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  • Aaron Hurst

    CEO, Imperative
    Author of "The Purpose Economy"

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  • Adam Braun

    Adam Braun

    Founder & CEO, Pencils of Promise
    Author of "The Promise of a Pencil"

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  • Adam Grant

    Adam Grant

    Wharton Professor
    Author of "Give and Take"

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  • Adam Lashinsky

    Adam Lashinsky

    Senior Editor-at-Large of Fortune Magazine
    Author of "Inside Apple"

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  • Alex Velez

    Alex Velez

    Co-founder, Back to the Roots

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  • Amy Zegart

    Amy Zegart

    Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
    Co-author of "Political Risk"

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  • Andre Iguodala

    Andre Iguodala

    3x NBA Champion and 2015 NBA Finals
    Author of "The Sixth Man"

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  • Andrew McAfee

    Andrew McAfee

    Co-director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
    Author of "Machine, Platform, Crowd"

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  • Andrew Zolli

    Andrew Zolli

    Executive Director and Chief Creative Officer, PopTech
    Author of "Resilience"

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  • Andy Puddicombe

    Andy Puddicombe

    Founder, Headspace

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  • Anna Maria Chávez

    Anna Maria Chávez

    CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA

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  • Arianna Huffington

    Arianna Huffington

    President and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group
    Author of "Thrive"

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  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama

    Former President of the United States

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  • Beth Simone Noveck

    Beth Simone Noveck

    Former Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States
    Author of "Smart Citizens, Smarter State"

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  • Blake Mycoskie

    Blake Mycoskie

    Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, TOMS
    Author of "Start Something That Matters"

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  • Bonnie Wan

    Bonnie Wan

    Author of "The Life Brief"

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  • Bozoma Saint John

    Bozoma Saint John

    Hall of Fame Inducted Marketing Executive, Entrepreneur
    Author of "The Urgent Life"

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  • Brad Stone

    Brad Stone

    Senior Writer, Bloomberg Businessweek
    Author of "The Everything Store" and "The Upstarts"

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  • Bryan Stevenson

    Bryan Stevenson

    Founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative
    Author of "Just Mercy"

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  • Carole Robin

    Co-founder, Leaders in Tech
    Author of "Connect"

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  • Chade-Meng Tan

    Chade-Meng Tan

    Jolly Good Fellow, Google
    Author of "Search Inside Yourself" and "Joy on Demand"

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  • Charles Best

    Charles Best

    Founder and CEO, DonorsChoose.org

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  • Charles Schwab

    Charles Schwab

    Chairman and Founder, Charles Schwab Corporation
    Author of "Invested"

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  • Chelsea Clinton

    Chelsea Clinton

    Author of "Start Now"

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  • Clayton Christensen

    Clayton Christensen

    Professor, Harvard Business School
    Author of "How Will You Measure Your Life?"

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  • Condoleezza Rice

    Condoleezza Rice

    66th U.S. Secretary of State
    Co-author of "Political Risk"

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  • Cory Booker

    Cory Booker

    Mayor of Newark, New Jersey

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  • Dan Ariely

    Dan Ariely

    Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Duke University
    Author of "Payoff"

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  • Daniel Goleman

    Daniel Goleman

    New York Times Bestselling Author, "Emotional Intelligence"
    Co-author of "Altered Traits"

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  • Daniel Lubetzky

    Daniel Lubetzky

    CEO, Kind Healthy Snacks
    Author of "Do The Kind Thing"

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  • Daniel Pink

    Daniel Pink

    Author of "When: The Scientific Secrets to Perfect Timing"

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  • Darren Walker

    Darren Walker

    President, Ford Foundation
    Author of "From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth"

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  • David Lim

    David Lim

    Chief Motivation Officer, Everest Motivation Team
    Author of "How Leaders Lead"

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  • David Miliband

    David Miliband

    CEO, International Rescue Committee and Former Foreign Secretary of the UK
    Author of "Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time"

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  • Deepak Chopra

    Deepak Chopra

    Founder, The Chopra Foundation
    Author of "Digital Dharma"

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  • Diane von Furstenberg

    Diane von Furstenberg

    Chairman and Founder, DVF
    Author of "Own It: The Secret to Life"

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  • Doug Melville

    Doug Melville

    CEO, JodieAI
    Author of "Invisible Generals"

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  • Ed Catmull

    Ed Catmull

    Co-founder, Pixar
    Author of “Creativity Inc.”

