One part motivational speaker, one part DJ, two parts community organizer and parent of two daughters, Eric Rowles runs a customized consulting and facilitation practice that, through a network of more than 20 dynamic and diversely talented trainers, works with for-profit and nonprofit organizations to achieve progressive and dynamic change.

Are you ready to get "gritty"?

Cutting-edge researcher and MacArthur Fellow Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth headlines NAA16 for an engaging discussion on "grit"–the skill she believes is most closely tied to lifelong success.