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Global Top Women's Career + Leadership Coach, Executive Trainer, Educator, Podcast Host, Senior Forbes Contributor & Author

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NY Times Bestselling Author of "Mind Over Medicine" & "The Fear Cure"; Physician & Founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute

Carolina De Robertis

Award-Winning Author Known for "The Invisible Mountain"

Sam Cawthorn

CEO & Founder of Speakers Institute and Speakers Tribe; 11 Times International Best Selling Author; Speaking Coach

Michael Moss

New York Times bestselling Author of "Salt Sugar Fat" and a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Reporter

David M. Kennedy

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian & Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University

Rafael Campo

Physician, Poet & Scholar

Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016

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Publisher, Shareable Magazine

Julie Clark

Early Childhood Consultant at Teaching Strategies; Creator of "Baby Einstein" Series; Entrepreneur; Breast Cancer Survivor

Judith Butler

Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Sy Montgomery

Naturalist, Adventurer & Author of "The Good Good Pig" & "The Soul of an Octopus"

Secrets of the Octopus

Aviva Drescher

Real Housewife of New York City & Spokesperson for Amputees

T.C. Boyle

Perennial Bestselling Author

Alice McDermott

Celebrated Author, Pulitzer Prize Finalist & Former Professor For Distinguished Teaching In The Humanities at John Hopkins University

Remi Kanazi

Poet, Human Rights Activist & Author of "Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance & Palestine"

Cherríe L. Moraga

Award-Winning Playwright, Poet, and Essayist

Gregory Maguire

Award-winning, Best-selling Author of the Wicked Years Novels

Diane Prince Johnston

CEO & Founder of Winnie & Kat; Fashion Entrepreneur

Mary Karr

Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; "Viper Rum," "The Devil's Tour," "Abacus," "The Liars' Club"

Margaret Laws

President & CEO, Hopelab

John Sadowsky

Renowned Leadership Coach and Speaker With More Than 20 Years of Experience Across Five Continents

Allen Sinai, PhD

Chief Global Economist, Strategist, and President of Decision Economics, Inc.

Scott Steindorff

An American film and television producer who specializes in adapting literary bestsellers into movies, one being The Lincoln Lawyer (2011).

Hanan Al-Shaykh

Lebanese Author of Contemporary Literature Known for Works Like "The Locust and the Bird"

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Emily Ainsworth

National Geographic Explorer, Photographer and Anthropologist based in London

Lydia Davis

Acclaimed fiction writer and translator

Rita Golden Gelman

American Writer of Children's Literature and Travel Literature for Adults

Felix Fernandez

Retired Mexican Goalkeeper & Co-host of the Univision Sports Show, "Republica Deportiva"

Kevin Henkes

Kevin Henkes is a Caldecott Medal children's author and illustrator. He is known for his famous mouse books where he has created a group of adorable characters like Lily and Wemberley.