National Geographic

<p>A top adventure athlete known for capturing extraordinary imagery while climbing and skiing in high-risk environments, Jimmy Chin shares lessons in leadership, teamwork, risk management and preparation, along with thrilling anecdotes from his incredible journeys. </p><p>Jimmy Chin is a professional mountain athlete, <em>National Geographic</em> photographer, Academy Award-winning film director, and <em>New York Times</em>-bestselling author.

<p>For more than a decade, National Geographic Explorer Chris Bashinelli, better known as “Bash,” has traveled the world walking in other people’s shoes and trying to better understand the human condition.</p><p>A passionate mental health advocate, Bash has studied meditation and mindfulness since the death of his father.

<p>Joel Sartore is a photographer, speaker, author, teacher, conservationist, <i>National Geographic Fellow,</i> and a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine. </p><p>Joel specializes in documenting endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving. He is the founder of The Photo Ark, a multi-year documentary project to save species and habitat.  </p><p>In his words, “It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity.

<p>Dewitt Jones&#39; 20 years of experience as a freelance photographer for <i>National Geographic</i> earned him a reputation as a world-class photojournalist. However, it was his work at the forefront of corporate creative marketing photographing national advertising campaigns for Dewar&#39;s Scotch, Canon, and United Airlines where he proved the effectiveness of the creative process in the business setting. Jones has published nine books, including "The Nature of Leadership", created in collaboration with business guru, Stephen R. Covey.</p>

<p>With life experiences mirroring the adventures in his favorite childhood book, <i>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea</i>, Robert Ballard is among the world&#39;s most accomplished oceanographers. A pioneer in the development of deep-sea submersibles, he has taken part in more than 140 deep-sea expeditions and is most renowned for his discovery of the RMS <i>TITANIC </i>and underwater explorations of the Bismarck, Lusitania, and Britannic.</p><p>Ballard served in the U.S.

<p>Spencer Wells is a geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. For over a decade he was an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and Director of the Genographic Project, which collected and analyzed DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people around the world in order to decipher how our ancestors populated the planet, in the process launching the consumer genomics industry.</p><p>Wells graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas at Austin, received his Ph.D.