Shark on ABC’s hit show Shark Tank Kevin Harrington is an internationally acclaimed speaker, coach, celebrity entrepreneur and one of the most successful business experts of our time. He has launched over 500 products and businesses, generating more than $5 billion in sales worldwide with iconic celebrities such as: Jack Lalanne, Tony Little, George Foreman, Billy Mays, the Hilton Family, the Jenner Family and the Kardashian… Read More

One of the new stars in creativity and innovation, Fredrik Härén has been invited to deliver more than 1500 speeches and workshops in more than fifty countries. A Swedish “Speaker of the Year," Fredrik uses humor and a powerful presentational style to explain to audiences the importance of creativity and how everyone is more creative than they think. Fredrik's clients have included ABB, American Express, China Mobile, China Telecom, Ericsson,… Read More

The 2015 Thinkers50, a global ranking of management thinkers published every two years, once again placed Gary Hamel amongst its venerated list of top thought leaders. A leading expert on futurism, innovation and change management, Dr. Hamel was also nominated as the "World's most influential business thinker" by the Wall Street Journal. Fortune magazine called him “The world's leading expert on business strategy." In Executive Excellence magazine's annual ranking of… Read More

Acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on Human Resources and Corporate Culture, Dr. Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, where she is the director of the “Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Organizations" executive program. As the leader of The Leading Edge Research Consortium, involving companies of such stature as Hewlett-Packard and Citibank, her research has been published in Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate… Read More

A world expert in economics, finance and global affairs as well as innovation and social issues, Ian Goldin is currently Director of the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, as well as being a Professorial Fellow at Oxford's Balliol College. Prior to his current position at Oxford, Goldin was a vice president at the World Bank. He was a member of the Bank's Executive Committee with responsibility for relationships with… Read More

Described by The Daily Telegraph as “America's most influential trend spotter," Michael Tchong has been at the forefront of internet, social media and computer innovation throughout his career. His start-up companies have been at the cutting edge of now pervasive trends including desktop publishing, personal information management, Internet research and online marketing. Michael's unique insights into the future have made him much in demand in the media, and he has… Read More

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a… Read More

Leading innovator and futurist, Rowan Gibson is widely regarded as one of the most important business innovation thought leaders in the world. Among the labels given him by the media are “Mr. Innovation" and “a guru among the gurus." His books on innovation and strategy Rethinking the Future and Innovation to the Core have been published in twenty-five different languages. The latter book gives a unique explanation of how to… Read More

CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy for business design, Mike Walsh is in great demand from leading companies worldwide, both as a consultant and a keynote speaker. A former senior strategist at News Corporation and currently board member/strategic investor at North Alliance, Scandinavia's leading digital marketing group, his speeches open new realms of opportunity for business leaders negotiating the rapid shifts in the technological landscape. Mike's bestselling book FUTURETAINMENT was… Read More

An expert in business entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership, Michael E. Gerber is Founder and Chairman of E-Myth Worldwide, a company that has helped over 50,000 businesses in more than 145 countries to thrive. He is described by Inc. Magazine as “the world's #1 small business guru" and is one of the top authors on Business Week's list of bestsellers. The author of seven E-Myth books, Michael has a unique perspective… Read More

Leading authority on the practical application of genius thinking, Michael J Gelb is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, change management, accelerated learning and innovative leadership. He has been a professional speaker, seminar leader and organizational consultant for over twenty-eight years, working for blue-chip organizations including DuPont, IBM, Merck, Microsoft, Nike and YPO. Gelb has authored a dozen books relating to the application of genius to everyday creativity… Read More

Known as “the Dean of Futurists,” Thomas Frey has built a solid reputation for his uncanny ability to accurately forecast future trends and describe the opportunities ahead. As a speaker, best-selling author, and executive director of the cutting edge think tank, the DaVinci Institute, Tom has equipped millions of people with new tools for shaping their future. Prior to launching the DaVinci Institute, Colorado’s premiere “working laboratory for tomorrow”, Tom… Read More

Voted by business leaders as one of the top 5 Leadership Speakers in the U.S. by SPEAKING.com, Dr. Jackie Freiberg has dedicated almost three decades to helping big executives, entrepreneurs, and managers gain a competitive edge by nurturing better work environments. With an academic background in communication and leadership, Jackie’s extraordinary track record goes back to a powerful relationship with airline industry revolutionary, Southwest Airlines. As one of their earliest… Read More

The best-selling author of The Rise of the Creative Class, social scientist Richard Florida is one of the key forces driving urban regeneration. Renown for his cutting-edge research, he has spent more than a decade helping city planners revitalize communities and convert some of the country’s declining urban areas into inviting places to live. Florida serves as the Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman… Read More

