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Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the Sleep and Cognition (SaC) Lab

Karen Dobkins, Ph.D.

Professor of psychology and neuroscience at University of California, San Diego and the director of the Human Experience and Awareness Lab (HeaLab)

Christine Porath, Ph.D.

Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business

Douglas R. Conant

Founder and CEO of ConantLeadership

Jane McGonigal, Ph.D.

Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and two-time New York Times bestselling author

Curtis Sittenfeld

New York Times bestselling author

Juliette Kayyem

Faculty chair of the Homeland Security Project and Security and Global Health Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Gretchen Rubin

Five-time New York Times bestselling author

Susan Cain

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Quiet and Bittersweet

Amy J. C. Cuddy, Ph.D.

Social psychologist, professor, and New York Times bestselling author of Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Thomas Fisher, M.D., MPH

Emergency medicine physician at The University of Chicago Medical Center

Natalie Y. Moore

Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University

Mónica Guzmán

Journalist, entrepreneur, and author

Eric Liu

Co-founder and CEO of Citizen University, and director of the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship and American Identity Program

Paul A. Laudicina

Chairman emeritus of Kearney and founder of its Global Business Policy Council

Nicole Isaac

Senior Director of the International Strategic Response team at Meta, and former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, Office of Legislative Affairs

John A. List, Ph.D.

Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago

Steven D. Levitt, Ph.D.

William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Co-author of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics.

Arthur Brooks, Ph.D.

William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School

Jeffrey Goldberg

Editor in Chief, The Atlantic