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GORICK NG, Career Advisor, Harvard University

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PRIYA PARKER, executive coach, teaches conflict resolution

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TIFFANI BOVA, Author, The Experience Mindset

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Fortune 500 Executives
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Ivy League Academics
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Award-Winning Actors & Personalities
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Alan Alda

Actor and Author

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Barbara Corcoran

Shark Investor, ABC’s Shark Tank

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Bill Nye

The Science Guy

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Bryan Cranston

Actor, Director, and Writer

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Daymond John

CEO, FUBU

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Jeffrey Wright

Actor and Entrepreneur

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Jesse Eisenberg

Actor, Writer, Director

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Jillian Michaels

Fitness Expert, Author

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Kevin O’Leary

Investor and Chairman, O’Leary Ventures

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Nick Offerman

Actor, Writer, and Woodworker

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Pete Holmes

Comedian, Actor, and Author

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Rainn Wilson

Actor

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Stanley Tucci

Actor, Writer, and Director
Psychology Masters
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Adam Grant

Organizational Psychologist and Best-Selling Author

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Amishi Jha

Professor, University of Miami

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Amy Cuddy

Social Psychologist and Author

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Daniel Goleman

Psychologist and Author

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Esther Perel

Psychotherapist and Author 

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Steven Pinker

Professor of Psychology

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Tal Ben-Shahar

Positive Psychologist and Author
2024 Best Selling Authors
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Cassandra Worthy

CEO and Author, Change Enthusiasm

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Chip Conley

CEO, Modern Elder Academy

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Ian Bremmer

President, Eurasia Group

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Lynda Gratton

Professor, London Business School

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Priya Parker

Facilitator and Author of The Art of Gathering

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Tiffani Bova

Author, The Experience Mindset
Legendary Authors & Speakers
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Bessel van der Kolk

Author, The Body Keeps the Score

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Judith Butler

Author, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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Dan Pink

Author, Drive

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Deepak Chopra

Author, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

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Jim Collins

Author, Good to Great

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Jon Kabat-Zinn

Author, Wherever You Go, There You Are

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Malcolm Gladwell

Author, Outliers

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Michael C. Bush

Author, A Great Place to Work for All

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Author, Letters from an Astrophysicist

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Ryan Holiday

Author, Ego is the Enemy

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Sam Harris

Author, The End of Faith

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Simon Sinek

Author, Start With Why

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Sir Ken Robinson

Author, Finding Your Element

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Tim Ferriss

Author, The 4-Hour Workweek
Female Business Leaders
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Chloe Valdary

Founder, Theory of Enchantment

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Natalie Nixon

Founder and CEO of Figure 8 Thinking

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Ruchika Malhotra

CEO and Author

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Carol Sawdye

Former COO, PwC

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Kelly Palmer

Former CLO, LinkedIn

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Lisa Bodell

Author, Why Simple Wins

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Monica Parker

Author, The Power of Wonder

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Ruth Porat

CFO, Google

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Tiffani Bova

Author, The Experience Mindset
Award-Winning Performance Coaches
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Adam Bryant

Author, The Leap to Leader

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Alisa Cohn

Author, From Start-Up to Grown-Up

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Carson Tate

Author, Work Simply

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Liz Wiseman

Author, Multipliers

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Roger Martin

Author, A New Way to Think

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Susan David

Author, Emotional Agility

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Tony Robbins

Author, Awaken the Giant Within
Innovative Media Minds
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Amy Gallo

Author, Getting Along

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Arianna Huffington

Co-founder, The Huffington Post

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Charles Duhigg

Author, The Power of Habbit

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David Brooks

New York Times Columnist

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Ezra Klein

Co-Founder, Vox

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Gary Vaynerchuk

CEO, VaynerMedia

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Jeffrey Kluger

Author, The Narcissist Next Door

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Luis von Ahn

Founder, reCAPTCHA & Duolingo

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Stephen J. Dubner

Author, Freakonomics
Elite Military Leaders
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Brent Gleeson

Former Navy SEAL and Author, Taking Point

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Chris Fussell

Former U.S. Navy SEAL

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David Goggins

Former Navy SEAL and Motivational Speaker

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Guy Snodgrass

TOPGUN Graduate and Instructor

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Rob Roy

Former Navy SEAL

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Stanley McCrystal

Former U.S. Army General
Innovative Founders & Entrepreneurs
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Sara Blakely

Founder and CEO, Spanx

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Blake Mycoskie

CEO, TOMS Shoes

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Elon Musk

Founder& CEO, Space Exploration Industries

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Emil Michael

Former Chief Business Officer, Uber

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Jason Fried

Co-Founder, 37 Signals

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Jim Whitehurst

CEO, Red Hat

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Ken Langone

Co-Founder, Home Depot

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Nathalie Molina Nino

Author, Leap Frog

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Peter Diamandis

Chairman and CEO, XPRIZE

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Richard Branson

Founder and Chairman, Virgin Group

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Sal Kahn

Founder, Khan Academy

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Tito Beveridge

Founder and Owner, Tito’s Handmade Vodka
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