The Telling of Story (#storytellerjewels)

Once upon a time… an opening to a sentence that immediately conjures up the beginning of any number fairy tales. A line I’ve used on my children when they were young a million times. An easy place to start even if you are making up a story on the fly. Bedtime Storytellers know that a fairy tale has to have an intro, a turning point, a difficult stage and the happily ever after of course. But how does that translate into business storytelling for the 21st century?

Bill Caskey is a sales development Leader, an experimenter who has been improving B2b Sales teams and executives since 1990. His philosophies and strategies have fueled explosive growth in sales and profits for his clients and is passionate about sharing his ideas about selling business life money and meaning, but his work expands beyond b2b and individual training and coaching. He is the author of same game new rules, rewire the sales mind and the sales playbook, to name a few. He also co-hosts two podcasts, the advanced selling podcast, a weekly podcast counseling salesforce's and leaders who seek to improve their business and the Bill Caskey podcast, a deeper dive into achievement. He believes the most important approach to any endeavor is improving one's mindset. So naturally he enjoys business books, human development, psychology, topics as well as health and fitness books. Bill goes on to say that we owe it to ourselves to make it a lifelong habit of learning how to master our lives. Whether we're leaders of teams or members of those sales teams our audience relies upon us to bring our a-game to the field every day. It's incumbent upon us to spend a few hours a week in personal growth so we can be at our best when the time demands. Bill's success and passions are routed by his family and community service. He spends time with his wife, Jane and their two daughters, Kelly and Kara who work in Indianapolis and Denver. You can find Bill at https://billcaskey.com that’s C A S K E Y or on LinkedIn.

Andy Rycroft for many years has been a designer and creative director working in the UK, Italy in Australia, fine tuning his craft towards the business value of creative services, managing designers and outcomes and then in 2000, marking management for corporate after more than 20 years of bringing design value to business. And he is now flipped his attention to bring business thinking too. Creative artists choosing to design coaching programmes for artists and creatives who want to create income and value from their talent and experience.

Jeremy Pollard started selling at the we age of 16. He wanted a new camera. So he got a weekend job at a local camera store, learned about best cameras, made some great friends and got some staff discount as well. And then he was head hunted into revenue responsibility roles across a range of industries industrial equipment, technology, including being employee number 5 at Microsoft Australia when it was just a challenger brand. Jeremy spent a decade at IBM learning large account complex sales, which taught him the importance of having an in depth knowledge, but that the secret to customer focus imparted to him by the older, wiser salespeople meant listening more than selling. Today, Jeremy helps organisations large and small around Asia Pacific win more work with the Shipley Associates Global Consulting Practice based on customer focus.

Since 2009, Steve Baty has been the co-founder and director at Melds Studios, as well as the co-founder and conference director at UX Australia is also the founder of UX Book Club, both globally and the Sydney chapter. Steve has presented at many conferences and events globally and locally, including being the keynote speaker Midwest UX 2016, Interaction South America 2017, as well as speaking in many cities around the world, including in Istanbul, Amsterdam, Helsinki, San Francisco, just to name a few. Steve is a good design ambassador. He's also an awards judge, a member of the Australian Democrats and, importantly, a father of four and husband.

Zahrina Robertson is a multi-award winning businesswoman who works with speakers, leaders and entrepreneurs with ideas, visual assets styling and develops very unique brand strategies with her marketing background. Zahrina’s impressive client list include Richard Branson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tim Ferriss and Simon Sinek, just to name a few. Zahrina is also an event photographer, Emirates Tourism, Australia, business Chicks and many international clients, and has also worked with the Professional Speakers Association of Australia for over 10 years. Zahrina has invited her clients to escape into her world of creativity and explore the possibilities of their online presence. With fun. She is the cheerleader for her clients, whose biggest challenge is recognising their own potential.

