2017 Insights Leadership Conference September 26-28, 2017 in Palm Beach

Josh Allan Dykstra is a recognized thought leader on the future of work and company culture design. He is the CEO of Strengthscope U.S., the exclusive U.S. provider of the world’s most energizing workplace assessment, and his articles and ideas have been featured by Fast Company, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and Business Insider. He’s also the Co-Founder of Forte, a consulting group that helps organizations and leaders leverage the power of a strong culture, and The Work Revolution, a movement/advocacy group that promotes life-giving work environments for everyone. His eclectic work background includes projects with organizations like Apple, Sony, Genentech, Microsoft, HTC, and USC as well as startups and nonprofits. He holds an MBA in Executive Leadership from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his latest book, Igniting the Invisible Tribe: Designing An Organization That Doesn’t Suck, is available on Amazon.com.

Kent helps organizations maximize profits by integrating their purpose and values with a stakeholder-centric model that acknowledges the interdependency of customers, employees, suppliers/vendors, shareholders, communities, and the environment.

He engage leaders who are committed to long-term success and are dedicated to navigating the increasing speed and complexity of today's business landscape through continued personal and professional development as they move toward a more full expression of their authentic Self.

Kent has spent his entire career helping people understand why they work; how they can contribute towards something bigger than themselves; how to develop & share their unique skills, knowledge, and other talents in ways that bring them a lasting sense of fulfillment; and how to help others through their labors of love.

He believes that to achieve and sustain success in today’s marketplace, leaders and organizations need to develop a more complex perspective.

Melissa’s work has spanned market and public policy research for the media, foundations, educational institutions, non-profits, the government, and major corporations.

She began her career at Chilton Research Services working on political polling, academic and government surveys, and a wide array of other research projects. Melissa came to ICR in 1998 to coordinate and execute consumer and opinion research. Eventually SSRS was developed by Melissa, with the goal to create an organization dedicated to quality research and superior client service.

Melissa holds an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication.  She attended Rutgers College and double-majored in Psychology and Journalism/Mass Communications.

An active member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), Melissa has worked on the conference committee, membership committee, and is currently on the Transparency Initiative. She was the AAPOR Education Committee Chair and very actively involved with both conference short courses as well as the inaugural AAPOR webinars. Additionally, she is a member of PANJAAPOR, the American Statistical Association (ASA) and is on the board of the Consortium of Social Science Associations.

Her articles and conference papers on methodological research cover many issues and topics of interest, including a chapter on End-of Life care.  Additional publications have been collaborations with research partners, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science.

Peter is a Grammy- and Emmy-nominated songwriter, author, visual artist, and graduate of The Kellogg School of Business’s Advanced Management Program. His singular knack for creativity is being leveraged by Fortune 500 corporations and leading business schools to increase innovative thinking.

Rich is responsible for leading a worldwide engineering organization building IBM’s next generation cloud platform for data science, analytics and machine learning. Watson Data Platform brings together all forms of information to enable data scientists, business analysts and application developers to easily utilize data to support their business needs through analytics, visualizations and machine learning models. 

Rich has held executive positions across engineering, marketing and product management for more than 20 years and is passionate about taking ideas and turning them into successful businesses. He works closely with IBM’s largest customers and partners and is a trusted advisor to many of them.

Outside of work, Rich is passionate about running and cycling and participates in many marathons and ultra-marathons around the world.

Wayne is President of Kantar. Previously Wayne was the global CEO of Kantar Retail, where he oversaw the formation of Kantar Retail, guiding the merger of the legacy organisations and bringing together the capabilities and assets of Cannondale, Glendinning, MVI and Retail Forward, to create one of the world's leading retail insights & go-to-market consulting companies.

Prior to this, Wayne was the CEO of MVI, and prior to this held board roles at Glendinning Management consultants, a leading global consultancy. Wayne started his career at Procter & Gamble, working across a variety of sales and marketing roles in increasingly senior positions in South Africa and the UK.

Wayne studied Economics and Politics at the University of Cape Town, and followed that with a post-graduate degree in Business and Management.

Jenn is the CEO and Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness, a company that she and Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) co-created in 2010 to inspire happiness in work, community and everyday life.

