HRM Queen Naa Tsotsoo Soyoo I
Entrepreneur, an Advocate, Educator and Community Leader
Her Royal Majesty Naa Tsotsoo Soyoo I, is an award-winning Queen from the Ga tribe of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The first ever African Queen to be featured in the USA’s Pan Afrikan Times, she is a key figure in the African Diaspora community as well as an active leader and advocate who devotes her time to promoting her culture and influencing policy through her work with international organisations and local groups.
Dr. Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Shirin Ebadi, J.D., was awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote human rights, in particular, the rights of women, children, and political prisoners in Iran. She is the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and only the fifth Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in any field.
Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir
Writer, Blogger, Author and Activist
Marina has written a fortnightly column on social issues in a local English-language daily for more than 20 years. Marina Mahathir is a writer, women’s rights and HIV/AIDS activist and TV producer. She served as the President of the Malaysian AIDS Council for 12 years from 1993-2005. In addition Marina has served on many regional and international HIV/AIDS bodies including the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (ASAP), UNAIDS and the Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on HIV and Development (APLF). Currently she is a member of the Board of Sisters in Islam, which advocates for justice and equality for Muslim women. She is also a member of the International Advisory Group of Musawah, the global movement for justice and equality in the Muslim family.
Jyoti
Spiritual Director of the Center for Sacred Studies
Jyoti is an internationally renowned spiritual advisor with a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology including two-and-a-half years of postgraduate study at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She’is one of the founders of Kayumari, a spiritual healing community, located in the Sierra foothills of California, the North Bay of San Francisco, New York, Prague and a home in the Brazilian Amazon. She is the Spiritual Director of the Center for Sacred Studies, a 501(c)3 dedicated to sustaining ways of life based on collaboration and reciprocity with the Earth and all Her beings.(www.sacredstudies.org).
Dr. Rain Annie Lim
Founder, WEWorld Network
Dr. Rain is a serial entrepreneur; a fun, brilliant and creative individual who lives to serve and touch the lives of others through coaching, training and transformational work. She is the founder of WEWorld Network, Dr. Annie Lim International Inc. and the LIFE Children Foundation. She has owned and managed several companies in Malaysia prior to moving to Canada; her success has been featured on Bloomberg Television, and several other mainstream news and media outlets.
Pat Anderson
Founder, Skyborne Motivation
With over 25 years experience in various avenues of sales, and more than 20 years as a toastmaster, Pat Anderson is an Internationally Certified Public Speaking Coach and Presentation Skills Trainer focusing on empowering people to better themselves, improve their self esteem, and enable them to grow and flourish over time by improving their skills in presenting to an audience.
Michelle Anton
Sr. Vice President Club Operations, CEOSpace
Michelle Anton is co-author of the bestselling book, Weekend Entrepreneur: 101 Great Ways to Earn Extra Cash. In addition to being an expert on entrepreneurship, Michelle spent the past 15 years producing- nationally syndicated programming for industry giants Dr. Laura, Leeza Gibbons, Danny Bonaduce and Montel Williams. And she was a freelance associate producer working on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Barnet Bain
Oscar Winner, Producer, Director & Coach
Barnet Bain is an Oscar-winning, Emmy-nominated film producer and director, radio broadcaster, and transformational coach. Select film credits include What Dreams May Come , Homeless to Harvard, The Celestine Prophecy, The Jesus Film, and The Lost and Found Family. Upcoming film productions include Milton’s Secret, based on the book by Eckhart Tolle currently in pre-production; and the documentary feature When I Was Young I Said I Would Be Happy: the Story of Project LIGHT Rwanda currently in post production.
Ruth Bayang
CEO of RCB Homes
RUTH BAYANG is an entrepreneur, two-time Emmy award winner, writer and mom to two children. Her book, ‘Free at 40’ to help women get on the path to financial freedom, was ranked in the top #100 Best Seller in its category on Amazon. Ruth’s passion is to empower teenage girls and young adult women to become financially free and design a life of passion, purpose, and integrity. Ruth helps homeowners facing hardship or in danger of losing their homes and finds a win-win solution to their situation. She invests in improving neighborhoods and increasing property values by buying distressed homes, renovating them to meet modern standards and code.
