Suzanne Sterling is a musician, yogi, ritualist and activist who has been performing and teaching transformational workshops for over 25 years. She is founder of Voice of Change, inspiring others to find their unique voice as a tool for conscious evolution. Suzanne has been featured at hundreds of international festivals and conference centers including Yoga Journal, Omega, Esalen, Wanderlust, Bhaktifest, World Festival of Sacred Music and many more. 

Since 2007 she has been training leaders in activism and social justice through her co-founded organization Off The Mat, Into the World. As director of OTM’s Seva Challenge Humanitarian Tours, she has spent time in the US, India, Cambodia, Haiti, Ecuador and Africa working in community resilience and raising awareness about critical global issues. 

For nearly 30 years Suzanne has worked with the International Reclaiming Community, co-creating public ritual for healing and social justice.  She offers yearlong trainings in Sacred Leadership, is part of the nationwide faculty for YogaWorks Teacher Trainings and is excitedly training facilitators in her signature Voice of Change work.  She has released 5 solo albums and numerous DVD soundtracks.

www.suzannesterling.com

Helping young leaders, employees and entrepreneurs show up authentically to the spaces they learn and work.

As a TEDx speaker, diversity and inclusion advocate, and branding strategist, Olivia Omega is the co-founder at Wallace Marketing Group, and the author of Beautifully Branded: The Girl’s Guide to Understanding the Anatomy of Brand You. Olivia is also the Founder Track Chair for Denver Startup Week, helping the world’s largest free entrepreneurial event strengthen its diversity, equity, and inclusion muscle.

With 20 years of corporate branding, advertising, and digital marketing experience, Olivia has studied the importance of authenticity for both brands and individuals, and what it means to show up in a genuine way.

Half of her career was spent in corporate at an advertising agency and the other 10 years as an entrepreneur and small business owner. Personal brand identity and authentic expression of ones’ unique individuality played a large role in both career paths.

Olivia has influenced the global brands of Frito Lay, Pepsi, and Starbucks among others. She is a mom, wife, disco ball enthusiast, and has been featured in USA Today, Entrepreneur, Business Week, People, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Olivia graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business and currently lives outside of Denver, CO.

https://oliviaomega.com/

Sianna Sherman (she/her) is an international yoga teacher, training tens of thousands of students and teachers, for nearly three decades. As the visionary of the Rasa Yoga, Mythic Yoga Flow®, and RITUAL, Sianna shares her voice in the way of community and collaboration.

She is a gifted storyteller and awakens the imagination through the language of the soul. Dedicated to embodied wisdom, social justice activism, anti-racism, unpacking her own white privilege, shadow work, mantra, ritual, and Tantric yoga philosophy, Sianna brings a genuine presence to every offering with humility, devotion, and deep care for the collective. In addition, she has extensive training in bodywork, functional anatomy, wildcrafting, and earth-based wisdom.

She leads Rasa Yoga teacher trainings, alchemical arts for sacred sisterhood, pilgrimages to sacred sites, and is the co-host of the Fearless Heart Activation series with her beloved,Masood Ali Khan, to inspire courageous conversations and brave space for real transformation in these times.

When she is not teaching or dreaming up community activations, Sianna will most likely be somewhere outside in nature or cuddling up with her family.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/siannasherman

Website: http://www.siannasherman.com/

Melanie has been an activist since she was 8 years old walking door-to-door campaigning for candidates in her neighborhood. Her senior year in high school, she read Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique and felt called to feminism and the pursuit of gender equity.

She began her career as a junior fundraiser on a presidential campaign on the east coast and has since considered fundraising to be her life’s vocation. She has run large and small development offices for nonprofits of all sizes including the Denver Art Museum and the School of Public Health and two divisions of the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado.

