Terdema Ussery is President & CEO of the Dallas Mavericks. He has served as president of Nike Sports Management which was integral in the launch of Coca-Cola's POWERADE brand. He was also the original CEO of HDNet, responsible for negotiating the company's initial content and distribution deals.

Peter Sims is a best-selling author and strategic adviser specializing in leadership and innovation. He is a Lecturer at the Stanford University Institute of Design, a hub of innovation thinking and doing, and is coauthor of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, the BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal bestselling book.

President and CEO of Ohlhauser & Associates, Dr. Ohlhauser consults in healthcare strategy and management for large multinational corporations and government institutions. He was named one of the top 100 Physicians of the century by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a regular guest on CBC Radio's Wildrose Country, City TV, and Breakfast Television in Edmonton.

Author, academic, and environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally-known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist.

Thomas Barnett is a New York Times-bestselling author and a nationally-known public speaker. Dr. Barnett is in high demand within government circles as a forecaster of global conflict and an expert of military transformation, as well as within corporate circles as a management consultant and conference presenter on issues relating to international security and economic globalization.

Subject of a New York Times bestseller, Bringing Down the House , and the blockbuster hit movie, 21, Jeffrey Ma is the famous number-crunching MIT whiz kid who took Vegas by storm. In his keynotes he draws on his extraordinary life and work to show us how to harness the power of rational, quantitative analysis to make smarter business decisions.

The New York Times bestseller - The Faith Club; A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding. An interfaith memoir of spiritual reflections written in three voices and now a moving presentation will help your audiences look at themselves, their lives and the broader world in a new way. Pioneering, timely, and deeply thoughtful, The Faith Club's caring message will resonate with people of all faiths.

Marketing maven Greg Stuart, a 20-year veteran of the advertising industry, and former CEO and president of the IAB, the leading global association for the interactive advertising and marketing industry, has co-authored a groundbreaking book titled What Sticks ? Why Most Advertising Fails and How to Guarantee Yours Succeeds.

Karen co-founded Virtual Distance International in 2004 to help organizations create meaningful, satisfying, productive workplaces where people and institutions can thrive in the Digital Age. At a time when many people are working virtually and communicating with their colleagues primarily through e-mail and other computer-mediated means, Karen and her VDI colleagues have created a much-needed methodology for measuring Virtual Distance ? a psychological gap that grows out of a heavy reliance on electronic communications - and improving productivity and innovation over distance by reducing its effects.

Jessica Jackley Flannery first saw the power and beauty of microfinance while working in rural Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Co-founder of Kiva with her husband Matt, Jessica speaks widely on microfinance and social entrepreneurship. She serves on a number of non-profit boards, including Opportunity International.