Lisa Andrews is an energized introvert inspired by a future of perfect knowledge.

With a financial, data and engineering background, Lisa is working on the question ‘how to give everyone a fair start in life and maximize human potential at each stage in life’.

She has dedicated her life to having a positive impact in this world, currently through three main channels:

1. WAVIA: removing the friction of financial, human and community capital
2. SingularityU Australia: Educating, empowering and inspiring leaders to use exponential technology to solve the world’s grand challenges
3. Ignite Alliance: helping aspirational businesses grow

With a wealth of entrepreneurial knowledge, she won the Hunter Outstanding Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018, had a successful exit from an engineering business and is a founder / part owner / investor in several companies that all focus on profit with purpose.

Lisa is currently working on projects with organizations such as Singularity University, the United Nations, ACTAI, the Extreme Tech Challenge, EO and many others. All with a focus on solving the world’s greatest challenges with exponential technologies. As a future maker and strategic planner – she sees the first step being achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the second creating a vision for the world in the next 100 years and the third being how we can all have a 10,000-year legacy.

Lisa strongly believes that we live in a time where there isn’t a problem we have that can’t be solved with technology.

Lisa will show us how to create  a Metaverse strategy. Businesses these days have to be nimble and ‘keep up’ with technology trends. This session will cover the Metaverse, Web 3 and NFTs in a way relevant to SME’s with some practical next steps.

1. Learn a unique mindset on how the Metaverse, Web 3 and NFT’s could be used in your business
2. Understand the technology driving the latest trends
3. Create an action to further your knowledge/implementation in this area

Patrick Bryant is a serial entrepreneur, professional speaker, and co-founder/CEO of Charleston-based software product agency CODE/+/TRUST. After co-founding his first company Go To Team, the largest staff video crew provider in the US, he took the company to 20 offices around the US For the past 25 years, he has started new businesses in media, rolling papers and software. In total he’s launched six (and counting) multi-million-dollar companies, some within less than two years. In addition to his many successful startups, Patrick serves as the co-Director of Startup Grind DC, and currently chairs the Harbor Entrepreneur Center in Charleston, South Carolina. He’s recognized as a Liberty Fellow, Riley Fellow, member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and Entrepreneur Organization Certified Speaker.

Grow your business, grow your people, grow yourself!
The “Growth Guys” will lead a discussion on the three fundamental parts of unleashing your success. As members of EO and leaders in the entrepreneurial space, the Growth Guys know how hard entrepreneurs work and understand the need to have a well-rounded life. This is why they focus on not one, but three fundamental aspects of professional and personal growth. Every member of EO is working hard to grow their business, and the Growth Guys will offer specific tools to rethink growth. On your way to scaling up, you’re going to have to grow your people to be successful. And, in the end, the most important factor in achieving your goals will be the takeaways of growing yourself.

Canadian Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier serves as Chief, UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) New York Office, where she coordinates UNCTAD’s input into the financing for sustainable development, science, technology and innovation processes, and monitors progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She also supports inter-governmental negotiations on macroeconomics, trade, and entrepreneurships of the UN General Assembly. She is particularly interested in new economic models for sustainable development and partnerships to leverage micro, small and medium enterprise, entrepreneurship, and gender equality in achieving resilient, inclusive and digitally connected and sustainable economic recoveries.

As Major Groups Coordinator for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, she facilitated the engagement NGOs, women and youth’s groups, business, local authorities, etc. from around the world in the SDGs negotiations and the UN Rio+20 Conference.

Prior to joining the UN, she headed the North American Free Trade Agreement Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Environment, Economy and Trade Division (2000-2007), was an agro-environmental policy analyst for Winrock International (1998-2000) and post-Doctoral fellow/Brazil office manager for the International Food Policy Research Institute (1996-1998).

Dr. Carpentier has a PhD. in Agricultural and Environmental Economics from Virginia Tech, as well as a MSc. and BSc. in Agricultural Economics from McGill University.

Catalyzing partnerships and networks to drive sustainable growth in business
What are the main challenges that small and medium-sized enterprises face today? What are the main drivers to become future-ready? How can EO and its partner network support EO members and SMEs in driving sustainable growth in their business? We will discuss these questions and more in this senior panel discussion with institutional partners at GLC.

