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Sharing never-before-told anecdotes, Paul Whelan recounts his harrowing journey as a hostage in Putin’s Russia—enduring human rights abuses while fighting for freedom and justice from behind enemy lines.

On December 28, 2018, Paul Whelan was traveling in Russia for a friend’s wedding when he was framed for espionage and arrested in his hotel room. Thus began a harrowing journey of unwavering resilience, patriotism, and survival that spanned five years, seven months, and five days of unlawful imprisonment—before his emotional return home in the most historic prisoner swap since the Cold War.

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Sharing previously untold details of the story that swept the globe, Paul Whelan recounts his harrowing journey as a hostage wrongfully detained in Putin’s Russia for five years, seven months, and five days. From being framed and arrested while traveling in Russia for a friend’s wedding; to the sleep deprivation torture and harassment in a forced Labor Camp; to the crucial alliances and information-swapping with fellow prisoners and nearby American detainees, Paul shares the intriguing anecdotes and smart goal-setting strategies that ultimately led to his emotional return home, inspiring audiences to overcome their own most difficult obstacles and achieve success.
Global Security and Risk Management: How to Safeguard Your Employees and Organizational Integrity
Bringing a wealth of experience in corporate security, Paul Whelan expertly blends risk management with strategic insights to safeguard organizational integrity and enhance operational resilience. He also includes tips for safe international travel, the most up-to-date State Department recommendations, and steps to take in the rare event you or your employee is arrested or detained abroad.
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The former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and bestselling author of the memoir Lessons from the Edge shares insights on the region and the current crisis as well as experiences from her 33-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service.

Marie Yovanovitch served three times as U.S. Ambassador, most recently in Kyiv as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. Previously, she served as U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008) and the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011). She retired from the Foreign Service in 2020 and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.

Born into a family that survived both Soviet and Nazi terror before emigrating to the U.S., Yovanovitch rose to the top of her profession in the crucible of the former USSR. Following early assignments in Moscow, London, Ottawa, and Mogadishu, she served as Deputy Director of the Russia Desk and then, as a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, she was named Deputy Chief in Ukraine. Within the Department of State, Ambassador Yovanovitch has worked on the Russia desk, the Office of European Security Affairs, and the Operations Center. She also served as the Dean of the School of Language Studies at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State and as the Deputy Commandant and International Advisor at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, National Defense University.

Ambassador Yovanovitch earned the Senior Foreign Service Performance Award eight times and the State Department’s Superior Honor Award on nine occasions. She is the recipient of two Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and the Secretary’s Diplomacy in Human Rights Award. Following her retirement, Ambassador Yovanovitch received the Trainor Award for Excellence in the Conduct of Diplomacy from Georgetown University, the inaugural Richard G. Lugar Award from Indiana University, the 2020 PEN/Benenson Courage Award from Pen/America, the Morgenthau Award from the Armenian Assembly of America, the American Spirit Award for Distinguished Public Service from the Common Good, and the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government.

In early 2022, Marie Yovanovitch’s memoir, Lessons From The Edge, was an instant New York Times bestseller. The late Madeleine Albright called the book “A brilliant, engaging, and inspiring memoir from one of America’s wisest and most courageous diplomats—essential reading for current policymakers, aspiring public servants, and anyone who cares about America’s role in the world.”

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In a moderated question and answer format, Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Lessons from the Edge draws on her decades of experience in Ukraine, Russia, and the many other countries that emerged from the former Soviet Union, to share her insights on the region and the current crisis, as well as experiences from her 33-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service.

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A three-time all-American champion wrestler despite being born with only one leg, Anthony Robles is the inspiring subject of the forthcoming motion picture, Unstoppable—being produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s production company.

Robles was the recipient of the “Jimmy V Perseverance Award” at the ESPN ESPYs and he has also received the NFL “Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award”. Robles is a Nike athlete, the first signed to an agreement after having retired from active participation in a sport. He is currently ESPN's NCAA wrestling analyst and expert and is the wrestling analyst for the Pac-12 Network as well. He was inducted to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2012 and is the author of Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a Champion. In 2013, President Obama appointed Robles as a member of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition. Additionally, Robles was a member of the Presidential Delegation to the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Games.

In 2015, the National Wrestling Media Associated awarded Robles with the \"Broadcaster of the Year\" award, and then he was inducted into Arizona's Sports Hall of Fame in 2017. Between 2018 - 2021, he became the Guinness World Record Holder for 3 different pull-up records. Most recently, Robles became inducted into ASU's Sun Devil Athletics Hall of Fame.

Robles lives in Chandler, Arizona. The script for a feature film chronicling his remarkable life story has been completed, and the film is currently in pre-production with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s production company.

* In partnership with Washington Speakers Bureau *

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My Story: Unstoppable
Anthony Robles was born without a right leg, yet he never let disability stop him from achieving his dreams. With unrelenting determination—and the belief that he could do anything—he defied all odds and became a champion collegiate wrestler, competing against able-bodied athletes. NCAA Division I Champion, three-time All-American, and recipient of the 2011 ESPY Jimmy V Award for Perseverance, Robles inspires others to believe that they too can overcome the odds. In this moving, awe-inspiring presentation, Robles illustrates how perseverance, hard work, and a strong belief in yourself can not only lead you to success but make you unstoppable.

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An award-winning journalist and one of the most recognized voices in radio, Michele Norris engages audiences in candid discussion about race, culture and communication in America.

From the radio airwaves of NPR and primetime television to leading news publications such as The Washington Post, and author of Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race (January 2024), Norris is one of the most trusted voices in American journalism. On stage, she inspires open and honest dialogue, with memorable stories and fascinating perspectives drawn from her personal journey, investigative research, and interviews with world leaders, Nobel Laureates and influential newsmakers.

For a decade, as host of National Public Radio’s longest-running program, All Things Considered, she captivated audiences nationwide while earning some of journalism’s highest honors. As a Washington Post Opinions Columnist, Norris sparked important dialogue on current events, social issues and the power to make change, breaking down commonly held beliefs and attitudes on race, diversity and bias. She makes complex and taboo issues remarkably accessible. Her audiences walk away empowered to stimulate discussion around challenging topics within their communities.

Throughout Norris’ accomplished career, her efforts to promote conversation about race have resulted in her critically acclaimed book, The Grace of Silence: A Memoir. She received accolades for a Peabody Award-winning initiative, “The Race Card Project,” which fosters conversation among individuals about their differences. Norris was previously the director of “The Bridge”—the Aspen Institute's program on race, cultural identity and inclusion—which addresses some of America's most complex issues by encouraging people to explore and engage with differing perspectives. Norris is also host of Your Mama’s Kitchen, a new podcast produced by Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama’s media company, which explores the complexities of family life through conversations about guests’ childhood home meals.

