Dr. Linda Karges-Bone is a nationally recognized speaker, author, and consultant on the topics of creativity, differentiated instruction, and brain-body connections. She is a tenured professor of education at Charleston Southern University and earned her Ed.D. at the University of South Carolina in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Bone is the author of over 30 books in the fields of curriculum and assessment, including her most recent: “Brain Tips” and “Rich Brain, Poor Brain”. She has delivered keynotes and workshops in 38 states through her consulting firm, Education InSite, and is the creator of the radio program “Prayerful Parenting,” one minute messages of inspiration and research for over 25 years.

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Increase your brain vibration with Dr. Linda Karges-Bone

Andrew and Clelia are a couple who fell in love with tantra. With the knowledge, with the experience, and ultimately with each other. They come from different backgrounds, different cultures and different teachings.  Together they have a great collection of tools and experiences to make your journey fascinating, fun and fruitful. Meet Clelia: her favourite style to practice and teach is Vinyasa Flow. She also loves to practice Kundalini, Tantra and Pranayama to go deep with the energy. She works with Yoga Nidra, Astral Projection and Lucid Dreaming for deep relaxation and tapping into the subconscious mind. Clelia is always experimenting with a new system and advanced techniques. Meet Andrew: Andrew is fun, loving, charismatic & motivational. He loves to teach and has the energy and enthusiasm to make any topic an exciting adventure.  Andrew’s main focus is in Kundalini, Tantra, Pranayama, Meditation and Surrender. Ready, Breathe, Smile.

How To Raise Your Vibration with Andrew and Clelia founders of Refeel Yoga

Dr. Anne Arvizu is a business advisor, entrepreneur, author, media commentator leadership expert, keynote speaker and former fortune 500 global executive. She is the founder and CEO of two thriving companies, RxER Communications Corp and Corecentryx, Inc. As a pharmacist with over 22 years of executive experience in the BioPharma industry, Dr. Arvizu has served in key roles, such as Global Head of Medical Affairs Functions at Baxter and Baxalta Pharmaceuticals, and Regional Head, Latin America, for Medical Communications and Medical Information at GlaxoSmithKline and as C-Suite advisor to many of the top pharma and biotech clients in the world, such as Pfizer, Shire, Merck, Teva, Alnylam, Ipsen, Servier, and others

The moment I received my spiritual download with Dr. Anne Arvizu

Maame Afon is an internationally recognized thought leader, passionate advocate for women and girls and a leadership enthusiast. She is also a recording artist who uses music to promote social change and philanthropy.   Maame Currently serves as the board chair of African Women’s Development Fund, USA and We Care Solar, and sits on the boards of other international organizations including Cocoa360, Ghana Bamboo Bikes, Days for Girls-Ghana, Moremi Initiative, Street Business School, Women Leaders for the World, and Nurturing Minds/SEGA among others. She holds a B.A. in French and Spanish and an M.A. in human rights, gender, and international development. Maame is a connector and a consummate networker, and enjoys her work as an activist, facilitator, executive and life coach, and mentor, supporting leaders internationally. She was recently named among 100 African Women in Development by Donors for Africa and has been recognized as one of the 18 African Feminists to know by For Harriet.  She is a 2019 Rise Up Leader, 2016 Cordes Fellow, 2017 Hive Global Leader, 2009 Woman Leader for the World Fellow, and a 2020 Perennial Fellow.   As a Whole Woman, she brings all of who she is to her work as Chief Steward of MILT (Management for Impact Leadership and Transformation), the organization she founded in 2017. She also enjoys her calling as mother and wife, raising her three children with her husband. Social Media Handles Website: www.themiltedge.com  www.maameafon.com Maame's music is available on several online outlets - iTunes, cdbaby.com, Google, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora, last.fm and Simfy. RISE is also available at Challenge Bookstores and the Vision Bookshop(Qodesh) in Ghana. You can learn more about RISE and follow this journey on Facebook Artist Page (Maame Afon).

