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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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  Enough With the Boring Meetings

  Bob Graham, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, SpearPoint Ink

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Staff meetings, weekly meetings, project meetings and a litany of Zoom, Skype, Facebook Teams and other video meetings seem to be an increasingly annoying fact of life. In this engaging and action-based workshop, find out ways to ensure that everyone is engaged and involved in every meeting. Find out how shared objectives, organic agendas, action steps and other hacks can make running and attending meetings more useful. And most importantly, discover how to make EVERY meeting matter and an alternative that will not only ease boredom, but encourage greater teamwork, innovation and creativity. MORE >

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  Simple Rules for Women Leaders

  Dr. Mallary Tytel, President, Healthy Workplaces

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Are YOU a woman who is ready to advance in leadership, but still find obstacles in your path while you diligently serve? Are YOU part of an organization committed to increasing opportunities for women, but haven’t hit on a strategy that works? Most importantly, are YOU ready to embrace power and opportunity with the intention of assuming leadership and being your best self? The ways that you think about and use your own power can be the difference that makes a difference in your career. MORE >

  This presentation offers Simple Rules and Simple Tools to help you hone your skills and move you forward to reach your goals. Embrace your own power with intention and confidence, while focusing on your presence and self-assurance. Now is the time to move forward to achieve success. Let's get started.

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  Emotional Intelligence (EQ) at Work

  Dawn Shuler, CEO and Founder, The Shuler Group, LLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is one of the strongest predictors of success in the workplace—often more important than technical skill. When people develop EQ, they communicate more effectively, reduce conflict, and create stronger connections with colleagues and clients. MORE >

  In this interactive session, participants will:
  • Learn the four core components of Emotional Intelligence.
  • Gain practical tools for self-awareness, self-management, and empathy.
  • Discover strategies for building trust and collaboration across teams.

  This session is designed for anyone who wants to work more effectively with others and build a stronger, more resilient workplace culture.

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  Building C3 Communities with Talent Optimization

  Mali Phonpadith, Founder & CEO, SOAR Community Network, LLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Build Compassionate, Cohesive and Collaborative (C3) communities within organizations using behavioral science and talent optimization disciplines. Mali shares strategic approaches to help executives drive business results by building and maintaining compassionate, cohesive and collaborative communities within the organization.
  The focus and goal of the session will help executive leaders: MORE >

  *Come to a consensus on new strategic priorities;
  *Use behavioral science to design high performing, innovative and cohesive teams;
  *Drive business results by aligning people data (behavioral strengths) with strategic objectives

  Takeaways:
  *Participants will be able to evaluate and prioritize their strategic objectives
  *Participants will be able to analyze and design people/team/talent strategies that creates C3 Communities within their organizations
  *Participants will be able to establish a new approach to talent management that increases engagement, improves collaboration, drive business results and improve organizational effectiveness
  *Participants will be able to assess how their “team type” and “culture map” (based on the results of their people data) impact engagement, productivity and innovation

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  Top Ten Questions to Help Face the End-of-Life

  Lars Etzkorn, Lawyer, Lars Etzkorn Law PLLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Of course, you know procrastination doesn't forestall the inevitable; it just means you will be unprepared. We know life is full of change and that all of us face end-of-life issues. To help prepare for a good death, here are some questions to consider with your loved ones, friends and advisors.

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  The New Age of Women and Girls

  DonnaAnn Ward, Actor, Writer, Organizer

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

  As we witness the unprecedented presence of women in positions of prominence, it seems that fifty-one percent of the world's population has come into their own in a very big way. We see women and girls making a stunning impact on our world and our perception of possibility. It is an exciting time to be around these women, to be a part of an explosion of equality and smashing of stereotypes. MORE >

  This rise of women touches all aspects of our lives, to speak of powerful women and girls is to be a part of a shift the world over. Lysistrata put her foot down in 411 B.C. and Malala Yousafzai put her pen to paper in 2014, between the two moments, a fascinating history has been made. I enjoy speaking on all topics female, including LGBTQ, reproduction, education, aging, body and self-image, marriage, divorce, and singlehood.

