Hosted By Amy Looper

Amy Looper is a global speaker and trauma-informed coach who has helped thousands overcome burnout, stress, and anxiety to live with greater joy and resilience.

Through her 5 Cornerstones of Resilience framework, she equips audiences to navigate uncertainty, build confidence, and thrive under pressure.

After facing profound challenges in early motherhood, Amy founded Resilient Growth in Phoenix, Arizona, and created the Resilient Growth Method to help high achievers rise stronger after major life transitions.

She has worked with leaders at Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Vonage, Harvard Business School, and Outreach.io. Amy is the author of Leading Motherhood: Surrendering to Faith Over Fear From the Delivery Room to the Boardroom and is certified in Trauma & Resiliency by the Arizona Trauma Institute.

Emily Green

Emily Green is a TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Love Means Business, a platform empowering thought leaders through speaking, consulting, and visibility strategies. After building and selling a national marketing agency, she launched multiple initiatives including a podcast, Speaker Support & Referral Community, weekly LinkedIn newsletter, and the T.H.O.U.G.H.T. Leadership Program. Emily helps others turn pain into purpose and use their voice to lead with impact.

Yuly Grosman

Yuly Grosman is a corporate speaker, serial entrepreneur, global logistics executive, who is well known for helping executives, healthcare and first responders think beyond business and focus on protecting what truly matters- which is their people, and reputation.

With his signature talk “Reframe Response, Skills Needed For Our Future” Yuly sheds light around workplace micro aggressions and empowers executives with frameworks needed to improve workplace culture ecosystems.

Formerly with the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), Yuly has an extended experience in security, healthcare and business sectors. Yuly has lived and worked in Israel, Western and Eastern Europe, Africa and the United States. He is 3rd Dan Black Belt and body guard instructor.

Sermoya Sandiford

As an international speaker, Sermoya has shared her insights on multigenerational workforce dynamics, workplace bullying, career strategy, and HR innovation at global events, including engagements with the HR Professionals Network in Pakistan. She has also hosted and moderated virtual panel discussions and webinars, tackling critical workplace issues such as trauma in the workplace, employee loyalty, and leadership development.

Sermoya is the
Lead Ambassador for the Transform, Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) Chapter.

Emily Longfellow

Emily is on a mission to make people happier and healthier.  Drawing from over a decade as a corporate wellbeing powerhouse, transforming employers from startups to global giants into thriving workforces, she mixes positive psychology, neuroscience, and organizational wisdom with a contagious laugh, turning burnout into breakthroughs for audiences worldwide. From her gritty rise in tech sales to raising three boys, enduring burnout herself, and now as the co-founder of the Pause Community, where executive women pause to live intentionally, Emily empowers individuals, teams, and organizations with resilience and growth strategies that stick.

Sarah Brown

Sarah S. Brown is a Christian author and speaker who helps women anchor their identity in Christ and find renewed confidence through life’s hardest seasons. A former teacher and freelance writer, she contributed to Hope for the Holidays and was named a Woman of Influence by the Nashville Business Journal. Her upcoming book, Even the Ashes Bloom, invites readers on a faith-filled journey from brokenness to spiritual renewal. Sarah lives in Tennessee with her husband and two sons.

Rebecca Ahmed

Rebecca Ahmed is an award-winning speaker, the Founder & CEO (Chief Energy Officer) of Energetic Impact, and the author of The Energy of Success. She is leading the next energetic revolution—ditching outdated leadership playbooks and helping people harness the one thing that truly moves the needle: managing their personal energy. Known as the GSD (because her energy Gets. Sht. Done.*), Rebecca empowers leaders, teams, and workplaces to fuel focus, productivity, and motivation—so external chaos can’t throw them off their game. The oldest of eleven siblings, she brings a natural ability to lead with clarity, charisma, and compassion. One audience member said it best: “She’s a shot of vitamin C”—bold, refreshing, and exactly what you need to wake up your workday.

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Amira Barger

Amira K.S. Barger, MBA, CVA, CFRE is an award-winning executive, professor, and author of the forthcoming book The Price of Nice (Berrett-Koehler, Oct 2025). With 20 years of experience in strategic communications and DEI, she counsels Fortune 100 companies and nonprofit leaders on building humanity-centered workplaces. Amira is also a columnist for outlets like MSNBC and Fast Company and a sought-after keynote speaker who equips audiences with the tools to lead with courage, clarity, and impact.

Liz Upchurch

Liz Upchurch is a woman on a mission: She’s here to help you stop second-guessing yourself and lead on your terms. And by “lead on your terms,” she means own your voice, stop trading authenticity for approval, and quit writing mental apology emails every time you speak up in a meeting - not “try to make everyone comfortable while slowly shrinking into your swivel chair.”

Liz is a certified leadership coach, expert facilitator, and recovering perfectionist who helps women trade self-doubt for clarity and confidence. With 20+ years of experience across nonprofit, startup, corporate, and education sectors, she’s seen what happens when smart, capable women start trusting themselves - and she’s here for more of that.