Music can change the world with Maame Afon

Tiffany Kent is the Founder and CEO of Wealth Engagement LLC, a registered investment advisory firm and the author of Investing for the Smarter Sex. With a blend of inspiration, investment education, and financial modeling means Tiffany is looking to help women decision-makers who seek education or are overwhelmed by the complexity of financial planning and investing! 

Investing for the smarter sex with Tiffany Kent

Everyone has a story, and in The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You, Simone Knego takes you inside her unique journey and the extraordinary moments which have shaped her life and defined her mission. Sharing the lessons she’s learned from life’s ups, downs, and laugh-out-loud moments, you’ll be inspired to discover your own journey, and to go out into the world and be the good. The world is waiting for the Extraordinary UnOrdinary You, and you already have everything you need to get started, simply by being you.

The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You with Simone Knego

Sarah Connolly is a lawyer based in Tampa Bay who specializes in working in the healthcare and tech industries nationally. She has experience as an outside general counsel to PE-backed companies with lucrative exits, and to founder-owned businesses looking for long-term success. She also prides herself on being an engaging speaker and presenter on the important trending legal topics that impact your business. Sarah is always looking to form lasting relationships with clients and colleagues that share similar values.

How to Reopen Your Business Responsibly with Sarah Connolly

Saskia is Co-founder and CEO of Yunus Social Business (YSB), which is co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Yunus. YSB aims to create and empower Social Businesses to sustainably solve social problems. YSB sets up and manages incubator funds that provide training, advisory and support services, as well as debt and equity financing to social business entrepreneurs in developing countries. YSB aims to build up entrepreneurial ability and business infrastructure in parts of the world that originally rely on development aid and philanthropic donations, thus bridging the gap between impact investment capital and high-potential businesses that are designed to solve social and environmental problems. Social Business is a concept defined by Prof. Yunus as a business which is financially self-sustainable, but recycles all profit into addressing developmental needs. YSB is based in Germany with subsidiaries in Haiti, Albania, Tunisia, Uganda, Colombia, Brazil and India. Saskia and her team have helped to set up social businesses with major corporations including BASF, Brasil Foods, McCain, SAP, Florida Ice and Farm, Crédit Agricole, etc. She was appointed to the EU Commission’s expert group on Social Business and has assisted Prof. Yunus on Ban Ki-Moon’s MDG Advocacy Group as well as Richard Branson's B-Team. Saskia was named Generation CEO 2010 member, a prestigious network of woman in top management in Germany and has also been named a Young Leader of the Atlantik Brücke, a network promoting transatlantic cooperation. She is on the Board of L‘Action Tank – a Social Initiative founded by ten French corporates. Saskia was a speaker at events in over 15 countries and co-authored a report with the Boston Consulting Group on 'Success Factors for Social Businesses' that has been published in 2013. Saskia was one of the founding members of the Global Social Business Summit, which has developed into a global platform for Social Business with over 500 participants from over 50 countries. Prior to that Saskia was the Co-CEO of Grameen Creative Lab and started her career at the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and New York. She holds an MBA from EBS Germany and an MSc in International Relations from LSE and has dual German and Canadian citizenship.

How Social Entrepreneurship Can Change the World with Yunus Social Business CEO Saskia Bruysten

Before joining Omni Public as the Director of Operations, Nissa Weisser’s past career experiences range from working as an Advertising and Marketing Executive as well as writing and business development professionals within the DoD and Intellectual Property consulting spaces. She has owned and operated WriteHandGal since 2009 where she has specialized in copywriting, marketing consultation, and business development for start-ups and small businesses. Her specialties include business operations, customer development and retention, professional writing, and project management. Nissa received her Bachelor of Arts from The University of Vermont. She is also the recipient of the Marion Berry Allbee Award for Creative Non-fiction. While her husband was in the army, this Colorado native has lived all over the United States and has finally settled in Tampa, Florida. When not working on all things Omni Public, you can find her hanging out with her two amazing children and training for triathlons. Omni Public is a public relations firm founded by a Latin entrepreneur Cesar Hernandez that will see your value and help you get recognized. They have worked with companies like Tesla, Ford, HyperloopTT and Bird Rides  and yes with them your forbes feature can become a reality. Visit their website omnipublic.global or email ch@omnipublic.global    

