At age 19 Johnny Cupcakes founder, Johnny Earle, grew his business from a “joke” to a multi-million dollar, highly exclusive t-shirt brand with a worldwide cult-like following. Through his talks and creative consulting, Johnny shares how to start, grow or reinvent your business or idea with little to no startup money. Johnny gives blueprints on […]
Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund.
Global strategist and respected leader throughout the world, Ernesto Zedillo is an expert in globalization and emerging markets in Central and South America.
Author, TV commentator, and Fortune conference chair Nina Easton has decades of experience interviewing CEOs, global leaders, and politicians–producing compelling and authentic narratives on stage. In her speeches exploring the intersection of Washington politics and the global economy, she draws on decades of award-winning coverage of national elections, political movements, presidential administrations, and financial crises.
With unmatched access to the greatest business leaders from the past three decades, Patricia Sellers has emerged as an authority on leadership and navigating the right path to career success.
As the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the multiday AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Day, Dan Pallotta has a mission to empower nonprofits to operate with the same economic freedoms given to businesses.
A celebrated author and television personality, Linda Kaplan Thaler is responsible for some of America’s most famous, relevant and touching advertising campaigns in the industry, including the Aflac duck and the daring “Yes, Yes, Yes” campaign for Clairol Herbal Essences.
Sir David Adjaye OBE is recognized as a leading architect of his generation. His ingenious use of materials and his sculptural ability established him as an architect with an artist’s sensibility and vision.
Patty McCord brings the Silicon Valley concepts of fresh ideas and innovation and applies them to rethinking the way we work. She challenges norms and invites us to reconsider the idea of “best practices.”
Robert Safian is editor-in-chief and managing director of the influential, award-winning business magazine Fast Company and its digital and live-event affiliates. He oversees all editorial operations and plays a key role in guiding the enterprise’s advertising, marketing and consumer-engagement efforts. Under Safian’s leadership, Fast Company has received numerous accolades, including the highly coveted National Magazine […]