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Susan Ershler

CEO of Ershler Ventures | Author | First Couple to Climb the Seven Summits | Expert in Leadership, Motivation, & Peak Performance

Susan has won worldwide renown for climbing the Seven Summits—the highest mountain on every continent—while leading sales organizations at some of the nation’s largest corporations. For more than a decade, she has been inspiring professionals and executives at Fortune 500 companies to reach peak performance by striving for their personal and professional best.

Susan Packard

Co-Founder of HGTV | Expert in Business & Entrepreneurship | Author | Advocate for Emotional Intelligence & Leadership

As co-founder and chief operating officer of HGTV, Packard was the second employee to join HGTV. There she created a niche in the lifestyle marketplace, and also created a culture that recruited and retained exceptional talent. Packard’s vision and success building lifestyle entertainment brands was at the core of the development of additional powerhouse brands—Food Network, DIY Network, and Fine Living TV Network to name a few. Packard has been praised as one of cable's most influential women.

Susan Robertson

Change Agent, Innovation Strategist, Harvard Instructor

Susan Robertson empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to more nimbly respond to change, by transforming thinking from “why we can’t” to “how might we?” She is an innovation and creative thinking expert with over 20 years of experience speaking, consulting, and coaching -- across the US and around the world. As an instructor at Harvard, Susan brings a scientific foundation to enhancing human creativity. In her corporate career, Susan managed new product development for Fortune 500 companies like Pepsico, Glaxo Smith Kline, and Fruit of the Loom.

Susan Schwab

Chair, National Foreign Trade Council | Strategic Advisor at Mayer Brown | Former U.S. Trade Representative | Expert on Global Trade & Economic Policy

Ambassador Susan Schwab served as U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) from 2006-2009. As a member of the President’s cabinet, public policy scholar and global strategic corporate executive, Schwab is considered a foremost expert on global trade relations. Having served as the principal policymaker, negotiator, presidential advisor, and spokesperson on international trade issues for the United States, Susan Schwab provides expert insights on global trade, policy and politics.

Susan Scott

CEO and Founder of Fierce Inc.

As the CEO and Founder of Fierce, Inc. and the author of the best-selling book: Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time; no one knows how to have Fierce Conversations better than Susan Scott herself.

Sylvia Baffour

Emotional Intelligence Expert & Leadership Coach

Sylvia Baffour is a leading emotional intelligence expert recently ranked among HubSpot’s Top 15 Female Motivational Speakers, alongside the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Mel Robbins. She uses her Dare to Care™ EI Framework to help individuals and organizations thrive and succeed with emotional intelligence strategies.

Sylvie di Giusto

Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Author

Sylvie uses her corporate experience and multicultural background to help audiences to understand how people make up their minds very quickly about them. With a cutting-edge approach, a competitive mindset, and a passion for visualization, she takes audiences on an entertaining and engaging journey that reveals how others perceive them and thus perceive the value of their abilities, their services, or their company.

T. Elon Dancy II

Professor, Executive Director, and Author

T. Elon Dancy II was appointed the third Helen S. Faison Endowed Chair, Executive Director, and Chief Research Scientist of the Center for Urban Education in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education in July 2018. He holds affiliate faculty appointments in Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Dancy served a term as the Pitt School of Education’s associate dean for equity and justice, collaboratively establishing the School’s signature initiatives, study groups, and faculty pedagogy workshops. While associate dean, he led in building a Black educational studies focus in the Pitt School of Education, which diversified the faculty and expanded the School’s curriculum.

Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D

New York Times Best Selling author and a world-renowned expert in positive psychology and happiness studies

Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar is a New York Times Best Selling author and a world-renowned expert in positive psychology and happiness studies. He has a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University, where he taught two of the most popular courses in the history of the university (Positive Psychology and The Psychology of Leadership). Dr. Ben-Shahar has been recently featured on NPR and in Fortune in connection with the world's first fully accredited Master of Arts in Happiness Studies which he designed, teaches, and oversees. He gives talks and workshops around the world at fortune 500 companies and leading conferences.

Tali Sharot

Neuroscientist & Director of the Affective Brain Lab at UCL | Author of "The Influential Mind" & "The Optimism Bias" | Expert on Decision-Making, Optimism, & Behavioral Change

Tali Sharot is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of Experimental Psychology and The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry at University College London and on the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Prof. Sharot’s books – The Optimism Bias (2011) and The Influential Mind (2017) – have been praised by outlets including the NYT, Times, Forbes and more. Her two TED talks have been viewed more than 15 million times total.