2025 Keynote Speakers

Adar Cohen helps people have big conversations. He united gang leaders and police officers to prevent homicides in Chicago. He supported Protestants and Catholics in planning for a shared future in Belfast following generations of violent conflict. He helped a hospital system nearing collapse during the covid pandemic to find the way forward. Adar's work has been featured by the New York Times, MSNBC, and on the TED stage. He holds a PhD in conflict resolution from the University of Dublin and has taught at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and -- at the invitation of the King of Bhutan -- at Sherubtse College, the Himalayan Kingdom’s first institution for higher education. He lives in an 1850 farmhouse in New Hampshire where he and his wife are raising two tough little negotiators.