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Michael Moss #1 NYT Bestselling Author of Salt Sugar Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us
In his #1 bestseller, Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Moss traces the rise of the trillion dollar processed food industry and its link to the obesity epidemic. In powerful keynotes, he shows us how corporations knowingly use salt, sugar, and fat—and the latest in food science—to...
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Emily Bazelon Speaker on Bullying and Author of Sticks and Stones
Emily Bazelon is the author of Sticks and Stones, a major new contribution to the national conversation on bullying. Clear-eyed and accessible, Stones was hailed in the New York Times as an "authoritative and important book [that] should not only be read by educators and parents alike, but should...
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Adam Alter Author of Drunk Tank Pink
Adam Alter studies how we think and decide—and how consumers spend and save, doctors diagnose, judges punish, and investors invest. In the New York Times bestseller, Drunk Tank Pink, Alter shows us that so many of those thoughts and decisions are deeply influenced by forces that escape our attention...
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Carl Schoonover Neuroscientist and Author of Portraits of the Mind
Carl Schoonover became a neuroscientist because, simply put, he is fascinated by how the brain works. And he wants to share that enthusiasm (and his findings) with as large of an audience as possible. A TED Fellow mapping the line between art and science, he’s also the co-founder of NeuWrite, a collaboration between...
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Maria Konnikova Author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Is it possible to think like Sherlock Holmes? Psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova says yes. In her bestselling book, Mastermind, Konnikova skillfully weaves Holmes' fictional persona with modern neuroscience to show how anyone can sharpen their perception, problem solving, and creative skills to become...
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Sheila Heti Author of How Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti is an acclaimed author of five books. Her latest work, How Should a Person Be?—a “novel from life” about friendship, art, and much else—has struck a chord with a young generation of women and men, for whom this “original, and nearly unclassifiable book” (New York...
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Dustin Garis "Chief Troublemaker," Former Lead of P&G FutureWorks Global InnovationDustin Garis has travelled to over 40 countries across five continents to not only preach innovation, but to seek it out, and to live it. Throughout his disruptive career—at the Coca-Cola Company and, most recently, at P&G—Garis has become known as “Chief Troublemaker” for his deep and original...
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Adam Bryant Author and Corner Office columnist at The New York Times
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...
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Shannon K. O'Neil Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Shannon K. O'Neil talks about the need for America to start viewing Mexico as a partner instead of a problem. Moving beyond the stereotypes—gangs, drugs, violence—O’Neil reveals another, more hopeful country: a Mexico undergoing rapid social, political, and economic transformation, with profoundly integrated...
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The Honourable Jean Charest 29th Premier of Québec & Former Deputy Prime Minister of CanadaJean Charest is one of Canada’s best known political figures. Charest is the 29th Premier of Québec, serving from 2003 to 2012, and is a former Deputy Prime Minister. With stirring eloquence, he speaks about his career in public service, which has touched on practically every social, political, economic, and...
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