For over 30 years, Brett Leonard has been an award-winning film maker and technologist at the forefront of the digital media revolution. He is widely recognized as a top thought-leader in Virtual Reality and A.I.. since introducing the concept and term of VR to popular culture as the Director/Writer of the seminal hit cult-classic film “Lawnmower Man” starring Pierce Brosnan, which is also one of the most commercially successful independent films of all time, grossing over $200MM globally in all markets on a $5MM budget. Brett was one of the first to pioneer modern stereoscopic techniques and photo-realistic CGI in his hit IMAX 3D film “T-Rex” (100MM on IMAX screens alone), and introduced American audiences to Russell Crowe in his film “Virtuosity” (which also starred Denzel Washington) along with many other talents both in front of and behind the camera.  

Brett’s work as a visionary Director/Producer/Futurist has always pushed the edge of innovation in the entertainment industry, and continues to do so with a project slate dedicated to defining a new process of content production for the emerging era of Generative A.I. and the Immersive Metaverse.

Brett directed “Hollywood Rooftop”, the first film to be shot in both 360VR and traditional cinema, combining the mediums for the first time with Generative A.I., and the theatrical feature film “Triumph”, starring Academy Award Nominee Terrence Howard, star of the hit television series “Empire”, and RJ Mitte, star of the legendary series “Breaking Bad”. – “Triumph” won the Ruderman Family Foundation’s award for authentic portrayal of disability in a motion picture, and was released broadly in theaters. Brett has several new feature projects slated for production in 2025.

Brett recently co-founded a company called UbiquityVX (UVX Health) with business pioneer David Kerzner and world-renown clinical VR researcher Dr. Albert ‘Skip’ Rizzo, with a mission to provide groundbreaking Virtual Therapies on an assessable easy-to-use web-based platform that can be described as the “Netflix  of Virtual Healthcare”.

Brett’s core philosophy, born out in all of his work is: “To empower people to create and experience transformative story, character, and emotion in any medium, no matter what the technology being used to enable it.”

Grand Rising is in LA based band and platform committed to inspiring and encouraging humanity to live in a state of love, light and peace.

Led by Steven Harms and Scott Clark, the Grand Rising movement is about living your legacy, every day, with intention, making a positive impact on our community, with sovereignty, love and forgiveness in our hearts. The music features vocal harmonies, energetic pop hooks, and soaring guitars. Their song writing and sonic range is influenced by The Beatles, U2, Supertramp, Led Zeppelin, The Killers, Muse, and many more diverse influences through Rock, Soul, Blues, and Motown. Grand Rising represents a value system, a worldview, and a burning desire to make the world a better place.

Steven Harms

Steven’s mission is to invigorate, inform, inspire and educate the world about the immense power of the voice so they thrive spiritually, professionally, personally, and physically.

Steven was classically trained as a professional opera singer and has been performing nationally and internationally for two decades. He has shared stages with well-known greats such as Placido Domingo and Andrea Bocelli.   While spending the last two decades singing, speaking, and teaching, he has developed expert-level breathing techniques that enhance personal health and allow anyone to train their bodies to live healthier with the advantage of defying age and having longevity of life.  

Steven has appeared in 50 productions with the Los Angeles Opera and starred in dozens of lead and supporting roles. Steven is a frequently sought-after singer for independent projects, film, and television. He has also worked within the film industry with IMDB credits that include “Star Wars”, “The Hangover”, “Despicable Me”, and Disney’s “Frozen”.  As his global impact continues to expand, Steven is proud to serve today as a world-class speaker, trainer, and coach to provide understanding to the ever-popular and growing phenomena of how to easily optimize your voice, increase your influence and impact to command boardrooms, stages and everyday conversations while leading a healthy lifestyle.

Scott Clark

Scott Clark is the co-founder of Club Joyful, a family club and cafe in Venice, CA. He is also co-founder of the bands Grand Rising, and The Keep Going.

After growing up in NY and attending Colgate University, Scott moved to San Francisco to join the burgeoning dot com scene, holding sales positions at HotJobs.com and Yahoo. He cashed out and co-founded a golf production studio called Lostball, pursuing his passion for golf, music and the creative arts.

Through that venture, Scott met his wife, moved to LA and fell back into digital media, soon joining a startup called Innovid for a 7 yr career culminating as the North American VP of Sales. Then head of brand partnerships fo Stream Elements, Covid, stay-at-home Dadding, and co-founded a crypto startup called Immuse.xyz, the demise of which led to deep soul searching, a spiritual awakening, and a life reinvented – manifested into what is now Club Joyful and Grand Rising. Scott lives in Mar Vista, CA with his wife Erika, daughter Sonoma Joy, and pup Iggy.