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.