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Southern California Speaker, Author, Dog Professional with talks about what humans can learn about behavior change from animals, myth, and science.
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Bryan Widenhouse was given a life without parole sentence when he was 17 years old. During his incarceration he accepted accountability for the harm he caused and chose to serve the community and better himself. Bryan has developed and managed national award-winning projects and programs. He served five terms as president of the prison’s chapter of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. In each of those terms they were named the #1 chapter in the nation. Within this organization he also served two years as a state level program manager. In 2005 he received the organization’s highest award, the Junior Chamber International Senatorship. In other areas of service Bryan was an Alternatives to Violence facilitator, a Red Cross instructor, and a peer counselor. He successfully authored a grant to fund a prison art class and helped to develop a victim/offender mediation program. He has obtained three vocational degrees. After the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed life without parole sentences for juveniles, Bryan was granted parole in November 2020. He had served 31 years of incarceration. Shortly after his release he joined the National Life Without Parole Leadership Council with Human Rights Watch. The Council progressively works toward the abolishment of LWOP sentences and advocates for second look agendas. He has spoken to members of Congress, testified to legislators, and helped to develop a Speakers’ Bureau to use his voice and experiences to change the narrative of extreme sentences.
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MICHELLE J. HOWE is the founder and president of Empath Evolution. She steps forward today as a powerful channel of high-vibrational, healing energies. Her mission is to spotlight the relevance of feelings, emotions, and energy-dynamics. Michelle provides workshops, private packages, and specialized training to the “heart-centered” person who is ready to embrace their inner empath and eliminate the hidden struggles (anxiety, depression, overwhelm, indecisiveness, fear, insecurity, etc.) that sabotage their happiness. Learn more at www.empathevolution.com.
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Peter Klein is a results-oriented CEO at Educated Change Ltd, employing a unique blend of social networking, people science, collaboration, entrepreneurship, gamification, and AI to drive purpose, influence, and build communities. Lecturer at multiple universities specializing in using AI for amplifying purpose and building communities for the people that matter in your life. Peter and Educated Change have a unique personal branding approach that delivers ROI through networking, collaboration, and AI to create significant change in our world. Using his unique expertise in AI and change, people deliver on their promises. Since 2008, Educated Change has been training executives to influence people and industries. The medium is the message and now the medium is AI and Social Media Common Workshop and Meeting Challenges Executives often face significant challenges when conducting workshops and meetings. The first major issue is the lack of engagement and participation. Many participants become disengaged, leading to less effective learning and collaboration. Secondly, there is a concern about poor knowledge retention and application. Even when sessions are engaging, participants often forget what they've learned or fail to apply it in their daily tasks, undermining the long-term value of the training. Finally, inefficient use of time is a frequent complaint. Workshops and meetings can consume significant time without delivering proportionate value, with sessions often filled with unnecessary discussions or activities that do not lead to actionable outcomes. How UWT Fixes These Issues United We Transform (UWT) addresses these challenges by integrating advanced digital twin technology and AI-driven customization. UWT ensures continuous engagement through personalized learning experiences and AI-powered interactions, keeping participants actively involved. By embedding training content into daily workflows with digital twins, UWT guarantees knowledge retention and practical application. Additionally, UWT optimizes time usage by focusing on actionable outcomes and efficient processes, ensuring that every session leads to meaningful and lasting change. With UWT, companies achieve the transformative results they expect, making their workforce more productive and AI-ready for the future. Peter Klein has lived and worked across Asia, Europe, and the USA. Crazy about Education Peter Klein and Educated Change run a Registered Charity; Educate Ethiopia, an International Charity that helps keep 21 schools open in Ethiopia, allowing 6000 children to stay in school and supported by Community Groups focused on Delivering Loving Change I would love to talk to you: UK+44 20 3286 8877 USA +1 917-224 9942 Pklein@educatedc.com
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Jenn Whitmer helps leaders with Joyosity, creating positive culture with complex people. Through solving conflict, cultivating communication, and capitalizing on the uniqueness of each person, Jenn helps you create empowered teams. As an international keynote and TEDx speaker and Enneagram specialist, Jenn helps organizations retain employees, increase efficiency, and develop healthy culture so that work is a joy, people are whole, and organizations flourish. (Usually, that means a lot of laughter!) Jenn holds graduate certificates in music education, theology, and leadership, along with a Master of Arts in communication and culture from Webster University and certification as an Enneagram coach. While not-at-all-secretly wanting her life to just be a musical, Jenn lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, Michael, their four kids, and a surly cat that puts up with them all. As an international speaker, author of the bestseller Joyosity, and Joyosity podcast host, Jenn has stood in front of thousands of people, helping them develop the skills to improve their teams. And she’s ready to help you restore the joy of work, creating a healthy workplace culture that is people-first and purpose-driven. Working with Jenn, you and your team improve communication, resolve conflict, and develop deep respect for the unique skills and gifts each person brings to their work. All so you can live an integrated, peaceful life where you bring all of yourself to work without sacrificing your productivity, your profits, or your life.
