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Dr. John Schinnerer and Joree Rose, LMFT

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Scott Miller

EVP of Thought Leadership FranklinCovey

Scott Miller is a 23-year associate of FranklinCovey and serves as the executive vice president of thought leadership. Scott hosts multiple podcasts including FranklinCovey’s On Leadership and Great Life, Great Career. Additionally, Scott is the author of the multi-week Amazon #1 New Release: Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would Follow. Scott authors a weekly leadership column for Inc.com and is a frequent contributor for Thrive Global. Previously Scott worked for the Disney Development Company, having grown up in Central Florida, and currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife and three sons.

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Cory Muscara

Author of Stop Missing Your Life, and Co-Host of Mindfulness.com

Cory Muscara is an international speaker and teacher on the topics of presence and well-being. For the past few years, he has taught mindfulness-based leadership at Columbia University and currently serves as an instructor of positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2012, Cory spent 6 months in silence living as a monk in Burma, meditating 14+ hours per day, and now aims to bring these teachings to people in a practical and usable way. Named by Dr. Oz as one of the nation’s leading experts on mindfulness, his meditations have been heard more than 10 million times in over 100 countries. Cory is the host of the top-ranked podcast, Practicing Human, and author of the bestselling book, Stop Missing Your Life: How to Be Deeply Present in an Un-Present World.

Dan Tomasulo, PhD

Core Faculty Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University

Honored by Sharecare as one of the top ten online influencers on the issue of depression Dr. Dan is a core faculty member at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI), Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds a Ph.D. in psychology, MFA in writing, and Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He authors the daily column, Ask the Therapist, for PsychCentral.com, and developed the Dare to be Happy experiential workshops for Kripalu. His award-winning memoir, American Snake Pit was released in 2018, and his next book, Learned Hopefulness, The Power of Positivity To Overcome Depression, is hailed as: “…the perfect recipe for fulfillment, joy, peace, and expansion of awareness.” by Deepak Chopra, MD: Author of Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential.
Martin Seligman, Ph.D., author of Flourish, adds: “This is the best go-to book on how to use hope to relieve your depression.”

Michael OBrien

Chief Shift Officer at Peloton Executive Coaching & TEDx Speaker
Michael helps prevent bad moments from turning into a bad day or longer. He is the Chief Shift Officer at Peloton Executive Coaching and has shared his personal transformational Last Bad Day story and leadership advice on the TEDx stage, with Fortune 500 companies, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Real Simple, ABC, and NBC.

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Mike Robbins

Author of 5 books & Motivational speaker

Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including, Bring Your Whole Self to Work and We’re All in This Together. He delivers keynotes and seminars that empower people, leaders, teams, and organizations to be more successful, appreciative, and authentic.

Prior to his current work, Mike played baseball at Stanford and then professionally with the Kansas City Royals. After his athletic career was cut short by injuries, he worked in the tech world, before starting his consulting business in 2001. His clients include Google, Wells Fargo, eBay, Gap, Microsoft, and others.

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Mark Greene

Author & Speaker
Mark Greene writes, speaks, coaches and consults on the challenges we face as men raised in man box culture. He is the author of the groundbreaking The Little #MeToo Book for Men, Remaking Manhood, and with co-author Dr. Saliha Bava, The Relational Book for Parenting. He is currently working with Bava on the forthcoming The Relational Wheel for Organizations.

As a co-founder of ThinkPlay Partners and as a Senior Editor for the Good Men Project, Greene has spent over a decade as a writer and speaker, deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and masculinity. He is uniquely positioned to help men, individually and in organizations, create a healthier more connecting vision of masculine culture and identity.

Emily King

Wealth & Abundance Coach

Emily King is a wealth coach and motivational speaker, showing woman entrepreneurs across the world how to grow their income and their impact, doing work they love. She’s the go-to expert on all things money mindset, merging her MBA expertise with her spiritual practices to bring a holistic approach to growing your business and bank account.

