Michele Thornton Ghee is a highly successful businesswoman and strategist who has built a stellar career by earning billions of dollars in income for illustrious organizations including CNN, The History Channel, The Weather Channel, and BET Networks. Ghee has earned various honors and recognitions over her successful career, underscoring her important contributions to the sector. The Woman to Watch and Wonder... read full bio
Jenna Arnold is an American author, businessperson, and serial entrepreneur. She is best known for being the co-founder of the non-profit ORGANIZE, and is also known for her work with MTV, the United Nations and the Women’s March on Washington. Arnold has graduated from the University of Miami with a B.S. Ed. with a Minor in Astrophysics and she also... read full bio
Dan Hampton is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who served in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years. Hampton earned his FAA Private Pilots License when he was a teenager and went on to earn his Bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University. While attending college, Hampton applied for commission in the Air Force and became a second... read full bio
Allison Shapira is an former opera singer turned entrepreneur who has been the Founder and CEO of Global Public Speaking LLC, a communication training firm that works with clients to help them speak publically more clearly, confidently and concisely. Shapira is also a lecturer and author and she teaches public speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School and has worked with... read full bio
The 24th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, is a seasoned executive whose term coincided with a turning point in public health and healthcare administration in the United States. Significant improvements in the country's health and wellbeing were made between 2018 and 2021 thanks to Azar's strategic vision and in-depth knowledge of healthcare dynamics. Due... read full bio
Myles Jones is an American professional lacrosse player who plays with the Chaos Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League. Jones was born in Rockville Centre, New York and he studied at Walt Whitman High School where he completed a post-graduate year at Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut and he later played collegiate lacrosse at Duke University. Jones was selected... read full bio
Rebecca Rusch is an American ultra endurance pro athlete, entrepreneur, seven-time world champion, best-selling author, activist, and motivational speaker. Rusch was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and later studied business marketing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rusch has been nominated to the international Mountain Bike Hall of Fame and she has been a member of the US National... read full bio
Danny Hillis is a technology expert. He holds a doctorate from MIT and identifies as an inventor, scientist, author, and engineer. Hillis is known as a pioneer of parallel computers, an idea that created the foundation of the graphics processors and cloud computing technology we know today. This technology pioneer has over 300 U.S. patents on various devices and methods... read full bio
Shellye Archambeau is an American businesswoman who is former CEO of MetricStream. She studied at the Wharton School of Business in Pennsylvania and while in college, began working as a sales assistant for IBM and after graduating, began working full-time at IBM where she worked her way up the ladder. During her years with IBM, Shellye went on to run... read full bio
John Whyte, M.D. is a board-certified practicing physician who works in both public and private sectors on health and health policy issues. He is the Chief Medical Officer of WebMD and he develops and expands on strategic partnerships that create change in health issues. Dr. Whyte is also a commenter and writer on medical issues and has authored the two... read full bio
John Whyte, M.D. is the Chief Medical Officer of WebMD and a board-certified practicing physician who has worked in both the private and public sectors on health and health policy issues for nearly 30 years. Over the course of his career, Whyte has been a researcher, educator, media executive and regulator and he brings a unique perspective to the private... read full bio
Dr. Simone Ahuja is an innovation expert, best-selling author, and business school advisor who teaches organizations how to act more like fast and frugal startups, to drive sustainable innovation. Ahuja is an expert in business growth and trends, consumer trends, innovation, marketing and risk management and she works with associations, board meetings and executive briefings, corporations, senior management groups and... read full bio
Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor at the Jesse H. Jones School of Business at Rice University. Sonenshein is also a New York Times best-selling author of the book “Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less – and Achieve More than You Ever Imagined”, and co-author of the book “Joy at Work”, which he co-wrote with Marie Kondo. Sonenshein... read full bio
Kim Perell is an award-winning entrepreneur, angel investor, keynote speaker, CEO, and bestselling author of “The Execution Factor”. Perell was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and she graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. Perell began her career working as the Director of Marketing and Sales at Xdrive Technologies, a tech start-up. From... read full bio
Louie Schwartzberg is an American film director and cinematographer from Brooklyn, New York. Schwartzberg is known for being the only cinematographer in the world who has shot time-lapse films 24 hours a day, 7 days a week continuously for decades. Schwartzberg’s work focuses on humans and their connections with nature and the environment. Some of Schwartzberg’s most recent work includes... read full bio
Ceci Connolly is a healthcare expert, author, former Washington Post reporter, and current President and CEO of Alliance of Community Health Plans. Connolly works with innovative executives in the health sector to help give Americans better quality and affordable health care. Connolly is also a founding member of Women of Impact, which is a group of female executives that represent... read full bio
Fred Guttenberg is a human rights activist against gun violence. Guttenberg became an activist for gun violence after his 14-year-old daughter, Jaime Guttenberg, was killed in the Parkland Shooting. The day after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, Guttenberg spoke out on gun control to the nationally televised CNN town hall where he also confronted Senator Marco Rubio for his stance... read full bio
Catherine Price is a science journalist, author, speaker, teacher, and consultant. She is best known for her book “How to Break Up With Your Phone” which since being published has gone on to be translated into 22 different languages and has been published in nearly 30 countries. She has also published the books “Mindfulness: A Journal,” “101 Places Not to... read full bio
Humanitarian and activist Maggie Doyne has devoted her life to empowering women and teaching children in Nepal. She received recognition as a Forbes "Top 30 under 30" social entrepreneur and as an Unsung Hero of Compassion from the Dalai Lama. Elizabeth Gilbert, Katie Couric, Prince Harry, Duchess Meghan of Sussex and The New York Times Magazine have all praised her work and... read full bio
Melissa Stockwell is an American War Hero and a Paralympic Medalist. She was born in Grand Haven, Michigan, and joined the ROTC at the University of Colorado. After the September 11, 2001 attack, Stockwell was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, and after a few years, was deployed to Iraq. While in the Iraq War, Stockwell... read full bio
