Jamie Hess

Gratitudeology Podcast Host, Coach, Influencer @nycfitfam, Entrepreneur

Jamie Hess is a wellness entrepreneur, mindset optimization coach, media personality, and the host of The Gratitudeology™ Podcast (featured on the TODAY Show). She is also the creator of the popular Instagram account @NYCfitfam. 

Prior to becoming a highly sought after content creator, Jamie spent 17 years as a senior level PR & marketing expert on brands like McDonald’s, General Motors, LinkedIn, Barry’s Bootcamp, and W Hotels Worldwide. Today she integrates her expertise to teach people how to expertly leverage their own social media presence to secure high paying ambassador deals through her course, Brand Ninja.

She is the face of zuda activewear on QVC, and contributes healthy living advice to hundreds of shows including TODAY, Good Morning America, The View, and beyond. She is also a TEDx and keynote speaker helping individuals and organizations focus on wellness, positive mindset shifts, and the future of work.

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Dr. Vivienne Ming

Author, Speaker, Professional Mad Scientist

Dr. Vivienne Ming explores maximizing human capacity as a theoretical neuroscientist, delusional inventor, and demented author. Over her career she’s founded 6 startups, been chief scientist at 2 others, and launched the “mad science incubator”, Socos Labs, where she explores seemingly intractable problems—from a lone child’s disability to global economic inclusion—for free. Vivienne’s other companies apply machine learning to lessen the corrosive health effects of chronic stress in communities, fight bias in hiring and promotion, develop neurotechnologies to treat dementia and TBI, and promote learning at home and in school. As a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, she pursued her research in cognitive neuroprosthetics.

In her free time, Vivienne designs AI systems to treat her son’s diabetes, predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers, and reunite orphan refugees with extended family members. For relaxation, she writes science fiction and spends time with her wife and children. Vivienne was named one of “10 Women to Watch in Tech” by Inc. Magazine and one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2017. She is featured frequently for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Quartz Magazine and the New York Times.

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John Livesay

Author, Speaker, Sales through Storytelling Expert

John Livesay, aka The Pitch Whisperer, is a sales keynote speaker where he shows companies’ sales teams how to turn mundane case studies into compelling case stories so they win more new business. From John’s award-winning career at Conde Nast, he shares the lessons he learned that turn sales teams into revenue rockstars. His TEDx talk: "Be The Lifeguard of Your Own Life" has over 1,000,000 views.

Clients love working with John because of his ongoing support after his talk which includes implementing the storytelling skills from his best-selling book Better Selling Through Storytelling and online course "Revenue Rockstar Mastery."

His new book, The Sale Is in the Tale, is a business fable set in Austin, TX, is about a sales representative whose old ways of selling are not working anymore. The reader accompanies the rep on his journey and learns how to use storytelling and strengthen their soft skills to improve their professional and personal relationships.

John is a guest lecturer on how to leverage the power of storytelling in sales at multiple universities including the University of Texas at Austin (UTLA), Pepperdine Graziadio Business school, and University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his book is now required reading for the UTLA course on Entertainment and Media studies.

He is also the host of “The Successful Pitch” podcast, which is heard in over 60 countries. These interviews make him a sales keynote speaker with fresh and relevant content.

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Bridget Hilton

Author, Entrepreneur, Keynote Speaker

Bridget Hilton is obsessed with experiences. A keynote speaker, co-author of Experiential Billionaire and Treasure Maps card game, and self-proclaimed experiential guinea pig, she is passionate about inspiring people to live intentional, regret-free lives by going after audacious goals. Along with her co-author Joe Huff, she has trained to be a samurai, danced with the northern lights, tracked silverback gorillas in a hail storm, stood face-to-face with a hungry lion on safari, visited 50+ countries and all 50 states, absorbed life lessons from Maasai Mara tribesmen, spoken on stage with Sir Richard Branson, swum with sharks, built schools for kids in need, and explored the experiential riches life has to offer. 

Bridget has been recognized by both Forbes and Inc Magazine’s 30 Under 30, Entrepreneur’s 15 Women to Watch, and NAWBO’s Rising Star. She has been interviewed on the Today Show, Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Verge, Buzzfeed, Entrepreneur, Monocle, Inc., Fast Company, and The Los Angeles Metropolitan Local News.

Paul Mobley

Portrait Photographer, Keynote Speaker, Champion of Everyday Heroes.

Paul Mobley is the quintessential portrait photographer. As much a director as a photographer, his ability to forge quick connections with his clients and put them at ease creates the possibility for strikingly intimate images. His years of experience photographing everyone from Amy Schumer to Zac Brown, combined with his contagious enthusiasm and willingness to take risks, allow him to approach each shoot confidently, leading to a fresh, unique portrait of the subject.

Whether it’s a celebrity promoting his or her latest project or a 100-year-old farmer celebrating his family’s legacy, Mobley approaches his work the same way—he aims to capture the soul of the subject and present a compelling portrait that is authentic and timeless.

This ability to capture the soul of the subject and forge heartfelt, human connection with every person he meets also happens to be what makes him a brilliant, effective, and inspirational speaker.

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Luchina Fisher

Emmy-Winning Director, Writer, Filmmaker

Luchina Fisher (she/her) is an Emmy award-winning director, writer and producer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender and identity. Her feature directorial debut MAMA GLORIA was a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee and broadcast on PBS. Her latest film, the short documentary and Emmy-Award winning, THE DADS, about five fathers of trans kids on a weekend fishing trip, premiered at SXSW and was acquired by Netflix. The film made DOC NYC’S 2023 Shortlist, won Best Documentary Short at the El Paso Film Festival and an audience award at NewFest. Luchina’s short documentary TEAM DREAM, executive produced by Queen Latifah, was a finalist for The Wrap’s Shortlist and has won numerous festival jury awards. Her second feature LOCKED OUT, about the barriers to Black homeownership, won Best Documentary Feature at the American Black Film Festival, the “Shine the Light” Award at the Freep Festival and an audience award at Woods Hole Film Festival.

Earlier this year, Fisher was awarded the PitchBLACK Film Forum’s top prize for her new project about Black queer representation in music. She is the director of two scripted short films and has written and produced several nationally broadcast documentaries. Her work has been supported by Black Public Media, the Field Foundation, Sisters in Cinema, Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the Queen Collective, Women Make Movies, the Athena Film Festival’s Works in Progress Program, Firelight Media and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Luchina also teaches documentary filmmaking at Yale University. 

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Ted Schilowitz

Futurist, Public Speaker, and an Entertainment Industry Exec

Ted is a recognized Futurist that has presented worldwide at numerous conferences and events for the Movie, TV and interactive Entertainment industries. Most recently, Ted worked as the Futurist in Residence with the leadership and technology teams across Paramount Global, including CBS, CBS Sports, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Plus, MTV, Nickelodeon, BET, PlutoTV and Comedy Central, exploring emerging tech for entertainment with an emphasis on Virtual and Mixed Reality, Web 3.0 and Advanced Themed Entertainment pursuits. Prior to joining Paramount, Ted was the Futurist at 20th Century Fox, where he worked on the evolving art and science of advanced interactive visual storytelling. He was part of the creation team for the Martian VR and Wild VR experiences, which premiered at CES and Sundance.

Ted was an integral part of the product development team at Red Digital Cinema as the company’s first employee. The Red One and Epic cameras have made significant impact on the Motion Picture Industry, winning a Sci-Tech Academy and technical Emmy award. Many of the world’s biggest movies are shot with these ultra high resolution digital movie cameras. Ted is one of the founders of the G-Tech product line of advanced hard drive storage products. As the most recognized brand in that industry, they are implemented worldwide at the highest levels on cinema and television productions.

Rich Horwatch

CEO, Founder, Workshop Facilitator, Strategic Executive Coach

Rich Horwath is the founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute where he serves leadership teams as a strategy workshop facilitator, strategic executive coach, and keynote speaker. His mission is to help executive teams think, plan, and act strategically to set direction, create advantage, and achieve their goals. Rich is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today national bestselling author of eight books, and his work has been featured in publications including Fast Company, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review. He has been described by Chief Executive Magazine as “the world’s foremost expert on strategic thinking.”

As a former chief strategy officer and professor of strategy at the graduate level, he is able to bring a practical, real-world approach based in strong foundational principles to help executives develop their strategic capabilities. Rich has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX TV to share his perspectives on current business strategy issues. In addition to his work facilitating strategy workshops for leadership teams and providing executive coaching services and strategic counsel, he is a highly sought-after keynote speaker for groups ranging from 10 to 10,000. Rich has helped more than a quarter million leaders around the world develop their strategic capabilities in pursuit of his vision to teach the world to be strategic.