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The Race Card Project - Eavesdropping on America's Conversation on Race
Join us for a discussion on race and identity in America, with Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris, founder of The Race Card Project™. The Race Card Project creates sturdy cultural bridges through candid conversation using real stories on race, culture and identity. In 2010, former NPR journalist Michele Norris began inviting people to distill their thoughts on the word race to only six words. Since then, The Race Card Project™ has collected more than 500,000 “postcards” from all 50 states and 96 countries. People often send backstories and photos to share more about what is behind their six-word statements. Many of these essays contain sentiments and hard truths rarely expressed out loud. Today, these powerful six-word memoirs kickstart honest conversations that leave people with a better sense of each other, and themselves, through a variety of tools and resources. The goal is to tap into the stories, people and threads that make up our complex cultural landscape and then engage people to talk across difference, race, inclusion and identity.
The Grace of Silence and the Power of Words
Award-winning journalist Michele Norris's 2010 book The Grace of Silence started out as a quest to uncover how America talked about race in the wake of the Obama presidential election. What resulted was what Norris calls an \"accidental memoir.\" Named one of the year's best books by The Christian Science Monitor, the book became an eye-opening family history lesson revealing her own family's racial legacy and the larger conversation surrounding race in America. The book has also led to the spinoff blog \"The Race Card Project\" and a deeper look at our attitudes and beliefs about race.
If You Meant It Then You Should Have Put a Stamp On It
In this unique presentation, Michele Norris examines how old fashioned handwritten letters have helped define what is best about America, and explores how we hold on to that in the age of email, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. This refreshing talk looks at the profound impact and importance of letters written by presidents, CEOs, sportsmen, soldiers, pioneer women and pioneering scientists -- and examines how we communicate today and what it may tell us about our tomorrow.

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Combining his exceptional breadth of global knowledge, a deep cultural perspective, and engaging anecdotes, Afshin Molavi examines the most critical issues impacting our world—and our businesses—today.

One of the world’s most trusted authorities on global economic trends and geopolitics, Afshin Molavi helps organizations better understand the changing world and prepare for an uncertain future. Covering topics ranging from US-China relations and the ongoing volatility in the Middle East and Ukraine to shifts in energy policy and how the 2024 U.S. elections might impact the global landscape, Molavi identifies the risks—and opportunities—businesses can expect to navigate in the coming years.

Peppering his talks with anecdotes from his travels, a deep reading of history, and broad industry knowledge of commodities and supply chains, Molavi argues that globalization remains a potent force shaping our world in everything from your morning coffee (“Globalization in a Mug”) to pop culture (“Gangnam Style Globalization”). In an engaging, approachable style, he explains how everything is inter-connected and how small events can have major impacts to the ways we produce, consume, work and live.

With wide experience on the ground in the Middle East and Asia, including journalist postings in Riyadh, Dubai, Tehran, and Cairo, and wide travel across Asia from India to Japan to South Korea to China, Afshin is now a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, co-founder of the emerge85 Lab, and founder of the Emerging World newsletter. His articles and op-eds frequently appear in publications like The New York Times, The Economist, Businessweek, and Institutional Investor. His journalism credits include Reuters, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times. He was a senior global advisor at Oxford Analytica, and was selected by the World Economic Forum in Davos as a Young Global Leader.

From Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi, from San Diego to Singapore, Molavi has delivered impactful keynotes for a wide range of audiences, from global asset management firms and leading investment banks to travel and tourism boards, trade associations, and leading educational institutions.

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The New Geopolitical Map of the World: Global Trends Transforming Our World—and Your Business
In this tour d'horizon of the major global trends, world economic outlook, and geopolitical hotspots, Molavi will explore in a tailored way how each of these will affect your business and our collective future. Weaving in anecdotes from the field of more than two decades of travel, a broad historical understanding of key global trends, and a unique ability to geo-locate today's headlines into a broader global outlook, Molavi's insights help us navigate the choppy waters and storms that surround us, pointing at the opportunities beyond the clouds and the fog.
The Five Disruption-Proof Trends Shaping Our World and Their Impact on Politics, Business, Society, and Technology
From rapid urbanization and growing middle classes to unprecedented connectivity and technology acceleration, Molavi navigates audiences through five key demographic and universal growth trends that are reshaping our world. He describes these shifts as “disruption-proof” in that they transcend our day-to-day political, economic and trade developments. Understanding their importance will help any organization navigate the competitive global landscape for the next twenty-five years.
Vladimir Putin’s Bomb, the Global Shrapnel, and Our Collective Future
When Vladimir Putin chose to invade Ukraine in February 2022, he unleashed a geopolitical and geo-economic bomb. The shrapnel from that bomb will be felt in every corner of the world from Chile to China. Diving into supply chain disruptions, commodities forecasts, and the re-ordering of geopolitical alliances, Molavi explores the fall-out from Russia’s invasion, arguing that the action “will shape our world profoundly, fueling greater instability worldwide, exacerbating inequalities, re-ordering alliances, and posing challenges to established leaders everywhere.”
Shanghai, Mumbai, Dubai or Goodbye: The New, New Emerging Markets Transformation and What It Means for Our World
Author and geopolitical strategist Afshin Molavi takes a tour around the new geo-economic horizon reshaping our world, and what it means for markets, cultures, societies, and politics. As a former Dubai-based journalist and Asia risk strategist, Molavi brings personal anecdotes, deep economic insights, and broad trends analysis into an illuminating, entertaining tour of our evolving world. Molavi goes beyond the BRICs and beyond the usual markets analysis to dive deep into newly forming alliances, key consumer trends, and major macro shifts shaping what he calls the “85 world” - where 85% of the world’s population lives, from Asia to Africa to Latin America to the Middle East.
Gangnam Style Globalization and Our New World Order
From South Korean K-Pop boy bands to the rise of Turkish soap operas and Indian Netflix serials, a new globalization of pop culture is emerging around the world. This “Gangnam Style Globalization” reflects a new, rapidly evolving global geopolitical and geoeconomic climate that is shaping and re-shaping our future, creating new centers of political and economic power, and forcing investors and policy-makers to rethink their mental maps of the future. Author and geopolitical strategist Afshin Molavi takes audiences on an illuminating and entertaining tour of this evolving world - though he promises to not do the Gangnam Style dance in process.

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One of the most visible and trusted faces in broadcast news, award-winning journalist Jonathan Karl helps audiences understand America’s ever-changing political landscape and shares what to watch for in the 2024 elections.

Jonathan Karl is ABC News Chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He is author of three New York Times bestsellers, including his most recent, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party. In 2021, Mediaite named Karl one of the top 10 “Most Influential in News Media.”

The former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, Karl reported from the White House under four presidents and fifteen press secretaries. He has covered eight presidential elections and has broad experience covering Congress, foreign policy and the military, and has reported from more than 30 countries. He has covered every major beat in Washington, including the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and the State Department.

Karl’s reporting has been recognized with some of the most prestigious honors in journalism, including the Walter Cronkite Award for National Individual Achievement and the National Press Foundation’s Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the highest honor for congressional reporting. He is also one of the few journalists to win the Radio and TV Correspondents’ Association’s top award for excellence in Washington-based reporting twice, in 2010 and 2015. He won an Emmy® Award for coverage of the 2009 Inauguration of President Barack Obama.

During the 2016 presidential cycle, he did the first network interview with then-candidate Donald Trump, the first interview with Bernie Sanders as a presidential candidate and a rare, exclusive interview with the reclusive billionaire Charles Koch.

Before joining ABC News, he served as senior congressional correspondent and senior political correspondent for CNN. Karl graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

With behind-the-scenes-moments gathered from countless interviews with world leaders and on-the-ground coverage from Capitol Hill, the White House and the Pentagon, Jonathan illuminates what goes on in the corridors of power in the U.S. and abroad. His deep credibility, extensive news experience, and political knowledge of foreign policy, national politics, and current events help audiences understand America's ever-changing political landscape.

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ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl brings audiences “Capitol Hill in a nutshell.” Sifting through the many storylines coming out of the nation's capital and the White House, Karl incorporates what he has learned from his many years covering domestic, foreign, and military affairs to provide a balanced perspective.

