Inspiring Women Summit
2011
INSPIRING WOMEN SUMMIT
Website: http://inspiringwomensummit.com/
Starts: Saturday, May 7th 2011
Ends: Friday, May 13th 2011
Hosts: Devaa Haley Mitchell and Elayne Doughty
You can download all the audios for free now.
SPEAKERS
Geneen Roth
Lisa Nichols
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Marci Shimoff
Lynne McTaggart
Lynne Twist
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Jean Houston
Janet Attwood
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Elayne Doughty
Sue Morter
Cynthia Kersey
Marcia Wieder
Simran Singh
Katie Redford
Lisa Sasevich
Andrea Lee
Margot Anand
Gabrielle Bernstein
Rha Goddess
Tina Malia
Brené Brown
Juanita Brown
Glenda Gracia
Lisa Schrader
Patty Aubery
Zahava Griss
Liz Murray
Anita Sanchez
Mary Peery
Awadiya Ahmed Yahia
Patricia Ellsberg
Allyson Byrd
Shelly Lefkoe
Anasa Troutman
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova
Gail Straub
Loung Ung
Robin Tekwelus Youngblood, Reverend
Susan Ka'iulani Stanton
Billie Schibler
Christine Page
Venus Opal Reese
Elisabeth Manning
Millie Cowan
Suzanne Sterling
Amy Lenzo
Ashley Cooper
Alison Weeks
Deborah Dove Eudene
INSPIRING WOMEN SUMMIT 2010
2011
SPEAKERS AND TOPICS
No Matter What
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell & Elayne Doughty
Lisa Nichols
New World, New Woman
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Jean Houston
Four New Women Together!
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Jean Houston
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Patricia Ellsberg
Awakening The Feminine Co-creator for Self and Social Evolution
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Patricia Ellsberg
From Homeless to Harvard and from the Streets to Stanford
Hosted by
Elayne Doughty
Liz Murray
Venus Opal Reese
Keeping Intimacy Alive: Staying Juicy Through Time
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Lisa Schrader
Margot Anand
Conscious Parenting: Conceiving, Birthing, and Evolving the Next Generation
Hosted by
Elayne Doughty
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova
Shelly Lefkoe
Elisabeth Manning
What Do We Choose to 'Mother'? A World Café Exploring How We Use Our Nurturing Energies
Hosted by
Amy Lenzo
Juanita Brown
Millie Cowan
Ashley Cooper
Unstoppably Happy For No Reason
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Marci Shimoff
Cynthia Kersey
Visionary Leadership and Cultural Transformation
Hosted by
Anita Sanchez
Mary Peery
Katie Redford
Patty Aubery
The Purpose Within
Hosted by
Elayne Doughty
Allyson Byrd
Profound Secrets for Turning Your Dreams Into Reality
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Marcia Wieder
Lisa Sasevich
What's Passion Got to Do With Love?
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Janet Attwood
Activating the Wisdom of Women: Advocating the United Nations 5th World Conference on Women
Hosted by
Elayne Doughty
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Letting Love Lead: Manifesting from Love’s Perspective
Hosted by
Alison Weeks
Sue Morter
Grandmothers Speak
Hosted by
Deborah Dove Eudene
Robin Tekwelus Youngblood, Reverend
Billie Schibler
Susan Ka'iulani Stanton
Creativity, Culture and The Art of Transformation
Hosted by
Rha Goddess
Anasa Troutman
Zahava Griss
Giving Voice to Trauma: Spiritual Surrender and Leadership In Afghanistan, Darfur, and Cambodia
Hosted by
Gail Straub
Loung Ung
Awadiya Ahmed Yahia
Shaima Khinjani
Using Music to Share the Power of Your Truth
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Tina Malia
Glenda Gracia
Suzanne Sterling
The Bond: Connecting through the Space Between Us
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Lynne McTaggart
Supercharge Your Income Through Innovation
Hosted by
Elayne Doughty
Andrea Lee
Women, Food, God.... and Money, Too!
Hosted by
Elayne Doughty
Geneen Roth
Miracle Magnet & Languaging of the Universe: Access Your True Source of Power
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Gabrielle Bernstein
Simran Singh
Intuitive Wisdom: Listening to the Pulse of the Soul
Hosted by
Elayne Doughty
Christine Page
Women on the Front Lines of Global Change
Hosted by
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Lynne Twist
The Gifts of Imperfections: Letting Go of Who We Think We’re Supposed to Be and Embracing Who We Are
Hosted by
Elayne Doughty
Brené Brown
Embraced by Love
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Elayne Doughty
INSPIRING WOMEN SUMMIT 2010
2011
SPEAKERS
Lisa Nichols
Lisa Nichols has reached millions, both nationally and internationally with her powerful message of empowerment, service, excellence & gratitude.
Her participation in the self-development phenomenon, The Secret, catapulted her popularity across the globe. Lisa has appeared on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Extra,” “Larry King Live” and on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning show, “Starting Over.”
In addition, Lisa is the founder of Motivating the Masses and CEO of Motivating the Teen Spirit, LLC. Her transformational workshops have impacted the lives of over 210 thousand teens and over 1 million adults.
Her new book, No Matter What! Hit 6 bestsellers list, including the New York Times list, in the first 37 days of being released and has already been sold in 20 foreign languages. Lisa has been coined “The Break through Specialist” by her peers in the industry.)
Lisa has been honored with many awards in recognition for her empowering work, including the Humanitarian Award from South Africa, the Ambassador of Good Will Award, Emotional literacy award, The Legoland Foundation’s Heart of Learning Award. The Mayor of Henderson, Nevada has proclaimed November 20th as Motivating the Teen Spirit Day. And recently the Mayor of Houston, Texas proclaimed May 9th as Lisa Nichols day for her dedication to service, philanthropy and healing.
Lisa is a dynamic speaker with an extraordinary story and a tremendous ability to touch people’s hearts and souls. She is a master at accomplishing unfathomable goals and teaching others to do the same. Lisa Nichols has transformed her life from struggling single mom to a motivational millionaire entrepreneur, and she has dedicated her life to teaching others how to do the same.
Website(s):
http://www.lisa-nichols.com
Rev. Devaa Haley Mitchell
Rev. Devaa Haley Mitchell works as a spiritual guide and leadership coach. She runs ongoing programs to support women in awakening to their full potential through the organization she founded, Radiant Essence Services (www.radiantessence.com).
Recently, along with her husband Stephen Dinan, Devaa founded the Inspiring Women Summit, the largest virtual gathering of women in history. Over 28,000 women from more than 121 countries gathered together in dialogues and networking circles to expand the capacities of women.
Devaa served as the Director of Member Engagement at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), an organization bridging science and spirituality. Previously, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the Full Circle Fund, dedicated to building a new generation of civic leaders. Devaa also worked as an Associate Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group where she offered management advice to Fortune 500 Companies.
Devaa was ordained as an interfaith minister by the Chaplaincy Institute and also received a BA in Anthropology with Honors
and an MA in International Development from Stanford University. She was awarded a fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation,
which she used to conduct research in the Brazilian Amazon on sustainable economic development for local indigenous groups
using culturally and ecologically appropriate strategies. Devaa was also one of 26 contributors to a book called Radical
Spirit, which focuses on Gen-X spiritual perspectives.
