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Christopher Butler is a testament to the power of a comeback - turning personal setbacks into a worldwide movement that has inspired millions to believe in better days. In 2008, laid off and weighing over 320 pounds, he found himself uncertain about the future. Instead of giving in, he bet everything on a vision - and it paid off. That leap of faith helped spark Power of Positivity, one of the most uplifting digital communities in the world today. Along the way, Chris transformed his own life - earning his degree, losing over 100 pounds, running marathons, and rebuilding his strength, health and purpose from the inside out. Rooted in Pittsburght grit and guided by faith, Chris speaks with authenticity, humor, and heart - reminding audiences to take ownership of their lives, turn adversity into momentum, and lead from their true worth rather than anyone else's expectations.
$1,501 - $5,000
Dr. John Kaplan, PhD, JD, PE Dynamic Veteran Leader & Innovation Expert Dr. John Kaplan is a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, transformative technology transfer leader, and electrifying speaker who captivates audiences with storytelling, singing, and dancing. As Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Technology Transfer Program since 2016, he revolutionized a $1B research enterprise across 130 facilities, achieving record FY2025 licenses, royalties, and invention disclosures—driving 150% disclosure growth, 500% revenue increase, and 250% more VA-led licenses. Honored as the 2022 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Technology Transfer Professional of the Year, Dr. Kaplan launched the BRAVE initiative to bridge lab innovations to market, impacting veterans and beyond. Born in northern New Jersey, Dr. Kaplan overcame profound adversity—losing his father at 5, his brother at 13, and his family home to a fire. The Air Force ROTC at Virginia Military Institute (VMI) was his salvation, instilling discipline that fueled a 20+ year military career, including Chief Administrative Officer at DARPA ($3B budgets) and Pentagon IT upgrades. With a PhD in Electrical Engineering, JD in patent law, and MBA—all earned evenings while serving and raising his MIT-educated daughter—his resilience drives his mission. An ISSA Certified Personal Trainer, he brings boundless energy to every talk.
$0 - $250
Stephanie “Coach Steph” Johnson is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and executive leadership and wellness coach who helps individuals, teams, and organizations rewire their minds, redefine their identity, and rebuild how they lead. As the Founder & CEO of SJE Consulting Group, Coach Steph merges neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and organizational leadership to help high-performing professionals unlock clarity, confidence, and culture through her groundbreaking framework, Neuro Identity Brand™. Her mission is simple: to help people and organizations think better, lead stronger, and perform with purpose. With over two decades of leadership experience in corporate, healthcare, and entrepreneurial sectors, she has coached executives, entrepreneurs, and teams to elevate self-awareness, strengthen emotional intelligence, and align identity with performance for measurable results. A Master NLP Practitioner and specialist in organizational behavior and change management, Coach Steph is known for her ability to translate complex human dynamics into practical strategies that drive transformation from the inside out. Her speaking style blends science, story, and strategy — captivating audiences with both heart and evidence-based insight. Through her transformational programs and live events — including the Boldly Becoming™ Women’s Empowerment Conference — she continues to empower leaders to lead themselves first, cultivate healthier teams, and create cultures where authenticity and performance thrive side by side. Coach Steph delivers dynamic keynotes and workshops on topics such as: The Neuro Identity Brand™: Rewiring the Mind for Leadership and Influence Healing to Identity™: From Burnout to Behavioral Brilliance Executive Wellness Reset: The Science of Sustainable High Performance Leading with Emotional Intelligence in a New Era of Work Her impact has reached stages, corporations, and organizations across the U.S., inspiring professionals to lead with clarity, courage, and conviction.
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Omar Kenyatta Clark is a powerful and dynamic keynote speaker whose voice is transforming the landscape of mental health, recovery, and purpose-driven living. As a survivor, advocate, and mental health professional with over a decade of experience, Omar’s journey from adversity to advocacy has inspired audiences across the country to speak up, heal out loud, and turn their pain into purpose. With over ten years of professional experience in the mental health field, Omar brings a rare combination of clinical understanding, spiritual insight, and lived authenticity to every stage he steps on. He currently serves on the New York Peer Specialist Certification Board, where he helps elevate the standards of peer support and recovery leadership statewide. He has been a featured speaker at Misericordia University’s Psi Chi Induction Ceremony, and a panelist and featured presenter for Doors to Wellbeing, reaching thousands with his message of courage, community, and recovery.
