Dr. Nicholas Harvey The Social Impact Coach and Inclusion Instigator, Dr. Nicholas Harvey is a voice committed to creating an infrastructure for diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice through leadership development and policy change. He is the founder of Inclusive Leaders Academy. As a Coach, Consultant, & Strategic Adviser he uses his nonprofit and public policy expertise to help social purpose leaders, across sectors, to achieve their missions for positive change and justice. He is devoted to co-creating empowered individuals and organizations for societal impact and a more just world. He is also the architect of NQCLUSIONETICS™ (pronounced inclusion-etics), a proven transformational strategic advisement process for advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity. He also co-developed the Cultural Competency in Coaching Framework which assists executive leaders, coaches, and managers to engage others in a culturally appropriate manner.
Sandi Mitchell is CEO of Apex Catalyst Group. She works with leaders from small businesses to major corporations and nonprofits to help improve and/or accelerate in areas such as: leadership, new manager transitions, team alignment, communication, emotional intelligence, strategic planning, negotiations, work place stress and employee engagement. Sandi has over 25 years working in the corporate world, as a business owner, as a Professional EOS Implementer, and as a certified Executive Coach. Her experience is in learning and development, business operations, sales, and management. She is a bestselling author and has written Coloring Outside the Lines: A Grown Up’s Creative Guide to Increasing Emotional Intelligence.
Debbie Mrazek is a sales guru and author of 13 books about selling, including the bestselling, The Field Guide to Sales: The All Weather, All Terrain Guide to Selling. She is a seasoned C-Suite executive bringing over 30 years of problem solving, innovation and leadership ability to her positions, largely in the technology industry. She is a highly sought-after motivational speaker that absolutely loves empowering people to sell and achieve more. Debbie turned her Top 1% sales career into in-demand sales consulting where she engages sales teams and individuals in creating predictable sales success. Debbie works with entrepreneurs, privately held companies, foreign governments and Fortune 500 companies like technology giant Texas Instruments, Alcatel, State Farm, Merrill Lynch and Chevron.
Deborah “Deb” Degner brings passion, experience and commitment to her clients. Deb works with business and academic leaders, emerging leaders as well as executives and corporate teams to help them reach their full leadership potential. She is a certified executive coach with training in several programs including Emotional Intelligence, Energy Leadership and Conversational Intelligence. Deb’s “game on” approach invites participants to interact, collaborate and have fun. She spent most of her career in communications, public affairs and government relations. Deb worked many years in the oil and gas industry, in the telecommunications industry, in federal and state government and the non-profit sector. One of her legacy projects was the development of an Oil & Gas Associates degree program at three community colleges. Deb is a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin and is married to her husband, Dennis. They are proud parents of their 16 year-old daughter, Madeline.
Judy Owen is focused on coaching executives to achieve peak performance and business results. After 30 years in the live events and exhibitions industry she is now focused on her passion of developing leaders through coaching. Judy possesses a multifaceted skill set having held executive roles in Sales, Services, Operations and most recently chief talent development executive for Freeman.
Kim Keefe Pisolkar is leveraging 20+ years of experience to bring the Best of Fortune 500 to companies large and small so that they accelerate performance, productivity and profits while maintaining their entrepreneurial spirit. Her areas of expertise are implementing change, developing high performing teams, sales training, HR process and program design, strategic planning facilitation, talent acquisition, development and retention, and organizational development.
Lin O’Neill is a consultant with in-the-trenches experience. She was VP of Inflight Service and Corporate Officer at Continental Airlines. Today, Lin helps her clients solve the stickiest people problems. As a coach, consultant or keynote speaker, she brings extensive experience in strategy, culture change, turnarounds, business process definition, and multi-level cross-functional team building to her engagements. She does much of her work with the SBA and SBDC.
Siobhan O’Leary is an Executive Coach and Leadership Development expert who integrates Core Energy Coaching with a design thinking process resulting in programs that drives solutions. A Chief People Officer in the luxury hospitality industry, Siobhan gained international experience in developing leaders’ shared common corporate goals. She is certified as an executive coach and she completed a Harvard Executive Education program. Siobhan recognizes that values underpin success in every culture. She is committed to an innovative approach toward achieving results.