Growth Summit 2026
Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on leadership.
Russell Weiner has served as Domino’s chief executive officer since May 2022. Prior to that, he was chief operating officer and president – Domino’s U.S. from July 2020 to April 2022. Weiner was first named to the newly-created position of COO and president of the Americas in July 2018.
One of the world’s leading authorities on customer experience, transformation and change, Lior Arussy is an experienced change practitioner, success accelerator, corporate culture expert, and founder of design and transformation firm Strativity Group.
Professor Kelly Goldsmith is a globally recognized behavioral scientist and elite strategic
advisor whose research-backed insights drive bottom-line results for the world’s most
valuable brands. As the E. Bronson Ingram Chair at Vanderbilt University, she translates
cutting-edge consumer psychology into actionable business strategies that transform how
organizations understand and influence customer behavior.
Kerry Siggins is the CEO of StoneAge, a fast-growing, employee-owned manufacturing and technology company based in Colorado. In 2023, she was honored to be named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year and Colorado’s CEO of the Year. During her 19-year and counting tenure, she has led StoneAge through three major transitions while continuously building a dynamic culture where employees think and act like owners. To that effect, StoneAge is recognized as a top company to work for by Outside Magazine and Inc. Magazine.
Cynthia Jamison ascended to the top echelons of corporate governance after a successful career as a turnaround CFO. With an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a master’s in finance from the University of Chicago, she ascended through the financial world with jobs in banking, accounting, consumer products, professional services, and various other industries. She became a first-time public company CFO in 1999 at the age of 39.
Tiffani Bova is the former global growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the book The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth [June 2023] which has been recognized as a Wall Street Journal bestseller, a Publishers Weekly Bestseller, Barnes and Noble Bestseller and Amazon Bestseller in 5 categories. It is being translated into six languages.
Chris Catania is a leading voice in community-first leadership and an executive advisor to CEOs navigating growth, trust, and alignment in complex organizations. He is the author of The Community-First Advantage, a leadership framework focused on how executives use
community to drive organizational alignment, execution, and long-term competitive advantage.
Adam Echter is a Partner with Simon-Kucher and leads the Global Industrials Sector. Adam’s career is marked by a deep commitment to enhancing sales excellence, business model innovation, and strategic pricing across various industries. With a rich background in sales development—from grassroots outside sales to the comprehensive restructuring and empowerment of sales teams—his expertise has impacted industrial companies with revenues ranging from $100 million to several billion dollars.
Andy Harris is a proven M&A leader, CEO, active board member, and passionate advisor with 30 years of leadership experience who thrives to deliver results through M&A.
Barbara Turley is the Founder & CEO of The Virtual Hub—a fully remote, 350 employee strong, digital-first powerhouse that helps businesses scale smarter by optimizing their most valuable and expensive asset: their people.
Sandra Joseph is a history-making Broadway star, a #1 international Amazon bestselling author, and a TEDx and keynote speaker. Her legendary run as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera spanned ten years and over 1,500 performances.
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Author, Collective Genius
Co-Author, Genius at Scale
She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2013 and 2021 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015. She is also the recipient of the 1999 Greenhill Award and the 2017 Greenhill Service Award, which recognize extraordinary contributions to the Harvard Business School community. Hill is the author or co-author of several award-winning articles and books including Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader and Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership. Hill’s TED talk on how to manage for collective creativity has over 2.9 million views and Hill’s Collective Genius has also been named to the inaugural Thinkers50 Booklist: 10 Management Classics for 2022.
Hill is coauthoring a book, Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation, that will be published in early 2026, which introduces the 3 roles of leading innovation at scale across organizations and ecosystems: architect, bridger, and catalyst. The forthcoming book has already been recognized on the global stage, having been shortlisted for the 2025 Thinkers50 Innovation Award.
