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Rob Shanahan inspires audiences by transporting them into extraordinary moments through a fusion of heartfelt storytelling and iconic imagery from his 30-year career as “Photographer to the Rock Stars”. Guided by intuition, preparation, and genuine connection, he shows that anything is possible when we dare to dream, believe in our mission, and take bold action.
More than $10,000
Sophia Downs is a speaker, certified career and life coach, author, nonprofit founder, and workforce development strategist committed to helping people rebuild, refocus, and move forward with purpose. She is the Founder and Executive Director of North County Youth Development & Training Center, where she is building a school-to-career pipeline that connects youth to career exploration, life skills, workforce readiness, pre-apprenticeship training, and long-term opportunity. Through Brighter Horizons Career & Development Services, Sophia has spent years supporting job seekers, students, women, returning citizens, and emerging professionals through career coaching, resume development, workshops, and practical life guidance. Her work centers on helping people recognize that their past does not disqualify them from their future. Sophia is also the voice behind Still Worthy, a message and movement created to help women heal from disappointment, rediscover their identity, and become whole before the promise shows up. Her speaking style is honest, faith-rooted, practical, and deeply encouraging. Her speaking journey began at an early age in local, state, and national Baptist conventions and churches and has continued through professional, community, and conference-based platforms. She has delivered keynotes, workshops, panels, motivational presentations, and faith-based messages for youth, women, workforce development, recovery, reentry, faith-based, and community audiences. Sophia’s speaking experience includes the NAMI Wisconsin Annual Mental Health Conference, Unity Recovery commUNITY Conference, Saint Louis Job Corps 50th Anniversary Keynote Graduation, Saint Louis Job Corps “Stop the Violence,” Unity Chapel Church’s 3rd Annual Women’s Conference, Better Family Life / The Community University, Brighter Horizons career readiness workshops, and upcoming engagements including The Hustle Club Networking Event and Becoming Her Summit. Whether speaking to students, women, professionals, or community leaders, Sophia brings real-life experience, strategy, and inspiration that helps audiences move from survival to intentional growth. Her sessions focus on identity, purpose, healing, reentry, youth development, career readiness, women’s empowerment, leadership, and rebuilding after setbacks. Her signature message is simple: you are still worthy, still capable, and still becoming.
$1,501 - $5,000
CEO and Founder, GinMan Consulting — licensed counselor-supervisor (LPC-S, LCDC) helping Christian women heal emotional wounds.
Houston, Texas
A Voice of FAITH for the Strong but Silently Struggling™ Virginia Dale Manning, LPC-S is a licensed professional counselor-supervisor, mental health advocate, author, speaker, and faith-based emotional healing strategist dedicated to helping strong women address the emotional wounds they have learned to carry silently. She is the CEO of GinMan Consulting & Counseling Associates, PC, founder and host of Girl Talk Mental Health, and founder of ChristianAF (Anointed & Favored) Academy, a faith-based emotional healing community created to help Christian women move from Silently Surviving to Faithfully Flourishing™. With more than 18 years of combined experience in education and mental health, Virginia brings together professional mental health knowledge, practical emotional wellness strategies, lived experience, and biblical principles to create conversations and resources that make healing understandable, accessible, and actionable. At the center of Virginia's work is a simple belief: faith and emotional healing do not have to compete. Women can love God, have strong faith, and still have emotional wounds that need attention, understanding, and healing. Through CAF Academy, Virginia teaches women how to recognize the emotional wounds influencing their relationships, identity, boundaries, confidence, finances, purpose, and overall well-being. Her work guides women through a transformational journey of DISCOVER → UNDERSTAND → HEAL → RESTORE → FLOURISH, while addressing wellness across the eight dimensions of life. Virginia is also the creator of the What's Your Emotional Wound?™ Assessment, designed to help women identify patterns connected to rejection, abandonment, shame, betrayal, emotional neglect, identity, and inadequacy—and begin a personalized pathway toward emotional healing. As the founder and host of Girl Talk Mental Health, Virginia continues her commitment to changing the conversation surrounding mental health by confronting stigma, stereotypes, silence, and societal expectations while promoting whole-person wellness. Virginia is a four-time author. Her latest book, Set Apart: The Journey to Find Hope in Times of Shame, Loneliness & Death, shares a deeply personal journey through trauma, grief, faith, and hope and reminds readers that painful chapters do not have to become the conclusion of their story. Beyond counseling, Virginia is expanding her work through speaking, training, digital education, community, and the development of faith-centered emotional healing frameworks and resources designed to equip both individuals and helping professionals. Her greater mission is to impact 2 million lives by becoming a trusted voice at the intersection of faith, mental health, emotional healing, and flourishing—giving people permission to stop masking what hurts and begin healing what is underneath. Virginia is the mother of four adult children and the proud grandmother of nine grandchildren. She enjoys reading, cooking, traveling, and spending time with her family. Above all, she strives to live purposefully, build a legacy for generations to come, and remain aligned with God's will for her life. Virginia's message is clear: You can be strong and still need healing. You can have faith and still have emotional wounds. You can love God and still need support. And you do not have to spend the rest of your life silently surviving. It's time to heal, restore, and faithfully flourish.
