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Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, who served as “America’s Doctor” as Surgeon General from 2017-2021, has exclusively signed with APB Speakers. In this role, Dr. Adams will continue his 25-year mission in community and public health, speaking on subjects such as health equity, the connection between community health and economic prosperity, ending the stigma of substance use disorder and fostering diversity and inclusion.

In Russian, the word, “kompromat,” short for “compromising material,” refers to damaging information that can be used for blackmail or to exert influence. Throughout the Trump presidency, many in Washington wondered if kompromat was at the heart of Trump’s failure to stand up to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Now, former KGB Major Yuri Shvets, who was an active recruiter of American intelligence assets during the 1980s, reveals the shocking truth.

APB speaker and former medical director for the Benson Henry Institute of Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Eva Selhub is a resiliency expert, board certified physician, consultant, speaker, and author. On March 3rd, Dr. Selhub will be releasing her new book Resilience For Dummies. This book outlines the proven steps we can all take toward optimal resilience to build healthier, more purposeful, and increasingly joyful lives. 

After its 292.5-million-mile journey from Earth, the Mars Rover has successfully landed on Mars on February 18th. The rover has been on a nearly 300-million-mile journey since it left Earth over 6 months ago. Perseverance has an important mission, searching for evidence of ancient life and studying Mars' climate and geology, and will collect samples that will eventually be returned to Earth by the 2030s. As we continue to make incredible advancements such as this, our leading space, science and technology speakers share with audiences exciting insights into what the future holds. Check out some of these popular voices:

On October 19th APB’s Wil Haygood will release his new book Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World. This book examines 100 years of Black movies using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism through which to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. 

Legendary news anchor and the best-selling author of What Unites Us, APB speaker Dan Rather is launching a new endeavor called "Steady." Inspired by his father’s favorite word, “Steady” is both a paid and/or free subscription-based newsletter that is delivered directly to your inbox. It will include essays, letters, and other similar content by Rather in which he will facilitate conversations on both national and global levels. In his post, Dan says, “Call me old fashioned, but I’m not a huge fan of algorithms dictating what people see. Yet in recent years social media became my primary means of communicating with the world. And that meant, whether by tweet or post, a bunch of opaque computer code kicked in to determine what reached you. Subscribing to "Steady" cuts through that digital Gordian Knot.”

CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and New York Times bestselling author David Pogue has stayed busy during this pandemic being locked at home: he recently released three new books simultaneously!

Hailed by CNN as “the infectious disease expert who has been warning us for a decade and a half that the world will face a pandemic,” Dr. Michael Osterholm quickly became the go-to expert on the public health impact of COVID-19. A sharp critic of the complacency that led to the current global pandemic, he points to current shortfalls in our system, individual and public health ...

New York Times best-selling author (Range, The Sports Gene) and high performance expert, APB speaker David Epstein has been tapped to take over the widely popular podcast, How To!, previously hosted by Charles Duhigg (author of the acclaimed book, The Power of Habit). Described as a Dear Abby but through the lens of an investigative reporter, the podcast takes on listeners’ toughest problems and, with the help of experts, finds the answers to questions you’ve always wanted to ask, but couldn’t. The first episode with Epstein will feature a cognitive scientist teaching listeners how to perform their best under pressure.

One was from Brooklyn. The other from the Bronx. Both grew up as diehard Brooklyn Dodgers fans, eventually leaving New York as their beloved team had. At the height of their respective  careers, both were described as “kings”:  Larry King was the “king of talk,” and Robert Walker, “the king of talkies” (as Newsweek described the “lecture industry” in a feature on Walker). When the news of Larry King’s death reached the world, millions mourned, remembering the legendary broadcaster. But for Walker, the CEO and founder of APB, who represented King from the mid-1970s until his death, it was a passing of tremendous personal significance.