Previous Speakers

Speaker Review

Business/Government

• Kenneth Blanchard, Chairman of Blanchard Training and Dev., Inc. (1990)
• Bob Bowlsby, BIG 12 Conference Commissioner (2013)
• Norman Brinker, President and CEO, Brinker International (1995)
• Marcus Buckingham, Author of First Break All the Rules (2002, 2008)
• Herman Cain, Chairman and CEO, Godfather’s Pizza (1998)
• James D. Carreker, President and CEO, Trammell Crow (1996)
• Robert Crandall, Chairman, President, and CEO, American Airlines, Inc. (1987)
• Mary Cunningham, President and CEO, Semper Enterprises, Inc. (1987)
• Alfred C. DeCrane, Chairman, Texaco, Inc. (1993)
• Alexander Douglas, President, Coca-Cola North America (2010)
• Archie Dunham, Chairman and CEO, ConocoPhillips (2004)
• Thomas F. Frist, Jr., M.D., Chairman and CEO, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. (1998)
• Robert Gates, former Director of the CIA (2002) and Secretary of Defense 2006-2011 (2012)
• Phyllis George Brown, Chairman, Chicken By George (1989)
• Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2000)
• Malcolm Gladwell, author of books Blink and Tipping Point and Staff Writer for the New Yorker magazine (2006)
• Mark Goldston, President and Chief Operating Officer, L.A. GEAR (1993)
• Gary Heil, Author of The Leader’s New Clothes (2003)
• Collins Hemingway, former Director of Business Development, Microsoft (2001)
• John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil Company (2007)
• Lou Holtz, Author of Winning Every Day: A Game Plan for Success (2003)
• Lee Iacocca, former Chairman, Chrysler Corporation (1994)
• Jack Kemp, Republican, (1996) Vice Presidential Candidate and former Secretary of HUD (1996)
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Visionary Environmental Business Leader and Advocate (2011)
• Rollin King, Founder, Southwest Airlines (1992)
• Mary Matalin, former Host, CCN’s Crossfire (2004)
• Harvey Mackay, Author and Syndicated Columnist (2000)
• David McCullough, Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, Truman (1996)
• Richard Morrow, Chairman and CEO, Amoco Corporation (1988)
• John Naisbitt, Author of Megatrends (1995)
• Paul Orfalea, Founder and Chairperson, Kinko’s, Inc. (2006)
• Tom Peters, Author of In Search of Excellence (2001)
• T. Boone Pickens, Legendary Energy Executive / Entrepreneur (2011)
• Ben Sasse, Ph.D., U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2007-09 (2011)
• Peter Sheahan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ChangeLabs^TM (2012)
• Hedrick Smith, Author of The New Russians (1992)
• Mark B. Sutton, Chairman and CEO, UBS Americas (2005)
• Peter Ueberroth, former Commissioner, Major League Baseball (1988)
• Robert Waterman, Author of The Renewal Factor (1989)
• Chuck Watson, former Chairman and CEO, Dynegy, Inc. (2003)
• Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO of General Electric (2010)
• Thomas Wheeler, President and CEO, Mass Mutual (1993)

Finance/Economics

• William F. Buckley, Jr., Author, columnist, politician, and host of Firing Line (1991)
• William Cohan, Author, House of Cards (2009)
• Martin Feldstein, past Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Reagan’s Chief Economic Adviser (1987)
• Alan Greenspan, President, Townsend-Greenspan and Company,and Chairman, Federal Reserve Board (1986)
• Ricki Tigert Helfer, Chairman, FDIC (1997)
• Carla Hills, former U.S. International Trade Negotiator under President Bush (1994)
• James R. Jones, Chairman and CEO, American Stock Exchange (1990)
• Henry Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. (1990)
• Ann McLaughlin, former Secretary of Labor (1992)
• Kevin P. Phillips, CBS Political Analyst (1992)
• Jose Pinera, former Chilean Secretary of Labor and Social Security (1999)
• Jane Bryant Quinn, Economics and Finance Editor, Newsweek (1988)
• Louis Rukeyser, Host, Wall Street Week (1989)
• L. William Seidman, Fourteenth Chairman, FDIC (1992)
• Lester Thurow, Dean, M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management (1989)
• Wally Uihlein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Acushnet Company (Titleist, FootJoy, and Cobra) (2008)

Media/Communications

• Patrice Adcroft, former Editor, OMNI (1991)
• Cathleen Black, President and CEO, American Newspaper Publishers Association (1994)
• Tom Brokaw, NBC News Special Correspondent & Managing Editor NBC Nightly News (2013)
• Catherine Crier, Broadcast Journalist (1995)
• Thomas Curley, President and Chief Operating Officer, USA Today (1990)
• Malcolm Forbes, Jr., President and CEO, Forbes, Inc. (1987)
• Thomas Friedman, Author and Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times (2008)
• James B. Hayes, Publisher, Fortune magazine (1990)
• Reed Hundt, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1999)
• Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes magazine (2005)
• Sherry Lansing, past President, 20th Century-Fox Productions (1990)
• Andrea Mitchell, NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent (1997)
• Susan Packard, Cofounder and President of Brand Outreach, HGTV (2009)
• Tim Russert, Managing Editor and Moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press (2007)
• George Will, Syndicated Columnist, Washington Post (2000 and 2008)
• Randi Zuckerberg, Former Head of Marketing, Facebook and Current Founder and CEO, R to Z Media (2012)

World Leaders

• Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State (2002)
• Tony Blair, Prime Minister, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1997-2007 (2011)
• George H.W. Bush, Forty-first President of the United States (1997)
• Vicente Fox, President of Mexico, 2000 – 2006 (2008)
• General Tommy Franks, former Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (2004)
• John Glenn, Astronaut and former U.S. Senator (2005)
• Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the U.S.S.R. (1996)
• Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State (1991)
• The Rt. Hon. John Major, MP, former Prime Minister of Great Britain (1998)
• General Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1995) and former Secretary of State (2006)
• Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, 2005-2009 (2010)
• H. Norman Schwarzkopf, former Commander in Chief U. S. Central Command (1992)
• Lady Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain (1993 & 2001)
• Lech Walesa, former President of Poland (1999)