In this session, attendees will listen to a live panel on how to drive sustainable growth in business. Attendees will hear from three EO institutional partner representatives: the World Bank/IFC, the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. During the session, attendees will have the opportunity to share suggestions about ways EO and its partners can collaborate to better support SMEs in growing sustainably.

Speakers

• Dr. Merza Hasan, Executive Director and Dean of the Board of Executive Directors, World Bank Group (WB)
• Mr. Paul Smyke, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum
• Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, New York Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• Mr. Hirdaramani, EO Sri Lanka, External Relations Subcommittee Chair

Moderator: Ms. Cristina Calvo, EO Costa Rica

By the end of the session, attendees will walk away with:

• An understanding of current global research highlights around challenges and opportunities for SMEs today (macro-economic challenges & trends)
• Key learnings about how SMEs can leverage opportunities to become future-ready
• Knowledge of key initiatives that major institutional organizations are taking to help drive sustainable growth in business
• Ways to unleash their business potential by leveraging partnerships and collaboration
• Understanding and resources for how to engage their chapters around collaboration with EO’s institutional partners

A successful entrepreneur and a spiritual enthusiast, Shreans Daga, manifestation mentor and breathwork coach, strikes the right balance between spirituality, running a thriving business empire and enjoying an active social life with family and friends. Shreans believes in celebrating life and embracing every aspect of it.

Shreans attributes his vast knowledge of spirituality, quantum physics, epigenetics, neuroscience, quantum living, breathwork, transgenerational healing, life between lives regression therapy and manifestation to the hundreds of global spiritual masters he has had the privilege to learn from. His extensive research on these subjects and daily practice has led to many life-transforming miracles in his personal and professional life.

Shreans’ mission to impart his life’s knowledge and teachings, is the inspiration behind setting up the Shreans Daga Foundation. The purpose of the Foundation is to empower people to reach their highest potential and create their own desired reality, by teaching them the science of spirituality.

Shreans’ passion to empower others to create the life they desire, drives him to conduct free live Guided Meditations and Breathwork Practices regularly on his YouTube channel. The recordings of all the live sessions and meditations are freely available on his website www.shreansdaga.org and his YouTube channel, Shreans Daga Foundation.

Shreans is also the vice chairman of Pyramid Valley International, a not-for-profit spiritual organisation in Bangalore, serving individuals, societies and organisations in their quest for self-realization. Being a part of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), and an EO Certified Speaker, Shreans has also been sharing his knowledge and experience with talented entrepreneurs, thought leaders, visionaries and subject matter experts from around the world. Shreans has shared the stage with renowned speakers and spiritual masters including Bruce Lipton, Gregg Braden, Jim Kwik and Jack Canfield.

Shreans will teach us to meditate your way to success. Life is an amalgamation of highs and lows, successes and failures, achievements and disappointments – you can’t control what life brings to you, but you can definitely empower yourself with tools to live your best life, no matter what.

The key to unlocking a life that you love waking up to every single day, lies within you. Your life can be a joyous celebration, it doesn’t have to be hectic, monotonous, or stressful. YOU have the power to create the life you want, and I am here to show you how.

Shreans Daga invites you to join ‘Meditate Your Way To Success’, an empowering talk that explains the science behind spirituality and meditation, and reveals the secret of how to make the Law of Attraction work for you. This knowledge, combined with the powerful five step manifestation meditation will ignite in you a new sense of purpose and lay down the foundation on which you can build your new, empowered reality from a higher dimension.

Carlos has spent over a decade studying how innovative leaders think, from PhD studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles to executive training programs and talks presented to audiences from New York to Paris, Geneva to Kyoto, Taipei to Sydney.

By the age of 30, Carlos had co-founded an NGO in Africa, became the ninth employee of a successful internet start-up that was sold to a large media group few years later, published his first book on Entrepreneurship by SAGE USA and concluded his PhD. In 2013, he became the managing director of the Silicon Valley-based Technology Start-up Accelerator “Founder Institute” where he supported on a one-to-one basis over 100 entrepreneurs throughout his program.

