Nachi Junankar is the founder and CEO of Avrio AI, a company based on the idea that machine intelligence is a powerful way to transform and enable companies in hiring the right people in an engaging, transparent way. Nachi builds successful companies that produce amazing tech, founded on the seminal idea of making technology that positively impacts people all over the world.

Jacqueline House is the founder and CEO of Leadership Situations and the author of House Rules for New Leaders and Managers: Five Truths Plus 25 Steps to Change, which expounds on the virtues of leadership from the follower’s perspective. Leadership Situations serves leaders and followers to maximize the talents of their followers in order to increase the bottom line. Working from both ends of the spectrum, Leadership Situations also works with followers who are seeking to increase their own feelings of team compatibility or contemplating their business and career purpose. Specifically, Leadership Situations provides services through the following coaching areas: Leadership, Accountability, Strategic Planning, Infrastructure Planning, and Fundraising. Jacqueline is a Certified Coach Practitioner, business professional, and author with over 20 years of experience in leadership and management. She excels at helping clients to find and implement creative solutions in the leader follower dynamic. Her fascination with the dynamics of leadership started very early on as a Preacher’s Kid and was further nurtured by professional experiences and the study of Leader-Member Exchange theory as an MBA student.

She holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of Central Florida, and an MBA from Hodges University. Jacqueline is passionate about all things leadership and making sure that everyone knows that no matter what, they have the ability to make a choice for change.

Karen Pelot is the founder and CEO of PERSPECTIVES, LLC, specializing in reducing and resolving conflict, increasing team engagement, and instilling accountability for behaviors and results in the workplace. Prior to founding her company in 2008, Karen served as a corporate leader for more than fifteen years with three Fortune 100 companies, where she developed and led special investigation units. Her experience as a senior corporate leader, in-depth understanding of human behaviors and motivators, and ten years as a professional mediator have equipped Karen with unique insights and qualifications for assessing organizational detailers, and partnering with clients to establish and implement effective solutions. It’s “the people stuff” that gets in the way of individual and organizational success. Karen and her team at PERSPECTIVES, LLC are experts with “the people stuff”.

Dr. Anita Chandra is director of RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment. Prior to her position as JIE director, she served as director of RAND's Behavioral and Policy Sciences Department. She leads studies on civic well-being and urban planning; community resilience and long-term disaster recovery; effects of military deployment; health in all policies and advancing a culture of health; and child health and development. Throughout her career, Chandra has engaged government and nongovernmental partners to consider cross-sector solutions for improving community well-being and to build more robust systems and evaluation capacity. This work has taken many forms, including engaging with federal and local government agencies on building systems for emergency preparedness and resilience both in the U.S. and globally; partnering with private sector organizations to develop the science base around child systems; and collaborating with city governments and foundations to reform data systems and measure environmental sustainability, well-being, and civic transformation. Chandra has also partnered with community organizations to conduct broad-scale health and environmental needs assessments, to examine the integration of health and human service systems, and to determine how to address the needs of historically marginalized populations in human service systems. These projects have occurred in partnership with businesses, foundations, and other community organizations. Chandra earned a Dr.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Kristin Sokol is an optimist and a conversationalist with practical ideas that make a positive impact. She’s built a successful business providing one-on-one professional coaching and facilitating corporate trainings centered around thought management, personal communication and coaching strategies. Kristin is a people-person who uses soft-skills to make the world a better place one conversation at a time. Kristin holds a Bachelor's degree in Communications from Weber State University and has completed graduate work at the University of Texas in Professional and Executive Coaching and is weeks away from a prestigious ICF certification credential. Kristin is a highly-rated coach and an entertaining presenter.

Andy Storch is a consultant, coach, and facilitator specializing in helping clients turn strategy into action and people doing the best work of their lives.

Andy works with companies to accelerate leadership development, strategy alignment, business acumen, and sales training. He also coaches individuals to help them improve their performance and achieve their goals.

Andy is also the host of two podcasts, including The Andy Storch Show, where he has interviewed over 100 CEOs and entrepreneurs and The Talent Development Hot Seat, where he interviews interesting talent development leaders about their experience. He has worked with leaders across almost every industry—from software to insurance—and has seen the difference that experiential learning, practice, coaching, and accountability can make in improving overall performance.

Andy holds an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business where he served as President of the MBA program in 2008 and a BS in Information Sciences from the University of Florida.

David Goldsmith is President and Co-founder of the Goldsmith Organization (New York and Hong Kong), a consulting firm servicing executive clients worldwide; Co-founder of Buzd, LLC, a firm in which he is a patent holder for technological applications and products related to artificial intelligence, cell phone applications, battery technologies, and consumer products; Chief Officer of Strategy for N2 Global Solutions, a company specializing in SuperGrid and IOT technology for use in advanced smart city development for the future; Co-founder and former Chief Officer of Strategy of ecosystem.AI, a predictive analytics and visualization company that finds hidden value in market and organizational complexity relation-ships through identified patterns and spatial trends to reveal how business and organizational ecosystems change over time; Founder of the Project Moon Hut Foundation and Project Leader of the global social movement, Project Moon Hut/The Age of Infinite, a four-year effort with NASA (Silicon Valley) to improve life on Earth through the accelerated development of an earth-and-space based ecosystem; and an adviser and stakeholder in several cutting-edge start-ups from around the world.

David is the recipient of the Hollywood Producers’ first ever Global Visionary Disruptor Award for his work with the Project Moon Hut Foundation and of New York University’s Excellence in Teaching Award during his 12 years as professor. He was named by Meetings Magazine as one of its 26 Hottest Speakers and has received awards and accolades for his business, organizational, and entrepreneurial achievements.

Todd Uterstaedt is Co-Founder and CEO of Baker & Daboll, LLC a global executive coaching firm that is also home to big brands like “From Founder To CEO” and “Daughters In Charge.”

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As an in-demand CEO Coach, entrepreneur, and speaker, Todd is described as “Invaluable,” “Top-notch,” “The best,” and possessing “A great ability to connect, touch, move, and inspire you.” His popular podcast, “From Founder To CEO,” is heard in 100 countries where he has interviewed well-known guests like Mike McDerment of Freshbooks, Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, Kip Tindell of The Container Store, Eric Yuan of Zoom, Brian Smith of UGG Boots, Doug Rauch of Trader Joe's & Daily Table, and Brad Feld of the Foundry Group.

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Todd has been profiled, interviewed, and quoted in many media outlets such as PBS Television, Wall Street Journal Radio, The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Inc. Magazine, CNNMoney.com, American City Business Journals and many publications in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the company is headquartered.

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As an expert in entrepreneurial leadership, he earned his BA in Communication Arts from Hofstra University in New York and his MS in Organizational Leadership from Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati. He speaks on the topics of entrepreneurial leadership, executive influence, and ethical leadership.

Lee Kiper is the General Manager for Sprint’s BISO unit in Louisville, KY. His team of 160+ sales professionals manages 100k Small to Medium size businesses; generating $500 Million in revenue annually across the US. His team has been the highest performing BISO unit for 15 years. What’s his secret to success? Kindness.

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Lee manages the daily operations of Sprint's Business Inside Sales group which he grew from 38 to 160 + employees. His team manages 100k small to medium size businesses, totaling $500 Million in revenue annually across the US. He also created the first bilingual sales teams in the company growing that group to 30 employees. Lee believes in inspiring people both at work and through his service as a Youth Teacher Leader at Youthbuild.

Lee holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, Master of Science in Management and Bachelors of Science in Management from Indiana Wesleyan University.