Speakers

Eric Boles is the CEO and Founder of The Game Changers, Inc., which provides a non-traditional approach to performance management through talent development, business strategy, change management, cultural transformation, and peak performance.

Boles influences an organization’s most valuable resource, its people, through high-energy and powerful storytelling aimed at unleashing individual potential, navigating change and leading with purpose. Recent clients include IBM, FedEx, Motorola, Astra Zeneca, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern Mutual, Medtronic, Motion Industries, Bridgestone Tires, Southeastern Grocers, and Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

With his experience in corporate boardrooms as an executive coach and business consultant, Boles brings razor-sharp insights and leadership strategies that help marketplace. His perspectives on managing and leading change, transforming culture, and overcoming complacency, are laced with practical tools and principles that people can apply both professionally and personally.

Before becoming a sought-after speaker and consultant, Boles learned many of his principles of peak performance, team dynamics, and leadership from his experience as a wide receiver with the National Football League’s Green Bay Packers and New York Jets.

Eric is the author of Moving to Great: Unleashing Your Best in Life and Work.

After graduating from Harvard Business School, Neil Pasricha spent a decade as director of leadership at Walmart, the world’s largest company. While there he wrote the 50-million-hit, award-winning blog 1000 Awesome Things and the New York Times bestsellers The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation, which have been on international bestseller lists for more than 200 weeks and sold more than 1 million copies.

Neil’s research and books on happiness, mindset, and human potential have received attention from Harvard Business Review, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times, CNN, and BBC.

Onstage his style is an endangered species: an incredibly rare blend of raw, hilarious, and heartwarming. His high-energy, takeaway-laden, application-not-motivation speeches are often voted tops at any conference or event.

As a senior political analyst for CNN and opinion columnist, Ron Brownstein produces sharp analysis on politics, policy, the electorate, media, healthcare, and the range of issues informed by his strong sense of American political and national history.

Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Brownstein was cited for “the clarity, consistency, and quality of his political reporting.” Brownstein has been called “the sharpest observer of American’s political divides” and “an exemplar of a better way,” in an acclaimed feature piece by The Washington Post.

Brownstein also served as the national political correspondent and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. In his years at the Times, he earned two finalist nods from the Pulitzer Prize Board for his coverage of the 1996 and 2004 presidential elections. He has appeared frequently on Meet the Press, This Week with George Stephanopolous, Face the Nation, The Newshour, and Washington Week in Review. He has also served as an election analyst for ABC.

Brownstein is the author or editor of seven books. His previous book, Reagan’s Ruling Class: Portraits of the President’s Top 100 Officials, was a Washington Post bestseller for five weeks.

His articles on politics, public policy, books and culture have also appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Washington Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and The Chicago Sun-Times.