Zoey Sheng is China’s youngest Professional Certified Coach with the PCC certification from the international coaching federation.

Zoey is currently based in Mountain View, California, where she continues her journey as a storytelling coach and a body-mind-soul influencer. She has over 100,000 followers in social media and has achieved 124k views on her body-mind-soul podcast – One Hundred Ways to Evolution.

At China’s top business school, Zoey led five entrepreneurship programs for over 200 CEOs from Series A startups to public companies. At Bytedance, Zoey led the TikTok E-Commerce Learning Center to help companies sell their products at TikTok, achieving a remarkable 3 billion media views and drew 20,000 companies into the TikTok E-Commerce ecosystem. She also successfully launched the PICO 4 product campaign in China as the most influential VR campaign in Asia. She thrives on enabling founders to thrive. 

As a professional coach, Zoe has supported over 250 entrepreneurs and professionals to clarify their visions and execute their strategies with resilience, confidence, and compassion.

Zoey is a remarkable person. @Zoey Zengh

Kat Knecht is an internationally certified professional coach. For the past decade, she has been a member of the faculty of the Co-Active Training Institute – also known as CTI.

Kat has enjoyed twenty years of success running her own coaching business while also being inspired by training coaches for CTI. Helping coaches succeed in this heart-based work is her passion & purpose.

Her Company, Soul Driven Success, a business academy for professional coaches, allows her to go wild with this passion. Kat engages people in a fun and practical way, aligning them with their purpose and empowering them to reach their ultimate career goals. Kat has also made her impact on others as an author, interfaith minister and inspiring speaker.  Her energy, passion, and sheer competence not only as a coach but as a trainer of coaches is truly inspiring for me.

Dr. Charles Herring is the recent recipient of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association’s Innovative School Leader of the Year Award that recognizes his leadership in building innovative programs for leading or building a school district in the 21st century.

Dr. Herring is currently the Director of Equity and Inclusion at South Fayette School District in McDonald, PA. He has been in the field of education for more than twenty five years.

He is creative – having created America’s first Hip-Hop Superhero – GRAMMAR MAN – an educational program that uses rap music and storytelling as tools to teach students the parts of speech.

He has traveled the country to speak for organizations on the topic of educational needs in our society and has been a TEDx speaker where his topic was From 2.3 to D.O.C.: Mentors, Mantras and Hip-Hop.

He created two additional programs – Black History is Not Just a Month, and The Mathematics Magician. He is also the author of a successful memoir in essays title, You can Only Hope to Contain Me – It’s Impossible to Stop a Person Who Won’t Quit.

Dr. Herring is a remarkable man who not only understands the critical needs of education in our country – but actually DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Adrienne Weiss is the principal of the company she founded, Adrienne Weiss Corporation.

Since 1986, the company has developed award-winning brand strategies for companies in many industries – food and beverage, retail, consumer products, convenience stores, real estate developments, sports stadiums and entertainment concepts. From Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Build-A-Bear to Target Stores, Five Below and Disney, Adrienne and her team create and reimagine brands that impact businesses all over the globe.

Adrienne is an international speaker on branding and has addressed a wide variety of audiences to include retailers and manufacturers on how to create “brand genetics” and how to deploy them and make stronger connections with consumers.

Adrienne has been called “the high priestess of pop marketing.”

Vice Admiral Sean Buck recently retired as the 63rd Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy.

Admiral Buck is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and received his commission in 1983. He was designated a naval flight officer in 1985.

Flying the P-3C Orion, Buck’s early at-sea operational tours were with the “Fighting Marlins” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 40; a disassociated sea tour aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as the catapult and arresting gear division officer; and a department head tour with the “Tridents” of VP-26. He subsequently commanded VP-26 and Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 11.

As a flag officer, Admiral Buck served in many senior capacities in the Navy’s Patrol and Reconnaissance Force culminating in his role as Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th fleet.

Admiral Buck was appointed the 63rd Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy on July 26, 2019 where he served until his retirement.

Grace Adele Boyle is an Executive and Creative Coach who works with individuals and organizations looking to increase creativity, realign core values, and create better content.

Her career started in the arts, ventured into successful entrepreneurial efforts and ultimately opened doors to Creative Consulting and Marketing opportunities. 

With over 15 years of experience working in creative industries, she now aims her coaching practice at two specific niches:

• Executive Coaching, and
• Creative Coaching.

She uses her skills as an executive coach and creative coach to nurture and challenges entrepreneurs, leaders, and creatives to get their best work out there.

Today’s career world has changed. No longer are the traditional “career paths” available in most organizations. Today, it’s up to the individual to manage his or her own career. And that process presents a significant challenge.

The Critical Skills are essential for success in this evermore career environment. Individuals must understand what the critical skills are and how to master them.

The curriculum of the Harvard Business School is designed to enable students to master these skills in a challenging, yet safe environment. No wonder why the Harvard Business School is nearly always rated at the top of the heap!

Join internationally certified coach (PCC) Charlie Jett as he discusses the Critical Skills, their importance, and their relationship to the Harvard Business School.