Tatiana Berindei
Relationship Expert at Super Power Experts
A minister, relationship coach, mentor, healer, visionary, singer and speaker, Tatiana is also the Relationship Expert at SuperPowerExperts.com. SPE is an online organization which operates on the philosophy that we are all more powerful together and assists others in transforming their personal power into Super Powers so they can change the world. Tatiana is the host of the Sex, Love and SuperPowers podcast show, which features prominent people in the field of human relationships, sexuality and women’s empowerment.
Joan Beugen
Founder, President and Chief Creative Director of Cresta Creative
As a marketing consultant and specialist, Joan has worked with Fortune 500 corporations including Apple, Baxter Healthcare, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Hines, HSBC, Intel, McDonald’s, Navistar, Quaker Oats, Sara Lee Company, Shell Oil, as well as with non-profits, start-ups and mid-size companies.
Louis Bohtlingk
Founder, Care First World Ltd
LOUIS BOHTLINGK is a visionary who has worked as a counselor for more than 30 years. With his wife Sandra, he has created multiple platforms addressing the money issues that individuals and companies experience. Bohtlingk is also the creator of the “Meeting the Mystery of Money” workshop, which has been held throughout the U.S., the U.K., and the Netherlands and helps individuals to reorganize their finances and lives with a care-first approach. You can learn more about their work on their website, www.carefirstworld.com
Michele Bongiovanni
Founder / CEO of HealRWorld
Michele Bongiovanni is the Founder and CEO of HealRWorld, a socially conscious, for profit company uniting sustainable businesses and consumers around “conscious capitalism” for the betterment of our world.
Jen Cohen
Co-Founder, Seven Stones Leadership Group
Jennifer Cohen is a leadership and organizational coach and consultant with 20 years in the field coaching hundreds of individuals and groups. She co-founded Seven Stones Leadership Group, which engages individuals and organizations in the most pressings questions of our time. She teaches a unique model of leadership development and is pioneering work in moving organizations and individuals to a partnership model of living and leading based on the mind set and practice of exquisite sufficiency first offered by Buckminster Fuller and popularized by Lynne Twist. She has served as the Director of Coaching Education for Mobius Executive Leadership, a global boutique-consulting firm serving Fortune 500 companies, and for many years ran her coaching business as The Center for Meaningful Leadership.
Claire Connelly
Creative Director, Papercut. President, Canberra Women in Business
Claire Connelly is the Creative Director of Papercut. Claire’s motivation for starting her own studio in 2007 was a drive to direct a unique communication service, while also leading Canberra studios in a new era of sustainable graphic design.
Dame DC Cordova
CEO, Excellerated Business Schools
DC Cordova is CEO of Excellerated Business Schools and Money & You, a global organization that has over 100,000 graduates from all over the world, especially the Asia Pacific and North American regions. Programs are taught in English and Chinese soon expanding to Spanish and other languages. Many of today’s wealth/business leaders have attended Money & You and transformed the way they teach and run their organizations. Through these graduates, Dame Cordova’s work has touched the lives of millions all over the world.
Jenny Craig, LCSW, BCD
Founder of Grateful Ring Movement
Jenny R. Craig, LCSW, BCD is a transformation specialist, utilizing her expertise in assisting leaders in creating authentic, profound, long-lasting impact in their organizations and personal lives. A dynamic and riveting speaker, Jenny has taught her life-changing training all over the world. She is a powerful influence in her field in psychology, having trained psychologists and coaches in 48 states on her techniques, has spoken at the United Nations, published three books and been part of two best sellers.
Susan Davis
President, Capital Missions Company
For over three decades, Susan Davis has worked to dramatically empower women economically through the creation of innovation networks with women leaders. In 1979, she was a founding organizer of The Chicago Network , an organization for Chicago’s top women leaders in all fields , and in 1980, she was also a founding organizer of the Chicago Finance Exchange for leading women in finance. She also co-founded the Committee of 200 in 1981, a ground-breaking network for America’s top women business owners and corporate leaders (see CapitalMissions.com.) Susan now shares her proven “KINS Innovation Network” method open source at KINSInnovation.org.
Carol Dysart
Founder of PeopleSmart Solutions ProfileU
DISC Behavioral Assessments expert, Carol Dysart, has, for over 34 years, been teaching, consulting and certifying people in how to apply her PeopleSmart Solutions Method system to help them understand themselves and others, bringing out their own gifts, and enhancing their people-smart management-skills. Carol knows what makes other people “tick” because she has profiled and debriefed thousands of other people providing her with insights that she now teaches to others who want to not only be great leaders but compassionate, self-confident individuals.
