Keynote Speakers

Terry Crews | Actor and Mental Health Advocate

From Struggle to Strength: Embracing Positivity and Finding Resilience

Opening General Session Keynote | Tuesday, February 24 | 8:15 – 9:30 a.m.

Crews is an author, action-movie hero, sitcom star, children’s book illustrator, talent show host and mental health advocate.

Crews is the host of NBC’s top-rated summer show “America’s Got Talent,” currently in its 20th season.

He has also starred as a series regular in three consecutive TV series that have surpassed the coveted 100-episode mark (the Golden Globe Award-winning series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Are We There Yet?” and “Everybody Hates Chris”). He recently reprised his role as Julius in ‘Everybody Still Hates Chris,’ Comedy Central’s animated revival on Paramount+.

With an expansive film resume, Crews has co-starred in “White Chicks,” “The Expendables” franchise, “Sandy Wexler,” “The Ridiculous 6,” “Blended,” “Click,” “The Benchwarmers,” “The Longest Yard,” “Sorry to Bother You,” “Deadpool 2” and, most recently, “Rumble.”

Crews was named one of Time magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year honorees as a Silence Breaker, speaking out against sexual harassment following the #MeToo movement. He released his memoir, “Tough: My Journey to True Power” in 2022 and added the title of children’s book illustrator with the first-of-its-kind augmented reality book, “Come Find Me: Terry’s Crew.”

He dedicates his free time to keeping physically fit and works with several non-profit organizations, including Safe Horizon, Peace Over Violence and the Polaris Project. For his dedication in helping these organizations, he was awarded the UN Global Generation Award at the UN headquarters and continues to be honored by numerous organizations for his tireless advocacy in helping to combat sexual harassment and abuse, domestic violence and human trafficking.

Crews has been married to his wife, Rebecca, for 31 years. The couple have five children.

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Tim Page-Bottorff | Safety Leader and Speaker

Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Improving Safety Outcomes With Teamwork

Morning General Session Keynote | Wednesday, February 25 | 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

Safety is a goal best achieved with teamwork. It starts with your people and human factors. Ambiguity, fear and other states of mind flourish in spaces of conflict and isolation. Folks left to their own devices in a work culture that doesn’t prioritize clear communication are unlikely to receive the information and context they need to avoid danger. The key to alignment requires workers and supervisors to stop, collaborate and listen. This session is about turning a bunch of individuals into a proper team. It establishes a connection between people and technical systems and introduces a key communication tool to jumpstart collaboration between managers and workers. Learn leadership skills that can improve your safety culture and see how collaboration makes safety happen.

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