Website(s):
http://radiantessence.com
Dr. Jean Houston
Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and
doers of our time, one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds
conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. Jean Houston has worked intensively in 40 cultures and 100 countries helping to enhance and deepen their own uniqueness while they become part of the global community. Her ability to inspire and invigorate people enables her to readily convey her vision - the finest possible achievement of the individual potential. In 1965, along with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston founded The Foundation for Mind Research. She is also the founder and principal teacher since 1982 of the Mystery School, a school of human development, a program of cross-cultural, mythic and spiritual studies, dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the New Physics, psychology,anthropology, myth and the many dimensions of human potential. She also leads an intensive program in social artistry with leaders coming from all over the world to study with Dr. Houston and her distinguished associates. Sheis a prolific writer and author of 26 books including A Passion for the Possible, Search for the Beloved, Life Force, The Possible Human, Public Like a Frog, A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story, and Manual of the Peacemaker.
Website(s):
http://www.jeanhouston.com/
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Buckminster Fuller has called Barbara Marx Hubbard “the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” Widely regarded as his philosophical heir, Barbara is a social innovator, speaker, author, educator and leader in the new worldview of conscious evolution. She is founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She is currently the producer and narrator of an award-winning, DVD series entitled “Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together.” Through the Foundation for Conscious Evolution she developed the Gateway to Conscious Evolution, a global educational curriculum enrolling participants in the developmental path toward the next stage of human evolution. In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket, calling for a “Peace Room” as sophisticated as our war room, to scan for, map, connect and communicate what is working in America and the world.
As a citizen diplomat in the former Soviet Union during the 1980’s she co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen
Summits, introducing a new form of conferencing called SYNCON to foster synergistic convergence.
Website(s):
http://barbaramarxhubbard.com/
Patricia Ellsberg
Patricia Ellsberg is a social change activist, meditation teacher, life coach and public speaker. In 1971, she helped her husband, Daniel Ellsberg, release to the press the Pentagon Papers, a top secret history of US involvement in Vietnam, which helped end the Vietnam War. The Oscar nominated documentary, “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”, tells the riveting story of this era and Daniel and Patricia’s role in changing history.
Working closely with her sister, Barbara Marx Hubbard, in furthering social transformation through Conscious Evolution, Patricia guides people to make a shift from ego to essence, so they live with greater joy, purpose and meaning.
Patricia’s special gift as a coach is accessing and transmitting a profound sense of joy and wellbeing through the artful use
of guided meditation. A central theme of her life has been bridging spiritual experience with social activism.
Website(s):
http://www.PatriciaEllsberg.net
Elayne Kalila Doughty
Elayne Kalila Doughty MA, MFT, Co-host of The Inspiring Women Summit, Founder of Planet Breathe, The Soul Spa, And The Queens of Transformation. She is a Psychotherapist, Spiritual Midwife, Speaker,Transformational Coach and Women’s Empowerment Expert. With her extensive background in addictions, recovery, trauma, mental health and spiritual guidance she has over 20 years experience of working with women who are transforming a painful past to a powerful present and an extraordinary future.
Elayne is the author of the Soul Spa Breathe Cards and Meditation Audio Series andThe Soul Spa Experience -9 Guided Meditations to Cleanse Your Soul, Nourish Your Heart & Transform Your Life. Both audio programs blend clinical expertise, artistic creativity and deep soulful wisdom to empower women to live their “greater than imagined possibilities”. It is her privilege and honor to walk beside women as they recover, remember and awaken and come home to themselves, so that they can be of deeper service on the planet.
Elayne has designed The Safe Embrace: 7 Steps to Healing Trauma nd Coming Home to Yourself a global program that promotes trauma healing, empowerment, and actively seeds the vision of a world where women are respected, adored and revered. Her work is profoundly informed by the knowing that healing women and girls is paramount to the survival and evolution of our communities, our humanity, and our planet. Currently Elayne is implementing this program with Eve Ensler (the Vagina Monologues) and her foundation, www.VDay.org , at the City of Joy in Bukavu, Congo. This transformational program will seed women leaders at a grass roots level throughout the Congo.
Elayne is a sought after teacher and speaker in the field of Women's Healing, Transformation and Leadership, and has a private practice seeing in person clients in the Bay Area and globally via the internet. www.planetbreathe.com
Website(s): http://www.planetbreathe.com
Liz Murray
The child of drug-addicted parents who routinely ate from dumpsters and sought refuge at all-night subway stations to
survive, Liz Murray was homeless at age 15—and fending for her life. Determined not to be defined by her circumstances, she
recognized education as the key to a fresh beginning and a whole new way of living. She earned her high school diploma in
just two years and won a scholarship to Harvard University that would turn her bleak circumstances into a future filled with
limitless possibility. With sincerity, maturity and graciousness, Murray takes audiences along on her personal journey from street smarts to classroom triumphs, instantly becoming an inspiration to both student groups and business audiences alike in need of the motivation to overcome their own obstacles. The subject of Lifetime Television’s Emmy-nominated original film Homeless to Harvard, Murray completed her degree at Harvard and recently released her memoir Breaking Night, which made The New York Times Best-seller List in its first week of release.
Website(s):
http://manifestliving.com
Dr. Venus Opal Reese
Dr. Venus Opal Reese delivers authentic, high-impact, customized success strategies for entrepreneurs and business owners. Dr. Reese’s strategies, systems and services will unleash an individual’s heart-center to make big money, a big difference, and be profoundly respected for both!
Once upon a time, Dr. Reese was a walking statistic. She was living on the streets by the age of 16 amidst violence, drugs, and prostitution. The predictable outcome was welfare, addiction, and ultimately death. However, 14 years later she graduated with a 2nd Masters Degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Dr. Reese knows what it takes to breakthrough through inner barriers.
Dr. Venus Opal Reese is a tenured professor, a published author, and an award-winning theatre artist. She has been featured
on ABC News, CBS News, in Glamour magazine, Diversity Inc. and the Associated Press. Her solo performance work was produced
off-Broadway and earned an ADELCO (the Black Tony Awards) nomination.Dr. Reese is the author of Street Smarts: Surviving
Threat and Creating New Realities tele-series, Street Smarts Strategic Visioning for Staff, VPs, and CEOs Corporate
Consulting, You for You 1:1 Bootcamp, Net-worth through Self-Worth: Breaking the Inner Glass Ceiling! tele-series, and
Breaking the Inner Glass Ceiling Mentorship.
Website(s): http://drvenusopalreese.com/site/
Lisa Schrader
Lisa Schrader is a sacred sexuality teacher, author, and coach and the founder of Awakening Shakti. Her work has been
featured on Oprah, Oxygen and VH1. She is the author of "Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and
Pleasure" from Quiver Books. She's a certified coach with the International Coach Federation and has been in private practice
for over 10 years supporting women and couples with awakening their sacred sexual power.
Website(s):
http://www.awakeningshakti.com
Margot Anand
Margot Anand is an internationally acclaimed authority on Tantra, best-selling author, and much-beloved teacher and founder of SkyDancing Tantra®. Margot’s books, videos, CDs and DVDs are widely regarded as the seminal teachings for integrating spirituality and sexuality and for cultivating the art of ecstatic living. Her popular books are available in numerous languages, and include The Art of Everyday Ecstasy, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, The Art of Sexual Magic, Sexual Ecstasy: The Art of Orgasm, and her latest release The Sexual Ecstasy Workbook: The Path Of SkyDancing Tantra. Margot just released her 3-disc DVD trilogy, “The Secret Keys to the Ultimate Love Life,” to inspire a whole new generation of lovers as well as offer a refresher with some fun new twists to longtime students of her classic methods.
