Dr. Dennis L. Carpenter has worked in the education field for more than two decades, most recently as a superintendent. Some of his many accomplishments include achieving Missouri’s highest annual performance score for improvement in underserved student performance, as well as spearheading the implementation of the equity-focused "Innovation Track Program" which enabled students to earn low or no cost college credits in partnership with the local community college. He has also worked to create a free full day pre-K program, expanded before and after school programs, improved teacher salaries and tripled fundraising efforts for student scholarships and teacher grants. Carpenter is a #TripleEagle, earning his bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, educational specialist and educational doctorate in educational leadership from Georgia Southern, as well as a master’s degree in educational leadership from Augusta State University. Some of his awards include the Georgia Southern Minority Leadership award and the Phi Beta Sigma Educator of the Year award. Dr. Carpenter is married to Dr. LaQuanda Carpenter and they have two young children, Landen Drake and Layla Dee. The family lives in North Augusta, South Carolina.

Dave MacLeod is the CEO and a co-founder of ThoughtExchange, the world’s most advanced platform for scaling conversations. Millions of people have engaged with one another on the ThoughtExchange platform and Dave and team work with leaders in almost every sector ranging from the world’s biggest companies to school districts to understand how to help them access their unheard majority and bring unbiased voice to their decision making. Prior to ThoughtExchange Dave was not in tech, and was instead a serial entrepreneur who designed businesses and events focused on analog group communication innovation. Disrupting himself with a B2B SaaS solution to help leaders in any organization brings him great joy.