Speakers

Mitch has been called “one of North America’s leading visionaries” by Strategy Magazine, and was awarded the highly prestigious Top 40 Under 40… but he is much more than that. Since 2005, he has given thousands of keynote presentations to small, medium and large organizations in both the B2B and B2C space all over the world (and online). His style is big, engaging, entertaining, educating, customized and eyebrow raising. Your audience will leave informed and ready to tackle the future... today.

Mitch is also a bestselling business book author. His first book, Six Pixels of Separation (Grand Central Publishing - Hachette Book Group), named after his successful business podcast is a business bestseller. His second book, CTRL ALT Delete (Grand Central Publishing - Hachette Book Group) was named one of the best business books of 2013 by Amazon.

Mitch is currently an investor, media personality, podcaster, writer and Co-Founder of ThinkersOne. Prior to ThinkersOne, Mitch spent close to three decades in the technology and media industry as both an executive and entrepreneur. This included publishing music magazines, launching a record label, building out media sales at one of the first search engines, marketing one of the first mobile content publishing platforms, and eventually building, running and selling his own marketing agency to WPP - one of the world's most valuable marketing and communications holding companies. In that role, he was President of a global marketing agency operating in 25 countries with close to 3000 employees. In 2019, Mitch was named to Dr. Marshall Goldsmith's "100 Coaches" list celebrating the world's leading executive coaches, top business thinkers, and best leaders.

Jason is a globally recognized futurist, top-ranked economist, and bestselling author. He leads Prestige Economics and The Futurist Institute, advising executives and leaders on future risks and opportunities. Jason is the author of 16 bestselling books, over 1.5 million learners have taken his online courses on LinkedIn, and Bloomberg News has ranked him the #1 forecaster in the world in 35 different categories, including currencies, oil prices, gold prices, and U.S. jobs. He has given over 1,250 keynote speeches and over 1,000 television interviews with Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Fox, and the BBC. Jason is faculty for the Joint Special Operations University at USSOCOM, an Adjunct Fellow for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a contributor to Forbes, and a LinkedIn Top Voice. Some of his most popular bestselling books include Cold War Two, Recession-Proof, Futureproof Supply Chain, and Jobs for Robots.

Oxford Economics is the world’s foremost independent economic advisory firm. Covering over 200 countries, over 150 industrial sectors and 8,000 cities and regions, we provide insights and solutions that enable clients to make intelligent and responsible strategic business decisions faster in an increasingly complex and uncertain world.

Oxford Economics is also contracted with MHI to produce industry forecasts for 14 sectors, an economic briefing (weekly), and a commodity price forecast (monthly), all available for you to use during strategic planning at any time in the member portal.

Tara May is a leader in the movement for neurodiversity in the workplace. She is CEO of Aspiritech, a revolutionary tech company that employs more than 100 autistic adults representing more than 90% of its team. Tara is co-director of Neurowrx and a member of the strategic committee for HAAPE, or Helping Adults with Autism Perform and Excel, advocating for neurodiversity and employment both nationally and internationally and is a renowned speaker championing embracing neurodiversity, mental health, and most of all kindness, in the workplace.

Tara May spent more than 20 years in the corporate media space as a visionary, charismatic leader who transforms legacy organizations into thriving, future-focused digital properties. In her career in media and tech, Tara has masterfully revolutionized companies by leading cultural shifts, innovating new products and introducing new technology to result in dramatic revenue growth.

A go-to expert and strategic consultant for some of the world’s biggest brands, including Hershey’s, Disney and Wells Fargo, Tara is equally known for being an empowering leader, fostering high-performing teams through a positive, data-driven work environment that encourages individual career growth, collaboration and constant innovation.

As EVP of Media and Chief Digital Officer for Winsight and the National Restaurant Association Show, Tara has successfully led a company-wide digital transformation that has resulted in an unprecedented 350+% revenue growth in five years. She is credited with evolving the company’s tech and content strategies to allow for digital sophistication and optimization, rebuilding teams to better serve new and existing digital properties, developing and implementing a product roadmap and divisional restructuring that included employee training and guided career pathing, all while maintaining the highest morale in company history — a particularly meaningful feat in the face of a global pandemic.

Professor Thomas J. Goldsby is the Dee and Jimmy Haslam Chair of Logistics at the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Dr. Goldsby serves as Co-Executive Director for the Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI) at the Haslam College. He is immediate-past Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Logistics and Editor Emeritus of Transportation Journal. He has published more than 100 articles in academic and professional journals and serves as a frequent speaker at academic conferences, executive education seminars, and professional meetings around the world. Professor Goldsby is an author of five books on logistics and supply chain management.

Dr. Goldsby is a recipient of multiple best paper awards and he has received recognition for excellence in teaching at the University of Tennessee, The Ohio State University, University of Kentucky, and Iowa State University. In 2019, he was recognized as a “Rainmaker” by DC Velocity magazine and received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from Supply Chain Leaders in Action (SCLA). Along with Dr. Ted Stank, he co-hosts the “Tennessee on Supply Chain Management” podcast.

Chris Finan is an entrepreneur with a passion for creating and scaling world-changing companies, products and policies.

Chris has founded, advised and served in executive leadership positions in a variety of early-stage and growth-stage cybersecurity companies, including Shape Security (acquired by F5 Networks), ActZero (backed by Point72), and Impermium (acquired by Google).

He also founded Manifold Technology, a venture-backed company that delivered blockchain-based secure transaction infrastructure to the Global 500.

Prior to his time in Silicon Valley, he was the Product Director for Plan X, a Department of Defense cyber warfare research and development program at DARPA.

Chris also previously served in the Obama administration as the Director for Cybersecurity Legislation and Policy on the National Security Council in the White House.

During his time in the NSC, Chris led the administration’s legislative reform efforts, played a key role in the data privacy debate, and spearheaded the Executive Order that directed the development of the NIST cybersecurity framework.

Chris began his career in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot and intelligence officer, including a tour in Iraq where he led an intelligence team and served as a liaison to the Iraqi government.

Chris is a nonresident scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a senior fellow with Technology for Global Security. He has been a regular contributor on Bloomberg News and MSNBC, and his writing has been featured in the New York Times, Politico, Time and Wired. He lives in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and two daughters.

Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, speaker and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world byThinkers50, she is the author of two bestselling books, Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance.

As we continue to experience an increasingly digital world where work practices are changing at a blistering pace, Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness. Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers list, Erica frequently appears in the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal. Erica speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos, to the US Army, to companies such as Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, and Cisco. She holds degrees from Harvard University, MIT Sloan, and The Wharton School.

Oscar took the helm of a United that was flying through very turbulent skies and was anything but United. United was in freefall and within five years, United was flying high, achieving top-tier reliability and profits, winning back customer loyalty and earning the praise of each of its major union leaders. Most importantly, frontline employees were finally flying together as a team, after the turmoil of a merger that finally was ratified eight years to the day after it was begun.

Oscar credits his employees for pulling off the airline comeback story of all time, and it began with a Wall Street-defying strategy to put employees first, as the foundation of rebuilding. On Day 37 of his tenure, he suffered a massive heart attack. He woke from a coma only to fight for his job, fend off a proxy battle from activist investors, manage PR crises, all while learning the three-dimensional chess game that is required to obtain a heart transplant. As CEO, then Chairman, he also led negotiations for the CARES Act, and helped marshal the airline sector response to Covid.

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