CEO of Diamius Multinational, Val Jon Farris is a top-tier leadership development expert with 25+ years of experience championing enterprise-level training programs for Fortune 100s in the U.S.A, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and India. Company's include Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, Intel, Yahoo, Intuit, Pacific Telesis, and many others.

His areas of expertise are top-tier executive mentoring and designing and implementing large-scale workforce leadership initiatives that tap into human greatness, foster superlative character, and accelerate peak performance. Val Jon is a seasoned executive coach, leadership advisor to Richard Branson's XTC Academy, and an honorary recipient of numerous industry leadership and development awards. He is also an award-winning author, Huffington Post columnist, and well-known self-development workshop facilitator.

Ed and Deb Shapiro are the award-winning authors of 18 books on meditation and personal development. Their latest is Be The Change, How Meditation Can Transform You and The World, with forewords by the Dalai Lama and Prof Robert Thurman.

They lead mindfulness and meditation retreats and personal development programs worldwide; are featured columnists with the HuffingtonPost.com and Oprah.com; and are corporate consultants and personal coaches working with CEO’s and senior management. Ed from New York and Deb from England have taught together for over 25 years. They are an inspirational team who bring wisdom and compassion, acknowledging the inherent goodness in all beings.

Experienced event producer and logistics assistant reporting to large-scale production managers. Production and logistics of all types - green room, speakers, registration, tagging video snags, managing volunteers, sound bite selection. Event producer for Tony Robbins, between 20 to 23,000 attendees. Most commonly 2500 attendance.

Events included: Competitive Edge, Mastery University, Unlimited Power Weekend, Wealth Mastery, Date with Destiny, Leadership Academy, Platinum in Fiji.   Also an event manager for Michael Russer, National Association of Realtors, Remax Tour, Envision U, and a variety of cruise ship-based events.

High Stakes Presentation Expert Ann Convery shows clients how to optimize their presence and presentations into exactly what audiences want to hear, in either 30 seconds or 3 hours.  Using neuroscience, media skills, and wordsmith tools, Ann’s clients deliver a great story merged with a winning pitch, particularly in high-stakes situations. 

Ann has delivered over 10,000 hours of professional training, and her clients have achieved triple growth, delivered winning presentations, and appeared in media such as CNN, 60 Minutes, and The Wall Street Journal. Ann has delivered over 150 speeches in Europe, the UK, and the U.S., and been interviewed in Entrepreneur, ABC-TV, Presentations Magazine, and many other media.  Her two books were published by Harper Collins.

 

As an attorney with twelve years’ experience, Kate Kilberg’s practice focuses on non-profit and tax-exempt organizations, social enterprise, and complex estate planning and administration. She has experience representing tax-exempt organizations, both large and small, including public charities, private foundations, community foundations, and social welfare organizations.

Kate has advised tax-exempt organizations in a wide variety of contexts, such as qualification for tax-exempt status, corporate governance, political and lobbying activities, grant-making, excise taxes, unrelated business income tax, joint ventures and for-profit subsidiaries, social enterprise, and mission-and program-related investments.

Experienced community networking, marketing and sales liaison, Candice specializes in connecting high-end professionals and entrepreneurs together to grow and network their business in an effective and profitable manner. She excels in business negotiations and is proficient at building rapport, trust and engagement. Candice is also the Founder of "BIO" an exclusive, invitation only networking group in Beverly Hills, BIO connects professionals from various careers with other like minded business men and women.