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Most leaders inherit cultures they did not build. They are told to transform organizations while managing people who have been doing things the same way for decades. They face resistance, burnout, and the quiet skepticism of teams who have watched other change efforts fail. Felice Upton knows how to break through. As Assistant Secretary for Juvenile Rehabilitation in Washington State, she led 1,100 employees across 11 locations with a $180 million budget. Within her tenure, use-of-force incidents dropped 40 percent. Program participation exceeded targets by 100 percent. Staff-driven innovation replaced institutional inertia. She did not achieve these results by ignoring resistance. She transformed it. Her secret is disarmingly simple: people change systems when they feel seen, heard, and trusted to be part of the solution. Felice developed the "Just Us" framework to help leaders build cultures where accountability and compassion work together instead of against each other. Where data drives decisions without dehumanizing people. Where staff retention improves because people actually want to stay. Before her executive role, Felice spent years on the front lines of organizational life, learning what motivates people to give their best and what drives them out the door. She has managed volunteers, coordinated community partnerships, investigated complex workplace issues, and coached leaders through crisis after crisis. A TEDx speaker and nationally recognized voice on leadership and culture, Felice has been featured on NPR, Lifetime Television, and at conferences nationwide. She holds degrees from the University of Washington and serves as a Performance-Based Standards Coach for the Center for Improving Youth Justice. Through her consultancy, Just Us by Felice Upton LLC, she works with organizations ready to stop managing dysfunction and start building cultures that perform. Because here is the truth: the hardest part of leadership is not strategy. It is getting people to move together. Felice knows how. You have a culture problem you think you cannot fix. You have inherited a team you did not build. You are being asked to transform something while managing people who have watched change efforts fail before. I know that weight. I also know what it takes to move through it. I spent 20 years learning how to build trust in environments where trust was scarce, how to hold people accountable without losing them, and how to create cultures where people perform because they want to, not because they have to. The hardest part of leadership is not strategy. It is getting people to move together when they have every reason not to. I do not just speak. I equip leaders to build cultures worth staying for.
$5,000 - $10,000
Mahendran Subramany is a Agile Leadership and AI productivity strategist, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience helping organisations fix people problems using practical systems, not theory. He is the Executive Director of Catman Edge Training, where he works closely with CEOs, HR leaders, and business owners to strengthen leadership capability, improve team performance, and embed AI tools into daily work without overwhelming staff. His work sits at the intersection of agile leadership, emotional intelligence, and applied AI for workplace productivity. Mahendran is known for delivering high impact sessions that cut through confusion. He does not teach tools in isolation. He shows leaders how to think, decide, and lead better in fast changing environments. His programs are designed for real workplaces including manufacturing, logistics, services, and government linked organisations. As an entrepreneur, Mahendran has built and scaled multiple businesses, giving him strong commercial grounding. This allows him to speak the language of results, accountability, and execution. Participants consistently describe his sessions as practical, engaging, and immediately usable the next day at work. Mahendran is frequently engaged to speak on Agile Leadership in the age of AI, workplace productivity, stress resilient leadership, and the future skills organisations must build now to stay relevant.
$250 - $1,500
CEO & Board Member | Creator of the ALIGN™ & FOCUS™ Frameworks | Clinical Hypnotherapist | Former Global Head of Risk
San Francisco, California
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You know within thirty seconds whether a speaker is going to make you look good. So do your attendees. Farhan Zahid draws from real moments across psychiatric wards, billion-dollar boardrooms, and everything in between. Then he does something most speakers never do. He takes the room through live hypnosis, breathwork, and meditation, giving the audience the tools to change their state on demand. Farhan delivers sessions people walk out of feeling genuinely different, and talk about long after the event ends. Farhan brings rare dual credibility to the stage, with experience that includes serving as a Board Director, 16 years advising complex organizations at Deloitte, and serving as Global Head of Risk at a leading global investment firm. He understands pressure, responsibility, and high-stakes decision-making from the inside. He pairs that background with deep clinical training in medical and psychiatric nursing, clinical hypnotherapy, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, making his work both rigorously grounded and impossible to forget. As the creator of the ALIGN™ and FOCUS Method™, Farhan delivers frameworks that stick because people have already felt them working before he gives them a name. ALIGN™ helps people build the kind of performance that holds up over years, not just sprints. FOCUS Method™ gives people access to their clearest thinking in the moments that matter most. Both frameworks are taught, practiced, and embodied in the room. People leave knowing exactly how to use them and feeling them already working. As Founder and CEO of KNKO, a concierge wellness firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Farhan works with founders, executives, and high-net-worth individuals who operate in environments where there is very little room for an off day. That proximity to real performance