Doug Ready

Founder and CEO of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research and Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management

Robert Atkinson

Founder & President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

David Nico

Author, Health Strategist & Leadership Well-Being Expert

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Ayah Bdeir

Former CEO & Founder of littleBits

Deborah Berebichez

Data Scientist & Pioneer in Wireless Communications Technology; Founder & CEO of Solve For You

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Co-Author of “Big Data" and "Delete;" Expert on the Networked Economy

Tal Ben-Shahar

Best-Selling Author & Positive Psychology Expert

Dana Cowin

Host of the podcast 'Speaking Broadly.' Culinary connector & Consultant. Former Editor-in-Chief, Food & Wine Magazine.

Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Award-Winning Scholar, Educator & Human Rights Activist; Faculty Member at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and John F. Kennedy School of Government

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Phil Robertson

Founder of Duck Commander & Star of A&E's hit show "Duck Dynasty"

Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher & International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

Jose Antonio Vargas

Journalist, Filmmaker & Immigration Activist

Melody Barnes

Executive Director Karsh Institute of Democracy at UVA, Professor at the Miller Center & Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council

Timothy Shriver

Chairman & CEO of the Special Olympics

Ryan Hamilton

Named one of Rolling Stone's five comics to watch and with standout appearances on NBC's "Last Comic Standing"

Costas Markides

Business & Strategy Expert

Questlove

Musician, Music Journalist, Producer & Drummer for The Roots

Robin Wright

Foreign Policy Analyst, Journalist & Author of "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World"

Michel Martin

Weekend Host of "All Things Considered" & Former Host of "Tell Me More"

Shirin Ebadi

Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Iranian Activist & Lawyer