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One of the nation’s most prominent cybersecurity authorities, Theresa Payton shows audiences how to be future-ready and secure—especially as advancements in artificial intelligence are reshaping cybercrime as we know it.

An inventor and visionary in the digital world, a U.S. patent holder, and the first female White House CIO, a two-time company founder and CEO, Theresa Payton, was named one of the “Top 50 Women in Tech” by Award Magazine in 2021. She captivates audiences by drawing on her unmatched knowledge and expertise to help business, association and government audiences safely navigate a rapidly changing digital future.

In presentations that masterfully blend stories from the trenches with cutting-edge insights (and all the flare she was known for as co-star on the CBS hit series Hunted), Theresa helps audiences understand the current impact and future applications of AI, Quantum Computing, Blockchain, Web 3.0 / the Metaverse, the Internet of Things and Big Data for their business. A trusted advisor to companies and governments, Theresa helps organizations of every size balance the risks and the enormous promise of emerging technologies for business transformation and growth.

Before serving as White House CIO, Payton was a technology leader in the banking and finance sector. She went on to co-found Dark3, a company later acquired by Celerium. Today she is the founder and CEO at Fortalice Solutions, a world-class consulting firm recently named to the lists of “The Global Hot 150 Cybersecurity Companies,” by Cybersecurity Ventures, and “The Top 5 Most Innovative Cybersecurity Companies” in the Washington, D.C. area. Her work in the field of fighting crime earned her the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. Theresa is a member of the Cyber Defenders Council, a group of 50 preeminent leaders from the public and private sectors who promote cross-sector collaboration and proactive cyber deterrence, and she sits on several advisory boards for innovative global technology firms.

In 2020, Business Insider named her one of their “Top 50 Cybersecurity Leaders” and Security Magazine named her one of the “Top 25 Most Influential People in Security.” Past awards have included “One of the 100 Most Influential People in Cyber Security,” “Woman Cybersecurity Leader of the Year,” and “Cybersecurity Crusader of the Year.”

Payton is the author of three industry-leading books, including Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth, which The Guardian included on their list of the “Top 10 Books About Cybercrime.” She frequently appears in the international news and media, helping viewers understand the latest technology trends and how to protect their privacy in today’s digital world.

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The Future is Now: How to Leverage AI and Tech Innovations to Reshape your Business and Cybersecurity
With the ability to access potent AI algorithms, voice-cloning and other deepfake capabilities, and the widespread availability of ChatGPT, cybercriminals now possess formidable tools at their disposal. These AI advancements have fundamentally reshaped the landscape of criminal operations, offering novel challenges and prospects for the cybersecurity realm. But Theresa Payton shows that it’s possible to turn the tables on cybercriminals. In this keynote, she takes a deep dive into real-world cases along with live AI demonstrations that show how criminals attack you but more importantly, how to future-proof yourself and your company from their attacks. Attendees walk away empowered by clear strategies to thrive in today’s digital landscape.
Innovation and Technology Transformation
Implementing cutting-edge technology and large change management to improve daily operations is something Theresa Payton knows best—she did this for the world’s largest banks. When the White House needed to modernize their operations, they entrusted the responsibility to her. In this keynote, Theresa draws from her substantial career to share essential lessons for implementing technology that improves human-user experiences. Covering topics like ChatGPT, AI, blockchain, quantum computing, and more Theresa provides demonstrations and an expert step-by-step roadmap to innovation that’s effective.
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Wallace is an anchor for CNN and host of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on HBO Max. Featured interviews from the show also air on CNN in Sunday primetime. Praised as an “equal opportunity inquisitor” by The Boston Globe and “an aggressive journalist,” “sharp edged” and “solid” by The Washington Post, Wallace interviews CEOs and media moguls, Hollywood legends and newsmakers across politics, business, world affairs, sports and culture.

In January 2022, Wallace joined CNN after more than 50 award-winning years in broadcasting, including 18 years with FOX News where he was the anchor of FOX News Sunday. Throughout his almost two decades at FOX, Wallace participated in coverage of every major political event, secured numerous high-profile interviews with dignitaries as well as U.S and foreign leaders, covered five presidential elections, and interviewed every president since George H.W. Bush.

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With over 25 years of experience in technology leadership, Trent Gillespie demystifies and harnesses the power of generative AI to help organizations drive growth and unlock new opportunities for innovation.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leveraging generative AI isn’t just a trend—it’s a game changer. AI is causing business leaders to face the largest disruption of their careers, but few have the knowledge or experience to navigate the challenge successfully.

Trent Gillespie helps simplify and demystify the complex, dynamic landscape of AI. Drawing from decades of experience in tech innovation and hands-on application of AI, Trent shares invaluable insights and actionable strategies that can be put in place immediately. Audiences walk away from his keynotes empowered to turn AI potential into prosperity.

With a global perspective on AI and technology, Trent’s journey encompasses years of unrivaled expertise and transformative insights. His leadership prowess is epitomized by his near-decade as a Senior Technology Leader at Amazon. There, he championed Amazon's worldwide growth across every business and geography, masterminded Alexa's global privacy and compliance blueprint, and steered the revolutionary Last Mile Technology—the backbone of Amazon’s delivery mechanism.

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Unlock Growth with AI (And Create Prosperity)
AI is often viewed merely as a tool for cost savings, but its true potential lies in its ability to drive profound growth. When combined with innovation, AI can not only foster the creation of new industries, products, and jobs but also uplift entire economies. Further, it has the opportunity to improve lives on a grand scale, creating prosperity.
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Erin’s work is pivotal in diversifying AI, promoting technology that is equitable and representative of diverse experiences. Her efforts are a testament to the importance of inclusive technology development, inspiring further advancements in the field.

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AI for Your Business: Breaking Down the Basics
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s a powerful tool being used to revolutionize the way organizations operate, innovate, and scale. But for many business leaders, AI is still a mysterious, complex unknown. In this insightful and practical keynote, Erin Reddick demystifies AI—making it approachable and user-friendly for businesses. Drawing from her wealth of experience at major tech companies including Meta, Microsoft, and AWS, Erin breaks down the basics and helps audiences confidently harness AI’s potential for driving tangible results and innovation in today’s competitive marketplace.
From Civil Rights to Digital Rights: How Black Technologists Are Shaping the Future of AI
As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes the way we live, work, and interact, the question of who controls and develops these technologies has never been more important. This keynote highlights the critical role that Black technologists, data scientists, and entrepreneurs play in driving innovation in AI, ensuring that it reflects the principles of fairness, inclusivity, and justice.
The talk will explore the parallels between historic civil rights struggles and today’s fight for digital equity, emphasizing the importance of Black representation in addressing algorithmic bias and preventing the reinforcement of systemic inequalities. Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of how diverse voices can shape the future of AI for the better, and why their leadership in tech is essential for ensuring that AI benefits all communities, not just a select few.
Reimagining the Future: How Black Innovators Are Using AI to Advance Social Justice
Artificial intelligence has the power to shape the future, but without diverse perspectives at the table, it risks reinforcing existing inequalities. This keynote highlights how Black innovators and technologists are leveraging AI to tackle critical social issues, from healthcare disparities to economic inequality. It explores the unique opportunities AI presents for addressing systemic challenges and how Black leadership in tech is essential for creating solutions that serve all communities. By showcasing real-world examples of AI being used for social good, this talk will inspire audiences to think about technology not just as a tool for profit, but as a force for justice and positive change. Whether you're in tech, academia, or business, you'll gain insights into how AI can be harnessed to drive social equity and what role you can play in this movement.

