As the founder and host of The Learning Leader Show, a leadership podcast with millions of listeners in more than 150 countries, Ryan Hawk inspires excellence in leaders looking to take their game to the next level. Forbes called his first book Welcome to Management – How to Grow From Top Performer to Excellent Leader, “the best leadership book of 2020.” Hawk's second book, The Pursuit of Excellence, sold through its first print run in eight hours. It explores the uncommon behaviors of the...

Robert I. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and best-selling author of eight books. He studies leadership, innovation, organizational change, and workplace dynamics. Sutton has published over 200 articles, chapters, and case studies in scholarly and applied outlets. His main focus over the past decade is on scaling and leading at scale—how to grow organizations, spread good things (and remove bad things) in teams and organizations, and enhance performance, innovation, and well-being...

Dr. Karyn Gordon is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and CEO of DK Leadership Inc., a global leadership coaching company that serves international giants like Coca Cola and Magna International. Her TED Talk, ranked among the World’s Top #10 most popular in 2022, with nearly 6 million views. Holding a Doctorate in Marriage and Family and additional leadership certifications, she has spoken to millions of individuals over her 25-year career, including CEOs, family businesses, leaders,...

Coach Cupps is in his 23rd year as a head coach and 12th season at Centerville. In the classroom he leads students in two leadership classes for which he wrote the curriculum. His Foundational Leadership class focuses on leading oneself while Transformational Leadership explores how to best lead others. Cupps is a high school graduate of Graham High School, has an undergraduate degree in Secondary Math Education from Capital University, and earned his Master's Degree in Educational...

John Bowe is the award-winning author of I Have Something to Say (Random House, August, 2020). He is a speech and presentation consultant specializing in corporate and individual presentations. He has worked with students, business and charity leaders, entrepreneurs and executives from all over the world. He has given talks at the New York Public Library, the 92nd St. Y in New York City and many other companies and organizations. John contributes regularly to CNBC about public speaking. He...

Karen Eber is an author, keynote and TED speaker, culture transformation expert, and leadership development whisperer. She has worked on both sides of the desk as a Consultant, Head of Culture & Leadership Development at GE and Deloitte. She is known for providing clarity on the Why and the Way, sharing what you need to hear, especially when hard. She will show you how to build leaders, teams, and culture, one story at a time. Her book, The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that...

A self-described “human Venn diagram”, Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where she teaches entrepreneurship and leads HBS Startup Bootcamp. Her latest book is The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build A Life Bigger Than Your Business Card (Hachette, 2023). A serial entrepreneur, Christina has built businesses in ecommerce, edtech,...

Brad Stulberg researches, writes and coaches on health, well-being, and sustainable excellence. He is the bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness and coauthor of Peak Performance. Stulberg regularly contributes to the New York Times, and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic, among many other publications. He is on faculty at the University of Michigan’s Graduate School of Public Health. In his coaching practice, he works with executives,...

Henry L. Roediger, III is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He graduated as valedictorian and commander of the corps of cadets from Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia in 1965 and then attended Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, graduating magna cum laudae with a B.A in Psychology in 1969. Roediger went on to graduate school at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in 1973. Roediger became an...

Emily Miller founded OffLimits in 2020 out of a life-long love for breakfast. After starting her college career in fashion design she became interested in cultural trend forecasting and the intersection of food and culture. In 2014 she founded and hosted the “Breakfast Club” series in countries around the world where fine dining chefs opened their restaurants to prepare a one-time-only breakfast and conversation with Emily. In 2019 she followed this passion, publishing her cookbook,...

Sally Susman is the executive vice president and chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer. She's also the vice chair of the Pfizer Foundation. Sally leads engagement with all of Pfizer's external stakeholders, overseeing communications, corporate responsibility, global policy, government relations, investor relations, and patient advocacy. Before joining Pfizer in 2007, she held several senior communications and government relations roles at Estée Lauder and the American Express company.

Wendy Smith is the Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management and faculty director of the Women's Leadership Initiative at the Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware. She earned her PhD in organizational behavior at Harvard Business School where she began her intensive research on strategic paradoxes, how leaders and senior teams effectively respond to contradictory yet interdependent demands. Working with executives and scholars globally, she received the Web of...

Amy Gallo is an expert in conflict, communication, and workplace dynamics. She combines the latest management research with practical advice to deliver evidence-based ideas on how to improve relationships and excel at work. She is the author of two books: Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) and the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict. In her role as a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review, Amy writes about interpersonal dynamics, communicating ideas,...

Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and bestselling author. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Ozan moved to the United States by himself at 17 to attend Cornell University and major in astrophysics. While there, he served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers project that sent two rovers to Mars. Ozan then pivoted and became a law professor to influence others to make giant leaps on Earth. After getting tenure he left academia to become a full-...

Allen Campbell is widely known as a leader in the sports nutrition world. Through his culinary acumen, various publications, speaking engagements, consulting, and highly publicized work with athletes, actors and entertainers, he has revolutionized traditional culinary artistry by maximizing health benefits and sustainable practices. Allen’s culinary education began at the age of 14 in the Boston suburbs. After 20+ years in the hospitality industry, he earned his stripes, crafted his own...

Christine Porath is a tenured professor at Georgetown University’s School of Business. She’s the author of three best-selling books. Her most recent book is Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving. She frequently delivers talks and has taught in various Executive programs at Harvard, Georgetown, and USC. Prior to her position at Georgetown, she was a faculty member at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of...

Dr. Gabriele Oettingen is a professor of psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg. She is one of the world’s most respected motivation scientists. Her research focuses on “prospection,” which is how people think about the future. In her studies, she addresses how different types of prospection affect people’s thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behavior. She has pointed out the perils of positive thinking and discovered a motivation technique called “mental...

Chris Bailey has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity and is the author of two books: Hyperfocus and The Productivity Project. His books have been published in 34 languages. Chris writes about productivity on this site and speaks to organizations around the globe on how they can become more productive without hating the process.

Linda Ginzel, PhD has been a member of the Chicago Booth Faculty since 1992. She specializes in negotiation skills, managerial psychology, leadership, and executive development. Recent interest is focused on what she terms Leadership Capital: the courage, wisdom and capacity to decide when to manage and when to lead. In 2000 President Clinton awarded her a President's Service Award, the nation's highest honor for volunteer service directed at solving critical social problems. She is also the...

Dorie Clark is a consultant and keynote speaker who teaches executive education at Duke University and Columbia University's graduate school of business. She's been named one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 and the Number 1 Communications Coach in the world by Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. Clark is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and has been recognized as a branding expert by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Ink Magazine. The...

Gabriella Braun is the Director of Working Well, a specialist consultancy firm using psychoanalytic and systemic thinking to help leaders and teams understand the hidden truths of their behavior at work.

Benjamin Spall is the co-author of My Morning Routine. He is originally from England and has written for the New York Times, New York Observer, Entrepreneur, Business Insider the Huffington Post and many more.

James D. White is a transformational leader with over thirty years' experience as a CEO and operating executive in the consumer products, retail, and restaurant industries, as well as an experienced corporate director and adviser with twenty years of experience on more than fifteen public and private boards. White currently chairs the board of the recently IPO'd Honest Company and is Executive Chair of the startup Air Protein, in addition to several other boards. As Chair, President, and CEO...

Ayelet Fishbach is an award-winning psychologist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the past president of the Society for the Science of Motivation. Dr. Fishbach has published more than 100 scientific articles in many psychology and business journals. Her groundbreaking research on human motivation, has won the Society of Experimental Social Psychology's Best Dissertation Award and Career Trajectory Award. Dr. Fishbach's scientific findings are regularly featured in...