Stacy Kesten is a Leadership Consultant for Integrated Leadership Systems (ILS) in Los Angeles, California where she provides coaching, consulting and leadership development training to various types of organizations. She has helped numerous leaders and executives to be more effective through training in self-awareness and communication. After receiving her certification in mindfulness facilitation through UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, Stacy was invited to become a teacher for UCLA. She has since taught mindfulness practices to thousands of students in the Los Angeles area through speaking engagements, classes, workshops and retreats. She specializes mindful communication as well as other “outside the box” versions of mindfulness such as mindful creativity and mindful improvisation. Stacy also has a B.A. in psychology and communications and she lives with her husband Brian and two cats in Los Angeles. In her free time she loves to paint, write, travel, meditate, hike, and generally be in nature as much as possible. 

For almost 20 years, Madeline Schmidt has inspired and transformed people and companies, helping them achieve their full potential through organizational development, learning, coaching, leadership development, performance, and culture change.

Madeline has had the benefit of working in the “inside,” as the Head of Talent & Leadership Development for growth companies in a variety of industries such as sales, e-commerce, real estate and development, hospitality, and financial services. She has developed and coached thousands of individuals, high potentials, emerging leaders, and executives in leveraging their current strengths, building new strengths, shifting mindsets and approaches to achieve personal and professional goals, and uncovering blind spots that get in the way of growth and success.

Known for her passion, insights, and ability to shift mindsets, Madeline recently followed her dream to start her own company, Monarch Training & Consulting, to create more opportunities to help people and companies unlock their potential.  She specializes in Leadership Development (including Coaching and 360 feedback), Organizational Culture and Employee Engagement, Learning & Development, and Women’s Leadership Initiatives.

Madeline has an M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, received several local and national awards for her talent development and culture change work and is a certified facilitator / practitioner in a variety of globally recognized leadership training programs such as: DISC, Predictive Index, Situational Leadership II, Situational Frontline Leadership, Situational Self Leadership, Catalyst, and AchieveGlobal.

As a Business Strategist and Executive Coach, LaFern Batie leads The Batie Group, LLC, a business consulting and leadership development firm serving organizations around the globe. With extensive Fortune 500 corporate leadership experience and widely recognized expertise, she works with international organizations and leaders across diverse industries to maximize their collective and individual performance. Leaders value her high business acumen, ability to quickly connect with teams, thorough and efficient approach to identifying challenges and commitment to helping them achieve results that exceed their expectations. 

Follow LaFern on Twitter @LaFernBatie.
 

When Sheri founded Power Presentations in 1993, she had two goals in mind. The first was to empower business professionals to look and sound dynamic while communicating in any situation. The second was to deliver training that professionals would leave saying, “That was the best training I’ve ever attended. Ever.” Since then, Power Presentations has successfully trained more than 22,000 professionals from a variety of Fortune 500 Companies and industry leaders such as FedEx, Bayer, Goodyear, Marathon Petroleum and NASA.

Sheri is the author of Tips for your Talk® and Master your Virtual Communications: A Webinars that Wow® Training Guide.

Jennifer B. Kahnweiler is a bestselling author and one of the leading speakers on introverts in the workplace. Her pioneering books, The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, The Genius of Opposites, and Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces have been translated into 18 languages. The Introverted Leader was named one of the top 5 business books by The Shanghai Daily.

Jennifer has partnered with leading organizations like Amazon, Merck, Kimberly Clark, NASA, Bosch, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. She has delivered her signature presentations from Singapore to Spain. She holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation, awarded to a small percentage of speakers, and serves as a mentor to many professional women.

A native New Yorker, Jennifer calls Atlanta, GA home.

Throughout her career as an executive for Frito Lay, Yahoo!, Nintendo and KidZania, Cammie has earned a stellar reputation as a brand-builder and inspirational leader.

Hoping to share what she has learned, she recently wrote the book, “Fit Matters”. In it she addresses practical ways to explore, “what could happen for all of us, and for the world, if more people actually LOVED their jobs?”

Cammie currently serves on the boards of Red Robin, Nordstrom FSB and Go Health. She’s been featured in numerous publications and is a frequent speaker at companies and universities. Her MBA is from Harvard Business School. 

Randy Pennington helps leaders deliver positive results in a world of accelerating uncertainty and change. His clients include many of world’s best-managed companies, associations, government agencies, and universities. Additionally, Randy serves as an adjunct instructor in the Cox Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University.

Randy is author of three books: Make Change Work, Results Rule!; and On My Honor, I Will . His ideas have been featured in leading media outlets including CNN, PBS, Fox News, ABC Radio Network, the BBC, Fast Company, and The New York Times. He is a contributor to CIO.com and the Huffington Post.