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Thomas DiBlasi

Professor at St. Joseph’s & Expert on anger & domestic violence
Thomas DiBlasi is an Assistant Professor at St. Joseph’s College where he teaches undergraduate students, and researches anger, aggression, domestic violence, and revenge. Dr. DiBlasi has given over 30 presentations locally, nationally, and internationally. In addition, he has nearly ten publications, predominantly focusing on anger and aggression. He is a member of APA (specifically Divisions 1, 2, 12, and 19), National Anger Management Association (NAMA), New York City- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (NYC-CBT), Association of Domestic Violence Intervention Providers, EPA, and ABCT, where is he also on the leadership committee for the special interest group of Forensic and Externalizing Behaviors. He is currently working on research related to motivational interviewing, anger, revenge, and intimate partner violence. In addition, Dr. DiBlasi loves working with clients at My OCD Care.

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Suzanne Bryant

Founder Yoga IS & Filmaker
Suzanne Bryant Founder and Creator of Yoga IS, an online streaming platform featuring classes and interviews the world’s leading teachers in yoga, meditation and wellness. Suzanne is the filmmaker of the acclaimed film Yoga IS A Transformational Journey, released with Magnolia Pictures and available on amazon, iTunes, Netflix, Barnes and Noble, Best Buy, Whole Foods and more. Suzanne is a former journalist with 60 Minutes II.

Currently, Suzanne is CEO of her Yoga IS platform and Corporate Wellness and Mindfulness Programs as well as individual executive wellness coaching. Her passionate is to help teams and individuals overcome obstacles and learn more productive, healthy and fulfilling lives. Some of Suzanne’s Corporate clients include Oracle, Red Bull, UCSF, Ergomotion amongst many others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Huffington Post, Health, NPR, TEDx, Fitness, Yoga Journal, Mantra Magazine, Origins and more.

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Craig Perra

Life Coach & Founder of The Mindful Habit® System

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Natalie Bell

Expert in Mindful Self-compassion
Natalie Bell is an inspirational leader in the mindfulness and self-compassion movement with over 30 years of personal practice. She brings authenticity and a true embodied presence to her work that allows you to tap into your own natural resources for calm, clarity, and greater self-acceptance. Natalie developed the Thrive Inside Program for Personal Resilience to build an inner voice of support and compassion to help you through any obstacle. Her work distills complex challenges into workable practices that will have you inspired, touched, transformed and laughing!

Natalie’s many other programs and teachings have gotten her featured on the Today Show, Travel and Leisure, the LA Times, MSNBC Your Business, and Thrive Global for her passionate embodiment of mindfulness. She brings her work to Fortune 500 companies, CEOs and organizations like NBC Universal, the Milken Institute, Getty Foundation, Wharton, and many others.

Francis Piche

Mindset Coach & Founder of Resilience Element

Francis is a Mindset Coach and top sales performer with over 20 years of focused sales experience inspired by his passion to help people reawaken their inner power.

He is on a mission to share his resilience revelation with the world and help others discover it for themselves with a dream to produce a documentary called The Resilience Element: A Matrix To Thrive, containing inspiring interviews with celebrities and remarkable leaders as they explore the ups, downs, do’s and don’ts on the journey to following your heart.

Francis has mastered advanced communication techniques that he uses to uncover the secrets of some of the world’s most successful individuals, thanks to year of certifications with world-leading coaches such as: Roger Love, Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard and Bo Eason.

His personal growth development curriculum includes: Life Coaching from one of the world’s top life coaches, Landmark, Dale Carnegie, Vipassana and Ayahuasca healing.

Jed Diamond, Ph.D.

Author of 16 books on men’s issues; featured on 1000+ TV & radio programs
My professional work began on November 21, 1969 when I held my new-born son and made a vow to him that I would be a different kind of father than my father was able to be for me and to do everything I could to create a world where fathers were fully involved with their families throughout their lives. To fulfill that promise, I help you to engage four questions: (1) Am I living a fully authentic life? (2) Am I loving deeply and well? (3) Am I engaging the social issues of my time? (4) Am I making a positive difference in the world?