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Widely known as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Asia and geopolitical risk, Isaac Stone Fish breaks down the complexities of U.S.-China relations and reveals what the geopolitical and national security landscape will look like post-2024 Election.

As Founder and CEO of a business intelligence firm focused on geopolitical risk, Isaac Stone Fish provides corporations with critical political analysis, due diligence, data, and risk-assessment to quantify the ties between corporations, individuals, and China. In his illuminating keynotes, he helps audiences understand and reduce alternative forms of risk, including those involving China.

Isaac is the bestselling author of America Second: How America’s Elites are Making China Stronger, and serves as a contributor to CBSN, an adjunct at NYU's Center for Global Affairs, a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a columnist on China risk at Barron's. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Truman National Security Project fellow, and a senior advisor to the Korea Society. He previously served as a senior fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on United States-China Relations and the German Marshall Fund, and as the Asia editor at Foreign Policy Magazine.

A fluent Mandarin speaker and formerly a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, Isaac spent seven years living in China, and has visited every province, municipality, and special administrative region. He is an experienced speaker on United States-China business, economics, and politics, and his views on international affairs are widely quoted on CBS, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, the Guardian, the New York Times, and other major news media. Isaac lives in New York City.

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Geopolitics and global business before and after the 2024 U.S. Elections
China’s politics, economy, foreign policy, and relations with the United States
Proxy wars, trade wars, hot wars, and global business risks
U.S. and global companies and their ties to China

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Sharing his inspiring, against-all-odds journey from foster child to NFL player to successful business owner, Anthony Trucks helps individuals and organizations achieve their full potential by shifting their identity to reach peak performance.
Anthony Trucks has accomplished what statistics would show is impossible. At the age of three years old he was placed into the foster care system, where he remained until age 14, when he was adopted by a poor white family. In high school he set a challenging and lofty goal for himself … making the varsity football team. Hard work and determination lead to Anthony not only making the team but being offered a full ride scholarship to the University of Oregon and ultimately going pro in the NFL.
A fluke shoulder injury sent his NFL dreams crashing down just as quickly as they’d come. Drawing on what he had learned in childhood, Anthony realized that he had to pivot quickly. With a degree in kinesiology, Anthony decided to open his own gym. However, it wasn’t long before Anthony found himself run down with a struggling business and a personal life that was suffering as well.
A conversation with a friend reminded Anthony that others viewed him as an inspiration and a hero because, despite the odds, he always overcame. In that moment, Anthony began to think, “what if I could be an inspiration for others?” It occurred to Anthony that the gap between his current situation and his desired outcome wasn’t a method or a secret marketing strategy. What was missing, was within.
Anthony once again put in the work. He spent years researching, practicing, and essentially rewiring his brain on a deep psychological level to achieve the necessary changes to become the person he wanted to be. Little by little, he slowly became a well-oiled “shift making” machine.
Now it is Anthony’s passion and life’s mission to pass along the knowledge that took him 30+ years to learn. As the founder of “Dark Work” and creator of the “Dark Work Experience” Anthony teaches people how to access the power of their identity through Dark Work, tap into their full potential, and Make Shift Happen!
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Make Shift Happen: How To Up Your Game and Elevate Your Success In Life
Increase personal productivity for yourself and your employees which leads to more bottom bottom-line effectiveness, efficiency, and income. Whether it’s to raise the bar and access success at work, start a business, become an author, or reach the top of Mt. Everest, we all have big goals in life. But many of us spend more time talking about the things we want to do, than actually doing them. Yet every day we’re surrounded by people who achieve really big goals. From executives to entrepreneurs to athletes, we all have someone we admire for the elite level of success they’ve achieved. But why were they so successful, when so many of us fall short of our goals time after time?
As a former NFL football player, American Ninja Warrior, and successful entrepreneur, Anthony Trucks knows it takes an incredible amount of work to achieve big goals and elite levels of success. But many times, there are necessary “shifts” standing between what we want to achieve and what we believe we’re actually capable of achieving. Anthony believes these “identity shifts” are the KEY to reaching our goals, because they unleash the amount of effort, we put toward achieving them.
In this insightful and engaging program, Anthony shares how we can make the “shifts” that will skyrocket us to achieving our biggest goals. Learn the three core “shift stages”—See, Shift, and Sustain—and how elite performers use them to reach higher levels of success in their career, their relationships, and in life. Get ready to Make Shift Happen!
Dark Work Wins: How to Optimize Your Identity For Peak Performance
Elevate yourself and your team’s personal power, skill sets, and conviction to WIN, which leads to more impact, income, and limitless success. Everyone has a desire to access their next level of success in life, but it’s hindered by an unseen force holding them back. An inability to apply relentless pressure towards their dream and achieve it at all costs. Champions win not only because they have worked hard, but because they have outworked their competition and instilled a deeply rooted conviction to compete. They will die before they let someone who hasn’t worked as hard as them beat them.
It’s the work they’ve done in the dark that allows them to shine in the light.
As a former foster kid turned NFL football player, American Ninja Warrior, and successful entrepreneur, Anthony Trucks is an anomaly by any statistics and the only way he was able to shine in the light is because of his “Dark Work Experiences” that molded him, hardened him, and built up Dark Work Energy that field his passion to succeed and shine in the light.
Most people want to “shine” without doing what’s necessary to earn it, and they find themselves falling short of their potential for a lifetime. Anthony believes that when you finally understand the power of a Dark Work Experience, and how to properly and intentionally put yourself through one, you’ll find the “hidden in plain sight” secret to unlimited success and absolutely any area of your life.
In this powerful and soul shaking program, Anthony shares how we can “Do The Dark Work” that will allow us to compete with conviction to shine our brightest in the light. Learn the three phases of a “Dark Work Experience” — Respect The Shine, Do The Dark Work, and Emerge — and how world class achievers utilize them to access levels of success in their career, their relationships, and in life that 99% of people never experience. It’s time to do the work in the dark so NO ONE can take what is yours in the light!
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Widely considered the leading presidential historian of his generation, Jeffrey Engel connects America’s past with our present, helping our nation find a way forward by bringing history to life with humor and insight.
Today’s problems are nothing new. The United States has faced wars, pandemics, and political division before. While history is an imperfect guide to enacting a better future, it’s the best guide we have. It’s also a guide both for, and full of, people. While others might focus on the dry and statistical view of the past, Engel goes inside the lives of the people on the ground who made history happen. From the White House to the front lines to the factory floor, he shares new revelations and insights, with humor to help us find a way forward by studying those who walked the same path before.
Jeffrey A. Engel is the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, Professor in the William P. Clements Department of History, and a Senior Fellow of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies. Trained at Cornell University, Oxford University, and Yale University, he received his PhD in American History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. He has previously taught at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Texas A&M University, where he was the Kruse ’52 Professor and received recognition for teaching at the college, university, and system levels. In 2019, SMU’s Resident Life Students named him their campus-wide Hope Professor of the Year.
Engel has authored and edited a total of thirteen books on American foreign policy and the American presidency, the latest including When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War and the co-authored Impeachment: An American History. In 2025 Engel will be the Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien (Vienna School of International Studies).
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The Historical Significance of the 2024 Presidential Election: A Bipartisan Look
Every four years we are told the upcoming election is the most important of our lifetime. It usually isn’t. But every now and then, the nation’s fate indeed hinges on the outcome of a presidential vote. This is one such year. Both major party candidates cast their opponent as an existential threat, and the nation’s future will likely prove much different under a Trump or a Harris presidency. But beyond the noise, the fearmongering, and our collective exhaustion, what makes this election so significant from an historical perspective? We’ve had razor-thin and disputed elections before. Since 2000 the popular vote winner failed to gain an electoral college victory—and thus the White House—twice. That had only happened three times in the prior two centuries, and we remain in the shadow of January 6, 2021 and its unprecedented challenge to the final tally. Will similar electoral and constitutional chaos occur again in 2024? Will the candidate’s character ultimately matter more than their vote count? This keynote, focused not on partisanship but on a dispassionate view of history, offers insights and leadership lessons drawn from previous contests, including the existential ones, offering a glimpse into what we might expect in November, in January, and beyond.
Surviving America’s Existential Crises
Every generation faces crises. Yet only three times in our nation’s history has the republic’s very existence been in doubt. George Washington left his well-earned retirement to provide a symbol of stability and virtue the new nation would not have formed without. Abraham Lincoln oversaw a country rent in two. Franklin D. Roosevelt governed during an economic crisis so great many wondered if democracy itself could survive. Today our politically-riven nation may well face only the fourth existential crisis in its long history, and only the lessons of the past can help navigate the rocky shoals ahead.
America at 250: A Founder’s Report Card
It’s been two and a half centuries since minutemen opened fire on redcoats at Lexington and Concord in a moment typically considered the start of America’s war for independence. The country they helped forge grew over time from a piddling player on the periphery of the international system to the world’s most dominant force since imperial Rome. What would those early revolutionaries, including the group that fired the shot heard round the world, their counterparts that published the Declaration of Independence the next year, and the ensuing generation that wrote a new constitution think about our nation today? Anyone who tells you “the founders thought” shouldn’t be listened to. They were as diverse in perspective and opinion as we today. But consistencies abounded within their thinking, enough to ask how we’d fare if that first generation graded ours today.
Putin and the Presidents
US-Russian relations are at a new post-Cold War low. But those tensions go far beyond the current crisis over Ukraine. Russian-American antagonisms stem instead from long-standing geopolitical differences — different worldviews, really — held by American and Russian leaders since the Cold War’s End. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev set the stage for change, but only one man has been a constant in their critical bilateral relationship since: Vladimir Putin. His personal story reveals much of why the world is at war with Russia today, a story told through the evolution of his relationship with the U.S. Presidents he’s known: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.

