Profiles in Leadership

Maria Brinck is a visionary thought leader devoted to breaking up the traditional leadership monopoly in order to generate the “diversity of thought” necessary to solve our most pressing challenges in organizations and nations. Maria founded Zynergy International, a leadership advisory firm in 2013, to fulfill her passion. 

Today, Maria works with board members, CEOs, executives, business teams and HR professionals and is based in Colorado. Born and raised in Sweden and Algeria, Maria was educated in Sweden, France, and the USA with a focus on International Business. Her most transformative experience, reshaping her worldview, came when she lived and worked with indigenous people in the Congo Basin Rainforest in a remote part of Cameroon. While working on the rehabilitation of chimpanzees and gorillas, she observed first-hand human planetary destruction and its consequences for all living things, but also the type of leadership we need to bring out the best in humanity.

Maria is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and holds a CPCC Certification from CTI, and an ACC Certification from ICF, the International Coach Federation. She previously held positions at GE, Eli Lilly & Co, and Novo Nordisk and some of her current clients include Quanex, Astra-Zeneca, Beacon, DaVita, Vizient and Stryker.

Ash Seddeek is the founder of Mivante, the Communication Intelligence Platform built to transform how organizations communicate, align, and lead.

As a strategic communications advisor and masterclass facilitator, Ash has coached senior leaders at top-tier companies including Cisco, Uber, Google, Lyft, Salesforce, and Oracle. His work spans from boardroom storytelling and executive presence to enterprise-wide transformation messaging.

Ash’s passion for solving the communication disconnect across organizations stems from decades of hands-on leadership experience—as a Consulting Practice Manager at Oracle, a Sales Enablement Leader at Cisco, and now as a coach helping leaders close the gap between strategic intent and execution clarity.

He’s the creator of the “7 Top Skills of Highly Effective Strategic Leaders” and the Own it. Win it. Crush it.™ Success Blueprint, frameworks that empower leaders to become high-impact communicators who drive results.

Ash founded Mivante to bring these principles to scale—building a platform that helps professionals at every level communicate with intelligence, align with purpose, and lead with clarity. His vision is to equip leaders and teams with real-time tools that elevate performance, foster innovation, and fuel enterprise growth through better communication.

Ash serves as Chief Excitement Officer at the Executive Greatness Institute and is a certified StandOut and Marshall Goldsmith leadership coach.

Rachel Shaw is known nationally as the authority on how to implement and manage the FEHA/ADA Disability Interactive Process for candidates and employees. Her trainings and seminars are highly anticipated by Human Resource and Risk Management professionals as informative, dynamic and packed with real-life practical solutions.

Rachel is the President and Principal Consultant of Shaw HR Consulting, Incorporated. With more than 15 years of executive-level Human Resources experience, Rachel is recognized statewide as a leader in helping public and private sector employers manage their most challenging personnel issues. Rachel and her team provide comprehensive solutions to employers on how to successfully manage the interconnected roles of human resources, workers’ compensation and disability compliance to successfully reduce litigation, the costs of claims and improve employee-employer relations throughout the process.

JordanPeace, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fringe., 

Jordan's company, Fringe, built a platform around a powerful leadership philosophy:the traditional employee benefits model is broken because it doesn't treat employees like individuals. He argues that the key to modern leadership and team development is moving past future-focused, one-size-fits-all perks (like 401ks and health insurance) to provide personalized, immediate support throughlifestyle benefits.

This philosophy has allowed him to build a high-growth company while actively shaping a new type of organizational culture.

Eric Termuende helps organizations build teams that thrive in tomorrow's workplace. As Co-Founder of  NoW of Work, author of "Rethink Work", and a thought leader on the future of work, Eric has spent years researching what drives high-performing organizations forward. 

With over 500 speaking engagements across nearly all industries and research involving thousands of employees and hundreds of category-leading organizations like Amazon, Coca-Cola, IBM, Zoom, and Toyota, Eric provides leaders with practical frameworks for navigating what's next. 

