Whether it’s a K-12 school or university, our education system prepares growing minds for an increasingly complex future. As valuable as education can be, it’s rife with inequity, funding problems, and conflict. Trust WSB’s roster of First Ladies, nonprofit leaders, former educators, and other education speakers to create the honest discourse we need to design a future-focused educational system. Available for in-person or virtual events and meetings.
General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bestselling Author
President, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation; 20th President of the University of California (2013-2020); Secretary of Homeland Security (2009-2013); Governor of Arizona (2003-2009)
CEO shift7, Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer (2014-2017), National Academy of Engineering Member
The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2007-2010) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997-2007)
Anchor and Washington Bureau Chief, CNN (1984–2009); Executive Director, Alliance for a Sustainable Future, and Director of Strategic Initiatives, The George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs; Host, Sesno Series, George Washington University; Founder, Planet Forward
Co-founder, the Campaign to Fix the Debt; Former Co-chair, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010); President Emeritus, University of North Carolina; Former White House Chief of Staff and Former Administrator, Small Business Administration
World-Renowned, Award-Winning Photographer; Founder, The People's Portfolio
U.S. Secretary of Energy (2009-2013), Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist and Professor, Stanford University
President Emeritus, Purdue University and Former Governor of Indiana (2005-2013) and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003)
Associate Professor, Duke University; Bestselling Author; Host, Everything Happens Podcast
NFL Network's Leading Analytics Expert and Strategic Innovator
Bestselling author, Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words; Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English, Linguistics, and Education, University of Michigan; Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan (2019-2024)
Graduate of African Leadership Academy Inaugural class; TED Fellow; Dartmouth College Graduate; IDEO.org Global Fellow; Co-Founder of Moving Windmills Project; New York Times Best-selling author of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Award-Winning Principal of New Milford High School (NJ) and Best-Selling Author
Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University; Board Member, MNI Connect Advisory Board
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