Aug. 15-17, 2019
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Carol Rydell is an expert in creating conscious change. She is a catalyst for spiritual seekers and entrepreneurs deeply committed to their growth and transformation.
For over 30 years, she has led experiential workshops, initiatory processes, and private mentoring, utilizing cutting edge as well as ancient wisdom practices. She masterfully creates and holds a container of transformation. With this safe container, they can dive deeply into the shadow, shedding what is no longer needed. Afterward, they can fly high into the light to trust, and value themselves as well as align with their Soul’s Purpose.
After graduating with a B.S. in Accounting, she founded and operated a successful CPA firm. In 1997, at the height of that career, she was guided to sell her firm. She then traveled deep into the jungles and journeyed high into the mountains of Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Bali and, India. She is committed to seeking spiritual truths while awakening and learning to trust Source, her internal guidance, as well as follow her truth.
Carol has facilitated nine-month psycho-spiritual Mystery School programs since 2003, mentoring women to stand in their spiritual authority and embody their value. She is shamanic adept, mentored by don Oscar Miro-Quesada originator of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, and a long time Magdalene High Priestess facilitator in the lineage of Nicole Christine.
At the end of 2017, her world crumbled when her husband died unexpectedly. His death provided Carol yet another opportunity to dive deep within herself, grieve, surrender to what was, let go of the past, and open to being Soul-guided at an entirely different level. She now brings this new level of trust in the process and transformation into all that she does.
Carol is the founder and director of New Earth Wealth Mystery School™ as well as many other programs.
Dr. Steve Young’s “moonshot” goal is to help a Billion people love their way to building their greatest legacy by providing the tools and systems to fuel their journey with the utmost health and vitality.
The tools he has co-created to achieve this goal with other amazing souls involve a holistic healing system to resolve ailments, a workstation to cure poor posture and poor health from inactivity, and customized nutritional
strategies to resolve the root cause of diseases. He’s working on an AI system that can help people find and resolve the root cause of illnesses.
He believes we all have the ability to play with and pass on our wisdom to our great great great great grandchildren for the most abundant future possible.
He’s a foodie with a goal to eat at the top 50 restaurants in the world and strives to be a mix between Elon Musk and The Dali Lama. He also loves to talk deeply about life, health, metacognition, parenting, and living to
150 years young.
Gary Nealon is the President of Usawa, a digital currency, designed to help make an impact on poverty in underdeveloped and developing countries. He is also the President of Nealon Solutions, offering strategic marketing consulting services designed to help you scale your eCommerce business, increase revenues, and maximize profits. Gary’s strengths in strategic planning, SEO, and social media have helped him build two multimillion-dollar businesses in two completely different niches, with RTA Cabinet Store landing on the Inc. 500|5000 list five consecutive years in a row for its explosive growth. Gary is the author of Notes to a Young Entrepreneur.
Andrew is a Brooklyn based social entrepreneur who specializes in communication and human connection. He is the Founder and CEO of Tribute.co and was recently called “Dale Carnegie for the Digital Age” by Forbes. In addition to building companies, Andrew trains organizations and leaders around the globe on Social Flow – a simple framework to feel confident and inspire others.
He is also the founder of a community for men called Junto. The organization curates resources and hosts events for men that want to become better men. Andrew currently leads a bi-monthly rite of passage for men to practice emotional mastery and reconstruct their relationship with masculinity on their own terms.
Josh Dunlop is the founder of the world’s most read photography education website, ExpertPhotography. Having run the site for over eight years, his experience with marketing is diverse, with particular in-depth knowledge in content marketing, email marketing, advertising, product launches, and lead generation. He runs a small international team from Budapest, Hungary, where he lives with his girlfriend. In his spare time he’s usually traveling, spending 1/4 of the year abroad, attending various conferences and taking photos.
After performing over 60 leading roles in Broadway shows and opera all over the world, Ron Baker faced an undeniable truth: outward success is only one facet of true fulfillment. During his extensive travels, Ron spent time with a host of powerful teachers, seeking to discover exactly what was missing.
Applying every clue, Ron developed a deep understanding of personal transformation. He then spent the next two decades sharing his unique empowerment process with thousands of people.
Ron is now a bioenergetics therapist, speaker, author and healing practitioner. He has taken groups on 16 journeys to ancient sites around the planet, leading worldwide meditations from sacred spaces like the Great Pyramid, Stonehenge and Machu Picchu. His School of Self-Mastery is located in New York City.
In preparation for bringing his message to the world in a bigger way, Ron has just completed two books. The first is a memoir titled “So Much More is Possible: A Soul Journey from Wounded to Wise{r),” which will be released in 2020.
Co-Founder of Bards of Nevermore, Josh Levine brings a unique and rich background in business development, sales and marketing to the tales of our clients. His experience spans 26 years constructing businesses, organizations, and products of all shapes and sizes across technology, entertainment and manufacturing industries. If you’ve ever interacted with Microsoft Windows XP or enjoyed a day at Disneyland, you’ve already experienced his handy-work. No stranger to the Silicon Valley, his knowledge and passion have contributed to the development of multiple tech start-ups and he has served at the executive-level for start-ups, midsize and global 500 companies alike. Josh holds an MBA from the University of California, Irvine, a BA in Clinical Psychology, and he served in the West Wing of the White House as a President Clinton intern. With experience as both a client and a buyer of film and media, he understands the art and importance of authentic storytelling. Josh’s career is a hardback novel, built on the spine of innovation, leadership and filled with pages of varied large-scale and high-profile projects, with new chapters being written as we speak.