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Brent Tadsen is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur and C-suite consultant with over 25 years of experience helping people and organizations reach their full potential. Known for his ability to engage the audience, Brent empowers professionals to understand and apply complex ideas by breaking them down into simple concepts. After completing his degree in Mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame on a congressional scholarship, Brent became a combat engineer officer in the United States Army. There he honed his skills on leadership, planning, and the importance of communication. During his time in the Army Brent was a certified parachutist, graduated #1 in his Sapper School (the engineer equivalent to Ranger school) class and he was awarded four Army Commendation Medals, three Army Achievement Medals. Post military, Brent joined General Electric where he had roles ranging across New Product Development, Sourcing, Continuous Improvement, and Industry Relationship Management. At GE he earned his Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, and Master Black Belt. Since leaving GE, he has founded three companies and completed his MBA at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He has also completed numerous AI and Machine Learning certifications from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and DeepLearningAI. Today, Brent is recognized as a top corporate trainer and speaker. He has worked with over 100 companies in 7 different countries. His clients range from small family-owned businesses to one of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley. His talks leverage his unique ability to make complex topics simple and easy. He speaks on a variety of topics including: Artificial Intelligence, leadership, communication, business strategy, and effective selling. He is engaging, humorous, and interactive. Brent helps people and organizations achieve their full potential.
$5,001 - $10,000
Leadership & Performance Speaker | High-Performance Clinician | Sports Medicine Specialist I help healthcare organizations, leaders, professional and elite athletes, and high-performing teams identify what’s getting in the way of better performance and turn those insights into practical solutions that work in the real world. Based in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Jim “Doc” Weathers, DC, IBD-S, CKTP, CKTI is a practicing sports medicine physician, clinical consultant, educator, and national and international speaker with more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, sports medicine, rehabilitation, business, and leadership. Doc brings something different to the stage: he doesn't just teach from experience; he continues to practice what he teaches. He remains actively involved in hands-on clinical care, working with athletes and healthcare professionals while consulting and educating practitioners and organizations. That ongoing experience keeps his presentations grounded in what actually works in the real world, not simply what looks good on paper. Clinical & Performance As a sports medicine specialist who has worked with professional and elite athletes, Doc understands that when performance matters, recovery time matters. His clinical work integrates chiropractic care, rehabilitation, advanced Kinesio Taping, and evidence-informed BioHacking strategies to help people recover, perform, and return to what they need to do. As a clinical consultant and educator, he helps healthcare professionals and organizations evaluate and implement practical recovery and performance strategies without abandoning the foundational principles that already work or unnecessarily overhauling their existing systems. Leadership & Business Doc's expertise extends beyond the treatment room. With more than three decades of business ownership, leadership, organizational development, and service diversification, he works with leaders, business owners, executives, and professionals navigating pressure, complexity, change, and responsibility. His leadership presentations are practical and experience-driven, focusing on clarity, purpose, decision-making, accountability, team dynamics, and the responsibility that comes with influence. Whether he's speaking to healthcare professionals, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes, or teams, Doc's message is consistent: Experience turns knowledge into wisdom; and wisdom is knowledge rightly applied. In an age when AI can provide almost unlimited information, Doc believes experience matters more, not less. AI can provide information and recommendations. It cannot replicate the judgment developed through decades of real-world decisions, the relationships built through years of showing up, or the accountability that comes from being responsible for helping people put knowledge into action. That's what Doc brings to every presentation: real experience, practical application, authentic stories, and frameworks audiences can actually use. Whether on the stage, in the boardroom, or in the clinic, Doc Weathers helps people perform when it counts. Because Not Performing, Is NOT An Option!
$5,001 - $10,000
I am a serial entrepreneur, author, and speaker. I've built several multi-million-dollar businesses. My coaching and consulting methodologies are in practice in over 75 countries. I've been a keynote speaker at business events around the globe, and I'm a frequent contributor to local and national news organizations. This all came about after building and selling my first two companies and realizing I would love to help people the way my business advisor had helped me. At the time, a comprehensive coaching strategy system did not really exist in any organized way. I began by donating over 1,000 coaching hours to those in need, ranging from the homeless, military personnel, assisted living, and nursing home recipients to students and emerging entrepreneurs. That not only aligned with my philanthropic values but also helped me hone my skills as a pioneer and thought leader in the coaching and professional services sector. In 1990, I founded 7 Stage Advisors, a business coaching, mentoring, performance training, and growth advisory company. Since then, we have trained, certified, or accredited over 7,000 business coaches and mentors around the world. My methodologies have been integral to my clients becoming award-winning companies, many landing on the fastest-growing list of local and national publications, notably the Inc. 500 | 5000.