under real pressure is what makes his sessions different. He is not theorizing. He is bringing back tools from the rooms where these problems actually live, and putting them directly in the hands of your audience, so that they can use them whenever they need. He has delivered keynotes and workshops for Deloitte, Chevron, the Institute of Internal Auditors, ISACA, the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, and Generate Capital, and has been featured in Business Life Magazine and the International Business Journal. Organizations bring Farhan in when stress is breaking their best people and they truly need their leaders to show up sharp, steady, and fully present. The credentials make people curious. The live session makes them feel something they haven't felt in years. That's what keeps them talking about your event long after it ends. ⸻ Client Results “Farhan’s session gave our executive team frameworks we implemented immediately. Within one quarter, we saw a 40% reduction in stress-related leadership issues.” - Chief People Officer, Fortune 500 Healthcare Organization “What truly set Farhan apart was his ability to combine strategic thinking with powerful experiential tools. Attendees experienced the impact in real time and left with techniques they could immediately use to protect energy, reset their nervous system, and improve focus. We will absolutely be booking him again.” - Senior Manager & Event Organizer, Deloitte - IIA/ISACA San Francisco Conference, December 2025 ⸻ 20+ years speaking | San Francisco Bay Area | Available globally
$5,001 - $10,000
Gabriel Yomi Dabiri is a finance attorney based in New York who advises clients on a wide range of sophisticated financing matters. He currently serves as the Global Head of Private Credit and Direct Lending at his firm, where he focuses on both domestic and cross-border transactions. His work includes advising on special situations, debt restructurings, and bankruptcy-related financings. He approaches each matter with care and discipline, emphasizing practical solutions that balance legal requirements with the commercial realities clients face. Gabriel has developed deep experience across multiple layers of the capital structure, including senior, mezzanine, and subordinated financings. He regularly works on unitranche facilities as well as first- and second-lien arrangements, drawing on detailed knowledge of market terms and lender expectations. His practice also includes advising on cash flow lending, asset-based lending, subscription facilities, distressed debt, debtor-in-possession financing, and real estate finance structures, allowing him to guide clients through a wide range of financing environments. Gabriel has spent a significant portion of his career advising on private credit transactions, including buy-and-hold strategies and broadly syndicated financings. This experience has given him insight into the perspectives of lenders, sponsors, and corporate borrowers, and has shaped his ability to manage both routine and complex transactions. He works closely with clients to understand their objectives and constraints, helping them navigate transactions that require careful coordination, disciplined risk assessment, and thoughtful execution. Gabriel Yomi Dabiri is closely involved in expanding his firm's global private credit and direct lending practice. He regularly negotiates intercreditor and subordination arrangements and advises clients on restructuring and insolvency-related issues that require sound judgment and steady execution. His approach emphasizes clarity and balance, seeking to align legal structure with commercial intent. By remaining attentive to client priorities, he aims to deliver advice that supports sustainable outcomes rather than short-term fixes. Gabriel brings an international perspective to his work through dual qualification as an attorney in New York and as a solicitor in England and Wales. He has lived and worked in several major financial centers and divides his time between New York, London, and Singapore. This experience enables him to assist clients with multi-jurisdictional financings and cross-border structures, accounting for differing legal systems while maintaining consistency and coherence across complex international transactions. Gabriel began his legal career training in multiple global offices, where he built a strong foundation in finance law and developed disciplined analytical skills.
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Dr. Eugene Manley Jr. is a scientist, author, speaker, nonprofit founder, and health equity leader whose work examines what happens when capable people are consistently misread by the systems around them. Drawing from more than two decades across engineering, cancer research, nonprofit leadership, patient advocacy, and STEMM workforce development, Eugene speaks about the cost and consequences of being misread at work, in healthcare, in education, and inside institutions that often confuse difference with deficiency. His new book, Too Much and Not Enough: Neurodivergence, Race, and Broken Systems, explores how race, neurodivergence, class, illness, and institutional expectations shape how people are perceived and treated. His MISREAD Framework™ gives individuals and organizations practical language for recognizing and responding to those patterns. Eugene began his career in mechanical and biomedical engineering before earning a PhD in molecular biology, cell biology, and biochemistry and conducting research in lung and breast cancer. He later moved into scientific program leadership, patient advocacy, cancer health equity, and workforce development. He is Founder and CEO of the SCHEQ Foundation, where he leads programming focused on cancer disparities, health literacy, STEMM diversity, and community engagement. On stage, Eugene combines lived experience, science, humor, and systems thinking. He speaks on neurodivergence and leadership, race and workplace misreading, medical bias and trust, cancer and health equity, and STEMM career pathways. Audiences leave with practical frameworks and clearer language for recognizing misreading, making better decisions, and building systems that do a better job of seeing people clearly.