I write books (16 thus far) that explore the issues I’m working through in my own life that I believe would be helpful to others including Male Menopause, The Irritable Male Syndrome, The Enlightened Marriage, and 12 Rules for Good Men.

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Kirsten McKenna

Leadership & Performance Expert
A corporate leader turned entrepreneur, Kirsten McKenna is the founder and principal consultant of two successful businesses ~ Cortex Consulting and Winefulness in Sydney, Australia: both purpose driven businesses that focus on igniting and cultivating curiosity within individuals, inspiring teams and engendering positive change in corporate culture. As a leadership and performance coach, well-being expert & author of the book Lead Well: How to Show Up Consistently Well in Leadership and Life, Kirsten is passionate about human potential. With degrees in psychology, education and physical and health education, Kirsten translates science into practical tools to help individuals, teams and organisations thrive. As a transformational coach, she supports others in sifting through the overwhelm in order to cultivate clarity, confidence and grit. A triathlete, insatiable reader, yoga junkie, wife & mother, the free time that Kirsten does have is all about family, friends, fitness and personal growth.

Tod Jacobs and Dr. Peter Lynn

Experts in Relationships
For 15 years, Tod Jacobs, MS, and Dr. Peter Lynn have prepared hundreds of individuals develop a mature and idealistic version of marriage. Their approach — which combines practical and mystical Jewish wisdom with Positive Psychology –- has helped hundreds of couples develop and put into practice an idealistic vision of marriage as the primary vehicle to create wholeness, meaning, purpose and happiness. Often beginning that preparatory process before the wedding, their work continues throughout the married lives of their students. Tod and Peter focus on helping perfect the character issues that lie at the core of a successful spouse — giving, empathy, staying power and commitment to help build the other. Married, single, young or old –- their insights can help your relationship flourish. With a background in finance and investigative journalism, Tod was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award. Peter’s background includes Positive Psychology, architecture and athletics.

Vic Strecher

Professor & Expert in Purpose
Vic Strecher is a behavioral scientist and professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Vic’s behavioral, neuroscience, and epidemiologic research examine the importance of purpose in life and he’s been on a quest to help over one billion people find greater purpose in their lives. Vic loves researching, teaching, writing, and innovating in areas that intersect science and philosophy. His most recent book, Life On Purpose: How Living for What Matters Most Changes Everything (HarperOne), examines the science and philosophy of purpose in life and ways to develop and align with one’s purpose. His book On Purpose: Lessons in Life and Health from the Frog, the Dung Beetle, and Julia (Dungbeetle Press), is written for the lay public with a professional comic illustrator as a graphic novel. In 2015 he founded Kumanu (www.kumanu.com), a digital well-being company helping people and organizations become more purposeful.

Yolanda Renteria

Psychotherapist
Yolanda Renteria is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Counselor. She is Trauma Certified, trained in EMDR and DBT and is a Somatic Practitioner in Training. She currently works in a community agency providing services to a predominantly Hispanic and Migrant population.

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Melanie Curtin

Sex Researcher & Relationship Coach
Melanie is a sex researcher and coach with a Master’s from Stanford. Her work has been published or seen on the Today Show, HuffPost, Forbes, Business Insider, The New York Observer, and more. She specializes in bringing a woman’s perspective to men, so they can connect and succeed with women in fun, inviting, and meaningful ways that lead to fulfilling sex & relationships.

Helen Maffini

Director of MindBE Education
Helen is an international educator having lived in 13 different countries. She loves to bring SEL and Positive Psychology practices to schools, especially to teachers and parents of young children. Helen is creator of the MindBE Preschool Curriculum and author of the book Developing Children’s Emotional Intelligence. She is mum of two girls and married to an Italian chef!

