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Ersula K Odom is an author based in Tampa, Florida, recognized for creating compelling narratives that translate real-world insights into stories audiences can feel, learn from, and share. Her work is designed to spark meaningful conversation and offer practical perspective, making her a natural fit for podcast audiences seeking depth, clarity, and a memorable voice. Through podcast appearances, Ersula brings her author’s lens to topics such as storytelling, personal growth, and purposeful living. She connects with hosts and listeners who want engaging, well-crafted discussions that highlight both inspiration and actionable takeaways, helping guests build stronger messages and communities around ideas that matter.
$251 - $1,500
Dr. Jen Spencer is a researcher, consultant, and speaker who helps helping professionals recognize the difference between burnout and moral injury. Her doctoral research with over 250 teachers led to the development of Calling Collapse™, a framework that identifies the deeper identity level erosion many educators, healthcare workers, and social workers experience but are afraid to name. She will be speaking at ResearchED, St Louis September 2026!
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Ashanti Smith is a leadership professional and speaker who is passionate about developing future leaders, building strong teams, and helping professionals grow beyond their comfort zone and break through the ceilings that often limit their potential. Through authentic leadership, real-world experience, and honest conversations, she empowers people to lead with confidence, accountability, and purpose. Through her leadership journey, Ashanti has learned that the most impactful leaders show up authentically, take ownership, and hold themselves and others accountable. She believes growth happens when people are willing to challenge themselves, invest in others, and turn everyday experiences into opportunities for learning and development. Ashanti finds the greatest fulfillment in developing people and watching them step into opportunities they once believed were out of reach. She is especially driven by helping professionals break through barriers in their careers, grow into confident and capable leaders, and continue developing both personally and professionally. When speaking with teams and organizations, Ashanti shares real leadership experiences, honest stories, and practical strategies that help people strengthen culture, develop others, communicate effectively, and lead with purpose.
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Michelle Yanahan ,Principal and Owner of ChangeFit 360, based in Illinois, United States, partners with organizations to realize the full benefits of projects and enterprise initiatives. She helps leaders, project professionals, and employees build the change and transformation capabilities required to make new strategies operational, sustainable, and measurable. Michelle focuses on minimizing disruption and reducing the time required to operationalize change. Her approach strengthens ownership and readiness across teams, clarifies roles and decision paths, and translates transformation intentions into practical ways of working—so organizations can deliver outcomes with confidence, alignment, and momentum.
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Brandon Powell is the Founder & CEO of HatchWorks AI, a pure-play AI transformation consultancy with 200+ employees across six offices in the Americas. A Harvard Business School alumnus and serial entrepreneur, he has spent 25+ years in enterprise technology — from Accenture and AT&T to building HatchWorks AI from zero, bootstrapped. Forbes named Brandon one of the Top 5 AI Leaders in the world for his "AI Humanist" philosophy: that AI should elevate people, not replace them. He speaks to CEO audiences at YPO Global Summits, Tiger 21, Harvard alumni clubs, SXSW, and Forbes Global Summits — delivering practical, ROI-first frameworks that executives can act on immediately. Brandon is a 3x Titan 100 CEO, 3x Georgia Titan Hall of Fame inductee, 2x Inc. AI Power Partner (2024 & 2025), 3x Inc. Best Workplaces honoree, Gold Stevie Entrepreneur of the Year, and the founder of HatchFutures — a nonprofit on a mission to train 1,000 educators in AI who will collectively teach 1,000,000 kids. His keynotes don't just inform — they equip. Audiences leave with a concrete playbook, not just inspiration. "You were absolutely amazing. Your session has been one of the best examples of 'take home value' that I have experienced." — Perry Britton, Executive Chairman, Britton Corp | 35-year YPO veteran
$5,001 - $10,000
İnan Al is the founder and managing director of Databenders, a global AI-first SEO agency headquartered in Turkey. He has spent more than 12 years working across search systems as a full-stack SEO consultant, with expertise in semantic SEO, content and context engineering, and AI search optimization(AEO/GEO). He is trusted by more than 100 brands for SEO advisory work, including Grammarly, L’Oréal, Turkish Airlines, Turkcell, Picus Security, Pegasus Airlines, Decathlon, Flippa, and Sahibinden. His work focuses on making brands, products, and individuals visible across search engines and large language models. He developed Databenders’ Author Entity Optimization framework and Brand Entity Optimization methodology to evaluate and improve AI visibility, entity clarity, and retrieval performance. His operating thesis is Knowledge-led Growth: in a search environment shaped by synthesis rather than links alone, durable visibility depends on structured knowledge, semantic precision, and context that machines can reliably interpret. Databenders implements this thesis as agentic infrastructure for clients. İnan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Engineering and a Master’s degree in Sonic Arts both from Istanbul Technical University. He produces and performs electronic music under the name, nan. He has a special interest in sound synthesis with synthesizers and performs live with digital motion sensors. He is currently based in Fethiye, Türkiye.
