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David Howitt

David Howitt is an entrepreneur, a business consultant, a mentor, and a visionary keynote speaker.

He has helped countless small businesses and Fortune 100 companies develop business strategies and grow their brand.

Howitt has over two decades of experience in business consultancy.

He serves as CEO of the Meriwether Group, a business consultancy and solutions firm that he founded.

The firm delivers strategic vision to start-ups and provides funding for promising new business ideas.

Howitt has worked with notable companies including Adidas and Pendleton.

Mark Jacobsen

Mark Jacobsen is a leadership trainer and corporate visionary.

He trains managers and executives in the changing trends in leadership that are essential for modern businesses.

He also consults on organizational culture and brand strategy with a focus on behavioral sciences.

Jacobsen has a rich professional experience working with Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and other leading national and international firms.

He also helped found the professional forum, Behavioral Sciences Future of Work.

The forum is used by commerce experts to discuss innovations in business.

As a visionary guest speaker, Jacobsen is passionate about inspiring organizations on thinking of new ways to lead their business into the future.

Ian Goldin

Ian Goldin is counted among the most accomplished economists.

He served as an economic advisor to President Nelson Mandela and was the Vice President of The World Bank. Goldin has received tremendous recognition for his contributions, including a knighthood by the French government.

Goldin was appointed director of the newly founded Oxford Martin School in 2006.

He held the post until 2016 and currently directs the school’s program on Technological and Economic Change.

He is also a faculty of Globalization and Development at Oxford University.

Jeff Taylor

Founder of Monster.com, which is an online employment portal, Jeff Taylor has reshaped the way corporations and aspiring professionals build networks and careers.

Developing an online employment solution that was the first of its kind, Taylor is considered to be an innovator and a visionary.

He built Monster.com into the one of the largest and most trusted career portals in the world.

It operates in thirty countries and gets an average monthly traffic of thirty million visitors.

Taylor has also authored several books on career development.

Tom Koulopoulos

Tom Koulopoulos is an author, a visionary leader, and an expert on technological change.

He is also the president of the Delphi Group, an advisory firm that he founded in 1989.

Since its inception, the firm has lent its services to over 20,000 organizations in various industries as well as government agencies.

Koulopoulos also boasts a rich academic background. He teaches innovation courses at the Bentley University and is a faculty member in the department of Public Health at Harvard University.

Koulopoulos also serves on the board of the Kaplan School for Information Technology.

Blake Mycoskie

Blake Mycoskie is an entrepreneur, a leadership consultant, and a philanthropist.

His innovative business model serves as a blueprint for companies that wish to achieve social change without relying on donations. Mycoskie tested this idea with his shoe brand, TOMS.

TOMS is a part-shoe, part-welfare organization. The company operates on a one-for-one business model. For each pair of shoes that the company sells, it donates a pair to children in need. This idea has ushered a new era in social entrepreneurship.

Lawrence Lessig

Counted among the most popular lawyers in this age, Lawrence Lessig was also a presidential candidate in the 2016 elections.

He is considered to be a visionary due to his transformative ideals. His presentation style captivates and informs his audience through a blend of visuals and typography.

Lessig is a professor of law at Harvard and a bestselling author. He is credited with developing the basis of internet law as well as the handling of copyrighted content. He works to address deep-rooted issues at the core of the government.

Thomas Frey

Thomas Frey serves as the Executive Director of the DaVinci Institute for business leadership.

He is an expert on predicting and identifying societal, cultural, and economic shifts and turning them into business opportunities.

His work has been called visionary by many in the business community.

Frey is also a remarkable futurist. His portfolio of research explores current phenomenon and ways of translating them into opportunities. His keynotes paint vibrant pictures of futurist topics that have captivated attentions of government agencies and Fortune 500 companies.

Susan David

Susan David is a visionary psychologist and a bestselling author. Her research in psychology has resulted in the inception of the idea of Emotional Agility or the practice of consciously evaluating one’s emotions and experiences. She is considered to be among the world’s leading management thinkers.

David holds a doctorate in psychology and is a psychologist at the Harvard Medical School. Her bestselling book on emotional agility has been translated in over 20 languages. It has also been featured in the TIME, New York Times, and other notable publications.

Kevin Systrom

A visionary entrepreneur, Kevin Systrom co-founded Instagram, a mobile app that redefined how people share their lives online. When Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg showed an interest in acquiring Instagram, Systrom was crucial to the negotiations, closing the acquisition deal at $1 billion.

Systrom continued to serve as the CEO of Instagram even after the acquisition, a post that he held until 2018. Under his leadership, Instagram continued to remain an operational entity of its own, independent from Facebook, and maintained its reputation for safety and security.

John Mackey

John Mackey is the visionary entrepreneur behind Whole Foods, the world’s leading organic food brand. Co-founder and co-CEO, Mackey saw rapid growth of his venture from a small store in Austin to a Fortune 300 company with stores in several countries.

Mackey manages the company with a vision to do business more consciously. This focus has led to Whole Foods being listed among the hundred best companies to work for, for almost 2 decades. Under his leadership, Whole Foods remains involved in numerous welfare programs.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

A mystic and a yogi, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a visionary who keeps himself rooted as deeply in pragmatic affairs as spiritual practices. He speaks and writes about contemporary wellness issues as well as personal development and existing in a higher state of consciousness.

Vasudev has authored more than fifty books on self-realization and mysticism. His talks draw audiences of hundreds of thousands of people from all over India and the world. He has been interviewed by several international media outlets like BBC and CNBC.

Wim Hof

Wim Hof is an adventurer and a daredevil. He holds 21 Guinness World Records for various feats of endurance that could seriously injure and even kill any normal man. Such feats include running 50 km across a desert without water and a cold endurance test in icy landscapes.

By achieving these feats, Hof has an ulterior motive. He wants to demonstrate that through will and determination, man can control his immune, nervous, and cardio-vascular systems. He is also a motivational speaker and inspires his audiences to overcome baseless fears.

Kevin Surace

An entrepreneur, an innovator, and a futurist, Kevin Surace has pioneered numerous innovations in tech and AI. He has been awarded with several accolades including the Top Innovator of the Decade title from CNBC and an induction into the Innovation Hall of Fame by RIT.

Surace’s breakthroughs are many. He has worked on initial concepts of cellular data smartphones, which served as the blueprint of modern-day smartphones. He also worked on Portico, the first AI virtual assistant that is similar to a human. As a visionary conference speaker, Surace excites and educates audiences.

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