How to Get Featured on Forbes with Omni Public

Katelin Holloway is a senior people and culture executive and leader who brings a career-long passion for building scalable, inclusive institutional cultures to early stage and VC-backed companies, including Klout, Reddit and Initialized Partners. By using both quantitative and qualitative measurements to better understand how talent and culture can drive business results, she has helped push “HR” out of the back-office and into the boardroom. She is currently a partner at Initialized Capital where she gives guidance to over 300 portfolio’s companies. During her early profession life Katelin worked at Pixar Animation Studios in in Postproduction, Production, and Story on 17 different feature length and short films, including Ratatouille, Cars, Wall-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, and Ponyo. She is also an Advisor on people and culture for multiple nonprofit organizations including Lattice, Mother Honestly, PeopleTech Partners, and Refresh Body. Lastly, she is well known for leading a comprehensive cultural turnaround at social news aggregator Reddit during a massive PR, recruiting, and retention crisis.

From Pixar to people: How Katelin Holloway’s career shift to building scalable, inclusive institutional cultures.

Dr Joannie Marlene BEWA, MD, MPH is a physician, researcher, global advocate for girls, women and reproductive health. She has ten years of combined experience in global health, policy, clinical care, research, international development and non-profits management. She has been appointed in 2018 by the United Nations Secretary-General Special Envoy on Youth as a United Nations Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to support the UN system, governments and CSO efforts in implementing the SDGs. In 2016, she was featured on Melinda Gates’ list of six influential women on the topic of global access to contraception and was invited in 2017 by Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on a panel during which, he announced a 650 million dollars for women’s health globally. She is a member of the Global Advisory Board for Merck for Mothers, Merck's 10-year, $500 million initiative focused on improving the health and well-being of mothers before, during and after pregnancy and childbirth. She co-led the creation of the UNFPA Youth Panel in Benin in 2014 and joined in 2015 the advocacy for the creation of the Adolescent and Youth Constituency in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, Children’s Health (PMNCH). She is the current observer, representing the Adolescent and Youth Constituency in the PMNCH Academic and Research Institutions Constituency. ​ She founded the Young Beninese Leaders Association (YBLA) in order to help solve some of the issues she was witnessing in Benin. Since 2010, YBLA is actively working in 3 focus areas: Health, Youth Leadership and Entrepreneurship and Gender Equality. In 2011, YBLA collected over 2000 signatures which led to the adoption of the anti-gender-based violence law in Benin. YBLA reached more than 10 000 youth on reproductive health and HIV, and 3000 girls on leadership with the support of the First Lady Michelle Obama Young African Women Leaders Grant Program.    As part of Benin Government official delegation, Joannie attended to various negotiations at the United Nations Headquarters on Population, International Development and Health. Joannie is a Women Deliver Young Leader Alumni, a state department IVLP / YAL alumna and Secretary Clinton Women in Public Service Project Fellow. She collaborated with governments such as Benin, Canada, US, served as a technical consultant for the United Nations Fund for Population UNFPA Benin, One World UK, OXFAM, HIV Young Leaders Fund, and as an expert with the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN NGLS), Merck for Mothers, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the "Safe Mothers and Newborns Leadership Workshop" led by the Harvard School of Public Health Maternal Health Task Force and the Barcelona ISG School of Global Health. ​ Joannie is a U.S Senator William J. Fulbright Scholar, who holds a doctorate degree in Medicine from Faculte des Sciences de la Sante, Universite d'Abomey Calavi (Benin Republic), a master degree in public health, specialized in Maternal and Child Health at the University of South Florida (U.S), where she is currently pursuing a PhD in public health, in order to solve health issues through an activist and scholar lens. She is a research assistant at the Florida Prevention Research Center (FPRC), a CDC supported research center and at the Lawton Rhea Chiles Center for Mothers and Babies (LRC), at the College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa.