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Dr. Benjamin Ritter

Leadership & Empowerment Coach & National Speaker

Dr. Benjamin Ritter, founder of Live for Yourself (LFY) Consulting, is a Chicago based leadership and empowerment coach, national speaker, consultant, mentor, teacher, and passionate about guiding others in finding, creating, and sustaining greater meaning at work and in life. During his time as a healthcare executive and side hustling entrepreneur he was over worked and under-utilized, and despite his professional success didn’t feel successful. After much introspection he pivoted professionally and started crafting a more effective, efficient, and aligned life. As he was creating this new life he realized that his process was a process, and that he could coach others how to do the same for themselves.

Ganz Ferrance

Psychologist & Expert on stress

Registered Psychologist, Dr. Ganz Ferrance, is a Speaker, Author, and Coach. Since the early ‘90’s he’s been helping individuals, couples, families, and corporations beat BURNOUT, reduce their levels of stress, improve their relationships, and enjoy more success.

His unorthodox and witty presentation style combined with his deep warmth and magnetic presence opens audiences up to think differently about their challenges and move to a place of confidence in knowing what their next steps are.

Known for working with the toughest of the tough including hardened Oil & Gas workers, stressed out Law Enforcement officers, battle tested CEOs, and Entrepreneurs – He specializes in high STRESS industries including: First Responders, Health Care, Executives, and more.

Dr. Ganz is truly a master at showing people in high STRESS occupations no nonsense practical strategies to stay focused, make healthy decisions under pressure, and boost communication skills to reduce conflict during difficult situations.

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Elise Schuster

Executive Director

Elise Schuster is a long time sexuality educator who has worked with teens, doctors, sold sex toys, and more. Elise is also the cofounder of okayso – a free mobile app that provides personalized support and information about sex and relationships.

Francisco Ramirez

Speaker & Consultant
Francisco Ramirez (@FranciscoNYC) is an award-winning speaker, consultant, and television host, working in sexual health and sexual respect. He leads trainings and educational initiatives in multiple languages and in 15 countries for the past 15 years with the United Nations. He recently served as Vice President of Education at Planned Parenthood of New York City, and he co-founded OkaySo, a smartphone app providing young people free access to sexperts, 24/7. He lectures at universities around the world on: sexual health, sexual respect, and diversity, and serves as a producer and on-air host for MTV, New York Magazine, and NPR. Lastly, since 2008, Francisco has offered free sex and dating advice (#FreeSexAdvice) to strangers on New York City park benches. Learn more at FranciscoRamirez.com.

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Matthias Barker

Psychotherapist
Matthias is a Licensed Mental Health Associate (LMHCA) and earned his master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northwest University. He works with adults, children, and couples from all walks of life and specializes in treating childhood sexual abuse, sex-addiction, PTSD, ADHD, Anxiety, and family issues.

Matthias’ goal is to help the people he works with move towards what is meaningful in life amidst a history of trauma and hardship. He does this by collaborating with clients to form personalized treatment plans that are tailored for their unique goals and circumstances.

In his free time, Matthias enjoys a wide variety of hobbies: low-and-slow BBQ, collecting rare tropical plants, making ceramic dish-ware, playing drums, and nature photography to name a few! He lives in Spokane Washington with his wife.

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Jennifer Kem

CEO, Master Brand Institute

Jennifer Kem is a San Francisco Bay Area-based brand building and leadership expert who gets entrepreneurs seen, heard, and paid for being themselves. She’s the creator of the Master Brand Method: a framework to develop powerful brand archetypes that win customers’ hearts, leveraging Jennifer’s 20 years of corporate experience and her launching of multiple companies. Using the Master Brand Method, she provides strategic guidance for emerging entrepreneurs, celebrity brands like Oprah Winfrey Network and Steve Harvey, and major corporations including Verizon, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Bank of Hawaii. What she is most passionate about in her work today is her legacy project: Femmefluence, a platform that supports women leaders to fully rise into their influence and affluence, so they can make an even greater impact in the world.

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