Hill’s research and consulting focuses on leadership development, leading change and innovation, and implementing global strategies. Hill co-founded Paradox Strategies—an advisory and research firm that advises organizations and boards on leadership, innovation, and diversity and inclusion. Hill is co-creator of the Innovation Quotient and re:Route and she co-founded InnovationForce, a SaaS company using AI and machine learning to accelerate the process of innovation. It was named by Fast Company as a 2023 and 2024 “Innovative Company to Watch.”
Hill is a member of the Board of Directors of Relay Therapeutics and is on the Board of Trustees of The Kresge Foundation, the ArtCenter College of Design and of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also a member of the Team8 Fintech Strategic Committee and serves on the advisory boards of several organizations including the American Repertory Theater, the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, the Aspen Institute Leadership Division, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Eight Inc., the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, Novata and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. She is a Director Emeritus to the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc. and is a Special Representative to the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College. Hill is a former member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Business Publishing, State Street Corporation, The Bridgespan Group, The Eaton Corporation, and Cooper Industry. She is also a former member of the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation, the Boston Children’s Museum, and the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund USA.
Hill completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Harvard Business School and earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago. She has a B.A., summa cum laude, in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.
CEO, Domino's
Russell Weiner has served as Domino’s chief executive officer since May 2022. Prior to that, he was chief operating officer and president – Domino’s U.S. from July 2020 to April 2022, during which he oversaw Domino’s U.S. business in addition to the global centers of excellence teams that support operations, development, marketing, innovation, analytics and insight, communications, and technology in more than 90 countries. Weiner was first named to the newly-created position of COO and president of the Americas in July 2018.
Prior to becoming COO, Weiner served as president of Domino’s USA from October 2014 to July 2018, after joining the company as executive vice president – chief marketing officer in 2008. His impact on reshaping the Domino’s brand over that time was tremendous. Weiner led the award-winning “pizza turnaround” campaign, which became central to Domino’s success, and was named Brandweek’s 2010 Marketer of the Year in the restaurant category.
During Russell’s tenure (2008-2021) on the U.S. business, retail sales grew from approximately $3 billion to more than $8 billion and store count grew by over 25% – more than doubling Domino’s market share of QSR pizza in the U.S. Domino’s digital mix in the U.S. also grew from 11.5% of sales to more than 75%.
Weiner is responsible for leading several innovations throughout the company, including reformulating more than 80% of the brand’s menu and the creation of its “pizza theater” store design. He oversaw the launch of the DXP pizza delivery vehicle, testing of autonomous delivery platforms, and numerous digital innovations, including Domino’s AnyWare platform.
Prior to joining Domino’s in 2008, Weiner oversaw marketing for Pepsi’s North American cola business.
Weiner earned a Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University, and an MBA in marketing and international business from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He has served on Domino’s board of directors since April 2022, and also serves on the board of directors of The Clorox Company.
Author, The Experience, Customer Experience Strategy, and Dare to Author!
One of the world’s leading authorities on customer experience, transformation, and change, Lior Arussy is an experienced change practitioner, success accelerator, corporate culture expert, and founder of design and transformation firm Strativity Group. Called “a triple threat of transformation” by co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company William Taylor, Arussy is a unique, critical, global voice helping people worldwide achieve ultimate success.
Arussy has been involved in over 250 global transformations with some of the world’s top brands including Mercedes-Benz, Delta Airlines, Royal Caribbean Cruises, SAP, Cognizant, Pizza Hut, Walmart.com, BMW, Cadillac, Novo Nordisk, MasterCard, The Met, Thomson Reuters, HSBC, E.ON, FedEx, University of Pennsylvania, and Johnson & Johnson, over 5000 car dealerships around the world among others.
Recipient of several awards, Arussy is an award-winning author of seven books, including Dare to Author! (2024) Next is Now: 5 Steps for Embracing Change – Building a Business that Thrives into the Future (May 2018, Simon & Schuster), Exceptionalize it! (2015) and Customer Experience Strategy (2010). Arussy has written over 400 articles for publications around the world, including the Harvard Business Review, and a multitude of magazines, and was interviewed by MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, CRM Magazine, Smart CEO Magazine, and Inc. magazine.
Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management
E. Bronson Ingram Chair
Professor Kelly Goldsmith is a globally recognized behavioral scientist and elite strategic
advisor whose research-backed insights drive bottom-line results for the world’s most
valuable brands. As the E. Bronson Ingram Chair at Vanderbilt University, she translates cutting-edge consumer psychology into actionable business strategies that transform how organizations understand and influence customer behavior.
Her expertise is in-demand across industries and courtrooms, with an extraordinary blue-chip client portfolio spanning Fortune 100 giants including American Airlines, Bank of America, Chase Bank, PepsiCo, L’Oréal, GlaxoSmithKline, Campbell’s Soup, Clorox, Boston Consulting Group, and beyond. From healthcare leaders like Cigna and Allergan to consumer powerhouses like Frito-Lay, Wendy’s, and Conagra and top-tier investment firms like Alliance Bernstein and Evercore, the world’s most sophisticated organizations rely on her strategic insights to navigate complex market challenges and unlock competitive advantages.
Following her popular TEDxNashville talk on consumer behavior research, she was invited to present at South by Southwest in 2025, reinforcing her status as a thought leader who bridges academic rigor with real-world business impact. She also has a regular a column in Chief Executive Magazine, where C-suite executives rely on her strategic guidance for navigating intricate market dynamics, organizational leadership, and consumer psychology challenges.
Professor Goldsmith’s intellectual property portfolio includes over 60 publications, more than half of which are in top-tier academic journals. Her published case studies are distributed by Harvard Business Review and taught at elite MBA programs worldwide—including strategic analyses of Disney’s pricing evolution, WeightWatchers’ billion-dollar pivot strategy, and Liquid Death’s breakthrough brand positioning.
Her insights reach decision-makers globally through extensive media coverage spanning the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Time Magazine, and the New York Times, establishing her as a sought-after source when major media outlets need authoritative perspectives on branding, consumer behavior, and market trends.
Trusted by Fortune 100 executives and the world’s leading consumer brands across food, healthcare, beauty, and financial services, Professor Goldsmith delivers measurable ROI through her unique ability to decode consumer psychology and translate findings into immediately implementable business strategies and compelling arguments.
CEO, StoneAge
Author, The Ownership Mindset
She loves helping others and that’s why she enjoys giving keynotes and hosting her
podcast Reflect Forward. She is also a writer and contributor to Forbes, Entrepreneur,
Authority Magazine, and BIC Magazine. Her blog is visited by thousands of readers
each month, and is the author of The Ownership Mindset: A Handbook for Transforming
Your Life and Leadership. Her second book, Talk With Trust, is scheduled to be
released in summer 2026.
Chair of the Board, Darden Restaurants and Biglots
Retired Chair of the Board, Tractor Supply company
Author, Shards in my Hair
She loves helping others, and that’s why she enjoys giving keynotes and hosting her podcast Reflect Forward. She is also a writer and contributor to Forbes, Entrepreneur, Authority Magazine, and BIC Magazine. Her blog is visited by thousands of readers each month, and she is the author of The Ownership Mindset: A Handbook for Transforming Your Life and Leadership. Her second book, Talk With Trust, is scheduled to be released in summer 2026.
From there, she became a partner at an interim CFO equity partnership specializing in middle-market turnarounds. There, she successfully led six different organizations (both public and private-equity backed) through turnarounds as either CFO or COO, eventually moving into a practice leadership role within the firm where she had three hundred-plus CFOs reporting to her. She elevated the profile of the firm through thought leadership initiatives, which included keynote addresses to major financial audiences on topics such as the risks of the CFO role.
In 2009, she accepted one last CFO role at a small environmental start-up, secured equity funding for that company during the Great Recession of 2008-09, and built out the finance function. That company survives today, although Ms. Jamison formally retired as CFO in 2013. She remained on the board of directors until she recently stepped down, in part to focus on her book. Ms. Jamison joined her first public company board of directors in 2002 and continued from there to build an impressive board portfolio.
