Jason Berry, an author and documentary filmmaker, gained renown for investigative reporting with Lead Us Not into Temptation (1992), which exposed bishops concealing predator priests. Rolling Stone called it “the bible of the survivors’ movement.”
Michelle Miller is an Emmy Award–winning journalist whose work has been featured across CBS News for more than two decades. She has served as a correspondent for “48 Hours,” anchored CBS News Streaming’s “Eye on America,” and spent many years as a co-host of “CBS Saturday Morning." Her work has spanned major national and international stories and earned multiple prestigious awards.
Thomas Beller is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University, a regular contributor to the New Yorker, and the author of several books, most recently, Degas at the Gas Station: Essays, and Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball, both published by Duke University Press. He is a recipient of a 2024-25 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Robert Silvers Award for Works in Progress, and a New York City Book Award for Biography/memoir for his book, "J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist."
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer. The Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, he is the author of the New York Times bestsellers His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston. A fellow of the Society of American Historians, Meacham lives in Nashville.
Ken Auletta launched the Annals of Communications columns and profiles for The New Yorker magazine in 1992. He is the author of twelve books, including five national bestsellers: Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way; Greed And Glory On Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman; The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway; World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies; and Googled, The End of the World As We Know It, which was published in November of 2009.
New York Times bestselling author Michael Lewis has published many books on subjects ranging from politics to Wall Street. Lewis’s newest #1 New York Times bestselling book, Going Infinite, tells the story of FTX’s collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center, Sam Bankman-Fried.
Lewis is the creator and host of Apple's #1 rated podcast Against the Rules, a searing look at what’s happened to fairness in American life through the lens of people who depend on public trust.
Stan McChrystal founded McChrystal Group in January 2011 to deliver innovative leadership solutions to businesses globally in order to help them transform and succeed in challenging, dynamic environments.
Mitch Landrieu is a public servant, lawyer, author, and nonprofit leader. Landrieu most recently served as a senior advisor to President Biden and the Infrastructure Coordinator at the White House, responsible for the implementation of the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In that role, he oversaw the most significant and comprehensive investments in American infrastructure in generations that led to over 40,000 new projects in two years encompassing roads, bridges, rail, ports, airports, transit, clean water, clean energy and high-speed internet.
Sadeqa Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels. Her most recent novel, The House of Eve, was an instant New York Times bestseller, Reese’s Book Club selection, NAACP Image Award nominee, Goodreads Choice Award finalist and Target Book Club pick. Her previous novel, Yellow Wife, was the Library of Virginia’s Literary People’s Choice Award winner, Goodreads Choice Award finalist, Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy finalist, BCALA Literary Award honoree and a Barnes & Noble Book Club selection.
Dr. Michelle K. Johnston, recognized as a Woman of the Year, one of the most Influential New Orleanians, and a Top 500 Business Thinker, is a passionate advocate for connection-driven leadership.
As a top ten executive coach, global speaker, and top 10% podcast host, she also serves as a distinguished professor at Loyola University New Orleans, where she challenges outdated leadership methods.
