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I didn’t plan to become a dog rehabilitation specialist. I have a history degree and a background in marketing, publishing, news, venture capital, and oil and gas — I built a career in communication and business development and never imagined this would be my path. But at the lowest point of my life, when I didn’t want to live anymore, I got Kenny. I loved him more than I loved myself, so I got out of bed to meet his needs — and in caring for him, I slowly started healing. As our relationship grew, I learned about my own nervous system, trauma, and regulation. I trained him, then other dogs, then dogs labeled “aggressive” and scheduled for euthanasia — and one day someone asked me what I charge, and I realized this wasn’t just survival, it was purpose. Today, Kenny is not only my service dog but my partner in rehabilitation, and the work I do giving people hope — helping them see change they thought was impossible — is the reason I live, because I know what it feels like to believe nothing could ever be different… and to discover that it can be.
$1,501 - $5,000
Enterprise Operations & Workforce Strategy Executive | Leadership Speaker
Dallas, Texas
Cassandra Carson is an operations and workforce strategy executive who helps organizations build accountability-driven cultures without sacrificing trust, engagement, or mentorship. With more than 13 years of experience leading enterprise HR, operational, and administrative functions in highly regulated environments, she has supported multi-site operations serving 650+ personnel and managed multimillion-dollar programs while advising senior leadership on workforce strategy, compliance, and organizational performance. Known for stepping into complex or underperforming environments, Cassandra specializes in strengthening accountability structures, developing high-performing teams, and aligning people strategy with operational results. She translates real-world leadership challenges into practical, immediately actionable frameworks that leaders can apply to improve performance, retention, and culture. A passionate advocate for mentoring emerging leaders and advancing women in high-responsibility roles, Cassandra delivers engaging, relatable presentations that combine inspirational insight with proven leadership tools. Her audiences leave with clear strategies to lead with confidence, build future leadership pipelines, and create cultures where accountability and trust thrive together. Recognized for her authentic storytelling, strategic clarity, and practical approach to leadership, Cassandra connects with both emerging professionals and senior executives who are ready to strengthen organizational performance and people-first results.
$1,501 - $5,000
Steven M. Stasczak is a dynamic presentation skills and communication trainer dedicated to helping professionals communicate with confidence, clarity, and impact. Through his company, Leaders Speakers, Steven has trained individuals and organizations to become more persuasive presenters, stronger leaders, and more effective communicators. Drawing from an extensive background in business-to-business sales, leadership development, and professional speaking, Steven delivers highly interactive, hands-on training programs that produce measurable results. His engaging teaching style enables participants to overcome the fear of public speaking, organize compelling presentations, communicate complex ideas with confidence, and influence audiences in meetings, sales presentations, workshops, and keynote speeches. Steven believes that exceptional communication is one of the most valuable professional skills anyone can develop. Whether speaking to one person or one thousand, he teaches practical techniques that immediately improve credibility, executive presence, audience engagement, and message retention. His training programs are customized for corporate teams, executives, engineers, sales professionals, healthcare organizations, government agencies, educational institutions, and emerging leaders who want to communicate with greater confidence and effectiveness. Organizations work with Steven to help their teams: Deliver polished, persuasive presentations Communicate with confidence under pressure Lead more effective meetings and workshops Improve executive presence and leadership communication Increase sales through stronger presentation skills Build trust, credibility, and influence with any audience Develop communication skills that produce lasting professional success Steven's mission is simple: to help people eliminate the fear of public speaking, become exceptional communicators, and create opportunities through the power of effective communication.
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Paul Manning is a former undercover police officer, investigator, and author specializing in organized crime, covert operations, ethical decision-making, and financial crime risk. With over 30 years’ experience across UK and Canadian policing—including service with the Royal Military Police, the Metropolitan Police Service, and the Hamilton Police Service—Manning spent years embedded in high-risk undercover environments targeting organized crime networks, including outlaw motorcycle gangs and traditional organized crime groups. His work exposed not only criminal enterprises, but the institutional and ethical failures that can arise inside policing and regulatory systems themselves. Following the collapse of an undercover operation, Manning became a public whistleblower and later documented his experiences in Ten Seventy Eight, an Amazon-bestselling account of undercover work, corruption, and moral injury. Today, Manning speaks to universities, professional bodies, compliance teams, and leadership groups on: - The realities and risks of undercover operations - Ethical failure inside institutions - Decision-making under pressure - Organized crime methodologies - Illicit finance and AML risk from the street to the boardroom His talks are unvarnished, evidence-based, and grounded in lived operational experience—bridging the gap between theory, policy, and real-world consequence.
$1,501 - $5,000
Based in Finland, I am an AI strategist, advisor, and CTO with 15 years of experience in management consulting and digital development. I specialize in helping businesses leverage technology and agentic AI to create continuous value and establish a competitive advantage in their markets. My approach combines deep technical expertise with strategic insight to guide organizations through complex digital transformations effectively. I work primarily with business and IT leadership teams, focusing on accelerating time-to-value in business development through AI. My core competencies include experience from strategic and operational digitalization, business capability design and planning, concept development and commercialization, productization, strategy and operating models, and project management and facilitation.
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For over a decade, Bridgette Simmonds, an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), has inspired and guided leaders around the world to engage their personal power, elevate their leadership, and create meaningful, sustainable impact. As a transformational coach and keynote speaker, Bridgette is known for delivering powerful, interactive experiences that move audiences beyond insight into embodied change. Founder of Bridgette Simmonds International, a premier professional development brand, she equips leaders and organizations with the internal capacity, clarity, and steadiness required to lead effectively in high-pressure environments. Her work blends mindset, strategy, and body-based leadership practices to help individuals break through burnout, restore focus, and lead with grounded confidence and intention. Bridgette’s keynotes and immersive experiences are highly experiential and deeply engaging, designed to regulate, recalibrate, and elevate leaders in real time. Participants consistently report greater clarity, emotional steadiness, and renewed momentum after a single experience. Her facilitation style is calm, commanding, and attuned, creating spaces where leaders feel both challenged and supported. Recognized for her excellence, Bridgette has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and named a Top 15 Coach in Tampa Bay. She is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation and a trusted partner to executives, entrepreneurs, and teams committed to leading with purpose, presence, and impact.