Ozioma Egwuonwu
Chief Operating Officer of Rising Women Rising World
Ozioma Egwuonwu is an internationally renowned speaker, writer, teacher and transformational strategist. She is the CEO of BurnBright International, a global consultancy she founded to help individuals, businesses, and communities reach their full potential www.burnbright-lifeworks.com. Ozioma is also the Chief Operating Officer of Rising Women Rising world, a visionary initiative based on women’s visions, values, and voices, deep dedicated to co-creating a world that works for all www.risingwomenrisingwomen.org
Paula Fellingham
Founder and CEO of The Women’s Information Network (WIN)
Founder of the non-profit organization Solutions For Families, Inc. Founder of Women Celebrating Life, Inc., Families Now, Inc. and Unlimited Living International, Inc. Former member: National Board of Directors Worldwide Organization for Women; State Board of American Mothers, Inc. Paula chaired the Committee for the “Call From The Families Of The World” in conjunction with the World Congress on Families Conference, Switzerland.
Dr. Sylvia Forchap
Founder of Voice of Nations cic, Global Visionary WomenNetwork
Dr Sylvia Forchap-Likambi is a visionary, empowerment and transformation expert, transformational/ motivational Speaker, mentor, executive/ life coach, and author. She is the visionary founder & Global CEO of Dr Sylvia Likambi International, and founder/CEO of Award-Winning non profit community interest company Voice of Nations (VON), with a vision to transform the lives and status of less privileged and disadvantaged girls and women so they can become aware of their rights and full potential, and excel into positions of leadership and financial independence.
Maria Gamb
Founder and CEO, NMS Communications LLC
Maria Gamb is the Founder and CEO of NMS Communications, a mentoring & training company specializing in value-based leadership, gender communication: building productive teams through customized programs & private mentoring. As a former Fortune 500 executive, she spent more than 20 in the trenches of corporate America leading businesses in excess of $100million working in global markets.
Serge Gravelle
World Class Instructor, Coach & Author
Dr. Serge Gravelle has been semi-retired for several years but remains very active. He is a true maverick in theare as of marketing, product & service development, problem solving, business structure and personal wealth accumulation. He is an international marketing & business development coach, a renowned developer of complex e-commerce web platforms, a guide in personal growth as well as a life mentor to many.
Alisa Gravitz
CEO and President, Green America
For nearly 30 years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America, the national green economy organization. Green America (formerly Co-op America) develops marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems with a key focus on tackling climate change, building fair trading systems, stopping corporate abuse and growing the green economy. Green America’s major events and publications include Green Festivals, National Green Pages and Green American. Green America operates the nation’s largest green business and green consumer networks..
Karen Greenbaum
Partner, Pierce Consulting (high-end executive search firm)
Karen B. Greenbaum is an experienced global business leader having served as the President and COO, responsible for the $1 billion US business of Mercer Consulting /MMC, a Fortune 200 company, and later as COO for Nixon Peabody LLP, a nearly $500 million global 100 law firm.
Hazel Henderson
Founder, Ethical Markets Media
Hazel Henderson, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, founder of Ethical Markets Media and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series, is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist and, along with eight other books, is author of the Axiom and Nautilus award-winning book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006).
Zach Ho
Co-Founder & Master Facilitator of Origin of Wisdom
Zach is a leading instructor in personal transformational programs and camps since early 2003. He is an accelerated training style instructor and an experts in the field of communication, leadership, sales and team-building where he shares with his participants his many years of real-life-authentic-practical experience that generate positive results.
Lana Holmes
Intuitive Systems Thinker and Designer
Drawing upon the combined resources of a 28+ year executive career in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lana Holmes served as a proof of concept CEO for 8 companies and was a an investor or advisor in over 30 technical startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a founder of four companies, she has a deep expertise in the complete entrepreneurial journey. More specifically, a refined knowing of the inner and outer structures needed for successful implementation in the current market place.
Emmanuel Itier (Director)
Cast of Femme – Women Healing The World
An experienced feature film Producer, Emmanuel Itier directed the thriller “Tell me no Lies” (2000) and the horror film “Scarecrow” (2002). He just completed the Peace documentary “The Invocation” narrated by Sharon Stone and with Desmond Tutu, HH The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra and many others worldwide peace activists.
