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Keynote Speaker: Lisa Bodell

FutureThink CEO

Monday, May 20 | 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. EDT

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FutureThink CEO Lisa Bodell ranks among the Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and is the best-selling author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She’s a global leader on simplification, collaboration, and innovation, whose keynotes leave audiences inspired to change and arm them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters.

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Bodell brings a compelling perspective to the sought-after topics of simplification and innovation to over 100,000 people each year. A thought leader and serial entrepreneur, her transformational message has inspired executives at top-ranked organizations such as Google, Cisco, Citigroup, and the U.S. Navy War College.

Based on her best-selling books, Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, Lisa provides a provocative yet practical approach that enables organizations and individuals to eradicate the unnecessary complexity and time-sucks that hold them back from more meaningful work, and allow simplicity to become their new operating system.

Bodell has contributed her expertise to a wide variety of media. She is a monthly contributor to Forbes and has frequently appeared in other media including: Fast Company, WIRED, The New York Times, Inc., Bloomberg Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, FOX News, and CNN. She has also been featured in many major books such as Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question, Adam Grant’s Originals, and AfterShock, the upcoming 50-year celebration based on futurist Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock.

Bodell has taught innovation at both American University and Fordham University and has a TED talk on the topic. She has served on the board of advisors of several organizations, including the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum, the United States National Security Agency, the Association of Professional Futurists, and the Novartis board of Diversity & Inclusion.


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Featured Speaker: Jeff Henderson

Chef, Author, Entrepreneur

Tuesday, May 21 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

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From humble beginnings in South Central Los Angeles to imprisoned drug dealer, and now an award-winning celebrity chef and best-selling author, Chef Jeff is a role model for anyone who needs the encouragement to reinvent their lives. Since he discovered his passion and gift for cooking in the unlikeliest of places — prison — Jeff has completely turned his life around, and today serves as a popular and powerful voice for self-transformation.

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Jeff started his culinary career in Los Angeles working at the likes of the Ritz-Carlton, Hotel Bel-Air and L'Ermitage (currently Viceroy L'Ermitage Beverly Hills). In 2000 Jeff left Los Angeles and within a few years he made history as the first African American Executive Chef at both Caesars Palace and the Bellagio. Jeff is the creator and star of the Food Network's reality series, “The Chef Jeff Project;” former host of “Family Style with Chef Jeff;” and star of “Flip My Food.” In his latest book, “If You Can See It You Can Be It,” he reveals his hard knock, yet transformative, life lessons to help others realize their potential, discover their hidden business aptitudes, make life-changing decisions, and gain a new foothold on the ladder to success. Jeff’s story has been featured on “Oprah's Lifeclass,” “Good Morning America,” “Today,” CNN, ABC News, “The Steve Harvey Show,” and in major publications such as USA Today, People Magazine, New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and many others. His life story is being turned into a feature film by Sony Pictures based on his New York Times best-selling memoir, “Cooked.”


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Featured Speaker: Felecia Hatcher

Black Ambition CEO

Tuesday, May 21 | 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. EDT

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Felecia is the CEO of Pharrell Williams' Black Ambition Opportunity Fund and author of "Genius Jam." Felecia is an innovative powerhouse, personal transformation speaker, entrepreneur, and author, whose work shapes the way individuals show up, are valued, and financially benefit from playing full out in the innovation economy.

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Companies like, Google, Spotify, Disney, Chanel, Door Dash, Target, Samsung, and Etsy call on Felecia to help them empower their teams and shape their inclusive innovation strategies, but moreover empower their teams to step into their “Zone of Genius” to unlock massive opportunities for their lives and careers. Felecia has been featured on Bloomberg, “Good Morning America,” “NBC Today Show,” MSNBC, The Cooking Channel, Wall Street Journal, and is a White House Champion of Change Honoree.


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