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Michael Stockham has worked as a big-firm lawyer for over twenty years after receiving his law degree from Cornell Law School. He’s a sought-after litigator and speaker. Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer is Michael Stockham’s first novel. It was an Award-Winning Finalist in both the Mystery/Suspense: Police Procedural and Thriller: Legal categories of the American Fiction Awards in 2022. It has also won a Literary Titan Silver Book Award and a Firebird Book Award in the Legal Thriller category. A life-long lover of books, Michael received two degrees in creative writing: a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Arts from Texas A&M University. His writing has appeared in The Writer’s Forum, The Berkeley Fiction Review, and Cornell Law Review, among others. His short story, Wire Horses, received the Frank Waters’ Southwest Writing Award, judged by Rudolfo Anaya, John Nichols, and Vine Deloria, Jr., and he was a semifinalist for the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Award. Blessed by two grown daughters who are Clemson University Tigers, Michael lives in Dallas with his wife of twenty-four years, Kiersten, along with three dogs and two potbelly pigs.
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Patrika is a passionate tech marketer and speaker that specializes in International to American expansion, creative strategy and customer experience. In her most recent role at Hanzo, she began as a content marketer and quickly expanded her role to include event management and ultimately, a focus on customer experience. Her experience as a marketing manager for international companies in the software, events and the wedding industries have shaped her perspective and passion for unique approaches to both digital and traditional marketing. Her musical background instilled a love for the stage from an early age, and naturally, as her career progressed, she began taking speaking roles and conferences and small workshop events. On stage, Patrika uses a balance of every day scenarios and humor to convey a resonating message. Aside from daily work, Patrika is an avid travel-hacker and lifestyle blogger that enjoys detailing her adventures on Instagram.
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I've been at rock bottom, I've been at the top. I've served in the military when it wasn't popular to serve. I worked in the White House. I've worked for as little as $4.25 an hour, and I've had an income level over $1,000,000. I've lived on a boat. I was a bus boy, a waiter, a restaurant owner, and a manager of 140 locations. I've worker with a a billionaire, and I've worked for a moving company hauling furniture. I've acted in T.V., I've written scripts. I've survived cancer. I know what we all face in life, our challenges and victories. It all starts with ATTITUDE. It finishes with service. Redefining your life's purpose wherever you are is beneficial to everyone in your life, your job, your friends, your family. Lets reach for our potential, and enjoy the path.
$5,001 - $10,000
Anne Redelfs is a retired psychiatrist who has been studying human beings for as far back as she can remember. She grew up in a small mill town, Beaver, in Western Pennsylvania. She was valedictorian of her high school class. She graduated magna cum laud with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Duke University. She has a medical degree from Tulane University, where she completed two years of residency in pediatrics and three years in psychiatry at Tulane-affiliated hospitals. She considers life her greatest teacher to whom she listens throughout each day. Anne’s employment experience has varied greatly, ranging from working as a laborer in a steel mill to practicing psychiatry. Her hobbies include environmental activism, cooking, and herb, vegetable, and butterfly gardening, She has been involved with Toastmasters for over 11 years. Disgruntled by the excessive use of drugs on the mentally ill, Anne retired from psychiatry and pursued independent studies in developmental psychology. Through prayer and meditation, she has created a new method of assessment and healing based on normal human development and the traumatic experiences that so often stunt, divert, or reverse this natural course. After twenty-six years, numerous temporary evacuations, and the Gulf Oil Catastrophe, Anne left New Orleans, the opening setting of her book, The Awakening Storm. She currently resides in Texarkana, Texas where she practices her ministry of developmental healing. She also gives interactive talks about the extraordinary benefits when we mutual support the growing of hearts and minds.
