Featured Speakers Do Good Talks 2025 May 9 -10
Highlands Church — 9050 E Pinnacle Peak Rd. — Scottsdale, AZ 85255
Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
$39 per person ($19 for students)
Lewis Greer
Lewis Greer, founder and CEO of Do Good U, is an author, speaker, and is passionate about bringing more good into the world.
He’ll share stories of good from ordinary men and women — some you’ve heard of and some you haven’t — that have changed the world.
Can you change the world with good? Yes, you can.
Barry Landis
Barry Landis is the President of Pivot Music, an on-demand music service for Film and TV), and Executive Director of The Briner Institute, a think tank dedicated to helping young people influence culture.
The former president of Word Records, and a co-founder of Ribbow Media, a firm that has marketed over 150 movies, many award winning, Barry also served as an Associate Publisher for Simon & Schuster.
He is on the faculty of Belmont University, and will speak to us about good in the world of entertainment.
Tye Dutcher
Life is full of surprises for us all, and Tye Dutcher, as an 11-year-old, tried to add a surprise to his dad’s life. He snuck up behind him while he was mowing the lawn.
But the surprise was on Tye when the riding mower was put in reverse as he approached it. The resulting accident — a very active boy losing his right foot — was terrible, but not tragic.
Tye, a Paralympian and a bronze medalist in the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships and winner of a gold and two bronze medals at the 2019 Parapan American Games, now coaches swimming and water polo for able bodied swimmers.
He will share his story of how something that seemed like it might be evil was actually good, and how it changed his life and the lives of many others.
Tod Novak
With over 20 years of experience managing sales teams, coaching, and training across multiple industries, Tod Novak, CEO of The Novak Group, is a leading authority in sales, sales management, and business growth.
At Do Good Talks, Tod will share proven strategies that have helped businesses—ranging from Microsoft and Comcast to Ford, Liberty Mutual, and USA Today—achieve remarkable success. One client saw a $400 million dollar increase using The Novak Group’s methods.
Tod’s approach isn’t just about increasing revenue—it’s about doing good while achieving greatness. His insights are practical, powerful, and immediately applicable, giving you the tools to elevate your sales performance, leadership, and overall business success.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a true industry expert. Walk away with game-changing strategies you can implement right away!
Jonathan qiang li
Perhaps the most important new technology of the last decade or so is Artificial Intelligence. Jonathan Qiang Li is someone who has thought about that technology a lot. In fact he leads an AI team at the Toyota Research Institute in California that is thinking about the best ways to apply AI to their cars, trucks, and other products.
With a PhD from Yale, and as a co-founder and Chief Engineer at WeR.AI, Jonathan is widely recognized as both an expert and an innovater in the rapidly expanding field of AI.
Can it be used for good? It can be and will be. But are there questions still to be asked? Yes there are. Come and hear what those questions might be, and ask your own!
Brian Mueller
As President of Grand Canyon University, Brian Mueller has led the way in turning a school that was struggling into one of the fastest growing universities in America.
The student population has gone from around 900 in 2008 to almost 26,000 on campus today.
But if you asked him about it, he might say he is just as pleased with the impact GCU has had on the surrounding East Phoenix community as he is with the growth of the school.
And all of that growth and spreading of good has been accomplished without adding the financial burden of the students or the Arizona taxpayers.
Can real good be part of higher education? The answer is clearly yes, and GCU proves it.