See the authors of the book Doers & Dreamers

Abhishek Vijayvargia

Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft

Abhishek Vijayvargia is a seasoned data scientist with a wealth of experience in the tech industry.

Currently serving as a Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft, Abhishek is at the forefront of cutting-edge innovations in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

In addition, Abhishek is a prolific author, a recognized influencer in the data science community, and a dedicated mentor, helping aspiring data scientists navigate the complexities of the field.

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Amit Elisha
SVP of Product at Outbrain
Amit Elisha is the Founding SVP of Product & GM of Keystone at Outbrain. As a founding team member, he created the product and business model that invented the multi-billion dollar Native Advertising industry in the open web.

Amit has been leading global product teams for the past 20 years – in NYC and Tel-Aviv.

Amit resides with his wife, 3 children and 2 cats in Cresskill, NJ.
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Anders Frankel
Entrepreneur, Investor & Board Member
Anders Frankel is an entrepreneur, investor and board member focusing on companies with solutions within sustainability.

Background includes B2B SaaS companies and a sales / marketing specialization.
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André Santos
LinkedIn Top Voice 2020 & LinkedIn Creator 2021
André Santos is a LinkedIn Top Voice, LinkedIn Creator, Top 20 Influencers by iBest Award and the only Brazilian in chosen as 30 LinkedIn Global Influencers by Engati.

Post-graduated in Business Administration, he has 38-year career and has been working for 20 years as a mentor and speaker in Social Selling, Personal Branding & Influence on LinkedIn.

He has trained and mentored 20 000 professionals in 10 countries and has given interviews to Record News, Época Negócios and BBC Brazil.
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Andreas Ehn
Partner at Approach & previous CTO at Spotify
Andreas was Spotify's first employee and chief technology officer (CTO), where he brought together the world-class tech team that designed and built the platform and product for the music service. Before that he worked for the Swedish online-gaming company Stardoll.

Later he co-founded Wrapp, a mobile-marketing startup, where he also served as CTO.

Since 2015, he is an angel investor, advisor and board member based in Singapore.
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Anne Stampe Olsen
Co-founder & CEO at Nordic Female Founders
Anne Stampe Olesen is a Business Angel and an award-winning investor. Anne is CEO and co-founder of the investment company, Nordic Female Founds.

Through her job, Anne is primarily investing in early-stage start-ups and has been successful in developing businesses into growth.

Anne, together with her co-founder, Mia Wagner, won the prize: “Investors of the Year” in 2021. Furthermore, she has a master’s degree in structure and leadership.
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Anthony Day
Blockchain Leader & LinkedIn Top Voice for Technology and Innovation
Anthony Day helps organisations, governments and start-ups to understand the benefits of using exponential technologies like Blockchain to create and grow commercially viable digital businesses.

He brings experience of combining other capabilities and exponentials like AI, IoT, Digital Identity and Cloud as part of the toolkit that organisations can work with.

Anthony also hosts the Blockchain Won't Save the World Podcast which provides easy-to-understand examples of real-world projects or stories around an entire nations' experiences with Blockchain technology.
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Antonio Grasso
CEO at Digital Business Innovation
Founder and CEO of Italian startup Digital Business Innovation Srl, Antonio is regarded as one of the top digital transformation influencers and researchers on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, blockchain, and sustainability.

He is an enterprise and public sector consultant. He collaborates with large multinationals and public institutions as an advisor, B2B influencer, author, and software innovator.
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April Rinne
Organizational Change Navigator & Author of FLUX:8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and ranked one of the “50 Leading Female Futurists” in the world by Forbes, April Rinne is a change navigator: she helps individuals and organizations rethink and reshape their relationship with change, uncertainty, and a world in flux.

She’s a trusted advisor, speaker, investor, adventurer (100+ countries), insatiable handstander, and author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change.
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Astrid Kramer
Corporate SEO & UX Consultant at Astrid Kramer Consulting
Astrid Kramer has been an expert in Corporate SEO since 2007. The combination of SEO with UX and business requirements has brought her international key accounts.

She excels in public speaking and moderating in front of hundreds of audience members.

Her academic foundation includes a master's degree in information science, social psychology and law and informatics and a postgraduate course in business management.
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Avinish Kaushik
Sr. Director, Global Strategic Analytics at Google
Avinash helps executive teams leverage innovative strategies to outsmart competitors.

He’s the author of two bestselling books on digital analytics, and leads Global Strategic Analytics at Google.

Acting on his passion to teach, Avinash has delivered keynotes at major global conferences and taught at Stanford, ULCA and Santa Clara University.

His weekly newsletter, The Marketing Analytics Intersect, raises funds for Doctors Without Borders and The Marshall Project.
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Benjamin Gundgaard
Founder at Customer Sense
Benjamin Gundgaard is an International E-commerce Expert and Best-selling Author of Smartphone E-commerce.

18 years ago, he founded CustomerSense, where he consistently has helped companies such as IKEA, LEGO, TUI, Montblanc, GE and many other companies increase their online revenue by 15% to 300%.
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Bernie Borges
VP, Global Content Marketing at iQor & Co-founder at Vengreso
Bernie Borges is VP, Global Content Marketing at iQor, a leading BPO. He’s co-founder and Advisory Board member at Vengreso. He is the host of the Midlife Fulfilled podcast.

Bernie’s career spans three decades in B2B marketing roles and sales roles in tech. He founded and led the digital marketing agency Find and Convert, which after 15 years merged into Vengreso in 2017.

He speaks at marketing industry events and is the author of Marketing 2.0.
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Beth Kanter
Author, Trainer, Facilitator & Nonprofit Innovator in digital transformation and company wellbeing
Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader and trainer in digital transformation and well-being in the nonprofit workplace.

She is the co-author of the award-winning Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout and co-author with Allison Fine of The Smart Nonprofit.

She was named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and is a recipient of the NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Bill Schmarzo
Author, Professor, Innovator & Advisor
Bill Schmarzo is Author, Professor, Innovator, Advisor - Data Science, Design Thinking and Data Economics.

Bill is the Customer Data Innovation Lead for Dell Technologies Data Management Innovation group. He was Chief Innovation Officer at Hitachi Vantara and VP of Advertiser Analytics at Yahoo.

Bill has written 4 books and over 400 blogs. Bill holds MBA from University of Iowa and BS in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from Coe College.
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Bjorn Lomborg
President President at Copenhagen Consensus Center
Dr. Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to do good. With his think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, he has worked with hundreds of the world’s top economists and seven Nobel Laureates to find and promote the most effective solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, from disease and hunger to climate and education.

For his work, Lomborg was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten
Entrepreneur & Founder at The Next Web (TNW)
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten is a successful Internet Entrepreneur who has started, managed and sold several companies.

Since 2006 he’s managed The Next Web, as its founder and CEO, until selling the company to the Financial Times in 2019.

Boris writes a weekly newsletter about management strategies and innovation.
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Brendan Kane
Founder at Hook Point
Since 2005, Brendan Kane has helped the largest brands and
celebrities in the world reverse engineer how to make content go viral.

Brendan and his team at Hook Point have built a proprietary content model that has been leveraged to generate over 60 billion views and 100+ million followers for the content they have worked on.

Brendan authored best selling books One Million Followers: How I Built a Massive Social Audience in 30 Days and
Hook Point: How to Stand out in a 3-Second World.
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Brian Chesky
Co-Founder & CEO at Airbnb
Brian Joseph Chesky is an American entrepreneur who started Airbnb along with his partners. He also serves as the CEO of Airbnb, and was listed in Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People of 2015’.

