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Monta Vista Auditorium
21840 McClellan Road
Cupertino, California, 95014
United States

Albert Zeng

Albert Zeng is a senior from Monta Vista High School and plans to attend Harvard College in the fall. He likes to read and write in his spare time and is the author of two published books. In addition to figure skating, Albert is passionate about business, learning, and community service, and he currently serves as Co-Chairman of HEARTS, a nonprofit organization which he founded. HEARTS is dedicated to supporting the education of underprivileged children, and through his many years of leading HERATS, Albert has grown the organization to support more than 100 students across China. Also, his favorite animal is the Canadian Goose.

Allen Klein

Comedian Jerry Lewis has said that Allen Klein is “a noble and vital force watching over the human condition.” Klein is the world’s only “Jollytologist,” and author of 25 books that include The Healing Power of Humor, The Courage to Laugh, Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying, and You Can’t Ruin My Day. He is also the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, a Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association, a Toastmaster’s Communication and Leadership Award, and a Hall of Fame honoree from Hunter College; The City University of New York.

Austin Shaw

Austin Hill Shaw works with individuals who want to unlock their full creative potential and organizations that want to build cultures of innovation. He is the founder of Creativity Matters, the author of The Shoreline of Wonder: On Being Creative, and the inventor of The Creativity Quiz and the The Creator’s Cheat Sheet. Drawing upon an innovative mix of cutting-edge science, artistic expression, and age-old spiritual wisdom, Austin presents a timely and enlivening understanding of creativity and innovation, one that ignites the full-person creative potential of individuals and organizations alike. Through his keynotes and trainings, workshops, retreats, and online courses, and one-on-one coaching, his life purpose is to empower others as creators. He resides in Berkeley, California with his wife, Epiphany, and their daughters, Sierra Lucia and Lorenza Delmar.

Austin Hill Shaw

Austin Hill Shaw works with individuals who want to unlock their full creative potential and organizations that want to build cultures of innovation. He is the founder of Creativity Matters, the author of The Shoreline of Wonder: On Being Creative, and the inventor of The Creativity Quiz and the The Creator’s Cheat Sheet. Drawing upon an innovative mix of cutting-edge science, artistic expression, and age-old spiritual wisdom, Austin presents a timely and enlivening understanding of creativity and innovation, one that ignites the full-person creative potential of individuals and organizations alike. Through his keynotes and trainings, workshops, retreats, and online courses, and one-on-one coaching, his life purpose is to empower others as creators. He resides in Berkeley, California with his wife, Epiphany, and their daughters, Sierra Lucia and Lorenza Delmar.

Elle Allison-Napolitano

In 2000, as part of her doctoral studies in Organizational Learning at the University of New Mexico, Elle Allison-Napolitano began a disciplined study looking into the nature of wisdom. Since wisdom seems to accrue at the “College of Hard Knocks”, she had a theory that those who are wise must have a knack for making life’s challenges turn out well. What she found was even more exciting: Wise people not only seem to possess a super form of resilience, but they use adversity as the grist for positive transformational growth. In 2006, Elle founded her company “Wisdom Out” through which her mission is to invent practical tools that take wisdom off the mountain and put them in the hands of people and teams so they can accomplish big things that make the world a better place. Elle is a researcher, author, and an international speaker on wisdom in leadership, teams, relationships, and life.