All acclaimed for their storytelling and unparalleled perspective, our Historians & Best-Selling Authors draw on their captivating work from the pages of well-worn novels to interpretive looks at our past to bring both new and old worlds to life on stage.
Jeffrey Engel
<p>Widely considered the leading presidential historian of his generation, Jeffrey Engel connects America’s past with our present, helping our nation find a way forward by bringing history to life with humor and insight. </p><p>Today’s problems are nothing new. The United States has faced wars, pandemics, and political division before. While history is an imperfect guide to enacting a better future, it’s the best guide we have. It’s also a guide both for, and full of, people.
Nando Parrado
<p>For over three decades, Parrado has moved global audiences through sharing his story of survival, resilience, and determination in the Andes. Parrado draws from his experience to articulate innovative strategies for those that need to scale personal or business mountains in the twenty-first century.</p><p>Nando Parrado is the hero of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 rescue.
Safi Bahcall
<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.
Don Yaeger
<p>Don Yaeger is a nationally acclaimed inspirational speaker, longtime Associate Editor of <i>Sports Illustrated</i>, author of over 30 books, eleven of which have become <i>New York Times</i> Best-sellers, and host of <i>Corporate Competitor Podcast</i>. He began his career at the <i>San Antonio Light</i> in Texas, and also worked at the <i>Dallas Morning News</i> and the <i>Florida Times-Union</i> in Jacksonville before going to work for <i>Sports Illustrated</i>.
Shannon Bream
<p>Shannon Bream is the host of <em>Fox News Sunday</em>—and the first female correspondent to anchor the show in its 26-year history. </p><p>Previously, Bream hosted <em>Fox News at Night</em>. She is also the network’s chief legal correspondent, a role that makes her the face and voice of Fox’s Supreme Court coverage.
Suneel Gupta
<p>Suneel Gupta asks audiences, leaders and teams: “How can an organization excel on the outside if its people are exhausted on the inside?”</p><p>As the founding CEO of RISE, a breakthrough wellness company, Suneel Gupta helped thousands of people build better habits for life and work. Now as a bestselling author and Harvard Medical School visiting scholar, Suneel has taken his mission one step further – helping people achieve sustainable peak performance by bolstering emotional resilience and engagement.
Ken Schmidt
<p>The former Director of Communications for Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Ken Schmidt has advised executive leaders of many of the world’s best-known brands, delivered more than one thousand keynote presentations, written two best-selling books and created a popular business podcast.</p><p>It’s an impersonal world, where so many products and services are seen as easily-replaced, indistinct commodities. Whether you stand out or get lost in the crowd is a choice.
Carl Bernstein
<p>Few journalists in America’s history have had the impact on their era and their craft as Carl Bernstein.
Mike Massimino
<p>Mike Massimino is a former NASA Astronaut, a <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author, a Columbia University engineering professor, and an advisor at The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. </p><p>A veteran of two space shuttle missions and four spacewalks, Mike was the first person to tweet from space, holds the team record for the most spacewalking time on a single space shuttle mission, and successfully completed the most complicated spacewalk ever attempted to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
Mark Sullivan
<p>Mark Sullivan tells the incredible, true-love-conquers-all tale of Pino Lella, the main character of his bestselling novel <i>Beneath a Scarlet Sky</i>, soon to be a major television mini-series.</p><p>Mark is the acclaimed author of eighteen novels, including the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling "Private” series, which he writes with James Patterson.