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  • Eduardo Briceño

    Eduardo Briceño

    Keynote Speaker and Facilitator
    Author of "The Performance Paradox"

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  • Emily Chang

    Emily Chang

    Anchor, Bloomberg Technology
    Author of "BROTOPIA: Breaking up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley"

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  • Emmanuel Acho

    Emmanuel Acho

    Author of "Illogical"

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  • Eric Liu

    Eric Liu

    CEO, Citizen University
    Author of "You're More Powerful Than You Think"

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  • Eric Ries

    Eric Ries

    Entrepreneur
    Author of "The Lean Startup"

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  • Eric Schmidt

    Eric Schmidt

    Former Executive Chairman, Alphabet and Former CEO, Google
    Co-author of "Trillion Dollar Coach"

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  • Erik Brynjolfsson

    Erik Brynjolfsson

    Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
    Author of "Machine, Platform, Crowd"

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  • Florent Groberg

    Florent Groberg

    U.S. Medal of Honor Recipient

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  • Fred Kofman

    Fred Kofman

    Executive Coach, Philosopher
    Author of "Conscious Business"

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  • Gabby Hirata

    Gabby Hirata

    President, DVF

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  • Gavin Newsom

    Gavin Newsom

    Lieutenant Governor of California
    Author of "Citizenville"

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  • Geoffrey Moore

    Geoffrey Moore

    Venture Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
    Author of "Escape Velocity"

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  • Gina Romero

    Founder, Connected Women

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  • Gretchen Rubin

    Gretchen Rubin

    Author of "Happier at Home"

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  • Guy Kawasaki

    Guy Kawasaki

    Co-founder, Alltop
    Author of "Enchantment"

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  • Haben Girma

    Haben Girma

    Disability Rights Lawyer

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  • Indra Nooyi

    Indra Nooyi

    Ex CEO, Pepsico
    Author of "My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future"

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  • Jack and Suzy Welch

    Jack and Suzy Welch

    Co-authors of "The Real-Life MBA"

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  • James Caan CBE

    James Caan CBE

    Entrepreneur, former Dragon, Philanthropist

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  • Jay Shetty

    Jay Shetty

    New York Times Bestselling Author, Award-winning storyteller, Podcaster
    Author of "Think Like a Monk"

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  • Jennifer Dulski

    Jennifer Dulski

    Head of Groups and Community, Facebook, President and COO, Change.org
    Author of "Purposeful"

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  • Jennifer Eberhardt

    Jennifer Eberhardt

    Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
    Author of "Biased"

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  • Jerry Kaplan

    Jerry Kaplan

    Fellow, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
    Author of "Humans Need Not Apply"

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  • Jim Fruchterman

    Jim Fruchterman

    Founder and CEO, Benetech

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  • Jim Wetherbee

    Jim Wetherbee

    Five Time Shuttle Commander
    Author of "Controlling Risk - In A Dangerous World"

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  • Dr. Jim Yong Kim

    Dr. Jim Yong Kim

    President, The World Bank Group

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  • Joanna Coles

    Joanna Coles

    CCO, Hearst Magazines

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  • Joe Lacob

    Joe Lacob

    Owner & CEO, Golden State Warriors

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  • John Doerr

    Chairman, Kleiner Perkins and Author, Speed & Scale

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  • John Hope Bryant

    John Hope Bryant

    Founder, Chairman and CEO Operation HOPE and the Bryant Group Companies, Inc
    Author of "How the Poor Can Save Capitalism"

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  • John Stamos

    John Stamos

    Actor, Musician
    Author of “If You Would Have Told Me”

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  • Jonathan Rosenberg

    Jonathan Rosenberg

    Former Senior Vice President at Google, Advisor to Alphabet Management
    Co-author of "Trillion Dollar Coach"

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  • Julie Hanna & Premal Shah

    Julie Hanna & Premal Shah

    Chief Executive of the Board and President, Kiva

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  • Kelly Corrigan

    Kelly Corrigan

    Author of "Tell Me More"

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  • Kelvin Beachum

    Kelvin Beachum

    Active NFL Player, Angel Investor, Philanthropist, Professional Speaker

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  • Kenji Yoshino

    Kenji Yoshino

    NYU Law Professor
    Co-author of “Say the Right Thing”

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  • Kirsten Gillibrand

    Kirsten Gillibrand

    U.S. Senator
    Author of "Off the Sidelines"

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  • Kris Tompkins

    Kris Tompkins

    President and Founder, Tompkins Conservation Former CEO, Patagonia

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  • Laird Hamilton

    Laird Hamilton

    Legendary Big Wave Surfer
    Author of "Liferider"

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  • Leila Janah

    Leila Janah

    Founder and CEO, Samasource

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  • Mallika Chopra

    Mallika Chopra

    Author of "Living With Intent"

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  • Malcolm Gladwell

    Malcolm Gladwell

    Co-founder of Pushkin Industries
    Author of seven New York Times bestsellers

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  • Mario Batali

    Mario Batali

    Chief, Author and Entrepreneur

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  • Mat Honan

    Mat Honan

    Senior Editor, WIRED

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  • Matt Cohler

    Matt Cohler

    General Partner, Benchmark

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  • Matt Mullenweg

    Matt Mullenweg

    Founder and CEO, Automattic

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  • Matthew McConaughey

    Matthew McConaughey

    Academy Winning Actor, Producer and Texas Minister of Culture
    Author of "Greenlights"