There are many reasons for his success with Airbnb and one of the most important reasons is the fact that he gave more importance to his customers and the services they needed rather than the ideas of the developers.
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Brian Schulman
Founder & CEO at Voice your Vibe
Founder/CEO of VoiceYourVibe. 2X LinkedInTopVoice. 3X Top 50 Most Impactful People of LinkedIn. 10X International Best-Selling Author & Keynote Speaker. "The Godfather" & Pioneer of LinkedInVideo. One of the world’s premiere live streaming/video marketing experts. Named "The King of Community on LinkedIn" by Forbes. His insights/2 Global Award-Winning Live Shows featured in 120+countries on NASDAQ, Forbes, ThriveGlobal, YahooFinance, ROKUTV, TheCW, multiple #1 Best-Selling books, syndicated on SmartTV-Networks & hundreds of shows/podcasts impacting millions worldwide.
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Bruce Kasanoff
Transformational Listener, Ghostwriter & Coach
Bruce Kasanoff is a transformational listener who partners with leading entrepreneurs to serve as a ghostwriter, co-creator and/or coach. Over 175,000 people read his Mountain Minute newsletter on LinkedIn. He is also the founder of Bend Reality, a community for expansive individuals. Learn more at Kasanoff.com
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Chester Elton
Co-Founder & Partner at The Culture Work
Chester Elton has spent two decades helping some of the world’s most successful businesses engage their employees to execute on strategy, vision, and values.

Elton is co-author of multiple award-winning New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling leadership books including All In, The Carrot Principle, The Best Team Wins, and Anxiety at Work.

His books have been translated in more than 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide.
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Chris Kaufman
Co-founder at StockX
Chris Kaufman is the Co-Founder and former Chief Creative Officer of StockX. As a creative leader, entrepreneur, designer, and investor, he focuses his efforts on women and minority-led businesses and initiatives that positively impact Detroit and the surrounding region.

He’s currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts in 2D Design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change at Northwestern University.
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Christian Arnstedt
Founder & CEO Blazar Capital
Christian Arnstedt is the Founder and CEO of Blazar Capital, a company that builds international B2C businesses.

Before that, he had a 6-year career at McKinsey. He is a very famous investor from the popular Danish entrepreneurial program "Lion’s Den".

Christian is also a keynote speaker, who talks about start-ups, ecommerce, investing, company building, and entrepreneurship.
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Christine Alemany
CEO at TBGA & LinkedIn Top Voice 2022
Christine Alemany is passionate about helping emerging companies grow and scale.

An engineer by training and marketer at heart, she is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience reinvigorating brands, building demand generation programs, and launching products for startups and Fortune 500 companies.

In her spare time, she advises startups through Columbia Business School’s Entrepreneurial Sounding Board and is a teaching fellow at the NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center.
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Christine Spiten
Co-founder at Blueye Robotics
Christine is a tech entrepreneur, expedition sailor and co-founder of Blueye Robotics. She has also worked in the World Wildlife Fund, and was part of their global innovation, team targeting circular economy and developing plastic smart solutions in collaboration with international key-players.

Recently she moved into finance, at Fearnley Securities, positioned to accelerate the green shift in the blue economy and bridge the gap between early-stage investments and industrialisation.
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Cian Mcloughlin
CEO at Trinity Perspectives
Cian Mcloughlin is a SaaS Start-up Founder, Best-selling Author, Award winning blogger and Top 50 global keynote speaker.

He was selected as a LinkedIn Top Voice in 2022 and is a regular sales and marketing commentator in the mainstream media.
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Ciara Imani May
CEO & Founder at Rebundle
Ciara Imani May is the CEO and Founder of Rebundle.She is creating space for Black women in clean beauty with the first US-made, plant-based, and non-toxic braiding hair brand. Ciara's combined passion for sustainability and understanding of health disparities in personal care products inspired the vision for Rebundle.

Ciara earned her bachelor's in business management from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her master's in social entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California.
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Craig Newmark
Founder at Craigslist & Craig Newmark Philanthropies
Founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies Craig Newmark is a philanthropist who gets stuff done.

Most commonly known for founding the online classified ads service craigslist, Newmark creates and funds networks that work to protect the country and to help people out.
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David Aaker
Vice Chairman at Prophet
David Aaker, Vice-Chairman of Prophet, has received five career awards for contributions to the practice and science of marketing that include being named to the NYAMA Marketing Hall of Fame and receiving the Sheth Foundation Medal.

He has published over 100 articles and 18 books that have sold well over one million copies and include Aaker on Branding, Creating Signature Stores, Owning Game-Changing Subcategories, and The Future of Purpose-Driven Branding.
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David Cohen
Co-founder & Chairman at Techstars
David Cohen is the Founder and Chairman at Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. David has been an entrepreneur and investor for his entire life. He has only had one job interview in his career, successfully got that job but then quit shortly thereafter to start his first company.
Since then, he has founded several companies and has invested in hundreds of startups such as Uber, Twilio, SendGrid, Digital Ocean, Pillpack, Classpass, Zipline, Scopely, Outreach, Remitly, SalesLoft, and DataRobot. In total, these investments have gone on to create more than $210B in value.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Co-owner & CTO at 37signals (Makers of Basecamp & HEY)

David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of Basecamp & HEY.

He is a best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, antitrust advocate, frequent podcast guest, and family man.
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David Holmes
Chief Business Officer at Socket Mobile
Dave is responsible for Socket Mobile’s worldwide business development and marketing activities. He’s one of the pioneers in the NFC and mobile payments industry with over 20 years of experience and is an ardent believer in the future of mobile and digital access, experience, and payments.

Dave has worked with NFC industry leader NXP and Identive and his more recent experience was with UL’s Cybersecurity division, where he had responsibility for their Global Strategic Accounts.
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David Schonthal
Entrepreneurship Professor at Kellogg School
David Schonthal, entrepreneurship professor at Kellogg School of Management and co-author of the WSJ bestseller The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance that Awaits New Ideas.
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David Simas
President at Obama Foundation
David Simas is the President of the Obama Foundation.

He was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in 2007. Simas then joined President Obama’s administration in 2009 as a Deputy Assistant to the President, working with senior advisors David Axelrod and David Plouffe.

In 2012, he served as Director of Opinion Research for President Obama's reelection campaign. Following the reelection, Simas returned to the White House as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach.
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Davide Dattoli
Founder & Executive Chairman at Talent Garden
Davide Dattoli is the founder and Executive Chairman of Talent Garden, the largest Europe-based EduTech company.

He is a selected member of a global 5% top Endeavor Entrepreneurs movement. He holds Forbes 30 Under 30 technology list in Europe, WIRED nomination as one of the TOP 5 innovators in Italy.

Davide is also an advisory board member of Iliad, Digital Magics and Be. He invests in many start-ups across Europe like Will Media, WeRoad, Bending Spoons.
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Deena Zenyk & Liz Richardson
Co-founders at Captivate Collective
Liz Richardson:
Liz is an award-winning customer marketer and advocacy executive well-known for her innovative work in customer engagement methodology.

Her passion is generating best practices and education in the advocacy and engagement field, and is the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Captivate Collective, a leading customer advocacy and engagement agency.

Deena Zenyk:
Deena is a true pioneer in her field with nearly 20 years of hands-on experience in advocate marketing and customer engagement.

She co-authored the foundational customer advocacy best-seller The Messenger is the Message, and continues to define, test and refine industry best practices as co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at Captivate Collective.
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Dragan Šolak
Founder at United Group Media House
Dragan Šolak is the founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of United Group.

Under his stewardship the company has grown from a green field investment in a small cable operator in Central Serbia to become a regional leader delivering broadband, mobile, and pay-TV services a market of more than 40 million people across eight countries, serving over 15m subscribers.

Now United Group is unique ecosystem of telecom, media, advertising, and technology companies.

