Casandra Brené Brown is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin..

Born in Lebanon and raised between cultures, **Nassim Nicholas Taleb** brings a uniquely global perspective to his groundbreaking work on uncertainty and risk.

Born to Indian immigrant parents in 1982, Ramit Sethi has transformed from a Stanford-educated tech entrepreneur into one of America's most trusted voices on personal finance.

**Wall Street prognosticator** Peter D. Schiff has built his reputation as one of the few financial commentators to accurately predict major economic downturns before they happen.

Eric Ries is an American entrepreneur, blogger, and author of The Lean Startup, a book on the lean startup movement.