Virtual LeaderCon 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.

Marilee Adams

Dr. Marilee Adams is a psychologist, executive coach, and award-winning author. As founder and CEO of Inquiry Institute, her work has shaped how leaders think, communicate, and make decisions for more than four decades. She has explored how questions and mindsets shape thinking, human behavior, relationships, decisions, and results, drawing on her years as a psychotherapist, her doctoral research, and extensive study with pioneers in human change, systems thinking, and language. She is the originator of Question Thinking™ and author of the international bestseller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, now in its 5th Edition, with more than half a million copies sold in 22 languages — its newest edition addressing one of the defining challenges of our time: how to lead with intention, wisdom, and connection amid growing complexity and the rise of artificial intelligence. Her coaching, training, and programs are used by Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, healthcare systems, and universities worldwide.

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.

John R. Miles

John R. Miles is an award-winning author, speaker, and global thought leader. He is the author of Passion Struck, winner of the Gold Stevie Award for Best Business Book 2025 and a 2024 Next Big Idea Club Must-Read selection. His work has been praised for delivering “groundbreaking discoveries that allow you to reshape your past and create an empowered and limitless future” (Next Big Idea Club).
 
John reaches millions as the host of the Passion Struck podcast—the #1 alternative health show with more than 85 million downloads worldwide—and has interviewed 700+ icons, including Angela Duckworth, Susan Cain, Seth Godin, and Gary Vaynerchuk. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former Navy officer, he also holds an M.S. and M.B.A. and spent over two decades as a Fortune 50 executive (CIO, COO, CDO, CISO) and four-time CEO, leading global transformations in cybersecurity, digital strategy, culture, and data science.
John has received multiple accolades, including the ComputerWorld Premier 100 Technology Leaders Award and CIO Magazine’s CIO 100. He has also been recognized as a finalist for CISO of the Year, and his company was named runner-up for the Tampa Bay Technology Company of the Year. He lives in Clearwater, Florida.

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.

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

Named the “Office Whisperer” by The New York Times, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky helps leaders use behavioral science to drive successful AI adoption as CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts. He is the author of The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results, forthcoming from Georgetown University Press, and has published more than 650 articles and given more than 550 interviews in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Time, Forbes, and The New York Times.