Tucker Bryant
Tucker Bryant is a nationally renowned poet, artist, and former Silicon Valley leader who helps organizations reimagine what’s possible by turning creativity into a practical leadership advantage. Blending a decade of innovation experience at Google with the timeless and creative tools artists have used for centuries, Tucker equips world-class leaders to think bigger, move faster, and Do Different Things Differently™.
A Stanford graduate and former Product Marketing Manager at Google, Tucker discovered early that the same techniques that shape powerful art can also unlock transformative ideas inside teams and companies. Today he brings that fusion to the stage, helping leaders break out of old patterns, challenge assumptions, and rethink how they inspire people, spark innovation, and lead through disruption.
His signature experiences are immersive, energetic, and actionable. Tucker gives audiences more than inspiration. He gives them creative tools they can use immediately to drive fresh thinking, strengthen cultures, and accelerate growth.
Tucker’s work has been viewed millions of times online and featured by TEDx and The New York Times, along with organizations around the world. He has taken the stage alongside Mark Cuban, Malcolm Gladwell, Gary Vaynerchuk, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and Mel Robbins, and has earned the trust of executives, governors, and dozens of Fortune 500 companies for programs that help leaders rethink what innovation and leadership look like today.
Tucker is our Keynote Speaker and will present on Do Different Things Differently.
Karen Black
Karen L. Black is the CEO of May 8 Consulting and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in the Urban Studies Department. Black is the co-founder of the Healthy Rowhouse Project, an initiative to improve access to private capital for preservation of privately owned affordable housing that has leveraged over $100 million in public and private capital. In addition, Black is working with the Housing Solutions Lab at the NYU Furman Center strengthening home repair programs. Black is the author of award-winning publications discussing strategies to revitalize communities, preserve and create affordable housing and attract private investment. Black taught a course on public policy responses to gentrification at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 2015. Prior to beginning her consulting practice, Black was the founding director of the Metropolitan Philadelphia Policy Center, a region-wide policy center founded to research issues impacting the economy, environment and equity within the Philadelphia metropolitan region. Prior to that, Black spent 12 years as a practicing civil rights attorney. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College and a Doctorate of Law from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Karen will present on the mainstage Advancing Home Repair: Lessons, Progress and the Road Ahead and will conduct a breakout session on Home Repair Realities: What Residents Told Us About Help, Hope, and Hardships.