Corporations & Associations

From Coco Gauff’s triumph on the courts to electrified fans chanting, “Equal Pay!” as TEAM USA took home the gold at the Women’s World Cup, the eyes of the world were on women. Minutes after the USWNT won its second consecutive championship, NIKE aired an ad called “Never Stop Winning” that captured the mood. “I believe,” the narrator said, “a whole generation of girls and boys will go out and play and say things like, ‘I want to be like Megan Rapinoe when I grow up.’” Rapinoe and her teammates Alex Morgan, Rose Lavelle, Tobin Heath and others have fought hard for equal pay and investment in women’s soccer. As tennis legend Billie Jean King tweeted, “These athletes have brought more attention, support, & pride to women’s sport…It is long past time to pay them what they rightly deserve.”

New York Times columnist and CBS correspondent David Pogue was featured on this week’s episode of CBS Sunday Morning where he discussed his article “Seeing Red: Mankind Gets Closer to Mars.” A leading speaker on the impacts of innovation on business and science, Pogue is known for his informative, entertaining and insightful keynotes on trending technologies and how they disrupt life as we know it.

CEO of The MPI Group and former editor-in-chief of IndustryWeek, APB speaker John Brandt will release Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You – and How to Fix It on July 16. In Nincompoopery, Brandt offers concrete examples of how any organization can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. Using research from thousands of companies, Brandt creates a blueprint for success by sharing how leaders can kill “corporate stupidity,” which is what prevents organizations from getting the value that it and its customers deserve. Says Brandt: “Ill-planned, outdated or ludicrous organizational structures can turn even the most eager employee into a nincompoop—or at least force him or her to seem like one.”

After fifteen years, the Mars exploration mission spearheaded by APB speaker Steven Squyres ended after a planet-wide dust storm destroyed the last remaining rover “Opportunity.” 

John King, CNN’s chief national correspondent and anchor of Inside Politics, comments on Bernie Sander’s 2020 Presidential bid saying, “Don’t underestimate him.” On a segment of Inside Politics, King analyzes polling numbers for the candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic nominee.

Co-founder of Netflix, entrepreneur and business speaker Marc Randolph is set to release a book this September titled This Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea. A memoir following Randolph’s journey with the streaming service empire, This Will Never Work shares the origins of Netflix, triumphs and failures along the way, and the valuable business—and life—lessons learned.

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Laureate known as “Africa’s Iron Lady,” has been appointed Health Workforce Ambassador by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Former U.S. Navy Officer and groundbreaking leadership speaker Admiral Michelle J. Howard has been appointed to IBM’s Board. She was the first woman to become a 4-star admiral in addition to becoming the first African-American woman to command a U.S. Navy ship.

What’s the most effective path to success in virtually any profession or organization? It’s not what you think. In his acclaimed new book, Range—recently recognized by TIME as one of the best books of May—David Epstein, the New York Times best-selling author of The Sports Gene, debunks the myth that specialization is the secret to success.

Called a “multi-tasking pro” in the latest edition of InStyle, New York Times best-selling author, Crooked Media contributor, keynote speaker and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco shared some top tier productivity advice. Read on. Then, triumph over your to-do list to become your own chief of staff.