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Dr. Dnyandeo Chopade- MBBS, MS, PhD(Medical Genetics), BJ(MCJ), PGD(JMC), PGC(RCH) • Dr. Dnyandeo Chopade is a Consultant Medical Geneticist and the director at “Genetic Health & Research Centre”, Nashik from 2003. • He did his MBBS and MS (Human Anatomy) from Government Medical College, Nagpur in the year 1995, and got trained in medical genetics from Adelaide University, Australia; Saint John’s Medical College, Banglore and Grant Medical College and JJ Hospital Mumbai. • He is a doctorate (PhD) in Medical Genetics from Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik. • He is providing the medical genetic services to the patients from North Maharashtra region for the last 16 years. He has a wide experience in the field of Clinical Genetics, Reproductive Genetics, Cytogenetics and Clinical Embryology. • He is the founder president of ‘Down’s Syndrome Care Association, India’ and is supporting about 300 families with children having Down’s Syndrome from the state of Maharashtra. • He has worked as a professor in medical colleges in India, with a teaching experience of more than 20 years. He has taught Human Genetics, Embryology and Human Anatomy to the graduates and post-graduates in medical and dental colleges. • He has been recognized by various honours and awards at national level for his work. The various awards that he has received are National Medical Excellence award- Bajaj Discover Positive Health Hero Award; Dr. Suresh Nadkarni Memorial Award by Maharashtra state IMA (Indian Medical Association); Dr. Vasantrao Gupte Memorial Award by IMA, Nashik; and Social Service Award by Rotary Club of Nashik; Purush Sinh Purskar by Lions Club, Nashik; International Award for Excellence in Medical Genetics, 2018.; Lewa Icon Purskar, 2019 • Dr Chopade has remained as a faculty/chairperson at many national and international conferences and workshops in the area of medical genetics. He has published 10 research papers in the national and international journals. • He has been interviewed by the All India Radio, many television channels, newspapers and journals many times for his expertise in the field of Medical Genetics. He has ten research papers in reputed national and international journals. • He had been an active Member Senate, Member of Pre-Clinical Board of Studies and Genetic Board of Studies of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, • He is the chairman of the PCPNDT Nashik district Advisory Board and Member of the Nashik Municipal Corporation also.
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Emilia Bunea is an inspiring speaker both for executive and for wider audiences. Her TED talk, “Why leaders should take their leisure seriously”, has been viewed over a million times. In 2021 she wrote and produced the world's first cinematic management case study, "Clara Banu at Crossroads Life", to be used by educators around the world for teaching leadership to executive and MBA audiences. Central among the case materials is "Crossroads Life", a one-hour film that has received numerous film festival awards. Having spent nearly two decades in the C-suite, as CFO and later CEO in the financial services industry, Emilia is particularly interested in bridging academic and practitioner perspectives on leadership. Emilia was CEO of Metlife Romania (an operation with 2 million customers) from 2014 to 2017, CFO of ING Insurance Europe (overseeing a $20bn balance sheet) from 2010 to 2014 and held other CEO and CFO positions prior to that. She holds a PhD in management from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, she is an alumna of the London Business School’s Senior Executive Program and a CFA charterholder. She is currently on the supervisory board of an asset management company. Emilia's research focuses on the subject of leaders’ passionate hobbies (formally known as “serious leisure”) and she has interviewed numerous CEOs of major corporations. Emilia’s research has been published in Frontiers of Psychology, was featured by Harvard Business Review, Les Echos, London Business School Review and was widely mentioned in the general press (The Wall Street Journal, GQ, Le Monde, etc).
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Daniel Steininger, JD is an international speaker, author, and advisor to multi-national corporations. He describes himself as a "recovering lawyer", former CEO; public official who has been featured in the New York Times and other media outlets. He teaches his audiences the tools of personal creativity and the framework for driving innovation and corporate cultures.
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Nephi is first and foremost a husband and father. However, in the private sector, Nephi has contributed 15 years working in the medical device industry (first as an engineer and then later as an executive and CEO), launching over 100 products that have generated hundreds of millions of dollars, co-authoring 5 international patents, and leading and mentoring individuals and large teams alike. Nephi has travelled all over the world leading teams, negotiating contracts and deals, and working with government regulatory agencies and manufacturing facilities. As fun as this has been, his true passion lies in the area of wealth education. His ability to relate to kids and explain difficult concepts in ways they will understand makes him a powerful teacher for all ages. Nephi loves teaching wealth principles and a main joy and pride for him comes from helping others succeed. He's not a stuffy businessman, but is relatable, on a first-name basis with everyone. He regularly teaches adults and youth in small and large gatherings about money, wealth, entrepreneurship, life balance, and personal relationships. Nephi finds that he feels most fulfilled when living his purpose in helping others change their mentality about wealth.
