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Shawn Turk is an out and proud transgender husband and father of five, working as a land acquisition and regulatory professional for the wireless telecommunications industry. His professional background includes regulatory compliance for oil and gas operations, environmental health and safety policy and training for scientific research, and urban planning for a small Colorado municipality. Prior to venturing into the corporate world, Shawn spent 5 years working with at-risk teens and disabled adults in assisted living and group home settings in New York and Colorado as a treatment counselor. Shawn currently serves as the Vice President for the Colorado State Board of Health and Chair of the Cancer, Cardiovascular, and Pulmonary Disease Grant Committee for the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, and is the first transgender male to serve in an officer role on a Governor Appointed Board for the State of Colorado. Shawn previously served as the Board President for the Gender Identity Center of Colorado and on the Mayor's LBGTQ Commission for the City and County of Denver. In 2019 Shawn was selected as one of ten Victory Empowerment Fellows through the Victory Institute as an up and coming transgender and/or POC leaders in the community. Shawn holds a Master's of Science in Energy Law from Oklahoma City University, a Master's of Science in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Denver, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California-Davis. He's currently pursuing a PhD in Public Policy and Administration from Walden University.
$1,501 - $5,000
Farrah Smith is a certified life coach, speaker, and best-selling author committed to transformation and empowerment. Her coaching focuses on helping individuals conquer adversity, nurture inner confidence, and lead purposeful lives. With a deep belief in knowledge as a catalyst for change, Farrah's coaching seamlessly integrates positive psychology, neuroscience, and healthy habits to unlock one's potential. Her innovative approach to achieving peak wellness and success has graced esteemed global platforms such as Entrepreneur and Forbes. Her outstanding contributions have garnered recognition, including Yahoo Finance's acknowledgment as a Top 10 Life Coach in 2021, Brainz Magazine's tribute as one of 7 Female Entrepreneurs Changing the World in 2022, and Forbes's Top 10 Women Shaping the World in 2023. Farrah Smith is a trailblazer, guiding individuals on a transformative journey where science-backed techniques, personal wellness, and high-performance habits converge to help others live their best life.
$1,501 - $5,000
Kwansi Cooke was born in Newark, NJ, and raised in East Orange, NJ, Kwansi Cooke, prides himself on his success story and his devotion to the advancement of himself and others around him because of it. The multifaceted Motivational speaker is a man of many appellations, including a U.S. Army Soldier, Entrepreneur, Fitness Enthusiast, Social Media Influencer, a Devoted Husband, and a philanthropist to the youth community. No stranger to adversity, Kwansi grew up surrounded by gang violence in a drug-infested neighborhood, where a young black man was only expected to do 3 things, die, go to jail, or make it out by luck. Instead of becoming a product of his environment, he decided to choose the path of joining the Military and investing in himself. Beating the odds with no luck but all hard work and determination, he can now call himself a U.S soldier, college graduate, and business owner. Kwansi has dedicated his self to sharing his universal blueprint to mental, financial, and physical success. Gentrifying the phrase "All Work Is Good Work" Kwansi glorifies the understanding that no matter what you do, as long as you bet on your self, put your best foot forward, the outcome will always reciprocate a positive outcome. Kwansi has implemented his mental detox program at many schools helping the youth to let go of what’s stopping them from propelling to the next level and focusing on what their goals are. Through his leadership development program, Kwansi has created a foundational method with a proven success rate, teaching leaders of all kinds how to bring the best out of their employees resulting in the betterment of their organization.
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Collin is an Independent Certified Coach, Trainer and Speaker with The John Maxwell Team who specializes in helping individuals to discover, develop and deepen their leadership skills. He received his B.S in Television & Radio Production from Ithaca College and his M.B.A. in Marketing from Mercy College. He began his leadership journey at Ithaca College where he worked in the Office of Student Engagement as a Student Leadership Consultant. As a Student Leadership Consultant, he assisted with the development and implementation of workshops, retreats, conferences and Leadership Institute sessions. It was there that he discovered a passion for developing leaders. He spent 8 years at Mercy College as an advisor, mentor and coach for new and continuing students. He worked with students to discover their career aspirations and helped them create academic and career plans to pursue those goals. In 2020, Collin decided to make the bold decision to step away from Higher Education and pursue his own passion in leadership coaching and training. He has been a member of the John Maxwell team where he became a certified coach, trainer and speaker as well as certified DISC trainer. He is a firm believer that with the right guidance, everyone has a potential to be great. His philosophy is to always believe in yourself and, in everything you put your hands to do, do it in excellence.