Entrepreneur and a Facebook traffic expert. In just the last 3 years Manol has spent over $30,000,000 on Facebook ads to acquire customers for his clients and for his own brands.
Chris Winfield, Co-Founder and CEO, Super Connector Media
Chris Winfield is the Co-Founder and CEO of Super Connector Media based in New York City. Chris has successfully built Super Connector Media on the concept of Helping One Person Everyday (H.O.P.E.), which has inevitably coined him as “The Super Connector,” by many in media (had public realtions and marketing industries in before and took it out – too long).
As a serial entrepreneur, Chris created Unfair Advantage Live, the world’s premier publicity event connecting entrepreneurs to the media and the Unfair Advantage Accelerator program, supporting entrepreneurs through publicity and marketing into the next level of their businesses.
Prior to starting Super Connector Media, Chris worked with executives from many of the world’s best known companies, including Disney, Virgin, Macy’s, Viacom, Conde Nast, Intuit, NBC & many others. To put it simply, Chris gives entrepreneurs an “unfair advantage” when it comes to getting more publicity, making connections and taking their lives to the next level. Chris currently lives in New York City with his daughter, life and business partner, Jen Gottlieb and their three dogs.
Jen Gottlieb, Co-Founder and Chief Mindset Officer, Super Connector Media
Jen Gottlieb is the Co-Founder and Chief Mindset Officer at Super Connector Media. Jen’s plethora of experience in health and wellness coaching, 14-season run as co-host on VH1 and a Broadway national tour, has naturally lead into her role as host of Unfair Advantage live, the world’s premier publicity event connecting entrepreneurs to the media.
Under the Unfair Advantage Accelerator program, Jen supports and works with entrepreneurs to elevate personal mindset into achieving goals beyond their expectations. Prior to Co-Founding Super Connector Media, Jen used the media to build a multi 6 figure coaching business in the health and wellness space. Drawing on her vast media network and successful background in television, Jen has become an influencer in the mindset community.
Jen also speaks to entrepreneurs across the country, impacting the trajectory of already successful entrepreneurs into a winner mindset. She currently lives and works in New York City with her life and business partner Chris Winfield and their three dogs.
John Ratliff founded Appletree Answers in 1995 in his two-bedroom apartment in Wilmington, Del., as a traditional telephone answering service. He grew the company through a series of acquisitions to 24 US- based locations and 650 employees when it was sold to a strategic buyer in June,2012.
Passionate about strategy, Ratliff used the methodologies of the Rockefeller Habits to reduce turnover at the company from the industry average of 110% to around 18% in the four years between 2008 and 2012. One key initiative was the company’s Dream On initiative, a “Make-A-Wish-Foundation” style program for employees in need. Appletree’s high retention rate allowed the company to manage its exponential growth while driving tremendous EBITDA and revenue gains.
In one sign of its employees’ enthusiasm, the company won the We Our Workplace Video Contest, run by the prestigious Great Place to Work Institute. Ultimately it was Appletree’s focus on employee engagement that drove its valuation on exit.
Ratliff is now CEO of GazellesPRO, the inner circle of Gazelles companies, as well as managing director of STS Capital Partners, an international mergers and acquisitions firm. He is also active in Virgin Unite, Sir Richard Branson’s charitable foundation focused on improving the employee experience. In that capacity, he is involved with its initiative on people and innovation.
Ratliff speaks frequently with companies of all sizes to diagnose problems in their employee retention and morale and to drive improvements. He also brings expertise in using a business’s operating system to leverage the effectiveness of the management team.
Ratliff has a BSBA in Marketing and Finance from the University of Delaware. He lives in Wilmington, Del., with his wife Lynne and their three young children. In his free time, he flies his TBM 850 single-engine turboprop plane.
Dr. Kim and Creatrix Go Quantum are where “East Meets West for Quantum Success™”. With one foot in science and one foot in Spirit, Dr. Kim is a living bridge. She works with Conscious Entrepreneurs who want to create legacy and mission, wielding the Expert Model™to break concrete ceilings and launch them nationally and internationally into crazy success.
As a global leader in Quantum Consciousness, and the international founder of the field of Quantum Leadership™, Dr. Kim works with the core competencies, skill sets and behaviours that allow human potential to expand vertically, bloom, root and grow. Her ability to create customized and synergistically transformative programs is legendary: the Journey of Truth® program, Designing Your Destiny®, the Quantum Business Mastery (QBM)® program, and the elite Go Quantum® Leadership program are just a few.
Dr. Kim is Canada’s Board Designated Master Trainer (training trainers and opening institutes) in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis, Time Line Therapy® and NLP Results Coaching. Pouring 30+ years as a Mystery School and Ancient Wisdoms initiate through the lens of quantum physics, psycho-neurobiology, quantum mechanical biology…and delivering with her dynamic onstage presence; fun, energy and education converge for excellence.
