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Alycia Huston founded a biotechnology company, serving over a decade as COO and later CEO to scale the business,and eventually sold it for multi-seven figures. A leader, executive, and mentor to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial executives, Ms. Huston attributes her success to a skill not taught in any MBA or leadership program: how to transcend

After a 30-year career as a corporate marketing copywriter and content strategist, Susan decided to pursue her dream and become a life coach. Assuming there was NO WAY the proven tactics she used for her B2B clients would work in the personal development market, she tossed her expertise out the window. Instead, she followed the {incomplete} advice of her online coaching mentors—with no results. After losing more than $60,000, she was ready to quit. Then she attended a digital marketing conference where the light bulb went on and she realized her BIG mistake. By going back to the tactics she had successfully used to help multi-million dollar companies (and her husband’s massage clinic) consistently grow, she began to see results—higher email open rates, more engagement, and sales! Now she spends her days teaching her students how to replicate the same success.

Alexis Haselberger is a time management and productivity coach. She honed these skills during the first 15+ years of her career managing operations and HR at several early-stage start-ups, where there was always way more to do than people to do it. Alexis believes that work-life balance is essential for everyone, even though the definition is different for everyone. Through 1:1 coaching, group coaching, and corporate workshops, Alexis helps people, and teams, do more, stress less and build the balance that's right for them.

CEO, Stewart, Cooper & Coon, a Human Capital Strategies and Resource Company. Nationally published best-selling author: Ready Aim Hired, Leveraging LinkedIn for Job Search Success, and the behavioral competency hit, Hire The EQ, Not The IQ. Publisher and Host of article and podcast series, The US At Work. On senior team at two companies that made the Inc. Magazine, Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the U.S., multiple times each. Has worked in both the private and public sectors. An old time clawhammer banjo player.

Sahar is an Iranian immigrant, neutralized American who fled to America to pursue her higher education degree which she was banned by the government of Iran due to her religion beliefs. Here in the U.S, she attended University of Maryland, college park and received her B.A in Cell Biology and Molecular genetics. She worked at biotech companies for few years before she realized cooperate job is not a good fit for her or her growing family. Sahar's passion for cooking fresh homemade meals and research proofs of positive impacts of gut health and fit brain were driving forces to establish her Persian Fusion simmer sauce company, Spice of Life, L.L.C.