$1,501 - $5,000
I design and scale partner GTM systems that turn ecosystems into repeatable growth engines across AI, Data, Cloud, and SaaS platforms. I currently lead Global Alliances at Encora, where I build and operationalize partner strategy across Salesforce, ServiceNow, hyperscalers, and data platforms—owning the systems that drive co-sell execution, marketplace readiness, and partner-led pipeline. Over the last decade, I’ve built alliances from the ground up across product companies, high-growth firms, and global system integrators, influencing $200M+ in partner-led pipeline and delivering $2–3M in annual contract value through disciplined GTM execution. My work focuses on: • Partner GTM and co-sell operating models • Marketplace-ready partner motions • AI- and data-driven improvements in revenue velocity and execution efficiency I’ve operated across nine-figure global partner portfolios, supporting enterprise and mid-market growth through structured enablement, pipeline governance, and cross-functional alignment. Previously at Deloitte, NTT DATA, and the Tata Group, I’ve worked at the intersection of product, sales, and ecosystem teams, ensuring partnerships move beyond strategy into measurable outcomes. I work deeply across Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, helping organizations move from partner intent to partner-driven growth. My ecosystem leadership has been recognized with the Super 30 Awards 2025 for Business Collaboration Leadership and the 100 Women, One Nation – National Excellence Women Awards 2026. I also share experience-led insights with a community of 15,000+ professionals, focused on practical ecosystem leadership over hype. I’m especially interested in how Data & AI enable intelligent growth systems, and why human judgment remains essential in building platforms that scale responsibly.
$5,001 - $10,000
Hady Mendez is a NY-based Amazon best selling author, Latina speaker, and leadership coach. She is the founder and CEO of Boldly Speaking LLC, a company that is transforming the professional experiences of underestimated people in the workplace by empowering employees with the skills to self-advocate, self-promote, and ascend into leadership roles within Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and across organizations. With a diverse career spanning over 25 years, Hady has served as Head of Equality for a major tech firm, held multiple customer-facing roles in high tech and financial services, served as a leader and advisor across various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), volunteered as an international champion for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women, and served as Community School Director at an elementary school in the South Bronx. Hady’s essays have been featured in Business Insider and #WeAllGrow Latina and her thought leadership has been leveraged by organizations such as Hack.Diversity, Power To Fly, Lean in Latinas, and many others. Hady is a Latinas in Tech Luminarias 2022 Honoree, a Women of ALPFA 2023 “Latinas to Watch”, and a LinkedIn “Top Coaching & Mentoring Voice”. In her free time, Hady is an amateur street art photographer and an avid podcast listener.
$5,001 - $10,000
Nistha, the founder of Kitty Party, is a corporate event planner and a global team-building event host from Berlin. She loves her work, and she is passionate about entertaining teams. She truly makes sure all events are catered to the customer’s needs. She believes that engaging team-bonding events are the best ways to bring teams together. She also builds close and long-term relationships with everyone she works with. Nistha has an MBA in finance and IT and also topped her batch. Now she uses her business skills to organize events and parties for the biggest companies from all across the world. Definitely, she has a big crew to support from her team to caterers to decorators. She is genuine and caring and wants to ensure every guest feels looked after be it a remote team building event or onsite corporate party. She is also a foodie and can dance all night without getting tired. She aims to expand and eventually become the most successful corporate event planner and host in Berlin and Beyond. Meet her at your next event or connect with her on instagram!
