Dr. Yvonne Darlene Cagle is an astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and consulting professor for Stanford University’s department of cardiovascular medicine and its department of electrical engineering.
Habib Frost is an Entrepreneur, Inventor, Researcher and Physician. He graduated as the youngest Medical Doctor in Denmark at the age of 23 and was elected Forbes 30 under 30 in 2017.
Kian Gohar is Founder and CEO of Geolab, a research lab focused on helping organizations build the next frontier of Human-AI collaboration through training and strategy. Kian is a former executive director of the XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University, and has coached the leadership teams of dozens of Fortune 500 companies on innovation and AI. His latest research on Human-AI collaboration has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2022, he co-wrote the bestselling book “Competing in the New World of Work”, published by Harvard Business Review Press and translated into 7 languages. He’s a graduate of the Harvard Business School, and serves on multiple corporate and nonprofit boards.
I recently decided to become non-executive because I would like to be an individual entrepreneur and come home with good business ideas either through the expansion of my own thinking or by leveraging the network I hope to get from this program.
Singularity is exponential, but it's exponential for so many different reasons. I have found it to be exponential not only for the learning that I have done in terms of different mindsets, I've actually thought it's exponential in terms of what I can take back to my organization and start to frame up how other people will actually start to change their mindset into this thinking as well.
Sonia Edmonds
Managing Partner of Innovation & Change, BDO Canada
The spirit of optimism, the spirit of innovation is alive and well. It was refreshing to see, and quite honestly gives you quite a bit of motivation to go back. This course really brought in the experts, had good discussions, real world examples... so I really appreciated that.
Frank Morelli
Vice-Admiral, U.S. Navy and Uniformed Acquisition Official
One thing that really stuck with me was that 30 steps of linear progress brings you 30 meters far, but if you have 30 steps of exponential progress that's 26 times around the world. That made me really realize, that's a lot more change than I initially thought. All these things... they're not in 10 years time, it's actually today.
Joost Harinck
Director of Digital Factory, Deloitte Netherlands
What brought me to the Executive Program is two things: One is to understand: what are the latest innovative trends and how can I apply them to the businesses I work with? The second is: what is the next technology that can disrupt our business model? Singularity is different thinking for me. It's beyond innovation. Really, network is very important and I hope I continue staying in touch with these people after the course.
