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Byron Williams is a dynamic TEDx speaker, film producer, and the author of six books, including an Amazon bestseller, exploring the complexities of modern interpersonal dynamics and social issues. With a professional background that spans his tenure as a corrections officer and his experience as an executive protection specialist for high-profile celebrities, he brings an unmatched insider perspective to his work. I’m The Relationship Bodyguard, and I help people guard their hearts with high-stakes security strategies built for real life. I bring the mindset of VIP protection into everyday relationships—so you can spot deception, de-escalate tension, and keep your boundaries intact without losing your cool. I’m based in Detroit, Michigan, and I work with adults, couples, and teens who want practical tools for survival and growth. From marital fallout to navigating high school dynamics and family dinner table drama, I guide you through calm, confident decision-making so you can survive the chaos and thrive in any dynamic.
More than $10,000
I am a Financial Coach for Manresa Planning, an education service based in London, United Kingdom. I help clients build sustainable, long-term investment portfolios by equipping them with clear, confidence-boosting guidance they can actually apply. I focus on bespoke understanding of each client’s goals and situation, then translate complex ideas into practical steps. My coaching covers construction theory, tactical insight, fee management, performance analysis, and current industry trends—so my clients can make smarter decisions and stay on track over time.
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Heather Hester is the creator and host of the three-time Women in Podcasting Award-winning podcast More Human. More Kind., and author of Parenting with Pride: Unlearn Bias and Embrace, Empower, and Love Your LGBTQ+ Teen. She is a speaker, writer, and coach helping parents, allies, and organizations find their way from fear to something that actually feels like love. Her work started with a phone call. When her son came out as gay in 2017, Heather's first words were a relieved "Thank god, I thought you were dead!" What followed was years of unlearning, honest conversation, and the slow, necessary work of growing into the parent her kid needed. She realized quickly she wasn't alone in that disorientation. And that most parents just needed someone to tell them the truth without shame attached. What began as a podcast and website has grown into a full platform: one-on-one coaching, a private Skool community, LGBTQ+ and Human-First consulting, and storytelling-driven workshops, talks, and articles. Heather doesn't offer tidy answers. She offers real ones. Whether she's working with a parent or speaking to a room full of HR leaders, the question underneath everything is the same: How do we stay connected to each other when things get hard? Heather is married to the funniest guy she's ever known and mom to their four extraordinary kids (two of whom are LGBTQ+) and one very opinionated mini Bernedoodle. She's slightly obsessed with the Weather Channel, and whenever she and her family land somewhere new, the first order of business is finding the best indie bookstore and the best coffee shop. She loves the smell of the ocean, the way damp summer heat makes everything slow down, and watching the butterflies and birds in her garden while she savors her morning coffee. She can lose herself in historical fiction, host a houseful of people any chance she gets, and make a mean bowl of gumbo. Her most cherished moments are the quiet one-on-ones with each of her kids and her husband, and the six of them together, where the air is equal parts deep love, sarcasm, irreverence, and "I've got your back."
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$2M+ in Collective Equity | $26M+ Affordable Housing | $20M+ Medical Facilities Embodied Leadership Speaker & Social Equity Advocate Over 100+ speeches delivered and $48M+ in housing equity and healthcare construction impact, Reba brings lived experience, systems insight, and embodied healing to every stage. As an Embodied Leadership Speaker, Certified Somatic Practitioner, and Social Equity Advocate who helps women, leaders, and purpose-driven organizations reconnect to their voice, rebuild inner safety, and lead from wholeness while understanding the systems that shape safety, dignity, opportunity, and belonging. Her speaking journey began in social equity work across Colorado, where she advocated for stable housing and removing barriers that prevent women and vulnerable communities from accessing life-changing care. Reba has helped secure a $26M tax credit award for a new affordable housing community, assisted in raising over $1M to help hundreds of women become first-time homeowners, resulting in over $2M in collective equity for those same women. Before Reba spoke about healing, she helped build spaces designed for it. Through her career in Healthcare Construction Management, she worked alongside engineers and project teams to help design and build hospitals, eating disorder clinics, cancer recovery centers, and NICUs—eventually stepping into a Project Manager role and earning her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Today, she brings that same mission to the stage through her Re-Discovering You framework, speaking at the intersection of systems change, social equity, and embodied healing. Reba’s work helps audiences understand that healing is not only personal—it is also structural. The policies we create, the systems we fund, the communities we build, and the barriers we remove all shape how people experience safety, dignity, opportunity, and belonging. Through lived experience, professional background, and advocacy work, Reba guides women, leaders, and purpose-driven organizations to examine the connection between personal disconnection and systemic inequity. She speaks to how housing, access to care, economic mobility, and community investment become pathways for restoration—because putting resources into the hands of organizations that serve vulnerable communities is not just charity; it is healing work in action. Through Re-Discovering You, Reba guides audiences in breaking patterns of disconnection, over-functioning, and self-abandonment while inviting them to examine the root systems that shape their lives. Her work helps people rebuild inner safety, reconnect to their voice, lead from wholeness, and participate in creating a more dignified world.