More than $10,000
Leslie Ellis is an executive change advisor and keynote speaker who helps leaders raise the probability of success in complex, high-stakes change. As CEO of Meaningful Change Consulting, Leslie works with senior leadership teams navigating enterprise transformation, culture change, reinvention, and moments where the cost of getting change wrong is significant. Her work focuses on what most organizations underestimate: leadership alignment, decision-making, and the conditions required before execution begins. With over 20 years of experience, Leslie has supported more than 55 organizations across 42 countries, impacting over 900,000 stakeholders globally. She is frequently brought in when change is stalled, fragmented, or at risk — or when leaders want to avoid those outcomes altogether by setting change up for success from the start. Leslie brings a rare blend of strategic advisory, executive coaching, and practical change leadership experience to the stage. Her speaking challenges common assumptions about resistance, speed, and execution, and equips leaders with clearer ways of thinking, deciding, and leading through complexity. She is a Certified Change Management Professional, Certified Reinvention Practitioner, and a member of the Forbes Business Council.
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I am the co-founder and president of the Autism Dads Social Club (ADSC), a community-based nonprofit organization committed to supporting fathers of autistic and neurodiverse children through connection, conversation, and care. I cofounded ADSC out of my lived experience of how isolating an autism diagnosis can be for many fathers. ADSC aspires to be a national and international brotherhood connecting and empowering autistic dads. As president, I lead ADSC’s vision, partnerships, and programming, working alongside parents, community leaders, clinicians, and local businesses in the Houston area to expand meaningful, accessible support for neurodiverse families. I am deeply committed to helping fathers move beyond isolation and to creating spaces where our neurodiverse children are fully affirmed and accepted. Through in-person mixers for dads, family-friendly events, and virtual support sessions, I work to reduce stigma, strengthen families, and encourage parents to love, advocate for, and esteem their beautiful neurodiverse children.
Fee not available
Dr. Dwayne Smith, a leading authority in Workplace Investigation Law, is a national speaker, a highly sought-after workplace conflict consultant, and the Founder of Workplace Law Solutions, which specializes in workplace investigations, conflict resolution, consulting, and collegiate athlete representation. He is also the host of “Shifting the Power Balance,” a podcast that shares real-time examples of workplace conflict and offers guidance on resolving or preventing them before they become costly issues for businesses. Dr. Smith serves as an adjunct professor at Saint Louis University, School of Education, teaching Advanced School Law, and is licensed to practice in both Missouri and Kansas. He has conducted over 100 internal investigations for school districts, public and private businesses, and continues to provide training seminars to educate business owners, entrepreneurs, and organizational thought leaders on how to remain legally compliant, create a workplace free from conflict, and keep employees feeling valued and productive. When not discussing workplace law, you’ll find Dwayne enjoying time with his family in Missouri, joining friends on the pickleball court, or taking in the latest live band locally.
$5,001 - $10,000
Based in Colorado, I am Diana Lowe, CEO dedicated to partnering with HR leaders to help them retain their most valuable asset: their top talent. With extensive experience in employee engagement and working directly with executive and senior leaders, I understand first hand the challenges organizations face in maintaining a motivated, engaged and committed workforce. My approach combines evidence based interventions, data-driven strategies with personalized solutions to address each company’s unique needs and culture. My passion lies in transforming HR practices to foster engagement and loyalty, ensuring that organizations not only attract but also retain high-performing employees. Through collaboration and innovative thinking, I partner with HR leaders to help them develop their leaders so they can retain their top talent that drive measurable results and sustainable growth.
$5,000 - $10,000
Lavisse Smith is a President and business strategist based in Bolingbrook, Illinois, dedicated to helping entrepreneurs break free from necessity entrepreneurship and build scalable, sustainable businesses. With a focus on practical strategy and personalized coaching, he equips clients with the tools to move beyond survival and create companies that generate long-term growth and stability. His mission is to transform both mindset and execution—empowering business owners to think bigger, act strategically, and achieve financial freedom. Through tailored solutions and actionable insights, Lavisse helps entrepreneurs overcome real-world challenges and position themselves to compete and win in their industries. A former Division I college athlete, Lavisse brings over 30 years of high-performance experience, having worked with professional athletes and college coaches. He has held leadership roles with Converse and Jostens, where he developed a results-driven approach to performance, leadership, and growth that now fuels his work with entrepreneurs.
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