Sharmin Ali

Founder & CEO, Fortune 40 Under 40, Forbes Technology Council Member and Writer, Generative AI Leader 

Sharmin Ali is an entrepreneur, author, speaker and an expert in innovation. She has authored two books, the first one 'Y.O.U' has been announced a best-seller by the New Indian Express & the Oxford bookstores. Her second book, titled 'How I was forced to become a staunch RACIST' has been recently published. After exiting from her first startup (Art-Right-Is productions), She have now ventured into an artificial intelligence based startup and has even started her own Mental Health Focused business, S.A.F.E.

Eli Walker

Speaker, Founder, Author & Belonging Expert

Eli Walker is founder and author of the internationally-acclaimed company Drunk Yoga® brand,(now The Uplift ExperienceTM), professional speaker and belonging expert. With a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she has used immersive storytelling and mindfulness practices to support tens of thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions across the globe-- including NYU and Columbia University, as well as Barclay's, Ebay, Intel, Google, Pinterest, Porsche and Mastercard--in building meaningful belonging for themselves and their teams by leveraging the art of play in live experience design.

As a keynote speaker, she uses wellness, meditation, yoga, storytelling (and sometimes wine!) to make kindness, joy and empathy easy for business leaders to foster within their teams. Eli’s interactive corporate offerings are unparalleled. She’s more than just a speaker - she’s an engaging and seasoned storyteller who unites her audiences with talks grounded in what’s real. Eli marries her comedic approach to personal experiences with data-driven insight, leaving her audiences illuminated with empathy, electrified with joy and, most importantly, inspired to create change.

Learn more about Eli at eliwalkerstories.com (IG:@eliwalkerstories) and Drunk Yoga® at theuplift.center

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Dan Negroni

The People Activator, Speaker

Dan is the quintessential next generation management and talent development expert solving today’s critical multi-generational workplace issues. Dan leverages his authentic, no-nonsense approach and a successful 20+ year career as a CEO, attorney, senior sales and marketing executive, and master coach to help companies bridge the gap between managers and their millennial workforce and create “next gen” workplace cultures to increase employee relationship-based skills, engagement, productivity and profits.

Dan is an Amazon best-selling author of Chasing Relevance: 6 Steps to Understand, Engage and Maximize Next Generation Leaders in the Workplace. He is also the CEO and founder of Launchbox and is a master coach of CEOs and millennials. He has trained and mentored over 12,000 millennials and worked with hundreds of companies to unleash the creativity and potential of their millennial workforce.

Dan was selected as Inc.’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers of 2018 and is a regular keynote presenter at all types of management and millennial-related events including corporate gatherings, association conferences, industry events and sales meetings.

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DJ Danny Ramos AKA “Dramos”

Producer, Host, Speaker, DJ

Best known for his tenure as a Producer and 4th chair on the nationally syndicated radio/television show The Breakfast Club, Dramos is a proud Nuyorican who has impressively stepped out from the shadows of his National Radio Hall of Fame co-hosts, and carved out his own lane in the entertainment industry. Proving to be a jack of all trades; Dramos has garnered attention DJing prominent nightclubs throughout the country, producing independently successful music, as well as being an on-air radio personality on the legendary Z100 in New York and hosting his own television show which airs weekly in 40+ markets across the country via LATV. Most recently, in partnership with iHeart Media, he launched the "Life As A Gringo" podcast which tackles life through the vantage point of American-born Latinos who live their lives existing in a gray area. Those who are looked at as a gringo or “too white” by their family back in their native land, but were constantly reminded that their house smelled different or their parents music was “weird” by the people they grew up with. Met with a strong response, the podcast managed to crack the top 100 Society & Culture podcasts in the world in its first month.

Armed with a “purpose over paycheck” mentality, Dramos uses his platforms to deliver honest and raw commentary on the state of the world; with the ultimate goal of being a positive influence and advocate for his community. From pop culture to the many injustices that plague the Black and Brown communities, Dramos continues to prove himself to be a well informed, and much needed, unapologetic voice for today’s media.

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