Resilience

Dr. Rebecca Heiss helps audiences transform stress, fear, and uncertainty from barriers into fuel for greater resilience, adaptability, confidence, and performance.

Jay Kiew (JQ) helps leaders and organizations turn uncertainty into forward momentum.

<p>Connor Fields knows what it means to chase greatness—and what it takes to rebuild when everything changes.</p><p> A three-time Olympian, two-time World Champion, and the first American to capture Olympic BMX gold, Connor reached the pinnacle of his sport when he won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. But his story is defined by far more than victory.</p><p>At the Tokyo Olympics, while competing as a favorite to medal again, Connor suffered one of the most catastrophic crashes in Olympic history.

<p>Rashmi Airan is a keynote speaker, leadership expert, and transformation strategist whose work helps leaders and organizations build trust and perform under pressure, make decisions in high-stakes moments and foster resilient leadership.</p><p>A first-generation Indian American, former Columbia Law School attorney, and former Wall Street dealmaker, Rashmi knows what it means to live under intense pressure, chase success, and lose sight of what matters most. Her life took a dramatic turn when a series of compromised decisions led to a federal prison sentence.

Colette Carlson, a Human Behavior Expert and CPAE Hall of Fame keynote speaker, is known for helping leaders, teams, and organizations activate The Human Edge™—the critical strategies that strengthen trust, foster connection, and elevate performance in an increasingly automated, fast-paced world.

Rachel Sheerin is an award-winning keynote speaker, emcee, and burnout expert on a mission to help people love their work and their lives.

Rachel’s work experience spans both sides of business – sales and operations. She has built multi-million-dollar sales teams that want to grow profits and boost happiness, and trained operations teams that want to influence their sales teams to work better together.

Her drive for success led to burnout. More importantly, that burnout was the catalyst that led to a search for answers to help prevent this from happening to others.

Tom Turcich is a resilience keynote speaker and leadership speaker who helps organizations navigate uncertainty, build mental endurance, and achieve ambitious goals.

At age 25, after the loss of a close friend, Tom made a decision to stop waiting and start living with intention. The next day, he stepped out of his front door—and didn’t return for seven years.

<p>Sylvia Baffour is a globally recognized emotional intelligence keynote speaker, leadership development expert, and creator of Street EI™—a powerful framework for applying emotional intelligence in real-time workplace moments.</p>

<p>Her journey began at 14 in a Zimbabwean boarding school, when a difficult conversation revealed a life-changing truth: impact matters just as much as intent. That moment sparked a lifelong commitment to understanding how our emotions, words, and behaviors shape the experiences of others.</p>

<p>Vanessa Priya Daniel is an award-winning leader for racial and gender justice who helps organizations rethink power, leadership, and impact in an era of rapid social and political change.

<p>Erin Jackson is an Olympic gold medalist and World Champion American speed skater whose rise to the top of the podium is one of the most inspiring stories in modern sport. </p><p>At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she made history as the first Black woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in speed skating. She continued to compete at the highest level through the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, adding to her international résumé as a World Cup champion and World Championship medalist.</p><p>Erin’s journey is anything but conventional.