2020 Agenda

Tara Westover, American historian, memoirist, and best-selling author, Educated

Susan David, author, Emotional Agility

Emotional agility is a key skillset that enables you to remain curious, courageous and values-committed—and improve your ability to lead. Yet, in times of great challenges such as those we are facing today, you may find your agility replaced with rigidity, stifled creativity, and weakened relationships—all of which changes how you lead. In this session, Dr. Susan David, the creator of the concept of emotional agility, will explore the habits that enable people to be resilient and thrive, lead teams, and change a work culture. She will inspire you to stop getting caught up in your thoughts and emotions and cultivate emotional agility in you and your team.

Charmaine McClarie, communications expert and C-suite leadership coach

Effective communication is more important than ever now. It’s a projection of your competence and even your potential as a leader. Great communicators can confidently voice their vision, move plans forward, and effectively present their ideas (virtually or otherwise) across all levels of an organization. Join this workshop for actionable steps to develop your own best communication style. Learn about speaking so that your ideas are heard, your value is clear, and your opinions are remembered.

Esther Wojcicki, educator and author, How to Raise Successful People for Radical Results

Esther Wojcicki is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands, inspiring legends like Steve Jobs, and raising highly successful daughters, including a doctor and two Silicon Valley CEOs. In this workshop, she shares her secrets for raising successful people, even in today’s complicated current learning environment. Her methods are rooted in trust, respect, independence, collaboration, and kindness: simple lessons with radical results. She discusses how to stop helicopter parenting and start raising, educating, and managing young people to their highest potential.

Marcus Buckingham, global researcher on strengths and leadership at work, and author of two of the
NYT best-selling business books of all time

In Marcus Buckingham’s breakout bestseller, First, Break All the Rules, he showed how to turn an employee’s talent into high performance. This research became a core part of management training to attract and retain the most talented employees. But how do you build your employee’s strengths in the midst of a global pandemic and newly virtual world? Join this session to learn how to maximize the unique leadership skills that you and your team bring so that everyone can contribute their best selves now.

Annie Duke, decision strategist, former poker champion, and bestselling author of Thinking in Bets and How to Decide

Whether it involves a big career decision or a day to day personal decision, uncertainty can paralyze us. In today’s environment of unprecedented uncertainty, it’s easy to put off deciding or stop considering the predictions that underlie our decisions. In this session, renowned poker player and business consultant Annie Duke will offer strategies to avoid these pitfalls when things are uncertain and help you to understand the tradeoff between time and accuracy in decision-making. She will identify when it makes sense to undo, reverse, or change a decision, and frameworks that you can exercise to identify your options so you can improve your decision-making abilities.

Suze Orman, NYT bestselling personal finance author, with over 25 million books in circulation, available in 12 languages

Viola Davis, Academy Award winning actor, producer, and philanthropist

Lily Zheng, diversity, equity & inclusion thought leader

Whether we want to or not, we all have unconscious biases. These learned stereotypes are deeply ingrained and, left unconfronted, can negatively influence how we manage teams and interact with colleagues. But bias is famously hard to completely eliminate, and seductively easy to talk about. How can we talk productively about bias without letting ourselves off the hook as leaders? As individuals, how can we reckon with our own biases without getting lost in shame and blame? Join inclusion expert Lily Zheng as she shares why we need to move the conversation from individual bias to systemic bias—and how you can make real change by leading and strategizing with your own biases in mind. This session will offer new opportunities for both personal and organizational growth

Arlan Hamilton, venture capitalist and author, It’s About Damn Time

What if being underrepresented didn’t mean being underestimated? Five years ago, Arlan Hamilton was homeless and living on food stamps but had a dream of breaking into the venture capital business. She wanted the chance to invest in people who didn’t conform to usual expectations. Today, Arlan invests in those high-potential founders who also happen to be female, LGBTQ, and people of color. Join this session to hear how she found the big upside to being undervalued, and learn how to defy other people’s expectations and achieve your own dreams.

To be announced soon!