Influencing a Community of Connection There are five components to creating a community of connection. We will break down five components and how you can personalize and implement these five components into your sector of influence: Love, Learn, Lift, Link, and Lead. You will walk away with tools on how to make these your own in building a network for your... read full bio
Dave deBronkart, also known as e-Patient Dave, is an author, blogger, and advocate of healthcare transformation. He is author of the books, Let Patients Help, Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig, and Facing Death With Hope. deBronkarts story began when he was diagnosed with stage IV kidney cancer upon taking a routine shoulder x-ray. After the kidney was... read full bio
Brandi Glanville is best known for her role in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, however, her role in the entertainment industry has been influential for years. Starting off as a high fashion, top runway, and print model, Glanville has starred in magazines from Glamour to Cosmopolitan and worked for luxury designers like Armani, Chanel, and Gucci. Glanville now hosts... read full bio
Wendy Zuckerman is an Australian science journalist and podcast who is best known for being the host of the podcast Science Vs, which works to communicate science, it’s controversy, and confusion, to non-scientists. Science Vs was previously produced and distributed by Australian Broadcasting Corporation as part of ABC Radio’s First Run podcast program. The podcast takes on topics such as... read full bio
Dana Bowman is a retired First Class Sergeant who has served in the U.S. Army as a Special Forces Solider and a member of their elite parachute team, the Golden Knights. During his service, Bowman had to cut his time short as he lost both of his legs in an accident during a Golden Knights training in Yuma, Arizona. The... read full bio
Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch is an author, motivational speaker, and veteran who has served in the U.S. Army as an officer for two decades. During her time enlisted in the U.S. Army, Kickbusch overcame adversities and became the highest-ranking Hispanic woman to serve in the Combat Support Field of the U.S. Army. Kickbusch was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and... read full bio
Dr. Mary C. Kelly is an economist author, speaker, consultant, professor, and a former naval intelligence officer who is a retired Commander who served in the Navy. Kelly has earned her B.S. in History from the United States Naval Academy, her M.A. in History from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, her M.A. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma,... read full bio
Krista Neher is a speaker, best-selling author, entrepreneur, CEO and digital marketing strategist who is best known for being CEO of Boot Camp Digital. Neher has earned her BBA in Business from Wilfrid Laurier University and began her career working as a customer team finance manager for Procter and Gamble. She worked her way up at Procter and Gamble to... read full bio
Deborah Archer is the Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at NYU School of Law. She is also the Jacob K. Javits Professor at New York University and is the President of the American Civil Liberties Union. Archer was raised in Windsor, Connecticut, to two immigrants from Jamaica. She has... read full bio
Alicia Shaffer is an entrepreneur and founder of Three Bird Nest. She’s also a ranch owner and branding consultant. Shaffer manages her own businesses but gained a substantial reputation on Etsy, becoming the fastest growing business and further succeeding her brand. In 2019, she became the highest-paid seller on Etsy. Using her knowledge, she transferred her attention to Three Bird... read full bio
Doug Dayton is an expert on sales. Titled a “sales superstar” by Selling Power magazine, Dayton has experience transforming technology-driven companies’ sales tactics. With a background at IBM and Microsoft’s OEM sales organization, Dayton has helped companies including ARAMARK, Atlantis Aerospace, LaserLink Communications, and Mediqual hone on in their sales tactics. Dayton provides advice centered around customer relationship management, electronic... read full bio
Dennis Avery is a voice in the environmental issue sector. Currently a senior fellow with The Heartland Institute, the director of the Center for Global Food Issues, and a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute, Avery aids in monitoring developments in world food production, farm product demand, food supply safety and security, and sustainable agriculture. Avery has authored books including... read full bio
Melissa Murray is the daughter of two Jamaican immigrants and a strong voice in the transformational power of gender justice and women’s basic rights. She is one of the greatest scholarly minds on the subject, constitutional law, and reproductive rights. At her public speaking events, she discusses the structures, institutions, and systems of what allow a woman to thrive in... read full bio
Kathy Dempsey strategically oversaw Memorial Health Care System's organizational growth initiatives as a former hospital executive, helping the institution rank among the top 100 hospitals in the United States. Shed or You're Dead®: 31 Unconventional Strategies for Growth and Change, her best-selling book, won an International Book Award from Writer's Digest. Her metamorphosis as an emergency room/trauma nurse who became the first... read full bio
Born to a single, teenage mother, placed in Florida's foster care system by the age of three and ultimately being adopted from a Children's Home at the age of twelve, Ashley Rhodes-Courter is the quintessential American success story. She later chronicled her harrowing life story in the New York Times Bestseller Three Little Words, which is currently being adapted into... read full bio
Jacque Reid is a renowned news correspondent, currently co-hosting the widely popular radio show, New York Live. She is also seen regularly on the nationally syndicated radio program, The Tom Joyner Morning Show. Prior to that, she served as co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show, The Steve Harvey Morning Show. Jacque came to radio from CNN Headline News and... read full bio
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She began her television career as an assistant at a prominent corporation that the renowned Norman Lear founded. The business was acquired by Coca-Cola, Sony, and Columbia Pictures in her early years of employment. After "raising my hand and figuring it out," Libby quickly ascended the ranks to become vice president of publicity, advertising, and promotion for Sony's global television... read full bio
Suzanne Braun Levine is a writer, editor and nationally recognized authority on women and family issues, and media. She chronicled and fostered change in women’s lives as the first editor of Ms. magazine and today as a contributing editor of More magazine. Suzanne Braun is a lecturer, appears frequently on television, and is an advisor to several women’s and media... read full bio
Norman Ollestad was in a plane crash with his father, his father’s girlfriend, and the pilot of a chartered Cessna. Just after sunrise, their plane slammed into a rugged 8,600-foot mountain in the middle of a blizzard. By the end of the nine-hour ordeal, Ollestad was the only survivor. In his best-selling, critically-acclaimed memoir, Crazy for the Storm, Norman Ollestad... read full bio
