Erik Qualman

Erik Qualman is a #1 Bestselling and author and keynote speaker. He was voted the World's 2nd Most Likeable Author behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. He is still trying to live up to the title of "World's Best Dad" that his daughters scrawled on a coffee mug. He isn't there yet, but he is getting better each day—it's his top priority.

Called a Digital Dale Carnegie and The Tony Robbins of Tech, Qualman has put on performances in over 55 countries and has reached over 40 million people with his books and content.

His work has been featured on 60 Minutes to the Wall Street Journal and used by the National Guard to NBC to NASA to Nordstrom. He has a BA from Michigan State University where he has been a past recipient of the Spartan of the Year Award and has a scholarship endowment in his name for basketball. His MBA is from The University of Texas. Qualman is a former sitting professor at Harvard & MIT's edX labs. For his groundbreaking books, Qualman received an honorary doctoral degree.

Qualman was once a columnist for CNN Japan (even though he doesn't speak any Japanese) and adopted a baby cheetah in Kenya from the same litter that Olympian Usain Bolt adopted from. Qualman says that his cheetah is much faster than Bolt's :-)