Dr. Kim spins the secrets of excellence, into a hands-on format. If you are looking to create legacy, make a difference and learn how power and compassionate action work as the ultimate synthesis and synergy, then you are in the right place.
Giving back and raising the resonance of those around her are foundational building blocks in Dr. Kim’s life. Dr. Kim has been giving back since 1989 when she was recognized by the Arts in Education Society of Lincoln Centre for her work with the still existent Chapter One Program in NY. With her dog Apollo, she won the Priory Vote of Thanks from the Order of St. John in 2012 for her work in the Therapy Dog Program, and was medalled in 2018 by the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario for her years of volunteerism. In 2015 Dr. Kim was nominated as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, Maverick category.
Sonya Sophia is a revolutionary leader in the field of Emotional Freedom Techniques also known as EFT or “Tapping”. Her mission is to help humanity heal. She puts her special genius into helping shape global culture by supporting entrepreneurs, visionaries, artists, and philanthropists to become more aligned, emotionally intelligent, creative, empowered and loving.
She is a master of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and the founder of The Sophia School of Living Arts. She has over 30 years experience in the healing arts and has given over 66,000 private EFT sessions, working with people from below the poverty line to working with some of the worlds most famous and wealthy families.
She is the founder and CEO of the Sophia School of Living Arts and produces and hosts The World Tapping Circle a weekly livestream + video library where people experience EFT’s science based stress relief and evolve beyond fears, patterns and the past each week.
Sonya Sophia is featured in 2 films; “Femme – Women Healing the World” (2011) starring Sharon Stone, Whoopi Goldberg, Marianne Williamson, and “The Goddess Project” (2015).
Sonya Sophia co-hosts regularly on iTunes’ popular “Positive Head” podcast which has over 250,000 listeners. She’s also been a luminary for India’s “Global Festival of Spiritual Sciences Conference”, Londons’ “Gathering of Minds”, L.A.’s “International Alchemy Conference”, and a keynote speaker for “Leaders Causing Leaders”and the “Conscious Life Expo”.
Sonya Has become an icon at Burning Man since 2008 through supporting thousands each year in her EFT workshops. She’s led over 35,000 people in EFT during her festival appearances and workshops in America, England, France, Italy, Holland, Germany, Canada, Estonia, India, and Sweden.
Sonya Sophia is currently partnering up with others like herself, who are devoted to making the world a better place. Sonya Sophia serves so that all may achieve wholeness and activate their true purpose.
Miki Agrawal (www.mikiagrawal.com) is a serial social entrepreneur. She was the recipient of The Tribeca Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Award”, she was named “2017 Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum”, “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Technology Summit, she was one of INC Magazine’s “Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs of 2016”, Forbes’ “Top 20 Millennials on a Mission”, and made the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine in 2016. Most recently, she was named Fast Company’s Most Creative People in 2018.
She is the founder of the acclaimed farm-to-table, alternative pizza concept called WILD (www.eatdrinkwild.com) with 3 locations in New York City, one in Guatemala and more on the way.
She co-founded THINX (www.shethinx.com), a high-tech, period-proof underwear brand and led the company as CEO to a valuation of over $150 Million and to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2017, all while helping tens of millions of women period better. She also co-founded Icon, a high-tech pee-proof underwear brand that helps women manage light bladder leakage.
She most recently founded TUSHY (www.hellotushy.com), a company that is revolutionizing the American toilet category with a modern, affordable, designer bidet attachment that both upgrades human health & hygiene as well as the environment from wasteful toilet paper consumption. She and her team are also helping fight the global sanitation crisis by bringing clean latrines to underserved communities in India through their partnership with Samagra.
Harper Collins published her first book entitled “DO COOL SH*T” on entrepreneurship and lifestyle design and Hay House published her second book “Disrupt-Her.”
Miki is an identical twin, half-Japanese, half-Indian French Canadian, former professional soccer player, graduate of Cornell University and proud new mama of Hiro Happy.
Arjuna Ardagh is a Radical Brilliance Coach, writer and public speaker, and he was the original founder of Awakening Coaching. He has trained more than 2000 people to become Awakening Coaches over the last 25 years.
Arjuna is the author of nine books, including the 2005 #1 national bestseller The Translucent Revolution, featured in “O” magazine. Better than Sex, is the complete introduction to Awakening Coaching. He co-authored Conscious Men with John Gray.
Arjuna has been a speaker at conferences all over the world, and has appeared on TV, radio and in print media in twelve countries. He has spoken at Google and at the United Nations.
He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He lives with his wife, Chameli Ardagh, in Nevada City, California.
Renée started doing marketing and entrepreneurship as a 17-year-old running a restaurant, so she’s been an entrepreneur since before she could even vote.
Now, she runs an innovative marketing firm called Onboardly, where she uses a strategy she calls Demand Marketing to help clients:
Basically, she helps fast-growth companies gain authority, visibility and brand awareness… and she’s been successful enough at it to be recognized as the 2016 Phenomenal Woman of the Year!