In 2007, Melanie and her spouse were the sole cast members on a 14-episode series on The Travel Channel called 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. She is an entrepreneur and has owned several businesses, including the overtly feminist workspace, Women in Kind, which she co-founded in 2016 with her dear friend and co-conspirator, Dr. Ginna Santy. She is a wife and the mother of two daughters.

https://philanthropyexpert.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninkind/

Sarah Weise is the CEO of award-winning marketing research agency Bixa and thebestselling author of InstaBrain: The New Rules for Marketing to Generation Z. For 15years, Sarah has been a guide to hundreds of leading brands including Google, IBM, Capital One, Mikimoto, PBS, and Real Warriors, to name a few. Sarah helps brandsachieve a laser-focus on their customers and build experiences that are downrightaddictive. She lectures at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business onmarketing strategy for the next generation, and speaks at conferences and corporateevents worldwide.

https://bixaresearch.com/

https://www.sarahweise.com/

Originally from Guatemala, Lisa moved to San Francisco and found her passion in the people space. After working in the family business and shifting to the startup ecosystem she realized early on that people are an organization’s biggest asset. She joined Beaconforce as their first employee to be a part of their mission to create work environments that allow people to be their best selves. Her love for community and culture led her to be a co-founder of The Culture Collective, a global community of culture champions with 30 chapters around the world. Her personal purpose is to assist people in their discovery of their full potential.

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaparedesc/

https://www.culturecollective.co/

Dr. Yarbrough is founder of The Yarbrough Group, a consulting organization in Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, DC, USA, that provides a wide range of global services to Tend the Flame of Sustainable Change by Developing the Human Side of Organizations.   She specializes in diversity and inclusion, leadership, communication, conflict management, and managing change for individuals, groups, and organizations. During the past 40 years, she has assisted hundreds of organizations and touched thousands of people in business, education, government and human services.

For a period of time she lived in Switzerland and consulted in Central and Eastern Europe and North Africa assisting American multi-nationals with acquisitions in the midst of cultural turmoil. She has visited 94 countries and worked in 30 including the U.K., Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Finland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, and Singapore. People from six continents have been a part of her work.

Dr. Yarbrough has a special interest in supporting women in developing their unique qualities as leaders.  She speaks at international women’s conferences such as WIN (Women Internationally Networking) that attracts women from 90 nations. She has led workshops to develop young women leaders in China at SIAS University sponsored by the World Academy for the Future of Women and remains on the WAFW faculty. In their global diversity work, she and her associates have focused on women’s leadership, organizing women’s networks in ten countries. Yearly, she teaches Leading with Power and Authenticity for mid-level women managers and Leading Genius Teams for women executives in the cable telecommunications industry.   One of the current signature courses of The Yarbrough Group is ENCORE: Illuminate Your Mission in Life’s Third Chapter for women over 50.  

Elaine has her Ph.D. in Communication and Human Relations from the University of Kansas and is certified in individual, small group development and social change by Associated Consultants International.  She is a Master in Polarity Thinking and has been dean of the Mastery Program. For seven years she taught in the Department of Communication, University of Colorado, during which time she received all university teaching awards given by faculty and students.

Dr. Yarbrough has published three books and numerous articles in the areas of conflict management and consulting. Those include Constructive Conflict; Artful Mediation: Constructive Conflict at Work (with Dr. William Wilmot); and Training Strategies from Start to Finish (with Dr. Paul Friedman). Her book Leading Genius Teams will be published in 2020.

Contact [email protected], www.yarbgroup.com

Julie Fasone Holder is the former Senior Vice President of Dow Chemical and currententrepreneur/founder of JFH Insights, Management Advising, known for her passion in helpingwomen succeed in work and life.

Ms. Fasone Holder’s corporate career began in sales and ended in the C-Suite of a Fortune 50company. She ran multi-billion dollar business portfolios for Dow and at the end of her career ranMarketing and Sales, Reputation, Public and Government Affairs and HR for the company. As thefirst or only woman in almost every role she held, she was known for her passion to help thecompany and women build a more diverse and inclusive workforce. She was instrumental in thelaunch of the company’s women’s networks in the US, Middle East, India, and China and for beinga forceful advocate and sponsor for women in the company.

Since leaving Dow, Ms. Fasone Holder started JFH Insights, management advising, primarilyfocused on training and coaching executive women and men. She developed and teachesexecutive education courses for the Eli Broad College of Management at Michigan StateUniversity. Her courses, Executive Leadership for Women; Strategies to Enhance Success and Men As Change Agents, help women be more successful in their careers and help seniorleadership build a more inclusive corporate culture.

