social Experts

Lisa Smith

Executive Vice President of Research and DevelopmentThought Leader Select

Award-winning journalist, researcher, and consultant available for company training/workshops for key opinion leader engagement strategies

Steven Joiner

Co-Founder21st Century Worklife

Surviving in Today's Workplace and Thriving in Tomorrow's Worklife

Ira Kalb

CEO + Professor of MarketingKalb & Associates + University of Southern California

Entertaining and educational speaker that can speak to branding, crisis management, and all things marketing so the audience will leave with

Tom Ashcraft

Distinguished Professor of Visual ArtWestern Carolina University

For more than 30 years, Tom Ashcraft has navigated his inquiry based practice, combining object making and community engagement.

Andrea Hershatter

Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management; Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate EducationEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Suzanne Tulien, Brand Consultant, Speaker,Author

Principal &FounderThe Brand Ascension Group

Brand Elevation Enthusiast! I align business + personal brands to walk their talk, from the inside out.

Feryal Cherif

Associate Professor of Political Science and International RelationsLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Davide Zori, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History and ArchaeologyBaylor University

Medieval archaeologist specializing in Viking expansion into the North Atlantic and 8th-12th century Italian population movements

Verity Mathis

Mammals Collections ManagerUniversity of Florida

Verity Mathis manages the Florida Museum Mammalogy Collections, taking care of over 35,000 specimens of mammals from around the world.

Maggie Anderson

CEO and Cofounder The Empowerment Experiment Foundation

Sought-after speaker, who has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, PBS Newshour, and CBS Morning News, among other tv and radio shows