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The speakers
Renowned speakers share their experiences and provide inspiration, motivating you to reach new heights in your own life. Learning and honing leadership skills can boost your confidence as a leader. You will be better equipped to make decisions and tackle the challenges that come your way.
Craig Groeschel
Founding pastor and senior pastor of Life.Church; bestselling author
Globally recognized as a leader of leaders, Craig Groeschel is the founding and senior pastor of Life.Church, a three-time Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award recipient. Known for its missional approach to leveraging the latest technology, Life.Church is the creator of the YouVersion Family of Bible Apps — installed on over a billion unique devices worldwide. He hosts the top-ranked “Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast” and is a New York Times bestselling author. His latest book is “Heal Your Hurting Mind: Biblical Hope for Anxiety, Depression, Burnout, and the Emotions No One Talks About.”
Kwame Christian
CEO of the American Negotiation Institute and bestselling author
Kwame Christian is a bestselling author and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute. His top negotiation podcast, "Big Swings Only", formerly “Negotiate Anything,” has over 15 million downloads in 180+ countries. His books, “Finding Confidence in Conflict” and “How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race,” are both bestsellers that have made significant impacts.
As a LinkedIn Top Voice, Christian partnered with LinkedIn to create the platform’s only negotiation certificate program — a certificate that has been earned by more than 30,000 negotiators worldwide to date. Featured in Forbes, NPR, USA Today and CNBC, Christian has collaborated with Fortune 500 companies like Google, Apple and NASA.
Using his personal journey from a people pleaser to a master negotiator, Christian will empower you to handle challenging conversations confidently.
Alison Levine
Polar explorer, mountaineer and bestselling author
Alison Levine has climbed the highest peak on every continent, served as the team captain of the first American Women’s Everest Expedition and skied across the Arctic Circle to the geographic North Pole. In January 2008, she made history as the first American to follow a remote route across west Antarctica for 600 miles to the South Pole. Her success in extreme environments is noteworthy given she had three heart surgeries and suffers from a neurological disease that causes the arteries that feed her fingers and toes to collapse in cold weather, leaving her at extreme risk for frostbite.
Levine spent four years as an adjunct professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she focused on leading teams in extreme environments. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller “On the Edge.”
Arthur C. Brooks
Professor at Harvard; bestselling author
Arthur C. Brooks is a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership and happiness. He is also a columnist for CBS News and The Free Press, and hosts the weekly podcast Office Hours With Arthur Brooks.
Brooks is the author of 16 books, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Build the Life You Want, co-written with Oprah Winfrey, and From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life. His most recent book, The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness, will be released March 31.
Brooks is one of the world's leading experts in the science of human happiness. He teaches professionals from private companies, universities, public organizations, and religious communities how to lead happier lives and contribute to the well-being of others.