Expert Leadership

R.J. De Rossi is a leadership educator, executive coach, speaker, and international best-selling author of Broken Places: A Sacred Journey of Repair. He blends neuroscience-informed practices, peacebuilding, emotional intelligence, and flow psychology to support personal resilience and collective healing. His work bridges mindfulness, peak performance, and purpose-driven leadership. A certified nonviolence trainer with two decades of experience teaching and leading teams in education and brain injury rehabilitation, R.J. brings a soulful lens to leadership, helping people find clarity, connection, and creative purpose.

Dr. Jennifer Knowles is a dynamic speaker, author, consultant, and professor dedicated to helping individuals and organizations unlock human potential and create impactful change. With a background in Organizational Development, a PhD in Organizational Learning, and a passion for authenticity and leadership, she blends academic insight with real-world experience — whether transforming corporate teams, advocating for youth entrepreneur- ship, or empowering women to lead with purpose.

Learn more about her at LinkedIn and Jennifer Knowles

Working with selected clients, including five national Fortune 10 enterprises, Nick creates personalized, custom-built systems for managing people and increasing productivity. He founded EMMA (European Management Matrix), a unique leadership and productivity-boosting system that eliminates constraints, blind spots, and gray areas in the workspace. The result is lower operating costs, more consistent goal achievement, and significantly simplified leadership. His management approach, combined with mentorship and mindset coaching, usually leads to some significant breakthroughs:

What if the path to lasting business success is building relationships strong enough to earn deep buy-in from everyone who touches your product?

Angela Sutton, PhD, helps B2B founders and product managers scale by aligning internal teams and earning lasting customer commitment. As the author of Sell Bigger: Unlock Repeat Business By Transforming How You Communicate, she brings over 25 years of Silicon Valley experience in technical product management, product marketing, AI-driven process automation, and personalized customer engagement.

Greg Mohr started off his work life in the restaurant industry. Later, climbing the corporate ladder, he worked in the semiconductor industry for about 15 years. During this time, he earned an MBA degree, specializing in management information systems. As he loves sharing, Greg eventually found himself laid off, and it was a blessing. He saw an opportunity, and knew it was now or never. Working with a franchise consultant, Greg found a great fit after narrowing his goals and criteria. He never looked back. Today, he helps others find their way on the same path at Franchise Maven.

Learn more from him at Book-resources

Sharise M Bijou is a licensed clinical social worker with almost 20 years of professional work experience. She also has a doctorate in philosophy with the focus being on leadership. She has served in the military as an officer for 16 years in mental health. She combines her leadership and training as a therapist to help others reach their optimal self.

Neil Gordon is the author of The Most Powerful Sentence of All Time. He is a persuasion expert and messaging strategist who has helped count- less thought leaders refine their ideas and amplify their impact. A former editor with Dutton, now a division of Penguin Random House, Neil has worked with New York Times best- selling authors and collaborated with major publishing houses such as Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Hay House. His writing and insights have been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fortune, Entrepreneur, and Startups magazine, as well as on TV networks like NBC and Fox.

Find him online at Home – Neil Gordon

Dr. Draper, a translational cancer research professor with multiple patents, is currently working on two active INDs, bringing scientific rigor to everything she creates. After overcoming eating and alcohol use disorders, she continued to struggle with social anxiety and procrastination — until she found a way to rewire her brain. She developed the SOS Button App to help other lifelong strugglers of anxiety and depression regulate their nervous systems, break cycles of overwhelm, and regain control in minutes.

Mark Carpenter is a speaker, author, and facilitator on a mission to bring greater humanity into business. His speeches, workshops, and books focus on teaching “people skills” to create greater performance, connection, and engagement across teams and organizations, demonstrating how “soft skills deliver hard results.”

Check him at Lead Like A Person and Keynote Speaker Mark Carpenter

David R. Clark is a man who has faced some of life’s most daunting challenges and emerged with a deeper faith and a powerful message of hope. A former Alabama Assistant Attorney General, Judge Advocate General, and private attorney, David’s life took an unexpected turn after sustaining debilitating injuries during his service in Iraq, leaving him 100% VA disabled. But instead of giving up, David chose to channel his experiences into something meaningful.

Jan is a lover of God and a FREEDOM FIGHTER! She is a Mom and a Gramma to her amazing growing family. She is a published author of a FREEDOM Series and a Ministry Director; a Kingdom of God discipler, equipper and trainer. Her passion is to set captives free to fully embrace their truest identities and Kingdom destinies.

Learn more from her at Arise & Shine

Ellen Eatough, with a Master’s Degree in East-West Psychology, has been an intimacy coach and sexual healer since 1991 and has conducted numerous in- person workshops on sexual-spiritual fulfillment and intimate communication nationwide.
Dennis Duff, a successful spiritually centered business owner, trainer, and counselor/coach to couples with relationship difficulties, spent over 40 years in the “inner circle” studying with a fully enlightened spiritual teacher and tantric master. Together Dennis and Ellen run Ecstatic Life, LLC, with the mission to uplift humanity by transforming intimate relationships. They provide breakthrough programs that help older singles and couples experience the greatest love of their lives.

Andrew Wittig, a seasoned entrepreneur and automotive business owner, balances his professional life with a deep commitment to his faith, mentoring others, and raising six children. His upcoming book explores how to have great spiritual conversations.
Andrew Wittig is an entrepreneur by nature who has owned several businesses. Presently, he runs a successful automotive collision repair facility. He is a very devout member in his faith community, and is involved in mentoring others in sharing their religious convictions. He and his wife are the proud parents of six gifted children, and enjoy quality family time. Wittig has another book being released early 2025, which shares ideas on ways to organically create conversations of a spiritual nature.

J.R. Vincent is a force of creative energy. She’s an artist who balances business, writing, and production design with the joyful chaos of raising six children. Her journey is a testament to the power of embracing new experiences and finding inspiration in the everyday. Vincent’s commitment to community and faith underscores her belief in the power of connection and the importance of giving back. Look for her newest book, Your Mom Never Said: Empowering Lessons Everyone Needs for a Happy Successful Life, releasing soon.

It took much of Robert Aymar’s lifetime and two handsome, falsely labeled grandsons to realize that there was no one in leadership today who would step up and speak the truth of our falsely labeled races. He believes that there is truth in the word of the Bible, which tells us that we are all made in the image of God. Being gifted with a sense of artistic vision that sees and interprets color in many avenues of life, he learned that his color sense was wrong in one key place: the four falsely labeled races of our world, Red, Black, White, and Yellow.

You can get a copy of his book on Amazon: The False Color Divide 

Dr. Ben Koen transforms high achievers from “successful but unfulfilled” to thriving across all six pillars of life through his breakthrough Elite Life Code™ system. In 30+ years guiding over 11,000 people — including CEOs, entrepreneurs, world-class artists, healthcare professionals, and leaders across multiple industries — he discovered a shocking truth: your brain is 100% successful right now — it’s just running the wrong codes. As an international bestselling author, Oxford University Press editor, and creator of Music Neuroprogramming™, Dr. Koen’s proprietary S.E.A. Method™ uses specialized sound and meditation to rewrite the unconscious programs controlling your results in body, mind, spirit, emotions, relationships, and wealth.