Anwar Ibrahim is a Malaysian politician who I currently the President of the People’s Justice Party and leader of the Pakatan Harapan coalition. He has previously been acting Prime Minister of Malaysia, 10th Leader of the Opposition, and Leader of the Pakatan Rakyat. Ibrahim has always stood for what he believes is right and has even been jailed for it.... read full bio
Christiana Figueres is a political figure from Costa Rica where she has serves as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She helped lead the movement to the Paris Agreement, which was a huge victory. Figueres father was President of Costa Rica three times while her mother was an Ambassador to Israel. She studied at Swarthmore... read full bio
Bill Shore is passionate about ending childhood hunger in America. Over 30 years ago, Shore founded a nonprofit organization called Share Our Strength. Since its founding, Share Our Strength has raised and invested more than $315 million, fighting against hunger with the support of national leaders—from governors to Oscar-winning actors. Apart from Share Our Strength, Shore is chairman of Community... read full bio
Cy Wakeman is a New York Times Bestselling Author, drama researcher, and a leadership consultant. She discovered her own career, a drama researcher, when she began research into how often the average employee spends a day gossiping about their work environment. Wakeman believes that through mental process we can eliminate drama in general. She has started reality-based leadership to diffuse... read full bio
Colin O’Brady is an American professional endurance athlete, motivational speaker and adventurer. He has previously represented the United States as a triathlete on the ITU Triathlon World Cup circuit where he raced in 25 countries on six continents. He has set four-time world records including the Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree) and Seven Summits speed records, Three Poles Challenge, and... read full bio
Rick Santorum is an attorney, author, and Republican politician. He first served as a US Senator representing Pennsylvania, during which time he was the Senate’s third-ranking Republican. He served two terms until he lost his re-election bid. Santorum ran for president several years later, finishing second to ultimate Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Santorum is a devout Catholic and social conservative,... read full bio
Kartik Hosanagar is the John C. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business and the Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has previously been recognized as the world’s top 40 business professors under 40. Hosanagar research focuses on the digital economy and the impact of analytics and algorithms on Internet media, Internet marketing... read full bio
Bob Sutton is an organizational change keynote speaker, Professor at Stanford, and a best-selling author. Sutton has earned his B.S. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has gone on to earn his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Sutton began his career working as a Professor of... read full bio
Inky Johnson is an American motivational speaker and a former college football player. As a football player, Johnson has previously played as cornerback for the University of Tennessee. During his time there, he had an injury that left him permanently paralyzed in his right arm, causing him to end his football career. Although Johnson’s dream was to always play professional... read full bio
Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director who is best known for writing the New York Times best-selling novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” as well as writing and directing the film version of the same name. Chbosky was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and while growing up, he was influenced by the writings of F. Scott... read full bio
Michael Cordúa is a Nicaraguan-born American restaurateur, entrepreneur, owner of Cordúa Restaurants, and award winning self-taught chef. Cordúa is the owner and executive chef of six restaurants in the Houston, Texas area.... read full bio
Dr. Ozlem Tureci is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur who is best known for being the co-founder of the German biotechnology company BioNTech, where she has been known for working as one of the first approved messengers for the vaccine against COVID-19. Tureci was born in Lastrup, Germany, and she has previously studied medicine at Saarland University where she... read full bio
Eileen Burbidge is an American venture capitalist resident in London who is a founding partner of the early-stage venture capital firm, Passion Capital, which has gone on to invest in companies which include Monzo, Lulu, and Go Cardless. Burbidge began her career working in Silicon Valley where she worked for huge companies which included Apple, Yahoo!, and Sun Microsystems. After... read full bio
Ugur Sahin is a German oncologist and entrepreneur who researches cancer and immunology. Sahin was born in Iskenderun, Hatay, Turkey, and he has studied medicine at the University of Cologne before going on to earn his doctorate summa cum laude. Sahin also went on to study mathematics at the Fernuniversitat Hagen. After earning his degree, Sahin began working as a... read full bio
Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Through her work with Harvard, Neeley works with up-and-coming leaders to help them develop and implement global and digital strategies. She has also been an advisor for leaders that want to focus on virtual work and large scale-change such as global expansion and digital transformation.... read full bio
Steve Gleason is a former American professional football player who played as a safety for the New Orleans Saints in the NFL for the entirety of his professional NFL career. Since retiring, Gleason has been vocal and has spoken out on his journey battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Throughout his journey, Gleason recorded health battle and... read full bio
Tim Peake is a British Army Air Corps office, a European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station crew member. He was born in Chichester, West Sussex, England, and attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. After graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Peake served commission as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps before going on... read full bio
Steven Johnson is an American science author and esteemed media theorist born in Washington, D.C. Johnson is the author of several books detailing issues of science, media, and technology. He has contributed to many networks and websites, including editing for "Wired" and regularly writing for the New York Times, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Johnson has assisted... read full bio
Katya Echazarreta is a Mexican American who, despite the language barrier, took her science career to incredible heights – literally. It was because of her mother, who inspired a lot of great work ethic throughout her childhood, that she found a reason to follow her passions. Katya also saw that there was a lack of women in the STEM fields.... read full bio
By cultivating amazing individuals, exceptional leaders, and outstanding service, Rowdy McLean achieves astonishing results for individuals, teams, and organizations. He cultivates extraordinary levels of drive, self-assurance, mastery, implementation, and responsibility, enabling you to attain unimaginable outcomes. Despite his contagious energy and excitement, his clients characterize him as genuine, grounded, and pragmatic. Known as Rowdy for his straightforward, no-nonsense, quiet approach to putting into... read full bio
