MAC 2026 Keynote Speakers

Brent Dixon guides leaders through strategic crossroads. He works with credit unions and community financial institutions across North America to align teams, chart growth paths, and ship results.

He founded Dixon Strategic Labs and co-founded Trabian Technology, a fintech studio serving banks and credit unions. At the Filene Research Institute, he managed a two-year innovation leadership program for senior executives, built the organization's first commercial research model, and created the Cooperative Trust. He built the UN Secretariat's first innovation unit and led the creation and deployment of a mobile resource center serving 4,000 refugees during the 2016 Greece crisis. He served as a Future of Finance Teaching Fellow at Singularity University.

Brent lives in Oakland, California with his son and a bossy cat named Bug.

Sedge Beswick is an exited founder, keynote speaker and strategic advisor with nearly two decades of experience helping businesses, brands and founders navigate growth. From becoming ASOS's first social hire, to founding and exiting her own agency, advising global brands and mentoring the next generation of founders, she's spent her career at the forefront of how businesses grow, how brands stay relevant and how ambition evolves.

Today, Sedge is recognized for challenging conventional thinking around growth. Her work sits at the intersection of business, marketing and human potential, exploring the decisions we make as leaders, the courage it takes to evolve, and why sustainable success isn't always about doing more, but knowing what to let go of. Through keynotes including Quit to Grow™ and The Imagination Gap, she gives audiences practical insight and a fresh perspective on building businesses, brands and careers that stand the test of time.