KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

New York Times & International Bestselling YA Novelist; Author of the "Beautiful Creatures" Series

Award-Winning Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; Known for "The Liars' Club"; Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University

Long-Distance Hiker & Author; Overall Record Holder on the Appalachian Trail & The First Woman to Set That Mark

Canadian Author, Film Producer, Mother of Justin Bieber

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "The Radium Girls"

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

Author Known for "Real Happiness"

NYT Best-Selling Author, Angel Investor, CEO of Renegade Global & Host of the "Why Not Now?" Podcast

Award-Winning Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Founder & CEO of Work It Daily; HR & Recruiting Expert, Executive Coach

Nancy Kruse, President of The Kruse Company in Atlanta GA, is the best known and most widely quoted menu analyst in the restaurant industry.

Award-Winning Journalist, Author of "Alpha Girls", Founder of Alphy™

Author Known for "The Moon and More" "Someone Like You" & "That Summer"

Original MTV VJ, SiriusXM Host. Co-Author of New York Times Best-Seller VJ:The Unplugged Adventures Of MTV's First Wave

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Hit-and-Run Survivor; Crowned 2011 Miss Corporate America; Life & Image Coach

Media Executive, Startup Investor, Women's Empowerment Speaker & Best-Selling Author of "The Myth of the Nice Girl"