$5,000 - $10,000
Ensieh Shervin Shegeft is based in Orange County, California, and works as a health care industry analyst with more than 2 decades of professional experience. Over the years, she has contributed to organizations across several sectors, including health care, civil engineering, and public transportation. Her background includes project coordination, human resources, and benefits administration. She is recognized for approaching her work with consistency, accountability, and respect for teamwork, helping foster dependable outcomes and supportive professional environments. Shervin was born in Iran and later relocated to the United States with her family, where they built a new life in Washington State and became U.S. citizens. Growing up in communities such as Lynwood, Mukilteo, and Edmonds shaped her early years and values. She attended high school locally before earning an Associate’s degree from Edmonds Community College. She later completed a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Central Washington University, becoming the first in her family to graduate from college in the United States. Shervin Shegeft began her professional journey shortly after completing her education, taking on roles that allowed her to support both organizational needs and her growing family. She worked across multiple industries while raising two children, maintaining steady employment, and adapting to different professional responsibilities. Her approach to work has always been rooted in creating stability and leading by example. She consistently balanced professional obligations with personal responsibilities, viewing dedication and reliability as essential foundations for long-term success. Shervin considers motherhood her most meaningful responsibility, and her children remain central to her daily life and decision-making. She has long been involved in their education, volunteering regularly for school activities and supporting as a parent aide or chaperone when opportunities arose. These efforts reflected her belief in active participation and presence. Although her children are now based in California and Washington, DC, she continues to prioritize staying connected and supportive. Shervin has also made community involvement an essential part of her life. She has volunteered in different capacities, including teaching art education to elementary school students and participating in seasonal donation efforts. Contributing toys and food during holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas has been one way she has given back. She finds purpose in offering help where she can, believing that small, thoughtful actions can have a meaningful impact on others. Ensieh Shervin Shegeft enjoys creative activities that allow her to relax and express herself outside of work. Drawing and painting are among her favorite pastimes, particularly projects involving flowers and simple designs.
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I help independent schools and local chapters of National youth-serving organizations to create dynamic health education offerings that enhance literacy, wellness, creativity and achievement of students and faculty. The Healthy Haiku Method is an award-winning framework — evaluated through a postdoctoral fellowship with Morehouse School of Medicine, Tuskegee University, and UAB — that uses haiku's short, disciplined structure to help people truly absorb health lessons rather than just hear them. It moves clients through four steps: Discover and Diagnose, Propose and Enroll, Train and Certify, and Coach and Sustain, starting with a needs assessment so every program is built around your specific students, not a generic script. It helps independent schools and local chapters of national youth-serving organizations go from uncertain how to teach wellness to fully certified in the Healthy Haiku Method, backed by results across children, teens, mothers, parents, and incarcerated adults over many years.
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Dr. Monica “mOe” Anderson, DDS, DBA, is a TEDx speaker, bestselling author, and communications strategist with more than three decades of experience inspiring audiences across healthcare, business, education, and women’s leadership. A licensed dentist and Senior Dental Consultant for a global Fortune 500 financial services company, she brings a rare blend of clinical expertise, organizational insight, and dynamic storytelling to every stage. Her top-ranked TEDx Talk on Unconscious Bias has half a million views, and her highly requested programs on leadership, cross generational communication, health equity, and the medical benefits of humor have helped thousands of professionals enhance culture, strengthen relationships, and improve well-being. Dr. mOe is also the award-winning host of the global podcast Perpetual mOetion with Dr. mOe Anderson and the author of eight books on resilience, communication, and personal growth. She has delivered keynotes and workshops for organizations such as the U.S. Department of Defense, Aetna, the American Association of Dental Consultants, Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, the American Dental Association, and the University of Minnesota. Known for blending insight, compassion, and a touch of wit, Dr. mOe transforms audiences long after the applause.