Dr. Lise Janelle
Owner of the Centre For Heart Living
Since the age of 23, Dr. Lise Janelle has been a business owner, first running a very successful holistic chiropractic centre for over 22 years, ranking top 10% earners in Canada. She then made a transition in 2004 to full time coaching and founded the Centre for Heart Living in Toronto which is dedicated to helping people experience true success with their overall life, not only their career. Author of ‘You are loved’ and ‘Conversations with the Heart’, Lise is part of the Transformational Leadership Council, an exclusive group of transformational leaders, many of whom were in the movie “The Secret”. She is also the founder of the Global Heart Living Movement, which has a goal to reach millions and help them heal their hearts by maximizing their life potential.
Karen Kate
Cast of Femme – Women Healing The World
Karen first book, Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations has garnered prestigious endorsements, while her second book, Walking An Ancient Path: Rebirthing Goddess on Planet Earth, was a finalist in the National Best Books of 2008 Awards. Her newest book, Goddess Calling: Inspirational Messages and Meditations of Sacred Feminine Liberation Thealogy, out in the Spring of 2014 is already getting rave reviews from her mentors and peers. Her fourth book, an anthology scheduled for release in the Fall of 2014, Voices of the Sacred Feminine: Conversations to ReShape our World, includes the ideas of visionaries and scholars such as Noam Chomsky, Jean Houston, Fr. Roy Bourgeois and Laura Flanders of GRIT-tv.
Lynne Katzmann
Founder & President, Juniper Partners, Inc.
Lynne Katzmann, Founder and CEO of Juniper Communities of Bloomfield, NJ, a privately held, long-term care company, has been President and CEO throughout its twenty-five years. Today, the company employs 1,200 people and during its first quarter century has worked with over 10,000 families in senior living including independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care. Ranked #12 by Crain’s New York Business on its Top 50 listing of women-owned businesses for the New York tri-State area, Juniper is the only women-owned company among the largest 40 US assisted living companies, with revenues currently $65 million. There are 20 Juniper Village communities in four states; New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida and Colorado.
Penny L. Kelly
Owner/Director of Kelly Networks LLC
Penny Kelly, N.D., is a writer, teacher, publisher, consultant, and Naturopathic physician. A former Tool and Process Engineer for Chrysler Corporation, she left there in 1979 to study the brain, consciousness, intelligence, intuition, and cognition. This led to 15 years’ work as an educational consultant specializing in Accelerated and Brain-Compatible Teaching and Learning. Penny is the owner of Lily Hill Farm and Learning Center in southwest Michigan, USA. She holds a degree in Humanistic Studies from Wayne State University, is the mother of four children and the author of seven books on spirituality, health, and consciousness.
Lisa Larter
CEO, Lisa Larter Consulting
Lisa Larter is a high school drop out who climbed the corporate ladder to lead a 100M dollar sales team in the Wireless Retail industry until 2006 when her entrepreneurial spirit took over and she became a self taught business guru and social media expert.
Lisa opened her own bricks and mortar wireless store in 2006, surpassed the million dollar sales mark after one year, and soon after started advising other businesses on how to connect with their customers through social media so they could build relationships, share content, drive traffic and increase sales.
Sharon Lechter
Founder and CEO, Pay Your Family First
In 1997 Sharon co-authored the international bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad, along with 14 other books in the Rich Dad series. Over 10 years as CEO she led the Rich Dad Company and brand into an international powerhouse. In 2008 she was asked by the Napoleon Hill Foundation to help re-energize the powerful teachings of Napoleon Hill just as the international economy was faltering. Her bestselling books, Think and Grow Rich-Three Feet from Gold and Outwitting the Devil were both written in cooperation with the Napoleon Hill Foundation. Sharon’s most recent book project is Save Wisely, Spend Happily, in cooperation with the American Institute of CPAs. Current projects in development with Napoleon Hill Foundation include Think and Grown Rich For Women and Think and Grow Rich for Kids.
Susan Lee
Founder of HeartCore Marketing
Susan Lee is an award-winning marketing and communications expert who has worked with executives and entrepreneurs to grow their personal and professional brands. She blends over a decade of experience across both enterprise and start-up companies with a wealth of knowledge in B2B/B2C marketing. Her experience managing high profile campaigns has helped build brands across multi-national companies including TELUS and Unilever. A seven-time bridesmaid, she knows what it takes to provide support and is passionate about backing the small business community.
