HUB Directory

Allison Retina Stewart-Creeks

Artistic Director, Allison Retina LLC + Founder, Free Juice

Houston, Texas

I’m a Houston-based creative director, curator, and educator, and the author of Artist Vision: Planning With Intention, Not Burnout. For over a decade I’ve art directed and edited photography for brands like Meta, Nike, IBM, and the NBA. I founded Free Juice Inc., a nonprofit supporting emerging image-makers through mentorship and exhibitions, and I review portfolios and jury for FotoFest, ICP, Photolucida’s Critical Mass, PhotoNOLA, and Parsons. My talks come straight from that work: curating shows, mentoring artists, producing programs, and building a creative career that lasts. I speak honestly about vision, visibility, leadership, and burnout, and every session ends with tools people can use the next day. What I bring to a room: Practical tools. Planning frameworks, portfolio and positioning strategy, and systems that hold up over time. Honest conversation. The real questions about money, capacity, confidence, and growth. Cultural fluency. Care for how identity, legacy, and place shape creative work. A grounded presence. People feel safe enough to reflect and ask what they came to ask. I work with universities and art schools, artist programs, museums, cultural organizations, creative teams, and conferences. Speaking Topics: Use the closest SpeakerHub tags to Visual Arts, Photography, Creative Leadership, Artist Development, Wellness, and Cultural Programs.

Colleen Jack

Leadership Development Facilitator & Executive Coach

South Africa

Colleen Jack is a creative entrepreneur, facilitator, and coach who works with leaders and organisations to develop emotional intelligence, creativity, and purpose-driven leadership. With years of experience across corporates, SMEs, and entrepreneurial ecosystems, she brings a grounded, human-centred approach that honours the innate capability and wisdom leaders already possess. Her work focuses on leadership development that moves beyond tools and techniques, creating the conditions for deeper awareness, meaningful insight, and sustainable change. Colleen is known for igniting creativity as a practical leadership capability, one that strengthens resilience, sharpens decision-making, and enables leaders to navigate complexity with confidence. A committed advocate for women in leadership, Colleen designs and facilitates experiences that invite reflection, courageous conversation, and growth. Her style is warm, engaging, and thoughtfully challenging, enabling participants to access their own answers while expanding how they see themselves and their leadership. Whether working with senior executives, founders, or emerging women leaders, Colleen’s sessions are experiential, practical, and grounded in real-world application. Audiences leave feeling inspired, clear, and empowered, with insights they can immediately integrate into both their leadership practice and their lives.

Christopher W Quigley

Executive Director/Creative Director

Canada

Christopher W Quigley is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose work explores themes of entropy, impermanence, and transformation. With a background in interior and urban design, his practice spans over 20 years of fabrication of public art, sculpture, and immersive installations. His additional works, including Ephemeral Monolith and Last Adventure Tours examine the breakdown of systems, whether societal, environmental, or personal, questioning what remains after structures collapse. Transformation of Dangerous Spaces continues this exploration by confronting the silent, eroding forces of complicity, power, and gendered violence, using immersive experience as a catalyst for awareness and accountability. Quigley has a focus on engaging audiences beyond passive observation. His projects challenge viewers to step inside the collapse of ideas, norms, and histories, asking not just what disappears over time, but what emerges in its place.