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Delivering high-energy keynotes drawn from her decades of experience advising CEOs of global legacy and luxury brands, Neen James helps audiences increase attention, elevate everyday experiences, and build teams of luxury leaders.
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Attention Pays™: Elevating Experiences to Accelerate Results
To get the results you want, you need to get the attention of your potential clients. Too often, we see attention as a transaction, or something to trade. The truth is, it’s much more complex than that. When it comes to building connections and long-term loyalty, attention is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. To really get the attention and buy-in of your team and clients, you need to appeal to them on three different levels: personal, professional, and global. Neen James has designed a professional methodology to make it easier to leverage all three, helping individuals and organizations to be more deliberate about the choices they make and the actions they take. The result? With the gift of your attention, you’ll see increased profitability, productivity, and accountability within your organization — you’ll develop luxurious, memorable experiences for your clients, gaining their loyalty and advocacy.
Luxury Leadership: How to Create Experiences that Exceed Expectations Every Day
As a leader, one of your most important responsibilities is determining how to craft and deliver exceptional experiences that create advocates for your organization to get attention, differentiate your offerings, and grow your business. All too often, though, it’s the lines of business you’re responsible for—not to mention your top-line and bottom-line goals—that get your time and attention.
Thankfully, there are examples everywhere of unforgettable experiences: the world of luxury. While you may think that your company isn’t a luxury one or that you don’t serve luxury clients, even most luxury brands agree that luxury isn’t about things. Luxury is a mindset where exceeding expectations every day becomes the goal of every experience. When you adopt that same mindset as a leader, you’ll elevate communication, attention, and experiences for your organization that show up not only on the front lines of your business but in your bottom line, as well.
Join leadership strategist and luxury expert Neen James as she shares strategies for leveraging the luxury mindset for your clients and team, all based on her proprietary research. You’ll learn a simple framework to help you develop and implement a Luxury Leadership model, leading you to discover unique opportunities to elevate experiences that transcend mere transactions and exceed expectations at every opportunity
Folding Time™
You don’t have time to do everything: you only have time to do what matters! As leaders, we are constantly being asked to do more with less. If we can get clear about the activities that make the difference to our productivity we can get twice as much done in half the time the free ourselves up to get on with whatever else we choose and serve our clients in an even more impactful way. Neen James will show you how to gain more control, manage your time, focus your attention, and manage your energy.

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An award-winning Latina entrepreneur who went from living in an orphanage to creating a wildly successful salsa company she sold to Campbell’s Soup for 231M, Magie Cook inspires audiences around the world to face their biggest obstacles and reach their greatest potential.
Magie Cook grew up in Mexico, living in an orphanage with 68 other children. As a child, she taught herself how to play basketball and ultimately immigrated to the US on a basketball scholarship at the University of Charleston. While there, she started to make fresh salsa for her friends—and word spread of her delicious recipe.
After graduating, Magie struggled to find a job and was on the brink of homelessness—until her friends entered her in a fresh salsa competition. Magie won the contest unanimously, was gifted $800 to start her business, and Maggie’s All-Natural Fresh Salsas & Dips was born. Just four years later, her company grew into a multi-million dollar enterprise. She sold the company to Campbell’s Soup for $231M in 2015.
Now Magie travels the world, inspiring individuals and organizations with her high-energy keynotes. Combining research-based data and inspirational storytelling, Magie provides strategies for organizations to optimize performance, improve employee happiness and well-being, and transform workplace cultures into more equitable, creative environments for leaders to grow. Her charismatic humor, vulnerability, and pragmatic approach for tackling the challenges of work and life energizes audiences and motivates them to see what’s possible when they shift their mindset towards success, resilience, resourcefulness, and relentlessness.
Magie is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Nobel Entrepreneurial Prize in Mexico, the Small Business Administration’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and West Virginia’s Generation Next “40 Under 40” Award.
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Mindset With Magie
In this powerful keynote, Magie shares what it takes for team members to create a permanent mental shift for success, how to uncover and leverage their ‘why’, and how they can visualize their journey into the future. Using research-based studies rooted in psychology and language, Magie skillfully weaves practical mental strategies with how she’s integrated these in her life experiences. Leadership and teams who understand the potential for greatness leads to organizations that have happier employees, greater productivity, more creativity, and stronger leadership.
Overcome Any Adversity & Discover Your True Potential
In this signature keynote, Magie takes the audience on an inspirational journey through stories of how she was able to overcome a seemingly insurmountable number of personal and professional obstacles to create her multi-million dollar salsa company. Through real life examples, audiences will laugh, cry and most importantly, learn about the tools and strategies Magie employs when she meets challenges. When leaders adopt these practices, it leads to increased team trust, more creative thinking, and a higher capacity for dealing with change.
Together We Rise
In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations that prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are better equipped to adapt and succeed. This keynote, led by Magie Cook, a LGBTQ+ Latina who overcame adversity to achieve the “American Dream” and build a multimillion-dollar company, delves into the benefits of embracing DEI in the workplace. Drawing on her personal experiences of navigating different cultures and leveraging her skills, Magie shares key insights and strategies for creating a culture of mindfulness and inclusion in your team.

