Virtual LeaderCon 2025 - Speakers

Kevin Eikenberry

Host - Virtual LeaderCon

Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group – a leadership and learning company based in Indianapolis, IN with a team spread across the United States. He has spent over 30 years helping organizations and leaders from at least
53 countries become more effective. Global Gurus has listed him on the list of most
influential thinkers on leadership for the last four years. His blog and podcast are among the most popular on leadership. His books and online courses have
been translated into 13 languages. He is the author, co-author or contributing
author to nearly 20 books including, Remarkable Leadership, From Bud to Boss, and three books in the Long-Distance Worklife series. His latest book is Flexible Leadership: Navigate Uncertainty and Lead with Confidence.

Cheryl Einhorn

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is the creator of the AREA Method, a decision-making system for individuals, companies, and nonprofits to solve complex problems. Cheryl is the founder of the decision-sciences company Decisive, offering leadership training, curriculum, coaching, and professional development services, and is an adjunct professor at Cornell University. She is the author of the award-winning books Problem Solved about personal and professional decision-making and Investing in Financial Research about financial and investment decisions and Problem Solver, about the psychology of decision-making and Problem Solver Profiles. For more information, check out Cheryl's TED talk and visit areamethod.com.

Philip Jameson

Philip Jameson is a senior expert in organizational change at Boston Consulting Group, where he serves companies undertaking transformation. He previously served as Chief of Staff for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He is a coauthor of BCG's new book How Change Really Works: Seven Science-Based Principles for Transforming Your Organization, published by Harvard Business Review Press and available today.

Joshua Lifrak

Joshua Lifrak, M.S., author of WIN TODAY, is Director of Performance and Coaching at Limitless Minds, a mental performance consultancy, delivering keynotes and advising individuals, small businesses, and top multinationals including McDonalds, Novartis, Pfizer, KPMG, and Amazon. He started his career as a mental conditioning consultant with IMG Academy, working with MLB players, NBA and NFL draft picks, the US Soccer U-17 Men’s National Team and many elite college programs. He then joined the Chicago Cubs as director of their mental skills program. His work there culminated in the Cubs’ 2016 World Series victory. After his stint with the Cubs, he went on to be the Major League Mental Skills Coach for the New York Mets. Lifrak, who has a Master's Degree in Exercise Science with a specialization in Sports Psychology from Ithaca College, lives in Sarasota, Florida.

Andre Martin

Dr. André Martin is an organizational psychologist and former Chief Talent Officer at Google, Nike, Mars, and Target, now Chief Experience Officer at Lead3r and author of Wrong Fit, Right Fit, who helps founders and CEOs build leadership teams aligned enough to believe — and prove — they can achieve more together than alone; his forthcoming book, Collective Confidence: The Winning Formula of the World's Best Teams, draws on a proprietary study of 400+ team members and interviews across the military, elite athletics, investment, and startups to distill six leader-controlled principles behind high-performing teams.

Doug Noll

Douglas E. Noll is a former 22-year trial lawyer turned award-winning peacemaker and mediator who has personally resolved over 1,500 disputes (including Catholic Church sexual abuse and criminal victim-offender cases), co-founded the Prison of Peace Project training murderers in maximum-security prisons to mediate, teaches Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Conflict at Pepperdine's Straus Institute, and has authored five books — most recently Empathy Leadership (2026) and the 40,000+ copy bestseller De-Escalate — earning honors including California Lawyer Attorney of the Year and National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals Neutral of the Year.

Dan Pontefract

Dan Pontefract is a leadership and corporate culture strategist and an award-winning author with over two decades of senior executive experience at SAP, TELUS, and Business Objects. Since launching Pontefract Group in 2018, he has worked with organizations worldwide, including Salesforce, Amgen, Nestlé, Autodesk, Manulife, BMO, Nutrien, and Virgin Media O2. He has presented at four TED events and delivered over 600 keynote talks in Australia, the Middle East, Europe, the US, and Canada. He is the author of Work-Life Bloom (winner of the 2024 Thinkers50 Best New Management Book and the Axiom Business Book Awards Gold Medal), Lead. Care. Win., Open to Think, The Purpose Effect, and Flat Army. He writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review and is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business. Named as one of the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2018, HR Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in HR, and Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers, Dan lives in Victoria, BC.

Neal Schore

Neal Schore teaches leaders how to stay controlled, confident, and precise. As founder and CEO of 25th Hour Group, he works with executives, founders, leaders and leadership teams as an executive coach, keynote speaker, strategist and corporate advisor. His approach is built on a simple premise: lasting results begin when You Manage You. with self-management. When leaders understand their habits, calm their reactions, and respond with more intention, everything changes. Work improves. Relationships improve. Time is less hijacked.

Neal draws from real operating experience. He founded and served as CEO of Triton Digital, a global leader in digital audio and podcast technology and data. Today, Neal is a chairman and advisor to business leaders, boards, and companies across the country, and advises operating companies, private equity and investment firms on executive leadership and strategic direction.

Neal is the author of The 25th Hour, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in August 2026.

Elizabeth Svoboda

Elizabeth Svoboda is an award-winning science writer and contributor to Scientific American, Discover, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and other publications. Elizabeth is a winner of the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Writers, and her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. She lives in San Jose, California, with her husband and young sons.