In the twenty-plus years since then, she has chaired four boards, three public and one private, and actively chairs one today. She has chaired five audit committees. She retired in 2023 as chairman of the board of Tractor Supply Company, one of the highest-performing stocks in this century, where she had served for twenty-one years.
Today, she serves on the boards of Darden Restaurants, Office Depot, and International Flavors & Fragrances. Ms. Jamison recently completed a four-year term as a member of FASAC, the advisory board to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). In addition, she is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and was awarded the honor of “Top 100 Director.” She also sits on the board of Save the Children.
She is a frequent keynote speaker on CFO and boardroom topics, and has been quoted as a financial/economic expert in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CFO.com, Agenda, Corporate Board Member, and the Economist.
Author, GrowthIQ
Chief Strategy & Research Officer, Futurum; Former Global Growth and Innovation Evangelist, Salesforce
Her previous book Growth IQ [2018] was also a Wall Street Journal bestseller and has been translated into 12 languages. Bova is ranked on the current Thinkers50’s list of the world’s top management thinkers [2019, 2021, 2023] and has appeared on MSNBC, Bloomberg, BNN Bloomberg, Cheddar News and Yahoo! Finance.
She also contributes her thoughts to publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Thrive, MIT Sloan Management Review, Rotman Management Magazine and Duke University Dialogue Review. She frequently is a guest lecturer at Columbia University, Wharton, USC and TCU to name a few.
As host of What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova, a top ranked podcast on iTunes, Bova has interviewed hundreds of thought leaders and executives including Arianna Huffington, Dan Pink, Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Marshall Goldsmith, former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly, former Ritz-Carlton President Horst Schulze, and Square co-founder Jim McKelvey among others.
Bova is a top Twitter influencer in the categories Business Growth, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, the Future of Work, and Sales. On LinkedIn, she has over 43,000 followers, and was identified as a LinkedIn Top Sales Expert to follow in 2018-2022
She was named one of Inc. Magazine’s 37 Sales Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter, a Top 100 Women in Tech, a Brand Quarterly Magazine Top 50 Marketing Thought Leader, and one of the most Powerful and Influential Women in California according to the National Diversity Council.
Additionally, she was ranked as one of the top 25 B2B women influencers by Top Rank Marketing, and the number one influencer by Thinkers360 for customer experience and in the Top 50 for overall influencers in 2023. She was named one of the top 10 influencers in the future of work, customer experience, digital transformation, and women in tech by Onalytica in 2022. Growth IQ was one of Porchlight’s top 5 recommended strategy and leadership books of 2018 and continues to be on their bestseller list. The book was also featured in best of lists from Inc and Thrive Global.
Having delivered over 1000+ keynote presentations on sales transformation and business model innovation to over 550,000 people on six continents, Bova is a highly sought-after keynote speaker. Prior to working with Salesforce, she was a sales, marketing and customer service executive for startups and Fortune 500 companies, where she was recognized as one of the first to develop a robust go-to-market model for cloud-based solutions, and indirect channel strategies to accommodate changes in buying behavior. She left the corporate world and joined Gartner becoming a Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow where she won the Thought Leadership award and earned accolades from the best leaders in the technology world for her cutting-edge analysis and her skill in architecting bold new strategies for sales and growth.
Bova’s experience on the front lines of sales, marketing, customer service and innovation, combined with her insightful candor, has resulted in a unique perspective that continues to inspire businesses and individuals to get smarter about the choices they make, think forward and increase their Growth IQ and now their Experience Mindset.
Author, The Community-First Advantage
Over the past two decades, Chris has worked with enterprise and high-growth organizations to help leaders adapt to changing employee, customer, and market dynamics. His work centers on using community as a strategic lever for transformation, enabling leaders to reduce friction, increase trust, and build resilient organizations in high-pressure environments.
