A teacher, coach, middle school principal, banker, author and powerful speaker, Kent Stock is also the man who coached the Norway baseball team during their now-famous final season. As depicted in the 2007 film, The Final Season, the nationally recognized Norway baseball team came together under then first-year head baseball coach Stock to defy the odds and win Norway's 20th state title in what would become the team's final season before merging with a bigger, neighboring school district.

Rebecca Ryan is called a "human spark plug". Trained as a futurist and an economist, Rebecca helps clients figure out what's next, so they can be ready for the future. Rebecca is the Resident Futurist at the Alliance for Innovation and at the Association for Government Risk Pools (AGRiP). She's a Senior Advisor at the Governing Institute, a faculty member at the Institute for Zen Leadership, and the owner of NEXT Generation Consulting, Inc. She is the author of The Next Big Things: The Future of

Terry Savage is a nationally known expert on personal finance, the markets & economic policy.  She is a regular television commentator on CNN, CNBC, PBS, and NBC on issues related to investing and financial markets. Terry is the nationally syndicated Chicago Sun-Times personal finance columnist. Terry's latest book The Savage Truth on Money, second edition, was released in 2011, addressing how to survive and thrive in today's complex financial climate. Her fourth book, published in June,

  Todd Huston died twice at the age of 14 when a boat backed over him, sucking his legs up into the propellers during a fateful 4th of July family vacation.‚ Though they resuscitated him, infection plagued his right leg until he was 21, when he lay wide awake on the operating table as they fired up the saw and amputated it.‚  He went on to become a psychotherapist‚ in Southern California to help others overcome their physical and mental challenges.‚ But he was not all talk. He took his

"FutureThink CEO Lisa Bodell ranks among the Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and is the best-selling author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She's a global leader on simplification, productivity, and innovation, whose keynotes leave audiences inspired to change and arm them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters. Bodell brings a compelling perspective to the sought-after topics of simplification and innovation to over 100,000 people each year. A thought leader and serial

Neen James is an Executive Strategist and author of nine books including Folding Time™ and the award-winning, Attention Pays™. She offers her clients powerful strategies for prioritizing focus on what matters most — so we can all pay more attention, create more significant moments, and increase productivity at work and home. For several years in a row, she has been named one of the top 30 Leadership Speakers by Global Guru because of her work with companies

Jack Stahlmann, The Don't Flinch Guy, has inspired & educated hundreds of organizations, providing a customizable message that has resonated everywhere from backrooms at small companies to the penthouse of Fortune 500 offices. Jack's entertaining and informative presentations are built around his experiences in Los Angeles as an actor, producer, director... and of course, a waiter. In Tinsel Town, he launched his own production company which created several films that enjoyed international

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures in the most popular class at Harvard. In 2009 alone, Shawn was invited to lecture in 36 different countries on how positive psychology can raise happiness and performance. His work received attention in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and BusinessWeek. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian

If You Want A Commanding Corporate Presence To Inspire, Teach, And Coach How To Build World Championship Organizational Culture Look No Further Than 6 Foot 7 Inch, 260 Pound NFL Super Bowl Champion Tight End And Chief Culture Officer Ben Utecht. Ben is the recipient of the prestigious NFL Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy’s “Uncommon Leader Award“ for his leadership performance both on and off the NFL football field. After retiring, Utecht began building a significant career across multiple talents.

Simon Anderson has dedicated his career to helping executives and organizations move beyond resilience to be truly future ready. As a Futurist Keynote Speaker and Applied Foresight Expert since 2011, he transforms how leaders think about and prepare for tomorrow's challenges and opportunities. Simon's Future Ready Formula™ combines deep strategic insight with immediately actionable steps. His counter-intuitive emphasis on unlearning - helping executives and organizations let go of outdated

Every four years, J. Ann Selzer is the "it" pollster of American politics, living political polling and coverage from the inside out. She offers audiences a host of behind-the-scenes stories at the intersection of politics and journalism. Her polls have repeatedly taken heat for being "outliers," "out of sync with other polling done" or "at odds with history"—in essence, to be ignored. Time and again, her polls stood alone as the best measure of what happened on Election Day. Her talking points

Greg Warren is a nationally touring stand-up comedian and former Procter & Gamble sales executive, where he spent a decade selling Jif and Pringles before making the leap into comedy. His time in the corporate world became the foundation for The Salesman, a special co-produced by Nate Bargatze and 800 Pound Gorilla Media. The New York Times called it “a sharp hour” that “did for peanut butter what Jerry Seinfeld did for Pop-Tarts.” Known for his smart, relatable material and polished delivery,

Mike Massimino is a former NASA Astronaut, a New York Times bestselling author, a Columbia University professor, an advisor at The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, and a television personality. A spacewalker on the final two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions, Mike and his crews traveled faster (Mach 26) and higher (350 miles) than any other astronauts in the 21st century while increasing the discovery capabilities of arguably the greatest scientific instrument ever built by a factor of

As a frequent commentator on the state of the markets, Todd Buchholz brings his experience as a former White House director of economic policy, a managing director of the $15 billion Tiger hedge fund, and a Harvard economics teacher to the cutting edge of economics, fiscal politics, finance, and business strategy. Buchholz is a frequent guest on ABC News, PBS, and CBS, and he recently hosted his own special on CNBC. Buchholz has debated such luminaries in the field as Lester Thurow and Nobel

Jim Craig has been called the backbone of a team that accomplished one of the most extraordinary and memorable sports victories of all time. He went on to play professionally and transitioned to tremendous and ongoing success in the business world.   Jim is in demand from coast to coast and internationally as a motivational speaker, spokesperson, marketing and sales strategist, and master storyteller.  He is president of Gold Medal Strategies, a Boston-area based promotions and marketing