Recently, he became the Director of the Executive MBA Program at the HEG School of Management in Switzerland. He runs executive education programs for Switzerland, Slovenia, Portugal, Brazil and the US. He is also a lead trainer for the Swiss National Innovation Agency “INNOSUISSE”, as well as an international Keynote Speaker.

Having lived and worked in 6 different countries, Carlos is used to deal with multinational and multicultural environments. His origins and heart are from the small coastal village of Cascais, Portugal. Carlos is a Mozart aficionado and a keen kitesurfer.

Carlos will show us the power of breakthrough innovation: leap thinking. In searching for innovative practices to apply in our personal lives, business and communities, we often try to emulate what effective leaders do. Dr. Carlos DaSilva says this principle is flawed, because innovative solutions that work in one context may make little sense in another. A more productive, yet more difficult approach is to look at how such leaders think. 

After extensive research, the author discovered that most are leap thinkers—that is, they can hold in their heads several contrasting solutions from different contexts at once, and then come up with a custom parallel solution that contains elements of each but is superior to all. Carlos argues that this process of consideration and synthesis (rather than superior logic or faultless reasoning) is the hallmark of innovative breakthrough ideas and limitless potential.

Kent Gregoire – one of the first certified conscious capitalism consultants around the world – is the founder and CEO of Symphony Advantage, which has been providing advisory and consulting services to executive level management for over 35 years. In addition to his work with Symphony, Kent is also a serial entrepreneur, an angel investor in purpose-driven companies and a sought-after speaker in the US and beyond.

Kent launched his first manufacturing company at age 14. Since then, he founded or led more than a dozen organizations. He leads his companies through all phases of their business cycle – startup, growth and repositioning. He also led many of those through successful exits and raised tens of millions of dollars in private capital.

In his consultancy work, Kent is known as the “CEO to CEOs”, a person who focuses on a win-win approach that delivers exponential value to all stakeholders, including its leaders, shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers and the environment around it.

As a result of his extensive experience and expertise, Kent is a coveted speaker who has shared his powerful insights to engage audiences around the world, including the following venues: the United Nations, EO, St. Bonaventure University (SBU), FintechSouth and many others. Kent is a published author in the Harvard Business Review as well as a contributor to Inc.com and Forbes. He is also the incoming President of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization U.S. East Bridge chapter and a member of the Conscious Capitalism Senior Leadership Network.

Kent will cover unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit for good. Today, traditional capitalism is heavily criticized as the root cause for climate change, income disparities and more. However, capitalism remains the most powerful engine ever invented to channel human ingenuity at scale. As such, we are witnessing the emergence of a new way of conducting business: conscious capitalism. This new modern-day business model is anchored around purpose and leads to great impact AND profitability. In fact, purpose-driven companies historically see 400% more returns than their traditional peers.

While many business leaders understand that conscious capitalism is both the right and the smart thing to do, they struggle with implementation. During this session, Kent Gregoire – the Founder and CEO of Symphony Advantage, and one of the first certified consultants in conscious capitalism around the world – will help entrepreneurs establish a concrete roadmap towards a more caring way of conducting business for triple bottom line. 

During this session, the audience will also have the pleasure of watching the award-winning documentary Beyond Zero, which tells the 25-year journey of Ray Anderson and Interface. The clip offers an inspirational outlook for how business can reverse climate change and create a socially and environmentally sustainable world.

Attendees can expect to:

• Obtain clarity on what conscious capitalism really is and why they should consider adopting this business model for their own organization
• Understand how conscious capitalism can help them solve meaningful issues while boosting profitability through innovation as well as employee and customer engagement
• Gain a tool to help them define their company’s higher purpose and how to integrate said purpose in their operating system for sustainable growth

Christina Harbridge is a behaviorist who trains and coaches individuals, teams and large groups to understand and leverage their own personal operating system when dealing with people who may or may not be rational.

