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Insatiably curious, Eric Termuende is on a mission to discover and share the practices that help leaders thrive in the future of work. After years spent surveying tens of thousands of people, working with hundreds of category-leading companies, and authoring a bestselling book on the world of work, Eric has firmly established himself a trusted expert, delivering a refreshing, actionable message for leaders at every level, as we navigate the future of work together.

Jason Schenker is a futurist, economist, and author who prepares leaders for the future. Jason has given over 1,000 keynote speeches and over 1,000 television interviews. He has been a Guest Host on Bloomberg Television and an occasional columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Over 965,000 students have taken Jason's 20 LinkedIn Learning courses on business, leadership, economics, risk management, and finance. He is the author of 36 books, including 15 bestsellers on emerging technologies, finance, energy, leadership, and the economy.

Jason has given talks to public and private companies, industry groups, institutional investors, central banks, the U.S. state department, CIA, NATO, and global financial exchanges. His speeches focus on the economy, financial markets, futurist innovation and technology, energy, metals, sustainability, trends, and geopolitics.

As President of Prestige Economics, Bloomberg News has ranked Jason #1 forecaster in the world in 26 different categories since 2011, including for oil prices, industrial metals prices, the euro, the British pound, agricultural commodity prices, gold prices, and U.S. jobs. As Chairman of The Futurist Institute, Jason trains people to Become a Futurist®, including consulting, accounting, finance, and national security leaders.

“People, Planet, Purpose and Prosperity” is Gerd Leonhard’s motto, and helping to create ‘The Good Future” is his key objective. Gerd is one of the top-rated futurists worldwide; he has presented at over 1700 leading conferences and events over the past 20 years and has worked with the likes of Microsoft, NBC, Visa, Google, the European Commission, L’Oréal, Audi, Deloitte and IBM. Gerd has influenced and inspired Millions to “imagine and create a better tomorrow”. He was named as one of Wired UK’s Most Influential Europeans in 2015 and is listed as #7 in the global ranking of futurists.

Jonathan Reiber is one of the United States’ leading strategists of cybersecurity and geopolitical risk management, with deep expertise at the highest levels of the U.S. government and in the technology sector. During the Obama administration he served as chief speechwriter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter and as Chief Strategy Officer for Cyber Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he authored the first two national cyberdefense strategies of the United States. He is currently serving as Vice President for Cybersecurity Strategy and Policy at AttackIQ, where he leads the company’s narrative and content creation programs and directs key strategic issues in research and analysis, communications, and security planning.

Kathy is a Purpose Strategy Expert. She created the Global Purpose strategy for adidas, a 22 billion dollar global company, encompassing everything the brand does to positively impact people and planet. Kathy started her career as a bright-eyed idealist, joining the Peace Corps straight out of college. Along her journey, the idealist combined with her inner strategist, creating a catalyst for good. Now Kathy has 20 years of experience in brand marketing, strategy, and impact, working at established brands like adidas, MillerCoors, and Microsoft.

Adam Savage has spent his life gathering skills that allow him to take what's in his brain and make it real. He's built everything from giant Buddhas and futuristic weapons to fine-art sculptures and dancing vegetables.

The son of a filmmaker/painter and a psychotherapist, Adam’s previous positions include projectionist, animator, graphic designer, carpenter, interior and stage designer, toy designer, welder, and scenic painter. And he’s worked with every material and in every medium he could fathom. In 1993, Adam began concentrating his career on the special-effects industry, honing his skills through more than 100 television commercials and a dozen feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Galaxy Quest, and the Matrix sequels. A decade later, Adam was chosen along with Jamie Hyneman to produce and host MythBusters, which premiered on Discovery Channel in January 2003. Fourteen years, 279 episodes, 1,015 myths, 2,950 experiments, eight Emmy nominations, and 83 miles of duct tape later, that version of the series ended in March 2016.

Today, Adam hosts and executive produces MythBusters Jr. as well as a brand-new series, Savage Builds, which premiered on Science Channel in June 2019. He also stars in and produces content for his website Tested.com, including behind-the-scenes deep dives into multiple blockbuster films (including Alien Covenant, Mortal Engines, and Blade Runner 2049).

Dr. Sam Potolicchio was named one of “America’s Best Professors” by the Princeton Review, the Future Leader of American Higher Education by the Association of Colleges and Universities and was also profiled in a cover story on his leadership curriculum by Newsweek Japan as the "Best Professor in America". Potolicchio is the Founding Executive Director of American Councils For International Education's Center for Global Leadership and President of the Preparing Global Leaders Forum.

Potolicchio also teaches in Executive Education EMBA programs at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown and at the Mannheim Business School (Germany). He is a visiting lecturer at University of Bologna (Italy) and teaches two classes (US Political Systems and Preparing to Be President) to Georgetown University undergraduates.

He is a columnist for Newsweek Japan, a Distinguished Global Scholar at the Canterbury School of Fort Myers, and the lecturer on Leadership at the Library of Congress for COIL, an international leadership program of the United States Congress.

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