Roger Devine has led a life based on service, communication, education, and entrepreneurship. As the co-founder of SchoolAuction.net, he has spent the past 20 years assisting and advising local and national nonprofit organizations and charities on how to grow their programs and ensure financial stability through fundraising events, such as gala auctions, golf tournaments, and trivia nights. Throughout his time at SchoolAuction.net, Roger has been an advocate for organizations to make their events equitable and accessible to supporters outside of the traditional top-tier donors, as a way of building a broader base of supporters. This attitude was born from the company’s decision to focus its marketing outreach on schools and PTAs, and from experiences during the 2008 recession, when many fundraising officers became wary of whether fundraising events could work in a time of economic uncertainty.

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TEDx Speaker Robin Nathaniel has a story of resilience, creativity, and reinvention. Beginning his career as a musician, Robin’s artistic roots laid a unique foundation for his journey. This experience in music, with its emphasis on connection and storytelling, naturally paved the way for his transition into the professional world of social media. Living by the motto "Connect. Create. Contribute," he aims to inspire a wave of positive transformation.

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Vance spent 10 years working for the mouse at Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida. He started his career at Disney on the Opening Team of the Yacht & Beach Club Resorts, and progressed through the management ranks as a Night Club Manager at Pleasure Island, Service Trainer aboard the Empress Lily, and on the revitalization team of the Contemporary Resort in the mid-90’s. It was at the Contemporary that Vance got his crowning achievement, Designing, Opening and Operating Chef Mickey’s, Disney’s flagship Character Dining Experience. After leaving Disney, (yes people do leave) he utilized his skills to rescue or improve many of America’s companies and government agencies. His clients included Legal Seafoods, Tyson, NASA, Rain Forest Café, Compass Group, The Executive Office of the President of the United States, The Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Tiring of corporate life, Vance opened his own Bricks & Mortar Business in 2007.  After meteoric growth of his service business, other entrepreneurs began to seek him out for advice and counsel. This spawned his next business, Deliver Service Now!, consulting and coaching other companies on how to create and implement Disney style service and then apply Direct Response   Marketing to profit from it. Vance Morris has shared the stage with many of the premier marketers and service professional in the world; Dan Kennedy, Joe Polish, Bob Brown, Lou Ferrigno, Dean Jackson, Charles Henning, Lee Cockerell, and Meg Crofton.
http://wow52ways.com

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Baltej Dhillon is a retired career police officer, a community leader, and a lifelong advocate for diversity and inclusion. Emigrating from Malaysia in 1983, Mr. Dhillon made history in 1991 as the first Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer to wear a turban, advocating for the right to practice his faith while serving Canada. Mr. Dhillon went on to have a successful 30‑year career with the RCMP as an accomplished major crime investigator, police interrogator, polygraph examiner, intelligence officer, and emergency planner. He played a key role in several high-profile investigations, including the Air India Flight 182 tragedy and the Robert Pickton case. Mr. Dhillon also held various leadership roles, including overseeing the British Columbia RCMP Divisional Emergency Operations Centre and the federal Serious and Organized Crime’s Intelligence section, also in British Columbia, as well as establishing and managing intelligence operations at the Provincial Intelligence Centre of British Columbia (now the Real-Time Operations Centre of British Columbia), the first of its kind in Canada. In 2013, Mr. Dhillon led the Sikh Leadership and Police Committee on Gang Violence to support youth prevention strategies within the Sikh Community. Since retiring from the RCMP in 2019, he has worked as Program Manager for the Crime Guns Intelligence and Investigations Group with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia, the province’s anti-gang agency. Mr. Dhillon is also deeply involved in community service. He serves on various committees and has led youth camps. He has received numerous distinctions and awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Times of Canada, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, and the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award. In addition to his extensive police education and training, Mr. Dhillon is the recipient of honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from McMaster University and Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

https://sencanada.ca/en/senators/dhillon-baltej-s/

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Leading EK Editorial & Coaching, Elise Krentzel's narrative expertise has developed over a 35-year entrepreneurial career in music, media, and publishing globally. By collaborating with our clients, we create books and content that reflect their ethical visions and societal contributions. With a focus on editorial services that include ghostwriting, the Write Like a Rebel online writing course, book coaching, editing, and publishing, our services resonate with business leaders eager to share their impactful stories, including those they don’t yet know exist. 
At EKPR, strategic creative direction merges with effective communication to enhance brand identities through compelling executive storytelling. My experience in creative direction and writing helps me forge meaningful connections between clients and their audiences, ensuring their stories resonate and endure in books, speeches, press releases, and commercials. 
"Under My Skin: Drama, Trauma, & Rock 'n' Roll" starts Elise's memoir trilogy. "Rogue Entrepreneur - Her Memoir" is set to drop in late spring. She is a poet, culture journalist, and itinerant traveler, as well as a proud mother of one son. She lives in Austin, TX.

