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Yahoo! Finance: LeapCon 2026 Returns with Silicon Valley's Top Innovators


Industry titans, including Siri Founder Adam Cheyer, former Starbucks President Howard Behar, former IBM Chief Executive, Sandy Carter, and more, convene from February 26 - 28, to offer top executive leadership training, expert coaching, and insights into the future of work.


As 60% of today's workforce is projected to need training before 2027, Leap Academy, the career reinvention accelerator, announces the timely return of LeapCon 2026, a three-day leadership and growth conference designed to help professionals future-proof their careers and learn to stay "leap ready" in their pursuit of better pay and bigger roles.


Taking place February 26-28, 2026 at the Signia by Hilton in San Jose, California, LeapCon will assemble leading executives, serial entrepreneurs, and career transformation experts to address what Leap Academy Founder, Ilana Golan calls "the multi-chapter career era," where professional stability no longer comes from one employer, but from a deliberately built portfolio of skills, income streams, and personal brand equity.


"We're facing a quiet crisis," said Ilana Golan, CEO and founder of Leap Academy and the architect behind LeapCon. "Mid-career professionals whose entire identities revolve around a specific title or company are discovering that the old job rules no longer apply. LeapCon exists to help people make the connections and build the confidence needed to reinvent themselves before they are forced to."


Highlighted LeapCon 2026 Speaker Lineup: Attendees will connect with top leaders who have built, scaled, and transformed some of the world's most influential companies, including:

  • Adam Cheyer: Co-Founder of Siri (acquired by Apple) and founding member of Change.org

  • Howard Behar: Former President of Starbucks North America and Starbucks International

  • Guy Kawasaki: Chief Evangelist of Apple and Canva; host of the Remarkable People podcast

  • Sandy Carter: AI and Blockchain thought leader; former executive at AWS and IBM; named AI Innovation Leader of the Year

  • Gary Beasley: Co-Founder and CEO of Roofstock; former co-CEO of Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust

  • Eileen Wilder: Bestselling author and founder of Speaking School™; known as "The Queen of Stages"

  • Saul Blinkoff: Hollywood filmmaker and keynote speaker whose career spans Disney, DreamWorks, and Netflix

  • Ilana Golan: World-renowned expert on career reinvention and the Founder/CEO of the award-winning Leap Academy, one of Inc.'s fastest-growing private companies in America.


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