His core belief: when we build better teams, we create better work experiences and stronger organizations for the future. Recognized as an American Express Top 100 Emerging Innovator, Eric delivers actionable insights that empower organizations to prepare for 2035 today.

Tallulah Le Merle is an AI investor, advisor, and speaker. She is a Partner at Fifth Era, where she leads the firm’s AI strategy. Fifth Era now manages eight investment vehicles with exposure to more than 80 unicorns through fund-of-funds and co-investments.

She began her career as a management consultant advising FTSE 100 companies (Johnson & Johnson, Mars, HSBC, Unilever, etc.) on digital and data transformation - including AI strategy back when it was still largely machine learning and big data. She later served as a fractional COO for AI scale-ups, working directly with founders at the heart of the ecosystem.

Tallulah speaks frequently on the future of AI and investing at global conferences and panels, often with a lens on the humanity side of the technology equation, and hope in the age of AI. She also hosts Fresh AI, the world’s first fully AI-generated daily news podcast on artificial intelligence.

Chris Dyer is a recognized company culture and remote work expert. As a former CEO managing thousands of people, his companies consistently were named a best place to work. They have also been named a fastest growing company by Inc Magazine 5 times. Chris routinely consults and speaks, and Inc Magazine ranked him as the #1 Leadership Speaker on Culture. He has three bestselling books The Power of Company Culture and Remote Work, and has been named #5 on the Leadershum Power List, a Top 50 Voice in Leadership, a Top 40 Change Management Guru, a Top 50 Global Thought Leader, and a Top 50 leadership podcast, Top 50 HR Leaders Shaping the Future of Work, and a Top 101 Global Employee Engagement & Experience Influencers by Inspiring Workplaces and Work Buzz, just this year.

As a keynote speaker his goal is to inspire audiences with a straightforward delivery, insightful candor, and engaging humor. His talks leave audiences permanently transformed, offering innovative perspectives on leadership to improve company culture, and empower organizations to discover new successes. Countless companies have unlocked productivity, performance, and profits by implementing his 7 Pillar Strategy.

With a $500 investment,Lindsayleft a high-powered job and founded her first company, which she bootstrapped and grew to a 7-figure year over year business reaching 3MM users each month. She led her company through its acquisition less than a decade later.

When she exited, she did so with one mission, to help other women entrepreneurs build their businesses using her Marketing Made Simple strategies. She launched her Top 0.5% global podcast, Dear FoundHer..., which has become a movement for women 40+ who are starting their own businesses.

Lindsay’s appeared as a guest on over 50 top-rated podcasts, and has contributed to 300+ television segments, appearing on “Access,” “The Doctors,” and many regular local news outlets. She has a combined social media following of close to 90K.

Outside of work, she spends most of her free time with her husband and two daughters---they love going to concerts together.

Dr. Amy Loden Tiffany empowers high-achieving women to build thriving businesses and joyful lives—without sacrificing their health, values, or family.

Combining clinical expertise, entrepreneurial experience, and professional coaching, Dr. Loden Tiffany helps purpose-driven women break free from burnout, clarify priorities, and lead with clarity and confidence.

Her work moves beyond time management to focus on managing energy, mindset, boundaries, and hormonal health—allowing women to create success on their own terms.

StefanFeuersteinis a leadership expert recognized by Oprah Winfrey as part of her inaugural SuperSoul 100 list of “awakened leaders” using their voices to elevate humanity. With over two decades of high-stakes leadership experience in humanitarian and private-sector roles, he has led teams of hundreds to over 4,000 across Honduras, Peru, and the United States. He served as legal guardian to more than 1,000 orphaned and abandoned children with Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos and later oversaw the care of over 51,000 unaccompanied migrant children as Operations Chief of the largest shelter of its kind in history. Born in Washington, D.C., raised in Luxembourg, and educated in England and Germany,Stefanholds degrees from the University of Warwick and University College London and has spent 15+ years working throughout Latin America. His A-B-C Delegation method gives leaders a practical framework for knowing when they need to be asked, informed, or completely hands-off—empowering teams, eliminating bottlenecks, and redefining how leadership scales.