30 Aug August 31, 2015 – Excuse Me Professor Lawrence Reed & Health and Toy Innovator Nick Webb
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Lawrence Reed – President at Foundation for Economic Education and Author of Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism
Larry Reed became president of the Foundation for Economic Education in 2008. Since the late 1970s, he had been writing and speaking for FEE and served as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s. Prior to becoming FEE’s president, he served for 20 years as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan and taught economics full-time at Northwood University in Michigan. Larry holds two honorary doctorates for his role as a champion for liberty. He has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles and dozens of articles in magazines and journals, appearing in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. He has authored or coauthored six books, the most recent ones being Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism and A Republic—If We Can Keep It. He is frequently interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano and John Stossel on FOX Business News and has delivered at least 75 speeches annually in the past 30 years in virtually every state and in dozens of countries from Bulgaria to China to Bolivia.
Nicholas Webb – Senior Partner at Lassen Innovation, Top Innovation and Healthcare Keynote Speaker, Founder of Hänz’s™ Toys
Nick Webb is the Senior Partner at Lassen Innovation, a Certified Management Consulting Firm committed to providing enterprise strategy and general management consulting. It enables organizations to lead their industry and markets. Their high-profile clients include Siemens, Gatorade, Blue Cross, Intel, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente and Freightliner. His specialties include enterprise innovation, corporate strategy, customer experience engineering, corporate culture, risk control, and innovation. Nick is one of the top innovation and healthcare keynote speakers, speaking at dozens of top conferences worldwide each year. He is author of The Innovation Playbook, The Digital Innovation Playbook and Breakers – Leading by destruction and the innovation economy. Nick has been awarded over 42 patents by the US patent office many of which have received industrial design awards. And he is the founder of coolest toy company around!
