
Emily Esfahani Smith
Bestselling author of The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters | Journalist
In times of great challenge, search for meaning, not happiness.
A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
writers, and doers for speaking engagements.
Bestselling author of The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters | Journalist
In times of great challenge, search for meaning, not happiness.
World-renowned photographer | Winner of the TED Prize
Photographs are the reflecting pools of our time.
Former Member of the Westboro Baptist Church | Author of Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
We must extend empathy and compassion to the people who show us hostility and contempt.
Legendary writer and cultural icon | Author of The House of the Spirits
Write what should not be forgotten.
New York Times bestselling author of Drunk Tank Pink, Irresistible, and Anatomy of a Breakthrough
Many of the barriers you're facing are subjective. You can get unstuck—and unlock radical creativity, innovation, and teamwork.
New York Times bestselling author of Without You, There Is No Us, Expert on North Korea
What can we learn from totalitarian regimes? And how can we connect with their human victims?
New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Robots and Rule of the Robots
To adapt to machine learning, we'll need to come up with unprecedented solutions.
Author of Grit, the #1 New York Times bestseller | Pioneering researcher on grit, perseverance, and the science of success
Grit, more than talent, IQ, looks, or wealth, is a powerful indicator of success.
Founder of Metabiota Risk Managment | Expert on COVID-19 and The Spread of Global Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic affects everyone. Here’s what you need to know, and what’s next.
One of the world’s foremost neuroscientists | Host of PBS’s The Brain | Scientific Advisor for HBO’s Westworld
Smart companies care deeply about creativity—the quality that makes us uniquely human.
An Extraordinary Business and Community Leader
Give people the tools they need, treat them with respect, and they will perform miraculous deeds.
Award-winning photographer | Associate professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago | MacArthur Genius
Art is a weapon. Photos can change society—our view of ourselves and our communities.
World-Renowned Thinker | Bestselling Author of Team Human, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Present Shock, and Survival of the Richest
We can be fully human in a world of technology.
Urban space artist behind the "Before I Die" walls
With powerful public art, we can engage communities in real conversations.
Author of Rage Becomes Her | Award-winning journalist | Co-Founder and Director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project
Our emotions aren't weaknesses. They're tools that we can use for greater personal and organizational success.
2018 MacArthur Fellow | Award-Winning Painter and Sculptor
Art isn’t about making pretty pictures. Images should be as challenging as the issues we face.
World Renowned Expert on Innovation | Former Chief Disruptor at Autodesk | Author of The Future of Making
An era of continuous disruption is changing, forever, how we design, manufacture, and consume.
Award-winning photojournalist | TED Senior Fellow
We need to bring the other’s side into focus to recognize our shared humanity.
Co-Founder of Kiva, the microlending site, and Author of Clay Water Brick
The connection between two individuals is a powerful agent for social change.
One of the world's top public intellectuals | Author of Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why it Matters and Enlightenment Now | Harvard Professor
The world is getting better, not worse. The Enlightenment ideals of reason and science are a major reason why.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and Upheaval
Nations and individuals share the same techniques to survive a crisis—and thrive beyond it.
New Yorker Writer | Author of Antisocial
Social media is what we make it—here’s how we can use it to create a kinder, more imaginative world.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Khan Academy
All children deserve access to a free, world-class education.
Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of The 1619 Project | Executive Producer of The 1619 Project Hulu Docuseries | MacArthur Genius
There isn’t a beat you can cover in America—education, housing—where race is not a factor.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of On Juneteenth | Harvard professor | MacArthur Genius
Telling the essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s profound importance to American history.
Microsoft VP of Design and Artificial Intelligence | Author of How to Speak Machine
Information is expanding—if we want to use it correctly, we need to represent it visually.
Anti-ageism activist | Author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Ageism is prejudice against our future selves. What if we were free of it?
Founder of Street Symphony | 2018 MacArthur Genius | TED Senior Fellow
Music speaks to people—touches people—in ways words alone cannot.
Psychologist and Author of The Village Effect and The Sexual Paradox
Even in our digital world, human connection is the key to learning, happiness, resilience, and longevity.
Author of Living in Data | Former Library of Congress Innovator in Residence | Former NYT Data Artist-in-Residence
The future of data is about to be written—and it’s up to us to imagine a more just data democracy.