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  Budgeting Time for Efficiency

  DeDee Cai, Founder and CEO, FIT TO PROFIT

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  We all know about financial projections and budgeting. What if you can use the same concept in budgeting your time to be more effective and efficient? As a leader, you want to lead with power and clarity, but you find yourself spinning the wheels to keep up. You can tell you are on the verge of a massive burnout. You know what you are doing is not sustainable, but your team and everyone depends on you. What if you could achieve 10X the results by learning how to budget your time while managing your energy? Join us to explore the optimal ways to upgrade your habits, and retrain your brain for peak performance.
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  National Security Topics: From Military Planning to Negotiating with Foreign Governments and War Criminals to Complex Military Operations

  Daniel Gerstein, CEO and Author, SciTech Strategic Solutions

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

  Dr. Gerstein is a national security professional who has had a unique insider perspective on the United States' national security strategy and policy having been a close advisor to many of the key decisionmakers over several decades. By the end of his time in government, he had become a senior principal responsible for developing and executing the policies of the U.S. government. His service included advising foreign governments on a range of sensitive issues. He continues to speak and write extensively on these issues. MORE >

  He has worked on a range of issues from assessment of threats and risks, development of strategies and policies, and has deployed on a variety of operations. In the U.S. Army, he served on four continents while participating in combat, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, counterterrorism and homeland security. During his time in uniform, he served in sensitive positions as an aide-de-camp for the four-star Vice Chief of Staff, Army (General Gordon Sullivan); speechwriter for the three-star Director of Strategy and Policy (J-5), The Joint Staff (General Wesley K. Clark); Director for Army Transformation for the Chief of Staff, Army (General Eric Shinseki); executive officer for the Under Secretary of the Army (Raymond DuBois and Pete Geren). He also worked on several national security documents such as the National Security Strategy, the National Military Strategy and the Chairman’s Program Assessment (CPA). He also led teams that conducted analysis, modeling and simulations of various threats and risks.

  He has extensive experience in international negotiations and arms control having served on the Holbrooke Delegation that negotiated the peace settlement in Bosnia; developed and analyzed negotiating positions for the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) talks; developed a counternarcotics initiative to improve cross border communications between Andean Ridge nations and negotiated the destruction of SS-24 intercontinental ballistic rocket motors in Ukraine. Additionally, Dr. Gerstein led the Army’s most comprehensive restructuring since World War II and guided an effort to develop a comprehensive biosurveillance system for the Department of Defense.

  He has served in and worked with organizations across the U.S. government. He served in the Department of Defense and retired as a Colonel and served later in the Department of Homeland Security as Under Secretary (Acting) and Deputy Under Secretary in the Science and Technology Directorate. In these assignments, Gerstein worked closely with the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Energy (nuclear weapons issues), Commerce (export control and technology management), Health and Human Services (medical countermeasures, countering biological warfare and bioterrorism) and Department of Agriculture (agricultural biodefense).

  Gerstein has authored several books on national security, strategy, policy and decision making including War Without Humanity: Conflict in the Post-Human Era (Casemate, 2026); Tech Wars: Transforming U.S. Technology Development (Praeger. September 2022. (Paperback version released in 2024)); National Security and Arms Control in the Age of Biotechnology: The Biological Weapons Convention (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013); Bioterror in the 21st Century, (Naval Institute Press, 2009); Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy (5th Edition) (University of Nebraska Press, 2020); The Story of Technology: How We Got Here and What the Future Holds (Prometheus Books, 2019); Leading at the Speed of Light: New Strategies for U.S. Security in the Information Age, (Potomac Books, 2006); Securing America's Future: National Strategy in the Information Age, (Praeger Security International, 2005).

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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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