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Sports Executive Leadership Conference
The Meeting of the Great Minds in Sports

NOTABLE SPEAKERS

Past keynote speakers have included the following:

Lou Carbone
Best-Selling Author of Clued In: How to Keep Customers Coming Back Again & Again; Founder and CEO of Experience Engineering; and a leading expert on the Experiential Economy

Mark Linfield and Vanessa Berlowitz
Co-Producers of the critically-acclaimed Planet Earth series

Barry Asmus
Leading economic expert and Senior Economist for the National Center for Policy Analysis

Lindsay Moran
Former clandestine agent for the Central Intelligence Agency and Author of Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy

Geoffrey Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune Magazine

Dr. Robert Gates
Current U.S. Secretary of Defense and former Director of the CIA

Tim Sanders
Best-selling author of The Likeability Factor and Love is the Killer App,
and former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!

Jim Collins
Author of Good to Great and Built to Last

Dr. Ken Dychtwald
America's premier generational marketing and demographic expert

Martin Lindstrom
Branding expert and Author of BRANDchild™

Dr. J.P. Pawliw-Fry
Emotional intelligence expert

Paul Begala
Co-host of CNN's Crossfire and former aide to President Clinton

William Kristol
Editor and Publisher of The Weekly Standard

John Kasich
Host of FOX News Channel's "The Heartland with John Kasich", and former Congressman and Chairman of the House Budget Committee

Dan Goodgame
Managing Editor, Fortune Small Business

Todd Buchholz
Economist, former Director of Economic Policy at the White House, and Author of Market Shock

Dr. Oren Harari
Leading business strategist and author of The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell

General Barry McCaffrey
Retired three-star general and former U.S. Drug Czar

Deputy John Bruton
former Prime Minister of Ireland

Dr. Gene Stanaland
one of the nation's leading economists

Dr. Donald Straszheim
former Chief Economist of Merrill Lynch

United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady
who was shot down while flying a mission over Bosnia in 1996

Our emcees have included the following:

Ernie Johnson
Emmy-winning broadcaster from TNT and TBS SuperStation

Gary Bender
long-time sports broadcaster who called "the shot heard round the world"

Craig Sager
Cable Ace Award-winning sports broadcaster from TNT and TBS SuperStation.