$1,501 - $5,000
I clear the chaos so leadership teams move from confusion to focus, and reaction to intention
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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For more than three decades, I have partnered with senior leaders to turn high-stakes transitions into durable performance and healthier cultures. Whether the moment is a restructuring, a culture reset, a post-merger integration, or another inflection point, I help leaders translate complexity into clarity, align decisions across functions, and build the behaviors that sustain momentum long after the change announcement. In a world craving leaders who can navigate complexity with clarity and compassion, I serve as a steady guide and catalyst for lasting change. Over the years, I’ve supported Fortune 500 executives, global institutions, and mission‑driven organizations as they lead through turbulence, realign culture and strategy, and build leadership capacity that endures. As co‑founder of TAGA Consulting, I’ve helped build a cross‑industry practice known for designing and delivering high‑impact, customized leadership solutions. Our work spans executive coaching and senior team retreats to large‑scale systems change and cultural transformation across aerospace, healthcare, defense, financial services, law, education, and government, always with a culturally attuned, collaborative approach that fosters alignment, accountability, and measurable results.
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I’m Brandin Elmore, a keynote speaker, Marine veteran, and working stunt performer built from hard training and high-stakes environments. In Los Angeles, I help leaders and teams stop relying on titles and start earning usefulness with the people right in front of them. I’ve seen what happens when the room depends on everyone showing up ready—film sets, military deployments, and competitive arenas all taught me the same lesson: the most valuable person in the room isn’t the loudest or the most senior. It’s the most useful. My keynotes and workshops are grounded in the ROOMS Framework, a practical five-step system that gives teams a shared language for how to show up, connect, and contribute at a higher level. No fluff and no corporate jargon—just tools people can use immediately to improve communication, trust, and accountability. Audiences leave with a clear, repeatable way to become more useful to the people around them, because that’s what turns strategy into results.
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CEO & Founder, Andrea Carter Consulting | Creator, Belonging First Methodology™
Canada
Andrea D. Carter is an organizational scientist, keynote speaker, and creator of the Belonging First Methodology™, the first validated instrument for measuring organizational belonging. Her research spans 20 years and over 150,000 employees across eight industries, identifying the precise conditions under which people think clearly, make sound decisions, innovate, and perform at their ceiling. Andrea is CEO and Founder of Andrea Carter Consulting, an Adjunct Professor at Adler University, a Forbes Business Council member, and a TEDx speaker. Her peer-reviewed research has been published in academic journals and featured in The Conversation, Forbes, Fast Company, The Globe and Mail, and the New York Times. She has been named Top Strategic Advisor of the Year by IAOTP, recognized as a Top 10 Female Disruptor by MSN Microsoft, and featured in Top 100 Innovators & Entrepreneurs. Her keynotes reframe belonging as cognitive infrastructure, not a culture initiative, giving leaders the neuroscience, the data, and the framework to close the gap between what their people are capable of and what current conditions allow.
More than $10,000
Adjunct Philosophy Professor/Producer of Good Is In The Details
Los Angeles, California
Dr. Gwendolyn Dolske is a university philosophy professor, author, and host of the top-ranking educational podcast Good Is In The Details. With over a decade of experience teaching at Cal Poly Pomona and a passion for public philosophy, she brings complex ideas to life through engaging, accessible conversations that inspire critical thinking and personal growth. Her talks blend academic insight with humor and clarity, often exploring topics such as meaning-making, ethics in everyday life, the art of questioning, and the empowerment of women through philosophical reflection. As a keynote speaker and guest lecturer, Gwendolyn has spoken to audiences ranging from university students to professional development groups, always leaving them with new tools for understanding themselves and the world around them. Her published work has appeared in Film and Philosophy, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Humanities and Research in Education Journal. She is a frequent guest on podcasts and panels where she champions the role of philosophy in public discourse.
