Andy Green is a keynote speaker who is best known for being the holder of the World Land Speed Record of ‘The Fastest Man on Earth.’ Green was born in Atherstone, Warwickshire, England, and he has been a British Royal Air Force fighter pilot who has earned the World Land Speed Record. Green has previously studied at St Olave’s Grammar... read full bio
Matthew Pinsent is an English rower and broadcaster who has won 10 world championship gold medals and four Olympic gold medals over the course of his career as a rower. Pinsent was born In Holt, Norfolk, England, and he began his career rowing while studying at Eton College. He then began to row internationally at the World Rowing Junior Championships... read full bio
Khoo Swee Chiow is a Singaporean adventurer, author, consultant, and inspirational speaker who is best known for being the first South East Asian as well as the fourth person in the entire world to complete the Explorers Grand Slam; which is a trek through the South Pole, the North Pole, and the Seven Summits. Chiow began his work as an... read full bio
Pepper de Callier is a leadership coach who has previously been named the Best Corporate Leadership Coach in Europe by AI Media. Callier has also been an author on books on personal development and has also written columns on leadership. Through his work, Callier has talked on HR for The Economist’s international conference and talked on leadership in the current... read full bio
Over four million people follow Molly Burke across all of her social media platforms. Burke is a speaker, model, author, and advocate in addition to being a content creator and author. When Molly was just four years old, her doctor discovered that she had a rare form of the degenerative eye condition known as retinitis pigmentosa, which eventually leads to... read full bio
Twelve years ago, Tracie Berry-McGhee established the SistaKeeper Empowerment Center in St. Louis with the goal of encouraging and fostering the growth of young women's minds, bodies and spirits. Since then, SistaKeeper has grown throughout the United States and into a number of other nations. Via her own counseling practice, which focuses on issues affecting women and teen girls, Tracie also... read full bio
When Mr. Jaquez was 7 years old, his family emigrated from the Dominican Republic to the United States. He graduated from Perth Amboy High School and holds a Berkeley College bachelor's degree in business management. Mr. Jaquez's tale is well known even before any of his successes. He spent his formative years battling the area he was raised in. His... read full bio
The only tightrope walker in Italy who specializes in crossings and high-altitude walking is Andrea Loreni. His educational background blends theoretical philosophy with street theater and his primary objective has been the search for "another kind of truth" since the beginning of his career, something other than the speculative and logical model put out by Western philosophical thought. His creative work and... read full bio
Mara Belón, her husband, and her three boys were in Thailand at the time they were washed away by a huge wall of water in the Indian Ocean. When the tsunami devoured the hotel, she was in one of the showers while her husband and boys were in the pool. AAn awful occurrence that destroyed entire cities and submerged them... read full bio
Fran Tarkenton is a former NFL quarterback, television personality, and computer software executive. Known best for playing with the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants, as well as a commentator on Monday Night Football. Tarkenton founded Tarkenton Software, a computer-program generator company. Tarkenton was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the College... read full bio
Barry Switzer is a former Football player and coach. He was the head coach at the University of Oklahoma for 16 years and head coach for the Dallas Cowboys for 4 years. During the last sixteen years as Head Coach of the U of O, he compiled an overall record of 157-29-4, including 12 Big Eight Conference championships and three... read full bio
In 2002, Richard Wiese was elected the youngest President in The Explorers Clubs hundred-year history. Richard has hosted many nationally broadcast television shows, including Exploration with Richard Wiese, and is also a team member of the highly acclaimed series with the BBC and Discovery Channel called The Hottest Place on Earth. As an explorer and respected field scientist, Richard has... read full bio
Joel Barker is an independent scholar and futurist. Because he was the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts, he is known around the world as the Paradigm Man." He began his work in 1975 and pioneered the concept of paradigm shifts to explain profound change and the importance of vision to drive change within organizations. His book,... read full bio
Dan Reeves spent 23 years coaching for the Denver Broncos, New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons. He played or coached in a record nine Super Bowls. Reeves’ coaching career began when he joined the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff, taking on a dual role as player/coach for three seasons. Reeves later guided the Denver Broncos to six post-season appearances, including five... read full bio
The very definition of a multitalented and inspirational person, Robyn Benincasa excels in a variety of professions that highlight her tenacity and drive. She has accomplished incredible exploits that have left a lasting impression on the globe as a full-time firefighter, corporate sales specialist, motivational speaker, CNN Hero, globe Champion Eco-Challenge adventure racer, world-record holder, and Ironman triathlete. Despite confronting difficulties... read full bio
J.R. Martinez is an actor, bestselling author, motivational speaker, advocate, and wounded U.S. Army veteran. He is many things. But perhaps most significantly, he is an inspiration. J.R.’s career path has been incredible, and perhaps even a bit improbable. Once a high school football player from a small town in Georgia, the only son of a single working mother who... read full bio
Best-selling author and host of the Emmy award-winning television program The Amazing Race, New Zealand native Phil Keoghan's life has been full of travel and adventure. A near-death experience at the age of 19 prompted Keoghan to compile a list of things he wanted to accomplish before he died and from there, the NOW (No Opportunity Wasted) philosophy was born.... read full bio
Steve Farber is President of Extreme Leadership, Incorporatedan organization devoted to changing the world through the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. He is the author of the book The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership, the audio series, Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit of the O.S.M. and is a contributor to the anthology, Leading... read full bio
Over a billion people watched on television the rescue of 33 miners from a collapsed mine in Chile, and millions more viewed live video streams on the internet. With unprecedented media access, viewers became part of every stage of the rescue, which was in and of itself a triumph of engineering and collaboration. The fact that all the miners survived... read full bio
Manuel Manny Puig lives a dangerous and unusual life. He has spent his life interacting at death-defying ranges with sharks, alligators, bears, and other lethal predators in groundbreaking ways. With his unique abilities, Manny has hosted TV series and specials on the Discovery, Animal Planet, and Outdoor Channel. An expert free-diver, he trained the current US womens record holder,... read full bio