Marilyn Levin
Managing Director of KINS Innovation Networks
Award Winning Activist, Author, Speaker and Trainer
Marilyn Levin, MSW is a social entrepreneur focused on catalyzing the global transformation that is underway. She is an award winning activist, a professional speaker and trainer www.marilynlevin.com and the author of Experiential Activities for a Better World (in English and Spanish). She founded several organizations including Global Sufficiency Network, GALAXY, and RAY and served as Campaign Director for Four Years Go www.fouryearsgo.org. She currently serves as Managing Director of KINS Innovation Networks www.kinsinnovation.org in collaboration with www.centerforsustainabilitysolutions.org.
Violet Lim
Co-founder of Lunch Actually & Eteract.com
Violet and her husband, Jamie, founded the premier modern dating company, Lunch Actually, in Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur & Penang) and Hong Kong. She has appeared in over 1000 articles, television and radio appearances as well as the Singapore’s National Day Video in 2005 where she was featured as one of Singapore’s most aspiring people. At the worldwide Matchmakers conference held in New York by the Matchmaking Institute in 2009, Violet was a panelist where she shared with 80 fellow matchmakers around the world about Business Models and Expansion Strategies and Matchmaking in Foreign Markets. Currently, she is the Executive Director and the Principal Trainer of Matchmaking Institute (South East Asia) where she trains matchmakers and aspiring matchmakers from all around Asia.
Steven Lovink
Founder of Planet2025 Network Visionary Entrepreneur, Peace Builder, Whole System Thinker
Steven Lovink is committed to accelerating wholes greater than the sum of their parts, he continues his life’s journey sensing humanity’s emerging future, assembling its building blocks a piece at a time. He is a founder of Planet2025 Network, a whole system enterprise initiative with a mission to catalyze a peaceful, sustainable way of life by 2025 and its affiliated Power of One, a charitable organization dedicated to inspire and empower integrated action by people and organizations toward transformation to a peaceful, sustainable global society.
Jill Lublin
3 Time Best Selling Author, Publicity and Networking Expert, International Speaker
Jill Lublin is the 3 Time Bestselling Author of “Guerrilla Publicity”, “Get Noticed – Get Referrals”, and “Networking Magic”. An international speaker with more than 200 speaking engagements each year, Jill Lublin is an audience favorite for her lively and interactive keynote speeches, seminars, and special programs. Her unparalleled knowledge of publicity and networking has gotten the attention of ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fortune Small Business and a long list of media outlets worldwide. Having shared the stage with Tony Robbins, Richard Simmons, and Jack Canfield, when Jill isn’t travelling the word wowing audiences, she hosts her own television show, “Messages of Hope.”
Dr. Rama Mani
Founder of Theatre of Transformation
Dr. Rama Mani is an internationally renowned peace builder, poet, and performing artist. Rama founded ‘Theatre of Transformation’, based on her 25 years of experience in strategic leadership, governance and security, to catalyse creative solutions to global crises, and to support transformative peace initiatives in countries in crisis. Rama was formerly Executive Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka, Director of the Global Peace and Security Course at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and Senior External Relations Officer of the Commission on Global Governance.
Dot Maver
President, National Peace Academy
In her work as a community organizer and peacebuilder, Dot’s keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Utilizing a shared responsibility and shared leadership model (SR/SL) developed over thirty years. Presently Dot serves as Director of the National Peace Academy as the team strives to embody and reflect the principles and processes of peace, always working from purpose, in the spirit of cooperation, making decisions with an eye to the greater good, with a focus on right relationship. Dot is also a founder of, and member of the Leadership Council for, the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace, a movement striving to create infrastructures of peace, including a call for National Peace Academies.
Amy Millman
President, Springboard Enterprises
Amy Millman is a passionate advocate for women entrepreneurs building Big Businesses Starting Small. In 2000, she co-founded Springboard Enterprises, a non-profit venture catalyst which sources, coaches, showcases and supports women-led companies seeking equity capital for product development and expansion. Springboard has assisted hundreds of women entrepreneurs in raising billions in investments and connecting with thousands of expert resources.The successes of Springboard entrepreneurs include 10 IPOs, legions of high value M&As and a community of accomplished serial entrepreneurs.