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Ashley Dudarenok is a Chinese serial entrepreneur, award-winning digital expert and author. Recognised as a “guru on fast-evolving trends in China” by Thinkers50, Ashley is the founder of ChoZan 超赞, China research and digital transformation consultancy and Alarice, China-focused digital marketing agency among others. Ashley and her team help world’s top companies to learn for and from China through research, China learning expeditions, and consulting projects. She has both a deep theoretical knowledge of China’s digital landscape development and is immersed daily in the market, observing and applying what works for business. Her expertise has been sought after and endorsed by China’s tech giants, such as Alibaba, Jingdong, Pinduoduo, XPeng and others. Ashley Dudarenok is serving the world’s most loved Fortune 500 brands, tech giants and unicorns to gain competitive advantage by applying tactics and strategies learned from the fast moving, innovative China market. Ashley helps create a bridge between China and the rest of the world. She is an author of 10 books on Digital China. Her top-rated YouTube vlog (https://www.youtube.com/c/AshleyDudarenok) covers the China market, consumers, future of retail and digital marketing. Ashley is a regular media contributor to publications such as the BBC, the SCMP, TIMES, Reuters, Forbes and Bloomberg among others. You can find out more about Ashley and her work at www.ashleydudarenok.com or via her LinkedIn profile @ashleydudarenok.
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John Erik Setsaas is a recognized thought leader and pioneer in digital identity, with more than 25 years of experience shaping identity systems in Europe and beyond. Over the past decade, he has worked closely with financial institutions on critical challenges spanning identity verification, fraud prevention, and anti-money laundering. More recently, his work has focused on the dual role of AI in financial crime - how fraudsters exploit AI at scale, and how AI can be used defensively to strengthen trust, detection, and resilience. A sought-after speaker, John Erik regularly appears at leading fintech and identity events including Money20/20 Europe, idnext, MyData, Digital Finance World, Mobile World Congress, Trustech, KuppingerCole European Identity & Cloud Conference, and FinTech Connect. He is known for an engaging and accessible speaking style, using quirky examples and pop-culture references to make complex topics both understandable and memorable. John Erik previously served as Director of Innovation in the Financial Crime Prevention unit at Tietoevry Banking, with responsibility for identity, fraud, and AML innovation. Earlier roles include VP of Identity & Innovation at Signicat, Chief Development Architect for SAP Identity Management, and Assistant Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He is a former board member of EEMA, Europe’s leading digital identity think tank, and a recipient of the EEMA Lifetime Achievement Award. He currently chairs the Mobey Forum Fraud Expert Group and advises the Global Trust Foundation. Today, he is CEO and thought leader at Setsaas Trust Advisory, where he continues to shape the future of digital identity, trust, and financial crime prevention.
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Known as “The Ethics Sage” to many with a reputation as an expert in ethics, Dr. Steven Mintz is an Emeritus Professor from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo. He received the Accounting Exemplar Award from the Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association in 2015. His blog, Ethics Sage, was recognized as number 49 out of 100 top philosophy blogs and one of the top 30 blogs on Corporate Social Responsibility. Steve shares insights into business ethics through his Workplace Ethics Advice blog. Steve has spoken to a variety of groups such as the Continuing Legal Education program -- L.A. branch, Human Resource Association of the Central Coast, American Accounting Association, and many more.
