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Evan Stewart is a master strategist, trainer, expert closer and founder of Obsessed Academy with years of experience running his book of business worth tens of millions, and helping others do the same.   

Rocky Garza, is a people and culture development expert that challenges audiences to consider their motivations, inspirations, and fears. He developed a very unique system called Identity Mapping which is a way for individuals and companies to find out why and how they do things they do.

Rajiv “RajNATION” Nathan is the founder of Startup Hypeman and is known as the Heavyweight Champ of storytelling. Startup Hypeman helps SaaS startups not suck at how they pitch and tell their story so they stand out to customers and investors, and stand apart from competitors.  

At the age of 20 Jeremy founded his first start-up business in the booming Australian juice bar trade, opening Australia's number one Juice Station Outlet. In 2005, he went on to co-found a natural health company called RioLife which picked up various accolades, including winning Australia's fastest-growing small business 2010 for My Business Magazine.  

Roman Prokopchuk is a first-generation immigrant from Lviv, Ukraine to the United States. Because of the 2008 recession, he couldn't find a job in criminal justice and ended up starting a career in digital marketing. In 2012 he founded his own company, Nova Zora Digital, which is focused on SEO, PPC, social media, analytics and content marketing. Since 2017 he is the host of the Digital Savage Experience Podcast, a Top 100 Podcast in Apple Podcasts for How To.  

David Karasek was an Olympic swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events before he started his career in finance. After working for 5 years as a banker he realized that he was just being used and he asking himself the question if he was born to work for someone else. On his search for meaning, he met Kern Frost and since September 2019 they joined forces and are now both working at the Council for Human Development.   

As a teenager Megan Mateer experienced her first awakening, a clinical depression that brought her closer to herself and allowed her to see her relationships and the world through a different lens. This experience awaked her interest in psychology, but after discovering the strong research focus of psychology at university, she decided to do an MBA in accounting and start her career as a finance consultant at one of the big five consulting firms. After a couple of years into she job she realized that she wanted more creativity and spontaneity in her life, therefore she implemented small habits and behavioral changes. These small changes lead her to Amsterdam, where she founded Empatiko, a company that aims to be a catalyst for human connection in the workplace and therefore accompanies organizations through a cultural transformation.   

David de Kock is a bestselling author, public speaker and the founder of 365dagensuccessvol, a company that is focused on personal development. Because of the tragic death of his best friend, David and his co-founder Arjan made it a mission to make the Netherlands the happiest country in the world. As a result, they developed a 13-step framework that they teach through articles, videos, books, webinars, and seminars.   

At the age of 13, David started developing an interest in programming as a result of online gaming activities. That’s how he managed to have a small side income in the following years. When he was 16 David started working as an accountant for Deloitte, but after 2 years he realized that accountancy is not going to be his future career path and since then he became an entrepreneur. In 2013 he founded Nyon/Fashion Cloud, a buying tool for retailers in the fashion and shoe industry, that also developed into a platform that allows brands and retailers to work together by sharing data and eliminating inefficient manual labor.   

Julian Jagtenberg is an industrial design engineer that studied at the university of technology Delft and developed a passion for soft robotics. With the mission to solve his mother’s insomnia, he created Somnox, a sleeping robot that helps people fall asleep faster, sleep longer and wake up more energetic.