Margot is an adjunct faculty member at Dr. Deepak Chopra’s institute and has taught at Dr Dean Ornish’s annual retreats for heart patients. She recently presented at the weeklong program “Ultimate Passion” taught by Tony and Sage Robbins in Fiji. Robbins called Margot "...the leading expert in the world in the field of Tantra."
A native of France, Margot received her degree from Sorbonne University in Paris and has spent decades studying with many of the world’s prominent masters of Hindu and Buddhist Tantra, including the great mystic Osho in India. Margot also has extensive training in Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics, massage, meditation, Arica, and Integral Yoga. Margot’s teaching style is a rare synthesis of French erotic humor, American pragmatism, and Indian mysticism. She is particularly appreciated for her ability to bring healing, lightness, fun, and passion to the workshop atmosphere.
Over the past two decades, Margot developed and taught “The Love and Ecstasy Training (LET)”, a powerful and proven method for healing and enhancing our love life, and cultivating meditation. Margot is the founder of eight SkyDancing Tantra Institutes worldwide. SkyDancing Tantra represents the synthesis of Margot's work and teaching, and has been taught to tens of thousands of people in dozens of countries.
Margot Anand has appeared on many national (CNN, CNBC, ABC) and international (France, Germany, England) television and radio programs and has been featured as a keynote speaker at many prestigious national and international conferences. She has been interviewed by and quoted in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, TIME,Conscious Life, and Cosmopolitan magazines.
Margot Anand has personally trained and certified a select group of couples and individuals as SkyDancing Tantra teachers.
She now rejoices in them spreading, sharing and expanding the ecstatic message of SkyDancing Tantra in many countries.
Website(s):
http://www.margotanand.com
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova, one of the leaders of 'Conscious Birth' movement in Russia since 1982 and one of the organizers of the birth camps at the Black Sea, where women were giving birth in shallow lagoons, in the presence of wild dolphins.
In 2006, Elena produced and directed a revolutionary documentary, Birth As We Know It, about a correlation between birth trauma and the quality of our life and about what it really takes to prepare for conscious birth and to deliver a baby gracefully, minimizing trauma for all involved. The documentary, already in 56 countires, has been translated into 12 languages, making a huge difference for hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
Elena travels internationally, teaching her "Birth Into Being" workshops and speaking at the conferences, was featured in editorials of countless magazines and radio and web interviews. You can see her calendar of events and hear her previous interviews on www.birthintobeing.com and see the 10 minute trailer from the film at www.birthasweknowit.com.
She is sharing a unique, innovative, fast and highly effective approach to Limbic Imprint Re-coding, a technique of altering
the basic settings in our nervous system which we acquired early in our formative period, from conception through birth and
the first few years of life.
Website(s):
http://www.birthintobeing.com
http://www.birthasweknowit.com
Shelly Lefkoe
Shelly Lefkoe is passionate about two things: first, helping people create joyful and free lives by eliminating the beliefs that keep them stuck, and second, transforming the way people parent. She believes that if we raise a conscious generation of children, violence will end, people will treat each other with respect and dignity, and life on this planet will be better in all respects—no matter who is running the government.
Shelly is the author of Parenting the Lefkoe Way, a seven-CD guide to effective parenting, and coauthor of The Chicken Soup for the Soul Guide to Effective Parenting. This book empowers parents—through their interactions with their children—to help those children form positive, rather than negative, beliefs.
Shelly has had the privilege of helping thousands of clients worldwide rid themselves of a wide variety of problems including phobias, relationships that never seem to work, violence, procrastination, unwillingness to confront people, eating disorders, drug and alcohol addiction, and sexual dysfunction. Her clients have been able to eliminate emotional patterns such as fear, hostility, shyness, anxiety, depression, worry about what people think of them, and a negative sense of themselves. This work has made her an expert on how to raise healthy, successful children who are free of limiting beliefs. Shelly is a frequent keynote speaker and leads workshops for parents and teachers, as well as workshops that train participants to use the Lefkoe Method. She also addresses corporate audiences on “How Our Beliefs Limit Our Lives.”
Shelly has been a guest on numerous national and local television and radio programs. The Lefkoe Method has been featured on the Today show and in The New York Times.
Website(s):
http://www.lefkoeinstitute.com
http://www.ParentingTheLefkoeWay.com
Elisabeth Manning
Elisabeth Manning is a Private Certified Spirit Coach, passionate about what makes a higher humanity to lead flourishing lives and care for our sacred earth home. Her passion to midwife to every child's "highest" has led her to help couples increase fertility and mindfully prepare for the most sacred of roles, becoming a parent. By aligning with Mother Nature and becoming clear and fertile in all areas of life, first, including finances, relationship, family of origin issues, self-forgiveness and responsibility, couples restore flow and harmony in their lives and create a more solid nest for the baby to land. For "calling in baby," deep emotional support, confidence and faith building, a monthly BabySpirit Meditation By Phone was born. First Sundays, 10 am PST (also: NEW TIME to include our international friends: 4 pm PST).
Elisabeth emphasizes there are Five main "elemental keys to resonance" in this practical way of living fully human if we are to conceive our highest aligned creations: Connection, Intention, Love/Truth, Stillness/Listening, Integrity/Right Action.
Elisabeth is all about being pregnant with possibility in everything we birth and teaches international teleclasses,
workshops and lectures around the country on the inspiring and empowering topic of how we can positively affect our DNA. Her
first book is a spiritual How-To, "If I'm So Smart Why Can't I Get Pregnant?" and will be on shelves Summer 2011, published
by Journey Grrrl Press. She has also been invited to create a television Docu-Style series on Fertile Living and is
conceiving a documentary film on what it takes to Build a Better Human. www.ecofertileliving.com
Website(s):
http://www.consciousconception.net
Amy Lenzo
Amy Lenzo is the Founder of the Beauty Dialogues, an online blog designed to celebrate beauty. On her blog Amy explores not just the beauty of form, but also those patterns of essential wholeness that go beyond the visible. She is also a student of The Beauty Way, and has studied with mentors Pele Rouge, Firehawk, Rainbow Hawk and Wind Eagle on this topic.
Amy is also the Director of Global Communications for the World Café Community Foundation. She is one of the pioneers in hosting interactive World Cafés online. By adapting available technology, she’s found that it’s not only possible to create the hospitable space necessary to convey the essential World Café experience in the virtual medium, but that it actually offers many advantages. Powerful and effective World Cafés can be held virtually with large and small groups just about anywhere in the world – bypassing many of the economic, environmental and personal limitations of travel without sacrificing the intimacy and interaction of deep conversation.
Amy is also responsible for designing and hosting the World Café’s virtual communications infrastructure as well as supporting the dissemination of ideas in the World Cafe book, including 8 translations world-wide into Japanese, mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, and German (& 3 in process).Drawing on her deep understanding of the World Café principles and her skills and experience applying technology to human needs, Amy currently hosts online World Cafes using a variety of interactive media.
Finally, Amy is the Designer & Creative Director of Clear Light Communications, which offices services in web design and
online communications. She is passionate about the natural world and the power of art and imagination.
