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Melissa Holman-Kursky, MA, M.Ed. is an educator, communications professional, and nonprofit owner from San Francisco. She is the Director of Curriculum & Training at the Un-Scripted Theater Company, a nonprofit improv theater in San Francisco. She has dual masters degrees in Child Development and Education (Special Ed focus), and has been a classroom teacher and professional improvisor for nearly 20 years. She is also a founding member of the Nickelodeon Parent's Choice Award-winning ImprovBoston Family Show. Melissa is currently an in-demand parenting coach and educational consultant, working with both families and children. She leads workshops for educators on social-emotional learning, arts integration, and academic skills, and is a speaker in the field of applied improvisation for board governance, design thinking, and womxn-based leadership. She has created custom workshops and experiences for groups ranging from 10 to 10,000.
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Speakers inspire.. teachers teach. I combine them for TANGIBLE actionable steps to improve LIFE NOW!
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I am a advocate, a motivational/educational speaker, and I'm a woman on the Autism Spectrum doing many great things. From the frontlines speaking in legislature to speaking in conferences or workshops pertaining to mental health or the autism spectrum. I am always looking for ways to bring about understanding, awareness, and acceptance.
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Deni Van is the host of Heartfelt Awakening Radio, Creator at Heartfelt Awakening LLC providing personal, professional, and organizational courses and continuing education helping people learn how to train their brain to choose wellness.
$5,001 - $10,000
Carol Hamilton, Principal, Grace Social Sector Consulting, LLC, helps associations become more strategic and innovative for greater mission impact. She provides organization effectiveness consulting, meeting design and facilitation, and training to organizations. A strategic thinker, Carol has worked with teams and organizations to envision and frame their future strategic direction. Practical in her approach, she helps organizations think through who is key to creating their future, how to gather insights from these stakeholders, consider the big picture, imagine new possibilities, come to agreement on their future goals and create an initial action plan to get started. With more than 20 years of experience in the association and nonprofit sectors, Carol speaks frequently on association leadership, strategy and innovation topics. She has led sessions at ASAE’s Great Ideas and Annual Conference as well as other conferences. She graduated from Swarthmore College and has her Masters in Organization Development from American University.
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Dr. Spero Lappas rose from poverty, family dysfunction, and a lack of opportunity to become one of the leading trial lawyers in Pennsylvania. He served as lead counsel in hundreds of important civil and criminal cases and has been honored in The Best Lawyers in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the World, America's Leading Lawyers, and The Bar Register of Pre-Eminent Lawyers. His classic success story - position, prominence, and prestige - took an dramatic turn when at the age of fifty-eight he confronted the powerful realization that despite the rewards of his profession he was not living an authentic, fully integrated, life. Instead of conquering the life of his aspirations, he had become a passive rider on a runaway train of circumstance and routine. His desired destination - personal fulfilment - was nowhere on the route. His breakthrough book "Conquer Life’s Frontiers" arose from his discovery that lack of personal fulfillment is an all-too-common human condition. We all have a specific something that we would love to do or be - something that once demanded our full attention but which has, over time, morphed into a nagging sense of incompleteness which we have learned to accept. Dr. Lappas responded to his own incompleteness by developing a personal action plan which allowed him to begin teaching and mentoring young people as a college professor. Having fulfilled his true passion, he wrote Conquer Life’s Frontiers to express his promise that you can fulfill yours too - and to show you how to do it Lappas is a frequent community speaker and has taught at several colleges and universities. He has written for the Dickinson Law Review, the Champion Magazine, the Harrisburg Patriot News, The Burg Newspaper, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and The Encyclopedia of American Studies. He writes a regular column about personal happiness and contentment in Life in Forest Hills Magazine and his work will soon appear in Natural Awakenings. He has a PhD from Penn State, a Juris Doctor (cum laude) from the Dickinson School of Law, and a BA (cum laude) from Allegheny College. He has two adult children, Doctor Thom Lappas and Attorney Alexandria Lappas, and one grandchild, Spero Edward Lappas. He is an artist, a prize-winning photographer, a tournament Scrabble champion, a world traveler, and a formerly nationally ranked three weapon fencer. "Conquer Life's Frontiers" is his first book.
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I am a single mother of five childern 2 boys and 3 girls. I have a passion for education and business. I love to share my passions with others thru education, inspiririations, and motivation. I have taught in special education and social services as a case manager /mentor. I enjoy reading, travelling, spending time with my family, and coupononing. I aspire to walk into the greatness placed on my life thru building others to be successful. I love to empower the youth and youund adults of the world by sharing my stories to equip them with a powerful tool knowledge.
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Be immersed in fascinating facts about the world's most intriguing organisms that yield as much insight into our own lives as they do nature. In the spirit of biomimicry, the lessons explored will inspire you to think about competition, collaboration, opportunity, adversity, and survival in an entirely new light. In an eclectic combination of skills, Kurt MacDonald was an award winning science teacher and co-founder and director of a nationally-renowned Speech and Debate team. More recently, he is the founder of NatureSays (naturesays.org) and co-founder of The Professional Communicators (procommunicators.com), a public speaking coaching firm with a proven track-record of training c-suite executives, managers, team leaders, and entrepreneurs in the art (and science) of effective communication. In all these capacities, Kurt thrives on helping individuals proudly gain new knowledge and skills, and view commonplace situations through new, creative lenses. Spanning 25 years of his academic and professional career, Kurt has a long history of public speaking. He delivered the Most Outstanding Graduate address at the University of Colorado, Boulder, was a mainstage presenter at Scholar Search Conference, and an invited speaker at the Summit Advocates for Gifted Education. He presented at IgniteSTEM Columbia, and most recently gave a TEDx talk on finding opportunity in chaos. Kurt’s graduate degree in Behavioral Neuroscience and 15+ years teaching evolutionary biology also provides a unique perspective and intriguing examples to illustrate essential elements of his talks. A particular expertise of his is in the field of behavioral biomimicry--where human institutions can realize improvement from studying analogous situations in nature. Kurt currently lives in Denver with his wife, two daughters, and their adopted greyhound.
