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One of the most important presenters we’ll have at the Summit is YOU. It’s your experiences, passion, insights, struggles and successes that can make a difference for your fellow Small Giants Community members. Don’t expect to sit and listen. YOUR story will be examined and told.

Bo Burlingham

Author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big and editor-at-large (and former executive editor) of Inc., America’s leading magazine of entrepreneurship. Bo also co-authored The Knack with Norm Brodsky and The Great Game of Business with Jack Stack.

Chip Conley

At the age of 26, Chip Conley started his own hospitality company, Joie de Vivre, one of the 14 businesses featured in Small Giants, and, as CEO for two-dozen years, expanded it into a collection of over 35 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas – the second largest boutique hotel company in the U.S. Chip speaks around the world on finding meaning at work, is a regular blogger on The Huffington Post and his own blog at www.emotionalequations.com. He is currently Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center’s 2012 Scholar-Practitioner in residence.

Norm Brodsky

Entrepreneur and author of The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up. A three-time Inc. 500 honoree and award-winning Inc. magazine columnist, Norm is the founder of CitiStorage, one of the 14 businesses featured in Small Giants.

Paul Spiegelman

Entrepreneur and author of Why Is Everyone Smiling? The Secret Behind Passion, Productivity & Profit. Paul co-founded (with his brothers) The Beryl Companies, which has also been honored as one of the best places to work in America. Paul is CEO of the Small Giants Community.

Ari Weinzweig

Ari Weinzweig is Co-Founder of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses in Ann Arbor, Mich. The author of A Lapsed Anarchist’s Guide to Good Business and Zingerman’s Guide to Good Eating. Ari is a frequent guest speaker in business classes at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, as well as at various food and business conferences in this country and abroad including the American Institute of Wine and Food, Inc. 500, the Gathering of Games, and the NASFT Fancy Food Show.

Jack Stack

Entrepreneur and author of The Great Game of Business, named one of the 100 best business books of all time. Jack is co-founder and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation (formerly Springfield ReManufacturing Corp.), the pioneer and leading practitioner of open-book management. It has been honored repeatedly as one of the best places to work in America.