Education Speakers

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.

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Adam Grant

Organizational Psychologist, The Wharton School of Business; Bestselling Author; Host: WorkLife, a TED Original Podcast

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Platon

World-Renowned, Award-Winning Photographer; Founder, The People's Portfolio

$40K - $70K
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Ozan Varol

Rocket Scientist turned Professor, #1 Bestselling Author, and Expert on Innovation and Creativity

$25K - $40K
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Megan Smith

CEO shift7, Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer (2014-2017)

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Jenna Hager

Best-Selling Author; Co-Host, NBC's TODAY

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Daniel Shapiro

World Renowned Harvard Expert and Best-Selling Author on Collaboration, Communication and Teamwork

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Jennifer Aaker

General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bestselling Author

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Obi Felten

Innovation expert; Technologist; Entrepreneur; Founder & CEO of youth mental health startup Flourish Labs; Head of Moonshot Projects at Google X (2012-2021)

$25K - $40K
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John Whyte

Healthcare Futurist and Chief Medical Officer, WebMD

Under $25,000
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Douglas Brinkley

American Historian and Best-Selling Author; Presidential Historian, CNN; Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University

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Laura W. Bush

First Lady of the United States (2001-2009)

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Nancy Koehn

Harvard Historian, Author, Leadership Coach

$25K - $40K
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Lou Gerstner

Former Chairman and CEO, IBM

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Mitch Daniels

Former President of Purdue University; Governor of Indiana (2005-2013) and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003)

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Steven Chu

U.S. Secretary of Energy (2009-2013), Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist and Professor, Stanford University

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Janet Napolitano

20th President of the University of California (2013-2020); Secretary of Homeland Security (2009-2013); Governor of Arizona (2003-2009)

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Naomi Bagdonas

Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bestselling Author; Executive Advisor

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Ernest Moniz

Secretary of Energy (2013–2017)

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Andy Karsner

Corporate Innovation Strategist; Senior Strategist, X; Executive Chairman, Manifest Energy; Precourt Energy Scholar, Stanford University

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José Manuel Barroso

President, European Commission (2004-2014) and Prime Minister, Portugal (2002-2004)

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Frank Sesno

Anchor and Washington Bureau Chief, CNN (1984-2009) and Executive Director of Alliance for Sustainable Future, The George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs; Host, Sesno Series, George Washington University

Under $25,000

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