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MARIA LEONARD OLSEN is a biracial woman whose parents were forbidden by law to marry in their home state of Maryland in the early 1960s. She is the mother of two children, a lawyer, journalist and author of two children's books and two non-fiction books. She leads writing/empowerment retreats for women, and is a co-host of the Inside Out radio show on WPFW-fm, 89.3, in Washington, D.C. Her public speaking events include such topics as using self-care to become your best version, home/work balance, meditation for busy people. Maria graduated from Boston College and the University of Virginia School of Law, served in the Clinton Administration's Justice Department, fostered newborn babies awaiting adoption, and has been on the boards of Children's National Medical Center BOV, the Catholic Coalition for Special Education, GirlsUp and the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Washington. While in private practice as a litigator in then one of the then-largest law firms in Washington, D.C., Maria was awarded Pro Bono Coordinator of the Year by the D.C. Bar Association. She has written for The Washington Post, Washingtonian, Bethesda Magazine, Parenting, BabyTalk and Washington For Women, and is a contributor to Thrive Global, Up Journey and BreaknLinks. She recently returned to practicing law now that her children are launched. Mommy, Why's Your Skin So Brown? is her first children's book. Healing for Hallie is her second children's book. Not the Cleaver Family--The New Normal in Modern American Family, was released in November 2016. Her latest book, 50 After 50--Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life, was published in hardcover in 2018, and in paperback and on Audible in 2019. Maria has spoken at numerous schools and corporate and nonprofit events, including the Pennsylvania Conference for Women, the Mixed Remixed Festival in Los Angeles, The Japanese American National Museum's Family Day, the Washington Independent Review of Books, the National March to End Rape Culture, a motivational speaker at corporate and trade association meetings, and the U.S. Department of Justice's Asian American Month Celebration (as the then-highest ranking Asian American political appointee at the Justice Department). Maria is available for speaking engagements and book or diversity festivals. Her book talk has been featured on C-Span’s Book TV show, and her latest book was selected for the National Press Club’s Book Fair.
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I am a Career & Life Coach specializing in personal branding, career clarity and job interviews. As a former VP of HR with a master's in HR, I am well-equipped to help clients navigate their goals in conjunction with the needs of the labor market. Career Coach Highlights: • 15+ years of previous HR leadership and recruiting experience • 60+ positive client career coaching reviews on LinkedIn + Google • Author of 5-star rated “Resume Cheat Sheet” and “Cover Letter Cheat Sheet” available on Amazon • 5-star average rating for contract Career & Life Coaching on the Placement and Exec platforms I have successfully served over 400+ clients with career and life coaching needs, with a focus on helping them see through the lens of a hiring manager and recruiter. Featured speaker on job search and career topics, including high schools, universities, private employers and state government. Creator and publisher of 3 job search and career discovery courses. In my free time, I am a doting dog parent, wife, mother of two football & hockey-playing boys and recent devotee to reformer pilates. You can find me SUPing the Wisconsin lakes in the summer and wearing a heated vest in the winters. I would love to connect and network with you on any needs you may have. Please DM me on this platform to get started.