Imagine creating one of the most sophisticated instruments ever conceived, building it, and then successfully placing it one million miles from earth. Bill has “been there – done that.”

Bill has 40 years of experience in the aerospace industry. He has worked in both private industry and for NASA and is currently the Project Manager for the successful James Webb Space Telescope.

Bill received a B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E from Fairleigh Dickinson University and Masters in Operations Research from George Washington University. He began his career in 1979 with the Bendix Guidance Systems Division in Teterboro, N.J. as an electronics/software engineer, developing the flight software for the Hubble Space Telescope safing system.

In 1983, Bill transferred to Goddard Space Flight Center as a systems engineer for HST operations. In 1990, Bill joined NASA as the HST Operations Observatory Systems Manager. Bill has also served as the HST Deputy Operations Manager and the HST Operations Servicing Mission Manager.

In 1998, Bill became the Project Manager for the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) which was successfully launched in January of 2003. After SORCE, he was appointed the Project Manager for Landsat-8 and led the project through controversial period of various mission concepts from Data Buy, flying an instrument on a weather satellite, to the final mission implementation.

In December 2010, Bill was appointed the JWST Project Manager.

Bill has been the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the Space Flight Awareness Honoree Award, various NASA Group Awards, NASA Honor Award for Outstanding Leadership Medal, and most recently the Robert H. Goddard Award for Outstanding Leadership.

Dr. Ethan Hollander is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wabash College and creator of “Democracy and Its Alternatives”, now available on Wondrium (formerly known as the Great Courses). 

“Democracy and Its Alternatives” is a 24-lecture series on the future of democracy, not just in the US, but globally. It addresses questions like: Does democracy have a future? What’s causing it to falter? And is there anything we can do about it?

To watch the trailer or stream the course, go to Wondrium. Get the DVD and guidebook (or to download them electronically) at The Great Courses. The course is also available at a number of 3rd party sites, like Audible or Amazon.

In his own words,” I am also the author of Hegemony and the Holocaust: State Power and Jewish Survival in Occupied Europe (published by Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2017) and a number of scholarly articles on topics ranging from demoratization and authoritarian regimes to the politics of organ transplant.” 

“I love my job, this college, and its community because it gives me the ability to teach and learn from the most engaged students an educator could hope for, to ask questions about important and fascinating social and political phenomena, and to be a part of a dynamic and supportive community.”

“In both my teaching and my scholarly research, I hope to bridge academic disciplines in an effort to better understand the world in which we live. My teaching portfolio includes such varied courses as Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict; European Politics; Politics of the Middle East; Cuban Politics and Culture; Political Development; Voting and Electoral Systems; The Holocaust and Genocide; and Research Methods and Statistics. I also enjoy sharing the process of original scholarly research with my students, and I have worked with students on topics such as the politics of warfare, European Union immigration policy, South African electoral reform, and Vietnam War photography, just to name a few. Part of the beauty of working in a small college is the opportunity to share the learning process with my students who, in turn, teach me more than I could learn on my own.”

“Finally, this community allows me to pursue my non-academic interests, which include hiking, pottery, and making good food. I also serve on the Crawfordsville City Council as a representative of Ward 2.” 

Dr. Arthur W. Zimiga, a master and doctorate graduate from the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, is known nationally and worldwide as a top Native American educator.

Dr. Zimiga has presented curriculum material and has lectured on such subjects as Native American Education and business development for the “Cultural Different.”

Institutions where he has either taught or lectured include foreign educational agencies and major universities in the United States including Harvard University, UCLA, University of Arizona, University of South Dakota, and others.

Dr. Zimiga has an extensive background in Native American cultures and specializes in the Lakota Culture of which he is a member of Oglala Lakota Teton Nation. He is well respected by his fellow colleagues in business development as well as higher learning as well as elementary and secondary education worldwide.

His humor and can-do attitude are refreshing attributes that audiences enjoy. Dr. Zimiga is a poet, writer, soldier, artist, sportsman, executive, business developer, politician, educator, community leader, and family-oriented person.

He is also my friend – we were elementary school classmates in Hot Springs, South Dakota.

He brings insights that enlighten audiences – so you are in for a big surprise with Dr. Arthur Zimiga.

Dr. Douglas Slakey is Professor and Chief of Surgical Services at Christ Medical Center in Chicago and Program Director of General Surgery Residency at Advocate Aurora Health.

Dr. Slakey’s responsibilities include clinical, operations and strategy for in-patient and outpatient, adult and pediatric, surgical services.

His mission is to advance and promote safety, outcomes effectiveness and value-based practices across all surgical disciplines; to maintain a collaborative interdisciplinary environment for patient-centric tertiary and quaternary surgical care and related service lines.

His responsibilities also include medical education, research, financial management, contracting, and strategic planning.
Dr. Slakey has an active surgical practice involving advanced surgery for pancreas and liver disease, kidney transplantation and dialysis access.

He has broad experience in developing innovative techniques for assessing reliability in medical systems, and in medical education and training including the use of simulation.

His research and international medical education experience includes the application of human factors and team training to improve outcomes, healthcare efficiency and patient safety.