From our Curiosity Series early in the year to our marquee Chicago Ideas Week in October, we brought more than 150 speakers to stage to pique audience members’ curiosity and inspire action. As 2016 comes to a close, we’ve compiled our five most popular videos from the year so you can be inspired as you transition into 2017.

Arne Duncan on Leadership: How to Bring Positive Change to Chicago’s Communities

At Chicago Ideas Week, former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sat down with Dan Abrams to talk about his work with the Emerson Collective and how leaders can take new approaches to longstanding problems in Chicago.

Hubbard Street Dance Dazzles at Edison Talks

Hubbard Street Dance put on a harrowing performance during Chicago Ideas Week’s marquee Edison Talks

Marc Lamont Hill Imagines a World Without Police

Marc Lamont Hill and Eugene O’Donnell got into the most heated exchange of Chicago Ideas Week during the Policing: Force of the Future Conversation when Hill posited the idea of a world in which we do not have police.

Inside goop with Gwyneth Paltrow and Lisa Gersh

During the Curiosity Series in April, Gwyneth Paltrow and Lisa Gersh broke down their company goop and what it’s like to launch a lifestyle brand

Nick Kokonas on Creating Experiences for Business

Alinea’s Co-Founder Nick Kokonas realized that the restaurant industry needed shaking up. Here’s how he created a world renowned restaurant and revolutionary reservation system with the consumer in mind.