Website(s):
http://www.theworldcafe.com/
http://www.beautydialogues.com/
Juanita Brown
Juanita Brown, Ph.D., is the Co-founder of the World Café, an innovative face to face and virtual approach to large group dialogue and engagement now being used by leaders on six continents to foster constructive engagement on critical organizational and societal issues. Juanita has served as a senior affiliate with the MIT Sloan School's Center for Organizational Learning (now the Society for Organizational Learning), as a research affiliate with the Institute for the Future and as a Fellow of the World Business Academy. Her award-winning book, The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations that Matter , co-authored with David Isaacs and the World Cafe Community, has been translated into 10 languages.
Juanita and David have recently re-located to her family’s 90 acre farm in Western North Carolina. There, in collaboration
with younger leaders as well as her 90 year-old mother, Millie, a Florida civil rights pioneer, Juanita is co-creating
Together for Life, a gathering place nurturing multi-generational partnerships for community resilience and engaging the World Café’s global network in fostering a new paradigm for multi-generational leadership in addressing local and global
challenges.
Website(s):
http://www.theworldcafe.com
http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org
Millie Cowan
Millie Cowan and her late husband, Harold, a carpenter, were immigrant children of the 1930's Great Depression. Moving to South Florida in the 1940's, Millie became a co-founder of the Florida Civil Liberties Union and a pioneer in the nascent civil rights movement during the late 1950's. With their daughter, Juanita, who, during the 1960's, was working with Cesar Chavez and the farm workers movement, Millie organized large scale participatory events to raise funds and support for the nation's least enfranchised group. During that same decade Millie and Harold bought a broken down farm in one of the poorest counties of North Carolina, near Asheville, where, for the next four decades they lived for much of the year, creating a very special and welcoming environment for people from all walks of life. Now, at 90, Millie is again collaborating with her daughter as well as younger leaders across generations--continuing the legacy and co-creating “Together for Life” a place of meeting and learning across cultures and generations for community resilience and positive futures.
Ashley Cooper
Bringing passion, playfulness, creativity and grounded action to the work she does and the life she lives, Ashley facilitates opportunities for people to have meaningful connections with themselves, each other, their purpose, their environment and a greater whole. She supports individuals and groups in their efforts to live more vibrantly, ground visions into action and collaborate across generations and disciplines.
Over the last 11 years, Ashley has worked as a teacher, school counselor, social emotional educator, group facilitator,
community organizer, organizational coach, life and family coach, self-discovery mentor, and wilderness trip leader.
She currently focuses on fostering community innovations and education through intergenerational and interdisciplinary
collaboration.
Website(s):
http://easilyamazed.com
http://wovenessence.net
Marci Shimoff
Marci Shimoff is the author of the instant runaway bestseller, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, which offers a revolutionary approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness. It immediately soared to #1 on many national bestseller lists including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com, and debuted at #2 on The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Fedex/Kinkos selected Happy for No Reason as their featured book for April, May and June of 2008. In addition, she’s a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret. Marci has also hosted a national PBS special called Happy for No Reason.
Marci is also the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her six bestselling titles in the series, including Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, have met with stunning success. Her books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide in 33 languages and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 108 weeks. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time.
A celebrated transformational leader and one of the nation's leading experts on happiness, success, and the law of attraction, Marci has inspired millions of people around the world, sharing her breakthrough methods for personal fulfillment and professional success. President and co-founder of the Esteem Group, she delivers keynote addresses and seminars on self- esteem, self-empowerment, and peak performance to corporations, professional and non-profit organizations, and women's associations. She has been a top-rated trainer for numerous Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, GM, Sears, Kaiser Permanente, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
As an acclaimed authority on success and happiness, Marci is often approached by media for her insights and advice. She has been on more than 500 national and regional television and radio shows including The Today Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutch, Montel Williams Show, MSNBC, PBS and NPR. She’s been interviewed for more than 200 newspaper articles. Her writing has appeared in national women's magazines, including Ladies Home Journal, SELF, Body and Soul and Woman's World.
Marci earned her MBA from UCLA and holds an advanced certificate as a stress management consultant. She is a founding member
and on the board of directors of the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of 100 top leaders serving over ten million
people in the self-development market.Through her books and her presentations, Marci's message has touched the hearts and
rekindled the spirits of millions of people throughout the world. She is dedicated to fulfilling her life’s purpose of
helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives.
Website(s):
http://www.happyfornoreason.com/
Cynthia Kersey
Cynthia Kersey is the best-selling author of two books, “Unstoppable” and “Unstoppable Women”, a speaker, entrepreneur, national columnist, team coach and Chief Humanitarian Officer of her non-profit foundation whose focus is to ensure that every child on the planet has access to the life-long gift of education.
Cynthia Kersey, best-selling author of two books, speaker, entrepreneur, and Chief Humanitarian Officer of the Unstoppable Foundation knows first hand that giving is not only good for business, it’s good for the soul.
In her powerful program, Unstoppable Giving, Cynthia not only inspires individuals to give but provides entrepreneurs with a practical action plan on how they can increase their bottom line, expand their business, create customer evangelists and become completely invigorated about their life and business by integrating generosity as a business philosophy.
Cynthia embodies her message and has integrated giving and contribution into her life and business for well over a decade. Today she's going to share with you how you can literally transform your life and business through the power of contribution.
Cynthia Kersey
Bestselling author, “Unstoppable”
www.unstoppable.net
Chief Humanitarian Officer
Unstoppable Foundation
www.UnstoppableFoundation.org
Website(s):
http://www.unstoppable.net
http://www.UnstoppableFoundation.org
Mary Peery
Mary Peery is the President of Mary Peery & Associates, a business leadership consulting firm. Mary has extensive experience in global business management, executive leadership, strategy development, operations, transformation leadership and organizational change management through her 23 years as a business manager with Hewlett Packard. Mary retired from HP in 2006.
From 2004 - 2006, Mary was the Senior Vice President of Strategic Change Management for HP’s Imaging and Printing Group (IPG). In this role, Mary was responsible for leading strategic change efforts in the areas of business strategy, organization, culture, processes and leadership. Prior to that role, Mary was Senior Vice President of HP’s Digital Imaging and Publishing organization. Mary oversaw two key growth opportunities for HP: digital imaging and digital publishing. She also had responsibility for leading HP’s company-wide initiative to bring HP into a leadership position in digital imaging as the industry was starting its transformation from analog to digital. These growth opportunities are now mainstream businesses for HP.
From the time Mary joined HP in 1984 until she become Vice President of Digital Imaging in 2000 she held positions in R&D and Manufacturing in developing and bring to market many leading edge technology products and solutions for consumer and commercial customers. Mary was also actively involved in diversity leadership for HP throughout her career.
Mary is married with a blended family of 6 children and 18 grandchildren. She lives in Colorado with her husband, Dennis.
She is a Board member of her local Hospice organization, actively involved in her church and with the Schools of Engineering at both Colorado State and Brigham Young Universities. Mary holds a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Colorado State University.
Contact: mepeery@msn.com.
Katie Redford
Katie Redford, Esq. is a Co-Founder and Director of EarthRights International (ERI), an NGO that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment.