Renée’s tactics are so effective, she once landed a client on the Steve Harvey show just for telling his rags-to-riches story. One of her clients got so much traffic from a single blog post that it created $500k in sales in 48 hours! Renée has tons of winning brand-building and authority-generating strategies to share that have made her the secret weapon for high-tech companies.
Eric Lochtefeld is an Investor in “Bliss”. Using his over 20+ years creating, running, and selling successful companies in the entertainment, education, and real estate spaces, he now seeks out competent individuals and organizations offering creative solutions to “blissful” activities.
And he has a vast experience to pull from when choosing the right people…
From running a student travel startup right out of college, to co creating and launching Vans Warped Tour, to producing the Sno-Core Tour, which included acts such as the Black Eyed Peas and Blink 182, to buying the Fox Theater in Redwood City, CA and leading a vibrancy movement that generated over $1 Billion in economic growth and increased property value in the city…
Let’s just say Eric knows a thing or two about a good investment.
More recently, Eric successfully sold Dream Careers Inc, the world’s largest summer internship business. The company had totaled over $100mm in revenue by the 12th and final year that Eric ran it.
For over 30 years, Marcia Wieder has been CEO of Dream University, impacting hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. As a long-established thought leader on visionary thinking she founded and leads, The Meaning Institute, a modern-day Mystery School, where she teaches people to create and live fulfilling lives. She’s been a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, writes for Huffington Post and is the author of 15 books. Her newest, DREAM: Clarify & Create What You Want premiered at #4 on the Wall Street Journal best seller list and was #1 of all non- fiction books and #1 in 10 countries on Amazon. It is being released in Italian in July.
She appeared as an expert often on “Oprah” and was featured in her own PBS-TV show called “Making Your Dreams Come True”. She taught at Stanford’s Business School and as president of the National Association of Women Business Owners, she assisted 3 U.S. presidents. She is a member of the Nobel Women’s Initiative supporting the work of Nobel Peace Prize winners. She served on boards for Make- A-Wish and the Unstoppable Foundation, where she helped finance and build 14 schools in Kenya. She is a long-standing member of the prestigious Transformational Leadership Council with many other luminaries in this field.
David says: “When you’re 10,000 feet ABOVE the Himalayas hanging from a piece of cloth, you see life differently”. He holds the viewpoint that life is the best game there is, and asks: Are you playing for REAL?
David coaches high performing entrepreneurs, executives and leaders to play the best game they possibly can, living a regret-free life. How? By setting life-changing goals, taking laser-focused action, and increasing their levels of Truth, Daring, and Caring – in both life and work.
A former Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies – including Sony Music, Proctor & Gamble, and Exxon – David left his cushy Park Avenue job 20 years ago to explore both the outer world, and his own inner world. Along the way he’s coached thousands of hours in a dozen countries around the globe, and is the author of Get Paid For Who You Are, with foreword by Jack Canfield.
Take your 1 minute Reality Check at http://www.playforreal.life
Joe De Sena – Founder and CEO of Spartan, the world’s largest obstacle race and endurance brand – has demonstrated his entrepreneurial drive since his pre-teens. After building a multimillion-dollar pool and construction business in college, and creating a Wall Street trading firm, De Sena set his sights on ripping 100 million people off their couches by creating the Spartan lifestyle.
Following a successful career on Wall Street, De Sena moved his family to Pittsfield, Vermont to operate an organic farm, a bed and breakfast, and a general store for hikers. It was here his passion grew for ultramarathons, adventure races, and endurance events, and thus the idea for Spartan was born.
With more than one million annual global participants at more than 200 events across more than 30 countries, Spartan offers heats for all fitness levels and ages, from beginner to elite and Kids as young as four-years-old. The brand has transformed more than five million lives since it was founded in 2010.
De Sena is also the New York Times Best Selling Author of “Spartan Up” and “Spartan Fit,” with a third book, “The Spartan Way” scheduled for release September 4, 2018. As a popular key note speaker, De Sena has parlayed the teachings of his Spartan Principals into the SpartanX Leadership Forum, a series of events in which participants collaborate to solve challenges alongside business leaders while learning to overcome mental and physical obstacles.
In addition to race events, the Spartan lifestyle that De Sena built encompasses all the tools one needs to transform their lives including partnerships with fitness brands such as Life Time, 24Hour Fitness and the DailyBurn; complementary training, nutrition plans and content; television series on NBC and Facebook; forthcoming documentaries about the brand, sport and health; and an extensive line of apparel and licensed fitness gear and equipment.
Throughout his lifetime, Joe has competed in any extreme sports adventure he could find, testing his mental and physical endurance against nature. Joe turned an interest in endurance racing into a passion. His racing resume is the stuff of legend – over 50 ultra-events overall and 14 Ironman events in one year alone.
Rob Sorrenti is an award-winning British director, writer and producer. He is renowned for his critically-acclaimed short films and documentaries. Rob’s productions, including work with Oscar-nominated directors Paul Greengrass and Stephen Daldry, entrepreneur Richard Branson and actor Tom Cruise have reached millions of people globally.
Short films
Rob’s short films have been screened all over the world.