$1,501 - $5,000
Ted Meyer is a nationally recognized artist, curator and patient advocate who helps patients, students and medical professionals see the positive in the worst life can offer. Ted’s 18-year project “Scarred for Life: Mono-prints of Human Scars” chronicles the trauma and courage of people who have lived through accidents and health crises. Ted seeks to improve patient/physician communications and speaks about living as an artist with illness. Telling stories about his own art and the stories behind his scar art collection, he offers insight into living with pain, illness, and disfigurement. Ted has been featured on NPR and in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today. His work has been displayed internationally in museums, hospitals, and galleries. As the current Artist in Residence at USC Keck School of Medicine, Ted curates exhibitions of artwork by patients whose subject matter coincides with medical school curriculum. Ted has curated shows by artists challenged by MS, cancer, germ phobias, back pain, and other diseases. In addition, he is a Visiting Scholar at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, invited to take part in the Aspen Seminars, was recently names The 2017 Sterling Visiting Professorship at Stanford University, and has been a TEDMED mainstage speaker. Ted’s rare niche mixes art, medicine, and stories of healing and survival, drawing from his experience as a lifelong patient of Gaucher Disease (an enzyme deficiency that affects bones and joints). Ted spent much of his childhood in severe pain. His work is influenced by his many hospital stays where he began mixing art and medical supplies. (How can you make something out of I.V. tubes, bandages and pipe cleaners?) Contorted, graphic skeletal images appear in his early paintings reflecting his belief that he would not reach his 30th birthday. He now considers himself normal and healthy; outliving friends, family, and early expectations. New drug treatments and joint replacements have improved Ted’s life and this in turn has changed his artistic direction, shifting from “Ted-centric” images to those that highlight other people’s health problems. His “Scarred for Life” series chronicles events that suddenly changed people’s lives. During an expansive narrated visual presentation, audiences come to understand how a lifetime of chronic illness impacts an artist’s work. Ted turns devastating illnesses into a source of artistic expression, giving voice to people around the world living with rare diseases and disfigurement. Ted’s painting have been shown around the world, from Europe, to Asia, and throughout the United States. With subject matter ranging from introspective, to down right humorous, his narrative always looks at human interactions.
$1,501 - $5,000
I regularly speak on panels or as keynote speaker on corporate governance, corporate culture, transformation and change management matters in the region and internationally. I offer a wide selection of masterclasses and workshops and create bespoke programs for the public or in-house teams. I'm an advocate for diversity in the workplace, boardroom and C-suite. My broad practical working experience and theoretical knowledge across different industries, countries and leads to highly interactive sessions, find out more at https://www.governance-gurus.ae/workshops/ I am the Managing Partner Governance Gurus. The company provides strategic consulting and training to businesses across the regional and internationally on corporate governance, change management, director duties, the role of the company secretary and HRM/HRD subjects. We also present on strategy and corporate cult Previously, I provided corporate governance advisory services to the Board and Committees of the Dubai Properties Group (DPG), a member of Dubai Holding and Dubai government. Working closely with the Chairman and the Group CEO to enhance the Corporate Governance Framework across DPG and its verticals and has also developed the Risk Appetite Compliance Assessment. An investor and on the board of a UAE IT business; which provides business consulting on governance, change management and professional IT services to the UAE and wider region. Vice-Chairman of the steering committee of the ICSA Gulf Forum, a broad-based governance interest group and the ICSA’s regional platform serving Chartered Secretaries and governance practitioners within the UAE. I headed the Corporate Services team in Clyde & Co covering company formations, corporate governance/company secretarial services and government liaison and was responsible for conducting a root and branch review of the Corporate Services function across three offices and professionalizing the processes and systems. One area of transformation was the creation of a virtual translation team and the implementation of specialist translation software to capture Arabic to English and English to Arabic know-how. When at PwC Legal, I was the Middle East leader for Entity Governance and Compliance services and part of the leadership team involved in a regional project with PwC’s regional Assurance transformation team. I conducted a needs based assessment of the translation requirements of the regional business together with an analysis of the utilisation of the existing regional translators and established a centrally coordinated regional translation service and researched and purchased specialist software to capture know-how, terminology, regional dialects and nuances. The centrally coordinated translation service covers the regional requirements across 13 territories. I was the chief adviser to the operational team of the Arabic Centre of Excellence on governance and strategy matters.
$1,501 - $5,000
I was born and raised in Paris, Texas. I was sexually assaulted when I was ten, testified against my attacker when I was sixteen and wrote the first book, in a four part book series, about my journey from victim to survivor. I teach forgiveness, moving forward and conquering your fears!
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More than 30 years of work experience in Security, Technology and Management both in public and private organization as paramilitary officer, Law enforcement officer, consultant, trainer and motivational speaker. Conducted research works, both as a professional and a volunteer for NGOs. Working with individuals and communities in understanding their concerns, formulating remedial measures and accompanying them during implementation. High on people contact be it for training, planning and conducting operations for paramilitary/law enforcement officers or empowering the communities through various successful programs. Hand on experienced in designing and implementing major projects. My varied work experience, across various cultures has given me the confidence to guide and lead people, communities and organizations through their difficulties from both a material and spiritual perspective.
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