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Chief Asia Equity Strategist
Herald van der Linde is HSBC’s Chief Asia equity strategist, also known as “The Flying Dutchman” given his frequent travels around the region. He and his Indonesian wife are based in Hong Kong and Jakarta. He is trained as an economist and wrote his Master’s thesis in Jakarta and made this city his home. He later worked as a strategist in S. Africa and Taiwan before he became HSBC's Chief equity strategist for Asia. Herald is a certified Financial Analyst (CFA), a member of the advisory board of the Chinese Studies program at Hong Kong’s Baptist University, speaks seven languages, including Bahasa Indonesia, and is a certified lecturer for the Wine & Spirit Education Trust. He published a book on wine in 2012 titled “A Good Year To Learn About Wine” and one on Jakarta’s history in 2020 ("Jakarta: History of a misunderstood city") and is finalizing a new book on “How Asian Stock Markets Work”.
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Joby Harte professional must become skilled in a wide range of areas to build a career in a competitive field. While some acting techniques are taught, some acting skills may come more naturally.
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Steven Fata is an entrepreneur at heart. He is an active member of his local Italian American community and passionate about motivating others through mentorship. His grandfather immigrated to the United States in 1923, and the Fata name has become synonymous with enterprise and initiative.
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Nursing Home Administrator Eli Mirlis is a highly trained leader who oversees the daily operations of the RegalCare nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult day cares and rehabilitation centers. He is focused on providing ongoing residential medical and personal care around-the-clock for patients who are unable to live independently in the community. In 2016, Eli Mirlis became the CEO of RegalCare Management Group. As the company's top executive, Mr. Mirlis wears many hats in handling the staffing, budgeting, marketing, legal, billing, record-keeping, and other business aspects of their centers. He also plays an important part in using his administrative expertise to improve the quality of patient care services.
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ABOUT Olesija Saue: ◉ Thinkers365 Top 150 Women B2B Thought Leaders to follow in 2022 ◉ Thinkers 365 Top 25 in Sales, Entrepreneurship, Public Relations ◉ Thinkers 365 Top 50 in Marketing, Social ◉ 2x Amazon best-selling author Olesija Saue is a business strategist at a multiple-awards winning social media agency, certified executive coach, personal branding expert, co-author of the book on personal branding The Brand Named You. Olesija is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in Sales and Marketing. As a former CEO of Forbes Estonia, she helped to bring the world's most trusted business media brand to the business audience in Baltics. Today she helps corporate clients as well as aspiring entrepreneurs to stand out from the competition and maximize their impact through the strategic use of personal branding of the CEO's and employees. She is also helping with in-house brand ambassadors programs development & implementation as well as strategical usage of personal branding in corporate communication and employer branding. Olesija Saue is a co-author of a book on Personal Branding "The Brand Named You"(www.thebrandnamedyou.com) Olesija Saue holds an M.B.A in International business administration, she is AoEC Accredited Executive Coach and a member of the International Coach Federation.