In memory of Dr. Edgar H. Schein 1928 - 2023
Professor Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management
Ed Schein is Professor Emeritus of the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was educated at the University of Chicago, Stanford, and Harvard where he received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 1952.

He worked at the Walter Reed Institute of Research for four years and then joined MIT in 1956 where he taught until 2005.

He continues to consult and recently has published a book on the general theory and practice of giving and receiving help (Helping, 2009) and Humble Inquiry, 2013.
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Eilon Reshef
Co-founder & CPO at Gong
Eilon Reshef is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Gong, the leading revenue intelligence platform, unlocking reality to help people and companies reach their full potential.

Before co-founding Gong, Eilon co-founded Webcollage, a SaaS solution in the e-commerce infrastructure space.

Eilon holds an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science (summa cum laude) from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Technion.
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Fraser Doherty
Founder at SuperJam & Co-founder at Beer52
Fraser Doherty MBE is the founder of SuperJam – a 100% fruit jam company he started in Scotland at 14 using his grandmother’s recipes. The company now supplies major retailers around the world and has won over 20 innovation and design awards.

Fraser has been commended by the Prime Minister at Downing Street, by HRH Prince Charles and was awarded a medal (MBE) “for services to business” by The Queen.

He is also the co-founder of Beer52; the world’s largest craft beer club.
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Gabriele Carboni
Co-founder at Weevo
Gabriele Carboni is the co-founder of Weevo and a leading expert in international digital marketing strategies. He was mentioned by Philip Kotler as the "North Star of Impact Marketing''.

He is a digital strategy consultant for Lamborghini, iliad, Danone, Aboca and many others. Gabriele is a keynote speaker, author and creator of the most downloaded marketing canvas in the world.

He’s one of the five major Italian marketing influencers according to Digitalic. Furthermore, he’s a guest professor for several Italian and international universities.
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Gareth I. Jones
Founder at TownSq
Gareth I. Jones is a serial entrepreneur. He set up TownSq, a B Corp focused on building community-led coworking spaces.

Prior to launching TownSq, in 2011 he founded Welsh ICE, one of the UK’s largest communities of entrepreneurs which grew to over 500 innovative businesses.

Gareth has held roles on a range of boards, including the Prime Minister's Small Business, Scale ups and Entrepreneurs Council, UnLtd Future Pioneers, Platform Places, IWA Future 30 and more.
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Geoffrey Moore
Author, Speaker, Advisor
Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Wildcat Venture Partners portfolios and established high-tech enterprises.

He helped found The Chasm Group, Chasm Institute, and TCG Advisors and today he is chairman emeritus of all three.

Moore is the author of Crossing the Chasm and Zone to Win. Additionally, he gives between 50 and 80 speeches a year.
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Germaine Moody
Chairman & CEO at Moody Capital Partners
Germaine Moody is a philanthropist, investor, entrepreneur and author, revered as an international networking pioneer and one of the most connected professionals in the world.

He is the founder of Atlanta Shopping Network, The Moody Gala, Become Endless International, and Chairman & CEO of Moody Capital Partners.

He is the author of "The 40 Laws of Networking", "50 Seeds of Greatness", and "5 Rules For Networking With Millionaires & Billionaires".
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Giuliano Liguori
CEO at Kenovy
Co-founder & CEO of Kenovy – Key of Innovation, Giuliano Liguori is a leading voice in AI, Industry 4.0, and Digital Transformation.

Over the past 18 years, he has helped organizations and enterprises become smarter and more efficient by embracing innovation, leveraging awesome technologies, and successfully integrating OT and IT.

His blog Digital Leaders promotes digital transformation, industry 4.0, and AI adoption.

He is also a member of the executive board of CIO Club Italia.
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Hans Hartman
Founder at Suite 48 Analytics & Chair at Visual 1st

Hans is chair of Visual 1st and founder of Suite 48 Analytics, a market research firm for the photo and video industry.

He also publishes the bi-weekly Visual 1st Perspectives newsletter, which includes analyses of trending imaging topics as well as a roundup of photo and video industry news.

Hans was seni director of market research at Nero, and director of product strategy Quark. He co-founded Piczo and was director of professional solutions at Live Picture.
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Henrik Fabrin
CEO & Co-founder at Certainly
Henrik Fabrin is the CEO & Co-founder of Certainly. He is a self-taught entrepreneur with one successful exit. Certainly, he is still building.

Henrik is motivated by working with inspired people for a common goal. He is a tech nerd and has worked in ecommerce tech for +10 years building technology that accelerates growth for companies.

Henrik regularly keynotes nationally and internationally and is an advisor on AI and Digitalization.
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Hichame Assi
CEO at Envato
Hichame Assi is CEO of Envato, one of the world’s leading communities for creative assets and tools, and has over two decades of experience in online business and e-commerce platforms.

Prior to joining Envato, Hichame was CEO of HotelsCombined and lead the Sydney-founded business from start-up to scale-up as it grew internationally.

In Hichame's spare time he can be found reading about the fields of Open & Social Innovation, mentoring entrepreneurs and negotiating with his teenage son.
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Isabel Aagaard
Co-founder & Designer at LastObject
Isabel Aagaard is a Co-founder and Designer at LastObject.

Isabel graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Her mission is to create durable and well-designed products that are reusable.

When she and her team discovered the harmful effects of single-use cotton swabs on the environment, they started working on a solution to fix it. In April 2019, they launched LastSwab, the first reusable alternative to cotton swabs.
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J.T. O'Donnell
Founder & CEO Work It Daily
J.T. O'Donnell has been in staffing, recruiting, and HR for over eighteen years, with a specific focus on disrupting the professional development industry.

She founded WorkItDaily.com to provide career coaching to people in all professions and skill levels.

With over 2.6 million followers on LinkedIn and over one million on TikTok, she's determined to drop the physical and financial boundaries to accessing career coaching in hopes of empowering millions of people to embrace a workplace revolution.
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Jakob Neua Nørgaard
Founder at Estaldo
Jakob is a high school dropout who has been working with different tech start-ups since 2000. Jakob dedicates all his professional success to his wife without whom "he couldn't have created anything".

He considers the publicly listed digital signature platform Penneo.com as his greatest professional achievement.

At the moment, Jakob is involved in a proptech start-up called Estaldo with the ambition to change the world of selling and buying properties.
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Janne Müller-Wieland
Triple Olympian & Co-founder at Unthink
Janne is a three-time Olympian, Olympic Medalist, TEDx Speaker, and former captain of the German National Hockey Team.

She has also successfully completed an MBA, worked for big corporates, invested in startups, and founded two companies herself (Futury and Unthink), currently working with leaders from all around the world helping them achieve their goals.
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Janneke Niessen
Co-founder at CapitaIT
Janneke Niessen is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and founding partner at CapitalT.

She is an angel investor, board member, diversity advocate, and co-initiator of InspiringFifty, an initiative to increase diversity in technology by raising the visibility of female role models.

Janneke has been named one of Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year, one of the 10 most prominent angel investors, Most Innovative Leader, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year.
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Jason Feifer
Editor in Chief at Entrepreneur Magazine
Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, author of the upcoming book Build For Tomorrow, a startup advisor, and host of two podcasts: Help Wanted and Problem Solvers.

He has written about business and technology for the Washington Post, Slate, New York magazine, and others.
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Jeffrey Hollender
CEO, Author, Speaker, Consultant, Professor & Activist
Jeffrey Hollender is a CEO, author, speaker, consultant, professor, activist and leading authority on sustainability.

From his time as CEO of Seventh Generation to teaching sustainability at NYU Stern School of Business, his mission remains the same - to inspire business leaders to become radically more sustainable, transparent and responsible.
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Jennifer Dulski
CEO & Founder at Rising Team
Jennifer Dulski is CEO and founder of Rising Team.

