Location: West Side (USA)

Kaihan Krippendorff

Kaihan Krippendorff is the founder of Outthinker, a global think-tank of chief strategy, growth, and transformation officers and executives from large public, private, and Fortune 500 companies.

He is a top-rated keynote speaker, Senior Fellow at Wharton, former McKinsey consultant, and author of bestsellers Outthink the Competition, Driving Innovation from Within, and Proximity. Thinkers50 and Global Gurus recognize Kaihan as one of the top 20 business management thinkers in strategy and innovation.

Kaihan hosts the Outthinkers podcast and The Chief Strategy Officer Podcast. His ideas are frequently published in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and other leading media outlets.

Known for his practical tools and insights, he teaches at Wharton, NYU, Florida International University and delivers workshops for some of the world’s most recognizable companies including Aetna-CVS, JP Morgan, Lockheed Martin, Bank of America, Procter & Gamble, IBM, and Yahoo!. His work has created in excess of $3.0 billion in new annual recurring revenue.

Kaihan holds a doctorate in economics and business and engineering degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, Wharton, Columbia Business School, and London Business School.

With a mother from Bangladesh, father from Germany, and wife from Latin America, Kaihan is a global citizen who brings a holistic, diverse, and worldly perspective to everything he does. He is a passionate cook and lives in Seattle with his wife, three teenage kids, two cats, and a dog.

Henna Pryor

Henna Pryor is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and 2x TEDx and SXSW speaker who helps teams close the gap between being competent and being believed - the hidden tax of a skeptical, AI-saturated workplace. A workplace performance expert, Inc. columnist, and LinkedIn Learning instructor, she works with conferences and corporate teams in financial services, pharma, technology, and professional associations to turn doubt into trust that travels.

The idea behind her second book, The Signal Gap, came out of nearly two decades of corporate experience - working closely with leaders, sales teams, and high-performing professionals, reading people, earning buy-in, and watching careers rise or stall on believability rather than raw competence. That field research became her work: helping high performers be as trusted and influential as they are talented.

Her keynotes tackle performance mindset, high-impact communication, navigating change, and what she calls Social Muscle Atrophy: the quiet erosion of the human skills that make teams believable. Audiences leave with specific, research-backed, immediately usable tools, delivered with the warmth and candor of a sharp friend who happens to have the receipts.

She's been invited to speak twice for TEDx, in NYC and Wilmington, DE, and brings her expertise to Google, Workday, Johnson & Johnson, and JPMorganChase. She's a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence, a LinkedIn Learning and CNBC instructor, and a two-time SXSW Workplace track speaker, and she's frequently sought out by TIME, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, INSIDER, NBC, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Business.com, and HuffPost.

Henna is the author of Good Awkward and The Signal Gap: How to Boost Believability and Influence in the Age of Doubt (Ideapress). She is the founder of Pryority Group. Whether on a mainstage or a leadership offsite, her message is the same: in an age of doubt, being believed is the real competitive edge.

Anton Gunn

Anton Gunn elevates organizations through his innovative insights on leadership and workplace culture.

With a distinguished career spanning college sports, healthcare, public service, and executive leadership, Anton is highly sought-after as a strategic advisor. As a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama and C-level healthcare executive, he delivers game-changing strategies that help audiences and organizations build exceptional leaders and unstoppable teams.

A trailblazer from the start, Anton made history as the first African American elected to the South Carolina Legislature from his district. He also became the youngest CEO of a statewide nonprofit advocacy organization.

His meteoric rise in healthcare leadership earned him recognition as one of the Ten Most Influential Minority Executives in Healthcare. His 25 years of service as Board Director and the current Chairman of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport Commission underscores his strategic leadership and corporate governance expertise.

With his unique ability to combine academic rigor with real-world experience, global organizations like Pfizer, KPMG, Microsoft, T-Mobile, SHRM, HCA Healthcare, and Mercedes-Benz Vans turn to Anton for his motivating insights on leadership, organizational culture, and inclusion strategy.

His presentations combine magnetic stage presence with profound wisdom and unforgettable storytelling, leaving audiences both inspired and equipped with actionable solutions that drive measurable results.

As a member of the prestigious Aspen Global Leadership Network and former Harvard University Resident Fellow, Anton’s thought leadership reaches millions through his bestselling books, proprietary research, and features in major media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., TIME, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, CNN, and Good Morning America.

When he’s not transforming workplace cultures, Anton Gunn moonlights as an 80s and 90s hip-hop historian with a music and memorabilia collection that would make DJ Jazzy Jeff jealous.