Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading thinkers on creativity and innovation and a leader in the development of human potential. Especially lauded for his work developing innovation and creativity in business, education and human resources, he has worked with governments in Europe and Asia, international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, national and state education systems, and some of the world’s leading nonprofit and cultural organizations. He led the British government’s 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. A talk he gave at the TED conference in 2006 —downloaded over a million times—made an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. His most recent book is, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.

Rick Wartzman is director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a columnist for BusinessWeek magazine. Previously, he spent two decades as a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He is the co-author, with Mark Arax, of The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. A bestseller, it won, among other honors, a California Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.