Speakers

John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker and bestselling author Duct Tape Marketing, The Commitment Engine and The Referral Engine.

Valerie B. Jarrett was the longest serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama throughout the President’s two terms in office.

When brands like Google, Starbucks, Shopify and GE want to leverage technology to better connect with their consumers, they call Mitch Joel.

Recognized as one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (Thinkers50), Whitney Johnson is an expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption; specifically, a framework which she codifies in the critically acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work and in her latest book Build an “A” Team: Play To Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve.

An award-winning medical doctor, researcher, and expert on the neuroscience of adaptability, leadership, and motivation, Dr. Shimi Kang provides science-based solutions for health, happiness, and achievement.

As a globally recognized innovation and disruption strategist, Shawn Kanungo works at the intersection of creativity, business, and technology.

Avinash Kaushik is the Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google and the co Founder of Market Motive Inc.

Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. He is also a columnist for the Open Forum of American Express.

Katty Kay is the lead anchor for BBC’s World News America where she covers the full gamut of American and global affairs – reporting on US elections, the White House, Congress, Wall Street, global economies, and world trouble spots.

Jim Kouzes is the co-author with Barry Posner of the award-winning and bestselling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over 1.8 million copies sold.

Lisa LaFlamme has been at the forefront of journalism for over 30 years, tackling some of the biggest issues of our time, traveling the globe, delivering breaking news, and bringing it back home to Canadians.

Amanda Lang has a front-row seat to the world’s daily top stories in business, politics, and economics as an anchor and producer for two weekly shows at Bloomberg Television Canada, called Bloomberg North with Amanda Lang.