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
New York Times Bestselling Author of Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD, and host of Majority 54 Podcast
• 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
• Music Director for the Los Angeles based cover band ProjectM and creator of FrontmanTalk
• 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
• NYT Bestselling Author of Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD
• First Millennial Statewide Elected Official
• Editor-in-chief of strategy+business
• Author of several books, including The Wise Advocate
• Regents Professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at University of Arizona
• Sharing lessons from working at NASA on how we can learn our exploration of the cosmos.
• Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Morning Brew
• 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
• The expert on transformation and the tech-driven workplace
• Author of Disrupted, Lab Rats and STFU
• Writer on Silicon Valley.
• 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
• Co-Author of Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
• Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under President Obama
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Founding Co-director of Northwestern University's Institute on Complex Systems
• Motivational speaker on inclusive leadership & the mindset for success
• 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
• Co-director Designing Organizational Change Project
• Author of 'Scaling Up Excellence' & 'Market Rebels'
• NY Times Bestselling author of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, The Smartest Kids in the World and The Unthinkable
• Co-Host of the Slate podcast, How-To
• Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter
• Author of ten books, including Katrina: After the Flood and Saving Main Street
• Bestselling author of The Back of The Napkin on how anyone can use simple pictures to lead, innovate & sell
• Google X's Cultural Alchemist, responsible for leading Culture for Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory
• 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
• "Life Leadership" expert specializing in mindset, intention, and resilience
• Featured by the White House, World Economic Forum, Harvard, Stanford, Forbes, and Thrive Global
• Award-winning cancer survivor and patient advocate
• Alum of MIT, Harvard Business School, Bain & Co, and Silicon Valley startups
• 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
• Stanford Professor & bestselling author on changing organizations for the better
• 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
• Co-founder/minority owner of Major League Soccer team in Nashville
• Author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, Create and Orchestrate: The Path to Claiming Your Creative Power from an Unlikely Entrepreneur
• Founding Partner of Jumpstart Health Investors
• leads Jumpstart Nova, the first healthcare venture fund in America investing exclusively in Black founded and led startups
• IBJJF World Master Champion (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)
• 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, Immersion, Trust Factor & The Moral Molecule
• Global futurist & bestselling author