Tiffani Bova’s illustrious career has been marked by a long (and continuously growing) list of accomplishments and honors: Two-time Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Former Global Growth & Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, Three-time Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker, Former Research Fellow at Gartner, Top 50 Marketing Thought Leader, Top X and LinkedIn Influencer, Five-Star Podcast Host, contributor to top business journals, researcher on the future of sales, employee and customer experience, and honors ranging from the Gartner Thought Leadership Award to being named one of the most powerful and influential women in California by the National Diversity Council. Listed by the San Francisco Examiner in 2023 as one of the Ten Most Sought After Brand Evangelists, Tiffani is referred to as “one of the most masterful keynote speakers in the world.”

For more than 20 years, Tiffani Bova has stood at the forefront of transformative industry developments across multiple industries and regions, specializing in driving top-line growth, sales transformation, and catalyzing customer and employee experience. She is the author of two Wall Street Journal bestsellers: Growth IQ, which has been translated into 12 languages and The Experience Mindset. Over the past decade, she has consistently ranked in the highest echelon of management and marketing thinkers, ranging from Thinkers50 to being a top X influencer and LinkedIn Sales Expert. Forbes says that she “reshapes our perception of growth.”

Most recently, Tiffani served as Chief Growth & Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, where she focused on driving customer success within the company’s vast global customer and partner ecosystem. Prior to Salesforce, she was a sales, marketing and customer service executive for startups and Fortune 500 companies, where she was recognized as one of the first to develop a robust go-to-market model for cloud-based solutions, and indirect channel strategies to accommodate changes in buying behavior. Tiffani left the corporate world to join Gartner as a Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow. There, she helped some of the largest technology companies in the world including Microsoft, Cisco, Salesforce, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, SAP, AT&T, Dell, Amazon-AWS, expand their market share and grow their revenues, earning her Gartner’s coveted Thought Leadership Award.

An active and influential thought leader within her areas of expertise, Ms. Bova has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, INC, Fast Company, Fortune, Yahoo Finance and MSNBC. She also hosts the highly-rated podcast, What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova, welcoming prominent guests such as Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Daniel Pink, Arianna Huffington, Marshall Goldsmith, Guy Kawasaki, former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly, former Ritz-Carlton President Horst Schulze, and others.

Jesse Thompson is a senior business economist at the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Thompson, who joined the Bank in 2010, performs research and analysis on issues affecting the Houston and Gulf Coast economy. In particular, he studies issues surrounding area hydrocarbon industries. He also collects information for the Dallas Fed’s Beige Book summary of current economic conditions. He is author of the monthly Energy Indicator and Houston Economic Indicators. He also contributes to the publication Southwest Economy.

Thompson earned an MA in economics, with emphasis on empirical microeconomics, and BA in philosophy and economics from the University of Houston.

John Heilemann has covered the corridors of power—from Washington, DC, to Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and beyond; on television and in print; in the United States and abroad—for more than three decades, earning a place as one of America’s most prominent, prolific, and vital voices at a time of unprecedented upheaval in national and global affairs.

Heilemann is a partner and the chief political columnist at Puck, where also hosts the twice-weekly podcast Impolitic with John Heilemann, as well as national affairs analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, appearing regularly on Morning Joe, Deadline: White House, Alex Wagner Tonight, and other shows. From 2016 to 2023, he was a creator, host, and executive producer of Showtime’s groundbreaking realtime political documentary series The Circus, which received multiple Emmy nominations in its celebrated eight-year run. In 2023, Heilemann launched Hat Size 3 Productions in partnership with Left/Right TV (with whom he created The Circus) and its parent company, Peter Chernin’s North Road Company, to develop documentary series and feature films at the intersection of politics, culture, history, and current affairs.

Heilemann is the author of two of the most successful presidential campaign books in history: Game Change: Obama & The Clintons, McCain & Palin, and The Race of Lifetime and Double Down: Game Change 2012, about the 2008 and 2012 elections, respectively. Both were New York Times bestsellers; Game Change held the No 1 spot for 11 consecutive weeks and was adapted into an HBO feature film starring Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, and Ed Harris that went on to win five Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, and a Peabody Award.

From 2019 to 2023, Heilemann was co-founder and executive editor of The Recount, a digital news startup producing short-form video for social platforms. During the 2016 election season, he was a host of the daily MSNBC and Bloomberg TV program With All Due Respect and managing editor of Bloomberg Politics. Before that, he was a columnist and/or staff writer for New York, The New Yorker, Wired, and The Economist; his writing has also appeared in Vanity Fair, GQ, Time, The Washington Monthly, and Outside magazine. In 2001, his 70,000-word tour de force on the Microsoft antitrust case for Wired became the basis for his first book, Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates & The End of the Microsoft Era, also a New York Times bestseller. In 2008, he hosted Download, a four-part Discovery Channel documentary series on the rise of the Internet.

Educated at Northwestern University, Oxford University, and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, John grew up in Los Angeles and now resides in New York City—where he principally serves as valet for his Great Dane, DZA.

Mark McKinnon is a political advisor, reform advocate, columnist, and television producer. He was the creator and co-host of Showtime's Emmy-nominated hit documentary series "The Circus" -- the longest- running, most-watched unscripted show in the history of the network which ran for eight seasons.

McKinnon has worked for many causes, companies, and candidates, including President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, late Governor Ann Richards, and Bono. He was the chief media advisor for five winning presidential primary and general election campaigns. Dedicated to bipartisanship, McKinnon helped start No Labels, an organization dedicated to bringing our parties together to problem solve and heal the partisan divide in our country.

According to Broadcasting and Cable magazine, McKinnon is one of “a handful of players behind every big decision, consensus or roadblock in Washington . . . putting a unique, sometimes hidden stamp on the outcome of today’s debates.” Politics Daily writes: “He’s known for his originality in a field typified bycopycats, a mellow personality in a world populated with high-strung brutes and ecumenical urges in a profession dominated by its unadulterated partisans.” “McKinnon is evidence that principled centrism is not an oxymoron,” wrote John Avalon in a Daily Beast column about the 25 Best Centrist Pundits.

“McKinnon piloted John McCain’s 2008 primary campaign to victory. But he announced in advance that if Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination; he would ride offinto the sunset rather than participate in the negative attacks he knew would be required. This is unheard of in the world of modern politics, where partisanship trumps principle as a matter of course.”