In 2005, she created the first Culture Book for Zappos – now on its 7^th edition – and has produced them ever since. In 2009, Zappos was sold to Amazon.com in a deal valued at $1.2 billion on the day of closing, and in 2011, Zappos was #6 on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. The Culture Book has become a global symbol of how companies can successfully create cultures based on happiness and be profitable at the same time.

In 2010, Jenn led the launch and management of Tony’s first book (Delivering Happiness) which sold over 220,000 copies internationally and hit #1 on numerous bestsellers list (including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today). It was voted one of the best business books in 2010 by NPR, Inc. Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, has remained on the New York Times list for 27 weeks and has been published in over 14 countries/languages because of her efforts.

With the success of the Culture Book and Delivering Happiness, she’s spoken at companies, universities and organizations such as Twitter, Pixar, Stanford, UCLA, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, NAWBO and the American Marketing Association. Prior to becoming CEO and Chief Happiness Officer, Jenn consulted in a number of industries, including the internet, writing and graphic design.

Today, she’s dedicated to growing the social venture of Delivering Happiness to “Inspire, Be Inspired and Create Happiness,” day by day.

Multi-Exit Entrepreneur and Broadway performer, Michael Lynch brings a unique blend of Creativity & Technology Innovation to Keynotes that inspire & support change.

With extensive real-world leadership experience in delivering innovative products and building global businesses at startups and fortune 500’s. Michael has presented to Hundreds of companies and trade shows addressing thousands of people on business strategy, digitization, technology trend analysis, business model innovation and growth opportunities.

Prior to joining InnovationPoint, Michael led the Internet of Things business at SAP. He joined SAP as part of the acquisition of Right Hemisphere Inc., where he held the position of CEO. Previously, Michael was the VP in charge of creative product development at 7th Level where he helped grow the company from 20 employees to IPO. He has led the creation of many award winning Internet, education and entertainment software products for Disney, IBM, Microsoft and Sony. Prior to working in Technology, Michael was a successful actor/singer/dancer on Broadway where he starred in Fiddler on the Roof, Jerome Robbin’s Broadway and Les Miserables. Michael also starred on Television’s General Hospital and more.

Amy Webb knows what’s coming. The futurist, author and founder of the Future Today Institute, she identifies emerging trends, maps how they’ll transform the future of business, international relations, culture and the world. A recent Wall Street Journal profile described her methodology, which combines data-driven research with “aggressive computation.” Webb’s forecasting tools are taught in universities, and her Future Today Institute team advises Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, government agencies, large nonprofits, universities and startups worldwide. Her futures forecasting work has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, CNN, NPR, and more. She was recently named to the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of management thinkers most likely to shape the future.

The authority on forecasting and strategy, Webb collaborates with a number of institutions. She was a Delegate on the former U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she worked on the future of technology, media and international diplomacy. She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, where she has served as a Blue Ribbon Panel Emmy Judge for emerging technology categories. She sits on several advisory boards, including the SXSW Accelerator.

An engaging and energetic speaker, Webb customizes every presentation for each audience using original research and insights specific for the organization, industry or conference. Attendees typically receive a digital folder full of resources, tools and actionable ideas following the presentation. Webb’s popular TED talk,  based on her bestselling memoir “Data, A Love Story,” has been viewed more than 5 million times and translated into 32 languages. It has been the featured in-flight entertainment on Delta flights and in Marriott hotel rooms.

She is the author of three books, including “The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream” (PublicAffairs, December 2016) which explains how leaders and organizations can predict and manage technological change. It was selected as one of Fast Company’s Best Books of 2016, was an Amazon’s best book of December 2016 and was a #1 Bestseller. Signals has been translated into a number of languages.

Webb designed and teaches the futures forecasting MBA course at the New York University School of Business. She was a 2014-15 Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where her research on the future of education reform received a national Sigma Delta Chi award. Every year, she lectures about the future of media and technology at a number of universities, which have included Institut d’études politiques de Paris, Temple University, Tokyo University and National University of Kyiv.

The first half of Webb’s career was spent in journalism: she was a reporter with Newsweek (Tokyo) and the Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) where she covered emerging technology, media and economic trends.