Rob’s short film debut, “Wednesday”, is the story of a girl and boy born on the same day, at the same time, in the same hospital, whose paths cross again years later in the very same place. “Wednesday” was executive produced by four-time Oscar nominated director, Stephen Daldry, and supported by Working Title Films. The film screened at 50 festivals worldwide, and won a raft of awards.
Rob’s second short film, “Hollow”, is a sensitive observation about the nature of addiction, exploring the idea that love isn’t always enough when it comes to getting clean. “Hollow” has been officially selected for 30 film festivals, and received three awards at the Oscar accredited Rhode Island International Film Festival (2011).
Documentaries
In 2004, Rob wrote, produced and directed “The Real Billy Elliot Diaries”, which was nationally broadcast in the UK to an audience of two million.
In 2012 he worked with Stephen Daldry to make “Spirit of the Olympics” – a film about the legacy of the London Olympic Games.
In 2017 Rob created a charity video, showing the devastation and destruction that Hurricane Irma caused on the British Virgin Islands. Kate Winslet provided the voiceover for the piece.
Rob has also directed the story of the Kodiak Queen, a decorated WWII warship that survived Pearl Harbour, transformed into an underwater art installation and marine life habitat by Richard Branson and Maverick1000.
Behind the scenes
In addition to his films and documentaries, Rob has worked for more than a decade with the world’s most respected film studios, television broadcasters, and production companies, delivering original, cinematic, behind-the-scenes and virtual reality 360° content.
Feature films that Rob has worked on include “Billy Elliott” (2000), “Pride and Prejudice” (2005), “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007), “Atonement” (2007), “Jason Bourne” (2016), “The Mummy” (2017) and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” (2018).
In February 2018, Rob released the “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” “Helicopter Stunt” featurette, showing Tom Cruise in action behind the scenes. The featurette went viral, gaining more than 2 million viewers in less than two weeks.
Feature Film
Rob is now making his first feature “Angels in the Asylum”.
With over 15+ years of experience in the healthcare and fitness field, Dr. Steve Young is the Founder of Body Solutions in Voorhees, New Jersey. Dr. Young coordinates the physical therapy, personal training, medical massage, performance training, and nutritional consultation services. Steve’s efforts for the past eight years have been directed towards developing a comprehensive and effective physical therapy treatment plan and a fitness training plan based on scientific and medical evidence. Thousands of research articles later, Dr. Young has developed a unique approach of a combination of precise nutritional strategies along with correct exercises, and careful hands-on techniques to maximize recovery after an acute or nagging injury/pain. This precise approach allows patients to experience complete recovery while improving their health. Dr. Young has also pioneered MetMax movements, the most effective AND safest workout approach available. See.www.metmax.com for details.
When not working and trying to change the world, Dr. Young likes to spend time with his family, play an occasional XBOX game, work out, read the research, and go out for fine dining. He’s looking for a job as a food critic for fine restaurants if you know anyone hiring. : )
Co-founder of Clickfunnels. Focusing on product development & design. Funnel designer for VIP clients like Tony Robbins, Marcus Lemonis, and many other industry game changers
Daniel has an outstanding record of entrepreneurial success. He is the co-founder and President of Gazelles Growth Institute, the leading online executive education company for C level executives at fast-growing firms. He also co-founded Inflection (Gazelles Mexico) a management coaching company that helps managers and entrepreneurs grow their companies faster with less “drama”.
Earlier he co-founded Creditos123, LLC an online lending exchange that serves the Hispanic community in the USA. In 1999, he created the first financial website focused on the Mexican financial markets, Finanzas Web, which he later sold to Patagon.com; he subsequently assumed the position of CEO of Patagon Mexico. Additionally, created Fondo.com, an Angel Fund specializing in Internet-related businesses.
Earlier in his career, Daniel was a broker at Lloyd’s of London and later served as Financial Attaché to the Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong.
Daniel is the blogger of Capitalemprendedor.com dedicated to helping entrepreneurs grow their business; he has been selected a “30 in their 30’s” by Expansion Magazine (when he was just 29!) and it’s a graduate EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants”, and its continuation “Gathering of The Titans”. He Co-authored the book “Hogares para Hispanos”. Daniel holds a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from I.T.E.S.M. (Monterrey Tech) and an M.B.A. (cum laude) from Babson College at Wellesley, MA. He lives in Austin TX with his wife and 2 kids.
With over 20 years of experience leading startup and high growth technology companies, Christian Cotichini is an active angel investor and mentor to startup entrepreneurs. In the mid-1990s, Christian founded Absolute Software, a leader in computer security and asset management. After going public, Absolute continues to grow and has diversified into a solution for organizations to manage the massive proliferation of Internet devices.
Christian then went on to found MAKE Technologies, a platform for the transformation and modernization of its clients’ legacy and mission-critical software systems. While remaining on the Board of MAKE, Christian left day-to-day activities to join co-founder Shannon Susko on a new startup, Subserveo. A SaaS company, Subserveo targeted the post-2008 compliance and regulatory challenges faced by the banking sector. Subserveo was acquired by DST Systems in 2011. MAKE was then also sold to Dell Computers in 2012.
