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Provocateurs
Provocateurs play a critical role in the summit experience. They help surface the real tensions leaders are navigating—especially where innovation, ethics, emotion, and human impact intersect.
Provocateurs are not keynote speakers, influencers, or performers.
They are steady contributors who help create meaningful dialogue within breakout sessions and guided conversations.
Provocateurs
Provocateurs play a critical role in the summit experience. They help surface the real tensions leaders are navigating—especially where innovation, ethics, emotion, and human impact intersect.
Provocateurs are not keynote speakers, influencers, or performers.
They are steady contributors who help create meaningful dialogue within breakout sessions and guided conversations.
Become a Provocateur
Contribute Perspective. Hold Complexity. Invite Better Questions.
Are grounded in lived experience or thoughtful practice
Can engage complex topics without oversimplifying them
Are comfortable facilitating inquiry rather than providing answers
Align with values-rooted, intelligence-fluent leadership
Provocateurs play a critical role in the summit experience. They help surface the real tensions leaders are navigating—especially where innovation, ethics, emotion, and human impact intersect.
This role is designed for individuals who:
Provocateurs are not keynote speakers, influencers, or performers.
They are steady contributors who help create meaningful dialogue within breakout sessions and guided conversations.
If you feel called to contribute in this way, we invite you to apply.
Our 2026 Provocateurs
Bill Jensen
Bill Jensen is a visionary leader, results-driven strategist, problem-solver, globally-known keynote speaker, and author of ten best-selling leadership books, including Simplicity, Disrupt, and Future Strong. As CEO and Chief Transformation Officer at the Jensen Group, Bill is a trusted advisor to C-suite executives in implementing complex, AI-driven, enterprise-wide changes. His superpower: Translating AI/digital transformation into people transformation.
He is globally ranked in the Top Ten thought leaders in the Future of Work and Cultural Transformation.
His personal life fantasy: To bicycle around the globe via breweries.
Session: AI Is a Powershift, Not a Taskshift
Rethinking Work, Workforce, and Leadership in the AI Era
Anish Padinjaroote
Anish Padinjaroote is Group CHRO for Amnex Technologies, and is a human capital and AI transformation leader with 22+ years of global experience across strategy, culture, organizational design, and the future of work. He operates at the fault line between technology and humanity; advising CEOs, CHROs, and boards as AI reshapes how power flows, how work is defined, and how people are valued. He has built and scaled people- and culture-systems in high-growth, AI-led organizations, enabling 5x workforce expansion, while redefining performance, leadership, and employee experience at scale.
Anish is the founder of HARE People, a global collective focused on the future of work, and an active voice in global HR and AI leadership communities.
Allyson Ward
Allyson Ward is a leadership resilience expert, keynote speaker, and two-time #1 bestselling author who helps high-achieving leaders sustain peak performance without sacrificing their presence, purpose, or peace. As a former IBM executive and Senior Trainer for Tony Robbins, she brings 20 years of corporate leadership and two decades of human performance research to every room she enters.
She is the creator of the Gracefully Bold™ framework and author of Demolish Your Stress: Maintaining Excellence Without Burnout, and has guided more than 250,000 professionals across 70+ events.
As President of The Capstone Group, she works with corporations, associations, and government agencies to build cultures where people and performance thrive together.
Session Title: AI Won’t Fix Your Culture. It Will Expose It.
Cara-Lyn Giovanniello
Cara-Lyn is a strategic partner specializing in empowering startups and high-growth companies to unlock their potential, scale effectively, and build resilient, values-driven cultures.
With over 20 years of experience, Cara-Lyn partners with organizations to boost engagement, increase retention, and create scalable systems that grow alongside their businesses.
Session Title: The Art of Learned Intelligence – Mastering EQ, RQ, CQ, and SQ in the Age of AI
Joshua B. Lee
Joshua B. Lee is a founder, strategist, and speaker known for helping leaders become the trusted answer in a world increasingly shaped by AI and intelligent systems. After building 16 companies and managing nearly $1B in advertising spend, Joshua realized something most founders miss: expertise alone does not create authority. The market only recognizes what it can clearly understand, categorize, and trust. This insight led him to develop the concept of Authority Architecture - the discipline of transforming deep expertise into recognized authority through structured signals such as intellectual territory, narrative clarity, frameworks, and trust signals.
As the founder of StandOut Authority and creator of YOUmanize™, Joshua focuses on helping leaders ensure their voice, perspective, and lived experience remain visible and trusted as AI increasingly mediates how knowledge is discovered. His work blends human-centered leadership, narrative strategy, and AI-era visibility to help leaders move from being knowledgeable to being recognized and ultimately, from being one voice among many to becoming a trusted answer.
Joshua is also recognized as the #1 LinkedIn growth expert in the United States and #6 globally, helping leaders and organizations navigate visibility, trust, and authority in an AI-driven world
Session Title: If AI Becomes the Filter for Trust, What Defines Leadership?
Malisha Awunor
Malisha Awunor is a technology-for-good strategist, with 25+ years of global experience across strategy, behavioral science, and the future of work. She is a firm believer that access to technology is not a privilege, but a right. Her work sits at the intersection of emerging technology and humanity exploring how we ensure that, as AI advances, humanity is not diminished but is elevated.
