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Desmond Meade

President, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition

Desmond Meade is a formerly homeless returning citizen who overcame many obstacles to eventually become the President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), Chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy, a graduate of Florida International University College of Law, a Ford Global Fellow, and a 2021 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. Recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2019, Desmond presently leads efforts to empower and civically re-engage local communities across the state, and to reshape local, state, and national criminal justice policies.

Dr. Akilah Cadet

Founder, Speaker, and Executive Coach of Change Cadet

Dr. Akilah Cadet is the Founder and CEO of Change Cadet, an organizational development consulting firm that offers services that support embedding belonging into overall company culture, identity and strategy. As a Forbes Next 1000 Entrepreneur her work is behind some of the biggest brands you use everyday. Dismantling white supremacy through storytelling is at the core of her work as a leader, speaker, creative director, producer, writer, editor and author of forthcoming book White Supremacy is All Around: Notes From a Black Disabled Woman in a White World.

Dr. Dambisa Moyo

Global Economist, Best-selling Author

Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a co-principal of Versaca Investments - a family office, focused on growth investing globally. She serves on a number of global corporate boards including: 3M Corporation, Chevron, and Conde Nast, as well as, the Oxford University Endowment investment committee. Dr. 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 of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, and her ability to turn economic insight into investible ideas.

Dr. Jessica Kriegel

Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture at Culture Partners

Dr. Jessica Kriegel is the Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture for Culture Partners, leading research and strategy in best practices for driving results through culture. Her doctoral research and practical application through consulting engagements with Oracle, Toyota, Lockheed Martin, and Bank of America to name a few, led to the Culture Equation - a tested model where strategy combined with culture to deliver consistent results. Today, Jessica applies data-driven insights to dismantle the chaos of poor morale, low performance, and missed financial goals. She is an author, Fortune 100 Thought Leader and international keynote speaker as well as frequent contributor on Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC.

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

Public Intellectual & Best-Selling Author

Named one of the 150 most powerful African Americans by Ebony magazine, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, an American Book Award recipient and two-time NAACP Image Award winner, “is reshaping what it means to be a public intellectual by becoming the most visible black academic of his time.”

Dr. Peter Diamandis

CEO of the X PRIZE & Co-Founder of Singularity University

Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and launching large incentive prizes to drive radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. As Co-Founder & Chairman of the Singularity University, a Silicon Valley-based institution partnered with NASA, Google, Autodesk and Nokia, Diamandis counsels the world’s top enterprises on how to utilize exponential technologies and incentivized innovation to dramatically accelerate their business objectives.

Duncan Wardle

Former Head of Innovation & Creativity at the Walt Disney Company, Ted X Presenter, Teacher at Yale, Duke, Auburn and University of Florida, Contributor, Fast Company Magazine

Leaning on 25+ years of experience with Disney, most recently as Head of Innovation & Creativity, Duncan creates an engaging, immersive keynote that leaves the audience with a unique set of tangible tools they can actually use to embed a culture of innovation and creativity across their own organizations. Duncan fills his presentations with colorful Disney anecdotes, vibrant drawings, and his trademark artistic touch. He shares the creative techniques and behaviors to develop big, innovative ideas. He stirs and unleashes the audiences’ creative juices, delivering his message with infectious energy and playful collaboration.

Eric O'Neill

Cybersecurity Keynote Speaker, National Security Strategist at VMWare Carbon Black, Bestselling Author, Former FBI, and Inspiration for the Film Breach

Eric O’Neill worked as an Investigative Specialist with the Special Surveillance Group and had a huge part in the arrest, conviction, and life imprisonment of FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying on behalf of the Soviet union and the Russian Federation. His experiences were the basis for the hit film Breach. He is a security expert who lectures all over the world about espionage and national security, cybersecurity, fraud, corporate diligence and defense, hacking, pursuing dreams, and leadership.

Erica Dhawan

Leading Authority on 21st Century Teamwork, Collaboration, & Innovation, Best-Selling Author, Ranked 1 of Top Women Keynote Speakers

Erica Dhawan is the Founder & CEO of Cotential, a global consultancy that helps organizations transform by delivering collaboration across teams, business units, customers and other stakeholders. As one of today’s most provocative business thinkers on the future of work, Erica advises business leaders and companies to lead markets through innovations that matter, create increasing value for customers and clients, deliver sustainable results and ensure future global competitiveness.

Erica Orange

Futurist and Technology Expert

Erica is Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of The Future Hunters, one of the world’s leading futurist consulting firms. She evaluates emerging social, technological, economic, political, demographic and environmental trends – and identifies the strategic implications (the “So what?”) of those trends for several of the most influential Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and public sector clients.