On a Mission to Expand Healthcare for Women and fight for Justice with Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa

Meet Margaux Pages and Gaia Amatteis who are former Tech Stars personnel in Italy who have joined the Nickelytics Team.  Nickelytics’ process is simple, they put ads on vehicles that drive through busy city streets. Additionally, they screen these drivers and ensure they hit at least 30 miles a day so your brand is broadcasted everywhere. Once seen, their tracking technology logs each impression. They then use the data gathered to digitally retarget consumers. Creating familiarity, trust, and bringing the best of two advertisement worlds into one. Both Margaux Pages and Gaia Amatteis share their journey from working in corporations to now leading a startup. 

Why You Should Work at a Startup with Nickelytics Team

Wadi Ben-Hirki is an education advocate from Nigeria, founder of the Wadi Ben-Hirki Foundation which she created to impact the lives of the less privileged, marginalized and disadvantaged through humanitarianism and activism. She is a ONE Campaign Champion, focusing on the #GirlsCount campaign, which advocates for the education of the 130 million out-of-school girls around the world. She was the selected Nigerian leader who led the Canadian High Commissioner in Nigeria, H.E. Christopher Thornley, in the #SheCANLead campaign to show the abilities of an educated and empowered young girl and the need for every girl to have access to quality education. As a result of her advocacy, she was selected to serve on the African Leadership Institute Youth Advisory Board and several other conferences and programs.

Being young, black and female is the source of my power with Wadi Ben-Hirki

By day Sandra is the Chief Content Director of SAP Next-Gen - A Purpose Driven Innovation Community based on the UN Global Goals, as well as heading up SAP Next-Gen's Global Gender Agenda. Sandra has always been a feminist at heart, advocating for women's rights in many places, from being a member of the Stanford WiDS (Women in Data Science) Committee, to sitting on the UN Women Silicon Valley Board, and driving programs to bring balance to the force of gender equality. The Feminist Portfolio brings together Sandra's passion for art and feminist documentation into a beautiful and meaningful collection of feminist thought leadership.

The Feminist Portfolio with Sandra Moerch

Patricia Lawman, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Morphogenesis, Inc. since 2003, received her graduate education in molecular biology and immunology from the College of Medicine at the University of Florida where she also served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. Prior to founding Morphogenesis, Dr. Lawman was Division Director of Cancer Molecular Biology at the Walt Disney Memorial Cancer Institute. She has held adjunct faculty positions at the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida and has served on numerous committees at local/state/federal levels. Dr. Lawman holds over 30 patents and as many publications and has received multiple business and scientific honors. Morphogenesis is an emerging clinical stage cell and gene therapy company. The company is testing its off-the-shelf, personalized cancer immunotherapy in two ongoing human clinical trials with a Phase II skin cancer basket trial planned for 2020.

Meet Dr. Patricia Lawman Who Will Find the Cure for Cancer

Meet the women leading the new era of empowerment. Listen to the stories of women who are changing the game for millions across the world. Host Ingrid Harb is a global advocate who fought through the cultural mold to create a career for herself and hundreds of women around the world. Founded the Women Ambassadors Forum in 2015 while still in college. Ingrid has since partnered with over 50 Fortune 500 Companies and created over ten Global and Local forums that have reached women from over 150+ countries. Ingrid is empowering women internationally and locally to pursue their career goals regardless of social, economic, racial or cultural background. Tune in to learn from the women Ingrid has been able to meet through her journey.

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