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Serena Ryder Chats with Chris Hadfield About Mental Health, Creative Process, and Her 1 Greatest Fear

October 28, 2020
Deep Dive
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Grow Your Business: The Strategies You Can't Afford to Ignore

May 21, 2020
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Virtual Inclusion: Creating a Culture of Inclusion in a Remote World

February 3, 2021

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Social impact is at the core of what we do. Through our partnership with the United Nations, we are actively advancing the Sustainable Development Goals to create a more equitable and sustainable tomorrow.

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Michelle Obama
Former First Lady of the United States
Mark Cuban
Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Owner of Dallas Mavericks
Michele Romanow
Cofounder & President
Clearbanc
Guy Kawasaki
Chief Evangelist
Canva
Martha Stewart
American Executive, Lifestyle Expert and Best-Selling Author
Al Gore
Former Vice President & Chairman
Generation Investment Management
Jen Rubio
CoFounder & Chief Brand Officer
Away Luggage
Chris Hadfield
Elevate CoChair & Astronaut
Sophia Amoruso
Founder & CEO
Girlboss
Vinod Khosla
Founder
Khosla Ventures
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder & CEO
Bumble
Akon
Artist, Founder
Akoin
Shahrzad Rafati
Founder & CEO
BroadbandTV
Eric Schmidt
Former CEO
Google
Martine Rothblatt
CEO & Founder
United Therapeutics
Wyclef Jean
Acclaimed Artist
Julie Rice
CoFounder & Partner
SoulCycle & WeWork Private
Geoffrey Hinton
Chief Scientific Advisor
Vector Institute
Kara Swisher
Host, Pivot and Recode Decode podcasts & Editor-at-large at New York Magazine
Masai Ujiri
President, Alternate NBA Governor
Toronto Raptors
Julie Hanna
Founder & CEO
Kiva
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Scott Galloway
Cohost, Pivot & NYU Professor
Tobias Lütke
Founder & CEO
Shopify
Anjali Sud
CEO
Vimeo
Marcus Buckingham
Bestselling Author
Nine Lies About Work
Sarah Friar
CEO
Nextdoor
Tyrone Edwards
Reporter
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Brooke Lynn Hytes
Queen of the North
Mayor John Tory
Mayor
City of Toronto
Samantha Barry
Editor in Chief
Glamour
Neil Blumenthal
CoFounder & CoCEO
Warby Parker
Tiffani Bova
Chief Innovation Evangelist
Salesforce
Cameron Bailey
Artistic Director & Co-Head
TIFF
Gillian Riley
President & CEO
Tangerine
Director X
Founder
Operation Prefrontal Cortex
Esther Wojcicki
Author
How to Raise Successful People
Hon. Rod Phillips
Minister of Finance
Province of Ontario
Umbereen Inayet
Artistic Producer & Curator
Nuit Blanche Toronto
Todd McKinnon
CoFounder & CEO
Okta
Vanessa Craft
Editor In Chief
ELLE Canada
Jim Whitehurst
President
IBM
Hon. Mary Ng
Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade
The Government of Canada
Spencer West
Visionary, Bestselling Author & World Change Warrior
Molly Ford
VP, Global Equality Programs
Salesforce
James Cameron
Director, Producer and Activist

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