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  • Matthieu Ricard

    Matthieu Ricard

    Founder, Karuna-Shechen
    Author of "Altruism"

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  • Michelle Polerr

    Michelle Poler

    Author of “Hello Fears”

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  • Michelle Rhee

    Michelle Rhee

    Founder and CEO, StudentsFirst

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  • Muhammad Yunus

    Muhammad Yunus

    Founder, Grameen Bank Chairman, Yunus Centre

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  • Nancy Duarte

    Nancy Duarte

    CEO and Principal, Duarte, Inc.

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  • Neil Pasricha

    Neil Pasricha

    Director, Institute for Global Happiness
    Author of "The Book of Awesome" and "The Happiness Equation"

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  • Paul Farmer

    Paul Farmer

    Co-founder, Partners in Health

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  • Rainn Wilson

    Rainn Wilson

    Actor, Writer, Producer
    Author of “Soul Boom”

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  • Reid Hoffman

    Reid Hoffman

    Co-founder, LinkedIn
    Co-author of five New York Times bestsellers

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  • Richard J. Davidson

    Richard J. Davidson

    Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Co-author of "Altered Traits"

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  • Robert Putnam

    Robert Putnam

    Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University
    Author of "Our Kids"

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  • Ruha Benjamin

    Ruha Benjamin

    Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies at Princeton University
    Author of "Race After Technology"

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  • Ryan Holiday

    Ryan Holiday

    Author of "The Ego is the Enemy"

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  • Rye Barcott

    Rye Barcott

    Co-founder, Carolina For Kintera
    Author of "It Happened on the Way to War"

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  • Salman Khan

    Salman Khan

    Founder, Khan Academy

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  • Satya Nadella

    Satya Nadella

    CEO, Microsoft
    Author of "Hit Refresh"

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  • Scott Harrison

    Scott Harrison

    Founder and CEO, charity: water

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  • Scout Bassett

    Scout Bassett

    Nike-sponsored Paralympian Challenged Athlete's Foundation Spokesperson

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  • Selena Rezvani

    Selena Rezvani

    Author of "Pushback"

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  • Seth Godin

    Seth Godin

    Author of "The Carbon Almanac"

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  • Seth Meyers

    Seth Meyers

    Head Writer, Saturday Night Live

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  • Shellye Archambeau

    Shellye Archambeau

    Former CEO, Metric Stream, Fortune 500 Board Member
    Author of "Unapologetically Ambitious"

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  • Sheryl Sandberg

    Sheryl Sandberg

    COO, Facebook
    Author of "Lean In"

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  • Simon Sinek

    Simon Sinek

    Unshakable Optimist
    Author of "The Infinite Game"

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  • Stacy Brown-Philpot

    Stacy Brown-Philpot

    CEO, TaskRabbit

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  • Stan McChrystal

    Stan McChrystal

    Co-founder and Partner, McChrystal Group
    Author of "Team of Teams"

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  • Steve Young

    Steve Young

    Former San Francisco 49ers Quarterback, Managing Partner and Co-founder, HGGC

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  • Susan Cain

    Susan Cain

    Author of "Bittersweet"

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  • Suze Orman

    Suze Orman

    Personal Finance Expert
    Author of "The Money Class"

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  • Telle Whitney

    Telle Whitney

    Past CEO, Anita Borg Institute and Co-founder, Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Tech

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  • Thomas Friedman

    Thomas Friedman

    Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
    Author of "That Used To Be Us"

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  • Tim Westergren

    Tim Westergren

    Founder, Pandora

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  • Tony Hsieh

    Tony Hsieh

    CEO, Zappos.com
    Author of "Delivering Happiness"

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  • Dr. Vivek Murthy

    Dr. Vivek Murthy

    19th U.S. Surgeon General
    Author of “Together”

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  • Vivienne Harr

    Vivienne Harr

    Chief Inspiration Officer, Make A Stand, Inc.
    Author of "Make A Stand"

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  • Wes Moore

    Wes Moore

    Founder/CEO of BridgeEdU
    Author of "The Work"

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  • Will Guidara

    Will Guidara

    Hospitality Entrepreneur
    Author of "Unreasonable Hospitality"

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  • Yung Pueblo

    Yung Pueblo

    Meditator
    Author of "Lighter"

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  • Zainab Salbi

    Zainab Salbi

    Humanitarian and Founder, Women for Women International
    Author of "Freedom is an Inside Job"

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  • Zoë Baird

    Zoë Baird

    CEO and President, Markle Foundation

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