Chris speaks to executive audiences on leadership, organizational change, and the evolving role of community as a business and leadership strategy in an AI-driven world
Partner and Global Head of Industrials, Simon-Kucher; Co-Author Beating Inflation
Such experience and success have led to recognition as one of “The Top 25 Strategy Consultants and Leaders of 2023” by the Consulting Report.
An author of note, Adam co-authored “Beating Inflation” alongside Dr. Hermann Simon, a best-selling author and co-founder of Simon-Kucher. This work underscores his thought leadership in the field of pricing during economically volatile times. Moreover, his contribution to the speaker circuit has delivered valuable insights through the Professional Pricing Society, Chief Executive Group, Private Equity International and various industry/academic forums.
Adam holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University at Buffalo and an MBA in finance from the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business. Notably, his commitment to education and mentorship led him back to the Simon School of Business to help develop the first comprehensive pricing degree formally recognized by any MBA program.
President, North American Strategies and Managing Director, STS Capital
Andy Harris is a proven CEO with over 30 years of leadership experience and an extensive track record in growth through M&A. Within his career, Andy has personally led over 20 M&A transactions ranging from strategic acquisitions of privately-held companies and corporate carve-outs to selling to strategic buyers. His deal experience ranges from $20M to $670M, with total value exceeding $!B in transactions. He has been on both sides of the strategic M&A process and has a deep understanding of both the buy-side and the sell-side.
Andy was President and CEO of Accella Performance Materials from 2012-2017, leading Accella to grow revenue by 6x and profit by 8x in under 5 years through both organic and acquisitive growth (14 acquisitions), culminating in a strategic sale to the Carlisle Companies. Before taking the helm of Accella, Andy was the CEO of Syrgis, another specialty chemical manufacturing business, where he successfully led the business transformation, growing revenue 3x and profit 4x within 5 years, ending with a successful strategic sale of the company in 2012. Most recently, Andy was the CEO of Vantage Specialty Chemicals from 2018-2019, a global provider of naturally derived, specialty ingredients. Andy led two European acquisitions to strategically expand the business platform from North America to Europe, while leading the company’s rebranding exercise and strengthening the global corporate culture.
Founder and CEO, The Virtual Hub
Barbara Turley is the Founder & CEO of The Virtual Hub—a fully remote, 350 employee strong, digital-first powerhouse that helps businesses scale smarter by optimizing their most valuable and expensive asset: their people.
Before founding The Virtual Hub, Barbara built her career in high-stakes finance and later launched a digital wealth platform for women. But it was her unique ability to blend systems thinking with human-centric leadership that laid the foundation for The Virtual Hub’s success.
Today, Barbara splits her time between the beaches of Australia and the French Alps, building her company (and her family) with the same operational clarity.
Former Lead Actress of Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera, and author, Unmasking What Matters
Sandra Joseph is a history-making Broadway star, a #1 international Amazon bestselling author, and a TEDx and keynote speaker. Her legendary run as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera spanned ten years and over 1,500 performances. She holds the record as the longest-running leading lady in the longest-running Broadway show of all time. Sandra has appeared on many national broadcasts including The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, The Today Show, Dateline, The Early Show, The View, and Oprah: Where Are They Now?
Sandra is a member of The Transformational Leadership Council, an invitation-only group of 125 top thought leaders. Among the luminaries who endorse her work are Jack Canfield, Mark Nepo, Martha Beck, Marci Shimoff, and Geneen Roth. Sandra is the author of Unmasking What Matters: 10 Life Lessons from 10 Years on Broadway. She is also the co-author, with five-time New York Times best-selling author Caroline Myss, of Your Creative Soul: Expressing Your Authentic Voice.
Sandra’s one-of-a-kind musical keynote program inspires audiences to live authentically, contribute their gifts wholeheartedly, and unmask what matters most in their lives and careers. She is married to actor Ron Bohmer, who played The Phantom. They perform together during keynotes, concerts, and client events. When they’re not on the road, Sandra and Ron are home in San Diego with their mini-Australian Shepherd, Rocky.
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.