CEO of skull and barbels, My Body, My Lifestyle, and Let Me Live My Life brands. Born and raised in Baltimore, Md. Class of 2003 The Citadel Alumni. Competitive Bodybuilder and Transformation Coach.
Kasey is a startup growth strategist, community builder, event organizer, and people connecter. She is founder of A Better Jones, a startup growth strategy firm and Our Galaxy, a community to help business professionals become industry thought leaders. She is also the host of two podcasts: The Other Side of Sales and her latest project, Thought Leader Camp.
Myrja Paul is the owner and Clinical Director of Sol Counseling & Consulting. Myrja received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Penn State University and her Master of Science degree in Clinical Community Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. Myrja is a licensed therapist and approved clinical supervisor in Maryland. In April 2020, Myrja opened Sol Counseling & Consulting, a group mental health practice that provides individual and family services to adults as well as children. Myrja’s mission is to decrease the stigma of mental health, particularly in communities of color.
Coach Cailah runs an online Personal Training and Nutrition Coaching program, and travels the country speaking on Health, Nutrition and Fitness. She holds the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Health Coach (HC) and Personal Trainer (CPT) certifications, along with both a bachelors and masters degree in the Coaching Education, exercise Physiology and Fitness Management.
Her goal is to Empower individuals to design their bodies based on whatever goals and physical aspirations they have.
Her goal is to Empower individuals to design their bodies based on whatever goals and physical aspirations they have.
Erin started her career in television and worked for NBC in New York and was a producer on The Oprah Show. After Oprah's show ended she went back to school to become a therapist. She now has a private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she specializes in Leadership Stress, Anxiety & Depression in high functioning professionals, Transition to Parenting & Maternal Mental Health. Erin holds a Masters in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago, and is a fully licensed clinician (LMSW). Her unique background as a journalist, TV producer and social worker allows her to bring a blend of creativity, evidence-based training and passion to her work in wellbeing in the workplace.
An engineer by training and entrepreneur by accident, Safwan is the Founder and CEO of PayActiv. After selling a previous company and committing to his golf game, Safwan pulled himself out of retirement to launch PayActiv and level the playing field for the financially vulnerable. Safwan’s work connects the dots between math, economics, history and music. His first book, It’s About TIME: How businesses can save the world (one worker at a time), turns conventional wisdom on its head and calls for businesses to embrace the mantle of saving the world.
Brittany is a firehouse of passion who is devoted to helping high-achieving women get unstuck and hit their biggest goals in record time. Brittany shares her beliefs in the massive power of deliberate decision-making even in the smallest details of each day. She finds joy in helping busy women regain ownership of their lives by infusing each day with snack-sized planning practices and journaling snippets that connect-the-dots to fulfillment.
Mary is a former Award-Winning Hotel Conference & Catering Director who then pursued Corporate Event Planning with several large defense contracting corporations. Her creativity, attention to detail and negotiation skills resulted in savings of over $250k for one company. As an entrepreneur, one of Mary's most memorable events was planning the Nelson Mandela Statue Unveiling for the South African Embassy in Washington, DC. Afterward, South African Ambassador Rasool declared Mary an "Honorary South African" as a result of her planning efforts at that prestigious event.
Keshav Pingali is CEO and co-founder of Katana Graph, a high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, which extracts actionable insights from massive unstructured datasets. Keshav holds the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS.
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!