She regularly speaks on topics such as Negotiate Your Way to Leadership, The Female Vision andStrategic Leadership, How Remarkable Women Lead and Build Teams, The Art of Tactful SelfPromotion, etc. See jfhinsights.com for additional topics and information.

She currently serves on the boards of Eastman Chemical Co., The WR Grace Co., and is a trusteeat The McLaren N MI Regional Hospital. She is also a founding member of Paradigm for Parity. She was past president of the Eli Broad College of Business Alumni Advisory Board, served on theGoverning Board of the Committee of 200, an invitation only group of women executives andentrepreneurs. She is an invited member to the Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Summit and toWomen Corporate Directors.

http://jfhinsights.com/

Danielle Shoots is the Founder and CEO of the Daily Boss Up, a digital startup that provides coaching, mentoring and consulting for leaders at every stage of their professional development.  A proud Colorado native, Danielle is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Denver, where she earned a degree in Business Administration. Danielle is also the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for The Colorado Trust, a private health equity foundation supporting Colorado communities. 

At the age of 26, Danielle embarked on her executive leadership path ascending to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. After the state, Danielle served as the Vice President of Finance and Business Operations for the West Division of Comcast, managing a billion-dollar capital portfolio and a team of sixty employees located in seven states.

Danielle’s passion for people and leadership,  distinguished business acumen and tenacious work ethic have garnered her numerous accolades, including inclusion on the prestigious 2019 list of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business from the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce, The 2020 Emerging Leader in Philanthropy from ABFE,  The 2018 Woman of the Year Award for her work with youth in the community, and a recipient of the 2017 Denver Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award. 

Often the youngest executives in the boardroom, Danielle possesses a unique insight on leadership dynamics, millennial engagement and handling the nuances of a rapidly evolving workforce. From entrepreneurial Tech CEO's to VP's of Fortune 500 companies; people from diverse industries seek out Danielle to network and think-tank ways to improve their organization. Danielle's distinct industry perspective has made her a highly regarded Keynote speaker. During her remarkable career, she has been featured at TedxMileHigh, Women of Telecommunications Tech It Out Talk, the Black Women Lead Summit and The Women of Denver Summit – to name just a few.

As a mother and community advocate Danielle is passionately involved giving back to the community. She has been long-time mentor with the Challenge Foundation. She is also the President of the Board for Mile High Ministries, and an Executive Board Member for the Women’s Foundation of Colorado.

Website: dshoots.com

Instagram: @shootsd

Facebook: @dshootsbossup

Jennifer Hansen is the CEO of Enlightened Solutions Treatment Center and the President of the Hansen Foundation which owns and operates Serenity Estates, Serenity Houses, Enlightened Farm and Enlightened Café. She also founded the Hansen Houses and the New Jersey Alliance of Recovery Residences. During the past 20 years, she has built a thriving recovery community which encompasses body, mind and spirit. Jennifer is selfless with her time when it comes to mentoring those who struggle with addiction. She is also a Certified Yoga Teacher, mother of three and wife. Jennifer was awarded the Sea Award for Advocacy in 2018 by the Mental Health Association, the Brian H. Early Community Leadership Award by the Caron Foundation and received the 2017 South Jerseyan of the Year Award, Not-for-profit sector by the Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs at Rutgers University-Camden. " In 2005 Jennifer was awarded Woman of Distinction by the American Association of University Women, Atlantic County, for excellence and leadership in furthering gender equity.

https://www.enlightenedsolutions.com/

Lara is a 35-year meditator, award-winning short story writer and teacher, devotes her life to exploring the intersection of personal narrative and mindful well-being. After more than a decade leading master fiction workshops and serving on the board at Grub Street in Boston, she took a great Pause to battle stage III breast cancer for 18 months. This meaningful journey prompted Lara to establish Be Well Be Here, a 501c3 non-profit mindful wellness educational collaborative in Concord, MA that offers trauma-informed wellness practices, inclusive community outreach and creative well-being retreats. Lara holds a master's degree in English and American literature and a graduate certificate in Mindfulness Studies, as well as yoga RYT-200 and Reiki Level II designations. She has been a featured presenter at annual conferences such as Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), the Muse and the Marketplace, and the Herbert Benson Mind Body Medicine program co-sponsored by MGH and Harvard Medical School. Currently, Lara serves on the board of the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, where she organizes the Authors Series and Mindfulness Programming. In January 2019, she was appointed curator of the Concord Festival of Authors. Read Lara’s essay in Cognoscenti and learn more at BeWellBeHere.org