Katie is an attorney with expertise in international human rights and environmental law, with a focus on corporate accountability. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights and Public Service. She is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar and served as counsel to plaintiffs in ERI's landmark case Doe v. Unocal, the first case in which a corporation was successfully sued for human rights abuses.
Katie received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1995 to establish ERI, and since that time has split her time between ERI's Thailand and US offices. In addition to working on ERI's litigation and teaching at the EarthRights Schools, Katie serves as an adjunct professor of law at both UVA and the Washington College of Law at American University and has published on various issues associated with human rights and corporate accountability.
In 2006, she was selected as an Ashoka Global Fellow, which recognizes the world’s leading social entrepreneurs who devise
system changing solutions for urgent social problems. Katie has been profiled in books such as Be Bold and Your America:
Democracy's Local Heroes, and the award-winning documentary filmTotal Denial.
Website(s):
http://www.earthrights.org
Patty Aubery
For the last 18 years, Patty Aubery has been at the helm of The Jack Canfield Companies.
From the early days of Chicken Soup for the Soul to the blockbuster performance of The Success Principles to the media frenzy of The Secret… She has overseen every deal and watched literally millions of people access the training and insights Jack has to offer. Along the way, she’s helped Jack build a multi-million dollar enterprise that has taken him from an emerging self-esteem expert to becoming a world-renowned public figure and America’s #1 Success Coach…she’s seen his publishing career grow from the mere idea of Chicken Soup for the Soul to releasing hundreds of Chicken Soup titles in over 40languages.
Patty is also the proud mother of two teenage boys, and resides with her family in Santa Barbara, CA.
Website(s):
http://www.jackcanfield.com
Allyson Byrd
Allyson Byrd is a recognized thought-leader and master trainer. Known for her bold and inspirational messages, Allyson has helped thousands of women go from just dreaming to creating the extraordinary results they desire for their lives. An entrepreneur, speaker, author, motivator, and executive leadership coach, she founded The Purpose Within, an internationally recognized training and consulting company that coaches business owners, executives, non-profit leaders, teams, managers and individuals in transition.
Allyson won the 2010 San Antonio Woman of the Year Award from the Circle of Influence and was recently nominated by the National Association for Women Business Owners for the 2010-2011 Rising Star Award; she is featured in the 2011 Who’s Who in San Antonio.
She is the noted author of two books, “When God Takes a Bath” and “Love Yourself to Life”. She is the host of her own acclaimed internet based radio show that in three short years grew from a following of 40 subscribers to now over 15,000 subscribers.
Allyson’s laser focused messages thrust the individual into discovery of their life purpose, the bravery to stand in their
power and the tools to create unprecedented personal and professional achievement.
Website(s): http://www.thepurposewithin.com
Marcia Wieder
Marcia Wieder, CEO/ Founder of Dream University® is leading a Dream Movement. She’s been coaching, training and speaking for 20 years. Her inspiring message has touched audiences from 50-5000 at companies like AT&T and American Express.
The author of 14 books and a thought leader on vision, she has appeared on Oprah often and Today. Whether teaching at the Stanford Business School, speaking to executives in China, or at Girl Scout Camp, her riveting style impacts audiences world -wide. She is the personal Dream Coach to Jack Canfield, stars in Beyond the Secret with Bob Proctor and is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council with Lynne Twist and Marianne Williamson.
As past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners she assisted former U.S. presidents, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. As a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, she urged readers to take “The Great Dream Challenge.”
Website(s): http://www.DreamUniversity.com
Lisa Sasevich
Heralded as "The Queen of Sales Conversion," Lisa Sasevich has x-ray vision for seeingsales conversion opportunites and the creativity to convert them into gold! Lisa delivers hihg-impact, low-cost, customized sales-closing strategies for turbo- charging entrepreneurs and small business oweners to great profits.
After 25 years of winning Top Sales Awards at Fortune 500 companies like Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and training top executives at companies liek Hewlett Packard, she left corporate America and put her skills to the test as an entrepreneur.
In just 3 short year, Lisa created a multi-million dollar home-based business with two toddlers in tow and her husband in medical school. Lisa is the undisputed expert on how to make BIG money doing what you love!
Lisa is the author of The Invisible Close, teaching experts who ar making a difference how to get their message out and enjoy
massive results, without being "sales-y."
Website(s):
http://www.LisaSasevich.com
http://www.theinvisibleclose.com
Janet Attwood
Janet Attwood is the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Passion Test- The Effortless Path To Discovering Your Destiny, and co-author of From Sad to Glad: 7 Steps to Facing Change with Love and Power. As an expert on what it takes to live a passionate life, she has shared the stage with, The Dalai Lama, Sir Richard Branson, Jack Canfield, Lisa Nichols, and other top transformational leaders.
Janet has personally trained over 550+ Passion Test Facilitators and over 60 Passion Test for Business facilitators from around the world. Janet's other programs include, The Passion Test for Coaches, (accredited by the ICF) The Passion Test for Teens, The Passion Test for Kids, The Passion Test Reclaim Your Power Program for the homeless, and, The Passion Test Empowered Youth Program, for kids in lockdown detention centers.
For her ongoing work with homeless women and youth in detention centers, Janet received the highest award for volunteer
service in the U.S. from the President of the United States, The Presidents Volunteer Service Award. Janet is President of an
organization in India, called, “The World United” whose sole purpose is to promote conscious, healthy and sustainable choices
for a better world. She is also a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council, that Jack Canfield, the co-
author of the Chicken Soup Series, put together after taking Janet’s Passion Test.
Website(s):
http://www.thepassiontest.com
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker who draws from
spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. She is the author of Like a Tree: How Trees,
Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet, The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine and Urgent Message from Mother. She is a major advocate for a United Nations 5th World Conference on Women, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the International Transpersonal Association. She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing's "Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award." She was in
two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film Women--For America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board's Goddess Remembered.
Website(s):
http://www.jeanbolen.com
http://www.5wcw.org
Alison Weeks
Alison Weeks, Director of Shift University, is a seasoned leader, manager, and educational program designer. With nearly 30 years experience, Alison has been at the forefront of many creative educational initiatives in K-12 and higher education, business, and the non-profit sector. As co-founder of Presidio School of Management and initial designer of the MBA in Sustainable Management, Alison brought her passion of bridging disparate worlds to bear on the emerging field of sustainable business, helping to create a strong voice in making "green" mainstream. Alison loves dance, yoga, and after working in Japan for nearly a decade, a good cup of green tea
Dr. Sue Morter
Dr. Sue Morter is an internationally recognized authority on bridging Science, Spirit and Human Possibility. She is a master teacher and practitioner of the BioEnergetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.), a neuro-emotional clearing and healing process that addresses subconscious interferences within the mind, body, memory and spirit, and their integrated influence on health and human performance.
What we hold as true at the subconscious level, NOT simply the conscious level, is ultimately what determines our outcome in life. Dr. Sue’s Intentional Living Seminars and self healing techniques based on this concept have helped thousands around the world to experience greater harmony in life as they learn to master their internal experience regardless of their external environment.
Dr. Sue founded Morter Institute and HealthCenter in 1987, a multi-doctor wellness and teaching center in Indianapolis, Indiana, that focuses on cleansing and restoring the mind, body and soul by releasing unresolved subconscious beliefs and emotions. Her multiple day “Focused Care” treatment intensives provide individuals with the opportunity for immersion-based healing and learning in a safe and professional environment.
