Business Strategy

One of Forbes’ Leading Female Futurists and Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Sheryl Connelly helps business leaders think like futurists for resilience, performance, and growth through uncertainty.

All too often, companies are surprised by disruption. While no one can predict the future, many of these events can be anticipated. As a corporate futurist, Sheryl Connelly has nearly two decades of experience helping organizations prepare for disruption by building resilience into their business plans and strategies. 

<p>With an authentic blend of humor and heart, Kyle Scheele provides teams and individuals with practical tools for boosting creativity, innovation, risk-taking and resilience. </p><p>Kyle Scheele has been called "the patron saint of crazy ideas.” Whether he&#39;s having a Viking funeral for the regrets of 21,000 people, hosting the world&#39;s first fake marathon, or gaining a million TikTok followers in just 25 hours, Kyle is always on the lookout for crazy ideas that produce wildly outsized outcomes.

<p>An expert at driving profit with purpose, Kathy Varol shares the proven guidelines she used to create a record-shattering ESG strategy for Adidas. </p><p>Kathy Varol knows the secret to helping companies stand out in a competitive marketplace, attract top talent, drive employee engagement, and gain enviable customer loyalty: It’s harnessing the power of Purpose.</p><p>She knows that as consumers, we&#39;re putting our dollars toward companies with aligned values.

<p>Jeff Bloomfield shares how neuroscience helps teams communicate with more purpose, power and impact to drive performance and results.</p><p>After a successful corporate career in biotech helping to launch genetic cancer therapies, and then battling cancer himself, Jeff Bloomfield began a journey to discover the power of neuroscience. It became his mission to teach others what he’d learned about the brain and how to apply the information in professional communicating, leadership, and sales roles.

<p>Paul Epstein shares the same winning playbook he used in his own career to help others make high-impact decisions, develop unshakeable confidence, and lead with authenticity while navigating uncertainty.</p><p>In his fifteen-year career as a pro sports executive, Paul Epstein helped take NBA teams from the bottom of the league in revenue to the top, broke every premium sales revenue record metric in NFL Super Bowl history, opened a billion-dollar stadium, and founded the San Francisco 49ers Talent Academy.</p><p>Now he shares the proven habits and rituals th

<p>Why do good teams kill great ideas? Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs and innovative organizations. </p><p>Safi Bahcall is a former public-company CEO, a physicist and an award-winning biotech entrepreneur.

<p>A globally recognized innovation strategist, Shawn Kanungo works at the intersection of creativity, business, and technology—including generative AI like ChatGPT—to help companies and individuals move boldly into the future.</p><p>Formerly an Innovation Expert for Deloitte, Shawn is a Partner with Queen & Rook, where he advises leading organizations and executives on disruptive trends, and actively invests in early-stage ventures.

<p>Andrew Winston is a globally-recognized expert on megatrends, sustainable business, and how to build companies that profit by contributing to a thriving world. He was ranked #3 on the <em>Thinkers50</em> list of the most influential management thinkers in the world. </p><p>Andrew’s books on strategy have sold over a quarter million copies in 15 languages. His bestsellers include <em>Green to Gold</em> – which <em>Inc.

<p>As a boundary-breaking around the world pilot, Amelia Rose Earhart knows exactly what it takes to venture into <i>uncharted territory</i>; now she’s sharing her one-of-a-kind perspective and strategy with the world.</p><p>With the odds stacked against her, Amelia brought her own bold idea to life in 2014, piloting a small plane (Pilatus PC-12NG) 28,000 Nautical Miles around the globe.

<p>For more than fifteen years, Jessica Kriegel has been guiding global, national, Fortune 100 and other organizations across finance, technology, real estate and healthcare industries on how to create intentional cultures that accelerate performance.</p><p>After receiving her MBA and becoming a global consultant for a human capital management solutions provider, Jessica consistently saw highly-stressed leaders failing to deliver against lofty financial goals. She knew that if these leaders could transform their cultures, performance and profitability would follow.