In 2013, Christian joined HeroX as co-founder and CEO. He is also a partner in TenX Ventures, focused on angel/seed financing, hands-on entrepreneurship, mentoring, M&A, and anti-consulting to startups and emerging disruptive companies.
Speaking Experience
Christian has been featured as a “dynamic keynote speaker” for invite-only C-Suite audiences at internationally acclaimed events such as Peter Diamandis’ A360 Mastermind Summit in Beverly Hills, as well as CableLabs CES event in Las Vegas – and at local Vancouver events like Socialight & the Real Talk Summit’s latest conferences in 2016/17 on social entrepreneurship.
Christian has been featured as an invited guest to do “sector-specific deep dives” on how to leverage open-innovation and engage a millennial workforce through “Crowdsourcing 2.0” w/some of the Fortune 500’s largest companies – most recently @ NBC in LA, and in a “Friday Coffee & Exponential Insights” series with Corporate pros at the likes of Caterpillar and Black & Decker on how to leverage the the crowd & crowdsourcing for large organizations.
HeroX has also been a featured presenter at Harvard’s SECON, and Ivy’s “Social University” events across the United States in cities like New York, San Francisco, LA & Washington DC.
Mike Cline, CEO, and Founder of Tech Guys Who Get Marketing earned his BS in Engineering Physics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Combined with his childhood love of video games, programming, a good challenge, this degree led him to start a “big picture” tech company that now serves clients around the world.
Tech Guys Who Get Marketing (a.k.a: “Tech Guys”), specializes in online marketing and strategic use of technology to increase efficiency and results. Typical projects involve helping clients define opportunities and business logic, building complex CRM systems and sales funnels, and actionable tracking of results. For example, one of their projects included a successful million dollar Kickstarter campaign for the first publicly accessible space telescope.
From his home base in Eden, Utah, Mike also oversees a handful of other companies, with services ranging from educational conferences for high-achieving high school students in science, medicine, and technology, to a blockchain business focused on combating poverty— to custom art and build fabrication for private clients, environments, and events.
For example, Mike’s gear-head roots led him to convert a 2001 Prius into a giant flying peanut butter and jelly sandwich with wings… that serves gourmet, gluten-free toasted peanut butter and jelly “sammiches” at Burning Man and other festivals. If you’re ready for some interesting conversations, ask him more about this.
Sheryl Netzky helps leaders heal the things that hold them back– everything from broken bones, to broken hearts, to broken dreams. An award-winning teacher and shamanic state-shifting practitioner with over 30 years of experience, Sheryl supports CEO’s, their teams and families in showing up even more potently real—dissolving disabling habits, finding their purpose and creating more awakened and fulfilling relationships with themselves and those around them.
Sheryl has presented to thought leaders on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island and for the Gates Foundation’s teacher-leaders. She has supported leaders of small businesses and Fortune 500 enterprises alike, with more than 50,000 hours of shamanic state-shifting experiences each year. She witnesses shifts ranging from cancer to no cancer, business leaks to business abundance, relationship woes to love embodied, debilitating anxiety to calm presence, and stuck regrets to whole-hearted forgiveness.
As the creator of The Golden Mind Meditation protocols, Sheryl has supported family wellness programs and facilitated business leaders across N. America, Europe, Africa and Asia in collaborative visioning and meditation programs. Her work with spiritual negotiations, aligning purpose-driven teams, building cultures of greatness, and supporting team members in personal development has created long-term systemic shifts in organizations. Sheryl has also helped best-selling authors grow their writing skills and has supported clients in enhancing their intuition.
If you’re curious about deepening stillness and becoming more of who you are and whom you’re here to be, consider connecting with Sheryl at Camp.
Hal Elrod is the author of one of the highest rated books in the world, The Miracle Morning—which has been translated into 27 languages, has over 4,000 five-star reviews and is practiced daily by over 500,000 people in more than 70 countries.
What’s incredible is that Hal actually died at age 20. His car was hit head-on by a drunk driver at 70 miles per hour, his heart stopped beating for 6 minutes, he broke 11 bones and woke up after being in a coma for 6 days to be told by his doctors that he would probably never walk again.
Well, not only did Hal walk, he ran a 52-mile ultra-marathon and went on to become a hall of fame business achiever, international keynote speaker, author, and grateful husband & father—all before he turned 30. Then, in November of 2016, Hal nearly died again—his kidneys, lungs, and heart were failing, and he was diagnosed with a rare, and very aggressive form of leukemia.
After enduring the most difficult year of his life, battling cancer, Hal is now cancer-free and furthering his mission to elevate the consciousness of humanity, one morning at a time.
When you ask a brand strategist how she defines her brand and she says “Approachable Badass”, you know you’ve found someone who can help you define your own brand. Melanie Spring was put here to get you outside of your box and firmly in your purpose – professionally and personally.
Melanie runs Branded Confidence as an international speaker and facilitator – bringing her charisma and confidence to humans worldwide. She’s so dedicated to her purpose that she once drove 7,000 miles in 3 weeks to find out why great brands work. And she’s coming to camp to make sure you know to hire with confidence. www.brandedconfidence.com
Malorie Tadimi is the founder of Tadimi, the top strategic consulting agency that brings Fortune 500 revenue growth strategies to small and mid-sized businesses. Malorie’s transformational business growth skills and no-bullshit business acumen have helped her clients scale to nearly $800 billion in business annually.
