Power Lunch Live

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”.

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).

Shannon is a woman of many firsts. Among those high points: She is one of the first women to fly Apache combat helicopters in the U.S. Armed Forces. After nearly a decade as an Army officer and attack aviation leader, and later as a leader and manager in the corporate sector at Guidant and Microsoft, Shannon turned her attention to storytelling, in part through her Grit Project blog and in her forthcoming book. In The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience and Leadership in the most Male Dominated Industry in the World (2020), Shannon shares her own critical leadership lessons along with candid stories of remarkable female leaders and trailblazers. 

Beth Polish is the former Director of Corporate Innovation and Senior Vice President of Hearst Interactive Media. Previously, Beth had served as President of Anthony Robbins' Dreamlife. She was the Founding CFO of iVillage, Inc. and CFO of Goldman Sachs Ventures. She serves as a trustee of the Reynolds Institute of the University of Missouri Journalism School, the nation’s oldest journalism school, and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Georgia, which sponsors and administers the Peabody Awards. Beth earned her BA from Franklin & Marshall College and her MBA at Harvard Business School.

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. 

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)

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. 

Award-winning researcher and Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has spent his career working with and studying startups. He knows first hand how radically a successful startup can improve a founder’s socioeconomic status, how even dire circumstances can breed remarkably innovative ideas, and how entrepreneurs are often the most nimble and capable at solving public problems during a crisis. In his new book, THE UNICORN’S SHADOW: Combating the Dangerous Myths that Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors, Mollick for the first time reveals the latest scientific findings on start-ups in the form of an accessible, concise, and invaluable book for all budding entrepreneurs and the people who watch them closely.

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. 

Ron, co-founder and Managing Partner at Navalent, and works with CEOs and executives who are pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. The best-selling author of eight books, including the recent Amazon #1 Rising to Power, Ron is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes, and a two-time TEDx speaker. Ron is proud to be a member of the Marshall Goldsmith MG100 coaches community. His work’s been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Inc., BusinessInsider, MSNBC, Business Week, and Smart Business.

Ariel Garten is a Canadian artist, scientist and intellectual known for her work in integrating art and science. Garten lectures about interdisciplinary neuroscience topics, such as "The Neuroscience of Morals" (on TVO's Big Ideas televised lecture series), "The Neuroscience of Molecular Gastronomy" and others), as well as psychotherapy and mental health. Garten is co-founder and Chief Evangelist Officer of Interaxon, a Canadian company specializing in software for Non-invasive Brain-computer interfaces and creator of the Muse meditation headband. Garten is a psychotherapist trained in Neuro-linguistic programming.

#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. 

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