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Deni Van is the host of Heartfelt Awakening Radio, Creator at Heartfelt Awakening LLC providing personal, professional, and organizational courses and continuing education helping people learn how to train their brain to choose wellness.
$5,001 - $10,000
I am the founder of Green Building Consulting & Engineering and an award-winning entrepreneur creating high performance profitable buildings which promote people's well-being by supporting environmental sustainability. As a Building Performance Engineer and a Green Building specialist I provide my Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) expertise to my clients and their building projects in Europe and Asia. Passionate about sustainability and committed in promoting green growth, I drive business practices on sustainability forward and inspire stakeholders to take action in designing and operating a better, greener future.
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“Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein Architect, Explorer, Curator, Connector: As an architect I love the unique challenges every project offers. One day I'm an anthropologist studying behaviors, the next a process designer optimizing a space to its unique requirements. Questioning assumptions and learning our client's language of meaning, and using a good dose of psychology to navigate the process. I've discovered that they can be very useful beyond any particular project, including every aspect of my business, and family life. I was born in Germany to Polish parents, and spent the first 24 years of my life soaking up European life with a huge family in both countries, traveling, studying, and working. I'm the one out of four kids that inherited the migration gene, so I've been living in the US, Arizona and Montana, for the last fifteen years. In addition to learning new perspectives from my clients, I've gathered a few of my own insights into different cultures, habits, and lifestyles. I've served on European, local, state and national committees, boards, and advisory groups within and outside of my profession, and it seems that these architectural skills that combine facilitation, ideation, problem solving, pruning, and visualization can help organizations thrive. In my personal life my focus is to become a better wife. I occasionally teach Yoga, and serve as a volunteer ski patroller during our beautiful Montana winters. I'm looking forward to meet you!
$251 - $1,500
Carol Hamilton, Principal, Grace Social Sector Consulting, LLC, helps associations become more strategic and innovative for greater mission impact. She provides organization effectiveness consulting, meeting design and facilitation, and training to organizations. A strategic thinker, Carol has worked with teams and organizations to envision and frame their future strategic direction. Practical in her approach, she helps organizations think through who is key to creating their future, how to gather insights from these stakeholders, consider the big picture, imagine new possibilities, come to agreement on their future goals and create an initial action plan to get started. With more than 20 years of experience in the association and nonprofit sectors, Carol speaks frequently on association leadership, strategy and innovation topics. She has led sessions at ASAE’s Great Ideas and Annual Conference as well as other conferences. She graduated from Swarthmore College and has her Masters in Organization Development from American University.
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With a background in public relations and business, Brooke Crawford serves as a knowledgeable resource for the modern day pr professional. With experience in corporate social responsibility to image consulting, Brooke uses her vast knowledge and expertise to create a unique tailored experience for clients.
$0 - $250
Dr. Spero Lappas rose from poverty, family dysfunction, and a lack of opportunity to become one of the leading trial lawyers in Pennsylvania. He served as lead counsel in hundreds of important civil and criminal cases and has been honored in The Best Lawyers in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the World, America's Leading Lawyers, and The Bar Register of Pre-Eminent Lawyers. His classic success story - position, prominence, and prestige - took an dramatic turn when at the age of fifty-eight he confronted the powerful realization that despite the rewards of his profession he was not living an authentic, fully integrated, life. Instead of conquering the life of his aspirations, he had become a passive rider on a runaway train of circumstance and routine. His desired destination - personal fulfilment - was nowhere on the route. His breakthrough book "Conquer Life’s Frontiers" arose from his discovery that lack of personal fulfillment is an all-too-common human condition. We all have a specific something that we would love to do or be - something that once demanded our full attention but which has, over time, morphed into a nagging sense of incompleteness which we have learned to accept. Dr. Lappas responded to his own incompleteness by developing a personal action plan which allowed him to begin teaching and mentoring young people as a college professor. Having fulfilled his true passion, he wrote Conquer Life’s Frontiers to express his promise that you can fulfill yours too - and to show you how to do it Lappas is a frequent community speaker and has taught at several colleges and universities. He has written for the Dickinson Law Review, the Champion Magazine, the Harrisburg Patriot News, The Burg Newspaper, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and The Encyclopedia of American Studies. He writes a regular column about personal happiness and contentment in Life in Forest Hills Magazine and his work will soon appear in Natural Awakenings. He has a PhD from Penn State, a Juris Doctor (cum laude) from the Dickinson School of Law, and a BA (cum laude) from Allegheny College. He has two adult children, Doctor Thom Lappas and Attorney Alexandria Lappas, and one grandchild, Spero Edward Lappas. He is an artist, a prize-winning photographer, a tournament Scrabble champion, a world traveler, and a formerly nationally ranked three weapon fencer. "Conquer Life's Frontiers" is his first book.