Through her law firm, Gosnell; Associates, P.C., Denise focuses on providing legal services to information publishing and software companies to help clients grow their company’s value, while also reducing the biggest operating liabilities.
James Altucher is one of those guys who seems to have experienced 5 lifetimes. He got his start working at HBO in the IT department – and ended up hosting a TV show for them. In 1996, he founded a web-design firm called Reset Inc., and managed to land big-name clients like Wu Tang Clan, American Express, Con Edison, Time Warner, and BMG. He sold Reset Inc. for $10 million just 2 years later.
After using the proceeds to invest in tech stocks during the dotcom boom, he lost everything he had in just two years. That led him to seriously re-evaluate his approach to both business and life. Then Jim Cramer of TheStreet.com hired him to write about stocks. Altucher also started a hedge fund, which he managed until closing it down shortly before the financial crisis. He founded an investing website called Stockpickr, which he sold for $10 million in 2007. All in all, James has started and run more than 20 companies and is currently invested in over 30. He’s also an incredibly prolific author, having written 17 books. Two have been WSJ best-sellers: ‘The Power of No’ and ‘Choose Yourself’. USA Today also named ‘Choose Yourself’ among the 12 Best Business Books of All Time. And his book ‘I Was Blind But Now I See’ reached No. 1 in Amazon.com’s motivational books section.
James currently hosts a super successful podcast called “The James Altucher Show” with guests of the caliber of Tony Robbins, Mark Cuban, Peter Thiel, and Tim Ferriss, to name just a few. He’s also the editor of a newsletter called “The James Altucher Report” where he talks about big trends in business, investing, and success in general.
Imagine being able to fly. Walk through walls. Shape shift. Breathe underwater. Conjure loved ones-or total strangers-out of thin air. Imagine experiencing your nighttime dreams with the same awareness you possess right now-fully functioning memory, imagination, and self-awareness. Imagine being able to use this power to be more creative, solve problems, and discover a deep sense of well-being.
This is lucid dreaming-the ability to know you are dreaming while you are in a dream and then being able to consciously explore and change the elements of the dream.
Jared is the co-author of A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming and an experienced oneironaut (a word that comes from the Greek oneira, meaning dreams, and nautis, meaning sailor).
Campers will learn about the powerful REM sleep stage-a window into lucid dreams. Improve dream recall by keeping a journal. Learn the importance of reality checks such as “The Finger”-during the day, try to pass your finger through your palm; then, when you actually do it successfully, you’ll know that you’re dreaming. And once you become lucid, you’ll know how to make the most of it. Every time you dream, you are washing up on the shores of your own inner landscape. Learn to explore a strange and thrilling world!
Dr. Anthony Balduzzi is a men’s health, weight loss, & muscle-building expert for busy entrepreneurs. After watching his own Dad lose his health and pass away at the young age of 42, Dr. Anthony founded The Fit Father Project to help other busy men get and stay permanently healthy for their families. Dr. Anthony holds dual degrees in Nutrition & Neuroscience from the University Of Pennsylvania, a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine, and is also a national champion bodybuilder. He’s most proud of the fact that he’s helped over 10,000 fathers lose over 75,000lbs of fat with his work at the Fit Father Project.
Ajit’s specialty is driving rapid growth. As CEO of Mindvalley’s publishing arm, Ajit helped Mindvalley increase its valuation by 300%, profits by 100%, and revenues by 50%.
Aside from his work at Mindvalley, Ajit has also co-founded many successful companies, such as Blinkwebinars, Evercoach and Zenward. He sits on the boards of several other companies, and also mentors other entrepreneurs through mastermind groups and private coaching.
As a private business coach, Ajit uses his methods to double, triple or even quadruple his clients’ businesses in as little as 12 months.
He believes that the key to creating a business and a life you love is to do less, not more. He’ll show campers how to achieve unprecedented efficiency and growth by simplifying your business, stripping out what’s unnecessary and focusing on what’s really important.
Dan Martell is a walking testament to the fact that anyone can turn things around with enough determination. Dan got off to a rough start in life. By age 17, he had been in jail twice for drug-related charges. While in a rehab center at age 18, Dan discovered computers and became fascinated by technology.
Dan developed a passion for entrepreneurship, and jumped into it with no formal business training. After a few early failures, Dan has successfully built and sold 3 companies (so far). First he founded Spheric, Inc, which grew an average of 152% per year until he sold it in 2008. Next he co-founded Flowtown, a social media marketing platform that grew to over 50,000 small business customers before being acquired in 2011.
Then Dan founded Clarity.fm, which helped entrepreneurs and business owners get advice from top business minds over the phone. The company raised $1.6M in funding and was growing about 30% each month until Dan sold it in 2015. Aside from launching his own businesses, Dan has also been a very active angel investor. Dan invests in startups whose opportunities and ideas he can get excited about. He’s made dozens of investments, including GetAround, Udemy, Intercom, Unbounce, Manpacks and many more. In fact, in 2012 he was named Canada’s top angel investor.
