Pat Wowk is an accomplished marketing professional with over 20 year experience with Fortune 100 consumer packaged goods companies and Fortune 500 business industries, including The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo and Graphic Packaging International.  She is in search of new opportunities and has shared her experience on LinkedIn recently, receiving close to 1,000 responses from women regarding the state of the market for women over the age of 50.

Edwin Harkness Spina is an award-winning author, speaker and mystic. He is the author of Mystic Warrior, Mystic Secrets Revealed and Enlightened Relationships. He specializes in connecting people to their Highest Self, leading to greater intuition, clarity and joy.

Edwin developed a holistic healing methodology – his ‘Energy Center Clearing’ and ‘Total Love Immersion’ – to align, balance and center energies for individuals moving through these tumultuous times.

Before becoming a master healer, Ed went through an extreme metamorphosis. After graduating with a BSE degree in math and computer science from Tufts University, Ed began writing systems software for a computer manufacturer. He went on to receive an MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in finance and marketing. After graduating, he worked with various venture capital firms, and started several technology-based companies in the sports and music industries.

Stressed out from his entrepreneurial ventures, Ed rented a video from Blockbuster that promised to help him relax and, curiously, help him recall his past lives. To Ed’s surprise, the video changed his life, as he was able to recall a past life in substantial detail. Thus began his 20+ year study of mysticism, metaphysics, energy healing and all things spiritual.

The pure intent of Ed’s desire to understand how the universe truly works drew the attention of his first mentor. Through this relationship, Ed uncovered gifts his scientific mind would not have thought possible. After a few months, his primary means of communication with his mentor was telepathic.

Ed continued his studies with long term mystics and cutting-edge energy healers, when he met his second mentor, a Near Death Experiencer who worked with Ed to raise his energy to new levels. After years of study and preparation, Ed combined his love of mysticism with his love of entrepreneurship and wrote his first book, Mystic Warrior, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award for Visionary Fiction and a Nautilus Silver Book Award for Fiction.

Ed has since written Mystic Secrets Revealed, contributed to the bestseller 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life and created CDs and audiobooks entitled: Total Love Immersion, Escaping the Matrix, Enlightened Relationships and Travel to Enlightenment.

Living in Los Angeles, Ed lectures around the world and offers Energy Clearings in person and remotely. His company, Higher Dimension Publishing, publishes books, CDs and videos that entertain, enlighten and educate.

Dr. Namie is a social psychologist and widely regarded as North America’s foremost authority on Workplace Bullying. In 2007, 2010 and 2014, Dr. Namie wrote, and Zogby Analytics conducted, the most frequently cited, largest-ever, scientific U.S. survey of Workplace Bullying. Along with his wife, Ruth, they wrote the popular books, The Bully-Free Workplace (Wiley, 2011) and The Bully At Work 2nd ed. (Sourcebooks, 2009). He has 21 years university teaching experience in management and psychology, including the University of Southern California. He was a corporate manager for two regional hospital systems. He won national and college campus teaching awards. He now directs the only U.S. research and education organization with a focus on bullying at work, the Workplace Bullying Institute. The media regard Dr. Namie, after 1,200+ interviews, as the go-to expert. He leads advocates to enact the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill in US states. He serves as expert witness in bullying-related legal cases. Work Doctor®, the consulting firm, created the Workplace Bullying specialization.

Ingar Grev is the managing director of the Washington D.C. area office of The Growth Coach. A technology, leadership and strategy expert, Grev helps businesses run better through business, executive and sales coaching, strategic consulting, and interim executive services. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and holds an M.S. and MBA from the University of Maryland.

Born in the UK and raised in New Zealand, Carlton has led an interesting, eclectic, adventurous, and purposeful life—a road less traveled but with good purpose intended.

Carlton is a veterinarian, biotech entrepreneur, vaccine innovator, hobby archaeologist, and private researcher, as well as the author of Discovering Ritual Meditation. His lifetime fascination with pyramid archaeology and cultures, ancient priesthood ritual knowledge, lost civilizations, and humankind’s history through the Holocene, is augmented by his researches into the science of altered states of consciousness. More recently, his interests have expanded to understanding the story lurking behind global climate change. Carlton lives in Guatemala, his spiritual home, overlooking the beautiful Lake Atitlan and its cluster of inspiring volcanoes, right in the heartland of the ancient Maya.

Carlton earned an MBA from the London Business School (1997), and was the founding CEO of Immune Targeting Systems Ltd (2003-12), which was recently (2015) sold to Vaxin Inc. During his CEO tenure, Carlton raised GBP£23 million of investment funding, developed a biotechnology company and technology de novo, and led a team that successfully validated novel vaccine solutions for mutating viruses, thus solving a multi-decade industry and technology bottleneck (vaccines promoting cellular immunity). In 2012 he stepped down as CEO to pursue his career as an author.

Keynote speaker and author, Lisa Ryan is a nationally recognized gratitude expert and founder of Grategy®.  She is a dynamic presenter who teaches corporations, associations, and non-profits the immense power of gratitude in the workplace, and helps her clients translate soft skills into hard profits.  She focuses on employee productivity, customer retention and growth, and how these affect the bottom line.

Ms. Ryan is a featured expert in two films, “The Keeper of the Keys” with Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and “The Gratitude Experiment” with several experts from the smash hit book and movie The Secret.  She is the author of five books including: The Upside of Down Times: Discovering the Power of Gratitude, From Afraid to Speak to Paid to Speak, and With Excellence. Her audiences love her passion and humor, and the fact that they leave with specific ideas that they can apply immediately.

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Lisa is a Professional member of the National Speakers Association and Toastmasters International. She holds an undergraduate degree and MBA from Cleveland State University. She has been blissfully married to Scott since 1996.

Filling the role of social justice co-ordinator for One Billion Rising Atlanta, Lisa is committed to helping to end violence and inequities that disproportionately effect women and girls and people of color.  She has helped coordinate the Atlanta version of several international events and particularly focuses on the use of the Arts for Social Change.  As co-founder and co-director of Posts for Peace and Justice she plans collaborative workshops that bring diverse communities together to engage in dialogue around issues that matter.  Expression of their shared vision and voices is then manifested in art that is displayed for public viewing to raise awareness and stimulate conversations leading to peace and understanding.

The intersectional organization works to engage men and boys to create new social norms, free from sexism, male privilege and gender violence, across age, gender, and difference. Adele incorporates unconventional methods to raise awareness, build empathy, and inspire action, from spoken word, theater, and public art to workshops, including a SAFE HOUSE Fraternity Training. She mounts billboards and transit sign PSAs and the theater production BECOMING hu-MAN: Words and Images to Help End Rape Culture, periodically, as community call to action.