Kevin Young is a poet and professor. He has authored eleven books, edited eight other books, won the Guggenheim Fellowship and was a finalist for the National Book Award for his poetry collection, Jelly Roll: A Blues. As an Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture... read full bio
Alex Honnold is a professional rock climber who is best known for being the subject of the Oscar award-winning documentary film Free Solo. Since becoming a professional rock climber Honnold has been the first and only person to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and has also been the first and only person to free solo Half Dome... read full bio
Mark Stevenson is an author, broadcaster, businessman, speaker, futurologist, and on top of it, also a musician and comedian. As an author, Stevenson has published two bestselling books, “An Optimist’s Tour of the Future” and “We Do Things Differently”. Stevenson graduated from the University of Salford with a first-class honors degree in Information Technology. From there, he started working for... read full bio
Korie Robertson is an author, philanthropist, and reality television star who is best known for her role on the A&E reality series “Duck Dynasty”. She is the daughter-in-law of Phil Robertson and is the wife of Willie Robertson. She studied at Harding University and has been jointly named alongside her husband as Outstanding Young Alumni. Robertson is an advocate for... read full bio
Paul Tough is a Canadian-American author, speaker and journalist. He has been a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and his writing has also been in outlets such as the New Yorker, the Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, and in the op-ed page of the New York Times. He has previously been an editor for the New York Times Magazine... read full bio
Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor at the Jesse H. Jones School of Business at Rice University. Sonenshein is also a New York Times best-selling author of the book “Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less – and Achieve More than You Ever Imagined”, and co-author of the book “Joy at Work”, which he co-wrote with Marie Kondo. Sonenshein... read full bio
Catherine Price is a science journalist, author, speaker, teacher, and consultant. She is best known for her book “How to Break Up With Your Phone” which since being published has gone on to be translated into 22 different languages and has been published in nearly 30 countries. She has also published the books “Mindfulness: A Journal,” “101 Places Not to... read full bio
Alex Banayan is the youngest best-selling business author and expert on high performance and exponential growth. Banayan’s best-selling book, “The Third Door,” goes through his quest to find the mindset of exponential growth and success. Since it’s release, The Third Door has been translated into numerous languages and has been featured on The New York Post. During his quest to... read full bio
Ruthie Lindsey is an author, speaker, and podcast host based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Lindsey’s life hit tragedy when she was only 17 years old and was hit by an ambulance outside of a gas station. This left her with a ruptured spleen, punctured lungs, and a broken neck. The accident gave her a 5% chance of survival and she... read full bio
Jeanne Celestine Lakin is an award-winning author and founder of One Million Orphans. Lakin’s story is that of heartbreak as she was a Rwandan Genocide survivor who overcame a childhood of genocide, abuse, and orphanhood. Lakin was forced to run from her home after the Rwandan government tried to eliminate the entire Tutsi ethnic group. Over the course of about... read full bio
Gail Buckley is a best-selling author, speaker and historian who is known for bringing some of America’s greatest patriots to life through his presentations. As an author, Buckley is best known for her best-sellers; “American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm,” and for the book “The Hornes: An American Family,” the latter... read full bio
A renowned best-selling author, engaging speaker, and renowned wellness authority, Agapi Stassinopoulos is renowned for her transforming work in enabling people to live more satisfying lives. She has developed into a highly sought-after facilitator at Thrive Global, where she leads workshops that encourage people to revolutionize the way they work and live. She has a wide variety of talents and... read full bio
Sebastian Mallaby is an English author, educator, and journalist who is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow in International Economics, a contributing editor, author, and expert on economics. Mallaby is the son of Sir Christopher Mallaby and he has been educated at Eton College before going on to earn a first class degree in modern history from Oxford University. Mallaby... read full bio
Lauren Ogilvie “Lo” Bosworth appeared on MTV’s Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County back when she was only a senior in high school. She appeared alongside former classmates Kristin Cavallari, Stephen Colletti, and her best friend Lauren Conrad. Since then, she appeared on the reality show The Hills and has even become the founder and CEO of Love Wellness and... read full bio
Daniel Handler is a celebrated author, most renowned for his children’s literature, which he writes under the pen name Lemony Snicket. His most recognized work is the internationally best-selling A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has been adapted into a dark comedy film and a Netflix original series. He recently penned a new series of novels, All the Wrong Questions,... read full bio
Haywood Smith, who was born and raised in Atlanta, has relocated to Boston so that she can be near her son and daughter-in-law, as well as her cherished new grandchild. The Red Hat Club was one of the books that made it onto the bestseller list in the New York Times. Both USA Today and the New York Times Extended... read full bio
Thirty works of fiction have been published by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the most recent of which are The Harder They Come, The Terranauts, The Relive Box, Outside Looking In, Talk To Me and I Walk Between the Raindrops. He earned his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, his Ph.D. in Nineteenth Century British Literature from the University of Iowa and his... read full bio
Timothy Snyder, a historian of Nazism and Communism at Yale University, was referred to be a "public intellectual unafraid to make strong links between the past and present" by the New York Times. More than two years after its release, Snyder's book On Tyranny topped the New York Times bestseller list due to his exceptional ability to draw forth actionable... read full bio
Kelly Rippon is a teacher, author and the only parent of six kids, including her Olympic medal-winning oldest son, Adam. She turned her expertise as a seasoned professor of philosophy in higher education into a career as a motivational and career development speaker. With the goal of "Changing the world one conversation at a time," she founded her own consulting firm,... read full bio
Jaclyn Johnson is a strong inventor who is changing the norms for women in business. She is a serial entrepreneur, author, investor and host of a podcast. Johnson is the founder and CEO of Create & Cultivate, a high-impact media firm that connects female CEOs and entrepreneurs through education and community. Create & Cultivate has hosted over 100 events with famous... read full bio