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Zubaida Bai is a thought leader and innovator of health and livelihood solutions for under-served women and girls globally. Building on her expertise as a mechanical engineer, a product designer, and empathetic communicator, Zubaida, a mother of three, has put her unique passion to work. In the process she built a brand, a growing product line, and set in motion a movement that addresses market failures, breaks taboos, and gives voice to the oft-ignored matter that is women’s health. Zubaida is the founder and CEO of ayzh (pronounced “eyes”), a social enterprise that began with janma, a $3 Clean Birth Kit in a Purse providing an infection free delivery.Having touched more than one million lives to date, ayzh has evolved into a global business. The company provides products and services along the entire reproductive cycle of women and girls that focus on improving their health and happiness addressing unmet needs in over 14 under-developed countries. For her efforts towards achieving the UN goals for women’s health, Zubaida has been recognized on an ongoing basis. Some of her recognitions of note are: a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Maternal Health Champion by Ashoka, a TED Speaker, Fellow, and Resident, and a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Pioneer by the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). UNGC in her recognition states, Zubaida is “demonstrating how the SDGs can enable business to unlock economic, social and environmental gains for the world.” She has attracted strategic partners from around the world, such as TOMS, Open IDEO, Pfizer Foundation and Grand Challenges Canada. When she’s not changing the world with her products, Zubaida is inspiring young and old through her speaking at international forums such as Women in the World, TED, Women Deliver, and Chicago Ideas Week. Her talks focus on intersection of women’s health, design and entrepreneurship. She also conducts innovation and design workshops for corporate gatherings globally. You can watch her TED Talk here, and visit www.zubaidabai.com to learn more about her work, advocacy though speaking and design contributions to the social sector. She is also the co-founder of Happy Woman Foundation, an organization catalyzing the next wave of changes that enable women to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams, and wield public influence at a grand scale to create a stronger, happier, and healthier tomorrow for generations to come. Zubaida holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering Specializing in Development of Modular Products from Sweden, and an MBA in Social and Sustainable Enterprises from Colorado, USA. She was also conferred with an Honorary Doctorate inTransdisciplinary Studies by Claremont University 2018.
$5,001 - $10,000
With more than 25 years of teaching experience, I can lead you to a more profitable use of your communications technology by helping you understand how the various collaboration tools work in your business. Let me help you see where you are wasting time and money and how you can use these tools to better serve you and your team. Email, chat, screen share, file transfer and storage, phones, knowledge transfer, data storage... Lets' learn the best way to use these tools. I have specialized in corporate collaboration instruction since 2001 and have witnessed corporation transformation due to changes in the way we communicate. I will guide your team toward the proper, most effective use of these unified communication tools. I specialize in “first-contact” classes for corporate decision makers, end-users as well as IT staff, with the goal of introduction and successful use of new technology and software. I deliver classes daily for a wide range of audiences, in-person classroom training, large conferences as well as webinar and remote training. I will engage your audience and ensure a strong, encouraging message of collaboration and team work. www.tomvorves.com 1-415-816-6112 tom@tomvorves.com
$1,501 - $5,000
As an advocate especially for early- and mid-career academics, I give talks on how those with skills and talents in the academic sphere can build a career strategy within or outside of academia, create authentic visibility, and on how they can find jobs in Germany. After studying in Berlin and China, I received a PhD in Sociology in St. Gallen Switzerland, and became a career development enthusiast while doing a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley. I started blogging about my post-academic life and worked at a Leadership Development NGO before joining my organization as Executive Director helping scientists to maximize their potential in different career fields in Germany.
$251 - $1,500
Johnny Blackburn is a professional speaker, facilitator, author and developmental coach who empowers clients, organizations and audiences to discover and then live with greater presence, empowered confidence and authentic connection in work, relating and life. Residing in San Diego, CA, he is a respected authority on human embodiment and professional performance. Blackburn’s original background in Management Consulting, Master’s degree in Psychology and more than 3000 client-coaching hours as a Professionally Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, all combined with extensive professional development training make him a highly sought after guide to greater levels of professional thriving. Blackburn is the author of Presence: a practical guide to awakening greater potential in work, love & life—which describes and diagrams 20 specific presence skills, including benefits, barriers, real-live success stories of how presence has enhanced people’s lives, as well as how to develop each skill. Readers will gain a better understanding of what presence is, become more aware of ways they lose presence, as well as feel more inspired and clear about how to cultivate greater presence in practical life situations. Whether you want to feel more grounded confidence, be more engaged and productive at work, enhance executive presence and influence, develop more empathy and emotional intelligence, listen more empathetically and communicate more effectively, cultivate deeper human connection relationships or mindful awareness, Johnny Blackburn will help you access greater Presence as your doorway to awakening your greater potential.
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