AT THE EDGE

Clint is a speaker, drummer, and writer who transforms how corporations like Keller Williams, AT&T, and Hewlett Packard create lasting loyalty. His new book is I Love it Here: How Great Leaders Create Organisations Their People Never Want to Leave.

Themba is a Change Maven, Impact Driver, Culture Chemist, Transformation Trooper, Organisation Whisperer, Complexity Slayer, Value Wrangler, and Engagement Engineer. Before Transnet he was Head of HR for EMEA at Dimension Data.

Maddie and Jamie are co-authors of The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement and two other books. Together, they have forty years of experience helping leaders integrate culture, strategy, and execution to achieve breakthrough performance.

Shawn is the best-selling author of Kiss Your Dragons & The Power of Yes! in Innovation. He is host of The Combustion Chronicles podcast, a former Disney Imagineer, was Chief Innovation Officer for Xavier University, and is a leading engagement authority.

Delano is the author of Refuse to Live Talented and Broke: Ten Keys to Unlocking Your Creative Earning Potential. He worked for years as a creative director and brand architect including for Toys R Us, and is a leading authority on personal and corporate creativity.

Luke is a Top 25 CX Influencer, Top 50 Thought Leader for the Future of Work, and Top 20 Social Influencer for Gamification. He studied Design Thinking at Stanford and has helped shape some of Australia’s largest employee experience programs.

Coonoor is author of I Quit! The Life-Affirming Joy of Giving Up. She is an Improv comedy performer and a specialist in using performance and creativity as the instigator of innovation.

Jeff was chosen by readers of Conventions & Meetings as one of the top 15 speakers in North America, a list that includes Anderson Cooper, Condoleezza Rice, and Daniel Pink. He is the best-selling author of several books including Coloring Outside the Lines.

Niven was Head of External Strategy at the South African Reserve Bank and an Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow. She currently writes for the Harvard Business Review and is the author of the book If You Don’t Do Politics, Politics Will Do You. 

Dickson is author of Leadership for the Future of Work: 9 Ways to Build Career Edge over Robots with Human Creativity. He works with professionals from Cartier, CITIC Telecom, JVC Kenwood, Mannheim Business School, Montblanc, Novartis and many more.

Sindhu is the inventor of 6 US Patents in artificial intelligence and was a finalist for Google’s Anita Borg Women in Technology Award. CogniCor is a Digital Assistant platform based on knowledge graphs for transforming customer engagement.

Adriana has been a leader in HR innovation for more than 20 years and is an expert in the use of AI in HR. She has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management & an MA in Adult Psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität. She also lectures at MIT.