$5,001 - $10,000
Keynote Speaker | Creator of The Architecture of Adaptation™ | Founder
Oxnard, California
Cindy Costley's perspective wasn't shaped by theory alone—it was shaped by living it. For more than 34 years, Cindy lived in a body that often reacted severely to things that were simply part of everyday life. Food was dangerous. Environments made her sick. Even seemingly ordinary experiences could significantly affect how she felt and functioned. Over time, her world became smaller and smaller. For decades, she believed her body was broken. Eventually, her search for healing forced her to look deeper—and what she discovered changed not only how she understood her body, but how she understood human adaptation itself. Her body's responses weren't random. They made sense in the context of what it had experienced and what it had learned to anticipate. What had looked like dysfunction began to reveal something else: "adaptation." That discovery became the beginning of a much larger exploration. With a degree in dietetics and more than 20 years of experience working with the body, Cindy has explored conventional medicine, nutrition, functional and integrative approaches, energy work, trauma healing, nervous system regulation, and the complex relationship between our experiences and the ways we adapt to them. Over time, she began recognizing a principle that extended far beyond physical symptoms: "we don't simply adapt to what happens. We adapt to what our experiences teach us to anticipate." Those adaptations can influence far more than how we feel physically. They can continue shaping how we think, respond, communicate, relate, lead, perform, and navigate change long after the circumstances that created them have passed. Today, Cindy brings this perspective to audiences through The Architecture of Adaptation™, inviting people to reconsider responses we often label irrational, resistant, dysfunctional, or self-defeating and ask a different question: "What if this response makes sense when we understand what the person has adapted to?" Cindy is a keynote speaker, creator of The Architecture of Adaptation™, and host of The Underlying Answers podcast. Her work isn't about giving audiences another explanation for what's wrong. It's about offering a different place to begin—one that recognizes the intelligence behind how we adapt and opens new possibilities for how we understand ourselves, understand one another, and create change.
$5,001 - $10,000
Brandi Heather is the CEO and Founder of Playful Intelligence™, best-selling author and global keynote speaker known for bold, human experiences that help people live and work better under pressure. Brandi shows that play is not a break from work — it is how humans stay adaptable, connected, and effective as demands increase. Her work helps leaders and teams maintain access to their best thinking, creativity, and judgment under pressure, without adding more strategies or noise. Built on decades of experience across post-secondary education, business, and human services, Brandi’s interactive, story-driven keynotes create moments where audiences feel the shift in real time — and leave people able to think clearly, trust their judgment, and act when the pressure is on.
$5,001 - $10,000
Over a quarter century of experience in the world of design and construction comes to bear on Toby Witte’s internationally acclaimed work. German by heritage and upbringing, born in Peru, Toby has had the privilege to study and practice architecture, building science, drafting, and construction in Germany and in the USA. Between various employment with architect, engineering, and construction firms, he graduated cum laude from the David R. Ravin School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. He ran his previous design/build companies Dialect Design and Qube11 for over a decade until he founded Wittehaus in 2017. Toby and Wittehaus have been honored with many awards, including the Medal & Henry Adams Certificate of Merit by The American Institute of Architects, the North Carolina Modernist Houses Matsumoto Prize, the Build Magazine’s Design & Build Award for “Most Innovative Architecture and Design Firm, North Carolina”, the Communicator Award of Distinction by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, the BLT award for Architectural Design, as well as the Architecture Masterprize. Forbes Magazine featured Wittehaus on their list of America’s Top 200 Residential Architects. Among other publications Toby’s homes have been featured by Dwell, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His work has been showcased in exhibitions such as at the Lambla Gallery for the UNCC College of Architecture 50th Anniversary Symposium and Gala. Toby is the distinguished author of Supersizing Bliss - How we have betrayed our Homes and the Happiness we Seek, an award-winning book about how we have come to regard the houses we live in, and ideas and insights on their creation and the opportunity for lasting happiness. Following the success of his book, Toby has been a keynote speaker and frequent podcast guest, sharing his thoughts about the world of modern homes. In the interest to share his expertise with the next generation of architects, Toby has been called back by his alma mater to occasionally help out as a guest lecturer and part-time adjunct professor. To learn, grow , and contribute, Toby has been an active member of the American Institute of Architects, the National Organization of Minority Architects, Brick & Wonder, EntreArchitect, and the Green Built Alliance. When Toby parks his pencil he lets himself be sucked in by a vibrant family life centered around his wife, an early education teacher, their three powerhouse daughters, and four cats. He cooks, reads, travels, plays two chords on the guitar, and loves a good beer.
$1,501 - $5,000
I’m Nicole Van Valen, MS, LMFT, SHRM-SCP, CEO and Founder of Keane Insights® and author of The Joyful Leader®. Long before I was consulting executives in Fortune 500 boardrooms, I was performing under stadium lights as an NBA dancer and NFL cheerleader. Those years taught me how to perform under pressure, reset between high-stakes moments, and lead with energy and presence; skills I now bring to leaders and organizations worldwide. As a licensed therapist and senior HR professional, I’ve combined mental health expertise with executive leadership experience at CVS Health, Aetna, and SHRM. Today, I deliver keynotes, workshops, and executive coaching for healthcare, HR, and corporate leaders internationally. My Ready–Set–Go® framework equips leaders and teams with practical, evidence-based tools to reduce burnout, strengthen engagement, and achieve sustainable high performance. Based in South Florida, Nicole speaks nationally and internationally aat conferences, leadership summits, corporate retreats, and industry events—including in healthcare, HR, education, and the C-suite.
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