She has been leading teams for more than 20+ years as an executive at both big tech companies and scaling startups, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, and Change.org. Her lifelong passion is centered around empowering people to reach their full potential.

She currently teaches management at Stanford Graduate School of Business, serves on several boards, and writes about leadership and the future of work as a LinkedIn Influencer.
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Jesper Jarlbæk
Chairman at DanBAN
Jesper, born in Denmark in 1956, has lived in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and Denmark.

He was educated as an economist and accountant and had a long career in global professional service firms.

Since 2006, he has been a Business Angel investor, a Board member of 6 listed companies in Denmark and the US, and an adviser and chair of private equity funds.
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Joe Pulizzi
Author, Podcaster, Marketing speaker & Entrepreneur
Joe Pulizzi is author, podcaster, marketing speaker and entrepreneur.

He is the founder of multiple startups including content creator education site, The Tilt, the content entrepreneur event Creator Economy Expo (CEX).

Joe is the bestselling author of seven books including Content Inc. and Epic Content Marketing. He has two weekly podcasts; the motivational Content Inc. podcast and the content news and analysis show This Old Marketing with Robert Rose.
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John Amaechi
Founder at APS Intelligence
John Amaechi OBE is a respected organisational psychologist, Chartered Scientist, international bestselling author and Founder of APS Intelligence.

He is a coach and mentor to numerous C-suite executives and a strategic advisor who uses his deep psychological insight combined with real world experience to provide a touchstone for people and organisations that want to thrive through the disruption and change inherent in this new world of work.

John is an Honorary Professor at University of Exeter Business School.
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Jonah Berger
Marketing Professor at The Wharton School
Dr. Jonah Berger is a marketing professor and internationally bestselling author.He is a world-renowned expert on change, word of mouth, influence, consumer behavior, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

He has published over 50 articles in top-tier academic journals, and popular outlets like The New York Times and Harvard Business Review often cover his work.

He’s keynoted hundred of events, and often consults for organizations like Google, Apple, Nike, and the Gates Foundation.
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Jonas Warrer
Olympic Gold Medalist, Speaker & Coach
Jonas Warrer is a Danish Olympic Gold medalist.

He has been sailing the Olympic 49er dinghy for twenty years. Participated 3 times at the Olympic Games: Beijing, 2008 - Gold. Rio, 2016 - 4th Tokyo, 2020 - 5th He was elected as Danish flagbearer in Tokyo.

Jonas is among the best 49er sailors in the world for fifteen years. He has mostly coached 49er sailors and teams from all over the world.
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Junior Borneli
CEO & Founder at StartSe
Junior Borneli, 42 years old, born in a small town of 13 thousand inhabitants in the interior of Brazil, is CEO and founder of StartSe, one of the main edtechs in the world, with branches in 5 countries.

He is the author of the best-selling Infinite Organizations, has more than 10 million readers on Linkedin and is part of the Marketing Hall of Fame in Brazil.
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Justin Rosenstein
Co-founder at Asana
Justin's aim is to help us transition to a thriving, equitable, ecological civilization by unlocking the potential of human collaboration.
He is currently focused on the companies One Project and Asana. Previously, he was co-inventor of Google Drive, Gmail Chat, Facebook Pages, and Facebook's Like button.

Justin is also a founding advisor to the Center for Humane Technology and a student of Nature, philosophy, meditation, yoga, qigong, and cats.

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Justin Welsh
Investor, Advisor & Mentor
Over the last decade, Justin Welsh has helped build two $50M+ ARR companies, teams of 150+ people, and raise over $300M in venture capital.

Now he's building a portfolio of one-person online businesses to $5M in revenue.

Outside of that, he's an advisor to early-stage SMB SaaS companies, a mentor to entrepreneurs at 500 Startups, and an LP at GTM Fund, a rolling fund investing $4 million per year into early-stage B2B SaaS companies.
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Kasper Holst Hansen
CEO & Founder at Flying BizKit
Kasper Holst Hansen is the Founder and CEO of Flying BizKit, a company investing in early social impact startups. He is also a member or chair of several boards and advisory boards.

Previously he founded EduLab, the EdTech company behind the digital math portal MatematikFessor which spearheaded the digitalisation of the education sector in Denmark. In 2020 EduLab was successfully sold to Egmont, the largest publisher in Denmark.
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Katherine Salisbury
Co-founder & co-CEO at Qapital
Katherine Salisbury is co-founder and co-CEO of Qapital – an app that empowers users by putting their personal goals at the core, and then supercharging their savings, investing, and budgeting efforts.

Katherine brings 20 years of finance, legal, and business experience to Qapital.

She began her career as a bank finance attorney at law firms White & Case and Simpson Thacher. Afterwards, she served as VP and Counsel at Jefferies Finance.
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Kim Nøhr Skibsted
Former VP at Grundfos Foundation
Kim Nøhr Skibsted is former Vice President in the Grundfos Group and former VP of Communications, CSR & HR at JYSK Holding. He is the Foundation’s voice towards the press and media.

He holds a degree in literature and journalism and has extensive experience in Public Relations and copywriting. He is on the board of a number of companies.
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Kristine Nagle
Founder & Sustainability Advisor at Impact House
Kristine Nagle is the Founder and Sustainability advisor of Impact House. Impact House is helping fast-growing tech companies launch and scale sustainability.

Her experience includes managing accelerator programs at Startup Wise Guys, gaining a global network as the CEO of TechChill, and recently building a sustainability strategy for the first Latvian unicorn, Printful.
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Lars Tvede
Investor, Serial Entrepreneur & Author
Lars Tvede is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, a successful financial investor and bestselling author of 17 books.

In 2016, he co-founded the venture capital fund Nordic Eye, which is slated to become one of the most profitable venture funds ever founded in Europe.

In 2019, he founded Supertrends AG, which uses AI, text-mining and crowdsourcing to map global innovation – past, present and in the future.
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Leen Gorissen
Founder at Centre4NI
Leen Gorissen, Ph.D. in Biology, is specialized in ecology, transition science, regenerative development and bio-inspired innovation.

She is the author of the recent book Building the Future of Innovation on millions of years of Natural Intelligence and the founder of Centre4NI.

She is a frequently asked evaluator of innovation projects by the European Commission, a thought leader on innovation for a better world, a practitioner of regenerative design and a strategist & business innovation process facilitator.
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Lorraine K. Lee
Virtual Keynote Speaker & LinkedIn Learning Instructor
LORRAINE K. LEE helps organizations and teams supercharge their professional presence — i.e. how they come across to others and where others come across them.

She’s a top-rated global keynote speaker, a consultant, and an instructor for Stanford Continuing Studies and LinkedIn Learning.

Lorraine has 300,000+ followers on LinkedIn and 10+ years of experience leading editorial teams at top tech firms.

She has appeared in publications including Inc., ReadWrite, and Entrepreneur.
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Louis Bouchard
Co-founder at Toward's AI
Louis Bouchard is a researcher, YouTuber, and community manager. He is co-founder of Toward’s AI and owner of What’s AI.
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Louise Herping Ellegaard
Entrepreneur & Investor
Louise Herping Ellegaard co-founded one of the first EdTech startups in Denmark, Clio Online, and then Bonnier Education in Sweden (exited both in 2018).

Since then, she co-founded a HealthTech startup, MYiNNERME, with a Danish child psychologist (exited in 2021).

Today, she invests in startups and scale-ups and sits on different boards and committees.

She is also one of the investors in the new season of the Danish investment show ‘’Lion’s Den’’ (2022-2023). Louise also volunteers as a jury member in various accelerator programs or fundraisers and as a mentor, adviser, ambassador, etc.
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Lubomila Jordanova
Co-founder & CEO at Plan A
Lubomila Jordanova is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, a leading corporate carbon accounting, decarbonisation, and ESG reporting software solutions provider.

