Dr. Joseph Trachtman sits at the cross between optometry and experimental psychology.He has over 40 years’ experience in the area of elite performance through visual training, having worked with the likes of NASA, the US Olympic Shooting Team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the New England Patriots, the Boston Bruins, and jet fighter pilots, as well as those with autism, PTSD, and TBI.As President of the Elite Performance and Learning Center, he has pioneered elite performance and has developed zone-inducing technology, including the Zone-Trac AR.

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Elite Performance and Learning Center 

Zone-Trac AR

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Chileen DuRaine-Duncan is a co-founder and partner of Broken Donkey Studios, a Veteran-owned boutique creative firm specializing in environmental graphics and signage.She helps organizations establish atmosphere built from their core values, and design great spaces based on what’s important; the foundation of a healthy culture.​ Clients include Netflix, Microsoft, and the Sacramento Kings.In her previous life, she was a Navy corpsman attached to Marine One — the helicopter unit responsible for transporting the President of the United States.We talk about her time and stories with Marine One, including her Yankee White clearance and a trip to El Salvador, as well as her thoughts around the importance of corporate culture as it relates to interior design, sprinkled with tangents about movies, politics, conservation, and more.

Michael Fraser is currently Co-Founder/CEO/Chief Architect at Refactr, Inc, a firm he co-founded in 2017.

At Refactr, he is building a disruptive cloud software company that believes that all MSPs and MSSPs should be able to visually design, deploy and manage secure multi-cloud IT solutions they can share across their organization through cloud + security orchestration and automation.

Starting his career in the United States Air Force in cybersecurity, Michael left after 9 years to start multiple technology startups in the cloud services and cybersecurity space. Michael has published many feature articles including in Redmond Channel Partners, featured on the cover of Channel Pro Magazine and has presented at numerous industry events, including: CRN, ChannelPro, Microsoft and RedHat Ansible. 

We talk about his expertise in loading missles onto fighter jets, conducting cybersecurity operations in NBC gear, surviving hurricanes, startup challenges, and his hot startup Refactr.

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Daniella Young has been studying intense, interesting, and sometimes horrifying cultures her entire life.

She was actually third-generation raised in one of the worst modern-day religious cults, known as the Children of God.

At the age of 15, she escaped this cult, got educated, moved her way into the army, where she became a captain in military intelligence. During her service, she deployed twice to Afghanistan, becoming one of the first women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations at a time when it was illegal for women to do this.

These days, she does organizational behavior, cultural strategy consulting and she’s a renowned international speaker including TED Talks, helping CEOs and business leaders develop and employee an intentional growth culture in their organizations.

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Chris Schmitt is essentially the real-life Col. Hannibal Smith from the A-team.

A recently retired Lt. Col., he’s logged over 30 years of service in the Green Berets including commanding, planning, and executing special operations all over Europe, Asia, and North Africa. He hung his beret on getting ahead of Al-Qaeda and preventing the network from spreading. 

His weapon of choice? Kindness. 

Since retirement, he has shifted his focus toward leadership consulting with Fortune 100 companies through Azimuth Consulting Group and his extreme outdoor development trek, The Traverse.

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