High Stakes Leadership (C - Leadership & Achievement)

<p>Rich Diviney is the ultimate catalyst for unlocking elite performance, transforming teams, and empowering individuals to thrive in any challenge.</p><p>A highly decorated Navy SEAL commander, bestselling author, and leadership expert, Rich Diviney brings over two decades of exceptional experience to the stage.

<p>The visionary behind Google’s AI-first transformation and the pioneer for using AI in organizational decision-making, Cassie Kozyrkov blends deep technical expertise and executive experience with humor and charisma. </p><p>Cassie Kozyrkov is a renowned leader in artificial intelligence and the founder of Decision Intelligence, the process of applying analytics, AI and automation to aid decision-making. As Google’s first Chief Decision Scientist, she spearheaded the tech giant’s AI-first transformation, training over 20,000 Googlers and impacting more than 500 projects.

<p>One of today’s leading voices in artificial intelligence, Steve Brown shares winning AI strategies that fuel innovation, boost productivity, and drive growth.</p><p>With a 25-year career in AI and high tech including roles as senior director and in-house futurist at Google DeepMind as well as chief evangelist and futurist at Intel, Steve is a leading expert on generative AI, autonomous agents, and digital transformation. He leads crucial conversations about how AI will shape business, education, and society.

<p>Sharing never-before-told anecdotes, Paul Whelan recounts his harrowing journey as a hostage in Putin’s Russia—enduring human rights abuses while fighting for freedom and justice from behind enemy lines.</p><p>On December 28, 2018, Paul Whelan was traveling in Russia for a friend’s wedding when he was framed for espionage and arrested in his hotel room.

<p>Sharing his inspiring story of unwavering determination, Nicolas Hamilton helps individuals and organizations overcome obstacles, stay resilient through change, and embrace failure to achieve success.</p><p>Born with cerebral palsy, Nicolas Hamilton was told as a young child he’d spend his life reliant on a wheelchair. Not one to be told he can’t do things, Nicolas endured years of grueling, painful training so that by the age of 17 he could walk completely unaided.

Blending cutting-edge science, ancient wisdom, philosophy, music and art, Professor Arthur C. Brooks helps organizations improve their happiness practices in order to boost workplace engagement, facilitate recruitment, and increase retention and productivity.

<p>Sharing his inspiring, against-all-odds journey from foster child to NFL player to successful business owner, Anthony Trucks helps individuals and organizations achieve their full potential by shifting their identity to reach peak performance.</p><p>Anthony Trucks has accomplished what statistics would show is impossible. At the age of three years old he was placed into the foster care system, where he remained until age 14, when he was adopted by a poor white family. In high school he set a challenging and lofty goal for himself … making the varsity football team.

<p>Sharing invaluable insights on service and leadership from his extensive career in the restaurant industry, Will Guidara helps audiences transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences—for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve.</p><p>Will Guidara is the former co-owner of Eleven Madison Park, which under his leadership received four stars from the <em>New York Times</em>, three Michelin stars, and was named #1 on the list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2017.

<p>With her unique blend of authenticity, expertise, humor, and tough love, Suzy Welch shares the actionable steps and strategies that motivate audiences around the world to become stronger leaders, collaborators, and communicators. </p><p>With decades of experience in business journalism, teaching, and consulting, Suzy Welch is a renowned mentor and motivator to many around the world, from students to CEOs.

<p>Sharing the winning strategies used by world-champion athletes like Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, and Kobe Bryant, Alan Stein, Jr. helps companies improve organizational performance, create effective leadership, increase team cohesion and collaboration—and develop winning mindsets, rituals, and routines.</p><p>In his corporate keynote programs and workshops, Alan Stein, Jr. shares real-world lessons, illustrated by powerful stories, so that every audience can immediately put new ideas into action.