Joseph O'Connor -- Nov 30

What where you doing and thinking about when you were fifteen? Probably not about saving the planet. These teens are going to save us all. 

The Knowlege Society are the next generation of innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs who want to solve the world's biggest problems. TKS is a 10-month global innovation program with weekly sessions. Students ages 13-17 apply and interview before joining. This isn't your typical after-school program. TKS was developed with CEOs and global leaders, modeled after curriculums from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, and is designed to replicate the learning environment and culture of Silicon Valley.

You will not believe the projects these young people are working on. 

Listen to the interview at Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon. Listen here

Martin Lindstrom is the founder and chairman of Lindstrom Company, the world’s leading brand & culture transformation group. TIME Magazine has named Lindstrom one of the “World’s 100 Most Influential People”. And for three years running, Thinkers50, the world’s premier ranking resource of business icons, has selected Lindstrom to be among the world’s top 50 business thinkers. Lindstrom is the author of 7 New York Times best-selling books. His book Brand Sense was critically acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as “one of the five best marketing books ever published”, Small Data was praised as “revolutionary” and TIME Magazine wrote this about Buyology: “a breakthrough in branding”.

#1 bestselling author Jeff Rubin is truly one of our most important thinkers. THE EXPENDABLES: How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization is not only prescient and relevant but essential as we continue to witness devastating inequalities. It is a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization, and how the blowback – from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe to COVID-19 – will change the developed world. Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class is in retreat around the developed world, it is. 

World-renowned coach and the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked the #1 Executive Coach in the World and a Top Ten Business Thinker for the past eight years. Dr. Goldsmith is the author or editor of 36 books, including three New York Times bestsellers, that have sold over 2.5 million copies and been listed bestseller in 12 countries. His books, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers are two of the Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written. Marshall and some of the top coaches in the world will answer your questions about Coaching in a Post Covid world. Rhett will host this event.

June 17 -- Stakeholder Center Coaches (Webinar Invite Only)

July 9 -- Ask Marshall  (Webinar Invite Only)

Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. Ayse is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, the award-winning design and innovation studio, and consults to Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan Foundation, Staples and Toyota, among others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Eric is the CEO of Mansueto Ventures,  home of the iconic media brands Inc. and Fast Company.  For three years before becoming CEO at Mansueto Ventures, I was the president and editor-in-chief of Inc. Before joining Inc., I was the founding editor of CBS MoneyWatch.com and the editor in chief of BNET.com; the sites together won more than a dozen awards for design and journalism during my tenure.  Prior to that, I was the editor-in-chief of Money Magazine. He has won a Loeb Award and a National Magazine Award. In other media, he is a regular  on Nightly Business Report on PBS, CNBC, CNN, The Today Show, The Early Show, Marketplace Radio and Good Morning America. 

Gareth is the Head of Film and Animation at ScreenSkills, the industry-led skills body for the UK's screen-based creative industries. He was previously co-founder and CEO of multi-award-winning Bedlam Productions. He was producer of the critically acclaimed The King’s Speech, the highest grossing British independent film to date, which won four Academy Awards including Best Film and seven BAFTAs, including Best Film and Outstanding British Film.  His other credits as producer include Zaytoun, BAFTA-nominated British war film Kajaki: The True Story and Exam, which was also nominated for a BAFTA and won Spirit and Dinard awards. His most recent film, Steel Country, starring Andrew Scott and Denise Gough, was released in Spring 2019. 

Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. is an executive partner with Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago, Illinois and a Clinical Professor of Leadership at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He was named the 2008 Kellogg School Professor of the Year. Harry is the author of two bestselling leadership books: From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership and Becoming The Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Baxter International Inc., a $12 billion global healthcare company.