Decision Making
Growth

Futurist, Technology Strategist, and Trends Forecaster

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Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and strategists. He is also the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients better understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.He offers a powerful, practical guidance for turning rapid technology-driven change into a competitive advantage.

Owner of the NBA Champion Golden State Warriors, the LA Dodgers, Owner of Dick Clark Productions, CEO & Chairman of Mandalay Bay and former Chairman Sony Executive, Entrepreneur, #1 NYT Bestselling Author

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A passionate, humorous, and tireless motivator and speaker, Guber has dedicated himself to coaching current and future leaders about the importance of telling purposeful stories to propel their business success. Peter Guber is among the most successful executives and entrepreneurs in the entertainment and communications industries. Peter Guber is Chairman and CEO of the multimedia Mandalay Entertainment Group. Prior to Mandalay, Guber was Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, Co-Founder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. Guber produced or executive produced (personally or through his companies) films that garnered five Best Picture Academy Award nominations (winning for Rain Man) and box office hits that include The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Batman, Flashdance, and The Kids Are All Right.

Broadcaster, Writer, Speaker, Anchor of MSNBC's Code Forward, & CNBC Contributor

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Natali Morris is an online media personality, broadcaster, host, speaker, writer, and educator. Her specialties include business, technology, and personal finance. Natali discusses ways to expand our own financial literacy and empower audiences to think beyond the paycheck, she shares her personal story of success, helps her audience seek financial freedom, and empowers women to learn how to make the big decisions on investing and wealth building, not just manage online bill paying. Prior to NBC, Natali was an anchor and contributor for CBS Interactive and CBS News. She’s also contributed to CNN, ABC News, G4TV, BBC, The CW, Fox News, Fox Business News, and Univision.

Former Chief with the Boston Police Department, Kroll Managing Director

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Daniel Linskey is a Managing Director in Kroll’s Investigations and Disputes practice, and is head of the Boston office. As the former Superintendent-in-Chief of the Boston Police Department (BPD) and a 27-year veteran of the force, Dan provided strong leadership through some of the most tragic and contentious events in the city’s history, including the Boston Marathon bombings and the Occupy Movement.

Tech Humanist, Author, and Experience Strategy Expert

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Kate O’Neill is known as “the Tech Humanist.” She is working to make technology better for business and better for humans. Kate has led innovations across technology, marketing, and operations for more than 20 years in companies from startups to Fortune 500s. Among her prior achievements, she created the first content management role at Netflix; developed Toshiba America's first intranet; led cutting-edge online optimization work at Magazines.com; and was founder & CEO of [meta]marketer, a first-of-its-kind analytics and digital strategy agency. Kate is a favorite keynote speaker for executive audiences from companies such as Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Cisco, Kelly Services, and more. She was featured by Google in the launch of their global campaign for women in entrepreneurship. Her insights have been featured in CNN Money, TIME, Forbes, USA Today, the BBC, and other national and international media.

Best-Selling Author, Researcher, Entrepreneur, and Business Adviser

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A believer in consistent double-digit growth, Michael Treacy has helped companies achieve market leadership for more than 25 years. Treacy's ideas about customer value propositions and growth disciplines have been used by companies across the globe to reshape strategies, bolster competitive positions, and dramatically improve top and bottom line performances.
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Best-Selling Business Author and Entrepreneur

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Peter Sims is an award-winning author and entrepreneur. His latest book is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, which grew out of a collaboration with faculty at Stanford’s Institute of Design (the d.school), a hub of creative thinking and doing, and his previous work in venture capital with Summit Partners, including as part of the team that established Summit’s European Office in London. He was also the coauthor with Bill George of the best-seller True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, is a member of G.E.’s Innovation Advisory Panel, and is a Co-founder and Director of Fuse Corps, a social venture that places entrepreneurial leaders on year-long grassroots projects with mayors and governors to tackle some of America’s most pressing problems.

Founder and President of the Foundation on Economic Trends

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An author of seventeen books on the economic and societal impact of scientific and technological changes, Jeremy Rifkin discusses the future of the workplace and outlines strategies for surviving an automated global economy.

FBI Special Agent in Counterintelligence, Legal & National Security Analyst for CNN

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Asha Rangappa is a Senior Lecturer at the Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a former Associate Dean at Yale Law School. Asha served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. Her work involved assessing threats to national security, conducting classified investigations on suspected foreign agents, and performing undercover work. Asha has published op-eds in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, among others, and has appeared on NPR, BBC, and several major television networks. She is an editor for Just Security and is currently a legal and national security analyst for CNN.

Bestselling Author or "The Happiness Equation"

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After graduating from Harvard Business School, Neil Pasricha spent a decade as Director of Leadership at Walmart, the world’s largest company. While there he wrote the 50-million-hit, award-winning blog 1000 Awesome Things and the New York Times bestsellers The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation which have been on international bestseller lists for over 200 weeks and sold over a million copies. Neil’s research and books on happiness, mindset, and human potential have received attention from Harvard Business Review, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times, CNN, and BBC. Onstage his style is an endangered species: an incredibly rare blend of raw, hilarious, and heartwarming. His high-energy, takeaway-laden, application-not-motivation speeches are often voted tops at any conference or event.

Authority on Strategic and International Management

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Gary Hamel is an influential Thinkers50 thought leader who developed the concepts of strategic intent, core competence, and corporate imagination. His landmark books have appeared on every major management best-seller list and have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has transformed the focus and language of many of the world's most successful companies and offers audiences pointed lessons on making innovation a way of life and competing for the future.

United States Air Force Pilot, Senior Resident Fellow for the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies at the Air Force Association

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Most widely recognized for her service on September 11, Heather “Lucky” Penney is a renowned speaker on topics ranging from personal courage; decision-making under stress; leadership; organizational transformation; inclusivity; high performance teams; national defense issues; and aviation. She grew up around aviation and warbirds, but women couldn’t be fighter pilots when she went to college; congressional statute excluded women from combat. Pursuing her love of aviation, she stood up the first collegiate team to race in the Air Race Classic at Purdue University, where she earned her B.A. and M.A. She was in graduate school when she learned that Congress had opened combat aviation to women.