Meridith Alexander is a best-selling author, powerhouse mompreneur, and top female motivational speaker who has become known for inspiring high-level professionals and entrepreneurs to venture beyond the place where their beliefs stop them — all thanks to a plummeting boulder that almost killed her daughter and that changed her “old normal” into the destiny that she embraces today. She challenges …

Sean Tyler Foley has been acting in film and television since he was 6 years old. He is an accomplished film and stage performer and has appeared in productions including Freddy Vs Jason, Door to Door, Carrie, and the musical Ragtime. Tyler is passionate about helping others confidently take the stage and impact an audience with their stories. He is …

Beate Chelette is The Growth Architect and Founder of The Women’s Code. She provides strategies blueprints and results-oriented, tangible tools and techniques that unify your teams, give you clear steps to improve your business systems, and strengthen your leadership skills. A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, Beate bootstrapped her passion for photography into …

Dr. Ava Thompson Greenwell is the author of Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News, filmmaker of “Mandela in Chicago,” podcaster, and journalism professor. She is a Chicago native and director/producer of Mandela in Chicago, a documentary film about the city’s anti-apartheid movement. She is also the author of Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News. …

Sheila Farragher-Gemma moved to the states in 1989 for a job in Boston. She figured she would stay a few years before returning home to Ireland, but 30 years later, with a husband, two children, and a handful of successful businesses under her belt, she may be here to stay. Sheila has an entrepreneurial spirit which led her to the …