Rita McGrath
Rita McGrath is one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation. Rita consistently ranks among the top 10 management thinkers in the world by the prestigious Thinkers50 a...
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Zack Kass
Zack Kass is a global AI advisor, researcher, keynote speaker, the former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI, and bestselling author of The Next RenAIssance: AI and the Expansion of Hu...
Dr. Jane Barratt
Dr. Jane Barratt is an internationally recognized expert on ageing, health, and social policy. Holding a PhD in Public Health, she is known for examining how systems succeed or fai...
Jessica Moorhouse
Jessica Moorhouse is a leading Canadian money expert, TV personality, and personal finance educator. She is an Accredited Financial Counsellor Canada® and the host of the chart-top...
Doug Griffiths
Doug Griffiths is a wildly popular community strategist and author of two best-selling editions of “13 Ways to Kill Your Community”. He has supported, guided and inspired hundreds...
Jon Erlichman
Jon Erlichman is a renowned financial commentator and contributor on BNN Bloomberg, celebrated for his engaging interviews with top global CEOs, athletes, and entertainers. With a...
Becky McCray
Becky McCray is a lifelong rural entrepreneur, cattle rancher and co-founder of SaveYour.Town. Her hands-on successes and failures as a retail business owner, city administrator, n...
Eric Termuende
Eric Termuende is the Co-Founder of NoW of Work, author of Rethink Work, trusted advisor, and award-winning speaker on leadership, culture, and the future of work. His research int...
Dr. Vikram Mansharamani
Vikram Mansharamani is a successful businessman, economist, and author. Throughout his career, he has built businesses and supported entrepreneurs and companies in creating jobs an...
Sean Silcoff
Sean Silcoff is an award-winning business writer with The Globe and Mail and co-author of Losing the Signal, the critically acclaimed, best-selling story about the rise and fall of...
David Allison
David Allison is redefining how organizations solve problems and seize opportunities by proving a fundamental truth: everything we do is driven by our values. Known as “The Values...
Hilary Corna
Hilary Corna is a trailblazer, author and entrepreneur. An alumna of both Kansai Gaidai University and Elon University, Hilary has degrees in Asian/Pacific Studies and Internationa...
L.K. Bertram
Dr. L.K. Bertram is a renowned, award-winning author and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. L.K.’s work specializes in history, social media disinformation, and the...
Iliana Oris Valiente
Iliana Oris Valiente, CPA, CA is a recognized authority on artificial intelligence, future of work strategy, and global talent mobility. She has been featured across television, ra...
Daniel Dale
Daniel Dale is a reporter in CNN’s Washington Bureau, where he fact-checks political claims. During the 2020 election cycle, he fact-checked President Trump, Democratic presidentia...
Chad Millman
Media executive, author, and 2025 Hall of Fame inductee, Chad Millman, stands at the forefront of the sports gambling industry. Defining his career is a unique ability to foresee i...
Matthew Luhn
Matthew Luhn is a writer, story branding consultant and keynote speaker with over 25 years’ experience creating stories and characters at Pixar Animation Studios and beyond. Alongs...
Dambisa Moyo
Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is respected for her unique perspectives, her balance o...
Dr. Brynn Winegard
Dr. Brynn Winegard is a globally recognized expert in applied neuroscience and positive psychology for professionals. With over 25 years of experience in life sciences, medical res...
Ramy Nassar
Ramy Nassar is an internationally acclaimed speaker and thought leader in the domains of AI and Strategic Foresight. As the former Head of Innovation for Mattel and author of the A...
Wallis Mills
Wallis Mills is a seasoned marketing executive with nearly 25 years of experience driving brand growth, digital transformation, and strategic innovation across the technology secto...
Jay Baer
Jay Baer is a business growth and customer experience expert, advisor, researcher, author, and analyst. He has spent 30 years helping more than 700 of the world’s most iconic brand...
Justin Ling
Justin Ling is a freelance investigative journalist and analyst who focuses on politics, national security and geopolitics. Over the past decade, he has come to be a leading voice...
Jonathan Brill
Jonathan Brill was ranked the #1 Futurist in the World by Forbes and “The world’s leading transformation architect” by Harvard Business Review. In his talks, he draws upon his uniq...
Kofi Hope
Kofi Hope is a Rhodes Scholar and has a Doctorate in Politics from Oxford University. He is the co-founder of Monumental, a Toronto-based strategic advisory firm. He writes a month...
Shannon Lee Simmons
Shannon is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Investment Manager (CIM), media personality, author and founder of the New School of Finance. She is widely recognized as...
Heather Thomson
Heather Thomson is the Executive Director of the Alberta School of Business – Centre for Cities and Communities. As one of the founders of the centre, Heather is mentoring the next...
Linda Nazareth
Linda Nazareth is an economist, a futurist and a respected authority on the future of work. As a newspaper columnist and an author, she knows how to frame things in ways that both...
Deb Brown
Deb Brown’s small-town roots have shaped her into a passionate advocate for community revitalization. Hailing from the tiny town of Geneva, Iowa, with only 141 residents, Deb knows...
Cheryl Cran
Cheryl Cran, the founder of NextMapping™ and CEO of Synthesis at Work Inc., is a leading authority on the future of work. Named the #1 Future of Work influencer by Onalytica and a...
Gregory Robinson
A 33-year veteran of NASA, Gregory Robinson is the former director of the $10 billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope (Webb). With 100 times more power than its predecessor, the...
Dave Meslin
Dave Meslin is a community organizer, bestselling author and popular TV host. Dave shows audiences how to build a culture by creating meaningful opportunities to engage employees,...
Jared Lindzon
Jared Lindzon is a freelance journalist and public speaker based in Toronto. Lindzon’s writing focuses on the future of work and talent as it relates to technological innovation. B...
Marc Lafleur
Marc Lafleur had holes in his shoes at sixteen. He was homeschooled up until high school, where he struggled to fit in as the only Black student in his small hometown. He was a tro...
Philippe Richard Bertrand
Philippe Richard Bertrand is one of the founding partners of illuxi and Amplio Stratégies, and now serves as President and CEO. A recognized leader within the entrepreneurial ecosy...
Andrew Au
When companies like Microsoft, FedEx, and 3M want to accelerate innovation, they call Andrew Au. Referred to by Forbes as a “digital transformation expert”, Andrew helps organizati...
Rachel Loui
Rachel Loui excellently combines her skills as a C-suite market expansion leader, entrepreneurship experience, and cultural insights in her humourous published book on China. Her C...
Mark Sedra
Mark Sedra is the President and co-founder of the Security Governance Group (SGG), a consulting firm specializing in security and governance issues in fragile and conflict-affected...
Jacquie McNish
Jacquie McNish is Canada’s most respected business journalist. She is the recipient of numerous awards for revealing newspaper investigations and writing gripping non-fiction books...
Brian Solis
Brian Solis is a world-renowned digital analyst, anthropologist and futurist. He is also an award-winning author and a global keynote speaker. Brian’s research, advisory and presen...
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