In addition to her private practice, today she speaks about the incoming Era of Authenticity, and describes what is needed
both individually and organizationally in today’s rapidly changing world to create a sustainable and viable approach to
wellbeing. She has spoken at TEDxNASA , Agape International Spiritual Center, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Tony Robbins
Trainer Support, amongst many others, and can be seen in documentary films, internet television and radio interviews and live conferences worldwide. Often referred to as the “shaman in a business suit,” Dr. Sue completely loves sharing the concepts
that she lives.
Website(s):
http://www.suemorter.com
Deborah Dove Eudene
Deborah Dove Eudene is a Stanford educated intellectual property lawyer, live and virtual event coordinator, empowerment
coach, transformational journey facilitator, healing arts practitioner, retreat center administrator, singer, nature
enthusiast, and Shift activator. She was the Course Manager for 2 of The Shift Network's Courses (Soulful Women and Your
Money or Your Life) and the Event Manager for PeaceWeek, The Enlightened Business Summit, GreenShifters, and the Healthy
Money Summit. She is currently serving as the The Shift Network's Event Manager for the Inspiring Women Summit and the
upcoming Conscious Partnering Conference. As a volunteer for the Pacifica Indigenous Grandmother's Council and a singer
with Robin Youngblood's drum circle "Pueo," she is honored to be hosting the "Grandmothers Speak" panel.
Website(s):
http://www.pranadance.weebly.com
Rev. Robin Tekwelus Youngblood
Rev. Robin Tekwelus Youngblood, Okanagon/Tsalagi, minister of Church of the Earth, has been a student of her heritage for
many years. She has studied with Indigenous elders of her own tribes, along with African, Siberian and Aboriginal leaders.
Robin believes that the only way to create harmony and avoid disaster in these times is to learn to attune ourselves to our
Earth Mother's natural rhythms through ritual, ceremony, chant and dance.
Website(s):
http://www.dreamingshaman.com/
Billie Schibler
Grandmother Billie Schibler, Purple Harvest Woman, is of the Crane Clan. She is a Metis Woman of Cree, Saulteaux and Lakota descent originating from Manitoba, Canada. Billie is a mother and a grandmother, and one of the founding members of Kookum Gaa Na Da Ma Waad Abinoojiig Council Grandmothers Protecting Our Children). We came together in early 2007, as a council of grandmothers and elders concerned with the violence and abuse perpetrated against our children in our communities. We have watched generations of our children become victims while our community and government leaders have been unsuccessful in addressing these violations. As grandmothers, we can no longer stand by in silence. We have historically been the nurturers and caregivers of our children and we must stand for them now and be their voice. We must reclaim our traditional rols as Grandmothers and Clanmothers. We must lead the way for others to be empowered and come forward to say “No More!"
Susan Ka'iulani Stanton
Grandmother Susan Ka'iulani Stanton (Nemake Sumake - Chiefmoon Lady) was born on the island of Oahu and raised her children on their 6-acre Kuleana in a remote valley on the North Shore. Adopted at birth, she grew up believing that her mixed blood Native Ancestry was Hawaiian, and it was not until she entered her pre-Elder years that she learned that her birthmother is Jeanne House, Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk/Wolf Clan. Bi-cultural, Susan was a member for a short time of the Hui Hooulu Aloha Halau, under the direction of Kumu Hula Cy Bridges. She Sundanced at the Chiefmoon Sundance on the Blood Reserve in Alberta, Canada, and has been initiated to carry Crystal Medicine. She is an initiate of the White Buffalo Cow Society (Mandan) and has worked for 23 years with incarcerated Men, Women and Youth of many Tribes as a Spiritual counselor. She is grateful for the Teachings of her Elders, who include Priscilla Vigil (Tewa), Leon Secataro (Canoncito Navajo), Chief Marie Campbell (Eyak), Jr. Thompson (Red House Clan - Dineh) and others. She believes in the importance of the Grandmothers in these times of the Coming Earth Changes, and supports all Grandmothers of All Nations in this work.
Rha Goddess
Rha Goddess is a world renowned performance artist, activist and social entrepreneur who uses her artistic and motivational talents to heal, transform and inspire. Goddess’ work has been featured in international compilations, forums, and festivals and she has received rave industry reviews from Time Magazine, Essence and The Source, among others. In 2006, her debut theatrical project, "LOW" world premiered for sold out audiences at the prestigious Humana Festival and toured nationally to sold out venues and rave reviews including her sold out off-Broadway Premiere at the UTR Festival at the Public Theater.
In her 30+ year tenure as a creative organizer, Goddess has worked on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid and restoration, mental health, and youth & young women's empowerment. Honors and awards include, Meet the Composer, Essence Magazine's Top 30 Women to Watch, the National Museum of Voting Rights Freedom Flame Award, the Herb Alpert Hedgebrook Prize and being a US Cultural Envoy to Rwanda.
In her newest venture, Goddess combines her hard earned business savvy with her longstanding passion for social change to
create Move The Crowd, LLC, a professional development and entrepreneurial training company dedicated to teaching Conscious
Urban Entrepreneurs how to "Stay True, Get Paid and Do Good."
Website(s):
http://www.movethecrowd-llc.com
Anasa Troutman
As an artist, producer and cultural strategist, Anasa Troutman's life work is to harness the power of creativity for love and human connection. Currently a Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center in Oakland, California, Anasa powerfully operates at nexus of creativity, spirituality & strategy. At MSC, Anasa created and runs a project called, “Art Is Change”, designed to explore and engage the intersections of art + culture + transformation with a commitment to love, creativity and individual and community wholeness.
Anasa lives in Atlanta, GA, where she began her career as the founder of Groovement and Earthseed Music, supporting artists like India.Arie, Donnie and Jiva and learning to leverage music to make the world a more fair, just and loving place. Anasa has spent the years since, working with artists and organizations to intensify the strategic impact of creative practice on social and political realities.
Anasa's work has been vasat and varied, working locally, regionally, nationally and internationally with artists as well as organizations like; The National Black Arts Festival, Alternate ROOTS, Institute for Policy Studies, Dennis Kucinich for President, The Young People's Project, Progressive Majority, The Campaign for America's Future, The League of Young Voters,
The Generational Alliance and the Historic Highlander Center.
Website(s):
http://www.anasatroutman.com
Zahava Griss
Zahava Griss transforms energy and intimacy through dance. As the founder of Love Making Dances, she uses innovative performances and shamanic teaching to deepen the union of the body and soul in dancers. Her artistry creates a field of consciousness for the audience that cultivates trust and love across power lines including gender, race, and class.
Her training as a professional dancer includes working with legends such as the Joffrey Ballet, Katherine Dunham, and Urban Bush Women. Her training in the spiritual arts includes extensive work in tantra, sexual shamanism, Anusara yoga for birth, and Sufi Dance Meditation. Prior to founding her company, Zahava served as a core educator at the Deepak Chopra Center in New York from 2005-2010, co-directing Sundays for Peace: Spiritually Sustainable Activism.
Her workshops and performances have been presented at national conferences, televised on BET, at the Kennedy Center, Joe's
Pub, the Blue Note, Jacob's Pillow, Dance Place, the annual NY Midwifery conference, the internationally respected Farm of
Ina May Gaskin, and the Theatrical Bellydance Conference. Zahava has also trained at the Juilliard School, Tisch School of
the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts, the Alvin Ailey School, Princeton Ballet, and Sarah Lawrence College where she
earned her BA focusing on dance, community transformation, and race relations.
