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  Creating Your Future With God

  Brett Edmond, Opptruth

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

  This presentation explores: Where we came from; Why we were created; Understanding our purpose; and our responsibility to create.

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  Creating Success that Sticks: Aligning Your Core Values with Your Career

  Catherine A. Wood, Founder & Head Coach, Unbounded Potential

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  If you became famous tomorrow and your own definition of success became a maxim, what lesson would you impart? What wisdom would you share? For many, success is a fleeting sensation—the achievement of one goal and immediately on to the next. The joy and satisfaction flash in front of our eyes in the instant of success and then it eludes us once again. MORE >

  What could be possible for you in redefining your relationship to success from the inside out, and making that elusive success stick while producing even greater results? You will walk away with a model for aligning your core values with your goals as an access point to creating success that sticks from the inside out.

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  Communication Leadership

  Robert Keiper, Independent Contractor

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Leaders are those who create value in goods, services, and especially in behavior. But communicating those values takes more than simply presenting your ideas. Based on Robert Keiper’s 35 years’ experience as a presentation skills coach and workshop leader, this presentation provides step-by-step guides to help you capture audience attention and trust, set clearer goals, develop more compelling agendas and design unforgettable content and visuals. MORE >

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  Change Your Mindset About Personal Finance

  Thomas Yeung, Founder, Jurnex

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Even if you’re financially stable, have you ever thought about your savings and felt some mixture of worry, regret, or distance? Such feelings can cause massive stress, and it’s one of the key reasons why people make panicked investment decisions. That’s why it’s so critical to change your mindset about investing. MORE >

  In this talk, I cover the importance of achieving a growth-mindset about money. I want the audience to say "goodbye" to viewing their nest egg as a burden. Instead, I'll have people see their savings for what they are: assets that can help you build even greater wealth.

  And once you learn a growth-mindset about money, you’ll find so many possibilities to generate wealth for years to come.

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  Burnout Isn’t an Outcome. It’s a Symptom.

  Kafi A. Joseph, PMP, Founder, inRG.Design

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Why overwork persists even when you "know better" — and what it's actually protecting. Burnout is typically framed as overwork. A capacity problem. A resilience gap. What if exhaustion isn’t the result of working too hard — and is instead the symptom of something more fundamental? MORE >

  In this keynote, Kafi Joseph introduces a reframe: Burnout = Threatened Safety × Limited Agency High performers do not burn out because they lack endurance. They burn out when rest, boundaries, change, or disengagement feel unsafe — psychologically, socially, morally, or professionally

  Drawing from her experience as a West Point graduate, Army officer, and corporate Chief of Staff, this session with Kafi helps participants identify where “No” feels dangerous, why effort persists even when resources are available, and how to distinguish between real threats that require protection and perceived threats that require restored agency.

  This is not a resilience talk. It is a diagnostic lens for clarity.

  Learning Objectives - Participants will be able to:

  ✓ Reframe burnout as a symptom, not an outcome
  ✓ Identify your primary burnout pattern and its safety–agency drivers
  ✓ Recognize early signals that rest, change, or boundaries feel unsafe
  ✓ Distinguish when to restore agency v. when structural change is required

  Best For: Professional Development, Wellness Initiatives, High Performers

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  Burnout Is a System Signal. Not a Talent Problem.

  Kafi A. Joseph, PMP, Founder, inRG.Design

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Why burnout persists even when resources are added — and why it's a structural warning, not an individual resilience deficit. Organizations often treat burnout as a workload issue or an individual resilience deficit. But burnout persists even when resources are added. Why? Because burnout is not an outcome. It is a symptom. Burnout = Threatened Safety × Limited Agency MORE >

  When employees cannot act without unacceptable cost — reputational, relational, financial, or moral — burnout emerges as a rational adaptation rather than disengagement.

  This keynote reframes burnout as a systems signal. Leaders learn how role design, reward patterns, accountability structures, and implicit cultural norms can unintentionally threaten safety and restrict agency.

  Drawing on her experience leading in high-stakes military and corporate environments, Kafi helps leaders examine where saying “no” carries cost, where overextension is quietly rewarded, and where design, not talent, is driving burnout risk.

  Learning Objectives:
  ✓ Explain why burnout survives wellness initiatives
  ✓ Identify safety threats embedded in role design
  ✓ Distinguish between real structural constraints and cultural misperceptions
  ✓ Apply a safety–agency lens to reduce burnout risk without lowering standards

  Best For: Leadership Programs, Executive Teams, Organizational Change

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  Building Wealth from the Inside Out

  DeDee Cai, Founder and CEO, FIT TO PROFIT

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  You have the highs and lows in your business. You wondered why running a business seems like charging up an uphill battle most of the time. You know what it takes to be successful, but the results do not correlate with the level of knowledge you possess, nor the level of enthusiasm you have. You may seem successful from the outside, but feel unfulfilled from the inside. So you keep will-powering through until one day you are forced to ask yourself the question: ‘‘What am I doing wrong?’ MORE >

  What if I told you that you don’t have any real business problems, that the issues you have are just a reflection of how you operate as a person, and what you think you are capable of creating. That the state of your net worth is a direct reflection of your level of self-worth. Why does success, and earning money for a business owner has to be such a source of struggle? It does not have to be.

  This presentation will provide you with the tools to set your mind on what’s possible, and reclaim your worth to take your business to the next level.

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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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  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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  Boomer Ball: The Players and Stories That Shaped a Generation in Baseball’s Golden Era

  Vince Jankoski, Author, Attorney

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Entertainment

  Following the end of World War II, the game of baseball experienced a surge in popularity Stars and ordinary players returned from military service. Attendance at games soared. The nature of the game changed. There was racial integration, night baseball, franchise shifts, and expansion. It was an exciting time, especially for Baby Boomers whose childhoods were shaped by events of the day, including those events occurring on the diamond. MORE >

  Author Vince Jankoski, himself a Baby Boomer, is available to give a one hour, interactive talk about baseball in the post-World War II era. Vince is the author of Boomer Ball: A Baby Boomer’s Reflections on the Game He Loves, a collection of essays focusing on players, teams, and events in the time frame 1945-1970. He also is a regular contributor to the acclaimed website baseballhistorycomesalive.com.

  Vince’s writings dwell on some of the lesser known players of the Baby Boomer generation, who, while mostly ignored by baseball historians, are not forgotten by the fans who watched them play and whose contributions are woven into the fabric of the game even as it exists today. His essays contain events often given short shrift by other authors. His opinions are frequently contrary to the norm. Vince is available to talk about all things baseball. His talks will be of interest to Boomers as well as others with an interest in history in general and sports history in particular. Talks will be open to audience discussion and lively debate.

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