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
Leadership, influence and motivation expert, who is ranked among the top management thinkers globally.
• Bestselling author of The Anxious Achiever and host of The Anxious Achiever podcast
• Workplace mental health and leadership consultant
• Psychiatry Professor and Researcher at Stanford University
• Author of several books, including Virtually You and 2024's A Leader's Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference
• Harvard professor on motivation, creativity, leadership, and the retirement transition
• Author of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work and Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You
• Honored in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame
• Author of The Happy High Achiever: 8 Essentials to Overcome Anxiety, Manage Stress, and Energize Yourself for Success―Without Losing Your Edge
• Leading expert in building better workplaces
• Tech & Innovation Executive at award-winning indie film studio A24
• Writer of leading technology industry newsletter, "Implications" & bestselling author of two acclaimed books
• Bestselling Author, Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation and Nonlinear: Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction
• Founder & Chief Creative Officer of the consultancy dreams • design + life, helping solve their roadblocks and scale businesses.
• Music Director for the Los Angeles based cover band ProjectM and creator of FrontmanTalk
• Director of Health + Performance at Google
• Top Gun Pilot & CEO of Team Rubicon
• Author of several books including Your Leadership Legacy
• Senior Managing Director at Teneo
• Former Director of external affairs for Google and 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
• CEO of Harris Insights & Analytics/The Harris Poll
• Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• Retired United States Army Colonel
• Expert on Growth Mindset
• Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University
• Best-selling author
• Author of The Leader's Guide to Managing Risk: A Proven Method to Build Resilience and Reliability
• Widely recognized as the father of the airline industry’s landmark Aviation Safety Action Programs
• NY Times Best-selling co-author of Made to Stick & Switch
• Co-author of Making Numbers Count (2022)
• Unearthing the science behind defining experiences and moments that matter
• Author, Entrepreneur and Inspirational Speaker
• NYT Bestselling Author of Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD
• First Millennial Statewide Elected Official
• Author of the book Productive Failure (Sept 2024)
• Director of the Singapore-ETH Center, and Professor for Learning Sciences and Higher Education at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Founding Chair of the ETH Zurich – EPFL Joint Doctoral Program in the Learning Sciences
• Author of How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired (2023)
• Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business
• Television/radio sportscaster who has worked on six Olympic Games and covered all major American sports leagues
• Author of Reinventing the Heartland: How One City’s Inclusive Approach to Innovation and Growth Can Revive the American Dream
• Executive strategist & entrepreneur
• Accomplishing the Impossible: Leader of the incredibly successful NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return mission, the U.S.'s premier mission to visit one of the most potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid
• Regents Professor of Planetary Science & Cosmochemistry at University of Arizona
• One of the greatest soccer players of all-time
• 2x World Cup Champion & 2x Olympic Gold Medal Winner
• 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
• Former Editor-in-Chief of Inc. Business Media
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Founding Co-director of Northwestern University's Institute on Complex Systems
• 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
• Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter, covering tech, formerly of the New York Times and Wired
• Author of 11 books, including AI Valley and The Godfather of Silicon Valley
• Professor at Columbia Business School
• Author of The Digital Transformation Playbook on how to rethink any traditional business for the digital age
• Record-breaking polar explorer, climate technology investor and acclaimed inspirational speaker
• 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
• Executive coach trusted by Fortune 100 companies
• Creator of Path of Least Regret® and other tools for navigating hard situations
• Award-winning patient advocate and cancer survivor
• 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
• Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and Executive Director of Ethical Systems
• Author of Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
• Author of Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen
• Former professor at the Harvard Business School
• Broadway's longest-running, record breaking performer in The Lion King shares his secret to fulfillment & joy in everyday work & life, and delivers motivational talks that ignite inspiration, foster authentic leadership, and empower individuals to overcome adversity
• Author of PROXIMITY: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life (2024)
• A venture investor in more than 30 companies, many of which are leading the Proximity revolution
• Adjunct Professor of Innovation at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Co-Founder/Executive Chairman of Team Rubicon
• Founder/CEO of Groundswell
• Author of Once a Warrior and Take Command
• Chief Talent Engagement Officer at Handshake
• Former VP of People at Tesla
• Expert on A.I. Leadership & The Future of Work
• Neuroscientist who made fundamental discoveries in social connection and happiness
• TED Speaker and media personality
• Founder of the digital health and wellness platform SIX
• Global futurist & bestselling author