Founder of Good Think Inc., Shawn Achor is also the author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage. A celebrated researcher on happiness and human potential, Shawn spent over a decade at Harvard University where he won numerous distinguished teaching awards for his work, and where he was Head Teaching Fellow for his course in Positive Psychology. Shawn’s company, Good... read full bio
Master chef Graham Elliot was making waves in the Chicago culinary scene before he faced off against Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America. Hey may have lost by a mere 2 points, but he continued to climb in the ranks with the opening of his first restaurant, and first bistronomic in Chicago, The Graham Elliot. It currently holds two Michelin... read full bio
Don Berwick is the United States' leading advocate for high-quality healthcare. In December, he stepped down as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. For 22 years prior to that, he was the founding CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a nonprofit dedicated to improving healthcare around the world. A pediatrician by background, he has also... read full bio
Geoffrey Fletcher started making movies as a kid, using an action figure cast and a video camera at first. Geoffrey Fletcher is the first African American to win an Academy Award® for writing, directing, or producing a feature film for his screenplay Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire. He is a graduate of both Harvard University and NYU's... read full bio
Giuliana Rancic is a journalist, entertainment news anchor, author, television producer, mentor and philanthropist. She is anchor and managing editor of E! News and currently co-hosts Fashion Police, alongside Kelly Osbourne, Joan Rivers, and George Kotsiopoulos. She is also the creator of FabFitFun. Donald Trump's original Apprentice, Bill Rancic thrives in both business and entertainment. He cohosted the Emmy-nominated series... read full bio
Bruce Dickinson is an English musician, broadcaster, author, airline pilot, and philanthropist, known primarily for his work as the lead vocalist in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson's music career began in the 70's when he performed as the frontman of several small pub bands. In 1981, he joined Iron Maiden and their album, The Number of the Beast, became... read full bio
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Van Jones, a lawyer with a Yale education and a contributor to CNN, co-founded Rebuild the Dream, a platform that looks for bottom-up, citizen-driven solutions to help improve the American economy. The Green Collar Economy, the classic work on green jobs, and Rebuild the Dream, a road map for progressives in 2012 and beyond, are two of Jones' New York... read full bio
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Brian David Johnson is a former chief futurist at Intel Corporation and an author. He is currently a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and a Futurist and Fellow at Frost & Sullivan. As a former chief futurist at Intel, Johnson’s work was called future casting and he would use ethnographic... read full bio
Amy Purdy is highly experienced and requested professional speaker. Amy’s TED talk was chosen by the TED organization out of hundreds to be featured on the homepage of TED.com catapulting her speaking career into the national and international corporate speaking world. Currently her TED talk is distributed to new, incoming TED speakers as the #1 recommended sample presentation. It has... read full bio
The National Football League's former CIO and senior vice president was Michelle McKenna-Doyle. Her responsibilities included overseeing the NFL's corporate IT initiatives, shared service delivery, and technology strategy. Michelle left Constellation Energy in Baltimore, Maryland, where she held the position of CIO, to join the NFL. She held the position of President of Vision Interactive Media Group before joining Constellation,... read full bio
Academy Award-nominated film director, Bennett Millers most popular work includes Moneyball, Capote and Foxcacher. He made his grand entrance into the film world with the widely praised documentary, The Cruise. Capote followed seven years later, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in his Oscar-winning title role, earning Miller an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Next, the critically praised Moneyball received six... read full bio
Michael Acton Smith OBE helped create Calm.com, Firebox.com, and Mind Candy. Michael co-founded the online gift retail site Firebox.com in his early twenties. The site sells fun and slightly bizarre gifts, and their breakthrough item was a shot glass chess set. After that item was released, their business exploded, and The Sunday Times listed them and 13th on their... read full bio
A superb communicator and visionary thinker, Susan David, Ph.D. is an award-winning Harvard psychologist and one of the world’s foremost experts on leadership and organizational culture. Susan is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and a regular expert radio and television commentator. Susan’s number 1 Wall Street Journal bestselling book,... read full bio
Bert Jacobs, the inspirational co-founder and CEO of Life is Good, is a living example of the impact that optimism can have on people's lives. Bert Jacobs and his brother John Jacobs co-founded Life is Good in 1994 with the goal of inspiring and uplifting people despite life's obstacles. Bert was born with an instinctive love for promoting happiness. Bert faced... read full bio
The office for Carol Burnett has asked that CTI not list them, give out pricing, information or availability. If you are interested in this celebrity only, please contact CTI directly and we can let you know the process needed to confirm a date with them.
Sir John Major is a well-known British politician who is best known for leading the Conservative Party and serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Mr. Major presided over important occasions including the British involvement in the Gulf War and the Maastricht Treaty negotiations while serving as prime minister. Notably, during the general election for his tenure, he received... read full bio
Mixed media artist Alex Meade is recognized for her portraits painted on the human body and set against painted backgrounds, that when photographed, have the effect of collapsing depth and turning real life people into seemingly 2D works of art. The result is walking, talking 3D paintings that confuse how the eye processes objects in space. In event and exhibition... read full bio
Charles Duhigg is an American author, and Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. He is author of books, “The Power of Habit” and “Smarter Faster Better” which has become a New York Times Best Seller. Duhigg was previously a reporter at New York Times where he wrote “The iEconomy”, which went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. He currently writes articles for The... read full bio