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Business IS an adventure—and mountain-climber Jamie Clarke walks you through how to strategize and succeed in your own ventures. Jamie challenges his audience to reach their unique Everest and guides them towards building and leading teams to success.
This acclaimed adventurer and entrepreneur challenges individuals to brave their own Everest with memorable insights and actionable strategies on leadership, risk management, and defining and achieving your goals. As a mountain-climber, Jamie reached the Everest summit twice—but only after his first two attempts to reach the peak were cut short by deadly storms, leaving him only a few feet short of the summit. Determined and dedicated, he reached his goal in 1997 and 2010. Jamie is one of a handful of people in the world to hold the rare accomplishment of climbing the Seven Summits. Always one for new adventures, Jamie rode camels across the Empty Quarter of Arabia, motorbiked across Mongolia with his son, and has served as a performance coach for Olympians, the NFL, Hockey Canada and the 2018 Stanley Cup-winning Washington Capitals. Jamie is currently a fellow and associate professor at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne Business school where he teaches and mentors in the Centre for Advanced Leadership.
With gentle Canadian humor, Jamie walks you through his planning process on mountain expeditions and how to apply his lessons for business strategies. Mountain-climbing can mean plenty of risk; Jamie provides essential tips on handling risk management as you navigate challenges on your path. But Jamie offers the key to scaling the heights: retain your passion while nurturing and encouraging your team. His focus: creating an honest and authentic culture in your company that stays true to its mission.
Jamie relays the lessons he learned as the former CEO of a mountaineer clothing e-commerce business, which earned him multiple nominations for National e-commerce Innovation Awards by Canada Post. The mountain-climber’s high-energy message inspires you to set high goals, overcome obstacles, and remain passionate in your own entrepreneurial adventures.
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How Weathering Unanticipated Storms Makes Your Business Stronger
Adapting quickly to forces outside of your control—like being pinned on the mountain when a storm hits—requires team building, leadership, and crisis management. In this virtual presentation, extreme adventurer Jamie Clarke shares how businesses can adapt to unexpected change while upholding the mission. With an entire workforce suddenly working from home, with companies forced to innovate entirely new ways of doing business, leaders are facing never-imagined workplace challenges. The insights and strategies Clarke learned while surviving extreme environments will help your organization emerge from this chapter in your history stronger than ever before and ready to conquer the future.
Above All Else: The Power of Passion
With humor and palpable passion, Jamie Clarke challenges audiences to think differently about success, failure, passion, hard work and fear, as he shares insight from his journeys scaling the world’s highest mountains, trekking through the most dangerous places and starting his own successful retail business. Perfect for audiences seeking expertise on risk-taking, project management, and team building, Clarke’s customized presentations deliver powerful perspective on learning from failure, the art of grunt work, conquering fear through focus, and above all—living life with passion.
Everyone starts at ZERO: Selling and the Mindset Reset
Jamie Clarke gets it. He gets how to grab an audience of sales professionals, pull it in and keep it with him for every word, laugh, metaphor and lesson. With an infectious charisma, relatable humor and a feel-it-in-your-shoes passion, Jamie challenges sales audiences to think differently about success, drive, failure, hard work and fear. No matter your past successes, be it summiting Everest or setting new sales records, everyone at one point has to start all over again. And prove it again. To start at ZERO. Again.
This captivating program on regrouping and starting over from zero, shares hard-earned insights from his journeys scaling our world’s highest mountains, trekking through its most dangerous places and then creating and managing his own adventure outfitters business. Jamie Clarke is the perfect speaker for sales kick-off events seeking a fresh spark and an actionable blueprint for sharpening risk-taking and mindset. Clarke’s customized presentations deliver powerful take-away lessons on:
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Building a resilient, winning mindset
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Two-time World Champion Triathlete and four-time Hall of Famer Siri Lindley has coached Olympic medalists and World Champion athletes, and now she applies her winning strategies to business audiences, inspiring employees and teams to reach their highest performance potential.
Siri motivates audiences with her own life experiences as she demonstrates:
The value of leadership and inspiration. As an elite coach, Siri has mentored countless athletes, individuals, and business leaders. Her keynotes are renowned for highlighting the critical importance of strong leadership and effective motivation in business settings, inspiring audiences to strive for excellence. Her approach emphasizes the importance of self-care, purpose, and resilience, enabling individuals to not only excel in their careers but also find deeper meaning in their daily lives.
The power of perseverance and resilience. Siri herself has overcome immense life challenges to become a champion athlete. Her speeches inspire listeners to push through obstacles and overcome setbacks in their careers.
The benefits of a growth mindset. Siri emphasizes the importance of continual learning and improvement, showing how business leaders can find value in adopting a growth mindset to stay competitive and adaptable in a constantly changing marketplace.
The importance of a healthy work-life balance. As a triathlete, coach, and co-founder of two non-profits, Siri is no stranger to the challenges of balancing work and personal life. Her speeches encourage listeners to prioritize self-care and find a healthy balance between their professional and personal commitments.
The power of energy. In late 2019, Siri faced her own difficult battle when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Despite being given less than a 10% chance of survival, she was pronounced cancer-free by her doctors in May of 2020. Today her belief in thriving, not just surviving, guides others to master their own mindsets, emotions and purpose. Siri’s second book, Finding a Way: Taking the Impossible and Making it Possible (2023), provides readers with the tools needed to overcome their struggles and achieve the life they want to live.
Siri Lindley conducts her highly-rated ChampionMind corporate excellence programs and workshops across the country, and she and her wife, Rebekah Keat—also a world-class triathlete and coach—run the Sirius Tri Club for triathletes and the Siri and Bek Squad, which helps people transition to a healthier lifestyle. They have also co-founded two non-profits focused on rescuing horses from slaughter.
In 2023, Siri was inducted into the World Triathlon Hall of Fame.
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Winning Big and Living Fearlessly
Fear can be either motivating or crippling. Without decisive action, fear left to grow in the dark will extinguish any chance for individuals, teams, and organizations to succeed. Former #1 triathlete in the world, Siri Lindley, powered through fear on her path to reach the highest level of this grueling sport. She believes that business is 80% psychology and 20% strategy. Siri shows how to train your team members to master their emotions, meaning, and mindset using her ChampionMind principles. This approach fosters a winning culture and a team grounded in accountability. In these times of uncertainty and disruption, Siri demonstrates that it's okay to be afraid, it's what we do about it that makes the difference. Her insights into team members’ physiology and “state” create teams with unstoppable momentum, all guided by her ChampionMind approach.
Succeeding as a Resilient and Fearlessly Authentic Leader
Two timeless traits of great leaders are resilience and authenticity. Great leaders are more crucial than ever as entire industries navigate global changes. After her competitive days as a #1 world-ranked triathlete, Siri forged a new path as a mentor and coach, training 11 world champions, 2 Olympic medalists, and hundreds of world-class competitors. She brings those same ChampionMind skills to organizational leaders by helping them reframe challenges and master their own mindsets, emotions, and meaning. What are the habits and rituals that support high team performance? How does a shared vision infuse your team with purpose, motivation, and energy? Siri even shows how to connect with your team to retain and grow valuable talent using her own ChampionMind approach.
RESILIENCE: How Your Mindset Can Take You from Battling Fears to Thriving
In November 2019, Siri Lindley’s world was shattered when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. With only a 5% chance of survival, she could have succumbed to fear, but Siri refused to let grim statistics dictate her fate. She had already proven that the impossible was possible, becoming a world champion triathlete despite not knowing how to swim when she started. With that same unwavering ChampionMind spirit, Siri faced her illness head-on, determined to beat it. Her journey is a profound testament to resilience and courage. Siri passionately shares and teaches the ChampionMind principles that helped her defy the odds and emerge triumphant.
