Exceptional Voices.
Meaningful Impact.

Sam Fox is one of the most influential restaurateurs in America — a twelve-time James Beard Award nominee, a New York Times bestselling author, and the founder of Fox Restaurant Concepts, a hospitality group that has shaped how Americans eat and gather. Growing up in Arizona, Sam began his career working in his father's diner, learning the rhythms of a room before he could see over the counter. Before he was twenty-one, he had opened a place of his own — the first of what would become a national portfolio of concepts, each one born from an obsessive attention to how a guest feels the moment they walk through the door. Over three decades, Sam has built and launched more than fifty restaurant brands — Flower Child, North Italia, The Henry, Blanco, Culinary Dropout, Olive & Ivy, and Zinburger among them — before merging his company with The Cheesecake Factory in a deal that valued it at nearly half a billion dollars. Rather than retire, he opened The Global Ambassador, a luxury Phoenix hotel anchored by five original restaurants, proving that his appetite for hospitality is not a career but a calling. What sets Sam apart is not the scale of his success but the philosophy beneath it. He builds restaurants the way a host builds a dinner party — with intuition, generosity, and an emotional intelligence about what a room needs before the room knows it. He speaks about hospitality as an act of empathy: reading a guest's mood, anticipating the unspoken, and engineering joy into the smallest details of light, sound, and service. On stage, Sam is candid and warm about the unglamorous work behind beautiful rooms. He talks about the four thousand decisions made before lunch, the discipline of saying no, the courage to kill a concept that isn't working, and the curiosity that has kept him relevant through every shift in American dining culture. His talks are less a keynote and more a conversation, one where empathy is an underrated competitive advantage in business.

Across 20 WNBA seasons, an international career overseas, and decades with USA Basketball, Diana Taurasi has established herself as one of the icons of the game — while also proving to be one of basketball's most vibrant, engaging, and unmistakably original personalities. An 11-time WNBA All-Star, three-time WNBA champion, former MVP, and Rookie of the Year, Diana is in a league all her own, and was voted the WNBA's 25th Anniversary GOAT in 2021. Before she ever touched a professional hardwood, Diana built a dynasty at the University of Connecticut. Under Geno Auriemma, she led the UConn Huskies to three consecutive national championships and collected every Player of the Year honor the sport could offer. It was there — in the pressure cooker of Storrs — that she forged the competitive identity that would come to define the next two decades of her life: fearless, relentless, and utterly unwilling to settle for anything less than her best. That identity translated immediately to the WNBA. Drafted first overall by the Phoenix Mercury in 2004, Diana became the franchise's heartbeat and, eventually, its history. She is the WNBA's all-time leading scorer and the first player in league history to surpass 10,000 points. She is the league's all-time leader in three-pointers, a multi-time scoring champion, and the rare athlete whose individual brilliance and team success have always moved in the same direction. On the international stage, her record is without peer. She is a six-time Olympic gold medalist — the most of any basketball player, of any gender, in history — and a six-time EuroLeague champion. She has carried the flag for Team USA, dominated the world's best leagues from Russia to Turkey, and done it all with a style of play that makes the impossible look routine. What sets Diana apart is not the trophies. It is the way she carries it all. A strict vegan, a proud mother, and a fierce advocate for women's sports, she is known off the court for her hot takes and the one-liners that catch teammates and post-game reporters completely off guard. Her personality never feels manufactured — the wit, candor, and unpredictability are entirely her own. That authenticity is exactly what makes her so magnetic on a stage. As a speaker, Diana draws on a career spent at the highest level of the game. She speaks about what it actually takes, day after day, to sustain excellence across two decades. She speaks about leading through three evolutions of a league that grew up around her. She speaks about finding your voice in a world that would rather you keep it quiet, and about building a culture that outlasts any single player. Audiences do not just hear from one of the most accomplished athletes of her generation. They hear from someone who has redefined, again and again, what a basketball player can be.