Humanities & Social Sciences
Esteemed speakers contributing their insights into human culture, behavior, and societal development
Lazetta Braxton
Financial Expert, Entrepreneur, Business Strategist, and Board Leader connecting wealth and culture with individuals and institutions.
Lazetta Rainey Braxton, MBA, CFP® is a high-impact, solution-oriented founder with a proven track record of building successful entrepreneurial ventures, driving innovation, and navigating the complexity of cultural competency in the financial servic... Show more
Mustafa Olgun is a Resource Development Coordinator at IHH, where he plays a vital role in building strategic partnerships and securing funding to support a wide range of humanitarian initiatives. With a strong focus on resource mobilization, he desi... Show more
Caleb Roose (MDiv) is the founder and coach of Good Enough Dads (goodenoughdads.com), where he provides holistic life, career, and parenting coaching for fathers. In addition to his coaching and speaking on fatherhood, he also manages research and tr... Show more
Kevin Smyth has a PhD in genetics and has helped thousands of scientists communicate their work. He is now building AI tools for science communication. Show more
Amber Vanderburg is a multi-award winning businessperson, keynote speaker, author, and founder of the international learning development company, The Pathwayz Group, which has led 800,000+ learners in more than 75 countries in action-focused learning... Show more
DeAngelo Burse
Helping people rewrite their narratives, realize their potential, and improve their social interactions.
DeAngelo Burse is a behavioral scientist, TEDx speaker, and author whose groundbreaking work explores how humans can actively shape their lives within the constraints of nature and nurture. Through his pioneering Nature, Nurture, Nimble framework, he... Show more
Melanie Suzanne Wilson combines a heritage of public speaking expertise with a passion for innovation and wellness. Show more
Alan Yeh is a PhD candidate in French at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in refugitude aesthetics, memory, and food in 20th- and 21st-century French and francophone literature. Foregrounding refugee experiences and epistemologies... Show more
Harrison Crawford, LPC LIAC - Harrison has worked in the field of mental health for 15 years and is a Licensed Professional Counselor with additional licensure focused on addictive disorders. Harrison has a passion for working with fathers through di... Show more
Phil Ledgerwood’s resumé looks like seven other people’s resumés stitched together. He has baked bagels, guarded Clint Black’s town home, cooked for a gourmet food shop, freed stuck college students from elevators, managed printing plates for packagi... Show more
I’m a technology leader who thrives at the intersection of architecture, strategy, and organizational design. For over a decade, I’ve led platform transformations, built distributed systems at scale, and helped companies rethink how they build, deliv... Show more
With more than thirty years in healthcare, Dr. Adaka has held leadership roles across clinical, administrative, and educational domains. Currently, he is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Correctional Health Services of Miami-Dade County. He h... Show more
Muskaan (Pearl) Juneja is the Founder of Wiseversity, a learning platform connecting mentors and learners for focused, real-world guidance. She is also the author of Unhooked: The Way to Your Higher Self and two other books on career growth and perso... Show more
Patricia Soler Herrero
SeedingEnergy - MANAGING DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER (Training - Coaching - Facilitation)
Patricia is author of the Children´s book: "El secreto que esconden los colores" that will be soon published in English. She has a university degree in Biology. She developed her Marketing and Business background at UCSD and SDSU in San Diego. She ho... Show more
LaShawnda Rodgers
Rodgers Global Leadership Consortium, Founder, Executive Coach, Technologist, Thought Leader
LaShawnda Rodgers is a visionary leader in change management, DEI, and leadership development, standing at the forefront of organizational transformation. As the Founder and Principal Consultant at Rodgers Global Leadership Consortium, she brings ove... Show more
Ang Buxton is a product and delivery strategist who helps mission-driven teams ship work that matters. Currently, Ang is the lead project manager for the MyMassGov portal with the state of Massachusetts via Last Call Media. As Lead Product & Deliv... Show more
Rashmi is a Machine Learning Engineer at Patchstack and a researcher at MIT CSAIL, working in the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. She has six years of industrial experience, having brought ideas to life at pre-seed startups... Show more
Russell Cotter
I love to lead people to their “aha!” moments right now, to prevent the “bummer!” moments in the future.
Russell has worked with people to bring out their best, in ways to improve their value, to overcome challenges and to make those “aha!” moments come to life, in Australia and the US. Russell’s unicorn-like approaches to people engagement, collabo... Show more
Gemma Astafanous works at the intersection of human performance and embodied intelligence. With a background in corporate project leadership, she bridges structured, results-driven approaches with somatic practices that help people move beyond stress... Show more
Cade Bradford Knudson is a financial professional with tremendous experience managing multi-million dollar portfolios for various clients across the broader financial industry. While working for hedge funds, he has learned various skills, including q... Show more
GDG Nuremberg Organizer I've worked at a multiple startups as Mobile Software Engineer specialized in building apps with Flutter. Additionally I've built and published multiple apps of my own. I am also organizer of the Google Developer Group Nure... Show more
Meet Robert McNair, the high-energy public speaker with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Robert's dynamic presentation skills and deep knowledge of cloud technology make him one of the most sought-after speakers in the field. As a s... Show more
Nyah Macklin is a seasoned researcher and speaker on topics around AI, ML, Ethics, Governance, and Responsibility. Nyah serves as a Senior Developer Advocate for Artificial Intelligence at Neo4j, specializing in GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, and AI-dri... Show more
Lorne Epstein
Improve decision making by reducing bias in the workplace using neuroscience based tranings
Lorne Epstein, SHRM-SCP, MSOD, is a social scientist, keynote, and Vistage speaker who consults with senior leaders on improving decision-making outcomes by reducing biases. Over 60,000 professionals have taken his workshops worldwide. He has been qu... Show more
Husband, Father, Speaker, Coach, Co-author. Luana's husband for 18 years, the most beautiful woman on earth. Father of 6 (yes, I have a Squad indoors). Corporate speaker on Productivity, Career, Agile Methods. (on Agile Trends since 2018) I hav... Show more
Ricky Tucker is a Senior UX/UI designer for Louisiana's Office of Technology Services. In addition to contributing to the state's Design System, Pelican, he works daily with state agencies to develop digital products with the goal of improving the li... Show more
Brett McDermott
I help leaders become charismatic communicators, so their teams feel connected, aligned, and inspired to execute.
Most leaders are great at what they do, but struggle to get their teams fully bought in. When communication lacks clarity and charisma, even the most talented teams become disconnected, unmotivated, and underperforming. I help leaders become clear, c... Show more
The First Impact Fashion Designer to have her design land on the moon, Nova Lorraine has made history for fashion, sustainability and technology. Named one of the Most Inspirational Women of Web3 and AI, Nova Lorraine is an award-winning Fashion Desi... Show more
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