Christina’s early experience as founder and CEO of a debt collection agency that collected debt through unorthodox tactics – such as simply being nice – shaped her worldview on workplace communication. Employees focused their interactions on filling a person’s need to feel understood through emotionally literate tactics, rather than focusing on trying to collect a debt that may not even have been owed. This values-based tactic, reinforced by bonuses paid on thank-you notes received, reinvigorated the industry by resulting in collections three times higher than the industry average.

Christina has co-authored software, built and sold a successful finance industry company, practiced acrobatic swing dancing, participated as a NASA test subject and collaborated to design and weld several large-scale metal sculptures. She has served her community on the founding boards of The Bay Lights and Emerge America. Her story is covered in more detail in Simon Sinek’s book Start with Why, Mike Maddock’s Plan D, and Maria Ross’ Empathy Edge. She is the author of Swayed: How to Communicate for Impact, which reached number one on Amazon’s ‘Conflict’ category list. She has served EO as a chapter President, chaired GLC, and started the Global Communications Committee.

Christina covers the biochemistry of commitment In order to gain outcomes an entrepreneur, you must gain commitment rather than compliance. Since humans can be irrational, it isn’t always facts or logic that changes people. In this highly interactive session, attendees will experience moments that uptick the human operating system, then understand why it helps with relationships and commitment. Every person in the room will participate and deepen connection with each other.

Michele Hecken is a seasoned entrepreneur, executive coach, author and speaker. She started a company at 23 and now has over 25 years of experience running a global business..
As a long-time EO member, she successfully started, scaled and sold her multimillion-dollar business while living her best life and raising her two daughters as a single mom.

Michele’s superpower is helping successful entrepreneurs design and lead their best life, while growing and creating more value in your company.

Michele believes that everyone deserves to live the life of their dreams and make a difference in the world through entrepreneurship. She has lived – and continues to practice – what she teaches.

The art of offboarding: work less, make more and live your best life. You CAN have it all!
As entrepreneurs, we are extremely well-equipped to design a spectacular life that we love while making a difference in the world through our business, yet so many of us are burning out with work. We always say joy and happiness will come once we reach the next milestone, the next goalpost.

Many entrepreneurs who want to work on their business don’t really know how or where to start, and often end up getting pulled back into the weeds.

Offboarding properly is key to creating space for your company to grow while creating more value in your business and your life.

Upon completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Have clarity on the impact of offboarding yourself on your business and your life
2. Identify which areas to offboard yourself from and why
3. Understand how to do offboarding right so you don’t get pulled back in
4. Commit to one keystone area to offboard yourself from in the next 90 days

Nikhil Hirdaramani is an EO member leader from Sri Lanka, leading the External Relations Sub- Committee. The Committee is engaged in overseeing partnerships with organizations such as the United Nations, IFC and World Economic Forum, as well as the implementation of the EO sustainability strategy. Nikhil has been a member of EO for over 10 years and previously served as the sub-committee chair for executive education and co-chair for EO Global London University.

Nikhil has been overseeing the ESG strategy for his fourth-generation family business, whose core focus is in the manufacture of apparel through factories in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ethiopia.

Nikhil also continues to be an avid advocate of sustainability within the wider industry and is engaged in a number of multi-stakeholder initiatives. He has been a member of the board of SEDEX and former vice chair of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) and presently sits on the board of HIGG Co and the Council of the Social and Labor Convergence Project (SLCP).

Nikhil has a BA in International Relations from Tufts University and an MBA from Imperial College London.

Catalyzing partnerships and networks to drive sustainable growth in business

What are the main challenges that small and medium-sized enterprises face today? What are the main drivers to become future-ready? How can EO and its partner network support EO members and SMEs in driving sustainable growth in their business? We will discuss these questions and more in this senior panel discussion with institutional partners at GLC!

In this session, attendees will listen to a live panel on the question of “how to drive sustainable growth in business.” Attendees will hear from three EO institutional partner representatives, namely the World Bank/IFC, the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. During the session, attendees will have the opportunity to share suggestions about ways EO and its partners can collaborate to better support SMEs in growing sustainably.

