Celebrity
Keynote Speaker, Best-Selling Author
Amy Morin is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and a lecturer at Northeastern University.
Her expertise in mental strength has attracted international attention. Her bestselling book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do, is being translated into more than 20 languages.
Presidential Historian, NBC News and PBS NewsHour, New York Times Columnist and #1 Best-Selling Author
Michael Beschloss is an award-winning historian of the Presidency and the author of nine books, including the the most recent, Presidents of War, along with the bestseller Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989. Beschloss writes a sports history column that appears in The New York Times both in print and online every Saturday, called HistorySource.
CBS Sports Broadcaster, and Host, Showtime's Inside the NFL
Greg Gumbel's standout work in the world of sports broadcasting has made his face, name and voice as familiar as any in the industry.
Neuroanatomist, Stroke Survivor &; Author of My Stroke of Insight
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain in 1996. On the afternoon of this rare form of stroke (AVM), she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. It took eight years for Dr. Jill to completely recover all of her physical function and thinking ability. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (published in 2008 by Viking Penguin).
2014 U.S. Paralympian / Adaptive Snowboarding
At 19, after experiencing flu-like symptoms, Amy was rushed to the hospital in a state of septic shock. En route, she experienced respiratory and multiple organ failure, which caused her to lose circulation to her extremities. When she entered into the hospital she was given less than a 2% chance of survival, put on life support and placed into a coma.
Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist; Associate Editor, The Washington Post; and Author, 22 Bestsellers
Philanthropist, Supreme Court Justice, Professional Football Player
Alan C. Page was born August 7, 1945, in Canton, Ohio. He graduated from Canton Central Catholic High School in 1963, and received his B.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1967 and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1978.
Olympic gymnast turned health advocate speaks on cancer awareness, health & wellness, and how to think like an Olympic champion!