Community & Guest List
Andy is Founder and CEO of Petra Coach, a business coaching firm working with businesses across the U.S. and Canada to improve company culture, leadership and revenue using methodology rooted in the principles first introduced by John D. Rockefeller. As a lifelong entrepreneur, skilled business coach, author and contributor, Andy Bailey is a recognized expert in the realm of business growth and success strategies. Recently he released his debut, Amazon bestselling book “No Try Only Do,” which details the start and success of Petra Coach as well as the unique methodologies upon which it’s based.
Ahmie is the founder and CEO of Interchange Capital Partners – a family business that has honed a comprehensive and collaborative process over its 40 years of practice in financial services and is dedicated to helping clients and their families build financial safety nets.
With over 40 years of practice in financial services, Ahmie has been named to the Barron’s Top 1,000 Financial Advisor List.
Mr. Baum and his team previously managed over $420 million in client assets.
With over 40 years of practice in financial services, Ahmie has been named to the Barron’s Top 1,000 Financial Advisor List.
Mr. Baum and his team previously managed over $420 million in client assets.
Amy DuVall is CEO and Creative Director of from politics to pastry in Alexandria, VA. from politics to pastry offers authentic Italian cookies and custom pastries, and provides virtual, in-home baking and pasta-making instruction and parties. Before opening from politics to pastry, Amy studied environmental engineering and law and worked as an environmental lawyer and lobbyist for more than 20 years in downtown DC. After realizing her dream of helping to enact major federal environmental legislation in 2016 (Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act), she found herself ready for the next chapter, and decided to focus on her much-neglected creative side and her love of the culinary arts. from politics to pastry aims to put smiles on people's faces, one cookie, one scone, one treat at a time!
Amir Shiekh is the Founder and CEO of 4b, a social platform bringing together original controversial news and topics from both sides. The unique concept came from years of frustration listening to divisive and bias content from all media sources. Amir is committed to bringing people together through respectful and productive fact based content in an intuitive social platform.
Adam is a Managing Director at MGA, a highly strategic commercial real estate advisory firm focused on caring for the needs of occupiers of office and industrial real estate. Adam and his team provide expert consultation in analyzing and executing solutions aimed to reduce their client's overall facility expenses while maximizing workplace efficiency and productivity. They never represent institutional landlords and therefore can eliminate the inherent conflict of interest many commercial real estate firms have in representing both tenants and landlords.
Bestselling author, keynote speaker, workplace expert, and resilience researcher Adam Markel inspires leaders to master the challenges of massive disruption in his new book, “Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-Term Resilience” (McGraw-Hill, Feb. 22, 2022).
Adam is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller, “Pivot: The Art & Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life.”
Adam is also the CEO of More Love Media.
Andrea Heuston, founder and CEO of Artitudes Design has been in the tech industry for over 30 years. Her company, Artitudes Design, is a full-service creative services and experiential design firm that specializes in connecting messages to audiences in a visually impactful way. Andrea is a respected business leader and entrepreneur who is sought after as a board member and a Keynote speaker. She passionately contributes to several nonprofit organizations and has been a prolific voice on women’s and leadership topics in the workforce. In 2020, she started her own podcast “The Lead Like a Woman Show” focusing on empowering women leaders to empower others through topical discussions and interviews with female leaders. She is passionate about helping to close the gender gap for women in business. Watch for her new book, Stronger on the Other Side in April of 2021!
Art Giser is the creator of Energetic NLP. He is an internationally renowned NLP trainer, intuitive, and healer. Art's unique and diverse background includes NLP, spirituality, coaching, transformative and healing energy work, and intuition development; he also managed a medical research lab for the University of California, San Francisco and works with Fortune 100 companies to develop exceptional leaders and teams
Alan Heymann, JD, PCC specializes in coaching through transitions — such as the transition from individual contributor to leader, the transition into a larger and more complex role, or the transition into a different career. He brings a warm, open and energetic presence to his coaching clients. To date, Alan has coached leaders who were born in 16 countries and work on 5 continents.
An expert communicator and engaging speaker, Alan spent more than two decades in public, government and nonprofit communications — leading teams from 2 to more than 100 people who use words and images to inspire positive change in society. Inspired by a career transformation he brought about with the support of an executive coach, Alan decided to become a coach himself. He founded Peaceful Direction in April 2019.
An expert communicator and engaging speaker, Alan spent more than two decades in public, government and nonprofit communications — leading teams from 2 to more than 100 people who use words and images to inspire positive change in society. Inspired by a career transformation he brought about with the support of an executive coach, Alan decided to become a coach himself. He founded Peaceful Direction in April 2019.
Adam Hempenstall is the CEO and Founder of Better Proposals, simple yet quite powerful proposal software for creating beautiful, high-impact proposals in minutes. With more than 20 years of experience, having helped his customers at Better Proposals win $120,000,000+ in one year only, he has launched the first Proposal Writing University where he shares business proposal best practices.
He’s also a goalkeeper and huge fan of music festivals and traveling.
He’s also a goalkeeper and huge fan of music festivals and traveling.