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Obsessive serial entrepreneur, polymath, creative thinker and public speaker, he has 24 startups under his belt and a few extra pounds on top, some patents and a track record for getting exotic things done. For the past few years has been invested in helping innovative startups get to market, having been a trainer and mentor at some of the best-known acceleration programs in the World, and advising the European Commission and several investment funds on disruptive technologies. As an international speaker, he has been committed to bringing the discussion on the ethical and social impacts of new technologies to venues such as TEDx, European Innovation Academy, Porto Tech Hub, ESOMAR and many others. Specialties: startups, tech, innovation, management, project management
$1,501 - $5,000
I am a single mother of five childern 2 boys and 3 girls. I have a passion for education and business. I love to share my passions with others thru education, inspiririations, and motivation. I have taught in special education and social services as a case manager /mentor. I enjoy reading, travelling, spending time with my family, and coupononing. I aspire to walk into the greatness placed on my life thru building others to be successful. I love to empower the youth and youund adults of the world by sharing my stories to equip them with a powerful tool knowledge.
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Nicola is a product designer and design consultant who loves working with enterprises, startups and government. An alumni of Pivotal Labs, she’s passionate about Lean UX, dual-track agile, and the benefits of regular user research. She is also a vocal advocate for honest communication within teams and reflective practises and is a cofounder of the retro tool Postfacto. She writes online about design and research on medium.com/@nicolarushton.
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Be immersed in fascinating facts about the world's most intriguing organisms that yield as much insight into our own lives as they do nature. In the spirit of biomimicry, the lessons explored will inspire you to think about competition, collaboration, opportunity, adversity, and survival in an entirely new light. In an eclectic combination of skills, Kurt MacDonald was an award winning science teacher and co-founder and director of a nationally-renowned Speech and Debate team. More recently, he is the founder of NatureSays (naturesays.org) and co-founder of The Professional Communicators (procommunicators.com), a public speaking coaching firm with a proven track-record of training c-suite executives, managers, team leaders, and entrepreneurs in the art (and science) of effective communication. In all these capacities, Kurt thrives on helping individuals proudly gain new knowledge and skills, and view commonplace situations through new, creative lenses. Spanning 25 years of his academic and professional career, Kurt has a long history of public speaking. He delivered the Most Outstanding Graduate address at the University of Colorado, Boulder, was a mainstage presenter at Scholar Search Conference, and an invited speaker at the Summit Advocates for Gifted Education. He presented at IgniteSTEM Columbia, and most recently gave a TEDx talk on finding opportunity in chaos. Kurt’s graduate degree in Behavioral Neuroscience and 15+ years teaching evolutionary biology also provides a unique perspective and intriguing examples to illustrate essential elements of his talks. A particular expertise of his is in the field of behavioral biomimicry--where human institutions can realize improvement from studying analogous situations in nature. Kurt currently lives in Denver with his wife, two daughters, and their adopted greyhound.
$1,501 - $5,000
An experienced copywriter with 15+ years of helping brands craft compelling messages in the Middle East. Owner and manager of content and media training house HWM, with Arabic transcreation available. Clients include the likes of the Dubai Executive Council, Dubai Internet City, d3, Smart Dubai, Dubai Data, Abu Dhabi Ports, Twitter, LinkedIn, Microsoft, DAMAC and others. Get in touch for punchy web copy, marketing brochures that sell, and complicated tech/financial stuff such as annual reports and white papers. For agencies, we help with specialised content projects as well as general PR and feature creation. I also specialise in MCing/presenting and moderating corporate events, awards and conferences. https://hishamwyne.com for more information, or pick up the phone: 00971509433383.
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A pioneer in the business of law with particular expertise in change and innovation. At DWF I am responsible for generating new ideas, delivering R&D priorities and supporting early growth services. In a rapidly changing legal market my major focus is working with clients to develop new products and services that combine specialist legal expertise with emerging technology, resourcing models and processes.
$1,501 - $5,000