Bekah Rose

Bekah Rose is a coach and speaker who helps high-achieving professionals break free from perfectionism, burnout, and self-doubt to create lives rooted in clarity, self-trust, and authentic confidence. Once a “sneaky perfectionist” herself—appearing calm and dependable on the outside while struggling privately on the inside—Bekah knows the cost of keeping it all together. Her turning point came when she sought support, reshaped her beliefs, and discovered the freedom of imperfection and presence.

With a background in social work, law, and entrepreneurship, Bekah brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work. She is passionate about guiding others to stop performing and start living in alignment—with themselves and the relationships that matter most.

Jona Wright

Dr. Jona A. Wright, EdD is the Founder of TalentThrive Partners LLC and creator of The Other Side of You, a framework that helps leaders understand the impact they have on others and how it shapes resilience.

Her mission is to remove obstacles and promote engagement, personally and professionally, equipping people to embrace imperfection and build authentic growth. A mom of two young adults, Jona also enjoys meeting others, traveling, biking, skiing, and creating.

Candice Van Dertholen

Candice Van Dertholen is a Holistic Practitioner and founder of The Warrior Within Healing, dedicated to helping others reconnect with themselves during life’s most pivotal transitions. Whether supporting someone brand new to energy work or an entrepreneur feeling stuck in their business, Candice’s work always begins with the same foundation: inner alignment.

With a decade of experience in health and holistic wellness, she integrates mind, body, and spirit practices to guide clients into a new way of living.  Her practice Grounded Spirituality invites clients to bring their spiritual connection fully into everyday life, creating deeper purpose.

Beyond her private practice, Candice serves on the Board of the Center for Death Education, the Advisory Board for HR-4U Inc., Community Connection Advisor for Love Means Business, and as Chapter Lead for the Military Spouse Chamber of Commerce.

Marisa Wheeling Ciesluk

Marisa Wheeling Ciesluk (pronounced chess-luck) is a city girl with a deep love for the outdoors, a burnout survivor, recovering perfectionist, and introvert in the people business who is passionate about helping women lead from wholeness- not hustle. As the Chief Firestarter and visionary behind MWC Leadership, she partners with women and organizations to grow leaders who are well, courageous, and uncompromising in who they are.

With over 20 years in leadership development and higher education, Marisa knows the cost of burnout and what it takes to build the kind of self-trust, clarity, and inner fire that sustains meaningful leadership. Through coaching, facilitation, and speaking, she helps ambitious women and people-centered leaders quiet the noise, reconnect with what matters, and lead with more impact, influence, and intention. An International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified coach and experienced facilitator,

Marisa is known for her energizing, honest approach that blends mind-body insight and deep inner work with practical tools. Whether she’s leading a retreat, guiding a team, or supporting a woman on the edge of “more,” her work is rooted in the belief that the collective energy of people on fire is what will change our workplaces, communities, families, and world. She’s on a mission to inspire that fire.

Alexis Scott

Alexis Scott is a Transformational Coach who helps high-achieving executives redefiine their version of "success" and reinvent their lives to find freedom, joy, and peace without burning everything down in the process. Also known as The Fairy Job Mom, Alexis is a LinkedIn top voice and a premium ghostwriter trusted by top founders and executives. Her work is all about guiding bold reinvention with clarity, groundedness, and courage. 

Dr. Kerriann Peart

Dr. Kerriann Peart is an international leadership strategist, change management specialist, and founder of Peart Consulting, LLC. With more than 15 years of experience spanning the United States, the Caribbean, and global organizations, she brings a distinctive cross-cultural lens to the
complex challenges leaders face in today’s workplaces.

Her work sits at the intersection of organizational performance, equity, and human well-being, designing and delivering solutions that help managers, executives, and institutions navigate uncertainty, strengthen leadership ecosystems, and build culturally attuned workplaces.

Dr. Peart has advised multinational companies, public health agencies, and educational systems, leveraging both her Caribbean heritage and global expertise to reimagine how leaders show up for themselves and their teams. Whether guiding executives through large-scale restructuring,
coaching women leaders of color, or advancing health equity frameworks in the Eastern Caribbean, she is recognized for her clarity, cultural intelligence, and practical approach to change.

Michele Vrabel

Michele Vrabel is the author of Butterfly Stitches: The Metamorphosis of Healing and Outloud: The Sound of Healing, two powerful memoirs chronicling her journey of healing
through emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical restoration.

With unflinching honesty and deep faith, Michele invites readers to witness how Jesus met her in the rawest places of her
story—transforming wounds into sacred testimonies of grace.

When she's not writing, Michele serves others through her work as a bookkeeper, offering
clarity and order to businesses and ministries alike. She also hosts a soul-nourishing
podcast, where she speaks candidly about healing, identity, and what it means to live
authentically in God’s truth.

Whether on the page, behind the mic, or in everyday spreadsheets, Michele’s calling is the same: to help others find freedom in the places they’ve been silenced, and to remind them that healing is not only possible—it’s holy.