Speakers

• Merza Hasan, Executive Director and Dean of the Board of Executive Directors, World Bank Group (WB)
• Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, New York Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• Nikhil Hirdaramani, EO Sri Lanka, External Relations Subcommittee Chair
• Moderator: Ms. Cristina Calvo, EO Costa Rica member

By the end of the session, attendees will walk away with:

• Understanding of current global research highlights around challenges and opportunities for SMEs today (macro-economic challenges & trends)
• Key learnings about how SMEs can leverage opportunities to become future-ready
• Knowledge of key initiatives that major institutional organizations are taking to help drive sustainable growth in business
• Ways to unleash their business potential by leveraging partnerships and collaboration
• Understanding and resources for how to engage their chapters around collaboration with EO’s institutional partners

A national of Kuwait with a reputation for excellence and strategic vision in international leadership and executive strategy across diverse geopolitical and multicultural environments, Dr. Merza Hasan was elected in 2006 to represent 13 countries as Executive Director to the World Bank Group (WBG). His passion for international development, intellectual rigor, integrity and accountability in governance while building consensus with a variety of stakeholders has ensured Dr. Hasan’s unblemished Chairmanship as Dean of the Board of Executive Directors at the World Bank Group since 2012.

In his current role, Dr. Hasan has a dual responsibility to his constituency and the WBG Management. He considers and decides on the proposals made by the President on IBRD loans and guarantees, IDA credits and grants, IFC investments, MIGA guarantees and policies that impact the WBG operations. Dr. Hasan’s significant and practical experience spans over three decades in senior and executive positions in the private and public sector as well as academia.

Prior to the World Bank, Dr. Hasan was Undersecretary for Industry in Kuwait; held various positions at the University of Kuwait including Dean of the College of Business Administration; and served as the Cultural Counselor at the Embassy of Kuwait in Washington, DC. Additionally, Dr. Hasan’s chairmanship and membership in Boards of several institutions and executive committees have made him well-seasoned in fostering motivation and inspiring teams to feel empowered to accomplish strategic goals while working in the midst of complex operations, contexts, and stakeholders with competing agendas. Dr. Hasan holds a Doctorate (PhD) degree in Management Science from the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the United Kingdom; a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Operations Research from the George Washington University in the United States; and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California in the United States.

Catalyzing partnerships and networks to drive sustainable growth in business

What are the main challenges that small and medium-sized enterprises face today? What are the main drivers to become future-ready? How can EO and its partner network support EO members and SMEs in driving sustainable growth in their business? We will discuss these questions and more in this senior panel discussion with institutional partners at GLC!

In this session, attendees will listen to a live panel on the question of “how to drive sustainable growth in business.” Attendees will hear from three EO institutional partner representatives, namely the World Bank/IFC, the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. During the session, attendees will have the opportunity to share suggestions about ways EO and its partners can collaborate to better support SMEs in growing sustainably.

Speakers

• Merza Hasan, Executive Director and Dean of the Board of Executive Directors, World Bank Group (WB)
• Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, New York Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• Nikhil Hirdaramani, EO Sri Lanka, External Relations Subcommittee Chair
• Moderator: Ms. Cristina Calvo, EO Costa Rica member

By the end of the session, attendees will walk away with:

• Understanding of current global research highlights around challenges and opportunities for SMEs today (macro-economic challenges & trends)
• Key learnings about how SMEs can leverage opportunities to become future-ready
• Knowledge of key initiatives that major institutional organizations are taking to help drive sustainable growth in business
• Ways to unleash their business potential by leveraging partnerships and collaboration
• Understanding and resources for how to engage their chapters around collaboration with EO’s institutional partners

Kris Kluver is a dedicated speaker, facilitator, advisor, seasoned entrepreneur and bestselling author. His books include The Aspiring Solopreneur: Your Business Start-Up Bible as well as The Fable: Life on Your Terms, part of the defining What’s Next series. He has helped thousands of individuals, couples and organizations achieve more than they ever thought possible using simple tools, candid facilitation and unique stories.

The Life on Your Terms programmes have helped individuals, couples and teams find balance in their lives, discover their true purpose, reconnect with loved ones, create alignment with their partners and embrace the next chapter in their lives. Kris integrates more than 30 years of business ownership and facilitation experience with proven custom tools and a fun attitude. The result leads to living life on your terms and thriving. As a senior leadership advisor, Kris has helped multiple companies achieve eight-figure exits and x10 growth spurts. He also helped a company go public and assisted with restructuring multiple billion-dollar organizations.

