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Leon Logothetis<\/h2>\n

Sunday, October 3 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Leon Logothetis\u00a0<\/strong>is a global adventurer, motivational speaker and\u00a0 philanthropist. It wasn\u2019t always that way. He used to be a broker in London, where he felt uninspired and chronically depressed. He gave it all up for a life on the road. This radical life change was inspired by the inspirational movie “The Motorcycle Diaries.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The days of living and working behind his “slab of wood” (or desk to the layman) are well and truly over. His new passion: finding ways for your inner rebel (that voice that tells you, “you are worth so much more than you think”) to come out and play. The inner rebel tells you that your life is yours. And anything you dream of is possible. And that the fuel for all this potential is simple: kindness and harnessing the power of human connection.<\/span><\/p>\n

As host of the Netflix series, “<\/span>The Kindness Diaries,“<\/span> Logothetis circumnavigated the globe on his vintage yellow motorbike “Kindness One,” giving life-changing gifts along the way to unsuspecting good Samaritans\u00a0\u2014 all while relying on the kindness of strangers. He recently returned from filming the second season of “The Kindness Diaries,” in which he traveled from Alaska to Argentina in his vintage yellow VW Beetle “Kindness Two,” changing lives one mile at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Logothetis has visited more than 100 countries and has traveled to every continent. He teamed up with First Book\u00ae and drove a car from London to Mongolia raising money to buy 10,000 books for underprivileged children in America. He also drove a vintage London taxi across the U.S., giving free rides to the needy. He has documented his travels for numerous media outlets including Good Morning America, Los Angeles Times<\/em>, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, Outside<\/em>, Psychology Today<\/em>\u00a0and The New York Times<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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David Epstein<\/span><\/h2>\n

Monday, October 4 | 10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"David Epstein<\/strong> is the author of two top 10 <\/span>New York Times <\/em>bestsellers: <\/span>RANGE: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World<\/em>, and <\/span>The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Epstein brings bold new insights to business, education, technological innovation, healthcare and other industries on the best approach to career development. Sharing fascinating examples from the career trajectories of Duke Ellington, Roger Federer and a preeminent CEO who took her first job around the age her peers were retiring, Epstein shows that at every stage of life\u00a0\u2014 from children’s development in math, music and sports to students fresh out of college to mid-career professionals in need of a change and would-be retirees looking for a new vocation \u2014 generalists triumph as the world around them becomes increasingly specialized.<\/span><\/p>\n

