Meet the Speakers

Jason Feifer

Entrepreneur Magazine

Jason Feifer is the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine, a startup advisor, a nonstop optimism machine, and a widely recognized authority on business and communications.

Outside of Entrepreneur, he is the cofounder of the online coaching community CPG Fast Track, and chief content officer for the business community Uncharted. He is also the author of the best-selling book Build For Tomorrow, his podcast Help Wanted is downloaded 1 million times a month, and his weekly newsletter One Thing Better is read by 70,000 people. LinkedIn named him a “Top Voice in Entrepreneurship“.

Jason travels regularly to speak for the world’s greatest companies and organizations, and has given keynotes for Google, Clorox, Pfizer, Microsoft, Alibaba, Crocs, the Global Retail Marketing Association, Million Dollar Round Table, and more.

He has had a decades-long career in national media, which included working as an editor at Men’s Health, Fast Company, Maxim, and Boston magazine, and writing about business and technology for the Washington Post, Slate, New York magazine, and others.

Paul Shirley

The Process

Paul Shirley played for 17 professional basketball teams in a nine-year career, including stops in Spain, Greece, Russia, and with three teams in the NBA: the Chicago Bulls, Phoenix Suns, and Atlanta Hawks. He’s the author of six books, including Can I Keep My Jersey?, Stories I Tell On Dates, The Process is the Product, and The Art of Focused Work. He created a TV pilot for Fox based on his life as a vagabond professional basketball player. Paul’s the founder of The Process, a workspace that helps creatives, entrepreneurs, and independent workers build systems so they can manage distractions and do focused work on meaningful projects. In his talks, Paul combines the elements of humor and vulnerability that helped him win the Story Smash! storytelling competition at the Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles. He’s spoken at colleges, at conferences, for business groups, and at book launches as far away as Spain. His speaking superpower is his ability to turn intimidating concepts (managing distractions, doing focused work, dealing with failure) into digestible takeaways that leave audiences feeling connected with him and each other.