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An award-winning journalist and author, A'Lelia founded the Madam Walker Family Archives, is a Columbia University trustee and immediate past chairman of the National Archives Foundation. A former network television news executive and producer, she has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, C-Span, NPR and BBC and spoken at Harvard Business School, Spelman College and dozens of corporations, book festiva...

Sheetal Jaitly is the CEO of TribalScale. He is a charismatic entrepreneur, an avid investor, and a veteran in the tech space. Sheetal is passionate about innovation and digital transformation potential on both organizations. Sheetal lives in the future and takes his unique perspective to support and guide brands through their digital transformations. He works with organizations that range from st...

Having worked for the Disney for 25 years, most recently as Head of Innovation and Creativity, Duncan now serves as an independent innovation and design thinking consultant, helping companies embed a culture of innovation and creativity across their organizations. Delivering a series of keynotes, training workshops and ideation forums, his unique Design Thinking process helps people capture unlike...

The Tempest (thetempest.co) is a premium global media company for women who will. Reaching millions around the world, The Tempest reaches an audience made up of determined leaders, creators, doers, and dreamers who are smart and passionate, always seeking out the full potential in every aspect of their lives. The Tempest delivers heart and substance to a highly engaged audience across a variety of...

Colin is an actor, author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. In his book book, "Agile Artist: Life Lessons from Hollywood and Beyond", Colin shares personal stories of overcoming two bouts of cancer, living through the world trade center experience and fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional working actor in Hollywood. He has launched two online courses called INSPIRE and CAMERA READY...

Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. Marc was co-founder of Netflix, serving as their founding CEO, as the executive producer of their web site, and as a member of their board of directors. Although best known for starting Netflix, Marc’s career as an entrepreneur spans more than four decades. He's founded or co-founded more than half a dozen other successf...

Justin Thouin is the Co-Founder and CEO of LowestRates.ca, one of the fastest growing companies in North America. He has been an EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award finalist and under his leadership LowestRates.ca has ranked in the top 50 on Maclean's/Canadian Business' Growth 500 list of Canada's fastest growing companies for four years in a row, most recently placing 15th in 2019. The company has...

Bestselling Author of Screw Being Shy, Global Top 100 Humans 2.0 Podcast Host, Amazon Prime's 📺The Social Movement & Speaker

Casanova Brooks is an award-winning real estate agent, investor, speaker, and CEO. Who would have thought that a man who once had no home to house his family in and no job to earn income, would’ve locked in 46 real estate deals in his first year as a real estate agent and earn the rookie of the year award in a brand new city with no family, friends, or network? – That’s Casanova Brooks for you! Ca...

Danny is the Sales Director for a tech startup called Metadata - a platform that helps marketers automate the tedious tasks of setting up & tracking advertising campaigns. Danny won the 2019 AE Of The Year award in November, 2019 sponsored by Chili Piper. This was a national award open to any AE in the country with a $10,000 prize for first place and a $3,000 team outing all sponsored by Chili...

Refugee turned divorcee on the verge of bankruptcy... To multi-millionaire, champion bodybuilder, author, doctor, and CEO of multiple worldwide brands. Dr. Sam Bakhtiar is an American success story with humble beginnings and a meteoric rise to wealth and influence. As founder of The Camp Transformation Centres (110+ locations) and the 1%ER Movement, Sam inspires modern adults and yo...

The Knowledge Society is a human accelerator designed for young people (ages 13-17). Our mission is to build the next-generation of global leaders who have a strong sense of purpose, tenacity, resourcefulness, leadership, and vision. TKS has built a physical environment where participants explore topics such as Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotech, Quantum Computing etc... through co...

Stephany Lapierre is the founder/CEO of Tealbook, a highly coveted supply chain thought leader, and one of the most influential minds in emerging data technologies. She has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain, and her company, Tealbook, has both been named a Top 50 company to watch by Spend Matters and won the Cool Vendor Award by Gartner. Prior to Tealbook...

As Founder and CEO of Genium, a premium software development and agile consulting firm. I bring 10+ years of experience in connecting innovative companies with world-class software engineers globally. At Genium, I have led more than 100 engineers, developers, and other experts, helping companies to create secure, cutting-edge mobile and web applications as well as to hire and build scalable, talen...

Dr. Stout’s career includes business, government, and nonprofits, as well as the UN and academia. He’s traveled the world, published 38 books, won a wide range of accolades, including four additional doctorates (honoris causa), and invitations to TEDs, Davos, Renaissance Weekends… He’s is a licensed clinical psychologist and Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives, a Top Rated Healt...

Peter Taunton is a pioneer in the fitness industry. In 2003, he had a vision for Snap Fitness: to create an affordable, 24-7, results-driven gym differentiated from the impersonal, expensive big-box experience. Today there are Snap Fitness franchises in 2,500 locations in 26 countries. And Taunton, CEO of Lift Brands, didn’t stop there. Taunton is an expert at understanding consumer desires and fu...

Anas Ghazi is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Stagwell Group. Anas oversees Stagwell’s client engagement, business development and go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining the Stagwell Group, Anas was at WPP where he held several executive roles including leading the firm’s global data practice as Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of WPP’s Data Alliance and delivering business growth as...

StickerYou is the best platform in the world for custom products that make you stick.

On a quest to successfully climb the Seven Summits, Ralph Kisso has completed six so far. One of those was Mt. Everest, which on 22nd of May, 2019 at 4:30 AM, he raised the Lebanese flag and became the second Lebanese person in history to summit the mountain.

In his early 20s, David Meltzer quickly rose to the top of his game in the business world, becoming a millionaire. David lectured around the globe and saw rapid success in every business project he touched. But something was missing, and in his 30s as a multimillionaire, he went on a rapid downward spiral that ended in bankruptcy. It was only then that David realized, in order to revive and thrive...

From the beginning of Hoops Nation becoming a real media outlet back in it's early days of reaching 10k people a week where it only existed on Facebook with written content, to being hugely influential across all platforms. Hoops Nation has gone from reaching 10k a week only on Facebook, to 35m impressions per week on Facebook alone, countless viral original videos and more. That, to growing the I...

John Ruffolo is the Founder of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of OMERS. John is also the Co-Founder of the Council of Canadian Innovators. John sits on the board of a number of leading innovation based organizations including Hootsuite, Ontario Centres of Excellence, and Ether Capital.

Perksy is a progressive new marketing technology startup with a fresh, contemporary take on understanding motivations, interests, preferences, and behaviors of Gen Y & Z consumers. By contextually hypertargeting consumers through a rewarding, user-first mobile app, Perksy delivers deeper insights in real-time through innovative technology that evolves at the speed of culture. Nadia is passiona...

Koviem was born out of a simple idea: custom suiting needs a feminine experience. Once reserved for wealthy businessmen, the power suit is now the uniform for the female of the future. Our philosophy is simple…create beautiful pieces for the modern woman!  Founded in 2016, Koviem has come a long way from its early stages when we were simply trying to fill a void based on personal needs. We no...

Michel helps entrepreneurs and professionals build strategies to improve the experience they deliver to their customers and employees. His businesses earn over $15 million/year in sales and have 150 employees in the ultra competitive hospitality industry. His book, "People-First Culture: Build a Lasting Company By Shifting Your Focus From Profits to People" is available on Amazon https://tinyurl.c...