Ashish Thakur
TEDxAugusta 2018 Speakers
A life turned upside down in a small southern town, then turned back around.
Colin Owen
Hi, You Might Know Me.
Jame Geathers
Taking Off The Mask of Bipolar
Jared Williams
Passion or Paycheck? A case for not playing it safe.
Jeff Annis
Culture of MOJO – The Secret to Business Success
Julie Robins
The Healing Power of Horses
Matthew Malcolm Banks
There’s No Love, Like A Father’s Love!
Michael Rollock
Prescribing Purpose: Light Where there is no Light
Natalie Schweers
Invest Like Girls
Patrick Darnell
Re-Imagining Church
Rob Lamberts
Hi, I’m Rob and I’m a Recovering Doctor
Scott Thorp
How You Innovate Already: The Key to User Innovation
Tara Rice Simkins
Venture to Listen
Tirrany Thurmond
Resiliency and Self-Discovery through Ancestral Research
Tom Hubbard
When you come to a fork in the road… take it!
Tom Patterson
Tradecraft Tradeoff – Choosing to be Safer has a Cost
Travis Hamilton
Toppling Silos: Improving Medicine for Enhanced Surgical Recovery
Victor Hwang
What Do We Know and What We Do – Entrepreneurship and the Economic Development of Society
Creative Talent
Celia Gary
Dare To Venture
Derek Berry
Poetry Is a Catalyst For Community Dialogue
Celeste HeadleeExcited to announce that Award-Winning Celeste Headlee will be the Master of Ceremonies for TEDxAugusta!
Award-winning journalist, executive producer and radio host, and author of Heard Mentality and We Need To Talk.
Celeste Headlee is the Executive Producer and host of “On Second Thought” at Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta and has been a host and correspondent for NPR and PRI since 2006. Headlee’s anchoring at NPR includes “The Takeaway,” as well as “Tell Me More,” “Talk of the Nation,” and “Weekend Edition.” She has trained journalists through NPR’s Next Generation program since 2006. Headlee also has appeared as a guest on CNN, the BBC, and other international networks, and in 2012, she anchored presidential election coverage for PBS World.
Following her TedxCreativeCoast talk in 2015, ted.com featured her presentation, “10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation,” which has been viewed more than 11 million times. CNBC voted Celeste as having one of the most watched TED talks in 2016 and Glassdoor named Celeste as having the #1 must-watch TED talk for every recruiter and hiring manager. Now, Headlee speaks to groups across the globe about the art of conversation and focused listening. Her first book, Heard Mentality, was released in May 2016. Her second book, We Need To Talk – How To Have Conversations That Matter is a practical guide to the lost art of conversation and will be released by Harper Wave on September 19, 2017.
Rick McKee
Rick McKee is back for TEDxAugusta as he shares his artistic renderings of each of our speakers.
Rick Mckee has been editorial cartoonist for The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle since 1998 and his cartoons are syndicated by Cagle Cartoons to over 850 newspapers around the world, making him one of the most reprinted cartoonists working today.
In 2013, McKee won first place in the Ranan Lurie U.N. cartoon competition. In addition to appearing in most major American newspapers, McKee’s award-winning work has been featured on CNN/Headline News, the Fox News Channel and in Newsweek. A collection of his cartoons, ‘Painting With a Broad Brush’ was published in November 2015.