Jay Fantom is a persistent and passionate 25 year old entrepreneur, award winning filmmaker, speaker and writer who works incredibly hard at being the best authentic, honest, loving kind and excellent version of himself daily. Jay is the founder and host of the story Box. A top four podcast in 2021 j and the story box have been featured in Forbes magazine, Business Insider, Yahoo, New York Weekly, The Los Angeles Wire, NBC, Fox, CBS and Market watched among many others. Since the beginning of the story box in November of 2019, Jay has had the privilege of Unboxing stories of over 600 plus high profile world class leaders from every field. These include Tony Robbins, Matthew McConaughey, Grant Cardone, Robert Kiyosaki, Sugar Ray Leonard and many, many, many more.

Teresa Pollard is a purpose lead leader with an entrepreneurial focus and 20 years in sales, marketing and technology, leading executive engagements and diverse teams in New Zealand, Singapore and New York. Teresa is from Auckland, is of Maori descent and as a proud role model for young people across the country to follow a pathway that is both fulfilling and prosperous and encourages them to join the world of business and technology. Teresa leads the Strategic Partnerships Portfolio for Datacom, bringing together a community EWe and ecosystem partnerships that deliver impact and alignment to datacoms, Purpose and values. Datacom is New Zealand's largest technology services company, with over 6500 staff across New Zealand, Australia and Asia.

Australia's 2,019 keynote speaker of the year, Rowdy McLean has delivered over 1000 keynote presentations to over 700,000 people in 17 countries. A master storyteller, a genuine bloke and someone that people from all walks of life can relate to. Rowdy played professional sport, build a successful startup, turned around a failing company founded five companies and mentors and works with leaders from the world's top organizations. Rowdy has also climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, kayaked in Antarctica tracked gorillas in Rwanda run marathons and hiked the caco to track the combination of business and personal challenges. Makes his presentations interesting and unique. A best selling author and founder of the Leadership institute Australia. Rowdy is the go to speaker on how to shift mindsets, raise the bar, embrace, change and crack the code for extraordinary future success.

Samantha Sutherland is a diversity and inclusion expert trying to help create a world that works for working women. She is a published researcher and engaging facilitator and a passionate advocate. Samantha is also the host of the women at work podcast.

Wayne Moloney is an Australian business growth specialist with the global background for over four decades. In rolls from salesperson to managing director. He helped a diverse range of businesses in Australia, Asia and Europe achieved their revenue and profit goals. Since leaving his corporate career, Wayne has spent over 15 years helping B2B organizations tackle their business growth challenges through the application of sound sales and business strategies, developing salespeople and by applying Lean principles for sustainable sales success. Wayne was a co-founder of sales leader forums and a foundation member of Sales Masterminds APAC

Kate barker is a globally recognized chief HR leader future of work expert and an awarded authority in talent management, leadership development and people and technology advancements. Kate's career spans three decades. Working with clients such as Microsoft, Virgin Deloitte and Google, just to name a few. Kate has been a regular feature on future of work, a keynote speaker and publishes on topics on digital technology disruption, innovative talent strategies, inclusive cultures, and workforce transformations at HR summits and executive roundtable globally. Kate was invited to attend Harvard's Women's in Leadership program and recently commenced her PhD in Women and leadership at UCL Kate is both a dynamic engaging speaker and insightful expert advisor and a proud champion for diversity and inclusion and if that wasn't enough Kate is a seven time marathoner who loves to cook, dance and sing despite herself confessed complete lack of talent at all three.

Ravi Ravindran is a four-time startup founder, and a former entrepreneur in residence at the University of Toronto. And the social capitalist. Currently, he's the CEO and co-founder of BLUMEx, an experiential media startup. BLUMEx automates the workflows of podcasters, streamers, and creators. Their mission is to capture the stories of innovators advancing their ideas through startups, research, or entrepreneurship.

Brian Schoenborn has lived with PTSD for over 20 years and has tried nearly everything to overcome his trauma. Brian deeply understands the four trauma responses fight, flight, freeze, fawn and has used his knowledge to navigate his experiences after discharge from the United States Marine Corps. under other than honorable conditions, he was on his own without mental healthcare from the VA. Despite this, Brian worked for over a dozen years in the corporate world. He has taught networking and public speaking skills at multiple universities and consulted with tech startups, a major international sports event and major award-winning producers. After 15 years of trying and failing to appeal his military discharge, he was vindicated with an honorable discharge. Brian received his BSBA from Central Michigan University in 2004 and his MBA from the McCullum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University in 2011. After living in seven states in China and traveling to over 20 countries, he's found his home in Los Angeles, California. He is an author of multiple upcoming books on living with PTSD, as well as the screenwriter, producer and host as the founder of 8B Media.

Megan Davis a devotee of the magic of storytelling. She was first Spellbound by the art of storytelling when she was 8 performing in summer stock theatre since 2012 she has been creating narrative strategies for businesses, daring to create new futures and realities. She's a globetrotting speaker and workshop conductor spreading the gospel of storytelling from Melbourne to Lisbon and everywhere in between Megan secret weapon is empathy in business and life. She puts people first for innovators. Looking to change the world with an enchanting story prepared to conjure your strategic tales power.

Denise Withers launched her career as a whitewater filmmaker in the Ottawa River, spending every day paddling big water with the best kayakers in the world, telling their life or death stories. Denise has spent a decade writing, directing, and producing marketing and training videos in tech a decade, making a hundred plus documentaries and yet another, working as an innovation coach and consultant, a student of engagement and design thinking, taking deep dives into the psychology and science behind learning and decision-making, breaking down the key barriers to leading change, culture, capacity, and communication.

Brianna Blacet is a corporate storyteller who specializes in helping highly technical subject matter experts, craft compelling stories about using technology to solve human problems. Brianna started her career as a journalist and has been a newspaper reporter. I. Magazine writer and editor, author of three books and countless blogs. Brianna loves to deliver storytelling workshops and will happily gab about the topic with anyone who will listen or who cannot get away because they're in a moving vehicle. She admits this does not always make her the most popular party guest, but. Party guests, maybe not, but probably the perfect podcast guest for this particular one.

Sam Knowles is the founder and MD of Data Storytelling Consultancy Insight agents. He helps organizations make smarter use of data in how they communicate and in how they develop innovative products and services. He is a fellow of the Market Research Society, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Professional Speaking Association, an established and sought after keynote speaker, trainer, and podcaster.

John Skabardonis is responsible for technical marketing to the electronics and electrical industry in the America's region. He has worked for Covestro in the US for 30 years in roles ranging from r and d to marketing, marketing, communications, and technical marketing. John is fascinated by the rapid evolution of technology and is focused on materials and processes which enable this evolution. He's also intensely interested in social media as a means of helping make information easily accessible. John received a PhD in physical organic Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University. A design advocate and a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America, a distinguished Toastmaster and a Chairholder in the Color Marketing group.

Alison Rogers has been telling stories and interviewing people for more than 30 years. Her career so far has seen her work as a journalist, radio presenter, spin doctor, yes one of those, author, communications specialist and filmmaker. The one constant throughout her career is her fascination with people. In 2010 she walked away from the safety of a steady job to start her own business. Living Stories began in the spare room of her Adelaide home in 2010 with a mission to connect people through stories.

Rodney Marks is a comedian. His character is over explained, but not very well. He has over three and a half thousand live comedy performances under his belt, and a repertoire of over 350 characters. Rodney has been earning his living as a comic for 30 plus years and has performed in 11 countries.

Anne E Stewart is an acclaimed storyteller with an international Reputation a versatile performer and has the energy and voice to engage any audience. Her focus is on the shared stories of Australia honoring indigenous Celtic Asian and world stories An invited guest at storytelling festivals throughout Australia, the UK, Mexico and Colombia, Iran and East Timor. Anne has also been commissioned to write stories for various cultural institutions including the National Museum of Australia, the Art Gallery of Ballarat, the University of Ballarat, the Drum King Gallery Art Collection and the Melbourne City Council. She has researched, written and produced stories for ABC Radio and appeared on several television programs including the groundbreaking children's program Liftoff, and as a consummate SMC with an engaging style.

Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbeis a business storyteller and content developer at Ventures Africa, one of the continent's leading business media platforms. He is passionate about finance and technology and spotlights the people, trends, and events that reflect an evolving Africa.

Sandra Risser is a funny, sexy for her age, and irreverent. She believes in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and clean underwear. Audiences of all ages love her tales of growing up in the golden age of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Sandra enthrals audiences with stories about her misspent youth, young adult antics, and middle aged adventures. Sharing stories about her ex husband living with essential tremors and growing older. As she says, I'm not old, I'm used. She featured in A list clubs and headlines in clubs, casinos, and other venues across the United States. Sandra performed one woman shows at the Edinburgh, Scotland, Brighton, England, and Santa Cruz, California Fringe Festivals. She took second place in the World Series of Comedy in Atlanta and Sarasota, and won Funniest Comedian in the Valley competitions.  Sandra is featured for nationally touring comedians such as Rocky Laporte, Chris Catton and Mike E. Winfield. The San Francisco Chronicle named her as one of six Bay Area comedians to be sure to see.

Christia Madacsi Hoffman is a brand storyteller and consultant with expertise developing concepts and crafting messaging across media channels from print to web to video. She helps her clients tell the story of their business and brand through verbal identity development, full service copywriting, and done with you copy coaching that communicates their unique value and niche in the marketplace. As a creativity coach, Christia works with leaders, innovators, and founders who are ready to connect with their inner artist. As a lifelong creative professional, she draws on her experience as a brand writer, publications designer, published poet, and working actor to help her clients establish structures that support creative practices, so they can experience greater meaning, fulfillment, and prosperity in their business and life. Based in Austin, Texas, Chrystia maintains a regular poetry practice, and she is the author of two full length collections of poetry and everyday courage.

Angela Motegi is a Development Communication Specialist with over 15 years of experience working with various international and regional development organisations focusing on communication, research and strategies for social impact. She currently runs Purple Frames, a development communication consultancy firm based in Nairobi, Kenya and supporting organisations and communities across Africa. Angela is passionate about social and environmental justice. And she is most happy when helping developed conscious organizations, communities and individuals to achieve impact and visibility for their causes through storytelling and participatory communication approaches. Angela has been successful in integrating storytelling, media and development communication techniques for social impact, focusing on a wide range of development issues such as agriculture, health, waste management, just to mention a few, for behavior change, research, social mobilization and advocacy. In addition to a professional experience, Angela has a Master of Arts degree in Development Communication and Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication, Public Relations and Electronic Media. Angela has been learning to dance salsa for the better part of her adult life, even though she cannot dance beyond the intermediate level. In her next life, Angela hopes to be a cello player, even though at the moment she cannot play a musical instrument to save her life.

Adrian Hui brings a melting pot of experience from multiple industries and countries, from Canada to the EU, and in the Asia Pacific region. As a native English speaking business graduate and writer, as well as a fluent speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin, He builds bridges for communication between both Western and Eastern content narratives. Specializing in brand storytelling, he utilizes his wordsmithing skills to optimize lead generating strategies that translate across all mediums, from corporate blogs, C suites, through leadership [00:02:00] and PR releases to packaging copy. SEO, web content, and social media. He has a knack for breaking down complex ideas and details into easily digestible content deliverables for Fortune 500 companies and startup SMEs alike. Presently, he is the content arm of an integrated marketing agency, generating long and short form content as well as overarching branding strategies for existing clients and new business pitches. He consults clients across various industries, dimensions, including fintech, robotics, cloud computing, cybersecurity, logistics, telecom, software, cross brand, cross platform messaging, hospitality, property management, and more.

Chip Colquhoun began his storytelling professionally in 2007. He's since performed in 10 countries, presented traditional tales for the Oxford Reading Tree, the world's most renowned program for teaching kids to read, performed regularly at Glastonbury, the UK's biggest music festival, and represented the Roald Dahl Story Museum on TV. He also wrote the EU's guidance on using storytelling in schools and has recently begun assisting the UK's government's departments for education to train teachers in using storytelling, specifically to inspire kids to read for pleasure. He lives in the former residence of Samuel Pepys, England's most famous diarist in the geographically lowest lands in England with his wife Emma and kitten Tito.

Boris Cherniak is a comedy hypnotist, global keynote speaker, and author of You Can Do Anything. His performance blends hilarious interactive entertainment with team building while addressing mental health. Boris has appeared on Maury, The Robert Irvine Show, The Howie Mandel Show, The Vegas Show, Comics, The Casino, and Just for Last Festival and Boston Comedy Festival. He has headlined on the Las Vegas Strip, entertained troops in Afghanistan and Kuwait, and empowered women at a leadership conference in Dubai. Boris has presented at TEDx and awarded titles of Global Leader, Global Guru. An Entertainer of the Year repeatedly. The passion for which Boris takes the stage is engaging and contagious, while the impact is unforgettable.

Paul Sloane is an author and speaker on lateral thinking and innovation. His latest book, published by Kogan Page, is entitled Lateral Thinking for Every Day. He has over 40, 000 followers on Twitter, and his TEDx talk, Are You Open Minded?, has over 150,000 views on YouTube, which I highly recommend, as it is both entertaining and thought provoking.

Rael Bricker is a seasoned entrepreneur who turned a health scare into motivation, Rael leverages his diverse experiences from finance to education on two continents and two listed companies. He serves businesses globally, having navigated challenges from starting companies to managing billions in loans. His partnerships are a blend of real world experience with academic qualifications to guide people and companies towards excellence. From being 6,000 foot underground in a cold gold mine to starting an education business that grew to have 4, 000 plus students to spending years working in venture capital, Rael has seen it all. He has listed companies on multiple international stock exchanges and his financial services group has settled more than 3 billion in loans over 20 years. Rael has a unique distinction of having sold more than one billion in mortgages from stage. Rael holds two master's degree, an MBA and an MSc in software engineering. He is currently a fellow of the Mortgage and Financial Association of Australia, a certified speaking professional with the Professional Speakers Australia, past chapter president of the PSA and WA, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In 2018, Rael published, Dive In, Lessons Learned Since Business School.

Vanessa Raath is globally renowned for her contributions to the international sourcing community. She has delivered keynotes across three continents and has trained teams based from Auckland to Seattle. Vanessa launched her talent sourcing training business in early 2019 as Not Look Back. She's a qualified teacher with experience in both agency recruiting and internal talent acquisition. She now gets to combine a love of empowering others to do better with a passion for recruiting through her own online academy. She loves it when her training delegates experience that light bulb moment as she knows that she has just changed someone's career for the better. When Vanessa is not doing research for a training, recording content, or delivering a keynote, you can find her at the beach, or in the South African bush, taking photographs.

Ivan Hernandez is a former trapeze artist turned emerging tech strategist and international keynote speaker. Experience and digital strategist with several years of international experience in strategic consulting, hospitality, advertising, marketing, and media sectors. Ivan is an internationally recognized keynote speaker. Some of the events he has presented include Web at Congress in Turkey, DigitalK Bulgaria, Dublin Tech Summit Ireland, and CFO European Summit in Poland. He's also a lecturer at Kosminski University, the number one business school in Central and Eastern Europe. Currently, he lectures at the Executive MBA and Digital Transformation Executive Program. Recognized as one of the top 25 global emerging technologies influencers in Twitter by Analytica in their global report, A Global Study into Consultancy Employees, Online Presence and Influence. How influential are employees on social media in driving commercial impact.

Kate Boyle is a qualified nutritionist and food scientist and Pilates instructor. Kate has worked within the health and nutrition field for more than 20 years and is passionate about helping people move well, eliminate pain, live a balanced life and make being healthy easy. Kate owns and operates Mind and Movement Pilates, a Pilates and wellness studio in Melbourne, Australia, as well as her online Pilates and health membership. Mind movement health and a podcast by the same name, the mind movement health podcast, a mom of two girls. She loves dark chocolate, eighties music, hot showers, and getting out in nature.

Katie Stoddart is the founder of the Focusbee, is an award-winning, transformative and conscious leadership. Coach Katie supports entrepreneurs and companies to reach and sustain peak performance in their business. She's dedicated to enabling people to lead with greater joy, alignment, and purpose. Katie started her career as an engineer working offshore, mapping the seafloor from a time at sea. She gained the experience of leading teams under stressful circumstances. During her career, Katie has explored two of the greatest mysteries and unknowns, the infinity of the ocean, and the depth of the human psyche. Passionate about leadership, performance and mindfulness. Katie is frequently invited to speak and host conferences she has amongst others. Spoken at Mindvalley Women in Tech 15 seconds and hosted a TEDx event for her weekly podcast, the Focus Bee show. Katie interviews international high performers and leaders.

Sue Stockdale believes in pushing boundaries and inspiring others to unlock their full potential. In 1996, she became the first British woman to reach the magnetic North Pole and has followed up with travels to over 75 countries. Sue brings this ethos of exploration to her work as an executive coach, encouraging her clients who are board level executives and senior leaders to embark on a transformative journey of self discovery and leadership growth. Her mantra is, we can all achieve more than we imagine possible. Often the only person stopping you. Is you. In 2020, she started the Access to Inspiration podcast based on the same ethos and is now in the top 10 percent most popular podcast globally.

Deena Chopolis. After watching her mother's lived experience with undiagnosed ADHD, post polio syndrome, and celiac disease, which resulted in an early death. Along with her husband's experience of living much of his early years with an undiagnosed rare metabolic disorder, Dina grew to understand the challenges of those who live with invisible chronic conditions. Being misunderstood, not believed, labelled as slow or lazy, being told that everything looks fine after testing. That what they experience on a daily basis must all be in their head. As a pain coach, Dina, along with the chronic pain community, witnessed firsthand how chronic pain Care is truly broken. Through all of this, Dina has learned that all chronic health or chronic pain is indeed biological, psychological and social in nature. And this is just not being shared with the chronic pain community. Even though there is 12 years of solid research to back it up. So she got to work and created a unique space exclusively for the chronic pain community to bridge the gap between physician care and the pain warrior with self care management through pain education Coaching, community and peer mentorship. Exactly the sort of model she wished she could find when her parents and her husband needed guidance.

Daniel Brown has been a journalist for English and French media for over 30 years. Since 1987, Daniel has been based in Paris from where he reports on international current affairs, global economics, French politics, African society. Sports and world music. Between 1991 and 2013, Daniel produced and reported for Radio France Internationale's weekly programs covering the above topics. This meant traveling the world with a particular focus on the African continent, reporting assignments in a total of 38 countries there. In 2013, Daniel decided to move on, and Worked as a freelance for media outlets ranging from the BBC World Service to NBC's The History Channel via Songlines Magazine and Questions Internationales. In 2016, Daniel accepted an offer [00:02:00] as the Senior Editorial Reporter for HSC Paris, one of Europe's most prestigious business schools. Daniel's reports range from HEC collaboration with Muhammad Yunus Christine Lagarde and Rob Hopkins to projects promoting young women entrepreneurs from Paris's impoverished neighborhoods and research on contested markets. In 2020, Daniel began Breakthroughs, a monthly podcast on the impact and diversity of HEC research. These are soon to be filmed.

Daniel Raqueo is a spiritual teacher. Since 2017, he has been touching, moving, and serving. Hundreds of thousands of individuals in transforming their lives. Through the grace of Spirit, Daniel continues to touch and serve individuals from all around the world as they move along the path to freedom, waking up and transforming their lives, so that they may set themselves free from fear, worry, doubt, a sense of lack, scarcity, and separation, from a sense of not being enough. So that they may set themselves free to be in ever expanding love, joy, peace, harmony, wholeness, abundance.

Dr. Agi Kirimidas is originally from Greece and has been living in the UK since 2010. His personal development journey took him from being a dentist with a master's degree to becoming a podcaster, knowledge broker, and author. He is a lifelong journey of personal growth and self mastery. Despite his formal education, he is a big believer in the immense power of self education. He's a critical thinker and yet at the same time, deeply spiritual. He is the host of the Personal Developed Mastery podcast and his mission is to inspire his audience to stand out and take action towards the next level of their lives. His podcast ranks in the global top 1. 5 percent and he has interviewed close to 200 people among them, Brian Tracy. Mark Victor Hansen and Dr. John Demartini.

When growing up, Rosalind Cardenal could not decide if she wanted to be a librarian, a vet, or the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. She achieved none of these goals, but a fascination with human behaviour and neuroscience led her to a career in organisational development specialising in improving business outcomes by developing individuals, teams and organisations. After more than 20 years in corporate human resources and organisational development roles, A successful battle with cancer gave Roz the nudge to take a passion For transforming leaders and improving how individuals and organizations cope with change in a new direction. Leaving her senior corporate role in 2012, Roz established her consulting business, shaping change to achieve her goals. Roz's expertise spans strategic planning, leadership development, organizational culture, change management, emotional intelligence, and employee engagement. She is a multi award winning leadership mentor and coach. Roz is a keen writer, and in addition to her book, The Resilient Employee, and her own blog, she is featured regularly in Leaders in Hills. Thrive Global and People Development Magazine, amongst many others. Roz continues her commitment to growing empowered female leaders with the development of a Women's Leaders Archetypes Assessment and Sovereign Women's Model. The assessment has been taken by over 10, 000 women globally and is being described as women's leaders as life changing. In 2022, Roz traveled to Washington DC to collect a World of Difference Award from the International Alliance for Women for this work.

Ciara Ocasio's journey in media production and videography began with a degree in photography. But a love for the moving images has been a constant force throughout her life. As a creative young professional, Ciara brings a unique blend of technical expertise and a knack for collaborative storytelling to every project. Beyond the professional realm, Ciara's ability to connect with people and her insatiable curiosity have been key drivers in her career success. When she's not crafting compelling visuals, you might find her putting on events, volunteering or honing her skills at Toastmasters. What sets Ciara apart from her belief is the power of stories, both micro and macro. To her, stories aren't just enjoyable, they're potent tools capable of driving real results. Her innovative approach to [00:02:00] videography and video editing reflects her commitment to uncovering and sharing the narratives that already exist in our daily lives.

Rachel Franklin Hayes, armed with a psychology degree from the University of Reading. Rachel's journey began in in person customer service and sales, forging her commitment to authentic connections. Boasting a diverse background in sales, leadership, and customer service across various industries, Rachel brings a versatile set to the table. Her approach is rooted in creating meaningful face to face interactions. Which has then evolved to fostering the same meaningful connections for digital and remote companies, shaping her into a client success powerhouse. Passionate about authenticity and people first philosophy, Rachel believes connection should extend further than transactional relationships. Her belief in the value of genuine connections extends beyond professional realms, making her not only a client success expert, but also a life skill enthusiast. At Pickle Co, Rachel serves as a catalyst, guiding clients in crafting their unique message [00:02:00] and developing their personal brand. Her dedication goes beyond the business realm, enriching both enterprises and clients alike.

Walter Faaij is a corporate anthropologist and the founder of Green Culture Lab. Walter talks, writes and consults on sustainability, corporate culture and culture change. Guiding leaders of companies and organisations in embedding sustainability in their corporate culture. Walter has also researched the social impact of climate change on Greenland.

Geert Degrade is a journalist, copywriter, ghostwriter for more than 40 years. In 2021, he founded www. restory.be

Yasmine Khater is a leading sales strategist and the founder of Smooth Sailing System, a company that helps businesses develop more efficient systems so they can work smarter and boost profits. With a degree in psychology and communications, Yasmine has spent the last decade helping thousands of clients in 10 plus different countries improve their sales by incorporating cutting edge neuroscience strategies. That same approach also led her to build six multi six and seven figure businesses. Yasmine is a TEDx speaker and has been featured in Forbes, Inc, HuffPost and Cosmopolitan.

Lisa McAdams is an executive coach and trainer specialising in training on creating psychosocially safe workplaces, trauma informed communication and DFA strategies. Recognize and deal with toxic workplace culture and people with difficult personalities. With a decade of experience in training and coaching within workplaces, including ASX 500 companies, government, NGO, and the NFP sector on the traits of bullies, the complex behaviours of abuse, the effects of trauma, and how to support employees dealing with abuse in the home and workplace. Lisa believes a psychosocially safe workplace is everybody's right.

Alex Kepas and Julie Mason, all the way from Idaho Falls in the U.S.