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Jason Caldwell

Keynote Speaker, Owner & President of Latitude 35 Leadership

Jason is the President and Owner of Latitude 35 Leadership, which uses experiential training to explore the finer art of leading and maintaining high performance teams. He has worked with advanced managers in over 30 Fortune 500 companies, and has taught at the Executive Education department of some of the top Business schools to include Wharton, Darden, Emory, Columbia School of Business, and others. As a speaker with over 13 years experience, Jason draws from the hard-earned perspective he's learned leading teams through grueling endurance challenges. He touches on themes of high-performance team leadership, team dynamics, risk assessment and mitigation, while using his record breaking Atlantic row attempt, amongst others, as a backdrop to illustrate his points. Jason is also passionate about emotion-driven leadership, as explored in his book “Navigating the Impossible”, and the power of understanding and leveraging your "why" as teams take on challenges.

Laurie Hernandez

Keynote Speaker: Gymnastics 2016 Olympic Gold & Silver Medalist “Dancing with the Stars” Champion

Since bringing home the Gold and Silver medals at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Laurie went on to win the coveted Mirror ball trophy on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” Season 23, and published her first New York Times Best Sellers book titled, “I Got This: To Gold and Beyond” in 2017. In 2018, she released a children’s picture book NYT Best Seller, “She’s Got This” with Harper Collins Children's Books, while serving as KPMG’s Literacy Champion to promote readership as a path to leadership. Additionally, Mattel created a Laurie Hernandez “Shero” Barbie to honor her.

Liz Brunner

CEO & Founder

Leveraging more than 35 years of media and communications experience, expertise, and leadership, Liz Brunner is an inspiring and engaging keynote speaker, expert storyteller, certified professional consultant and best-selling author of Dare to Own You: Taking Your Authenticity and Dreams into Your Next Chapter, recommended on Forbes. Liz’s innovative teaching strategies and keynotes offer tools to find your confident, authentic voice, and how to engage with your audience. She is also a master at connecting the themes and patterns of your life’s experiences, both personally and professionally, weaving the tapestry together to transition you from where you are, to where you want to go and to who you want to be.

Majora Carter

Real Estate Developer, Urban Revitalization Strategy Consultant & Broadcaster

Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She's responsible for the creation of numerous economic development, technology inclusion & green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training & placement systems. She is also a lecturer at Princeton University's Keller Center.

Maria Ressa

CEO of Rappler, Journalist, Author, Freedom Advocate and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Maria Ressa is the co-founder, CEO of Rappler.com, an online news organization in the Philippines. Maria’s courage and work on disinformation and ‘fake news’ culminated in being awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” Her numerous awards include being named Time’s 2018 Person of the Year and listed among its 100 Most Influential People of 2019.

Maria advises organizations and corporations on corporate governance, values, and strategy. Her experience as a journalist and an entrepreneur in the digital world makes her a sought-after keynote speaker and panelist.

A journalist for over 36 years, Maria has been arrested on 10 charges related to exposing the Duterte government’s corrupt practices and was convicted of cyber-libel in June. She is out on bail pending her appeal but true to form, Ressa, vows to keep fighting.

Maria was featured in the 2020 documentary “A Thousand Cuts,” which profiles her fearless reporting on the abuses of Duterte’s presidency, while also illustrating social media’s capacity to deceive and entrench political power.

Maria now travels the world speaking to organizations of all kinds on freedom of the press, democracy, and corporate governance.

Nikki Giovanni

Keynote Speaker: Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943. Although she grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, she and her sister returned to Knoxville each summer to visit their grandparents. Nikki graduated with honors in history from her grandfather's alma mater, Fisk University. Since 1987, she has been on the faculty at Virginia Tech, where she is a University Distinguished Professor.

Rebecca Heiss

Science-backed leadership and performance expert | Author | CEO

As a stress expert, Dr. Rebecca Heiss is dedicated to helping us overcome our instinctual limitations – the ancient, often subconscious fears that hold us back from our optimal performance and our happiest lives. Her research has been designated “transformative” by the National Science Foundation and it is waking up audiences around the world. Author of Instinct, founder and CEO of the 360-review mobile app icueity, and highly sought-after professional speaker, Rebecca has found her calling in helping others live more, fear(less).

Samantha Radocchia

The Radical Futurist
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Sam Rad combines the mindsets of an anthropologist and technologist, bringing her “radical next” perspectives on what’s in store for the future.
With the charisma of a rockstar, curiosity of an anthropologist, creativity of an entrepreneur, and calm confidence of an ex-professional skydiver,
Sam effortlessly guides organizations and individuals to thrive in times of radical and accelerating change. Through her signature candid and clever delivery, Sam distills complex topics while leading the audience on a compelling, informative, and approachable journey of educational storytelling.

Sean Astin

Actor, Director, Voice Artist & Producer Known For "Lord of the Rings"

In real life and on the screen, Sean Astin knows what it's like to be the underdog. In his corporate presentation, Sean uses a lot of the fun stuff- the speech from Rudy, anecdotes from Lord of the Rings, The Goonies and Memphis Belle- to draw the audience in. Then he shows audiences the keys to goal setting- how do you set goals, how do you push yourself beyond what you can do? He’s done something like 11 marathons and he just completed the Hawaiian Ironman. He’s extremely approachable and great with people.

Thomas Kolditz

Brigadier General Thomas A. Kolditz (Ret.) Leadership Thought Leader, Author, and Founding Executive Director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University

A retired Brigadier General with three Master’s degrees and a Phd in psychology, Thomas Kolditz has spent more than 30 years at the helm of organizations, directed the Leader Development Program at Yale School of Management, and challenged the Pentagon to take on leadership development, founding the West Point Leadership Center. He went on to become the founding Executive Director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, the most comprehensive, evidence-based, university-wide leadership program in the world. A recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Army’s highest award for service, General Kolditz is a renowned expert on leading through crisis, turbulence and extreme conditions. He is the author of In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It, an authoritative book based on more than 175 interviews taken on the ground in Iraq during combat operations. Considered a visionary in the field of leadership training and development, General Kolditz shares invaluable perspectives and a thrill ride of stories from a career on four continents, always leaving audiences with pragmatic, actionable takeaways that they can immediately apply.