He is the founder of Life on Your Terms and Entrepreneurial Advisors, a strategic advisory firm working with leaders in the United States and Europe. He has local, national, and international speaking experience on entrepreneurship, Living Life on Your Terms, solopreneurship, leadership and management. He has coached hundreds of businesses in dozens of fields. He started the first of his 16 companies at the age of 19 and has seen multiple exits. Kris is a certified speaker with the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). He studied entrepreneurial strategy at Harvard Business School and is a fellow at York University in the United Kingdom. He lives in the high country of Colorado with his spouse, Reka, where they live life on their terms, embracing adventure, travel and endurance events.

Grow your business, grow your people, grow yourself!
The “Growth Guys” will lead a discussion on the three fundamental parts of unleashing your success. As members of EO and leaders in the entrepreneurial space, the Growth Guys know how hard entrepreneurs work and understand the need to have a well-rounded life. This is why they focus on not one, but three fundamental aspects of professional and personal growth. Every member of EO is working hard to grow their business, and the Growth Guys will offer specific tools to rethink growth. On your way to scaling up, you’re going to have to grow your people to be successful. And, in the end, the most important factor in achieving your goals will be the takeaways of growing yourself.

Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media. With 14 years of experience in future trends, consumer research and communication strategy, she specializes in guiding organizations through strategic foresight, scenario planning and trend analysis. Sarah has previously worked in the USA, Australia and Europe analyzing emerging trends and behavioral shifts for WGSN, consulting with Fortune 500 brands such as Intel, Chanel, and L’Oréal, and writing for the likes of Kinfolk, The New York Times, WARC and i-D magazine. As an academic, she has studied strategic foresight at the University of Houston and holds a master’s degree in sociology from ISCTE in Portugal. She has presented at global events including Cannes Lions, Pause Fest, FUTR Summit and World Retail Congress, and has been quoted as an expert in The Financial Times, CNN, Vogue, Bloomberg and The Guardian.

Future Trends 2024: Work, Wellbeing, and Web3
Come and learn about what the future will look like in 2024. Trend forecaster and futurist Sarah Owen will deliver a session centered around the future of work, wellness, and web3 technologies (including the metaverse and beyond!). From the boom in micropreneurship and the rise of polywork to emotional wellbeing and new digital realities, this presentation grounds real-world case studies with future whitespace opportunities and strategies to explore.

Founder of Dream Big and best-selling author of Lead Your Tribe, Love Your Work, Piyush Patel has become an innovator in corporate culture. He grew his former company, Digital-Tutors, into a leader throughout the world of online training, impacting over 1.5 million professionals all over the globe. He has worked with industry leaders including Pixar, Apple, Ford and NASA. Piyush has been featured in Inc., Forbes, Fast Company, TechCrunch and Entrepreneur Magazine. After selling Digital-Tutors, Piyush knew he needed a firm that could help his family transition from being business owners, to managing a family office. When he couldn’t find a company to fit the bill, he helped found Full Sail Capital, a registered investment advisory firm offering family office services that now manages more than US$1.5 billion for wealthy families. Piyush continues to advise other companies and is an angel investor helping startup businesses make their mark. Piyush is a long-time Entrepreneurs’ Organization member. Formerly he was president of the Oklahoma City chapter, he currently sits as the Accelerator chair. Piyush spends his time helping companies grow their revenue by leveraging their greatest asset – their employees.

Piyush Patel will focus on how to unleash your culture to grow your business. In this fun and fast-paced session, you will walk away with practical skills and tools to implement right away in your organizations.   Key points covered will include:

• How to become an employer of choice
• Building rituals to reinforce company values
• Using your culture as a way to attract top talent
• Creating daily belonging, affirmation and meaning in your organization
• Onboarding your new hires the right way
• Learning the difference between perks and real culture
• How to help your employees deal with change in the organization
• Strategies to help your leadership team not become reactive
• The true cost of turnover – how to retain great employees

Robyn Rosenberger is a St. Louis native. Robyn founded TinySuperheroes in 2013 and has since been embarking on a mission to empower kids as they overcome disability. Robyn and her husband now run TinySuperheroes while raising three crazy boys.