Harriet Mouchly-Weiss
Managing Partner of Strategy XXI
Ms. Mouchly-Weiss, Managing Partner of Strategy XXI, has received industry-wide recognition for her work in the communications field for over 30 years. Her experience in crisis and issues management has established her as a key advisor to heads of government and CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies.
Robert Pante
World Class Image Consultant, Author
Having conducted over 2,000 keynotes, seminars and workshops, Robert is playful and entertaining “holding back nothing” for the sake of empowering others. Always enthusiastic, inspired, and cheerful, his accessible style of speaking resonates with a sense of mission recognizable to all. Robert was trained in New York, Milan, Paris, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. He has taught at the Academy of Arts College in San Francisco. He has appeared on numerous occasions on Oprah, Good Morning America, and AM Australia, as well as having been featured in Cosmopolitan, Success, and in-flight magazines. Robert lives and works in South East Asia and the United States.
Michelle Patterson
Exec. Director of California Women’s Conference, Exec. Director of the Women Network Foundation, President and CEO of Women Network LLC
Michelle Patterson’s name conjures up many credits – visionary, author, acceleration executive, founder, passionate, talk show host and dynamic speaker. She is a woman of many dimensions. Today, Michelle Patterson is Executive Director of the Women Network Foundation, a 501(c) (3) public charity that serves to provide support, leadership and advocacy for women’s initiatives around the globe. The charity, which started almost ten years ago as a local festival supporting 22 charities, has grown into a global movement for women.
Heather Robertson
CEO of Centre Line, LLC
Heather Robertson is the founder and CEO of Wide Awake by Design. She’s an advisor, strategist, yoga educator, and an adventurer dedicated to changing the lives of motivated women seeking to enhance their personal and professional leadership skills. These women recognize, in fact prefer, a holistic, real, solutions-based approach to self-leadership and business success.
Debbie Robbins
World Class Executive Coach, Author
Debbie Robins is a highly respected executive, leadership and culture expert with deep roots in the entertainment industry. She has over 20,000 hours in her field (mastery is achieved after 10,000 hours) and enjoys global recognition by her piers. In 2009 Debbie was named one of the top executive and leadership coaches in the country by Marshall Goldsmith, considered the #1 thought leader in leadership training.
Bonnie Ross-Parker
Founder, Xperience Connections
Bonnie is the author of “Walk In My Boots” ~ The Joy of Connecting, Y.O.U. Set A High Standard for Being Human and 42 Rules for Effective Connections. In 2002, Bonnie licensed The Joy of Connecting – gatherings for women. Bonnie received numerous awards for her leadership and entrepreneurship. In 2010, Career Magazine (California) featured Bonnie as their cover story “Branding Your Vision” and on May 2011, OSBO, Organization Supporting Business Owners recognized Bonnie for her Entrepreneurship.
Janice Rous
Founder, Body Dialogue
Janice created Body Dialogue because she was in search of a practice to integrate all of her different studies, thereby effectively combining Alexander Technique, breathing and yoga. She also partners with Polly Howells and Jean Esther annually to host a women’s retreat based in the practice of Body Soul Rhythms Leadership Program, a program Janice graduated from in 2003. Her dedication to empowerment and growth is reflected not only in her teaching, but also her mentoring students and teachers at Shine On Yoga, where she is currently on the faculty.
Janet C. Salazar
Chief and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Observer to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at Foundation for the Support of the United Nations (FSUN)
Janet C. Salazar is a social innovator, human potential activist, serial entrepreneur, speaker, writer and a global leadership architect. Janet serves as the Chief and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Observer to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) at Foundation for the Support of the United Nations (FSUN). Janet has held these positions since 2006, as she continues to be a strong voice of civil society and the business sector inside the United Nations. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of IMPACT Leadership 21™, a global platform providing leadership solutions that drive change toward inclusive economies. She is a confidential advisor and sounding board to global business executives, CEOs, expatriates, nonprofit leaders, diplomats, entrepreneurs, artists and visionaries across the globe.
Rosalinda Sanquiche
Exec. Director, Ethical Markets Media, LLC.
