Past Speakers
Chike Aguh
2022 Speaker
2020 Harvard Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellow, Current Chief Innovation Officer at the US Department of Labor
John Amaechi
2022 Speaker
Organizational psychologist and Founder of APS Intelligence
Byron Auguste
2016 Speaker
Managing Director and Co-Founder, Opportunity@Work
Former Deputy Director, White House National Economic Council
Mary Barra
2018 Speaker
Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company
Shane Battier
2015 Speaker
Two-time NBA Champion
Vice President, Basketball Development and Analytics, Miami Heat
Elisa Villanueva Beard
2017 Speaker
CEO, Teach for America
Nick Bloom
2022 Speaker
Stanford Economics Professor
Laszlo Bock
2021 Speaker
CEO and Co-Founder, Humu
Former SVP of People Ops, Google
Edith W. Cooper
2014 Speaker
Former Executive Vice President and Global Head of Human Capital Management, Goldman Sachs
Ray Dalio
2021 Speaker
Founder, Chairman, and Co-Chief Investment
Officer of Bridgewater Associates
Angela Duckworth
2022 Speaker
Faculty Co-Director, Wharton People Analytics
Founder, Character Lab
New York Times Bestselling Author of Grit
Charles Duhigg
2022 Speaker
Writer at the New Yorker Magazine and Author of The Power of Habit
Carol Dweck
2022 Speaker
Psychologist & Stanford Professor
Cathy Engelbert
2019 Speaker
WNBA Commissioner
Former CEO, Deloitte
Allyson Felix
2019 Speaker
Olympic Gold Medalist, Track and Field
Allison Gabriel
2022 Speaker
McClelland Professor of Management and Organizations and University Distinguished Scholar in the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management
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
Geoff Garrett
2019 Speaker
Dean of the USC Marshall School of Business
In remembrance of our friend,
Tony Hsieh
2016 Speaker
Former Zappos CEO & Visionary, 1973-2020
Erika James
2022 Speaker
Dean of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania
Andrea Jones-Rooy
2022 Speaker
Visiting Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, NYU Center for Data Science
Daniel Kahneman
2016 Speaker
Nobel Prize Winner
Pioneer of Behavior Economics
Katie Ledecky
2021 Speaker
7-time Olympic Gold Medalist
Laura Liswood
2017 Speaker
Secretary General, Council of Women World Leaders
Charlotte Lockhart
2022 Speaker
Founder and CEO, The 4 Day Week
Giorgia Lupi
2018 Speaker
Partner at Pentagram
Co-Founder, Board member at Accurat
Author of Dear Data
Cade Massey
2022 Speaker
Practice Professor, Wharton People Analytics Faculty Co-Director
Jonathan McBride
2018 Speaker
Managing Director and Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity, BlackRock
Former Director, US Presidential Personnel Office
Alicia Menendez
2022 Speaker
Anchor and Correspondent at MSNBC
Satya Nadella
2022 Speaker
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft
Tsedal Neeley
2022 Speaker
Harvard Business School Professor, Author of Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere
DJ Patil
2018 Speaker
Former Chief Data Scientist, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy
Anne Helen Petersen
2022 Speaker
Writer at Substack, Co-Author of Out of The Office
Daniel Pink
2022 and 2016 Speaker
Seven-time #1 NYT Bestselling Author of Drive, A Whole New Mind, When, and The Power of Regret
Adam Silver
2017 Speaker
Commisioner, NBA
James Suzman
2022 Speaker
Anthropologist, Author of Affluence Without Abundance and WORK
Kara Swisher
2021 Speaker
Co-Founder and Editor-at-Large, Recode Producer & Host, Recode Decode and Pivot podcasts; New York Times Contributor
Richard Thaler
2019 Speaker
Nobel Prize Winner
Leading economist
New York Times Bestselling Author of Nudge
Zeynep Ton
2022 Speaker
Professor of the Practice, MIT Sloan School of Management and President, Good Jobs Institute
Abby Wambach
2016 Speaker
Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Soccer
FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion
Brian Welle
2018 Speaker
Director of People Analytics, Google