Behind the Dream with Ryan Carson

Barbara is Intel's Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and VP of Human Resources for the Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group, the company’s largest business group. She leads Intel’s Diversity in Technology initiative which resulted in reaching full representation in Intel's U.S. workforce in October 2018, two years ahead of schedule. The company’s workforce now reflects the percent of women and underrepresented minorities available in the U.S. skilled labor market.

As Chief Diversity Officer at Microsoft, Lindsay-Rae leads the organization’s diversity and inclusion commitments at the center of the company’s cultural transformation. It is critical to her mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With more than 20 years’ experience as a human resources executive for the technology sector, she is passionate about driving business growth through innovative and inclusive people strategies.

Matt Mullenweg is the Founder and CEO of Automattic as well as the Founding Developer of Wordpress. He also advises and invests in startups through his company, Audrey Capital. Matt has been featured on Forbes, Inc, WSJ, Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Fortune's 40 Under 40 List, The Tim Ferriss Show, This Week In Startups, and more.

Sadie Lincoln is the co-founder and CEO of barre3, a fitness company focused on teaching people to be balanced in body and empowered from within. Starting in 2008 in Portland, Oregon, barre3 has grown to more than 140 franchise studios powered by female entrepreneurs, plus an online-workout streaming-subscriber base in 98+ countries. Sadie is on Inc.'s Female Founders 100 list, featured on NPR's How I Built This, and speaks on the topics of mindful leadership, the power of body wisdom, and more.

Van Jones is a U.S. media personality, the founder of multiple social enterprises and a world-class change maker. He's a three-time NY Times bestselling author, Van hosts two shows on CNN: “The Van Jones Show” and “The Redemption Project.” He is the host of CNN’s “Incarceration, Inc.” podcast series. Van is the CEO of the REFORM Alliance, an initiative founded by Jay-Z, Meek Mill, and six billionaires to transform the criminal justice system.

Gary Vaynerchuk is the chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations. Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.

Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, CA. She is the Co-founder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Dignity and Power Now, she is also a performance artist, popular public speaker, and a New York Times bestselling author. She’s received many awards for activism and movement building, including being named by the Los Angeles Times as a Civil Rights Leader for the 21st Century and the Sydney Peace Prize for her work with Black Lives Matter.

Oris Stuart is the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the NBA. He is a global diversity, inclusion, and business executive whose visionary leadership and strategic execution led to the formation and growth of Global Novations, the world’s preeminent diversity and inclusion consultancy and training firm. He is a dynamic and skilled facilitator who positions executives, leaders and individual contributors of many of the world’s leading organizations to champion the inclusion agenda for their enterpr

Dean Stoecker is chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Alteryx. Dean co-founded Alteryx in 1997 and has since lead the company through solid organic growth, three rounds of funding, and a successful IPO in March 2017 — recognized as a top performer in the class of 2017. Since taking Alteryx public, Dean lead the company in delivering eight consecutive quarters of more than 45% year-over-year (YoY) growth, earning a spot on the Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ list for two consecutive years.

We’re going Behind the Dream with some of the most successful people in the world - top visionaries, activists, CEOs, Founders, and more - exploring the journey and uncovering their success blueprint for how they broke through barriers and made their dreams a reality. Learn the keys for how we can all take steps to live out our dreams and unlock doors for others to live their own.