Lubomila is also co-founder of the Greentech Alliance. Prior to Plan A, she worked in investment banking and venture capital as well as the fintech industry in Asia and Europe. She has been recognised as Obama Leader Europe 2022.
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Lucien Engelen
CEO at Transform.Health
Lucien is the CEO at Transform.Health. He is a Linkedin Influencer 800K+ followers/ 150K+ subscribers newsletter.

He is Global Strategist Digital health for Deloitte’s Center for the Edge and Vodafone, where he leads Global Digital Health next to still working at Laurentius Medical Center. .

He is also a public speaker, where he touches on how the intersection of technology and (patient) empowerment is creating momentum for delocalization of healthcare.
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Madhuban Pandey
Co-founder & COO at SCORE Livelihood Foundation
Madhuban is the Co-Founder and COO of SCORE Livelihood Foundation (SLF). SLF is a New Delhi-based social enterprise focused on job creation, enterprise and local economic development.

Over the last 20 years, he has worked at national and international organizations in the development sector.

A Master Trainer for the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) program of the International Labor Organization and Professional Fellow of the US State Department in the area of Local Economic Development.
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Mads Fosselius
CEO & Co-founder at Dixa
Mads leads the next-generation customer service platform company Dixa as CEO and co-founder.

The company’s mission is to transform the customer experience for brands across the globe and help them create positive and valuable experiences for their customers and agents alike.

For 20+ years, Mads’ focus has been to drive and accelerate change in the customer service space, initially as an engineer and later in more leadership-oriented and strategic roles.
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Mads Påskesen
Entrepreneur, Investor & Co-founder at PL & Partners
Mads is an entrepreneur and investor. He’s the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of one of Denmark’s leading digital marketing agencies, PL & Partners, which he founded with his partner seven years ago.

PL & Partners currently has around 50 employees in its office in Copenhagen.

Mads also recently co-founded a new venture called ‘anew sleep’ that will soon launch to be a D2C e-commerce brand.
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Marcus Sheridan
International Keynote Speaker
Marcus is a highly sought-after international keynote speaker. In 2017, Forbes named Marcus "One of 20 Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss.”

As an owner of IMPACT, Marcus has established one of the most successful digital sales and marketing agencies in the country.

Within his speaking company, Marcus Sheridan International, he gives more than 70 global keynotes annually in which he inspires audiences in the areas of sales, marketing, leadership, and communication.
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Mark Schaefer
Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker & Author
Mark Schaefer is a marketing consultant, Rutgers University faculty member, and the author of KNOWN: The Handbook for Building and Launching Your Personal Brand.
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Martin Lindstrøm
Founder & Chairman at Lindstrom Company
Martin Lindstrom is the founder and chairman of Lindstrom Company.

He is a leading brand, culture & transformation expert. TIME Magazine has named him one of the “World’s 100 Most Influential People,”.

In December Lindstrom was selected as LinkedIN’s #1 influencer in the US.

Among the companies he advises are Lidl, Maersk, Burger King, Lowes, Pepsi, UBER, Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle and Google.

Lindstrom is a New York Times best-selling author of eight books translated into 60 languages.
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Matt Mullenweg
Co-founder at WordPress
Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of WordPress, which now powers over 40% of all sites on the web.

He is the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, WPVIP, Day One, and Pocket Casts.

Additionally, Matt runs Audrey Capital, an investment and research company.

He has been recognized for his leadership by Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Inc. Magazine, TechCrunch, Fortune, Fast Company, Wired, University Philosophical Society, and Vanity Fair.
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Maybritt Toft Bisp
Co-founder & CEO at Youandx
Maybritt Toft Bisp (Denmark) is the co-founder of the platform Youandx, which connects validated experts, speakers, course providers, and agencies with customers in a transparent, clear, and inspiring way.

Youandx was created based on Maybritt’s many years of experience with the traditional speakers-industry approach and a burning desire to precisely transform the exclusionary, unapproachable, and opaque business model that this traditional approach offered the market.
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Meik Wiking
Founder & CEO at The Happiness Research Institute
Meik Wiking is the founder and CEO of The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen.

He's a research associate for the World Database of Happiness, member of the Advisory committee to the Global Happiness Policy Report and Founder of The Happiness Museum in Copenhagen.

In addition, he is a New York Times best-selling author and has been translated into 38 languages – and has been called the happiest man in the world by The Times.
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Mette Fløe Nielsen
Co-founder & General Partner at VÅR Ventures
Mette works as an investor and advisor of businesses offering a product or solution within the area of sustainability.

She uses her years of experience within the digital sector to aid businesses scale and develop their impact.

As CEO of M.I.L. Invest, a privately owned investment vehicle, founder of The Impact Collective, a fixed syndicate of impact investors, and GP in the Impact born venture fund VÅR Ventures, she engages with technology driven businesses driven by purpose.
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Michael Litman
Senior Director of Web3 and NFT's at Media.Monks
Michael is Senior Director, Emerging Technology at Media.Monks.

He is a collector, connector and advisor to NFT projects, founding member of Meebits DAO, web3 believer and thought leader.

He can be found at the intersection between brands, tech, culture and commerce.
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Michelle Tunno Buelow
Founder & CEO at Bella Tunno
Michelle Tunno Buelow is the founder of Bella Tunno, the purpose-driven baby brand on a mission to end childhood hunger.

She serves on several philanthropic boards and volunteers with various local organizations.

Michelle was named one of Inc’s 100 Female Founders and Forbes Next 1000.
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Mika Salmi
Serial Entrepreneur & Investor
Mika Salmi is a serial entrepreneur. He has invested in multiple unicorns, discovered Grammy, Oscar and Emmy winning artists, created the original online short video company, run the internet’s most popular casual games web sites, built one of the first sports tracking apps, and pioneered new business models in education.

Mika has done this as a Founder and as a CEO. Now he is leading Lakestar as Managing Partner, a top global VC based in Europe.
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Mike Korba
CEO & Co-founder at User.com
Mike Korba is a CEO & Co-founder at User.com, Marketing Automation Expert, trainer, internet enthusiast and theoretician, e-marketing practitioner, lecturer on biggest polish universities.

He's been working in the marketing industry for over 19 years. As an internet entrepreneur he understands what it means to "do marketing with limited resources.

He's been a speaker at many conferences, including: Web Summit, SaaStock, Tedx, Infoshare.
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Mike Saunders
CEO at Digitalab

Mike Saunders is an entrepreneur, the CEO of Digitlab, an international keynote speaker and author.

A man who uses his frenetic energy and mischievous curiosity to process complexity and spell it out for us in actionable lessons.

He’s a thought leader and expert in business and marketing strategy for the digital economy.
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Mikko Alasaarela
Co-founder & CEO at Equel Social
Mikko Alasaarela is the co-founder and CEO of Equel Social, an AI-powered networking platform helping people across the world access life-changing career and business opportunities.

Mikko is a globally recognized expert in algorithmic influence and a regular public speaker in international conferences about the topic.
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Moonie Zhu
Co-founder at eTOC
Moonie is a Chinese national living in Germany since 2006.

She is the go-to person for all things relating to Chinese e-commerce and digital marketing.

Besides being a renowned China expert, Moonie is also an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, Influencer, and female leadership advocator.

She is the co-founder of the China-focused e-commerce and social media agency eTOC, which has already assisted over 100 international brands to thrive in the Chinese market.
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Morten Albæk
Founder & CEO at Voluntās
Morten Albæk is a philosopher, bestselling author, international public speaker, and Founder and CEO of advisory company Voluntās, the world’s first advisory firm to systematically measure and consult on meaningfulness.