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In 2004, Synovial Sarcoma claimed then 17-year-old Danielle’s foot. Danielle felt a lack of purpose post amputation. She missed running and the strength she had previously found growing up as a soccer player. Nearly five years after amputation, Danielle took her first spin class and left that first class feeling alive and inspired to challenge herself athletically again. After participating in her first Challenged Athletes Foundation event, Danielle found strength in the CAF community and saw the endless possibilities that were available to her. She promised herself that she would race in her first triathlon. Danielle crossed the finish line in April 2011 with a standard walking prosthetic and a 30-year-old bike and she knew she had rediscovered her competitive spirit. Danielle has since been equipped with two running prostheses from CAF. She spent several years racing paratriathlons with the support of CAF- taking 1st at the 2011 US Paratriathlon National Championships before heading to Beijing and bringing home a Gold medal as a World Champion and earning a silver at 2012's World Paratriathlon Championships in Auckland. Four years ago, on the eve of her 10-year anniversary of surviving cancer, Danielle challenged herself to participate in CAF's Million Dollar Challenge. She became the first female adaptive athlete to ride every mile of MDC's 628 miles. In November 2018, Danielle again challenged herself- running her first marathon at the TCS New York City Marathon. Danielle finished in 3 hours and 50 minutes! She plans to run Boston Marathon in 2020. Danielle’s experience as a cancer survivor and amputee has pushed her to a career in healthcare where she works on a daily basis to make an impact in improving healthcare for patients, working as an administrator at UC San Diego Health.
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Helping people experience their very best in personal growth and professional development is my greatest joy! I cut my teeth selling Apple computers in the early days in Silicon Valley. There was no product training, and barely anyone had heard of Apple computers. Those in the know greeted the name with a guffaw! I still run into people who remember me as the person who sold their company an Apple. For 20 years I climbed the corporate sales ladder—in a man’s world—all the way to vice president of international sales for a software firm in Santa Clara. On the way up, I became a certified Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) trainer. NLP is simply the study of the language of your mind and the minds of others. It lets you listen via verbal and non-verbal language in to what’s underneath what a prospect or customer says, throwing open relationship doors and exploding sales. I left Silicon Valley for Grand Rapids, Michigan to spend the final years of their lives with both my parents. While there, I was the executive director of a non-profit under the Office of the Surgeon General and Homeland Security. One or the most meaningful jobs of my life, medical professionals were trained to respond quickly and effectively to emergencies like 9/11, Katrina and school shootings. I’ve been living in Reno, the Biggest Little City In The World, with my husband and two rescued cats for the past eight years. I loved college, where I became a dancing, Spanish-speaking engineer who paints. And art has remained my favorite hobby, today in the form of knitting and crocheting, tangling with Zentangle™, and playing with colored pencil, charcoal, and acrylics. I’m also an expert at “Moulage,” or blood, guts, and gore makeup; it’s an outlet for expressing my dark side. I served our country in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam war. They promised me everything, gave me a typewriter, and sent me to Guam! There, I was decorated for my work during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Before leaving the Air Force, I had the privilege of painting an 11′ x 9′ mural for the press room to honor the “Female Introductory Pilot Program”. Women would finally be allowed to pilot airplanes in the Air Force – cargo planes. How far we have come – women were finally able to pilot jets in 1993! When people ask me about the things I’ve done, my life experiences, I tell them that I’m “living all my past lives out loud now,” here in this lifetime! Someone recently asked me if there’s anything I cannot do. I said that my final frontier is to ride a horse. I know one is waiting for me on this summer’s horizon.
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“Only standing ovation of the conference." "Definitely one of my favorite presentations...ever. It takes a lot of courage to expose those very vulnerable parts of yourself to others, to openly discuss the tear down with as much vigor and honesty as the build up. Your desire to share that "wisdom" is admirable." Jim Hume is the Founder and Principal of Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Phire Group: a brand research + articulation + activation company. Phire is a fiercely independent agency focused on transforming organizations’ brands, their cultures, and their customers’ experiences. With a focused and purposeful team of 25 all-stars, Phire Group has a wide range of experience working with clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to startups in consumer goods, healthcare, technology, education, business-to-business, the arts, and more.
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I've been in sales and marketing for over 15+ years and can coach anyone on how to get better in these areas. Because of this I like to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow by helping them better their sales and marketing. Most of the time, businesses, companies, and sales teams are told what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear, and because of this, they're not achieving their full potential. Without holding back, I will tell people exactly what they need to hear so they can have an honest opinion on how they can improve, without being overly harsh. Being in the US Army for over 8 years taught me leadership skills that allow me to bring the best out of people and get them to grow. Using these leadership skills while being open and honest with my crowd helps business owners and sales people reach levels they've never reached before.