She advises boards and executive teams on navigating the shifts AI is bringing to organisational design, digital equity, and the meaning of human value at work.
Malisha is the founder of Ikigai People Advisory Services, a director of the FutureShift and Movement-for-Good NPC’s, and the creator of the I AM virtual reality bias-protocol.
Podcast Co-host / Provocateur: Powershift / Agency
“Who’s gaining and who’s losing power because of AI?"
Jenny Bates Heaton
Jenny Bates Heaton is the founder of Bates Leadership, where she enables talent strategies through leaders and systems. Her perspective is shaped via leading organization development at complex global organizations such as Ahold Delhaize and Syngenta.
She is an innovator at heart and at the front end of change to such an extent that she is often described as a "talent futurist."
Podcast Co-host / Provocateur: Human+AI Partnerships
“Have you figured out what people can do that machines can’t?”
Rosie Corvo
Rosie Corvo is a strategic advisor and leadership development coach for senior leaders facing high-stakes decisions and complex team dynamics. With deep operating experience from C-suite and senior roles at Bank of America, Barclays UK, and Early Warning (leading the branding and launch of Zelle®), she offers an integrated perspective on strategy, execution, and governance. She partners with executives on leadership development, strategic planning, and organizational alignment, focusing on simplifying complexity and defining clear paths forward. Rosie lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband, two children, and their dog, Sophie.
Podcast Facilitator: Powershift / Agency
“Who’s gaining and who’s losing power because of AI?”
Podcast Facilitator: Human+AI Partnerships
“Have you figured out what people can do that machines can’t?”
Kyle Campbell
Kyle Campbell is a talent and organizational capability leader who works at the intersection of people, creativity, and the future of work. He serves as Vice President of Talent Management at Reliance Matrix, where he leads enterprise‑wide efforts across talent strategy, leadership development, and professional capability building, partnering closely with leaders to improve decision quality and organizational effectiveness.
Alongside a professional career spanning over 30 years, Kyle has spent more than 35 years as a working musician, touring, writing, and recording across a wide range of projects.
Moving between structured corporate environments and the improvisational world of music has shaped how he thinks about creativity—not as a moment of inspiration, but as a discipline built through constraints, collaboration, and practice. Kyle brings this dual perspective to his work with leaders, helping organizations rethink how creativity shows up at work and how it can be supported—especially as AI continues to reshape how ideas are generated, refined, and brought to life.
Session Title: The Summit Song: A Live Co-Creation Experience
Jutta Eckstein
Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She has recently co-created an assessment for (agile) teams to gauge the environmental, social, and economic impact of their products and services. Besides that, she has published her experience in various books, having pair-written the most recent one with John Buck on Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova).
Jutta has served the board of the Agile Alliance (from 2003-2007) and has recently founded the “Agile Sustainability Initiative” which aims at increasing the awareness of the Agile community’s possibilities to make a difference. She’s a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has presented her work. She holds an M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. (MSc.) in Product-Engineering, and is trained as a pollution control commissioner on ecological environmentalism.
Curt Meinhold
Curt Meinhold is a technology executive and entrepreneur based in Greensboro, North Carolina, with over 25 years of experience leading product and engineering teams in startup and consulting environments. His career spans everything from early web development to guiding strategic infrastructure and product decisions for hundreds of companies - including three of his own. Today, his focus is bridging the gap between emerging technology and human connection. Cutting through the industry hype to prioritize practical, human-centric solutions, and advocating for AI literacy through programs like "Family AI Kitchen Table Talk" to demystify tech for families and executives alike.
Curt's belief in the power of narrative led him to found LilyList, a platform dedicated to preserving digital legacies through curation over collection, a philosophy also explored in his book, LilyList: The First 26.
Beyond the tech world, Curt is a musician at heart. He spent three decades writing and recording rock music with my late partner Justin Burmeister in their project, Sift. He continues to be curious about where art meets tech, which led to his Static Horizon experiment. Whether coaching on leadership, workflows, or speaking about AI, his goal remains the same: using technology to amplify, rather than replace, authentic human connection.
Session Title: Leadership Through Waves Of Change
Actually
Actually is a conversational AI experience designed to provoke reflection, challenge assumptions, and deepen leadership thinking in the Age of Intelligence. Rather than providing answers, Actually engages participants in adaptive dialogue, asking reflective questions about leadership, values, decision-making, uncertainty, and human judgment.
Session Title: Meaning-Making | An AI & Human Collaboration
A Note on Discernment
Not everyone needs to lead from the front—and not every season calls for the same level of visibility.
We encourage you to choose the role that aligns with your capacity, clarity, and sense of responsibility right now. Each form of participation strengthens the summit in a different way.
However you engage, your presence matters when it is offered with intention.
The 2026 Summit advances conscious leadership for a rapidly changing world by exploring the multiple intelligences (human, emotional, technological, and ethical) required to lead with wisdom today. Rooted in values and built for transformation, this summit strengthens the integration of your deepest principles, your evolving intelligence, and the realities of this new era into a cooperative operating system for leadership.
Schedule
July 8-10, 2026
Daily (Eastern Time):
Session 1 | 10:00 - 12:00
Break | 12:00 - 1:00
Session 2| 1:00 - 3:00