Award-Winning Author Speakers

Artificial Intelligence & Digital Transformation Expert, Futurist, Bestselling Author

Leading Expert in Brilliant Resilience

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

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

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

Award-Winning Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author; Civil Rights Activist; Cancer Survivor; Subject of the Emmy Award-Winning Documentary "Going to Mars"

Time-Management Guru; Author of "168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think" & "What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast"

Authority on Innovation & Leadership, Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capital Investor; NYT Bestselling Author of "The Road to Reinvention"

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Founder of Toast Ale, Food Waste Activist, Author

Award-Winning Harvard Medical School Psychologist; TED Speaker; WSJ Bestselling Author of "Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life"

Bestselling Author, CEO of Zen Media, Digital Marketing Strategist

Bestselling Author, Film Adaptations Creator, Philanthropist

World Renowned Business Educator & Coach; Best-Selling Author of "What Got You Here Won’t Get You There"

Founder & CEO of Midwest Center, Bestselling Author, Anxiety & Depression Expert

Bestselling Author, Former Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief, Suspense Novelist

Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist; Associate Editor, The Washington Post & Author of 23 Bestsellers

Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Technology Futurist; Author of "The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future"