Gratitude in the Trenches
TinySuperheroes is a social enterprise with a mission of empowering kids as they overcome illness or disability. With simple superhero capes, Robyn and her team have empowered over 100,000 kids all around the world. Digging into the stories of these families has presented new perspectives, and Robyn shares how the biggest lesson she’s learned is that we have the power to choose gratitude…even when you’re in the trenches. 

In this session you will:

1. Gain the simple tools needed to begin choosing gratitude in your life
2. Understand how being courageous with these tools can transform how you think

Remember that there is always a next thing.

Johanna graduated from the University of California – Riverside, where she received a BA in sociology. Soon after finishing her degree, Johanna decided to embark on a television career, deferring her Master’s place at Columbia University’s School of Social Work. She has since travelled the world for various TV shows and now resides in London, where she works as one of ITN’s newest presenters. The Peruvian American reporter and producer began her presenting career on NBC’s Emmy-winning nationally syndicated show LXTV: First Look. Johanna’s love for lifestyle and entertainment has led her to co-host Fuse’s popular music show Trending Ten and VH1’s Big Morning Buzz Live, while she’s also found time to front several MTV specials and cover the red carpet for major Hollywood film releases. More recently she’s been a presenter for Channel One News’ On the Job series in New York, a daily news program for students and teachers. She’s also worked as the home and travel correspondent for About.com; contributed human interest stories as a correspondent for NY Live on NBC; and been a writer, presenter and producer of short-form video content in English and Spanish for AOL, MSN and The Huffington Post.

Coming soon!

Karissa Kouchis – also known as “KK” – is a speaker, corporate trainer, host, and performance strategist. With a background in organizational influence, she blends communication theory with human psychology to guide people in advancing their skills in leadership, negotiation, psychology of achievement, sales mastery and what Karissa calls “overall badassery”.

In just the last three years, she has supported more than two million people across 2,000+ events for groups such as Salesforce, Zoom, Fox Sports, Equinox, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, NFL, Beautycounter, Marriott Hotels, Beachbody, Ace Hardware and now EO.

KK has shared the stage with notable legends such as Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, SPANX Founder
Sarah Blakely, Founder of IT Cosmetics Jamie Kern Lima, This Is Us star Chrissy Metz, Jay Shetty and ABC’s Robin Roberts. She even introduced rapper, singer and songwriter Pitbull to his raving fans during a private virtual concert for over 20,000 people.

People describe Karissa with words like firecracker, raw, authentic, electric or simply, their company’s favorite event host.

Coming soon!

His contributions to the EO community include:

• Being named Member of the Year in his chapter in 2016
• Becoming the first member from the South Asia region to be featured on the EO Forum Confidential podcast in 2019
• In 2020 he was recognized as a ‘Forum Guru’ where he has been invited to speak at 50+ member and spousal forums across the South Asia region

In 2021, his talk at the South Asia Special interest group focused on finance and investing garnered the highest attendance in the group’s history to date.

And most recently, he graduated from the EO Global Speakers Academy in November of last year. But what most people don’t know about Gaurav is that he was born with a rare genetic disease, which has caused him to lose his eyesight and rendered him legally blind by the age of 21. Despite being a college dropout, Gaurav has never allowed his physical limitations to stand between himself and his dreams. His passion for learning allows him to set aside time to listen to 100+ books each year.

Now Gaurav is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs across the world to push their boundaries and design their lives for true meaning and purpose. To this end, Gaurav has been certified as life and leadership coach from the International Coaching Federation.

Guarav will focus on the power of entrepreneurial communities.

Guarav will focus on the power of entrepreneurial communities. What do the only wheelchair-bound woman on the Forbes 500 list and an EO member from Sydney who built and sold a technology company have in common? They both used the power of their communities to create massive impact in the world.