Dan says he never invests for pure financial reasons… he looks to do business with great people who share his values & work ethic. Dan is also heavily involved in many charitable organizations, such as Clarity: Water, Kiva.org, and Portage.
Ezra Firestone has been working in eCommerce for over a decade, and is thought by many to be one of the leading eCommerce experts in the world. He is the owner and operator of one eight-figure and two seven-figure eCommerce businesses, and uses the insight he gains from these business to produce his courses.
In 2016, Ezra established Zipify, a company focused on developing Shopify eCommerce applications. Through Zipify, Ezra uses his expertise in marketing, eCommerce and the Shopify platform to create applications to help Shopify store owners grow their businesses.
Oren is a master at making large business deals with a lot of money hanging in the balance…
…and he says most people go about pitching deals all wrong. They rely on sales techniques that might work one on one with a customer but are totally ineffective at closing big business deals.
And Oren would know. He’s closed over $400 million worth of deals.
As the founder and director of capital markets at Intersection Capital, Oren Klaff has extensive experience raising capital for companies, selling companies, and closing complex deals. The firm has done about $2 billion in aggregate trade volume since being founded.
His unique, counterintuitive method will show you exactly how to pitch…well…anything. His bestselling book, Pitch Anything, will teach you how to deliver the pitch of your life while avoiding all the deal-killing pitfalls so many aspiring entrepreneurs fall into.
In 1978 Brian was an Australian surfer living in California. He noticed it was very hard to find sheepskin boots in California, which were very popular among Australian surfers.
Brian brought a few pairs over from Australia to test the market, and the UGG business was born…. Over the next 17 years, Brian built the business into a nationally recognized brand with intensely loyal customers. Today, UGG Australia does over $1 billion in sales every year.
Brian has a tremendous amount of wisdom to share when it comes to:
Sally believes the greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself. Because of this belief, she has created the Fascination Advantage®, the first personality assessment that measures how others perceive you.
After researching over 600,000 people, her algorithm can pinpoint your most valuable differentiating traits. Unlike Myers-Briggs or StrengthsFinder, this test doesn’t measure how you see the world – but how the world sees you.
Her recent book, How the World Sees You, was a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. At the start of her career, Sally skyrocketed to the top of the advertising elite while writing commercials that fascinated millions of consumers. At the age of 24, she was the most award-winning copywriter in the U.S. and opened her first ad agency at age 27. Her work still hangs in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. She frequently appears in national media, including NBC’s Today show and the New York Times.
Sally is one of only 200 professional speakers since 1977 to be inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame, the industry’s highest award for professional excellence.
Former banker and CEO Bill Donius drove his bank’s 8x growth over twelve years…even taking it to an IPO with a surprising secret to his success. The methodology described in Thought Revolution is simple and revolutionary—so simple, it begins by moving your pen from one hand to the other. Whether you’re right-handed or left-handed, a whole world of change is possible. Writing with your non-dominant hand opens you up to creative solutions, giving you the ability to see new ways through problems in your business, career, relationships, health, and spiritual life.
It’s one of the most incredible processes for connecting more fully with your subconscious right brain to help you reduce stress, discover your hidden talents, breakthrough ideas and even heal from trauma, and come to a deeper spiritual awareness.
Bill is a frequent speaker on the topic of innovation and ideation and takes his Ideation methodology into Fortune 500 companies as a problem solving tool. Bill was one of the original guests at a Maverick 3X in Chicago many years ago and it’s rare to get him scheduled (we’ve been trying to coordinate for years
Pete Vargas has been educating speakers about how to book stages for over a decade. He has helped all categories of entrepreneur land lucrative speaking engagements and leverage the stage to grow their businesses. Pete has booked legendary speakers including Shark Tank’s Daymond John.
Speak is one of the most powerful marketing tool you have and the best way to build your business. Speaking provides a starting point for customers and partners to want to become more involved with your business and get behind the impact you’re making. With literally millions of stages in every niche, Pete has become the expert in how to identify which stages to go after, how to find them and how to win them.
Astacianna Hatcher is a dedicated conservation biologist and TEDx presenter. She travels to remote corners of the globe to investigate the health of ecosystems and measure their unique biodiversity. Astacianna listens to the songs and chirps around her, to monitor local bird populations, all by ear. Generally she is immersed in dense tropical jungles for weeks to months at time, fine-tuning her ear across thousands of hectares day after day. This information is passed on to other scientists to help develop conservation and ecosystem restoration plans. She brings with her a unique perspective of truly listening. Yes, the simple act of standing still and listening allows you to connect with the world and new dimensions are revealed. (In a bit of “Synchro-Maverick-nicity” she was once asked years ago to be the resident birder for our Camp center.)
Eric Edmeades is an internationally recognized business speaker and serial entrepreneur. Businesses have ranged from mobile computing to Hollywood special effects, working on blockbusters like Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, and the Iron Man franchises.
Today, Eric is focused on business education to get you on the road to real business freedom; owning a business that gives you both the financial freedom and flexibility to spend more time on what really matters; your family, your health and your life.