Website(s):
http://www.LoveMakingDances.com
Gail Straub
A pioneer in the field of empowerment, Gail Straub co-directs the Empowerment Institute, a school for transformative social change where her primary focus is women¹s empowerment. For the last three decades she has offered her work to tens of thousands of people throughout America, Europe, Russia, China, Africa, Afghanistan, and Asia. She co-founded IMAGINE: A Global Initiative for the Empowerment of Women to help women heal from violence, build strong lives, and contribute to their communities. IMAGINE initiatives are under way in Afghanistan, Sudan (Darfur), South Africa, India, and Nigeria. Gail has consulted to many organizations furthering women¹s empowerment including the Chinese Women¹s Federation, the Russian American Humanitarian Initiative, Women¹s Leadership Center at Omega, World Pulse, and Women for Women International.
Gail is the author of four books including, with her husband David Gershon, the best selling Empowerment: The Art of Creating
Your Life As You Want It, the critically acclaimed, The Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society, and
the awarding-winning feminist memoir Returning to My Mother¹s House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine. Her greatest
passions are women¹s empowerment, engaged spirituality, and writing books.
Website(s):
http://www.empowermenttraining.com/
http://www.imagineprogram.net/
Loung Ung
Born to an affluent Cambodian family, Loung Ung was only 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge stormed into her native city of Phnom Penh. Four years later, in one of the bloodiest episodes of the 20th century, some two million Cambodians - out of a population of seven million - had died at the hands of the infamous Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime. Among the genocide victims were both Loung’s parents, and two sisters.
Today, Loung has made over 30 trips back to Cambodia. As an author, lecturer, and activist, she has dedicated 20 years to promoting equality, human rights, and justice in her native land and worldwide.
Her memoir, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, published by HarperCollins in 2000, was a national bestseller and has been published in 11 countries and translated into German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, French, Spanish, Italian, Cambodian, and Japanese. Loung has been the subject of numerous television programs for NHK, ARTE, and Nightline.
Her second book, Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind, was published by HarperCollins
in 2005. Both titles are widely used in high schools, colleges, and community reading programs.
Website(s):
http://www.LoungUng.com
Dr. Awadiya Ahmed Yahia
Dr. Awadiya Ahmed Yahia, born and raised in Darfur, is the mother of two children and currently lives with her family in Buffalo, New York. She holds a PhD in Global Gender Studies from New York University at Buffalo. Dr. Yahia has worked with many international humanitarian organizations including Save the Children’s Fund U.K and as a gender consultant with the Netherlands Embassy and the UNICEF in Sudan, Co-founder and General Secretary of the Voluntary Society for the Development of Rural Women in Southern Darfur, She was the founder of Sudan Peace Building and Empowerment, Co-Founder and Secretary of Helping Ensure African Loans (HEAL), as well as Co-founder of Sudanese American House in New York, and the Program Manager for IMAGINE-Sudan. Currently she serves on many Boards of Directors for many organizations in the U.S. Dr. Yahia is deeply involved with the peace process in Sudan where she is a peace delegate to the Darfur Peace Talks taking place in Doha.
Shaima Khinjani
Born in 1982 in Kabul, Afghanistan, Shaima Khinjani grew up amidst war and civil conflict. When she was in high school, the Taliban regime took power, and women were denied many rights, including their education.
During that brutal regime, Khinjani broke the law by opening a secret school for women and girls in her basement. Initially, her family did not support the school, but soon after it opened, her father and brothers lost their jobs, and Khinjani became the only bread-winner in the family. This continued for five years, while she secretly studied English, which was also against the law.
As a young adult, she began working on radical programs to institutionalize gender equality in government. Khinjani began working with the re-established Afghan government after the Taliban fell in 2001. The first woman in her family to work outside the home, Khinjani served as executive secretary for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, since its historic inception.
In that role, she participated in many official intergovernmental and bilateral meetings and negotiations in order to gain support for gender equality.
In 2006, she became a program officer of GTZ (German Technical Assistance) Gender Mainstreaming Project, where she supports both male and female civil servants in their personal and professional development. In that capacity, she negotiated for more than 500 civil servants to attend trainings in gender and empowerment.
Khinjani has attended numerous international trainings on gender and personal development, and is now continuing her higher
education in the United States. She earned her B.A. in International Studies and Political Science, with a concentration on Gender and Women in the Middle East from Ramapo College in 2010, and is currently completing a Master's Degree program in political science at the University of Montana.
Website(s):
http://eomega.org/omega/faculty/viewProfile/e517dc8e174780070f4b70f57aac5a8e/
Tina Malia
Tina Malia’s prodigious talent spans many musical genres and disciplines. As a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer she has distinguished herself in styles ranging from pop to world devotional to electronic. Her own diverse and growing catalog of albums is complemented by studio and live work with iconic artists such as Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Jai Uttal, Kenny Loggins, India.Arie, Idan Raichel and Bassnectar.
There are two unifying factors in all of this. One is Tina’s remarkable voice. An instrument of exceptional purity, it can be
as tender as an angel’s sigh or as powerful as a deep ocean current. The other unifying factor in Tina’s musical universe is
her vision—an all-encompassing artistic perspective that embraces many of the world’s musical cultures, languages and
spiritual traditions.
Website(s):
http://www.listn.to/tinamalia
Glenda Gracia
Glenda Gracia has cultivated a distinguished career in business, talent management and life coaching. As a Temple Law School graduate, Glenda has managed the business affairs for CBS Television Network entertainment programs, served as the founding Executive Director of the Black Music Association, held leadership on all things business affairs for Red Tettemer, a boutique-styled marketing communications agency in Philadelphia and, through her firm, GFA Entertainment, managed many talented artists in the music, film and television industries.
During her career, Glenda has worked with such luminaries as Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder, Phyllis Hyman, Quincy Jones and
Kenny Gamble. Glenda continues to work in the entertainment industry and currently serves as a chapter board member of NARAS, producers of the Grammy’s and as a principal for Deal Matters – Entertainment, which manages recording artists, Roberta Flack, Tina Malia and Davell Crawford.
Website(s):
http://www.dealmatters.com/deal-matters-entertainment
Suzanne
Suzanne is an ecstatic vocalist and composer whose devotional music has been called a "groove-loving and seductive journey
into Spirit" and whose music has been commissioned for film, theatre and DVD. Both as a performing and recording artist, as well as a facilitator of transformational workshops and intensives for many years, Suzanne has received critical acclaim. She has enjoyed mainstage billing at festivals such as Earthdance, Harmony, Burning Man, Joshua Tree Music Festival and The World Festival of Sacred Music (hosted by the Dalai Lama). Suzanne has also been a ritual designer and priestess for many years and has developed curriculums, teacher trainings and apprenticeship programs combining ritual and activism for numerous communities nationwide. She offers a unique blend of yoga, music, sacred ceremony and activism to conferences and festivals worldwide- most recently as featured artist at several Yoga Journal Conferences, Omega Institute, Esalen Institute, Institute of Noetic Sciences. The Global Sound Conference and Earthdance where she led the worlds largest Spiral Dance for 5000 people. Suzanne is also a co-creator, with Seane Corn and Hala Khouri, of Off the Mat, Into the World, a project offering nationwide training programs and humanitarian tours combining yoga and sustainable activism.
www.suzannesterling.com
Lynne McTaggart
Lynne McTaggart, one of the preeminent spokespersons on consciousness, the new physics and the science of spirituality, is the award-winning journalist and author of five books, including the worldwide bestsellers The Field and The Intention Experiment. As editorial director of What Doctors Don’t Tell You (www.wddty.com), she also publishes one of the world’s most highly praised health newsletters and runs highly popular health and spirituality teleconferences and workshops.