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Michaela Weaver, The Alcohol Coach, is a best-selling author, TED speaker, and Master coach. She offers an exclusive service specifically for highly successful women to embrace their true, alcohol-free authentic selves. Her ground-breaking science-based methods using The Legacy Process, result in a Sobriety Legacy, so high achieving woman can joyfully live life free from alcohol – but also thrive in sobriety in all aspects of work and personal life. Michaela is a global leader in visioning the science of who you are, when you are free. Her refreshing perspective, and straight-talking honesty gives clients an uplifting perspective. She spearheads life transformation for some of the world’s most successful women, through a reformative paradigm shift – free from alcohol dependency and creates a blueprint vision of the future that she supports clients to embrace. She has worked with countless high achieving women such as corporate board members, company directors, industry leaders, senior lawyers, medics, entrepreneurs and other career professionals – the commonality is that each of the women aspire and inspire, build authenticity, personal growth and fulfilment without alcohol. Personal Journey Michaela’s journey began in 2013 as CEO of an executive coaching company, where she worked with the Cabinet Office in London with government boards, directors of industry and leaders at the highest level in the corporate world on a global stage. She worked relentlessly hard, juggling her demanding career with raising a family at home. Outwardly Michaela was the pinnacle of success, rising to the highest ranks in her industry, while a wife and a mother of three children. She lived with high expectations and worked under intense pressure personally, and professionally. Yet in reality she concealed a shadow that had fallen over her life. At work in the boardroom, she nursed a closely guarded secret – a growing addiction to alcohol that fuelled self-doubt. Every night, she drank one or two bottles of wine. At weekends even more. She suffered blackouts and bouts of complete memory loss. At times she embarrassed herself in front of family and friends with her drunken behaviour. She felt truly inauthentic. Every day she lived with the shame, guilt, fear and anxiety of continually breaking promises to herself to not drink. And every night, she repeated the same cycle of failed promises. Her personal life was affected, and her relationships were suffering. The turning point came when Michaela started using her expertise, as a scientist and post-graduate coach to shine a spotlight on the problem. She further studied addiction science, the biology of desire, neuroscience and psychology. One day, surrounded by her research and notes, she realised that she felt differently about alcohol. She felt powerful and free. Her paradigm had shifted. What emerged is her unique multidisciplinary approach, The Legacy Process, which cuts through convention and outdated ideas.
$1,501 - $5,000
Maggie Muñoz, Founder of Chiron Education Group LLC I am the youngest of 6 kids born to immigrant parents. I was born and raised in Pilsen in Chicago. I came from a highly dysfunctional home where my dad was an alcoholic and my mother was always at work, so needless to say we were of a very low socioeconomic household. I was a high school drop-out and considered a “troubled” kid. I dropped out of school my sophomore year after having been enrolled in 5 different high schools. I was very bright becoming the president of my marketing class at Jones High School in downtown Chicago and was also athletic having joined the swim team, soccer, and basketball teams; but because of my truancy and grades, I was not allowed to participate in sports. I dropped out and got my GED at 17 yrs. I married a total stranger when I was 18 yrs old and moved out of my parents’ house because I was looking to escape the dysfunction, not knowing I was getting out of the frying pan and into the fire. My “husband” was abusive in every way. I escaped but I had a child by then. I went to work for minimum wage and by God’s grace paid for my divorce, childcare, and went back to college to become a teacher. I later moved in with my childhood and high school sweetheart and we were happy for a while. We had 3 kids together then he got hooked on heavy drugs. I left him and became homeless with 4 kids, the youngest was 1 week old and the eldest was in kindergarten. I did not have “family” support but again, by God’s grace, graduated college with a Bachelors in Elementary Education and a minor in psychology and got a job in Chicago Public Schools. I was a teacher for 8 years working with great middle school kids…this was my calling! I could help them in academics and also teach them life skills. I moved on to become an Educational Consultant with a large publishing company and I’ve been doing that for the past 8 years. I have volunteered at various places working with pre-teen kids and teenagers. I also give talks at various places that work with kids and mentor kids. I work with parents who have told me they didn’t know what to do and asked me to help them restore their relationships and connect with their kids. There is a saying, “No se estudia para ser padre.” (I know this has been true for many, myself included. So now I have created workshops and courses that provide parenting skills to parents, especially parents who feel they have “messed up” and feel it’s too late to learn and implement communication skills necessary to connect with their kids and for their kids to flourish and listen. I also have a curriculum for pre-teens and teenagers to teach them life skills, soft skills and leadership skills in a way that is not just another “program.” I speak at various organizations, groups and churches to provide guidance to educators, parents and adolescents/teens alike. My heart of service compels me to give from my years of experience, service and knowled
$251 - $1,500
Teresa Fata is a Lansing, Michigan resident who captures the natural beauty of northern Michigan in her interior design creations. In 2016, she graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in journalism, which she put to use as a columnist for the editorial website All Women Stalk, and freelance journalist for both online and print publications.
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