Rosalinda Sanquiche is executive director of Ethical Markets Media, LLC. She began her environmental career with the American Wind Energy Association in Washington, DC, in research and communications. She has written on the construction industry for Builder/Architect and on the environment, sustainability and media, topics on which she regularly
Sabine Schmelzer
Regional Coordinator, Business & Professional Women Europe
Sabine Schmelzer was elected at the international congress in Helsinki as Regional Coordinator Europe in 2011 and is a member of the Executive Board of BPW International. Since then she has represented BPW and held empowerment workshops in many European countries as well as Kairo, Johannesburg and New York.
Deborah Shane
Author, Speaker, Media Host, Business & Career Consultant
Deborah Shane is a tenacious woman who has transitioned through several careers. She has transformed herself from a rockin singer and published songwriter, teacher and award-winning broadcast radio sales professional into a gutsy author, media host, speaker and nationally published business and career branding specialist. She now guides and motivates others through their career transitions, business development and professional empowerment.
Marci Shimoff
President, Deep Change
Marci Shimoff (Shy-Moff) is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher, and an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. Her newest book, Love for No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love debuted at #3 on the NY Times bestseller list. In it, Marci introduces a revolutionary program to live in a deep and lasting state of unconditional love and shows you how to access that at any time and in any circumstance.
Burge Smith-Lyons
President and CEO, Essence of Being, Inc.
For more than 33 years Burge Smith-Lyon has been involved with the healing, learning and educational environment. Burge has facilitated workshops for personal growth and corporate seminars since 1980. She has led private and public venues in self-development, relationships and abundance for adults and children. She specializes in helping people identify their “Bubble Talk” subconscious negative self-talk that blocks them from achieving what they want in life.
Joel Solomon
Chairman of Renewal Funds
Joel Solomon is Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital firm. With $98m assets under management, Renewal Funds invests in Organics and EnviroTech. Joel is a Senior Advisor with RSF Social Finance, Founding Member of Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, the Tides Canada Foundation, and Board Chair of Hollyhock. Joel is the Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution, a call to action to move trillions of dollars from damaging to regenerative use.
Clinton Swaine
Founder, Frontier Trainings
Along with running and operating his own training company for the past 9 years, he has taught on many of the top stages around the globe with world renowned speakers, including: T. Harv Eker, Brian Tracy, Bob Allen, Mark Victor Hansen, Bill Bartmann and many others.
Janet Switzer
Founder of Profit Advisors’ Worldwide
Janet Switzer is an international small-business authority, she co-authored with Jack Canfield the New York Times bestseller “The Success Principles” now published in 29 languages. She has spoken at business conferences on four continents (including in many emerging economies) and has counseled thousands of companies worldwide on strategies for success. Her newest venture pairs trained Profit Advisors consultants with small-business owners to establish systems that bring in reliable cash-flow.
Kris Steinnes
Founder of the Women of Wisdom Conference
Kris Steinnes is the visionary founder of the Women of Wisdom Conference, which celebrated its 22nd year in 2014. Kris began her spiritual journey in 1990 when she declared her mission to bring people together. In 1993 after reading the Feminine Face of God, that mission was revealed to her in a vision to create a conference to bring women spiritual leaders to Seattle, which quickly evolved into creating community for women. In 1998 she founded the non-profit organization, Women of Wisdom Foundation, and has followed her passion to empower women to find their voices and share their stories and gifts with each other and the world.
Wendy Tan
CEO of Globe Engineering
Dame Wendy Tan’s life has had all the elements of a modern day fairytale success story – a trying start, less-than-supportive parents, a handful of kind souls plus a life-changing experience during the Asian Financial Crisis. She’s a demonstration of tenacity of the human spirit to achieve the “impossible” in whatever she sets her heart to achieve – delivered her first son at the age of 54, having to prove her mettle in a “man’s world” building a successful business as one of the top Fire Protection and Plumbing Contracting Specialist in Malaysia – as the CEO of Globe Engineering, and two other subsidiaries Globe Express Services and Globe M&E Services. Her passion in nurturing people and lifelong learning inspired her to establish a learning arm in her business that gives individuals access to world-class entrepreneurial education to empower their life. She has been instrumental in creating supportive environments in her business for talent development and opportunities for retirees to continue to contribute to society.
Jana Titus
Coach and Facilitator
Jana Titus is a Coach and facilitator with over 30 years of experience coaching people in mind/body centering and empowerment, in private practice, groups and workshops, both in the US and Europe. In her work Jana integrates her knowledge of Coaching, Yoga and Dao based mind/body practices, and modern healing modalities into a unique approach to centering, empowerment, and fulfillment.