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Steven Underwood is an author and cultural commentator based in Sherman Oaks, California, helping organizations, universities, and creative communities understand the intersection of culture, digital media, and modern storytelling. He supports aspiring creators, writers, and brands in drawing from historical inspiration, building complex lore, and translating ideas seamlessly across mediums, with a particular focus on unpacking the new Black digital arts renaissance and the craft of immersive world-building. As a writer and cultural expert, Steven equips audiences to decode today’s creative landscape through actionable storytelling frameworks and culturally aware analysis. Whether he’s speaking to emerging writers, corporate teams, or pop-culture enthusiasts, he facilitates critical conversations about representation in media and literature, helping institutions and communities cultivate spaces that are genuinely inclusive—so every audience leaves with a shifted perspective on how culture shapes our digital and artistic worlds.
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Keynote Speaker | Executive & Leadership Coach | XR Program Designer & Facilitator
Australia
Most organisations don't have a performance problem. They have a self-understanding problem and it shows up most visibly under pressure. Kelly Magowan works at the intersection of behavioural science, immersive experience design and leadership development to help organisations close that gap. Her signature program, The Level Up Program™, combines extended reality (XR) with MBTI personality insight to make invisible team dynamics visible and fast. Teams don't just learn about communication. They experience, in real time, how their assumptions, decision-making and collaboration patterns shift under pressure. With over 20 years across executive coaching, HR and organisational development including roles at Ernst & Young, General Electric, and as an Executive Coach at Melbourne Business School — Kelly brings both strategic depth and practical application. She is the founder of Diversitas Consulting and has worked with organisations including Melbourne University, Coles, Cell Therapies, Austin Health, Planet Innovation, Department of Defence, and Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Her keynotes and workshops are designed not to inspire and leave they are designed to shift behaviour. Audiences leave with shared language, practical tools, and a different understanding of themselves and each other that they can use the next day
$1,501 - $5,000
Manager Resilience Trainer & Leadership Development Specialist
Michigan, United States
Nagham Alsamari is a Manager Resilience Trainer who helps organizations stop losing their best leaders to burnout. She arrived in the United States at age 13 speaking no English. Within months, she had taught herself the language through sheer determination and pattern recognition, an experience that became the foundation of everything she now teaches about building resilience from the inside out. With 20+ years in education and leadership development and 13+ years in training, Nagham created Behavioral Resilience Training™, a methodology that teaches managers how to make better decisions under pressure, recover from setbacks faster, and lead without depleting themselves. Her proprietary Train Your Resilience Muscle™ framework combines DISC behavioral science with manager-specific resilience strategies that create measurable shifts in performance and retention. She works with HR leaders, L&D teams, and organizations ready to build sustainable leadership capacity. Through keynotes, workshops, and multi-session training programs, managers gain practical tools to break reactive leadership patterns, protect their energy, and sustain high performance. Featured in VoyageMichigan Magazine and host of the Leading the Way podcast, Nagham delivers sessions that are immediately applicable, not motivational theory. Managers leave with self-awareness tied to their DISC behavioral style, a personalized Resilience Action Plan, and strategies they can use the next day. Whether you're booking a keynote for your annual conference, a half-day workshop for your leadership team, or a comprehensive training program, Nagham's sessions equip managers to thrive under pressure, not just survive it.
$5,001 - $10,000
I spent 15 years managing $20M programs in Silicon Valley before my body made a more compelling argument for a different life. Today I'm double board certified in functional nutrition and applied quantum biology, a certified breathwork facilitator, and a movement and yoga teacher with 2,000+ credentialed hours. I've led retreats and workshops across 11 countries on 4 continents — for executives, public figures, corporate teams and everyday people ready to feel genuinely well. My work sits at the intersection of hard science and lived experience. I bring breathwork, nervous system regulation, circadian biology, ancestral nutrition and movement together into practical tools that actually work — especially for high-functioning people who are too smart for generic wellness advice. I understand the pressure my clients are under because I've lived it. That's what makes the work land differently.
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Kristin Haynes is a trusted advisor to dental practices, group organizations, and DSOs who want clarity, structure, and sustainable growth. With over 25 years of experience in dentistry across clinical, operational, and leadership roles, Kristin bridges the gap between people, processes, and performance—helping leaders see what is really happening and what to change next. As CEO & Founder of KH Productivity Management, based in Virginia, Kristin partners with doctors and leadership teams to uncover hidden inefficiencies, strengthen team dynamics, and implement systems that improve profitability, retention, and long-term valuation. Through her Assessment to Clarity Framework™, she guides organizations from reactive decision-making to intentional leadership, delivering actionable insights leaders can implement immediately to elevate culture, team performance, and operational outcomes.
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Keynote Speaker | Executive Leadership, Change Management & Resilience Expert | Career Coach
Naperville, Illinois
Candace L. Oliva is a keynote speaker and an expert in executive leadership, change management, and resilience based in Naperville, Illinois. She helps individuals and organizations move through self-doubt, fear of failure, and limiting beliefs so they can build genuine confidence, navigate change, and perform at their highest level—without being held back by comparison, burnout, or uncertainty. Through her signature work, Candace reframes failure as redirection and equips audiences with practical, mindset-shifting strategies that turn pressure into clarity and setbacks into momentum. Having worked her way up from entry-level roles to executive leadership, she has used change as a motivator and challenges as a catalyst for growth—an experience that serves as the foundation of her message. Whether guiding leaders through transformation or supporting professionals through career transitions, Candace empowers individuals to lead with purpose, recognize their value, and unlock their full potential—creating lasting personal and professional success.
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