Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London

Marcel Schwantes – rescheduled to Friday
Executive Coach, Speaker, Author

Humane Leadership: How Radical Love and Care Create Kick-Ass Teams

Marcel Schwantes introduces a compelling framework for humane leadership based on five core principles:

Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London

Robert Glazer
Founder, Author & Keynote Speaker
Acceleration Partners

The Compass Within: Finding Your Core Values

The first step to building a fulfilling life is getting clarity on your core values. In this session, serial entrepreneur and WSJ bestselling author Robert Glazer shares a framework that has helped thousands of people identify and implement personal core values into their life, work and leadership. Learn why core values are so important, what makes an effective (and ineffective core value) and how you can start your own journey to identifying and aligning your life and work to your core values.

Talk 2: 8:20am SFO, 11:20am, NYC, 4:20pm London

Nirit Cohen
Founder & Speaker
WorkFutures

The Future of Less Work: A Journey Through Three Possible Scenarios

This keynote invites the audience on a journey—from the world of work we knew, through the rapid shifts we’re experiencing, and into three distinct futures that organizations must prepare for. It weaves together two powerful forces: exponential advances in technology, and the radical shift in what people want from work and life.

Rather than predicting one outcome, the session explores three possible scenarios—each based on different assumptions about how we use technology, how organizations evolve, and how people choose to engage with work. The goal isn’t certainty—it’s possibility. I’ll invite the audience to challenge assumptions, widen their lens, and begin shaping workforce models that align with where talent, technology, and value are heading.

A mindset-shifting experience that reframes how we think about work, invites bold questions, and equips leaders to design organizations that are ready for an uncertain—and opportunity-filled—future.

Talk 3: 8:40am SFO, 11:40am, NYC, 4:40pm London

Chris Dyer
Culture and Leadership Keynote Speaker

Culture Shock, AI’s Big Bang Hits This Summer

Is your culture ready for the AI shockwave arriving this summer? In twenty high velocity minutes Chris Dyer, Inc Magazine’s #1 Leadership Speaker on Culture and advisor to giants like NASA, Johnson & Johnson, and Berkshire Hathaway, shows why the next ninety days decide whether your team thrives or scrambles. Drawing from his bestselling books like The Power of Company Culture, he reveals how AI rewires transparency, feedback loops, and decision rights. Understand what you need to do next to run a rapid readiness self-audit, and leave with a sprint plan to upgrade mindset, tools, and metrics before AI’s Big Bang hits just after summer!

Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London

Alli Murphy
Founder, Speaker, & Head Coach
Work & Thrive HQ

“What Does ‘Done’ Even Look Like?” How to Stop Moving the Finish Line at Work & Still Be Seen as a Top Performer

You’re doing everything right – crushing deadlines, generating more revenue, and solving problems before anyone even sees them.

But if you’re honest? It never feels done.

The finish line keeps moving. The to-do list refills faster than you can knock things out. And even your wins feel flat.

I know that cycle because I lived it.

As Managing Director, I was scaling 7-figure programs, managing a team, and getting promoted, all while quietly burning out.

It wasn’t until I redefined what “enough” looked like that I started working in a way that was both sustainable and successful. Last year, I did that while I took 5+ weeks of work-free PTO & grew our biggest program by 49%.

In this fast-paced, practical session, I’ll show you how to do the same.

You’ll walk away with:

• Why your current definition of success might be killing you
• The real reason you never feel “done” (and how to change that)
• 3 steps to craft your own “enough” statement so you can deliver quality work, while reclaiming hours of your precious time back

If you’ve ever wondered, “What do I need to do to feel on top of it?” this session is for you.

Talk 2: 8:20am SFO, 11:20am, NYC, 4:20pm London

Erifili Gounari
Founder & CEO
The Z Link

Cultivating A Bias For Action

Talk 3: 8:40am SFO, 11:40am, NYC, 4:40pm London

Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London

Sharon Parmar
Founder
Humanity Works Consultancy

Resilience Reimagined: How Courage and Connection Create High-Impact Teams in Times of Change

The old resilience playbook tells us to “bounce back.” But in an era of relentless, fast-paced change, bouncing back is no longer enough and waiting for a crisis to test your team’s resilience is a costly gamble.

In this high-impact talk, Sharon Parmar, former FTSE 100 leader turned Chief Heart Officer, shares how surviving a life-threatening illness shattered everything she knew about resilience and leadership. The result is Resilience 2.0: a fresh, evidence-based approach rooted in cutting edge research that resilience isn’t just an individual trait it’s a shared and deeply human capability.

Drawing on Positive Psychology, elite military training, and real-world case studies from high-performing teams, Sharon introduces the concept of training for the right kind of hard. In this energy-filled session, she shares a practical blueprint for building team cultures that are agile, connected, and equipped to thrive in uncertainty.

This talk is for leaders ready to stop firefighting and start cultivating a team culture that fuels engagement, supercharges productivity, and strengthens retention, even in the toughest times.

“In moments of pressure, we don’t rise to the occasion; we fall to the level of our training.” – U.S. Navy SEALs

Trigger warning: This talk includes a short discussion of serious illness, trauma, and the experience of nearly dying. Please take care while listening and step away if needed.

Talk 2: 8:20am SFO, 11:20am, NYC, 4:20pm London

Anna Katharina Schaffner, PHD
Burnout and Executive Coach (CPCC) | Writer | Speaker

Beat Burnout by Changing Your Time-Beliefs

How we think about time really matters: Our deeper beliefs about time are often the root cause of burnout, overwhelm, and procrastination. Many of us think of time as an enemy. Tyrannised by tight deadlines and endless to-do lists, we may feel chronically overwhelmed and stressed. Conversely, we may persistently postpone getting started on what is truly important to us, procrastinating on our higher goals and drowning in feelings of guilt and shame. When we feel behind with our work, we may deem it unthinkable or frivolously wasteful to meet a friend for lunch, spend an hour exercising, resting, or going for a walk. And yet we regularly waste hours of our time online each day, languishing in front of our screens, neither working nor resting. 

When we are burnt-out or burning on, our time-allocation decisions become highly irrational and counterproductive. We alternate between extreme time stinginess and extreme time wastefulness and make lots of poor decisions. We often try to work as many hours as possible, regardless of the quality and efficiency of our output, and think of any minute not spent working as wasted. Our lives shrink because we banish all nourishing activities and stop taking breaks. 

In this talk, I argue that ‘productivity’ and ‘time management’ hacks very rarely help us to address the deeper causes of our time troubles. I invite you to reflect on what ‘wasted time’ and ‘time well spent’ may mean to you. I explore some common time troubles that many of us struggle with and offer some techniques for developing a healthier attitude to time that will allow you to thrive.

Talk 3: 8:40am SFO, 11:40am, NYC, 4:40pm London

Rachel Morgan-Trimmer
Founder
Firebird

Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London

Paul J.Zak
Professor, Speaker, Co-Founder
Immersion Neuroscience

The Necessity of Employee Emotional Fitness

Emotional Fitness is the missing metric that increases employee productivity and job satisfaction.  This talk discusses the neuroscience of emotional fitness and shares new technology that allows any organization to empower employees to measure and improve their emotional fitness and shows the improved organizational metrics that follow this.

Talk 2: 8:20am SFO, 11:20am, NYC, 4:20pm London

Marcel Schwantes
Executive Coach, Speaker, Author

Humane Leadership: How Radical Love and Care Create Kick-Ass Teams

Marcel Schwantes introduces a compelling framework for humane leadership based on five core principles: