Leadership & Change speakers
Jake Wood is the Executive Chairman of Team Rubicon, a nonprofit organization that recruits, trains and deploys military veterans to disaster zones around the world and within the United States
Founder of Behance & Adobe's Chief Product Officer; Early Investor & Product Advisor, Pinterest, Uber & Other Top Companies
Professor at Harvard Business School & author of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
• Harvard professor on how to boost creative productivity
• Leading expert in building better workplaces
• Founder of Behance & Adobe's Chief Product Officer
• Author of The Messy Middle & Making Ideas Happen
• Early Investor & Product Advisor, Pinterest, Uber & Other Top Companies
• Former White House Social Secretary
• Author of Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life.
• Author of Game Changer: How to be 10x in the Talent Economy
• Former Senior VP & Executive Officer at Microsoft
• Author of Strategy First: How Businesses Win Big
• Mentalist & magician on how to motivate, engage & influence others
• Top Gun Pilot & CEO of Team Rubicon
• Author of several books including Your Leadership Legacy
• Director of external affairs for Google
• Former Editor at Fortune
• Author of The End of Suburbs & The Airbnb Story
• Sell your ideas with the #1 Expert in Transformative Communication
• Founder & CEO of Girls in Tech
• Author of Tech Boss Lady
• NY Times bestselling author
• TED speaker, social scientist & pioneer in the use of data
• Founder of The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
• President of Emerge
• Expert on Growth Mindset
• Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University
• Best-selling author
• Author of Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate and The Secret to Getting Along (2023)
• NY Times Best-selling co-author of Made to Stick & Switch
• Co-author of Making Number Counts (2022)
• Unearthing the science behind defining experiences and moments that matter
• An accomplished and seasoned executive, formerly of IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira (now Pfizer) and General Electric
• Editor-in-chief of strategy+business
• Author of several books, including The Wise Advocate
• One of the greatest soccer players of all-time
• 2x World Cup Champion & 2x Olympic Gold Medal Winner
• Sales expert teaching corporations & individuals how to generate massive gains
• Creator of Make It Happen University, author of Making-It-Happen and award-winning podcast host
• Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University
• Author of Better Business
• Executive editor at Harvard Business Review
• Author of Psyched Up: How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed & other books
• Lecturer in Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business
• Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company
• Author of Engine of Impact
• Author of Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
• Motivational speaker on inclusive leadership & the mindset for success
• Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University
• Author of The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
• Helping leaders get the best out of their teams by getting the best out of themselves
• Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Author of Scaling Up Excellence & Market Rebels
• NY Times Bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World, The Unthinkable, and High Conflict
• Co-Host of the Slate podcast, How-To
• Bestselling author of The Back of The Napkin on how anyone can use simple pictures to lead, innovate & sell
• Director and Cultural Alchemist at Google X
• Bestselling author of Practical Genius
• Director of the Better Life Lab & The Good Life Initiative at New America
• Author of the NY Times Bestseller Overwhelmed
• Lecturer at UC Berkely's Haas School of Business
• Author of Practical Wisdom
• One of TED’s most popular speakers
• Noted research psychiatrist
• Author of several books including, You Are Not Your Brain
• Author of Game Changer: How to be 10x in the Talent Economy
• Leadership and personal development expert
• ~20 year career spanning Wall Street, Bain & Company & Silicon Valley start-ups
• Featured on Thrive Global, and in films and books on survivorship and mindset
• Guest speaker on "Crafting Your Life" for Harvard Business School
• Georgetown University professor, U.S. Army veteran, and resilience expert
• Author of Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive during Stress and Recover from Trauma
• President & CEO of King Philanthropies
• Lecturer in Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business
• Author of Engine of Impact
• Part coach, business consultant, professional organizer & spiritual butt-kicker all rolled into one
• Author of Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen
• Former professor at the Harvard Business School
• Associate Professor of Psychology, NYU
• Author, Jerks at Work
• Broadway's longest-running 'Lion King' shares his secret to fulfillment & joy in everyday work & life
• Entrepreneur on how to inspire change by embracing innovation.
• Co-Founder/Executive Chairman of Team Rubicon
• Founder/CEO of Groundswell
• Author of Once a Warrior and Take Command
• In the top 0.3% most cited and influential scientists
• TED Speaker and media personality
• 4x Tech Entrepreneur & Author of several books including, Trust Factor & The Moral Molecule
• Global futurist & bestselling author