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Take a look:<br \/><br \/>\nFour-star General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/stanley-mcchrystal\"><b>Stanley McChrystal<\/b><\/a> is the former commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan. <i>Wired<\/i> magazine said that <b>\u201cto hear McChrystal talk about leadership is like hearing Steve Jobs talk about innovation.\u201d <\/b><br \/><br \/>\n12 people have been on the moon, and 5,000 have climbed Everest, but polar explorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/ben-saunders\"><b>Ben Saunders<\/b><\/a> is the only person to ever successfully complete the 1,800-mile trek unsupported from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole and back. He is a three-time TED speaker whose talks focus on his belief that <b>\u201cNo one else is an authority on your potential.\u201d<\/b><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/peter-diamandis\"><b>Peter Diamandis<\/b><\/a>, chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, co-founder of Singularity University, and author of the best-selling book <i>Abundance<\/i>, is a dynamic speaker who shows his audience how to <b>drive and incentivize breakthrough thinking<\/b> in order to achieve clear, measurable results.<br \/><br \/>\nAnd we\u2019re very pleased to be working with many TEDx speakers who are gaining more and more notoriety on the market:<br \/><br \/><a href=\"\/speakers\/dex-hunter-torricke\"><b>Dex Hunter-Torricke<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is the <b>former head of communications at SpaceX, former executive communications manager at Facebook (and Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s personal speechwriter)<\/b>, and a former executive speechwriter at Google. He has an arsenal of jaw-dropping anecdotes that illustrate lessons about moving to the middle of change to access opportunity, understanding connectivity as a universal force, and embracing the emergence of a global generation.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/salim-ismail\"><b>Salim Ismail<\/b><\/a> is the former VP of Yahoo! and a best-selling author who now leads Singularity University. He focuses on \u201ceducating, inspiring, and empowering a new generation of leaders to <b>apply exponential technologies to address humanity\u2019s grand challenges.\u201d<\/b><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/mitch-joel\"><b>Mitch Joel<\/b><\/a> has been <b>called upon by Google to explain digital marketing to Silicon Valley\u2019s top executives<\/b>. 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