Before founding Voluntās, Morten was Chief Marketing Officer and member of the Executive Committee at the global wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas Wind Systems (2009-2015). Yet before that, Morten was the SVP for Development of Ideas & Innovation at the multinational banking and financial services corporation Danske Bank (2002-2008).

In 2020, The American marketing organization ‘The Internationalist’ ranked Morten among ‘The 20 most Inspiring Marketers of the First 20 Years of the 21st Century’, and Fast Company has selected him as one of the 1.000 most creative business-people in the world along with Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. Morten is also the only Scandinavian ever to be selected five times for the Internationalist’s list ‘Top 100 Most Influential CMOs’ (2011-2015).

In addition, Morten is the author of several bestsellers. The most recent, One Life: How we forgot to live meaningful lives, is the best-selling philosophical book in Denmark in recent years. The book has been translated from Danish into English, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Korean, Arabic, Serbian and is underway in several other languages. His next book, False Truths in Life, will be published in Danish ultimo 2022.
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Nancy Lublin
Co-founder at Primiga LLC
Nancy Lublin is an innovator, advisor, investor, and entrepreneur.

She has raised over $250 million in funding for not-for-profits and tech start-ups which have employed over 1500 people, engaged tens of thousands of volunteers, and impacted millions of lives.

Dress for Success, DoSomething.org, Crisis Text Line, and Loris.ai have each been noted pioneers in their fields.

Lublin currently advises startups and invests in new technologies. Her leadership has been recognized with many awards and articles.
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Nathan Chan
CEO at 'foundr' Magazine
Nathan Chan is the CEO & founder of 'foundr', a global educational platform built for entrepreneurs.

Frustrated with the lack of REAL advice for those wanting to build and scale a business, Nathan launched Foundr in 2013 and set out to interview the world's greatest entrepreneurs.

Foundr's platform has featured the likes of Richard Branson, Mark Cuban and Ariana Huffington, amassed a global community of 4+ million people, and has become one of the fastest growing entrepreneurial brands in the world.
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Naveen Jain
Serial Entrepreneur, Author & Founder at Moon Express
Naveen is the author of the award-winning book Moonshots: Creating a World of Abundance.

As a serial entrepreneur, he previously founded InfoSpace, Intelius, and TalentWise.

Moon Express is the only company globally with permission to harvest resources from the moon.

In addition, he is the Vice-Chairman of the Board at Singularity University. He is also on the Board of the XPRIZE Foundation. Naveen has been the recipient of many honors for his entrepreneurial successes.
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Neal Schaffer
Fractional CMO, Author & Keynote Speaker
Neal Schaffer is an authority on helping innovative businesses digitally transform their marketing.

Neal has served as a Fractional CMO for several leading organizations helping them with their digital, content, influencer, and social media marketing.

Neal also teaches executives at Rutgers Business School and UCLA Extension.

He has also authored four marketing books, including The Age of Influence (HarperCollins Leadership), a ground-breaking book redefining digital influence.
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Nille Skalts
Founder at B Corp in the Nordics
Nille is a founder and executive director of B Corp in the Nordics.

She is a corporate activist, strategic advisor, movement builder, systems architect, and change agent facilitating the transition to a regenerative economy.

She is the co-founder of Danish change agency Märk, a certified B Corp, she serves as a board member in several design companies and is a lecturer in Corporate Activism at Copenhagen Business School and The Royal Danish Academy for Architecture, Design & Conservation.
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Nina Shini
Co-founder & CEO at Social Works
Nina Shini is the co-founder of Social Works.

She has been an entrepreneur since age 17 and knows quite a lot about marketing and brand positioning.

She was born in Denmark and lives in Copenhagen where she runs Social Work’s office with 20 employees.
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Nir Eyal
Entrepreneur, Consultant & Author
Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.

Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.

Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.”

He is the author of two bestselling books. Nir invests in habit-forming products that improve users’ lives.
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Ovi Negrean
Co-founder & CEO at SocialBee
Ovi Negrean is the co-founder & CEO of SocialBee (an all-in-one social media management tool for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers).
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Pascal Bornet
LinkedIn Top Voice in Tech & AI/Automation Expert
Pascal Bornet is a recognized global expert in Artificial Intelligence and Automation. He is a keynote speaker, a lecturer, and a tech influencer.

Pascal is also a senior executive with 20+ years of experience leading digital transformations.

He is the founder and former leader of the “AI and Automation” practices at Mckinsey and Ernst & Young (EY).
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Pascal Finette
Co-founder at 'be radical'
Pascal is the Co-founder of 'be radical', EY’s wavespace Advisory Board Chair, and a member of Pearson’s Digital Advisory Board.

Previously he held leadership positions at Google.org, Mozilla, and eBay, built technology startups, and launched a Venture Capital firm. He is the posse leader at TheHeretic.org, and is a general upstart when it comes to creating meaningful change.
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Pauline Laigneau
Co-founder at Gemmyo
Pauline Laigneau has become a key figure in French entrepreneurship. She co-founded Gemmyo, today one of the major actors of the French jewellery industry.

She is also the host of the "The Pauline Laigneau podcast", the number 1 business podcast in French speaking countries.

In 2020, she launched a business training program called Demian to help entrepreneurs and people who want to become the best version of themselves.
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Payman Taei
Founder & President at Visme
Payman Taei is the founder of Visme, an all-in-one visual communication platform empowering over 16 million businesses and individuals to create beautiful on-brand assets in engaging presentations, infographics, documents, graphics and everything in-between.
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Peter Docker
Speaker, Teacher & Author
Peter Docker’s latest book, Leading from the Jumpseat, delivers the message that leadership is about lifting people up and giving them the space they need so that, when the time is right, they can take the lead.

Co-author of, Find Your Why and formerly a founding Igniter at Simon Sinek Inc.

Peter draws on his 25-year career in the Royal Air Force, and 14+ years partnering with businesses around the world, to inspire others to Lead from the Jumpseat.
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Peter Lauritsen
Co-founder & CPO at TEXTA
Peter Kragh Lauritsen is a co-founder and CPO in the Danish inbound marketing agency TEXTA.

As a content and email marketing strategist, he works with both B2B and D2C brands to increase traffic and revenue via inbound marketing for both Danish and international clients like Randstad, Pilgrim and Stora Enso.
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Peter Michael Oxholm Zigler
Co-founder at Autobutler & Boon
Peter Zigler is the co-founder of Autobutler, a tech company that radically turned the automotive industry upside down and was acquired by PSA in 2017.

Following the Autobutler adventure he is now the founder of Boon. At Boon, they are facilitating the individual becoming an enterprise by enabling them with tools to monetise their content and eventually be themselves for a living.
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Prerna Gupta
Founder & CEO at Mysterious
Prerna is Founder & CEO of Mysterious, a messenger app designed to foster meaningful conversation in tight-knit communities.

She is a serial entrepreneur who has launched mobile entertainment apps, like Hooked and Smule, reaching over a billion people.

Prerna has been named one of the Most Influential Women in Tech by Fast Company, and her writing has been featured in New York Times, Vogue, and TechCrunch, among others.
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Robin Daniels
Transformational Leader
Robin Daniels is a transformational leader with over two decades of experience in leading companies, including Salesforce, Box, WeWork, LinkedIn, Matterport, and LMS365.

His experience includes taking two companies public, delivering hyper growth, while inspiring teams to do the best work of their lives.
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Salim Ismail
Chairman at OpenExo & Bestselling Author
Salim Ismail is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and Chairman at OpenExO.

He is sought-after strategist and has been building disruptive digital companies as a serial entrepreneur since the early 2000s.

As a prolific speaker, Salim gives more than 150 talks a year.