$5,001 - $10,000
A Few Human Details: I’m a husband and dad to the most wonderful daughter, son and step son. To stay grounded I strength train naturally as a lifestyle and not a competitor. I speak, teach, and I love spending quality time with my wife. I love animals. They are great for emotional support and just fun and cute as heck. Watching my kids give their best effort matters more to me than watching them win. If You’re Still Reading, This Might Be for You. If you’re successful – but feel stretched and that you may be spiraling downwards, If your challenges feels heavier than they used to, If you want results without losing yourself, Let’s get you clear. But what clients value most isn’t credentials – it’s quick clarity and results. Award winning personal trainer and health and fitness speaker. For immediate release: Dushawn Hadinger Receives 2014 Best of Columbus Award. Columbus Award Program Honors the Achievement COLUMBUS July 3, 2014 -- Dushawn Hadinger Coaching and Personal Training has been selected for the 2014 Best of Columbus Award in the Personal Trainers and speaker's category by the Columbus Award Program. Each year, the Columbus Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Columbus area a great place to live, work and play. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2014 Columbus Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Columbus Award Program and data provided by over 400 third party testimonials.
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Douglas Duren is a digital marketing professional with 10 years of experience helping brands grow their online presence and deliver measurable results. He began his career in content creation and SEO, later expanding into paid advertising, social media strategy, and email marketing. Throughout his career, he has worked with both startups and established companies, leading campaigns that increased website traffic by more than 70%, improved conversion rates, and boosted engagement across platforms. Driven by a passion for understanding audience behaviour, Douglas thrives at the intersection of creativity and data. He enjoys crafting compelling content, but equally values testing, optimising, and using insights to refine strategy and enhance performance. Douglas is currently seeking a role where he can bring his analytical mindset and creative energy to a forward-thinking team that values innovation and measurable impact.
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Dr. Timothy Vogel is a board-certified pediatric neurosurgeon who serves as the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital and is the founder of Pediatric Neurosurgeons of New Jersey. He is known for treating complex conditions involving pediatric craniofacial surgery, minimally invasive craniosynostosis surgery, brain tumors, traumatic brain injuries, and congenital malformations. He performed the first successful surgery in the world for a baby born with exencephaly, a case that drew international attention due to its significance. As a leading craniofacial surgeon in the Northeast, Dr. Vogel dedicates much of his work to advancing craniofacial surgery in Northern New Jersey. He established the comprehensive craniofacial center at Hackensack University Medical Center, which earned national accreditation from the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Through this center, he and his team manage complex craniofacial cases using a multidisciplinary model that supports coordinated patient care. Dr. Vogel was the co-chair of the Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation Gala and is regarded as an expert in pediatric brain tumors within New Jersey. He uses minimally invasive techniques to treat children with rare and severe brain and spine tumors. Families across the Northeast seek his care, and he has helped develop clinical trials that give children access to new treatment options. He also played a key role in founding New Jersey’s first pediatric neuro-oncology laboratory focused on studying rare brain tumors. He has authored multiple publications and holds several patents. His background as a developmental neuroscientist includes experience in CNS genetics and forebrain development. Colleagues throughout the New York and New Jersey region have repeatedly recognized him as one of the top pediatric neurosurgeons in the area. In his academic and professional career, Timothy Vogel, MD, has served in several important roles. His early academic work began at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the #1 pediatric hospital in the United States, where he held positions in the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, and the Division of Developmental Biology. He trained and mentored students and residents through programs at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute and at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. His research included work on the treatment of craniosynostosis, and patients from more than 15 states still travel to seek his care, especially for minimally invasive endoscopic surgery. He expanded his research by joining the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as a Visiting Research Fellow. He later became Director of Pediatric and Craniofacial Neurosurgery at the New Jersey Brain and Spine Center in Hackensack, where he helped strengthen multidisciplinary care.
$1,500 - $5,000
Denis Atlan intervient comme conférencier et conseiller auprès de dirigeants qui veulent sortir du discours vague sur “l’IA” pour se concentrer sur ce qui produit réellement du résultat. Basé à Lyon, il travaille avec des TPE, PME et ETI qui cherchent à gagner en productivité, en qualité de service et en clarté stratégique grâce à l’IA générative et à l’automatisation. Il a piloté plus de 200 projets IA sur le terrain, dans des contextes très différents : prospection commerciale, service client, back-office, reporting, finance, marketing, RH. Cette expérience alimente une base de données de retours d’usage et un travail de formalisation qu’il a structuré dans un livre consacré à l’IA en entreprise, ainsi que dans des contenus audio et des formations. En conférence, Denis privilégie les cas concrets, les démonstrations live et les repères simples pour décider : quels usages prioriser, quels risques surveiller, comment organiser la coopération entre humains et IA. Son style est direct, pédagogique et orienté décision : il aide les équipes dirigeantes à clarifier où l’IA crée de la valeur, et où elle ne fera que consommer du temps et de l’énergie.
$5,000 - $10,000