Join Gaurav Jhunjhnuwala from EO Gurgaon chapter as he leans on is life experiences as a founder of a B2B SaaS company to unpack and dive deep into the stories of Sminu Jindal, the managing director of multi-billion dollar conglomerate in the oil and energy space and Jane Bianchini, an EO member who built and sold a tech company despite her non-tech background.

Miranda describes herself as ‘an unstoppable force for good’ and is the founder of Empower – a disruptive consulting firm that passionately provides talent, advisory and insight services to clients across the African continent. She is a Forbes-acclaimed Tanzanian entrepreneur with an academic background in education and theatre for development, who strategically transferred her skillset to the private sector in 2009 when she founded Empower.

She relishes connecting with nature by spending time on the beach, hiking mountains and sharing quality moments with family enjoying great food. Miranda is board director of CRDB Bank Plc and board chair of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative, which empowers hundreds of women from across the continent. She is board vice chair of CCBRT Hospital and an active member leader of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, where she serves as incoming chair of global learning. Miranda recently won the Tanzania Consumer Choice Award for ‘Most Preferred Female CEO’ and is a Member of The Africa List – a select community of next generation CEOs in Africa’s most exciting growth markets.

Miranda’s personal values

1. Stay in the light
2. Feed the family
3. Service before self

“A conversation with Tyra Banks”

Christen Taylor seamlessly blends electronic and acoustic instruments with transcendent vocals and soundscapes, leaving listeners in a state of euphoria. This Baltimore native is changing the way people experience music and connect with the world around them. She invites the audience to watch as she masterfully layers unique sounds while looping them on the spot and leaving the crowd wanting more!

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Known for experimenting with Mediterranean-Spanish guitar styles such as Flamenco and classical music, Mauri has performed internationally, sharing his passion and joy for music with audiences worldwide. He is now gearing up to release two new albums in 2022 — one that explores the spiritual and electronic genres, and the other more focused on traditional Mediterranean-Spanish classical guitar and flamenco.

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Charles Koch “DJ Dirty Hands” is a professional DJ and entrepreneur. Whether it is mixing the latest hit on the deck or using his creative mind to develop a new business idea, Charles’ keen eye for design and ambitious personality has inevitably left a lasting impression on the competitive market of DC.

Years of honing his skills have lead to some incredible headlining engagements, ranging from DJ’ing the Democratic National Convention for Bill Clinton to becoming a mentor at the Red Bull Music Academy.

Whatever endeavor Charles decides to take on, he leaves no stone unturned on his quest for a successful outcome. Using his extensive background in the business as a DJ, Charles went on to broaden his skill set once again. There had become an undeniable void in DC nightlife and it was a perfect time to add ‘founder, designer, and managing partner’ to his resume, as he proceeded to open one of DC’s hottest nightclubs, Fly Lounge. He would soon add Angels Rock Bar in Baltimore, Maryland, and another iteration of Fly Lounge in Aspen, Colorado. A few years later, Charles founded and managed Heist, an exclusive, high-end nightclub in DC that makes the most of its heist theme, with décor ranging from a diamond-stuffed teddy bear to a champagne vault.

His latest and possibly most notable endeavor is an authentic South American rotisserie chicken restaurant and whiskey bar called Chicken + Whiskey. In partnership with superstar Venezuelan chef Enrique Limardo, Charles opened the first restaurant on 14th Street NW in the heart of DC’s liveliest neighborhood, and the second located in Columbia, MD. A third location will open in June 2022 outside of Nationals Stadium in DC, with a fourth coming to Clarendon, VA by mid-2023.

 Charles dominates any venue by infusing every party with his versatility and his innate ability to read crowds. With such, he continues to captivate the entire industry by incorporating his love for music with an entrepreneurial drive to succeed.

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Stephanie James, also known as “Just a Vessel”, is a poet, singer, TV host and founder of Changing Tourism – a new travel docuseries that highlights Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) around the world. She has released one book of poetry (2012) and two poetry and song albums (2014 and 2016).

Stephanie is a world traveler and international artist.  She has lived in and traveled to over 38 countries and counting.  You can connect with her on social media everywhere @justavessel22 and see her videos and poetry on her website justavesselpoetry.com

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