He has been profiled across a vast array of media outlets including The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, WIRED, Vogue, and the BBC.
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Sanne Wevers
Two-time Olympian Artistic Gymnast
Sanne Wevers is a Dutch artistic gymnast. She's a two-time Olympian, having competed in 2016 Rio de Janeiro and 2020 Tokyo.

Wevers is the 2016 Olympic champion on balance beam and was the first Dutch female gymnast to become an individual Olympic champion. She's known for her daring and difficult spins on balance beam.

She has a twin sister, Lieke, and they were both on the 2016 and 2020 Olympic teams.
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Sara Schøler Lass
Founder at WeZimplify & Zimplifi
Sara Schøler Lass is an entrepreneur, founder of the companies WeZimplify & Zimplifi, and an expert within the field of customer innovation, digital business development and design thinking.

Through her company Zimplifi & previous experience as global innovation manager in Grundfos she helps companies to become more digital & customer focused.

Sara was appointed one of Denmark’s 100 talents in 2012, and has launched several podcasts about innovation and entrepreneurship through Zimplifi.
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Dr. Sarah Wood
Co-Founder at Unruly
Sarah Wood co-founded Unruly in 2006, scaling a global video advertising marketplace that was acquired by News Corp in 2015. A former board member of Superdry plc, and author of the business book, Stepping Up.

Sarah is currently a trustee of children’s mental health charity Anna Freud. She has been named Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year, City AM Entrepreneur of the Year, and awarded an OBE for services to technology and innovation.
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Seth Godin
Founder, Blogger, Entrepreneur & Author
Seth Godin (USA) is the author of 21 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages.

He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything.

Before his work as a writer and a blogger, Godin was Vice President of Direct Marketing at Yahoo!.
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Sharon Peake
Founder & CEO at Shape Talent
Sharon is the Founder and CEO of Shape Talent, the gender equity experts for organisations who are serious about gender equity.

She is a chartered psychologist and certified coach and prior to starting her business held senior leadership roles in two global business.

Born in Australia, Sharon now lives in the UK, and her roles have given her experience working across six continents, delivering work in locations as diverse as Colombia, Romania, India, Uganda, New York, and Hong Kong.
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Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech
VP Impact at D-ID
Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech is the founder of Listen to My Voice, an award-winning, AI-based media campaign against domestic violence, a social tech entrepreneur, and an AI Impact Leader at tech companies. Shiran harnesses her passions for creativity, technology, and humanity by leveraging generative AI for good through global, diverse projects. She also has a years-long experience in volunteering to help women at risk.

Shiran graduated from the Kellogg Executive MBA program at Northwestern University.
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Shyamala Prayaga
Conversational AI Expert & Author
Shyamala is a seasoned conversational AI expert and author.

Having led initiatives across connected home, automotive, and wearables, she's put her work on research into usability, accessibility, speech recognition, and multimodal voice user interfaces and has been published in publications like Forbes.

She's spent the last 20 years designing mobile, web, desktop, and smart TV interfaces and has most recently joined NVIDIA.

She’s also the founder of the Digital Assistant Academy.
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Signe Hartvig Daugaard
Founder & CEO at Great Minority
Signe Hartvig Daugaard is Founder & CEO of Great Minority - a media company which works for a better and wider representation of minorities.

Last year she founded the first Entrepreneur Bootcamp for young adults with disabilities in Denmark.

Signe won the Sustainable Development Goal prize 2022.
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Simon Kollerup
Minister of Economic and Business Affairs (Denmark)
Simon Kollerup was appointed Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs the 27th of June 2019.

He has been a member of the Danish Parliament for The Social Democratic Party since 2011.
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Sofia Nunes
Co-founder at Mambu
Sofia is a coach and one of the co-founders of Mambu, a leading provider of cloud banking software.

With a background in Psychology and a Master in Human-Computer Interaction, she used her passion for people and experience design to create an inspiring environment where Mambu’s unique culture flourished from start-up to scaleup.

In May 2022 she left her role at Mambu to focus on coaching purpose-driven leaders around the world.
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Sonia Arrison
Entrepreneur, Author & Investor
Sonia Arrison is an entrepreneur, investor, and best-selling author.

She is founder of 100 Plus Capital, Chair of the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives, advisor to Felicis Ventures, and advisor to Bioverge, which invests at the convergence of biology and technology.

Previously, she was co-founder of Unsugarcoat Media (acquired by Medium), an associate founder of Singularity University, a director and Senior Fellow in Tech Studies at the Pacific Research Institute and a weekly columnist at TechNewsWorld.
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Stephen Ibaraki
Serial Entrepreneur, Investor & Futurist
Stephen is a serial entrepreneur, investor, futurist with 300+ recognitions/awards, in leadership working daily across 400K+ CEOs, investors, scientists.

He is Chairman REDDS Capital; Founder UN ITU, AI FOR GOOD. He is founding chair of the YPO Impact Advisory Board and previously the YPO EIS Advisory Board.

Stephen is the Recipient of 20 Microsoft Global Awards (2018-2023 in AI). He is a contributor to Forbes / IT World Canada on leading new investments, innovation, entrepreneurship.
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Stephen Shedletzky
Founder at Shed Inspires
Stephen “Shed” Shedletzky helps leaders listen to and nurture the voice of others.

A thought-leader on psychological safety and sought-after speaker, executive coach, and advisor, Shed has led hundreds of keynote presentations, workshops, and leadership development programs around the world.

He is the author of Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up (2023). He lives in Toronto with his wife and two young kiddos.
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Steve Blakeman
LinkedIn Top Voice, Entrepreneur & Best Selling Author
Steve Blakeman is LinkedIn Top Voice, entrepreneur and bestselling author. He has over 300,000 followers on LinkedIn and has been named as Top 10 Writer on the platform for the past 4 years.
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Steve Blank
Adjunct Professor at Stanford & Co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center
Steve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford and co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. He has been described as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship.

Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement and the curriculums for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps and Hacking for Defense and Diplomacy, he's changed how startups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught; how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate.
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Steven D'Souza
Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry
Steven D’Souza is a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry. He is an international executive educator, consultant, coach, speaker and award-winning bestselling author of five leadership and management books.

Steven is a former Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Leadership Consultant and Executive Coach for INSEAD. He has been recognized by HR Magazine in their top 30 ‘Most Influential’ thought leaders globally and Thinkers 50 on their Radar List for the world’s top management thinkers.

For more info on Steven visit www.stevendsouza.com and for to learn more about Korn Ferry’s Leadership & Professional Development services visit www.KornFerry.com .
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Stine Bosse
Director of the Board at Allianz
Stine Bosse is a Danish businesswoman with a global mindset. She has distinguished herself by her dedication to ambitious company goals, growth and sustainability and by the remarkable results she has achieved through strong leadership, clear governance and efficient turnarounds.

Today Stine works full-time as board member in internationally orientated companies.

She currently serves as Director of the Board in Allianz, AssistansBolaget, COOP, Samlino Group, and as Chairman of Nunaoil.
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String Nguyen
Founder at The Trusted Voice
String Nguyen, is founder of The Trusted Voice, CEO of Chubbiverse and is 4x LinkedIn’s Top Voice.

On a personal note, String grew her presence online as she believed in the power of one’s voice, from growing her LinkedIn account to 70k followers (including her LinkedIn newsletter), to building startups and product strategies.
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Suzanne Lauritzen
Co-founder & CEO at Raffle
Suzanne has founded Raffle.ai in 2018, four years later they are 40 employees and have raised $21 million to expand globally.

Earlier she founded LogBuy, an Employee Engagement Platform, later acquired by VISMA and Reward Gateway in 2016.

She has worked with leadership, strategy and sales for more than 20 years.

Suzanne has a master’s in economics, later an International Law degree and is teaching innovation as External Lecturer.
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Ted Rubin
Strategist, Keynote Speaker, Business Advisor & Author

Ted is a leading Social Marketing Strategist, International Keynote Speaker, Business Advisor, and… Author, Connector, Provocateur.

