Past Speakers

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Chike Aguh

2022 Speaker

2020 Harvard Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellow, Current Chief Innovation Officer at the US Department of Labor

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John Amaechi

2022 Speaker

Organizational psychologist and Founder of APS Intelligence

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Byron Auguste

2016 Speaker

Managing Director and Co-Founder, Opportunity@Work
Former Deputy Director, White House National Economic Council

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Mary Barra

2018 Speaker

Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company

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Shane Battier

2015 Speaker

Two-time NBA Champion
Vice President, Basketball Development and Analytics, Miami Heat

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Elisa Villanueva Beard

2017 Speaker

CEO, Teach for America

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Nick Bloom

2022 Speaker

Stanford Economics Professor

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Laszlo Bock

2021 Speaker

CEO and Co-Founder, Humu
Former SVP of People Ops, Google

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Edith W. Cooper

2014 Speaker

Former Executive Vice President and Global Head of Human Capital Management, Goldman Sachs

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Ray Dalio

2021 Speaker

Founder, Chairman, and Co-Chief Investment
Officer of Bridgewater Associates

Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth

2022 Speaker

Faculty Co-Director, Wharton People Analytics
Founder, Character Lab
New York Times Bestselling Author of Grit

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Charles Duhigg

2022 Speaker

Writer at the New Yorker Magazine and Author of The Power of Habit

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Carol Dweck

2022 Speaker

Psychologist & Stanford Professor

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Cathy Engelbert 

2019 Speaker

WNBA Commissioner
Former CEO, Deloitte

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Allyson Felix

2019 Speaker

Olympic Gold Medalist, Track and Field

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Allison Gabriel

2022 Speaker

McClelland Professor of Management and Organizations and University Distinguished Scholar in the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management

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Malcolm Gladwell

2022 and 2017 Speaker

New Yorker staff writer, New York Times Bestselling Author of David and Goliath, Outliers, Blink, and The Tipping Point

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Geoff Garrett

2019 Speaker

Dean of the USC Marshall School of Business 

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In remembrance of our friend,

Tony Hsieh

2016 Speaker

Former Zappos CEO & Visionary, 1973-2020

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Erika James

2022 Speaker

Dean of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania

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Andrea Jones-Rooy

2022 Speaker

Visiting Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, NYU Center for Data Science

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In remembrance,

Daniel Kahneman

2016 Speaker

Nobel Prize Winner
Pioneer of Behavior Economics

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Katie Ledecky

2021 Speaker

7-time Olympic Gold Medalist

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Laura Liswood

2017 Speaker

Secretary General, Council of Women World Leaders

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Charlotte Lockhart

2022 Speaker

Founder and CEO, The 4 Day Week

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Giorgia Lupi

2018 Speaker

Partner at Pentagram
Co-Founder, Board member at Accurat
Author of Dear Data

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Cade Massey

2022 Speaker

Practice Professor, Wharton People Analytics Faculty Co-Director

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Jonathan McBride

2018 Speaker

Managing Director and Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity, BlackRock
Former Director, US Presidential Personnel Office

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Alicia Menendez

2022 Speaker

Anchor and Correspondent at MSNBC

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Satya Nadella

2022 Speaker

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft

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Tsedal Neeley

2022 Speaker

Harvard Business School Professor, Author of Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere

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DJ Patil

2018 Speaker

Former Chief Data Scientist, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy

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Anne Helen Petersen

2022 Speaker

Writer at Substack, Co-Author of Out of The Office

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Daniel Pink

2022 and 2016 Speaker

Seven-time #1 NYT Bestselling Author of Drive, A Whole New Mind, When, and The Power of Regret

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Adam Silver

2017 Speaker

Commisioner, NBA

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James Suzman

2022 Speaker

Anthropologist, Author of Affluence Without Abundance and WORK

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Kara Swisher

2021 Speaker

Co-Founder and Editor-at-Large, Recode Producer & Host, Recode Decode and Pivot podcasts; New York Times Contributor

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Richard Thaler

2019 Speaker

Nobel Prize Winner
Leading economist
New York Times Bestselling Author of Nudge

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Zeynep Ton

2022 Speaker

Professor of the Practice, MIT Sloan School of Management and President, Good Jobs Institute

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Abby Wambach

2016 Speaker

Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Soccer
FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion

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Brian Welle

2018 Speaker

Director of People Analytics, Google