Kay Unger
Founder, Kay Unger Design LLC.
Kay Unger is a fashion designer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist based in New York City. For more than forty years, her flattering, feminine looks have made her one of America’s most popular designers for First Ladies, anchorwomen, businesswomen, party-goers, and bridal parties.
Stuart Valentine
Financial Advisor, Founder of Centerpoint Investment Strategies, Co-Director of the Sustainable Living Coalition (SLC), adjunct faculty in the Maharishi University of Management (MUM)
Stuart Valentine is a registered Representative of Financial West Group (FWG). Stuart has played an active role in the Green Private Placement sector of the Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) industry since 2000. He is passionate about building the personal relationships and networks necessary to create meaningful, systemic change in the world of finance today. In September 2010, Stuart served on the Drafting Committee on Transforming Finance–an initiative to recognize finance as a global commons. He currently serves on the Research Advisory Board for Ethical Markets in the area of Social Venture Capital.
Sharon Whiteley
Founder and CEO of Pluggz
Sharon Whiteley is a serial entrepreneur with a talent for recognizing emerging trends and a proven track record engaging consumers on an emotional and actionable level. She is the founder and CEO of LiSTEN Brands llc, a company that creates, manufactures, markets and distributes innovative, leading edge products that enhance the lives of people and their overall health and well-being. The company’s flagship line features fashionable footwear under the brand name pluggz – shoes that have a healthful benefit of grounding wearers by re-connecting them to the Earth’s natural and restorative energy that lies right beneath their feet.
Amanda Willett
SHINE Factor Success Coach
Amanda has supported and presented to woman’s groups, corporations and non-profits such as? POWE, Amazing Woman’s Day, Defeyneurs, The YWCA, United Way, Up with Women, WIN, The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty and Dress for Success.
Dr. Letitia S. Wright
Host of the Wright Place – TV Show
Dr. Letitia S. Wright, D.C, is a celebrity, international speaker, talk show host, author, director and movie producer. As the host of the Wright Place – TV Show, now in it’s 14th season with over 362 shows previously broadcast on television to over 6.5 million homes each week in Southern California on Direct TV Channel 64.Now seen nationally on DISH ON DEMAND network in 60 million homes, The Wright Place TV Show continues to provide resources for Entrepreneurs.
Celeste Yarnall
Cast of Femme – Women Healing The World
Celeste Yarnall, Ph.D, guest starred on Star Trek and co-starred with Elvis as an actress. She is the co-author of the award winning book, The Complete Guide to Holistic Cat Care and Paleo Dog, Give your Best Friend a Long Life, Healthy Weight and Freedom from Illness, with Jean Hofve, DVM for Rodale press as well as a book that shares her personal journey from Star Trek to Ph.D, entitled Celestial Trek.
Kerry Zurier
CFO, Senior Program Leader at Accomplishment Coaching
Kerry Zurier, Master Certified Coach, is an extraordinary coach, trainer and leader. Kerry’s love of coaching stems from her vast experience facilitating Executive Training programs in leadership, management, and business development for thousands of individuals, groups, and businesses in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Malaysia. In addition to coaching individual clients, Kerry is one of three lead instructors for the Excellerated Business School’s Money and You program, as well as heading their Instructors Training Program both in the United States and abroad. Based on a business that grew a $25,000 investment into a $60 million business in less than 3 years, this program encompasses the generalized principles of Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller.
LUMINATE 2022
Light The World With Conscious Entrepreneur
CO-EVENT ORGANIZER
GLOBAL PARTNERS
Luminate is thrilled to welcome the PARTNERS for the 5th annual event.
Our partners have given aspiring conscious entrepreneurs access to the summit, a platform where they can express their purpose, joy, and love in the work they do while learning to fully embrace the core of their HEART & SOUL.
Get Involved!
This is an excellent way to pay it forward in supporting entrepreneurs in the arena of business and entrepreneurial advancement. There are many ways you and your organization can contribute and participate as a WEWorld Summit Partner; it is absolutely a marvelous way for your company to achieve its corporate social responsibility and global citizenship goals.
To find out more about how you can get involved, contact us at summit@weworldnetwork.com