Larissa Maloney is a former professional beach volleyball player and also an actress, podcast host, coach and mentor. She is the founder of an online fitness and wellness company for kids, Active Kids 2.0! Active Kids 2.0 specializes in kids classes (including boxing, karate, gymnastics, yoga, cheer, cardio, strength training, dance, toddler time and many more!) She is a kids fitness equality advocate as well as a mental health and human rights advocate. 

Larissa was born in Buffalo, NY and grew up in Ormond Beach, FL where she resides now with her husband and two children. 

www.ActiveKids2.com

www.instagram.com/larissa.maloney

www.instagram.com/Activekids2.0

Listen to In the World of Female Sports on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-world-of-female-sports/id1450766590

Joni is the Founder and CEO of The Mindset Group, International Corporate Trainer, and Leadership & Transformational Coach. With over 10 years of experience managing enterprise-wide changes at Deloitte Consulting and Booz Allen Hamilton, Joni’sexpertise is helping leaders, teams, and organizations navigate change and fulfill on their missions. She travels the world coaching commercial, government, and non- profit executives on how to change workforce behavior in their organizations and operate at peak performance. Joni is also an advocate and passionate about mentoring women in leadership skills and living lives they love through personal growth.

Joni has a Master’s degree in Organizational Management and Communications, andhas been featured on CBS, Cheddar News, as well as podcasts and radio shows around the world. She believes transformed individuals, teams, and organizations operating at their highest potential is critical to teaching the next generation, through example, how to create positive impact.

www.themindsetgroup.com

Lindsay focuses on developing the next generation of leadership, helping organizations navigate the changing virtual workspace, bringing in the perspective of women and the experience of generations X and Y.  She leads training in interpersonal, group, and organizational conflict resolution techniques; facilitates team development, and strategic planning; and coaches individuals so they can reach their full potential.

The majority of her work has been articulating the underlying motivation for peoples’ political involvement. Previously, she worked as the Senior Program Assistant for Governance at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) based in Washington, DC. Lindsay also served as the Development Director for the Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict at George Mason University and a Researcher for the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Global Women’s Leadership Initiative (GWLI). Her background is in political campaigns and the impacts of policy and she uses this expertise to help people navigate the systems in which they operate.

www.yarbgroup.com

Angela Grace is a Business Consultant; Yoga, Fitness, and Health Coach; and Sacred Soul Guide and Professional Trainer.

Angela brings both passion and enthusiasm to everything she does.

She has taught yoga and high-intensity pilates and led over fifteen teacher training programs, as well as her Sacred Soul School energy practitioner program.  She has worked as an engineering project manager for large corporations, and as a health and wellness business consultant for small- to mid-size businesses.

Not only does she catalyze transformation for her clients, she helps improve quality and develop systems within organizations, and build culture and community creatively and effectively.

https://www.angelagrace.life

Eve is helping facilitate the live authentic relating collaboration sessions in our summit.

Eve does life/trauma coaching and you can find her at http://beloved-healing.com/

Jennifer has been an instructor of the GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Systems since 1996 while dancing full time as a Principal dancer for the Martha Graham Dance Company(18 years).  Her teacher training was completed and certified by the inventor of the system,  Juliu Horvath in 1996 at White Cloud NYC.  She is a  GYROKINESIS® master trainer, a GYROTONIC® master apprentice and a GYROTONIC® & GYROKINESIS® pretrainer. She is certified in  GYROKINESIS® Essentials 1, GYROTONIC® Level 2 Program 1 and 2, GYROTONIC® Application for Dancers Format 1 and 2, in all of the specialized equipment; the GYROTONER®, Leg-Extension Unit, Jumping Stretching Board, the Archway, and the Ladder.  She is certified in all therapeutic applications for shoulder girdle, pelvic girdle,  scoliosis, and the GYROTONIC® Application for Dancers Course 1 and Course 2,   GYROKINESIS® , GYROTONIC® Pre-Post Natal Application, Osteoporosis, Wingmaster, Psoas Principles, Rejuvenation for Hands and Feet in both GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®, Lotus Blossom 1, Lotus Blossom2  and Juliu’s Rejuvenation Course in the summers of 2017 and 2018. She prides herself on having a clientele that has been with her for the longevity of her teaching and loves how GYROTONIC® BODHI has grown and flourished with a beautiful community of healers, teachers, practitioners, and friends.