In 2009 he started using and evangelizing the term ROR, Return on Relationship, hashtag #RonR.

Many people in the marketing world know Ted for his enthusiastic, energetic and undeniably personal connection to people.

His books: Return on Relationship, How to Look People in the Eye Digitally, The Age of Influence, and 2022 released Retail Relevancy.
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Tegan Spinner
Founder & CEO at Worthmore
Tegan is an entrepreneur at heart who moved from Silicon Valley to Copenhagen in pursuit of happiness.

His most valuable skill set is gathering people more intelligent than himself and motivating them towards a shared vision. He uses this to build projects fighting some of the world's most pressing issues, such as climate change.

He is the CEO and Founder of Worthmore, a company created to redefine how we buy, recycle, and use our smartphones.
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Terry Pan
Brand Strategist, Creative Director & Executive Coach
TERRY PAN (Hong Kong, China) is an award-winning brand strategist, creative director, coach and trainer with 20+ years of experience in Greater China.

Since 2010, Terry has been based in Shanghai and has authored the influential Chinese book "Beyond Formulaic Copywriting," which explores the psychology of storytelling in the Chinese context.

He is a LinkedIn China Top Voice in Marketing with 100K+ followers from China and around the world.
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Thomas Kolster
Founder at Goodvertising Agency
Thomas Kolster is a frontrunner and one of the most recognised thinkers globally where marketing, business and sustainability meet.

He has written two books: Goodvertising & The Hero Trap.

Thomas has delivered keynotes and workshops in +70 markets for clients like Facebook, P&G and IKEA and at conferences such as TEDx, SXSW.

He has also judged top-awards such as Jury President at D&AD and Jury at Cannes Lions.
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Thorbjørn Fink
Group COO at Pleo & CEO at Pleo Financial Services
Thorbjørn Fink is Group COO of the Danish FinTech company Pleo and CEO of Pleo Financial Services A/S.

With a background from Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, Thorbjørn has worked in the Nordic Private Equity sector, as well as in the global biotechnology company Novozymes.

In addition to Pleo, Thorbjørn has been involved as an advisor and investor in several startups and fintech companies in Europe and the US.
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Tim Ferriss
Investor, Author & Entrepreneur
Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People.”

He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans.

The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which has now exceeded 800 million downloads.
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Timothy Hughes
CEO & Co-founder at DLA Ignite
Tim Hughes is universally recognised as the world leading pioneer and exponents of social selling and is currently ranked number one by Onalytica as the most influential social selling person in the world.

In 2021, Linkedin said he was one of the top eight sales experts globally to follow. He is also co-founder and CEO of DLA Ignite and co-author of the bestselling books Social Selling and Smarketing.
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Tom More
Founder & CEO at Promo.com
Tom More is the Founder & CEO of Promo.com, previously at Slidely.com. He is a self-taught entrepreneur who enjoys turning ideas into reality, while combining creativity and technology.

Tom focuses on driving impact through innovation in every project he is involved with. With a background rooted in art, design, and music, Tom enjoys orchestrating the different facets of the business, much like different instruments in a song.
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Tomas Stasiukevičius
Head of Content at LOGIN
Tomas Stasiukevičius is the Head of Content at LOGIN – the largest technology and innovation conference in the Baltics which attracts the world's most influential speakers, such as Steve Wozniak, Jimmy Wales, Margrethe Vestager, Jared Isaacman, Martin Cooper, Christopher Wylie, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Neil Harbisson, and many others.

He is also a founder of the first speaker’s bureau in Lithuania “Speakers.LT".
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Tomer Sharon
Co-founder & CXO at anywell
Tomer Sharon is a leading voice on the topics of design thinking, user experience, and lean research methodology.

He is co-founder & CXO at anywell. He has mentored organizations on user research methodology, has given keynotes, and taught workshops in 13 countries and the UN.

Tomer was Managing Director, Head of User Research & Metrics, at Goldman Sachs; Head of User Experience at WeWork; and Sr. User Experience Researcher at Google Search.
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Dr. Travis Bradberry
Author & Chief People Scientist at LEADx
Dr. Travis Bradberry is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence Habits. His books have sold more than 3 million copies.

Dr. Bradberry is a LinkedIn Influencer and a regular contributor to Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, The World Economic Forum, and The Huffington Post.

He has written for, or been covered by, Newsweek, Time, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Fast Company, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review.
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Tyler Anderson
CEO at Disruptive Edge
Having worked with some of the largest companies in the world as an innovation partner, Tyler drives Disruptive Edge globally and leads the way for the team, always making sure to keep things exciting, special and interesting, while staying ahead of the curve on tech and disruption models.
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Vasilij Brandt
Co-founder & CMO at Blazar Capital
Vasilij Brandt is a Danish E-Commerce enthusiast, digital entrepreneur and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni who Co-Founded Blazar Capital and Nordgreen in the summer of 2017.

Prior to co-founding Blazar Capital and Nordgreen, Vasilij was the Head of Growth at The Hut Group, which is a vertically integrated, digital-first consumer group, retailing its own brands within the health and beauty space.
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Vitor Peçanha
Co-founder & CMO at Rock Content
Vitor Peçanha is the co-founder and CMO of Rock Content, a global leader in Content Marketing, with more than 400 employees and operating in four different countries.

He’s built a content strategy that’s the main growth driver for the company, with more than 6 million blog visits a month and 500 thousand students in his online courses.

He’s also an international speaker and bestselling author.
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Vivek Wadhwa
Author, Academic & Entrepreneur
Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author of five best-selling books.

He has been a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and has held appointments as Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, Carnegie Mellon University, and Emory University; adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon and Duke University; fellow at Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley; and head of faculty at Singularity University.
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Werner Valeur
Entrepreneur, Investor & Author
Werner Valeur started his first business as 18-year-old back in 2001, following a number of student jobs such as mowing lawns, distributing newspapers and bottle-boy in the local wine shop.

Today he has exited six start-ups he has been a founder of, written ten books about entrepreneurship and active blogger.

He owns directly or indirectly 20 start-ups helping the founders to succeed as well.
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Whitney Johnson
CEO at Disruption Advisors
Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors.

She is a former award-winning Wall Street analyst. She co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with the late Clayton Christensen.

Whitney hosts the popular Disrupt Yourself podcast. She is a WSJ and USA Today bestselling author of Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company.

She is LinkedIn Top Voice in 2020 with 1.8 million followers.
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Wiktor Schmidt
Co-founder & Executive Chairman at Netguru
Wiktor is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Netguru, the consultancy, product design, and software development company recognized for its growth by the Financial Times, Deloitte, and Forbes.

Wiktor is responsible for the company’s external presence, co-running key initiatives such as supporting diversity in the company, developing Netguru’s social footprint, and implementing sustainable growth strategies.

He is a mentor in such organizations as Endeavor, YPO, and Kozminski University.
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Xenia Duffy
CEO at Zeal
Xenia Duffy is an award-winning leader with 20 years of experience in business development.

In 2017, Xenia left corporate to become an entrepreneur working to change the way we think about work, organizations and doing business.

She and her team at Zeal help leaders develop companies with sustainable impact, leveraging the benefits of circular economy and enabling long-term profitable businesses.
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Zeta Yarwood
Award Winning Executive & Career Coach
Zeta Yarwood is an award-winning, certified Executive coach and Career Coach, dedicated to helping people achieve success and fulfilment in their careers.

With a Psychology degree and over 15 years’ experience in coaching, management and recruitment – Zeta is an expert in unlocking human potential.

Working with multinational companies and individuals globally, she helps people discover their passions, strengths and talents to optimise performance and career satisfaction.
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