Alvaro Enrigue

Award-Winning Mexican Novelist, Short-Story Writer & Essayist

Kristin Hannah

Award-Winning Author of "The Four Winds," "The Nightingale" & "Firefly Lane"

Between Sisters: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

James Patterson

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Ron Carucci

Leadership Consultant; Founding Partner at Passages Consulting

N.K. Jemisin

Hugo Award-Winning Speculative Fiction Writer

Kwame Alexander

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

David Marquet

Leadership Expert, Former Submarine Commander & Author of "Turn the Ship Around!"

Janine di Giovanni

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

Shama Hyder

CEO of The Marketing Zen Group

Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Erik Qualman

Artificial Intelligence & Digital Transformation Expert, Futurist, Bestselling Author

AI Expert Erik Qualman | Motivational Speaker

Josh Linkner

Serial Entrepreneur, New York Times Best-Selling Author & Venture Capital Investor

Jay Baer

Business Growth & Customer Experience Expert

Hall of Fame Business Growth & Customer Experience Keynote Speaker

John La Puma

Leading Physician Voice for Culinary Medicine; New York Times Bestselling Author; Board-Certified Internist; Professionally Trained Chef

Speaking Engagements

Simon T. Bailey

Speaker, Author, Life Coach & Entrepreneur

Julia Alvarez

Award-Winning Poet, Novelist & Essayist

James Allworth

Co-Author of Best-Seller “How Will You Measure Your Life?” with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen

Lucinda Bassett

International Best-Selling Author of "From Panic to Power" & Founder of Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety