Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic with Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Health, Politics & Government Lynn Thoman Health, Politics & Government Lynn Thoman

Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic with Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb

Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb gives an inside account of the system wide failure across the U.S. government that left the country blind amidst the global covid pandemic. Throughout the pandemic, he was in regular contact with all the key players in the government and the drug and diagnostic companies. Find out how we can better prepare for the next health crisis – be it a deadlier covid variant, a flu pandemic, or a manmade biological threat.

Scott is the author of Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic.

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Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America: Former NYC and LA Police Commissioner Bill Bratton
Law & Justice, Politics & Government Lynn Thoman Law & Justice, Politics & Government Lynn Thoman

Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America: Former NYC and LA Police Commissioner Bill Bratton

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton shares what he thinks good policing looks like, reforms needed in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the arc of policing and the reasons crime is up in many major cities. He talks about different approaches to policing including broken windows, rapid response and community policing as well as the crisis in relations between the Black community and the police. While he and his team slashed crime rates and created the revolutionary data-driven program CompStat, his career has not been without controversy. He is the only person to have led the police departments of the United States' two largest cities – New York and Los Angeles.

Bratton is currently the chairman of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council and author of The Profession.

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Cryptocurrencies, Digital Assets, NFTs and the Future of Blockchain, Including Even for Social Good with Galaxy Digital Founder and CEO Mike Novogratz

Cryptocurrencies, Digital Assets, NFTs and the Future of Blockchain, Including Even for Social Good with Galaxy Digital Founder and CEO Mike Novogratz

Mike Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, shares on cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, digital assets, and the possibilities of blockchain. Learn how the first Tweet, a single sentence by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, sold as an NFT for millions of dollars and why it was worth so much. He also shares how blockchain can even be used for social good. In prisons, for example, it could be used to record solitary confinements and make criminal justice more transparent.

Mike Novogratz has made criminal justice reform a focus of his family’s foundation.

This discussion should not be relied on for investment advice.

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The Latest Findings in Behavioral Science and How They Can be Used to Make Your Life Better with Harvard Professor & Nudge Co-Author Cass Sunstein

The Latest Findings in Behavioral Science and How They Can be Used to Make Your Life Better with Harvard Professor & Nudge Co-Author Cass Sunstein

Cass Sunstein is a professor at Harvard and one of the founders of behavioral science. He has written two books with Nobel Laureates, including Nudge with Richard Thaler. We are unknowingly influenced by our environments, by how choices are framed, by the people we are with, and a myriad of seemingly insignificant factors. Learn the latest findings in behavioral science and how they can be used by everyone - governments, businesses and individuals - to make peoples lives better.

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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: The Greatest Threat Facing the World Right Now and Individual Rights to Privacy

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: The Greatest Threat Facing the World Right Now and Individual Rights to Privacy

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper discusses the greatest threats, cyber, surveillance, the information being collected on each one of us and individual rights to privacy. Learn how we can protect ourselves against future health or biological threats. 

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None Of Us Are Too Small To Make A Difference: Humanitarian & Author Of I Am A Girl From Africa Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Politics & Government, Self, Society Lynn Thoman Politics & Government, Self, Society Lynn Thoman

None Of Us Are Too Small To Make A Difference: Humanitarian & Author Of I Am A Girl From Africa Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Elizabeth Nyamayaro is the author of I Am A Girl From Africa, Special Advisor at the United Nations World Food Programme and founder of the HeForShe movement. She shares her near death experience and how she used adversity to create an opportunity to do greater things. “None of us are too small to make a difference.”

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Secret Service Director James Murray: The New Cyber Physical Nexus & How To Protect Ourselves From Cyber Risk
Politics & Government, Science & Tech Lynn Thoman Politics & Government, Science & Tech Lynn Thoman

Secret Service Director James Murray: The New Cyber Physical Nexus & How To Protect Ourselves From Cyber Risk

Secret Service Director James Murray is responsible for the Investigative and Protective missions of the Secret Service. He shares how the Secret Service trains its agents and protects against new types of risk such as the cyber physical nexus. He also shares how we can protect ourselves from cyber risk.

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Losing Trust & Faith in Institutions - Why It’s Happening and the Unexpected Consequences: Yuval Levin
Politics & Government, Society Lynn Thoman Politics & Government, Society Lynn Thoman

Losing Trust & Faith in Institutions - Why It’s Happening and the Unexpected Consequences: Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and founding editor of National Affairs, talks about the collapse of trust in our institutions – public, private, civic and political ­– and its surprising consequences. He explains why it has happened and how we can rebuild lost trust.

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Harvard Business School’s Bill Sahlman: What I’ve Learned from Reading 10,000 Business Plans and Investing in Hundreds of Startups
Business, Politics & Government, Society Lynn Thoman Business, Politics & Government, Society Lynn Thoman

Harvard Business School’s Bill Sahlman: What I’ve Learned from Reading 10,000 Business Plans and Investing in Hundreds of Startups

Of the 10,000 business plans Bill Sahlman has read, only 3 companies met their plan. Find out what it takes to succeed. Entrepreneurs have to be really good at running tests and execution trumps idea. Jeff Bezos is the most effective experimentalist in history. Bill Gates did not invent word processing, the spreadsheet, or presentation graphics; rather he took ideas and out executed everyone else.

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Former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd: What China’s Leader Xi Jinping Really Wants

Former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd: What China’s Leader Xi Jinping Really Wants

Former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, who has known China’s leader Xi Jinping for decades, reveals how Xi Jinping sees China and the world, and what he really wants. Find out why America needs its allies more than ever before and what the U.S. and its allies can do.

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Tom Friedman: On the World Getting Flatter and More Fragile, and Elephants Flying
Politics & Government, Society Lynn Thoman Politics & Government, Society Lynn Thoman

Tom Friedman: On the World Getting Flatter and More Fragile, and Elephants Flying

Tom Friedman, author, New York Times columnist, and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, talks about the world getting flatter and more fragile; abolishing recessions and interrupting the natural laws of capitalism; why the U.S. needs a healthy Republican Party; and how the world AC (After Corona) will be very different from the world BC (Before Corona).

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Former Foreign Minister of Mexico, Jorge Castañeda: America Through Foreign Eyes
International, Politics & Government Lynn Thoman International, Politics & Government Lynn Thoman

Former Foreign Minister of Mexico, Jorge Castañeda: America Through Foreign Eyes

Jorge Castañeda, former foreign minister of Mexico, provides a unique perspective on America and the world, including American interventions abroad, American exceptionalism and how it has changed over time, and how Latino immigrants are changing the US. Learn how transforming inventions into consumable goods continues to be an almost uniquely American talent and capability.

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President of Pew Research Center, Michael Dimock: On the Attitudes and Trends Shaping America Today
Politics & Government, Society Lynn Thoman Politics & Government, Society Lynn Thoman

President of Pew Research Center, Michael Dimock: On the Attitudes and Trends Shaping America Today

Find out how what America is looking for in a leader has changed. In addition, not only are there doubts about the mechanics and logistics of the U.S. election, but also the American public is going into it with deeper doubts about the qualifications of the voters in the first place. Learn how Americans’ attitudes are shaping the country.

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Yale Professor, Amy Chua: On How Group Identity and a Failure to Realize Its Importance Has Caused the Rise of Partisanship and the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy

Yale Professor, Amy Chua: On How Group Identity and a Failure to Realize Its Importance Has Caused the Rise of Partisanship and the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy

Find out how group identity has caused bitter partisanship in the U.S. and the failure of U.S. policies in Vietnam and other countries, from an original thinker who has received support from across the political spectrum. Learn how children as young as 4 years old identify with groups and consistently display systematic, unconscious bias toward other groups. Learn how America can move forward.

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