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An ad on the NYC subway drove my entire professional career. In reality, it wasn't a single ad, but a series of ads put out by the NYC Teaching Fellows, encouraging recent graduates and career changers to give teaching in New York City public schools a chance. What I thought would be a two-year stint while I figured out what I wanted to do with my life turned into a 14-year tenure at the NYC Dept. of Education. Fourteen wonderful years, sparked by a long commute from the 4 train from the Bronx to Wall Street, to a job that I didn’t find fulfilling. Teaching opened a world of possibilities in leadership, learning and development, and self-reflection that I can’t imagine coalescing in any other role. A few lessons learned during my ten years as a high school math teacher: • Being good at something does make you good at teaching that subject- time, practice, patience, and experience are necessary components • Applied knowledge is far more valuable than memorized facts • Ask your students what they want to learn and how they learn best • High schoolers are the weirdest, most-thoughtful, and inspirational people to learn with My interest in using technology to support learners lead me to a role at the NYCDOE central offices. There, my team developed a robust professional learning platform to help teachers improve and advance their practice. Our work impacted over 100,000 NYC educators. Transitioning to facilitating adult learning reaffirmed my love of helping empower individuals to help themselves. Adult learning taught me a few new lessons. • Learning needs to be practical and applicable • Technological tools do not replace well-designed learning experiences • There is always someone in the room whom you can learn from As the Head of Learning Experiences at StoryIQ, I take these lessons (and more) to heart as I design courses supporting professionals in upskilling their communication with data and analysis skills. I believe that we all have something to teach, and learning with a community can profoundly impact organizations, big and small. I have the honor of leading a team of trainers and content developers – all of who share the innate curiosity and love of teaching that I have. No matter who or what I’m teaching, my goal is to spark curiosity and make new skills and concepts accessible to all learners.
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Sue Bowles is a survivor turned thriver as an award-winning author, speaker and ACC credentialed Life Coach. Weaving together personal stories of evil-redeemed-for-good, you will experience courage to face your pain, creating stories of hope for yourself and others. ===== Having done the hard work of healing from a childhood rape, an eating disorder, other sexual assaults, and twice considering suicide, Sue uses these life-altering events to catalyze new hope for others. Now, As the Chief Instigator behind the Dare to Believe Movement and Founder of My Step Ahead LLC, Sue leads the charge in talking about real things that matter. She gets to the heart of the issues where true breakthrough and change happen. Through speaking, writing, and Life Coaching, Sue challenges others who feel stuck and disqualified due to life circumstances to take the next step in their journey, walking with them along the way so they can live boldly in Christ and fulfill their God-given calling. Sue's author credits include her award-winning first book, "This Much I Know...The Space Between". Sue is also a co-author of the Amazon best-selling book, “Breaking the Silence: Voices of Survivors Vol 1” and is an invited author for “Breaking the Silence: Voices of Survivors Vol 2” due out October 2024.
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Parul is a highly sought-after international keynote speaker, award-winning life and leadership coach, and best-selling author, Parul Begum is one of the most compelling, compassionate, and captivating voices in motivational speaking today. She empowers people worldwide with her message that anyone can come back from any setback, obstacle, or challenge and never have to be limited by past experiences or current circumstances. Audiences are so inspired by her personal story as an overcomer of adversities that they eagerly adopt her transformational principles for achieving dreams and attaining success. Parul’s extensive leadership expertise has earned her invitations to speak on some of the world's largest corporate stages. And her exceptional skills have allowed her to deliver thought-provoking keynotes to some of the industry's most prominent corporations and organizations,
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Dr. Lauren Tucker combines her extensive experience in DEI, data science, and relationship marketing to help clients build inclusive, positive employee relationships in a multicultural, transcultural, and global world. Frustrated with the myopic and transactional approaches of legacy DEI and talent management programs, Dr. Tucker designed Do What Matters to put inclusion first by addressing the operational inefficiencies and broken communications that turn off great talent, especially women, people of color, LGBTQ+, and those with disabilities. An entrepreneur with a history of leadership, research, practice and activism in race, ethnicity, and gender, Dr. Tucker is an honorary research fellow at the School of Mass Communication Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, where she received her doctorate. She has worked at some of the world’s most renowned advertising agencies, including Leo Burnett, Burrell Communications, and the Martin Agency and is also co-founder of Indivisible Chicago, a progressive political organization dedicated to making civic activism easy, accessible and impactful.
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Trudi Boatwright is an internationally recognised Playful Experience Designer, TEDx speaker, and dynamic theatre maker who transforms complex challenges into playful opportunities. With a unique blend of applied improvisation, design thinking, and experiential learning, Trudi brings a 20-year arts background and a Master of Design Futures to her work, crafting transformative experiences that boost communication, innovation, and human connection. A sought-after speaker, coach, and writer, Trudi collaborates with organisations and government agencies to embed play as a catalyst for problem-solving, leadership, and cultural growth through engaging workshops, innovative activations, and compelling keynotes. As the creative force behind TBC Creative, she produces immersive theatre that resonates deeply with audiences. Offstage, she manages a lively household of kids, pets, and endless curiosity, holding a steadfast belief that playfulness can tackle society's most wicked challenges and inspire change on every level.
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