https://www.elisekrentzel.com/

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Andrew is a registered professional counsellor, a master practitioner in clinical counselling-supervisor, family mediator, instructor, and facilitator with over 10 years of experience supporting children, youth, adults, and seniors in their grief and loss journeys. Through his work with Canuck Place, Friends for Life, Moving Forward Family Services, and his private counselling ‘practice’ Andrew is highly skilled and knowledgeable in grief, loss, and bereavement, and he has garnered positive feedback that his empathic, caring, compassionate and sensitive approach has instilled hope and a new sense of purpose to those he has worked with. Andrew is inspired by anyone who has been able to find strength to overcome their personal challenges, and those who are interested and willing to support others. He finds the work of the Dalai Lama inspiring, specifically, his messages that emphasize focusing on others with affection, rather than with anger. Andrew is also intrigued by Thomas Merton’s thoughts on racism, social justice, love, and compassion. Andrew believes that learning is infinite, and he regularly participates in professional development opportunities so that he can impart informed knowledge to others, with the goal of contributing to their success. In his spare time, Andrew enjoys hiking, walking by the ocean, fixing, and riding vintage motorcycles, writing, reading, and painting. Andrew is well- travelled, spending over two years travelling the world in his youth and utilizing opportunities to support a variety of poverty-stricken communities. 

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Ernestine is a Musical Alchemist and a gifted Soulful Intuitive Guitarist. Ernestine & her Guitar have been together for 27+ years. They have shared life’s joys and sorrows, and everything in between!   This has created a symbiotic relationship between them, an almost soulmate relationship. When Ernestine plays their energies merge and something new, powerful and beautiful emerges. Ernestine’s ability to synchronize the flow of energy from her soul, and her heart, and engage fully with the universal flow of energies around her, and then translate what comes forward into music is her greatest gift and it creates magic!   When Ernestine opens herself up to this divine flow, she and her guitar create musical landscapes that alchemically assist others to raise their vibration and sense of self. When Ernestine goes live, she has no idea where the music will take her or who it is for, but time and time again she has found her listeners feel better, calmer and more in tune with themselves.  
In June 2021 she began playing with a Looper and quickly recognized how this added another dimension to her music, allowing her to go even deeper in receiving new levels of energetic flow. Ernestine has recordings of songs and longer form albums available for Healing, Relaxation and Beauty for all to enjoy. When she is inspired to do a live session, what emerges it is a uniquely channeled composition that calls to be expressed into the world, created in the moment for whoever is listening (or hears a recording later). Her deep love of spirit and connecting to people through music fills her life with joy and peace. Ernestine welcomes all to relax and allow the “Soulful” music to take you on a beautiful journey!

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A successful tech entrepreneur Andre Shadowman was one of the first 30 Airbnb employees he built a successful career helping expand business internationally coordinating with him being on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the VP of international expansion at five or when they went public in 2019 he has a masters degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy school ABA from Williams College of these accolades among others matter less to him now that he has a current dream of showing the magic and the power of human connection around the world born and raised in New Orleans to Argentine Jewish parents with a broader Colombian immigrant community Andreas currently travels the world nomadically with a Mexican Bates

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"Noles Honor" explores complex themes like war, colonialism, and cultural misunderstandings through a fantasy lens
The book features a well-defined "hard magic" system and a scientifically-grounded world built using Jason's knowledge of geology, climate science, etc.
Jason is crafting an immense world to support multiple books and stories set across different time periods

Readers can access a free 2-chapter preview and join a mailing list to engage with the project as it progresses
Topics

Story centers on the Noles, a manufactured warrior race, and their conflict with humans
Inspired by works like R.A. Salvatore's that subvert traditional fantasy race tropes
Explores how cultures/species may have tendencies, but individuals have free will
The inciting incident is the destruction of main character Tack's village, sparking the central conflict

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You know how coaches and course creators have spent thousands of dollars on marketing activities and programs and have very little to show for it. They’re saying Marketing doesn’t work!
What I do is focus on the development on a clear and powerful marketing message so when they get out there to do whatever marketing activity, it will naturally draw the right people to them.

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