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Edward Varner has been an educator, musician, percussionist, actor, and arts education specialist and advocate for more than 30 years. He has taught award winning K-12 music programs in California, Nevada, and Washington State and presented language experience, music, arts, and literacy workshops for the National Association for Music Education, the National Association of Elementary School Principals, the International Reading Association, the Virginia Reading Association, the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools, the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), the International Conference on Education (HI), the Arts Time Conference (WA), Montana State University, the California Arts Project, Great Basin College, and a variety of school districts. He provided seven years of arts leadership as the supervisor of music and art education for the Great Falls Public Schools in Great Falls, MT and is currently the Director of Visual and Performing Arts for the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, PA. Ed holds a BA in Music from CSU, Los Angeles. He completed the Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and Leadership in 2005 from the University of British Columbia, and earned the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in School Leadership from Concordia University Chicago in 2017. “As an educator, I have always been a firm believer in the philosophies if integration and differentiation of curriculum to better meet the needs of students. I must know my students in order to adequately and effectively meet them where they are and help them progress to the next level. This philosophy of knowing your students necessitates the added element of care. Educators must care for their students, themselves, and have the fortitude to continue caring when it appears that others have surrendered.” - Edward Varner
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Jessica Blank is a writer, director, actor, and story consultant who trains leaders, candidates and organizations to harness the power of story. Her deep background in theater, film, and television as both creator and performer, and her award-winning work at the intersection of the arts and social change, have served as a laboratory to study how story can connect, inspire and motivate prosocial action. Jessica is a Professor in the Graduate Drama Department at the Juilliard School and the Graduate Film Program at NYU/Tisch. She has worked closely on story projects with organizations including the Center for Constitutional Rights, the ACLU, the ADL, Southern Poverty Law Center, the Innocence Project, Amnesty International, the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Campaign for Civilians in Conflict, Witness to Innocence, Coal River Mountain Watch, and the IRC. She works as a consultant on story strategy for progressive candidates, nonprofit organizations, and foundations; leads organizational trainings in story literacy; and trains and coaches leaders and changemakers to use the power of story to radically uplevel their impact. As a story and performance coach, she works with TV showrunners, Sundance-supported filmmakers, Off-Broadway playwrights, published novelists and Broadway actors. She has taught writing and speaking to veterans, wounded veterans’ caregivers, formerly incarcerated individuals, death row exonerees, and at numerous colleges and universities, and is a frequent panelist and speaker on story and social change. As an artist, she created the multi-award-winning play THE EXONERATED (with Erik Jensen) (Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Ovation, Fringe First, Herald Angel awards; awards from Amnesty International, American Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Death Penalty Focus) as well as its award-winning film adaptation starring Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover. They also wrote the plays AFTERMATH, based on interviews they conducted with Iraqi refugees in Jordan in 2008 (NYTW; also directed; 2 Drama League noms; int’l tour), HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC, based on the writing of the rock critic Lester Bangs (also directed; Kirk Douglas, Steppenwolf, Public Theater) and COAL COUNTRY, a forthcoming major commission for the Public Theater with music by Grammy-winning songwriter Steve Earle. She directs theater regularly Off-Broadway and is also active as a writer, director, and actor for film and TV: her first feature film, ALMOST HOME (written and directed with Erik Jensen), premiered in fall of 2018, and their second feature, HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC, is in development with Likely Story. She has appeared as an actor in over three dozen films and TV shows.
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Hello my name is Jvonne Hubbard, author of the memoir "White Sheets To Brown Babies". I grew up in a very dysfunctional household, under the hateful indoctrination of a father who was a KKK Grand Dragon. My story illustrates a rare, raw, inside look at growing up in the poor socio-economic part of the South, in a broken home, plagued by both alcoholism and enough rage and violence to ruin my family. How those childhood traumas affected the teen aged girl I became, the dysfunction that continued into my own marriage of domestic violence, and how I finally found the courage to free myself from a life of trauma and abuses. Spoiler alert: I persevere and overcome! Now as a published author I travel the country as a public speaker, hoping to educate and inspire the masses to rise up and stand together to fight such hate, racism, violence's and abuses!
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Elyse Hudacsko (rhymes with fiasco) served as guidance counselor to more than 500 young adults in her role as a Staffing and Development Manager at a Global Fortune 500 consulting firm for more than a dozen years. She then turned her focus to homeschooling her two teenage daughters in things such as determination, kindness, observation, and vulnerability. And now Elyse is sharing her expertise in guidance and education as an author, coach, and speaker. Elyse’s love of helping others find their true path springs from her personal experience of having followed everyone else’s suggestions to an Engineering degree at Cornell University, a job as a computer programmer, a NYC penthouse apartment. And a life that did not light her up. After years of studying and reflection she discovered her authentic self and her own unique path. And this process she wishes to share with others.
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