Lynne is also the architect of the Intention Experiments, a web-based ‘global laboratory’, involving an international consortium of prestigious scientists and thousands of people in countries around the world testing the power of intention to heal the world. Most recently her book The Intention Experiment and its website were prominently featured in the plotline of Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster The Lost Symbol.
Of Lynne’s latest book The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us, Deepak Chopra says, “Once in a very great while, a
book comes along that shifts our sense of reality, or extols a new way of living. Lynne McTaggart’s extraordinary new book,
‘The Bond,’ does both.”
Website(s):
http://www.thebond.info
http://www.lynnemctaggart.com
http://www.theintentionexperiment.com
Andrea J. Lee
Andrea J. Lee is an Entrepreneurial Futurist with her finger on the pulse of the entrepreneurial spirit and how it can shows
up to change the world. Throughout her life, Andrea has done one thing Ð help those she loves make money. Not once, but
twice, she has helped reinvent the coaching industry and knows just one thing for sure: the entrepreneurial spirit is
everywhere, looking for a place to make a difference. She is the trusted source of coaching pioneer Thomas Leonard's
intellectual property, the architect behind the Pink Spoon Marketing craze, and her company was named by Seth Godin and Fast Company Magazine as one of the extraordinary 'Bull Market' companies helping their clients stand out and prosper. Andrea
invites you over to http://wealthythoughtleader.com to enjoy a free guide on 5 steps to Income Through INnovation - A Primer
on Your Thought Leadership.
Website(s):
http://www.andreajlee.com/blog/
http://wealthythoughtleader.com
Geneen Roth
Geneen Roth's pioneering books were among the first to link compulsive eating and perpetual dieting with deeply personal and spiritual issues that go far beyond food, weight and body image. She believes that we eat the way we live, and that our relationship to food, money, love is an exact reflection of our deepest held beliefs about ourselves and the amount of joy, abundance, pain, scarcity, we believe we have (or are allowed) to have in our lives.
Rather than pushing away the "crazy" things we do, Geneen's work proceeds with the conviction that our actions and beliefs make exquisite sense, and that the way to transform our relationship with food is to be open, curious and kind with ourselves-instead of punishing, impatient and harsh. In the past thirty years, she has worked with hundreds of thousands of people using meditation, inquiry, and a set of seven eating guidelines that are the foundation of natural eating.
Geneen has appeared on many national television shows including: The Oprah Show, 20/20, The NBC Nightly News, The View and
Good Morning America. Articles about Geneen and her work have appeared in numerous publications including: O: The Oprah
Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Time, Elle, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She has written
monthly columns in Good Housekeeping Magazine and Prevention Magazine. Geneen is the author of eight books, including The New
York Times bestsellers When Food is Love and Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything. Her newest book,
published in March 2011, is Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations about Food and Money.
Website(s):
http://www.geneenroth.com/
Gabrielle Bernstein
Featured in the New York Times Sunday Styles section as the next generation guru, motivational speaker, life coach and author Gabrielle Bernstein is making her mark. Expanding the lexicon for the next generation, Gabrielle is a #1 bestselling author of the book Add More ~ing to Your Life – A hip guide to happiness. In September 2011 Gabrielle’s launches second book entitled Spirit Junkie, A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles. (Both books are published by Random House.) In 2008 she launched her social networking site www.HerFuture.com for young women to find mentors.
Gabrielle has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times Sunday Styles, Oprah Radio, Marie Claire, Health, SELF, Women’s Health, Forbes List: 20 Best Branded Women, Featured on the Cover Self-Made Magazine (top 50 Women in Business), CNN, NBC, WPIX11, CBS, Fox & Friends, PBS “To The Contrary”, Fox Strategy Room, Wall Street Journal, AdWeek, Sirius Satellite Radio, Am-NY and New York Moves Magazine. Gabrielle is a regular blogger for the Huffington Post, Intent.com, YoungEntrepreneur.com and Crazysexylife.com. She can also be seen riding around the East Village on a unicycle.
Simran Singh
Simran Singh, Publisher of the Award Winning, leading self coaching, life enhancement publication today, 11:11 Magazine, distributed in print throughout North America and worldwide in its digital form, is the Syndicated 11:11 Talk Radio Show Host, 11:11 InnerViews TV Conversationalist & Founder of BelieveSC.
Simran supports individuals in recognizing their unlimited potential and authentic nature by tapping into inherent personal
expression, creativity and presence via self inquiry and conscious choices. 11:11 Media Resources are known to provide in-
depth, quality dialogues with leaders and topics of consciousness, self-help, personal development and spirituality as a means to connect deeply to the Journey of the Soul.
Website(s):
http://1111mag.com
http://1111TalkRadio.com
Dr. Christine Page
Known as a mystical physician, Dr. Christine Page was immersed in spiritual mysteries from an early age, raised amongst healers and psychics and always connected intuitively to other realms of consciousness. In the search for true healing, she has over 30 years of experience in the caring professions as doctor and homeopath receiving her medical degree from London University.
Now, focusing on education, she is a gifted intuitive, mystic and alchemist, sharing her insights and knowledge through
teaching, soul readings and writing. As an international, inspirational speaker, she sees herself as a messenger and bridge builder between different worlds whether this includes modalities of health care or levels of consciousness. Author of 6 books, the best known being Frontiers of Health, her latest, 2012 and the Galactic Center; the Return of the Great Mother was
published in October 08. She is presently writing a book by women for women to be published next year.
Christine lives with her husband Leland, in Northern California.
Website(s):
http://www.christinepage.com
Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist — global activist, fundraiser, consultant and author — has devoted her life to bringing forth an environmentally
sustainable, socially just, and spiritually fulfilled human presence on earth. Her work has taken her around the world, where she has developed a keen understanding of the relationship of people to money: the psychology of scarcity and sufficiency.
She shares compelling stories and insights from those experiences in her book, The Soul of Money. These ideas are the
foundation for her inspiring keynotes and workshops.
Website(s):
http://ww.soulofmoney.org
http://www.pachamama.org
Brené Brown
Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. Brené spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and empathy, and is now using that work to explore a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness.
She poses the questions: How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to recognize that we are enough - that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy?
Brené is a nationally renowned speaker and has won numerous teaching awards, including the College's Outstanding Faculty Award. Her groundbreaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and was the topic of two 2010 TEDx talks (Houston and Kansas City).
Brené is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who We Think We Should Be and Embracing Who We Are (Hazelden, 2010) and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power (Penguin/Gotham, 2007). She is also the author of Connections, a psychoeducational shame resilience curriculum that is being facilitated across the nation by mental health and addiction professionals.
Brené's current research focuses on authentic leadership and wholeheartedness in families, schools, and organizations.
Website(s): http://www.brenebrown.com
INSPIRING WOMEN SUMMIT 2010
