Tom Kuczmarski is an internationally recognized innovation expert, founder of Kuczmarski Innovation, and co-founder of Chicago Innovation. He has advised hundreds of organizations – from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies, taught for over four decades at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and is the author of nine books on innovation and leadership. Tom discusses how to identify meaningful problems and turn them into successful innovations, and how leaders can create cultures that encourage creativity, intelligent risk-taking, and sustained growth.

Susan Stroman is a five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer whose internationally acclaimed career spans Broadway, London’s West End, ballet, opera, and film. Best known for Crazy for You, Contact, The Scottsboro Boys, and The Producers, she is also a Theater Hall of Fame inductee and recipient of the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement. Susan discusses storytelling through music and movement, and the deep fulfillment she finds in the creative world of Broadway theatre.

Dr. Derick “Sandy” Hulme is the Arthur L. Russell Professor of Political Science at Alma College, where he has taught since 1992. A nationally recognized leader in experiential education, Sandy directs Alma's award-winning Model United Nations, P-GLOBAL Fellowship, and Nationally Competitive Scholarship programs. Beyond the classroom, Sandy is perhaps equally well known for an extraordinary personal accomplishment: he has run at least one mile every single day since March 5, 1973 – a streak spanning more than five decades.