Epstein has spoken on five continents on the science of high performance and novel uses and misuses of data, and his\u00a0<\/span>writing has appeared in numerous national and international publications, including\u00a0<\/span>The New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>The Atlantic <\/em>and\u00a0<\/span>National Geographic<\/em>. He was previously an investigative reporter at <\/span>ProPublica<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Merging stories from the worlds of sports, business, medicine and education, Epstein sheds light on the paths to peak performance. From how to best prepare for our specialized world to how to optimally incorporate AI into our workplaces, Epstein unpacks the science of success, leaving audiences with actionable takeaways to improve how they live, work and prepare for the future.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shola Richards
<\/span>Tuesday, October 5 |\u00a02:30-3:45 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"In this highly engaging, memorable and actionable keynote, Shola<\/strong>\u00a0Richards<\/strong>\u00a0will introduce us to the transformative African concept of Ubuntu, which is translated to mean, “I am, because we are.” Richards will share how Ubuntu, along with three
powerful questions, will have the power to positively transform how we work, live and lead, and how anyone can do this\u00a0\u2014 regardless of job role, years of experience, level of education or professional title.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Richards is the author of the best-selling book\u00a0Making Work Work <\/em>and\u00a0the newly-released book Go Together. <\/em>He is\u00a0<\/em>an in-demand workplace civility expert and a positivity writer with a passionate worldwide following. His articles and popular Monday morning “Positivity Solution” email series have been read by readers in over 160 countries, and his work has been featured on the Today Show, CBS This Morning, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Complete Wellbeing India, Business Insider Australia and numerous other outlets all over the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a speaker, he has shared his transformative message with leading healthcare organizations, top universities, Silicon Valley, the motion picture industry, on the TEDx stage and as a keynote speaker for the Department of Homeland Security under the Obama Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Michael J. Sorrell<\/a><\/h2>\r\nSunday, October 20 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nDr. Michael J. Sorrell\u00a0<\/b>is the longest-serving president in the 146-year history of Paul Quinn College. During his 11 years of leadership, Paul Quinn College has become a small, private, minority-serving institution that, by focusing on the most persistent, prevalent and pressing problems of our society, is remaking higher education and becoming a movement.\r\n\r\nDuring President Sorrell\u2019s tenure, Paul Quinn College has won the HBCU of the Year, the HBCU Student Government Association of the Year and the HBCU Business Program of the Year. Additional achievements include the college being recognized as a member of the President\u2019s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the creation of the New Urban College Model, achievement of full-accreditation\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n
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Whitney Johnson<\/a><\/h2>\r\nMonday, October 21 | 8:30-10:15 a.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"Whitney Johnson<\/strong>, CEO of WLJ Advisors, is an innovation and disruption theorist, best-selling author, sought-after executive and performance coach, and management consultant. She is recognized as one of the world\u2019s most influential management thinkers by\u00a0Thinkers50<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Fortune<\/em>. Johnson specializes in helping leaders grow their awareness, building the skills needed to achieve maximum success in their organizations. Senior executives seek out Johnson\u2019s coaching and consulting expertise because she understands that productive workplace cultures begin with the leader. She excels at helping leaders break through to new levels of personal and organizational effectiveness. Johnson\u2019s services utilize her exclusive proprietary tools, such as her S-Curve coaching framework and team disruption diagnostics, which were first developed after co-founding the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School\u2019s Clayton Christensen. At WLJ Advisors, she has mastered her formula for helping executives and organizations harness the unpredictability of change so they can thrive in today\u2019s volatile business environment.\r\n\r\nJohnson\u2019s best-selling book,\u00a0Build An A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve,\u00a0<\/em>is being used by leaders globally to build the culture and attract the talent they need to reach their big goals. This follow-up to her critically acclaimed\u00a0Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work (2015),\u00a0<\/em>outlines the key strategy to having an engaged, productive and innovative workforce, which is having a plan for developing all employees \u2014 no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Using her book\u2019s frameworks, Johnson works with leaders to shape how their organizations embrace and manage disruption by leading individuals and teams up the S-curve of change.\r\n\r\nPrior to WLJ Advisors, Johnson was an award-winning Wall Street analyst. She is one of Marshall Goldsmith\u2019s original cohort of 25 for the #100 Coaches Project, is a coach for the Harvard Business School\u2019s Executive Education program, frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, a LinkedIn influencer and hosts the Disrupt Yourself Podcast.\r\n\r\n
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Michele Norris<\/a><\/h2>\r\nTuesday, October 22 | 8:00-10:15 a.m.<\/strong>\r\n

\"\"<\/h2>\r\nMichele Norris<\/strong>\u00a0is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, founder of The Race Card Project and executive director of The Bridge, The Aspen Institute\u2019s new program on race, identity, connectivity and inclusion.\r\n\r\nFor more than a decade Norris served as a host of NPR\u2019s\u00a0All Things Considered\u00a0<\/em>where she interviewed world leaders, American presidents, Nobel laureates, leading thinkers and groundbreaking artists. She has also produced in-depth profiles, interviews and series for NPR News programs as well as special reports for\u00a0National Geographic<\/em>,\u00a0Time Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>ABC News and Lifetime Television. Norris created The Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America, after the publication of her family memoir,\u00a0The Grace of Silence<\/em>.\r\n\r\nBefore joining NPR in 2002, Norris spent almost 10 years as a reporter for ABC News in the Washington Bureau. She has also worked as a staff writer for\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0Chicago Tribune\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Los Angeles Times<\/em>. In 2014, Norris earned a Peabody award and the Distinguished Dialogue Award for her work on the Race Card Project.\r\n\r\nIn 2009, she was named \u201cJournalist of the Year\u201d by the National Association of Black Journalists. The NABJ recognized Norris for her coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign \u2014 when she co-hosted NPR\u2019s Democratic presidential candidates\u2019 debate, covered both conventions, anchored multi-hour election and inauguration live broadcasts and moderated a series of candid conversations with voters on the intersection of race and politics. That series earned Norris and\u00a0Morning Edition\u00a0<\/em>Host Steve Inskeep an Alfred I. DuPont -Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcasting.\r\n\r\nNorris was honored with NABJ\u2019s Salute to Excellence Award, for her cove","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-454","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}