Re-writing Your Own Narrative for a Life of Authenticity
Every day, we author and build upon our own story. Who do we say we are? Who do we serve? Who are we responsible for? What burdens do we decide to carry that may not even be ours to carry? Former #1 world-ranked triathlete and coach to world champions, Siri Lindley, learned how to re-write the story she had been telling herself. From being a young woman with crippling self-doubt and debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder, she transformed her life by using her ChampionMind principles, ultimately becoming a 2x world champion triathlete despite starting without knowing how to swim. Siri teaches audiences practical steps for breaking free from “Imposter Syndrome” and living a life of authenticity and intention using her own ChampionMind approach
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Paul Epstein has spent nearly 15 years as a professional sports executive for multiple NFL and NBA teams, a global sports agency, and the NFL league office, where he has broken every premium revenue metric in Super Bowl history, opened a billion-dollar stadium, and founded the San Francisco 49ers Talent Academy, where he became known as the “Why Coach.”
As an award-winning speaker he was named one of SUCCESS magazines top thought leaders that get results, Paul’s impact continues off stage providing leadership development and culture transformation programs for companies and teams including Amazon, Disney, Johnson & Johnson, NASA, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Los Angeles Lakers to embody a spirit of WINNING MONDAY—and his work has been featured on ESPN, NBC, Fox Business, and in USA Today.
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Making Better Decisions Faster, How to Overcome Paralysis and Inspire Action
Even the most elite performers can rush to bad judgements, become paralyzed by indecision, or get worn down by decision fatigue.
In this keynote, Paul reveals the streamlined three-step process he’s used to turn around major sports franchises — from the locker room to the boardroom. Avoid decision traps, move forward clear and confident, and make the best out of your MVDs: Most Valuable Decisions.
Leadership & Growth Insights from the NFL & NBA
Culture can only scale when EVERY person in it takes full ownership, accountability, pride, and a commitment to daily excellence. That's the spirit of a champion, and culture (when done right) is our ultimate competitive advantage.
This keynote is inspired by Paul’s 15 years as a culture-building practitioner in the NFL & NBA (including multiple national awards for his work as Founder of the San Francisco 49ers Talent Academy), then stress tested across his training and consulting practice to deeply examine: what do the greatest cultures in the world have in common?
A Masterclass to Build Momentum and WIN
Sales is the lifeblood of every organization. Without it, there is no business to operate. No people to employ. No purpose to fulfill. No impact to ignite in the market. CONFIDENCE is what makes it all possible.
Paul realized how confidence can be the ultimate separator and competitive advantage needed to win as a sales leader in the NFL and NBA, breaking the all-time Super Bowl revenue record, surpassing billion-dollar goals while opening new NFL stadiums, and transforming cellar-dwelling NBA teams from 28th in league revenue to 2nd within a single season.
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Through a combination of expert coaching, consulting, and training, Eric Boles helps organizations achieve goals quickly, function within their purpose and values, and see transformative results.
A former NFL wide receiver, Eric is the founder and president of The Game Changers, a training and development company that provides a non-traditional approach to performance management and enables organizations to spark positive change, unleash their potential, and exceed their goals and expectations.
Eric presents inspiring insights and strategies to a variety of education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services organizations and associations that help cultivate leadership, culture change, teamwork, and peak performance. He has lent his expertise to some of the most recognized and respected organizations in the world, including Starbucks, Hasbro, UPS, SAP, Michelin, Swiss Re, MGM, Aviva, Alaska Airlines, and the U.S. Air Force. The results they have experienced are nothing short of transformative.
Prior to becoming a high-performance authority, Eric learned key principles of team dynamics and leadership as a National Football League professional. He was coached and mentored by some of the best coaches and players in the league.
The author of “Moving to Great: Unleashing Your Best in Life and Work,” he motivates others to take leaps towards reaching their organizational goals with company wide support and enthusiasm, bringing real change and lasting results.
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Fearless Leadership
Fear is a major reason people don’t move forward to new levels. Fear of change, fear of rejection, fear of confrontation and even fear of success can hold us back. Strategies for conquering our fears and changing our mindset and focusing on desired outcomes are outlined. Fear and confidence are contagious, and we need to manage our input to control our output.
Moving To Great
How can we be at our best more of the time? What qualities do peak performers have that allows them to perform at the next level? How do we align our goals and values to stay focused on our desired outcomes. This message will focus on habits and attitudes to move to new levels.
Leading Through Change
Rapid change continues to impact our lives. How can we lead ourselves and others through the changes. We will look at the reasons why people don’t like change and how we can overcome those barriers. Often fear and lack of confidence enter into our decision processes as well. What are you modeling? It’s all up to leadership!
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Based on original research on today’s category-leading companies, Ryan Estis helps you lead through change, unleash your full potential, and enhance business performance, in the new economy.
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Ryan spent 15 years helping companies connect with employees and customers as an ad agency executive and Fortune 500 chief strategy officer. Now, as the chief experience officer at Ryan Estis & Associates, he brings a deep level of visionary thinking and hands-on experience to a wide range of clients to help them achieve breakthrough success. He travels all over the world to get an inside look at what the world’s best companies do differently, and distills those insights so organizations can embrace change, improve performance, and deliver growth.
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Recognized as one of the “The Best Keynote Speakers Ever Heard” by Meetings & Conventions magazine, his presentations include original research and actionable content customized for each audience. He informs and educates with case studies that include powerful sales and leadership takeaways that leave attendees with a purpose-driven plan for applying their new ideas once they get back to the office.
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Human Centered Growth: Selling Value in the New Economy
Customer expectations and behavior are evolving faster than most sales organizations. B2B buyers considering a purchase now spend only 17% of that time actually meeting with potential suppliers and if comparing multiple suppliers, the amount of time spent with any one sales rep shrinks to 5%.
This reality requires a fundamental shift in go-to-market strategy and a radical evolution in seller skill and competency. Sales teams not only have to earn customer access from a position of expertise, but also use a new value-based, deeply customized approach to earn customer partnerships that can sustain growth into the future.
Ryan Estis is a former Fortune 500 CRO and sales transformation expert who teaches sales teams how to leverage this defining moment of transformation and change as a catalyst to create compelling differentiation in the customer decision journey to capture more market share.
Sellers will understand how to earn more customer access, position value over price, elevate customer confidence from a position of expertise, and drive decisions to close.
Inspired by compelling stories and actionable insights, each participant will leave acutely aware of how to humanize the sales process to build high trust/high value relationships that create partnerships for life.
Human Centered Leadership: Leading High-Performance Teams in a Forever Changed World
Includes lessons from Prepare for Impact
We have changed. Work has changed. And employee attitudes and expectations have changed. We are seeing the largest evolution in our relationship to work in the last century.
Knowledge workers now expect their managers to be part of their support system and help them improve their employee experience as well as their life experience. But in a Gartner survey assessing the evolving role of management, only 47% of managers are prepared for this role.
Ryan Estis teaches leaders how to leverage this defining moment of change as a catalyst to improve performance and empower our people by embracing the principles of human-centered leadership.
Blending surprising truths with actionable insights and inspiring stories, Ryan guides leaders through an interactive experience that prepares them to lead agile, collaborative, digitally enabled teams equipped to thrive in this rapidly changing environment while delivering impact for all stakeholders (customers, employees, suppliers, investors, and communities).

