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  • From Pain to Purpose: How to Turn Life’s Hardest Moments into Your Greatest Opportunities.

    Katie DePaola, Founder and CEO, Inner Glow Circle

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

    After a broken engagement, losing her brother, and a 10 year battle with chronic illness, Katie DePaola has finally found her glow. In 2015, Katie opened the doors to Inner Glow Circle, a coach training and personal branding company for women. Within months, her youngest brother died of an accidental overdose. MORE >

    This monumental lose set off a domino effect of changes and challenges, but through it Katie learned to survive by doubling down on her commitment to her vision. Even on the most ill or grief stricken days, her power lies in her purpose.

    Now, Katie teaches others how to make their hardest life experiences their greatest opportunities through the principles of Post Traumatic Growth (PTG). PTG is the subject of a growing field of research into the healing that may be accessed when we choose to grow from our trauma and lose.

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  • Orphaned Young Adults in Haiti, A Forgotten Group

    Astrid de Vries, Founder / President, Kids Connection Haiti

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

    Imagine being 18 years old, ready to spread your wings, eager to go to college or find a job. An exciting time in your life, right? Now imagine being 18 years old, without a family, without a diploma, without any working experience and without a network. What would you do? Where would you go? MORE >

    Have you ever thought about the impact a stable family life has on your (professional and personal) development? With a 40% unemployment- and illiteracy rate countrywide, orphans in Haiti suffer the most.

    Kids Connection Haiti was founded to empower orphans in Haiti to become contributing, self-sufficient members within their communities through education, life skills training, community service, mentorship, and career development. We would love to share with you how Kids Connection Haiti has been successful in empowering these young men and women create financially independent futures.

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  • Marketing your Self

    Marvin Meinders, Owner, Meinders Consultant, LLC

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement

    Now that you have finished your education and ready to find that perfect job you have been working for, now is the time to find the job. You can be the perfect candidate for the job, but if you do not market yourself well, all your training may have been in vain. Most people do not think much about marketing themselves until it is time to look for a job, but if you wait until then, you start out at a disadvantage in the job market. MORE >

    Marketing and networking are keys to finding good jobs today. You may think that automated job searches and automated applications are the way to employment in today’s market. But with these tactics alone you will miss about 80% of available job opportunities. Did you know that according to Steven Rothberg, founder of job search website CollegeRecruiter.com, approximately 80 percent of the jobs are never advertised? We will discuss how the use of networking and social media can improve your marketability.
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  • Making What’s Missing – It’s Time to Grow into Your Power

    Cheryl Abram, Learning Doula, Ypifany

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    Knowledge failure is the absence of appropriate action due to missing, ignored, or mis-applied knowledge. Every goal and objective have the very real potential for knowledge failure. In this session, Cheryl introduces a revolutionary new practice for quantifying learning’s value to the organization. MORE >

    Join Cheryl as she reveals a groundbreaking practice that calls for leadership to completely change its approach to learning, risk management, measuring performance, and inventing a learning landscape that truly nurtures and supports business missions and strategies.
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  • Parenting in the Real World: Ditch Perfection, Embrace Connection

    Shruti Trivedi, Founder and CEO, TulsiHeals Life Coaching

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement

    Parenting today is loaded with expectations, comparison, and conflicting advice - leaving many parents feeling inadequate or overwhelmed. In this deeply relatable talk, Shruti opens up about her experiences raising three children while juggling career transitions, identity shifts, and mom guilt. She explores how redefining what it means to be a “good parent” can lead to deeper connection and healthier relationships - with our children and ourselves. MORE >

    Through stories and reflection, Shruti invites parents to let go of the pressure to be perfect and instead focus on being present, emotionally attuned, and self-compassionate. This session is both validating and refreshing for parents at any stage.
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  • Accelerating Your Career on Life’s Expressway

    Marvin Meinders, Owner, Meinders Consultant, LLC

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement

    Are you or your child just starting out on their career or are you caught in a bad situation in your career, it is important that you have an overall strategic plan to help you navigate your career hurdles. A successful career includes more than just your job performance. To be really successful in your career, you must first have a plan of what you want to achieve and how to achieve them over your 40-year career. MORE >

    To help you develop a strategic plan, we will identify and discuss key elements such as your career, personal, and professional goals. To accomplish your goal you will also need to identifying the special gifts and talents you possess to achieve these goals. Identifying these key elements and putting them into a timeline is essential to get your career off to a fast and successful life and career.
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  • Power of the Mind

    Martin Vendemia, BCH, MNLP, Hypnotist, Master NLP Practitioner, Inner Group Inc.

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement

    Using Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and other techniques of the mind, audience and participants can get first hand experience what their mind and body is capable. And those limits of money, health, family, relationship or other areas can be made aware. MORE >

    Show is typically fun, entertaining and somewhat educational. Shows are about 1 hour (but can be longer or shorter as needed). Typically done with audience participation either on stage or from their seats. We use imagination, fantasy and creativity to bring out these great shows.
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  • Your Progress is Holding You Back

    Cheryl Abram, Learning Doula, Ypifany

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    In this high energy session, Cheryl helps decision-makers see and understand why change is necessary, difficult and rewarding. As the accountable party, decision-makers need to evolve while embracing real change. The session includes practical guidance for how to cultivate the power of personal accountability at home and at work.

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  • Going from Manager to Leader

    Bob Graham, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Breakthrough Solutions

    Most people see managers as people to tell others what to do. By contrast, good leaders collaborate, inspire, motivate and celebrate their team members and the collective success. Ideal for new and seasoned managers, Bob Graham explains the benefits of being a leader, then provides participants with actionable strategies for becoming the leader their teams need. This interactive workshop can radically improve how teams operate. MORE >

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  • Becoming an Audiobook Narrator

    Robert Keiper, Independent Contractor

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Entertainment

    Have you ever had the urge to try narrating an audiobook and get paid for it? There are websites anxious to give you a FREE opportunity to build your skills until you’re ready to move to a professional level. In this presentation, Robert Keiper will tell you how to set up your own audio studio at home and demonstrate some of the skills you’ll have to master. MORE >

    He’ll play excerpts from some of the dozen audiobooks he narrated, that can be found on Audible and Amazon, and tell you some of the tricks he has learned that helped make those narrations successful.
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