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Based in the United Kingdom, I am Shehzaad Shams, Founder & Chief Advisor dedicated to transforming contemporary leadership paradigms. Recognizing that current leadership models are often biased, dysfunctional, and uninspiring, I specialize in guiding leaders through periods of chaos, confusion, and conflict. My approach centers on helping leaders not only survive these challenges but thrive with enhanced clarity, authentic connections, and a harmonious integration of human values. My work is grounded in the principles of Eclectic Leadership, a framework that combines diverse leadership methodologies to foster resilience, empathy, and effective decision-making. By partnering with me, leaders gain the tools and insights necessary to drive meaningful change in their organizations while cultivating environments where innovation and collaboration flourish.
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Sara Magdalena Goldberger is an international corporate communications and public affairs professional with experience from private sector, government, and non-profits concentrating on: corporate affairs (government relations, PR, CSR, communications strategy), partnership development, and strategic marketing. Deep sector knowledge within ICT. Coached senior executives in media and press relations. Experience in leadership and executive communications strategy development, speech writing, stakeholder relations, multi-national communications, on-line communications. Agency review, procurement and management. Internal communications and staff engagement.
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I moderate your event professionally and safeguard the goals, atmosphere and content. With humor, up-tempo and always interactive. Without predictable statements or dreadful monologues. My added value is also that I, as a professional outsider, assist you in making your goals clear and concrete and together with you design a working method that makes us achieve those goals. I am founder of EU en Europe moderators collective moderating.eu. We believe conferences can be more engaging, inclusive and impactful.
$1,501 - $5,000
Trauma-Informed Leadership Keynote Speaker & Founder, Chefalo Consulting
Michigan, United States
Shenandoah Chefalo is a keynote speaker, trauma-informed leadership consultant, and founder of Chefalo Consulting. She helps organizations strengthen culture, retention, and performance by translating trauma-informed principles into practical leadership behaviors and systems—what leaders say, what teams do, and what organizations reinforce. Known for high-impact storytelling paired with clear implementation, Shenandoah equips leaders to reduce burnout, build psychological safety, and create accountability that is firm, fair, and human-centered. Her work is especially relevant to organizations serving the public, government agencies, K–12 and higher education, courts and corrections, child welfare, public safety, public health, and mission-driven nonprofits—where stress exposure and secondary trauma are common, and culture directly affects outcomes. Shenandoah is the author of Garbage Bag Suitcase, a memoir rooted in her childhood experiences in foster care, and she brings that lens into the workplace with professionalism and purpose: not as inspiration alone, but as a blueprint for sustainable change. Her audiences leave with language, tools, and next steps they can apply immediately. Whether they are leading a frontline team, managing a department, or reshaping an organizational culture. Shenandoah speaks on trauma-informed and healing-centered leadership, resilience without toxic positivity, difficult conversations, culture change, and building workplaces where people can thrive and deliver results.
$5,001 - $10,000
Michel Alimasi is a London-based strategic adviser working across philanthropy, international affairs and public policy. His subject is how power, incentives and institutional constraint shape what organisations can see, choose and do, and how the same rigour usually reserved for managing risk can be turned toward finding opportunity. He is most useful in rooms where competing interests, incomplete evidence and institutional ambition meet. What he speaks about: Power and strategy: how interests and incentives shape what institutions actually do, as distinct from what their strategies say. Decision-making under uncertainty: how organisations make consequential choices when the evidence is incomplete and no single actor controls the outcome. Collective action and convening: how to build productive exchange across unequal power, and how to design rooms where difficult conversations can actually happen. BACKGROUND Michel leads advisory project for funders and public-interest organisations including Comic Relief's Global Majority Fund, Impact on Urban Health, Citizens UK and Trussell. He is a Senior Consultant at the Curiosity Society and an Associate Fellow with Reos Partners, working on ecosystem mapping and institutional change. He holds an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA in International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs from the University of Bologna. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Aspen Institute UK Rising Leader Fellow, and co-founded Common Futures Conversations with Chatham House and Robert Bosch Stiftung. Formats and languages: Keynotes, workshops, panels, moderated conversations, webinars and closed-door strategy sessions. He works in English and Italian, with working French and Spanish, and is based in London. Full background and current writing: michelalimasi.com
$1,501 - $5,000
Adrian Miller, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), is a two-time James Beard Award-winning culinary author, certified barbecue judge, and recovering attorney based in Denver, Colorado. As a Certified Speaking Professional, the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association, he is recognized for sustained excellence, professionalism, and impact on the speaking stage. A graduate of Stanford University and Georgetown University Law Center, Adrian began his career in public service. From 1999 to 2001, he served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton with the Initiative for One America – the first free-standing office in the White House to address issues of racial, religious and ethnic reconciliation. He later worked as a senior policy analyst for Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Jr. Adrian has authored four acclaimed books examining soul food, barbecue history, and the stories of chefs who shaped presidential cuisine. His work has earned two James Beard Awards and numerous national honors. His most recent book, Cooking to the President’s Taste, published by the White House Historical Association in 2025, expands his scholarship into Asian heritage chefs in White House history. He currently serves as executive director of the Colorado Council of Churches and recently co-curated the exhibit “Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History,” at the Museum of Boulder, now on view at the El Pueblo History Museum.
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