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The former Director of Communications for Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Ken Schmidt has advised executive leaders of many of the world’s best-known brands, delivered more than one thousand keynote presentations, written two best-selling books and created a popular business podcast.
It’s an impersonal world, where so many products and services are seen as easily-replaced, indistinct commodities. Whether you stand out or get lost in the crowd is a choice. A mindset.
Ken Schmidt faced those same challenges himself and gained acclaim for his role in the extraordinary turnaround of the legendary Harley-Davidson Motor Company. That transformation was based on a change in mindset and a focus on answering three key strategic questions. While times have changed, what humans want and need from the businesses they buy from and work for hasn’t.
In his high-energy speeches, Ken inspires companies and individuals to shift their thinking and ride a path to success by becoming memorable – not for what they do or what they make, but for how they connect with people.
Ken is author of Make Some Noise: The Unconventional Road to Dominance. He’s also host of the “Tailgating with Geniuses” podcast and co-founder of Torque Sessions Leadership Training. In all of his endeavors, Ken brings an unconventional perspective that helps organizations and individuals reframe how they engage with their marketplace.
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Full Throttle: Shift Gears, Stand Out, and Cruise to the Top
“No matter what we sell, make, or do, we’re a commodity to people who don’t know us,” says Ken Schmidt. Companies who understand that and change their mindset to engage customers differently will win big. Authenticity stands out in today’s impersonal world and Ken unpacks a roadmap for creating an unshakable emotional connection with customers. This talk is rooted in the ideas that drove Harley-Davidson’s incredible transformation and return to dominance as Ken and his team led the company’s shift away from focusing on product features and instead leaned into the key drivers of human behavior. As it did, H-D’s sales, profitability, and loyalty skyrocketed. Ken’s high energy and humor punctuate this talk as he shows businesses of every size and scope how to align everyone in the organization around a set of values that ignite customer passion, maximize sales growth, and stand out in their marketplace.
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Discover the three questions that should drive every decision to protect and enhance your reputation
Transform the company mindset towards being known for who you are vs. what you do
Harness the three drivers of human behavior to create unshakable loyalty
Gain ways to be memorable so customers tell your story to others – in person and on social media
Elevate your business by humanizing it and delivering delight
Revving Up Reputation: Storytelling That Drives Success
A compelling and memorable story does more than engage – it moves people, reshaping perceptions and driving change. Ken Schmidt, the mastermind of Harley-Davidson’s resurgence, understands that potent narratives do more than catch attention; they change minds and distinguish your business from look-alike competitors. Leadership’s role is the engine that drives this process forward, fostering a culture where storytelling becomes the rocket fuel for this change. In this presentation, Ken delivers a strategic framework for organizations to redefine their narratives, guiding leaders and teams to uncover the core of their organizational identity and craft stories from within and beyond their walls. Through vivid real-world examples, Ken illustrates how authentic storytelling can elevate brands to a place of prominence and trust. This keynote doesn't just inspire; it redefines how organizations live out and communicate their uniqueness, forging indelible connections that turn casual customers into loyal champions.
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Elevate the likeability of your business by crafting stories that delight customers
Uncover the three core elements behind every memorable story that's ever been told
Learn how to craft vocabulary that breathes new life into the seemingly familiar or mundane
Find your three most memorable and distinguishing storylines
Tap into underutilized opportunities to share stories
Discover simple tools that encourage employees to become storytellers
Gear Up: Fast Track Your Career
“How do you want to be talked about and what are you doing to make that happen?” Ken Schmidt reminds people that we are a story-telling species and getting noticed by customers or even in your own organization is about being memorable. Saying or doing what people expect doesn’t make you – or your business – stand out. In this talk Ken shows how to make a lasting impact. It starts with answering three key questions about how you want to be remembered. Ken reminds audiences that what people remember about you is dependent on how you make them feel about themselves. It’s more important to be interested – not interesting. Ken shares lessons learned from a celebrated career at Harley-Davidson and beyond to show how to build a personal brand that will fast track your career in today’s dynamic landscape.
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Identify your unique qualities and how you want to be remembered
Hear ways to make others feel good about themselves
Learn how to take an active role in meetings and actively participate
Understand that by encouraging others to share their stories, you can then share yours
Ways to continuously improve your personal brand by focusing on R&R (Remember & Repeat)
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With humor, intelligence, and humility, iconic athlete Alex Rodriguez inspires audiences with stories of his journey from young phenom, to poster child for baseball, to public failure—followed by his comeback and self-made business career—and shares the leadership and team-building lessons he's learned along the way.
Alex Rodriguez is a businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of A-Rod Corp, a broad-based investment firm that bets on world-class startups and partners with leading global companies across the real estate, health and wellness, technology, and sports & entertainment industries. While best known as one of the world’s greatest athletes (a 14x MLB All-Star and a 2009 World Series Champion with the New York Yankees), for more than 25 years, Alex leads a team of experts building high-growth businesses, and is co-owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Strategic Pivoting: Making a Purposeful Shift
How can you make a successful pivot into a new career? Over the course of your life, you may have several careers. What do you need to know to make the shift successful? Alex Rodriguez made several shifts over his lifetime. He spent the first part of his life as a baseball player, playing for 22 seasons in Major League Baseball. After his career was over, he successfully pivoted into being a media presenter and a business entrepreneur. He didn’t switch overnight. In this exciting talk, Alex shares what you need to know in order to make a purposeful shift. Audiences will come away understanding: never limit yourself, find your passion, and educate yourself.
Mindset of a Champion: Success Across Sectors
How do you succeed in whatever you do? You need to adopt the mindset of a champion. A champion knows that success doesn’t come easy or overnight. Before Alex Rodriguez became one of the most successful and highest-paid athletes in baseball, he was just a young man who loved the game and wanted to become better. So he studied the game, took copious notes, and improved his expertise in the sport. His process can be applied to any area of life, not just sports. In this frank talk on what it takes to succeed, Alex shares how he developed his champion mindset. Audiences will come away learning to find their superpower, educate themselves, work hard, and stay focused.
Resilience: How to Stay in the Game When Challenges Arise
How do you stay the course when you face challenges in life? For each of us, a day will come when we have a huge personal or business setback. When a setback happens, starting over may seem like an insurmountable challenge. You may want to give up rather than go on. Alex Rodriguez faced many challenges over his 22-year career in baseball, from striking out to losing games to injury to being suspended. However, he was able to overcome his challenges and stay in the game. In this story-filled talk, Alex shares how to stay resilient. Audiences will come away understanding why you should always get back up when you’re knocked down, never set limitations on yourself, and say yes first, then figure out the rest.
Diversity: A Business Imperative for Strong Teams and Success
Why are organizations with more diversity more successful than less diverse companies? More diverse companies have higher productivity, more innovation, and less turnover. If you want to build strong teams and organizations, you need to hear diverse voices. As a successful baseball player and business owner, Alex Rodriguez understands the importance of diversity for strong teams and success. In this talk spanning his baseball and business careers, Alex shares the importance of diversity for success. Audiences will come away understanding that in order to be innovative and appeal to diverse markets, you need to have different people with different opinions, people who are willing to say no instead of yes, and people who are hired because of their expertise, not just because they check a box.
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