Lhakpa Sherpa has made climbing history by training at Whole Foods for the ascent of her life despite all obstacles. The Netflix documentary Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa focuses on Sherpa. Her early years in Nepal, her record-breaking tenth summit, and her struggle to regain her autonomy and agency in the face of hardship are all covered in... read full bio
Developmental psychologist Dr. Aliza Pressman has worked with families and the medical professionals who look after them for almost 20 years. She is the host of the award-winning podcast Raising Good Humans and the author of the New York Times bestselling book The 5 Pprinciples of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans. She started the Raising Good Humans Podcast... read full bio
Every Saturday, Katie Phang hosts The Katie Phang Show on MSNBC. Katie skillfully covers the interplay of politics, law, and culture on a national scale in addition to breaking news. Phang continues to use her knowledge as a trial lawyer and report from the front lines. Katie, a former trial lawyer, started her career on television as a legal contributor... read full bio
Sheikh Hassan Yousef, the chairman of Hamas, gave birth to Mosab Hassan Yousef in Ramallah, in the West Bank. His father founded the political branch of Hamas, a worldwide terrorist group that has carried out innumerable suicide bombings and other lethal assaults against Israel. Mosab participated actively in the movement and was detained by Israel's intelligence agency, Shin Bet, for more... read full bio
The CEO and creator of WORTHI, a renowned ethnographic marketing, communications, and content firm, is Myles Worthington. Just 18 months after he started the business, Adweek named it one of the best Multicultural Agencies. The foundation of the WORTHI approach is ethnography, or the study of people and cultures. Worthington switched from working to starting his own business. He and his... read full bio
With over 32 years of leadership experience, Laysha Ward is a successful C-suite executive at Target, a Fortune 50 corporation with 400,000 workers and $104 billion in yearly revenue. She is a purpose-driven leader with a nationally acclaimed track record of accomplishment in achieving outcomes for brands that interact with consumers. During her thirty years at Target, Ward rose from... read full bio
Dr. Sharon Malone, a specialist in women's health, has been actively involved in promoting reproductive rights, lowering teen pregnancy rates, and eradicating health care inequities. At Alloy Women's Health, a telemedicine organization catering to women over 40, she serves as the Chief Medical Advisor. Dr. Malone worked as a partner in one of Washington, D.C.'s oldest and most prosperous OB/GYN... read full bio
Kate Siegel, New York Times bestselling author, and spawn of the most neurotic mother on the planet, Kim Friedman, started posting hilarious screenshots of texts with her crazy (but lovable) mother on Instagram in November of 2014. Instantly, the account featuring their funny conversations skyrocketed to a size of over 800,000 followers and has been featured in Vogue, BuzzFeed, The... read full bio
Debbie Holloway is a speaker and real estate coach. She is the Head of Team coaching at Tom Ferry International as well as a senior coach. Holloway earned her BSC from the University of Louisville. From there, she went on to start working as a program manager and event coordinator before starting her work as a realtor for Paul Semonin... read full bio
"Andrew Busch is an expert in global currency, public policy, and finance. As a regular radio host and contributor to CNBC, Busch reports on difficult topics, making them digestible for the average consumer. Whether speaking about Washington, Wall Street, or personal finance, Busch is an excellent communicator. Busch’s extensive experience with reporting has allowed him to become a top influencer... read full bio
Chris Fowler is a sports broadcaster for ESPN, known best for his work on College GameDay for college football. For nearly thirty years, Fowler has been the primary studio host for college football. He replaced Brent Musburger as the play-by-play announcer for the Saturday Night Football series on ABC; he was also selected to announce a College Football Playoff Semifinal... read full bio
Coauthor Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner wrote the critically acclaimed and best-selling book The Leadership Challenge, which is currently in its sixth edition and has sold close to three million copies. He was the Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University before taking up his current position as a Fellow at the... read full bio
An expert on gender studies, Jennifer Finney Boylan is the first transgender American to be a published, best selling author. Her memoir, Shes Not There: A Life in Two Genders, depicts Boylans experience through her gender change. Boylan has authored fifteen books, consulted for Caitlyn Jenners I AM CAIT and Amazon series TRANSPARENT, and more. Prior to 2001, the author... read full bio
Dr. John Grotzinger is the chief scientist and head of strategic science planning for NASAs $2.5 billon Curiosity rover mission to Mars, which riveted the country with its dare-devil landing and remains the most complex spacecraft to ever land and operate on the surface of another planet. A veteran geologist of more than 30 years of exploration of Earth and... read full bio
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Samuel Jerrold Jerry Kaplan, (best known as Jerry Kaplan), is an American computer scientist, Artificial Intelligence expert, author, technical innovator, futurist, and an entrepreneur. He is known in the field for pen computing, and tablet computers. Kaplan is the founder of GO Corporation, the co-founder of OnSale, and co-founder of Winster. He is also a Fellow at the Stanford Center... read full bio
Jon Youshaei is a YouTube marketer, business writer, and creator of Every Vowel. Forbes, Inc. Magazine, and Entrepreneur have featured him as a top marketer. He helped YouTube grow their communities and help create viral content. Currently, he is working for Instagram as a Product Marketing Manager for IGTV. Youshaei has published his writing through Forbes and Time magazine and... read full bio
Some have referred to Kyle Scheele as "the patron saint of crazy ideas". Kyle is always looking for wacky ideas that yield absurdly large results, whether it's throwing the world's first fake marathon, eulogizing 21,000 people with a Viking funeral, or amassing a million TikTok followers in just 25 hours. His work has appeared in publications such as Fast Company,... read full bio
Alex Sheen is the founder of ‘Because I Said I Would’, which is a social movement and nonprofit that works to ensure the betterment of humanity through promises and to build a community that are driven to help others. Sheen’s story is one with a heartfelt message, his father passed away from cancer and through his father Sheen started Because... read full bio
Mariana Atencio is a Venezuelan correspondent, speaker, author, and Peabody award-winning bilingual journalist who works for NBC News and MSNBC. Atencio is the only Latina that is a correspondent on NBC News. Atencio grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, and earned her undergraduate degree from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello. She later earned her master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School... read full bio
