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“It’s a beyond challenging time to become president,” said APB exclusive speaker and CNN Chief National Correspondent John King on a recent broadcast. He cites a number of factors that will define Biden as a “crisis president,” including COVID, the Trump impeachment, and struggling economy.

APB speaker and former medical director for the Benson Henry Institute of Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Eva Selhub is a resiliency expert, board certified physician, consultant, speaker, and author. On March 3rd, Dr. Selhub will be releasing her new book Resilience For Dummies. This book outlines the proven steps we can all take toward optimal resilience to build healthier, more purposeful, and increasingly joyful lives. 

After its 292.5-million-mile journey from Earth, the Mars Rover has successfully landed on Mars on February 18th. The rover has been on a nearly 300-million-mile journey since it left Earth over 6 months ago. Perseverance has an important mission, searching for evidence of ancient life and studying Mars' climate and geology, and will collect samples that will eventually be returned to Earth by the 2030s. As we continue to make incredible advancements such as this, our leading space, science and technology speakers share with audiences exciting insights into what the future holds. Check out some of these popular voices:

MIT Apollo Professor of Astronautics and Former NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman was recently named director of the MIT Media. The selection was made by the MIT Media Lab Director Search Committee with the appointment effective July 1, 2021.

Legendary news anchor and the best-selling author of What Unites Us, APB speaker Dan Rather is launching a new endeavor called "Steady." Inspired by his father’s favorite word, “Steady” is both a paid and/or free subscription-based newsletter that is delivered directly to your inbox. It will include essays, letters, and other similar content by Rather in which he will facilitate conversations on both national and global levels. In his post, Dan says, “Call me old fashioned, but I’m not a huge fan of algorithms dictating what people see. Yet in recent years social media became my primary means of communicating with the world. And that meant, whether by tweet or post, a bunch of opaque computer code kicked in to determine what reached you. Subscribing to "Steady" cuts through that digital Gordian Knot.”

CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and New York Times bestselling author David Pogue has stayed busy during this pandemic being locked at home: he recently released three new books simultaneously!

Hailed by CNN as “the infectious disease expert who has been warning us for a decade and a half that the world will face a pandemic,” Dr. Michael Osterholm quickly became the go-to expert on the public health impact of COVID-19. A sharp critic of the complacency that led to the current global pandemic, he points to current shortfalls in our system, individual and public health ...

New York Times best-selling author (Range, The Sports Gene) and high performance expert, APB speaker David Epstein has been tapped to take over the widely popular podcast, How To!, previously hosted by Charles Duhigg (author of the acclaimed book, The Power of Habit). Described as a Dear Abby but through the lens of an investigative reporter, the podcast takes on listeners’ toughest problems and, with the help of experts, finds the answers to questions you’ve always wanted to ask, but couldn’t. The first episode with Epstein will feature a cognitive scientist teaching listeners how to perform their best under pressure.

By Robert P. Walker, CEO & Founder APB Speakers | When the pandemic hit last March, the event business changed forever.  As our clients scrambled to either cancel events featuring our speakers or struggled with how to go virtual,  APB immediately went to work. Our mission: to offer a virtual platform that would be the next-best thing to an in-person event.

Former NASA Astronaut and New York Times bestselling author Mike Massimino is a veteran of two space shuttle missions and four spacewalks. The first person to tweet from space, he holds the team record for the most spacewalking time on a single space shuttle mission. Recently Mike’s book, Spaceman, was chosen by the National Science Teaching Association as one of the “Best STEM Books 2021." Written especially for young readers, the book tells the incredible story of his arduous journey to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut.