HEALTHY PLANET 1

Kimberly Knox is a Certified Integrative Health Coach, Speaker & Specialty Organic Chef revolutionizing the Bioenergetic Cooking Experience. Bioenergetic Cooking considers energy and intention from pasture to plate; cooking to build more energy for life and sustained health. She is passionate about reconnecting people to locally sourced, organic food and inspiring then to get back in the kitchen. After recreating her own health with organic foods, smoothies and juicing, Kimberly went back to school mid-life to pursue her lifelong passion with Food, Natural Health, and Educating others on the nutrient healing power of organic whole foods. Kimberly grew up holistically minded in Vermont and has been creating in the kitchen since the age of 4. Kimberly coaches’ clients nationally, is the organic chef for NES Health, Inc, and hosts her popular Organic Supper Club Social and Networking event the second Tuesday of the Month at Cityside luxury apartment living in downtown Sarasota. Here you can get a taste of her Bioenergetic Cooking experience and learn about the healing properties of the menu items featured. Kimberly has free educational content on Instagram and YouTube.

Michael Massanelli a Fitness Therapist that specializes in Human Mechanics and Exercise Science. He has over 20 years in the Health & Fitness industry and a Pioneer in helping revise the outdated fitness philosophies.

His therapy is called MOVEMENT.

Motion Oriented Vital Exercise Muscle Enhancing Neurological Training that has birthed the Stretching Revolution and Tamagoy Fitness that combines Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, and Therapy all in one.

He guarantees you will leave better than you arrived, either having learned something valuable you can use the rest of your life, or the body being more stable and feeling better.

Teach MOVEMENT, don’t force it!

Motion is vital to existence and we should understand what prevents it before we try to force it.

With over 25 years of executive P&L responsibility with Fortune 50 companies

like IBM, Best Foods, and startup Dr. Sears Zone Nutrition, CeCe managed

America's most famous food brands; such as, Hellmann’s, Mazola, Domino,

and Knorr International. She authored "Three Great Sales Strategies for "The New Era,"

published as the award-winning "Big Bold Business Advice, New Jersey Women Mean Business."

For a decade, as entrepreneur and CEO of CHi Consultancy, CeCe is a Master Energy Practitioner,

and author of "Become the Butterfly, Experience Heartfelt Energy, empowering Holistic Leadership,

with advanced Mind, Body, Spirit technologies to Create in The New Age.

Steve Dimmick is the founder and President of SRQ Website Central, an expert digital marketing agency based in Sarasota, FL.

Steve and his team have helped businesses of all sizes, including a former winner of NBC’s The Biggest Loser, New York Times Bestselling authors, and even an unheard-of catholic theologian by building him a membership website earning $750,000/yr.

Jackie learned the hard way that what most people call sales doesn’t work for her. As a result, she became an expert in “sales from the inside out”, and her book, Your Path From Secret To Success, became an Amazon International #1 Best-seller.

Jackie’s clients experience amazing transformations and new opportunities arrive for them, as if by magic.

It took Jackie over 30 years to figure out this system and she doesn’t think anyone else should have to take that long!

Selby Gardens is on track to be a model in sustainability while safeguarding the world’s best collection of orchids and bromeliads, preserving Selby Gardens’ history, and welcoming guests with proper amenities.

Jennifer O. Rominiecki began her tenure as President and Chief Executive Officer of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in February 2015. Since she arrived, she has overseen the re-positioning of the institution as a “Living Museum” and enacted this new operating model, yielding a 47% increase in admissions, a 60% increase in membership, and a 59% increase in overall earned revenues in just three years. Rominiecki has also overseen the creation and execution of a new five-year Strategic Plan for Selby Gardens, as well as the development of a new Master Site Plan.

She possesses twenty years of experience at major New York City cultural institutions. Rominiecki served The New York Botanical Garden for 15 years in increasing roles of responsibility. As the Garden’s Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Special Assistant to the President, she was involved in many aspects of the organization’s management, including oversight of the Garden’s seven-year campaign to raise $479 million in capital, operating, and endowment support.

Earlier in her career, Rominiecki held key positions at The Metropolitan Opera and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Art History and English from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Art History. Rominiecki also completed the Women’s Leadership Forum at Harvard Business School in June 2017 and is a member of Leadership Florida Cornerstone Class XXXVI. Currently, Rominiecki serves on the Boards of the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County, and is also Chair of the Board of the Science and Environment Council of Southwest Florida. In 2017, she was honored with the AJC Civic Achievement Award and the Leadership Award for Arts Management from the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County. She has also received the SRQ Magazine’s Women in Business “Hear Me Roar” Leadership Award in 2016. Rominiecki is joined in Sarasota by her husband, Robert, and their two boys.

Laurel James is the founder of Interiorology (Healthy Living for the Mind, Body & Home). She is the Author of the book “Interiorology-Home Design from Within/How to Create a Living Environment that Reflects the True You.” Laurel is a graduate of Ringling College of Art & Design and a Nationally Certified Interior Designer. Her design expertise includes: Design Psychology, Healing Environments, Sustainable Design, Green Designing, and Feng Shui. In addition, Laurel is a Kundalini Yoga Teacher (The Yoga of Awareness). Her yoga studies include: Authentic Relationships, Conscious Communication, Life Cycles & Lifestyles, Stress & Vitality, and Mind & Meditation.

Laurel’s mission to create a plan for healthy living in your mind body and home to flourish. “Just as a flower needs the right environment to bloom, we need the right home in which to flourish” -Laurel James

Tracie is the executive director and founder of Sunshine Community Compost. Sunshine Community Compost is a Florida-based non-profit organization that is spreading awareness and developing education and action programs related to the interconnected benefits of composting and waste reduction with communities on the gulf coast of Florida.

Bio Mary Anne Bowie, Executive Director of The Jericho Project, a 501(c)(3) organization, is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a Sustainability Expert. She is working to create a diversity of housing types to help solve the attainable housing crisis for the ALICE population and others. This requires clarifying local zoning regulations and nurturing a variety of partnerships with governmental agencies, non-profit organizations and private entities.