$1,501 - $5,000
Pauliana Lara is a strategic employee retention professional based in California, United States. Her work focuses on offering corporations the tools to support their workforce to ensure the best outcome of the work product. With a practical, research-led approach, Pauliana helps organizations keep their best employees and support them through simple yet highly effective techniques.
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Melanie Suzanne Wilson helps individuals and organisations speak with confidence, lead with purpose, and embrace wellness, diversity, and resilience. She is available for keynote speaking, workshop facilitation, and MC engagements across Australia and online.
$1,501 - $5,000
Chrysilios Chrysiliou was born in Cyprus in 1961. In the wake of the 1974 conflict that made him a war refugee at 13, Chrysilios decided he would forge a life defined by opportunity, freedom, and flight. In the early 1980s, Chrysilios immigrated to the United States. Here, he obtained his civilian flight instructor’s license and soon co-owned a thriving flight school in Southern California. Leading a fleet of over 20 aircraft, mentoring aspiring pilots, and earning FAA commendations, he established himself as a respected figure in aviation. When life’s unpredictable challenges—such as the Northridge earthquake—forced him to reinvent himself, Chrysilios channeled his entrepreneurial mindset into new ventures. He explored the world of import/export before ultimately finding his home in commercial real estate at RDPH Properties, Inc. Today, he applies the same strategic thinking, adaptability, and integrity he brought to aviation into identifying promising real estate opportunities and guiding his company to success.
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An expert in blockchain technologies specialize in: legal and marketing advice for ICOs, token and smart contract development, crypto investments and Bitcoin trading.
$5,001 - $10,000
Minette Norman is an award-winning author, speaker, and leadership consultant who previously spent decades leading global technical teams in the Silicon Valley software industry and realized that we needed a new, more human model of leadership. As the author of The Boldly Inclusive Leader and the co-author of The Psychological Safety Playbook: Lead More Powerfully by Being More Human, Minette is committed to helping leaders unleash the full potential of the people in their organizations. Minette knows that when leaders create inclusive team cultures, performance soars, breakthroughs emerge, and innovation accelerates. Her most recent position before starting her consultancy was as Vice President of Engineering Practice at Autodesk. Responsible for influencing more than 3,500 engineers around the globe, she focused on state-of-the-art engineering practices while nurturing a collaborative and inclusive culture. Named in 2017 as one of the “Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business” by the San Francisco Business Times and as “Business Role Model of the Year” in the 2018 Women in IT/Silicon Valley Awards, Minette is a recognized leader with a unique perspective. Minette holds degrees in Drama and French from Tufts University and studied at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
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Amlak-I Foley is a committed advocate for prison reform and family reunification, serving as a core member of The Village Starts With Us. This organization, composed of men and women with lived experience, works tirelessly to reconnect returning citizens with their families. They use their personal journeys to provide real, impactful support, bridging the gap between the incarcerated and their communities. A sought-after speaker on prison reform, Amlak-I has delivered lectures at prestigious institutions like Florida Atlantic University, Lynn University, Broward College, and the University of South Florida. His influence extends to policy advisement, working closely with the Palm Beach Reentry Task Force and engaging state senators and governors to push for meaningful reforms in criminal justice across the country. His work is rooted in a deep commitment to improving the reentry process for formerly incarcerated individuals, helping them reclaim their roles in society. Amlak-I’s personal journey is both inspiring and groundbreaking. After serving 19 years in prison, starting at the age of 17, he became the first individual with a felonious background to be employed at the GEO Group World Headquarters. His goal was never just personal success; he aimed to challenge societal perceptions and open doors for others. In his role as a Post Release Case Manager, he proved the worth of formerly incarcerated individuals in corporate spaces. When he started, only 8.3% of the call center staff had lived experience. By the time he left, that number had risen to 83.3%, thanks to his efforts to promote the inclusion of people with similar backgrounds. Amlak-I is deeply grateful to the GEO Group for embracing his vision and supporting him in creating opportunities for others. Above all, he is a devoted husband and father, always striving to learn from life while inspiring others through his actions.
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