Inspiration

Kuda Biza

<p>Kuda Biza is a serial entrepreneur who builds profitable companies to solve the world’s biggest problems: education and hunger. </p><p>He started his first company when he was just nine years old in Zimbabwe. Kuda moved to the U.S. with only $40 in his pocket to study at Lynn University, he started his second company, a socially conscious apparel brand, before graduating as valedictorian of his class.

Erin King

<p>Erin is an award-winning entrepreneur who helps ambitious achievers unlock their Big Deal Energy® for more ambition, alignment, and aliveness.</p><p>Erin King is the world’s leading personal energy management expert. As Chief Energy Officer of Strikepoint Media (which was twice named one of Inc.

Courtney Clark

<p>Courtney Clark helps teams adapt to change, embrace resilience and achieve more.</p><p>In her twenties, Courtney Clark was “the luckiest unlucky person in the world.” She survived both cancer and a brain aneurysm and then went on to build two successful businesses and to write three books—<em>The Giving Prescription,</em> <em>The Successful Struggle: Powerful Techniques to Achieve Accelerated Resilience </em>and her most recent <em>ReVisionary Thinking</em>.

Travis Mills

<p>Travis Mills’ keynote speech teaches and inspires audiences nationwide to “Never give up. Never quit.” no matter the obstacles or circumstances. Mills’ larger-than-life personality, sense of humor and incredible spirit for life engages audiences from the moment he takes center stage.</p><p>On April 10, 2012, United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills of the 82nd Airborne was critically injured on his third tour of duty in Afghanistan by an IED (improvised explosive device) while on patrol, losing portions of both legs and both arms.

Dominique Dawes

<p>Affectionately known as 'Awesome Dawesome,' Dawes was a 10-year member of the U.S. national gymnastics team, a three-time Olympian, and a member of the gold-medal-winning "Magnificent Seven" team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Becca Meyers

<p>Becca is a 3x Paralympic Gold Medalist, 6x World Champion Gold Medalist, and holds 23 American Records, and 10 World Records. </p><p>Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Becca has Usher Syndrome and has been deaf since she was born. She could not hear anything for the first few years before she began using a cochlear implant, an electronic device that allows her to hear. Becca began to swim at the age of six in 2000.</p><p>In 2012, Becca was the only deaf athlete on the U.S.

Kara Goldin

<p>Kara Goldin knows what it’s like to build a business, and a new category, from nothing to something big. She is a resilient, inspiring and motivational leader and storyteller.

J. R. Martinez

<p>J.R. Martinez is an actor, best-selling author, motivational speaker, advocate, and wounded U.S. Army veteran. He is many things. But perhaps most significantly, he is an inspiration.</p><p>In March of 2003, J.R. was deployed to Iraq. On April 5, he was driving a Humvee in Karbala when his left front tire hit a roadside bomb. The three other soldiers were ejected from the burning vehicle, but J.R. was trapped inside. He suffered smoke inhalation and severe burns to 34 percent of his body. J.R.

Chris Bashinelli

<p>For more than a decade, National Geographic Explorer Chris Bashinelli, better known as “Bash,” has traveled the world walking in other people’s shoes and trying to better understand the human condition.</p><p>A passionate mental health advocate, Bash has studied meditation and mindfulness since the death of his father.