In 1957 Minnijean Brown Trickey entered history by striding through the front doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a member of the Little Rock Nine, she helped desegregate public schools and alter the course of education in America. Her talks are a sweeping exploration of social change through...

Shannon Brownlee offers counterintuitive solutions to our health care problems. In Overtreated, she exposes wasteful flaws, and argues that too much medicine may be what's crippling our system. Named the #1 economics book of 2007 by The New York Times, Overtreated —and Brownlee's...

Adam Bryant writes the weekly Corner Office column for The New York Times, interviewing CEOs to find the nuggets of true leadership that are usually hidden between strategy sessions and quarterly reports. In his books, Bryant reveals the five qualities that set high-performers apart, and what it takes...

Keynote speaker Marcus Buckingham has taken the corporate world by storm with his Strengths Revolution, a strategy arising from his two decades as a Senior Researcher at Gallup Organization. A tremendous resource for leaders, managers, and educators, his keynotes show the link between engaged employees and productivity,...

Ken Burns is without a doubt one of America's most exceptional filmmakers. But he is also one of our great public speakers—a passionate and insightful auteur who reminds us of the timeless lessons of history and the enduring importance of the United States in the course of human events.

Long before he created CTV's Corner Gas—the most successful Canadian sitcom in history—and Hiccups, Brent Butt developed a unique brand of stand-up humour and garnered a legion of devoted fans. A huge draw every time he performs, he is guaranteed to fill the house and,...

Named by Time magazine as One of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Stewart Butterfield is a founding father of participatory media. The co-founder of Flickr, the popular photosharing website, and Tiny Speck, his latest social gaming startup, Butterfield looks at how social media and the participatory...

Susan Cain says our culture holds a decided bias toward the "extrovert ideal" and dramatically undervalues the talents of introverts. No longer. In her bestselling book, Quiet, and in her record-smashing TED talk, Cain shows us how to change the way we work, lead, and teach in order to tap the abundant strengths...

Nínive Calegari is the co-founder, with Dave Eggers, of 826 National, which she helped grow from a local tutoring program into an influential education phenomenon that partners with schools, families, and community organizations across the country. An emphatic speaker, Calegari explores how scalable social projects...