Harvard MBA Tamara J Erikson has been honored three times by the Thinkers50's list as one the most influential living management thinkers in the world. Her in-depth research and analysis on generations in the workplace is employed to provide essential presentations on preparing for the changing demographics of the workforce. An Executive Fellow of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School, she designed and is co-director of the school's premier… Read More

Holding an unrivalled position at the forefront of thinking methodology, Edward de Bono has arguably had a greater influence on the ways in which we “think about thinking” than any other figure of his age. Dr. de Bono enjoyed a glittering academic career, beginning with an MD from the University of Malta (his birthplace) then moving to the University of Oxford where he took an honors degree in psychology and… Read More

President and co-founder of Idea Champions, Mitch Ditkoff is a consultant specializing in creative thinking, innovation, team development, leadership, and the power of storytelling in the workplace. Since 1987, he has been facilitating workshops and meetings for “just about every industry on planet earth.” He’s the creative guru who has helped AT&T, GE, Chubb, Merck, A&E Television, General Mills, AtlantiCare, and many other organizations take their innovation capacity to the… Read More

Even successful companies are having difficulty dealing with new technologies that are disrupting their traditional processes. Aaron Dignan works with the leadership teams of many Fortune 100 companies to help them adapt and use new technologies to their advantage. Aaron is co-founder of Undercurrent, a digital strategy firm with a global reputation. This reputation has grown solely by referral, as the company has a strict nondisclosure policy and shuns media… Read More

Peter Diamandis has degrees in Molecular Genetics and Aerospace Engineering from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He is an expert in the field of innovation and possibly the greatest non-governmental expert on spaceflight in the world. He is chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, famous for offering the Ansari $10 million X PRIZE for private spaceflight. Deeply interested in innovation for the future, Diamandis is… Read More

Jeff DeGraff has over twenty-five years' experience as a leader at the highest levels of corporate America. His views on innovation have been sought by the most highly regarded think tanks while his client roster includes Eaton, GM, SPX, 3M, Apple, American Airlines, Coca-Cola, GE, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Pfizer, and Toyota. Jeff is the Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.… Read More

Ross Dawson is a futurist and entrepreneur in worldwide demand for his uncanny skill at predicting developments and trends. He is best known for his book “Living Networks” which forecasted the rise of social networking and impact it would have on the way we do business and live. While Ross believes the future is unpredictable, he teaches audiences and organizations around the globe to analyze current trends and uncertainties so… Read More

Jim Carroll is at the forefront of global futurism, helping an array of blue-chip clients to predict the trends and innovations of coming years before they happen. Jim has addressed organizations as diverse as the Walt Disney Corporation, the US National Recreation and Parks Association, the Swiss Innovation Forum and he has even addressed astronauts at NASA on “transformational leadership." In all of his guises, author, speaker, columnist, commentator and… Read More

Founder, CEO and chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, Dr. James Canton has been recognized by Successful Meetings Magazine as “one of the top presenters in the 21st century." His reputation as a leading global futurist and social scientist has garnered him a massive global audience with an ever-increasing demand for his keynote speeches. Dr. Canton advises many of the Global Fortune 1000 on future trends in all of… Read More

The New York Times described Daniel Burrus as one of the top three most in demand business gurus in the United States. He is generally considered one of the world's leading experts in the area of global trends and future innovations. His tried and tested methodologies for increasing revenue through the embracing of technological innovations have led to him being much in demand by many Fortune 500 companies. His six… Read More

Lisa Bodell is a globally recognized futurist and innovation expert. She sparks new and creative thinking at every turn. She is the CEO of futurethink, a firm that trains businesses in how to become world-class innovators. She is an award-winning author and has helped ignite innovation at the NYSE, Pfizer, Google and Lockheed Martin, to name a few. A leader on simplifying innovation and change management, Bodell is often called… Read More

CEO of Berkeley Bionics, developer and maker of wearable robots, Eythor Bender works at the forefront of the new industry of bionics that aims to merge man and machine to enhance individual abilities. Eythor has a wide-ranging portfolio of experience in the manufacture of medical devices, life science and bionic devices; furthermore he has a passion for non-invasive technologies and their ability to enhance mobility, strength and safety to revolutionize… Read More

Known across the globe as the “Visibility Coach," marketing professional David Avrin is highly sought-after as a speaker, author and executive coach. Audiences across North America and in many business and cultural capitals across the globe (including Singapore, Bangkok, Melbourne, Brisbane, Antwerp, Buenos Aires and London) have enjoyed and benefited from his entertaining, thought-provoking and insightful marketing programs which are rooted in his two decades of experience at the sharp… Read More