Nilofer Merchant is a thought leader in business and entrepreneurship who won the Thinkers 50 Award in 2013, has written two business books on collaborative work, and was named by Fast Company one of the 25 Smartest Women on Twitter. She has been featured on Bloomberg, CNN, Mashable, Forbes.comand inThe Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, Vogue, O- The Oprah Magazine, TheNew York Times, Financial Times, Fast Company, Fortune, and Harvard Business Review. Her 2013 TED Talk "Sitting Is the Smoking of Our Generation," is one of the top 10 percent of the most viewed on that platform.