Leading through transformation is difficult. Doing it with hundreds of thousands of people is something else entirely. Kathryn McLay knows what that takes.

As former President and CEO of Walmart International and Sam's Club, McLay led one of the world's largest and most complex organizations through a defining period of change. Responsible for operations across 18 countries, more than 500,000 associates, and millions of customers each week, she helped align global teams behind a shared strategy while navigating disruption, accelerating growth, and driving execution at extraordinary scale.

On stage, McLay makes transformation tangible. Rather than offering theories, she shares the leadership principles she relied on to align hundreds of thousands of people around a common goal, execute through uncertainty, and sustain performance at extraordinary scale. Audiences leave better equipped to lead change inside their own organizations—whether they're responsible for fifty people or fifty thousand.

Alex Spiro is the lawyer people call when the stakes are sky-high and the spotlight is unforgiving. A former Manhattan prosecutor and former coordinator of an autism children’s program Harvard’s psychiatric hospital, he brings behavioral insight to every decision, tactic, and read of the room. He has represented Jay-Z in cases that tested the limits of brand protection, defended Alec Baldwin in the “Rust” matter, and navigated legal firestorms for clients who make headlines by simply walking into a room. Spiro teaches at Harvard Law School, is Chairman of Glassbridge Enterprises, and advises companies operating at the frontier of innovation and risk.

As a speaker, Spiro uncovers what really happens when pressure closes in. Drawing on trials that dominated the news cycle and boardrooms that demand absolute precision, he shows how risk is read, narratives are shaped, and decisions made at the edge hold steady. Audiences leave with a sharper sense of how to read people, manage conflict, and perform when the margin for error is nearly zero.

Columbia Business School professor Dr. Sheena Iyengar is a world expert on choice and decision-making. Her book The Art of Choosing received the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year and inspired an eponymous TED Talk.  Her subsequent book, Think Bigger, was a Gold Medal Winner of the 2024 Axiom Business Book Award. Her research is regularly cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist as well as in popular books, such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance. Dr. Iyengar has also appeared on television, including The Today Show, The Daily Show, and Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN. Her TED Talks have collectively received 7M views and her research continues to inform markets, businesses, and individuals around the world.

Dr. Iyengar has been named a member of Thinkers50, a global ranking of the top 50 management thinkers. She won the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Core Teaching from Columbia Business School in 2012 and was named one of the World’s Best B-School Professors by Poets and Quants. She has also given keynotes and consulted for companies as wide-ranging as Deloitte, Google, Bloomberg, Blizzard Entertainment, J.P. Morgan & Chase, and The North Face.

DeMaurice Smith spent fifteen years negotiating against the most powerful owners in sports and walked away having delivered more than $100 billion to players.

As Executive Director of the NFL Players Association, he took on what ESPN called the toughest job in sports and turned it into a platform for leverage. Smith led high-stakes labor battles, navigated public crises from "Deflategate" to player protests, and built a business engine that reshaped how athletes generate value beyond the field.

In his recent book, Turf Wars: The Fight for America’s Game, Smith pulls back the curtain on those moments, offering a clear look at how power, money, and influence actually operate behind closed doors. The same dynamics shaping the NFL are playing out across business and leadership today, which makes his perspective feel less like sports commentary and more like a real-time playbook.

On stage, Smith breaks down how power actually works. He shows how to negotiate when the other side has more resources, how to manage risk when every decision is public, and how to build systems that hold under pressure. His perspective is grounded in experience where the consequences were immediate and the stakes could not be higher.

Trajan Langdon is President of Basketball Operations for the Detroit Pistons and a decisive leader who changes outcomes fast. In his first year in the role, he engineered one of the NBA’s most dramatic turnarounds, transforming a 14-win team into a 44–38 playoff contender and earning top-three recognition for NBA Executive of the Year. The impact was immediate and unmistakable.

Drawing on his experience as a Duke standout shaped by championship standards, Langdon moved quickly to reset the organization. The result was a franchise with clearer direction, stronger belief, and a culture built to win.

As a speaker, Langdon takes audiences inside what real transformation looks like when the clock is ticking and scrutiny is high. He speaks candidly about making consequential decisions early, rebuilding trust, and creating environments where people perform at their best. Leaders bring him in when they want a grounded, modern perspective on how winning cultures are actually built and sustained.

Brad Underwood has reinvigorated Illinois basketball, transforming the Fighting Illini into a consistent national contender since arriving in Champaign in March 2017. In 2024, Underwood led Illinois to historic heights, capturing the Big Ten Tournament Championship and advancing to the Elite Eight, becoming the first coach in Illinois history to win multiple Big Ten Tournament titles with the program hoisting a conference trophy for the third time in just four years. Over his 11 years as a Division I head coach, he has compiled an impressive 69% winning percentage, recorded nine 20-win seasons, and made eight NCAA Tournament appearances.

As a speaker, Underwood offers powerful insights on leadership, resilience, continuous improvement, and building championship cultures—providing actionable lessons for organizations seeking to elevate performance and create environments where individuals and teams thrive under pressure.

Jonathan Kanter — Leading Authority on AI, Competition, and the Future of Market Power

As the former Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the U.S. Department of Justice (2021–2024), Jonathan Kanter has been at the forefront of the most defining economic and technological battles of our time—namely, the rise of artificial intelligence, digital dominance, and fair competition in global markets. Widely regarded as one of the nation’s most influential antitrust thinkers, he led landmark efforts to modernize enforcement for the AI era, ensuring innovation thrives while preventing monopoly abuses from stifling new entrants.

Today, Kanter is uniquely positioned to help companies understand what’s coming next. His insights translate complex regulatory shifts into clear, strategic guidance for leaders navigating rapid technological change. Whether discussing responsible AI deployment, market fairness, or the evolving dynamics between Big Tech and emerging disruptors, Kanter delivers a powerful message: organizations that prepare for competitive resilience now will be the ones shaping the future economy.

Perfect for leadership teams, corporate boards, and industries undergoing digital transformation, Kanter’s keynotes and conversations equip audiences with a forward-looking playbook to stay compliant, innovative, and ahead of the curve in a world where AI is rewriting the rules.