https://www.gyrotonicbodhi.com/

Online and In-Person Classes and Privates Available

Ahva Lenay is a world bridger, a ceremonial artist, dancer, and modern day medicine woman. She is Co-founder and Temple Keeper for Rhythm Sanctuary, a weekly, community ecstatic dance ritual that brings more than 150 community members together week to week in Denver, Co.

She is a licensed massage therapist, and soul journey guide, with extensive studies, and lineage in shamanism. She is a certified Bio-Energetic practitioner who studied, trained and assisted with Anodea Judith, world renowned author, visionary, lecturer and psychotherapist. Through her knowledge of these modalities Ahva works with clients in helping to identify the coping strategies (negative programming) developed through trauma during the psychological developmental stages of the chakras and applies this to reclaim psychological and somatic awareness and wholeness. Ahva is a midwife, and catalyst for bringing community together to co-create with spirit a new world aura which honors, and embraces the connectivity of all life, and relationship to the divine.

She is well respected, and intensely loved for her devotion to the arts, her joyous spirit, and honoring Mother Earth and her inhabitants. Ahva works with clients one on one, and is regularly invited to incite ecstasy through movement in workshops, conferences, and intimate gatherings for all who are called to embrace their divinity and make a difference in the world.

Heather is passionate about reunification with our natural world and its wild and organic ways, she firmly believes true health and healing can be found when we reconnect and return to harmony with nature. Heather’s mission is to inspire, guide and nurture her students to explore and connect with the beauty of nature within and around us through the practice of yoga and qigong. Heather’s knowledge of anatomy and alignment as well as the subtle energy body and the movements of prana/qi, provide a safe, structured environment where one can dive deeper into their practice and their own personal journey to self-healing. Heather enjoys creatively weaving together challenging, holistic, alignment focused practices while humbly striving to hold a safe, supportive environment where her students may be empowered to cultivate self-awareness, return to harmony with the natural flow of life and discover the countless healing benefits of yoga and qigong for themselves.

Heather discovered yoga in her college years, finding it a great antidote to daily stress, as well as the anxiety and depression she had been living with for years. In 2009, when her life seemed to be unraveling at the seams, Heather dove into a devoted daily practice which began to change her life dramatically. She found relief from the chronic pain caused by her scoliosis and found improvement in many other health related issues. It was through the practice of yoga that Heather took refuge as her life turned upside down. “Yoga helped me find myself, love myself and become my authentic self, I can't imagine my life without it now.” Heather is inspired to continue to step onto her mat day in and day out to keep her body and mind healthy and happy and to continue to grow and evolve spiritually. “Yoga has taught me how to navigate the ups and downs of life, how to live consciously rather than reactively and how to listen to my body and truly care for myself.”

Heather completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training in Boulder Colorado at the Yoga Pod in 2012 and went on to study at the Colorado School of Yoga, completing her 300 hour training in 2016. In 2017, Heather trained with Kate Mulheron, Kelly Kessen and Trudy Welty of Earth Ways Yoga. Heather has also studied Qigong and Energy-Body Healing with Damaris Jarboux at The Center Place in Boulder, Colorado. Heather teaches Qigong meditation, practices energy-body work and often infuses her knowledge of the energy body into her Vinyasa, Yin and Gentle yoga classes. Heather’s vision is for all of humanity to live consciously from heart center, the place where heaven and earth meet within the human heart, helping to create a community rich in health, support, connection and love.

@wild_heathermac on instagram

https://www.facebook.com/heather.macdonald.14418