Newt Gingrich
Speaker Gingrich has published 36 fiction and nonfiction books including 16 New York Times bestsellers. His unquenchable thirst for knowledge enables him to share unique and unparalleled insights on a wide range of topics. His audiences find him educational and inspirational in equal measure.
Daniel Yergin, Ph.D
Will Miller, Ph.D
Dr. Will Miller delivers a unique message of how our connections to others provide a potent source of strength in achieving life balance.
Ian Bremmer
A dedicated intellectual entrepreneur, Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. Bremmer’s career spans academic, investment, and policymaking communities, with a focus on global macro-political trends and emerging markets in which “politics matter at least as much as economics for market outcomes.”
Jeff Bauer
The Honorable Jim Nussle
As a former White House budget director and chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee, Jim Nussle holds a unique perspective on the current budget and policy crisis going on in Washington.
Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison. PBS selected […]
John Edward Hasse, Ph.D
Music historian, musician, award-winning author and record producer, John Edward Hasse has served as curator of American music at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the editor of Ragtime: Its History, Composers and Music, and coeditor of Discourse in Ethnomusicology.
Dave Barry
A prolific author, award-winning journalist and celebrated humorist, Dave Barry has been tickling America’s funny bone for over three decades. For 25 years, he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad.