• Bestselling author of Unreasonable Hospitality.

• Featured in the hit Hulu series The Bear.

• A well-known Restaurateur and former owner of Eleven Madison Park in New York, City.

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• Author of The Good Enough Job – Reclaiming Life From Work.

• Works with leading companies on how to make the workplace more human centered.

• The Good Enough Job makes the urgent case for reclaiming our lives in a world centered around work.

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• T-Ray the Violinist has taken his unique talent outside of its stereotypical arena by combining it with a message that moves the crowd and inspires people to chase their dreams.

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• Co-Founder of Conscious Capitalism - an organization whose purpose is to build a movement of business leaders improving the practice and perception of capitalism to elevate humanity so that billions of people can flourish, leading lives infused with passion, purpose, love, and creativity.

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• Founder of Sketch Effect and has worked with Serious Business for the last 10 years, along with his team of artists, in creating the Sketch Notes for all speaker content.

• Author of Conquering Creatives: 9 Shifts to Build an Unstoppable Creative Business.

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• Bestselling Author of Clean Up Your Mental Mess.

• Developed a 5-step program to help relieve mental and emotional health problems such as anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts.

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• Dr. Rebecca Heiss is a science-backed leadership and performance expert, driving teams to excel through change and engage ALL-IN.

• Dr. Heiss’s scientifically backed techniques to lower turnover and absenteeism re-wires our brains to stop fearing stress, failure and rejection allowing us to more readily lean into our highest most purposeful lives.

• By understanding how our brain processes the information deluge its met with each day we can use biologically backed strategies to reduce multitasking, stress and overwhelm to get more done throughout the day without feeling so exhausted.

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• Dr. Polla believes that beauty is an expression of the good and will be sharing the message of how our industry makes an impact on the world.

• Dr. Polla has worked in the beauty industry through her family’s medical spa Forever Institut (@foreverinstitut, Geneva, Switzerland) and skin care brand, Alchimie Forever (@alchimieforever). A true renaissance woman, she was an elected politician in Switzerland for 12 years.

• Renée has been the Aveda Global Artistic Director, Texture, since 2020 and leads the brand’s texture education.

• Johnna and Nicole’s passion for celebrating “all hair” is forging the road for others to be able to service any guest that walks into their salon, especially those guests with curly hair. At KurlPro Academy, salon professionals will learn how to wash, cut, and style all types of curly hair in a hands-on and product-neutral setting.

• Certified Trichologist, bridging the gap between the salon community and the medical world.

• She created The Gordon Method of Hair & Scalp Analysis to help hairdressers and trichologists conduct more effective consultations.

• More than 80% of men and nearly 50% of women experience hair loss.

• With over two decades of experience of being a CPA, Jared has guided beauty and wellness professionals toward realizing their dreams of entrepreneurial success.

• Along with being the owner of Citrus Salons, Candice also works as an Educator for Qnity Inc, empowering small business owners throughout the country to elevate leadership, finance, strategic planning, and growth through simple and visual education.

• Owner of Gervais Salon & Wellness Spas for 20 Years | Aveda Business College Professor | Qnity Business Coach & Presenter

• Culture is high on the list of Sharah’s passions. Her focus will be on building your culture and maintaining it as you expand your team and redefining it if you’ve experienced turnover.

• Founder of Sketch Effect and has worked with Serious Business for the last 10 years, along with his team of artists, in creating the Sketch Notes for all the speaker content.

• Author of Conquering Creatives: 9 Shifts to Build an Unstoppable Creative Business.

• Gordon is known across the industry for his passion and thought leadership in all things tech. His passion project currently is AI and how it affects the beauty industry.

• Gordon Miller is CEO/President of Beauty Cast Network, the industry’s leading Career Service and Placement platform for new professionals.

• Mark is the founder of Family Business Counsel and enjoys spending his best working hours convening and facilitating conversations with individuals, small businesses, families and organizations – focusing on Succession planning.

• Mark is currently working with Van Michael Salons on transitioning his children into the business.

• He works with companies of all sizes and types of business creating their succession plan.

• Erin’s passion is in helping companies, schools and individuals reach new levels of financial wellness.

• Erin is also the host of the NONEY02 Podcast featuring thought leaders in the beauty, wellness and beyond to share their stories of transformation.

• Financial wellness is also a key to employee retention.

• John DiJulius is the authority on helping organizations build a world-class customer and employee experience.

• He will be taking you through the steps on how to build a world-class customer experience.

• John is the founder and owner to John Roberts Spa and has worked with many leading companies know for their customer service such as Ritz Carlton, Nordstrom, and Lexus.

• Dave is The DiJulius Group’s Vice President of Consulting and co-author of the upcoming book The Employee Revolution.

• Dave is a master at helping companies create real change that sticks.

• His focus will be on Employee Engagement, developing great leaders, creating a recruitment experience and onboarding experience.

• Dr. Leaf will be teaching her 5-step program she developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of techniques to help relieve mental ill-health problems such as anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts.

• She is the bestselling author of Clean Up Your Mental Mess and has a fresh approach to deal with our own mental mess as well as everyone that sits in your chair.

• Francisco’s professional purpose is to serve as a catalyst in inspiring and challenging organizations and the people within them, to maximize their positive impact in the world.

• He has held key executive-level positions transforming and exponentially growing, profit over the last 25 years.

• He works closely with Conscious Capitalism, an organization an organization whose purpose is to build a movement of business leaders improving the practice and perception of capitalism to elevate humanity so that billions of people can flourish, leading lives infused with passion, purpose, love, and creativity.