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John is an advisor to major donors and strategic grant-makers who want to do the most good with their currencies. He's also the author of Connected for Good: A Gameplan for a Generous Life and the creator of the Generosity Gameplan™. This is a step-by-step process for people of means and substance who seek to create real change using a new approach to generosity. John is also a consultant who provides management services to donors, foundations, and nonprofits that want to increase their impact by giving from the heart.

John's goal is to bring generous people to a destination where each act of generosity comes from the true desires of their heart; where relationships are built an inch wide and a mile deep; where strengths of skills and character are spent from an inexhaustible well of care; and where giving financial and material resources feels like sharing from an abundance rather than giving from what is leftover.

John has served some of the nation's most generous families and the nonprofits they care about through The Legacy Group, a consulting and management firm he founded in 1999. He is also a grant-maker himself, giving through and serving his family's foundation as a trustee.

Michael Zipursky is the CEO of Consulting Success® where they specialize in helping entrepreneurial consultants grow profitable, scalable and strategic consulting businesses. He has advised organizations like Financial Times, Dow Jones, RBC, and helped Panasonic launch new products into global markets, but more importantly, he's helped over 500 consultants from around the world in over 75 industries add 6 and 7 figures to their annual revenues. Over 35,000 consultants read his weekly consulting newsletter.

RICHARD A. CROSS is a former Police Officer, Athlete, and Restorative Justice Facilitator. Cross's mission is to empower one million Black male students in helping them to recognize their potential and to empower them to become leaders and change agents.

Richard A. Cross believes that we should not limit ourselves, think small, or refrain from taking on big and challenging projects that can help many people in the long run to achieve their goals in life. Cross is committed to helping you to become your best self because he believes that you have the innate abilities to achieve amazing things in life. Cross is an Empowerment and Transformational Speaker, Educator, and Author of 17 books including Going Beyond Limitations.

Ruth was born and lives in the UK and has been involved in helping people achieve what they never thought was possible for over 25 years. In 2007 she was recognised by the UK Government as a Role Model for Women in Science and Technology for her work in Terahertz imaging.

In 2016 Ruth hit rock bottom in the corporate world when she was put on an unexpected performance review shortly after a miscarriage and told she had no emotional intelligence.

This turned out to be the best thing that happened to her at that time. She went on a transformational coaching journey, left the toxic workplace, lost 27lbs in weight and rediscovered her best self. In April 2018 she realised her dream of ski touring across the French Alps with her husband and eight months later their beautiful daughter Lilly was born.

Ruth now helps business leaders who have lost connection with their best self win back time doing what they love with those they love by unchaining their pain, unlocking the secrets to greater mental clarity and performance and optimising their unique brain to unleash their full potential.

Dr. Ruth Mary Allan is a Certified Brain Health Professional, High Performance Coach and Havening Techniques Practitioner. She has helped people with a wide range of brain health challenges from ADD, anxiety, depression, grief, PSTD, phobias, birthing trauma, childhood abuse, domestic abuse and Traumatic Brain Injuries.

Her clients around the world range from senior executives to young children, including military and emergency services personnel. Ruth has over 25 years of consulting, coaching and mentoring experience. She loves the outdoors and is a serving British Army Reservist and military ski and mountain leader.

Josh Varner is a trauma informed speaker and a school social worker with a PASSION for helping individuals and schools to support students who have been impacted by childhood trauma. Josh has presented over 150 high energy, informative, interactive presentations to audiences all over the country. Along with speaking, Josh has been a social worker, professional school counselor and coordinated an at-risk student program. Josh has experience in the classroom working with traumatized students and knows what will work for teachers.

Rick Boxx is the Founder and CEO of Unconventional Business Network. Unconventional Business Network is a nonprofit founded in 2001 that is cultivating a vibrant network of Biblically principled small business leaders.

Rick has a daily radio program and broadcast email called "Integrity Moments" that reaches over 2 million leaders and is featured on over 200 radio stations. He's authored six books, including "Unconventional Business."

Rick is a past banker, CPA, consultant and multiple-time entrepreneur. He resides in Overland Park, KS and is married to his lovely and lively wife Kathy. They have three children and two grandchildren who live in the area.

Jessica Yarbrough has quickly developed a reputation of being one of the best business strategists and marketing and sales consultant for entrepreneurs who want to sell high value products and services. Her background is in international business and she has built multiple companies.

Jessica is a genius at showing entrepreneurs how to build an expert platform, rapidly raise their value, build their credibility online and attract high paying clients. She travels the world teaching and inspiring entrepreneurs and helping them grow their influence and make the income and impact they desire.

For more than 35 years Jake Jacobs has worked in 61 industries, from high tech to manufacturing to hospitality to entertainment to financial services. Jake has consulted 96 organizations, from Fortune 50 to national non-profits and community theaters. He's supported more than 210,000 people directly on important changes to their business. What kinds of changes? Everything from strategy implementation to culture change to mergers and acquisitions and leadership development.

Jake has partnered with CEOs, front-line workers and changemakers in middle management in organizations like Ford, Kraft and Marriott. He's also helped create change in the City of New York, U.K.'s National Health Service and the United States Army and Navy.

Clients call Jake when they need faster, easier, better results.

He has recently published Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results -- an approach you can apply to individuals, teams and organizations. It works equally well if you already have a change approach with which you're working or you're looking for a new one to deploy. Are you part of the way through your change work or just starting? In every case, Jacobs's 8 levers can help you get there faster, easier and better than you believed possible.

Sarah Baker Andrus is the founder and CEO of Avarah Careers, a career coaching business. She's worked on all sides of the hiring equation, as a recruiter, hiring manager, and a career counselor, serving in the corporate world, non-profits, and academia. When it comes to the hiring process and how it works from the inside, she's seen it all.

What's her favorite thing to do? Help others find work that makes them feel great about getting out of bed in the morning! She loves guiding people through the job search process to land that job where they can thrive. Her goal is to share the strategies that separate a successful candidate from the ones who struggle, so that ambitious, motivated, early to mid-career professionals, and career changers, don't have to feel stuck anymore. Since most of us spend more than half of our waking hours working, we can all benefit in life-changing ways by making that professional leap with her expertise.

In addition to leading Avarah Careers, she currently teaches as an adjunct professor and serves as the Assistant Director of Career Services at the University of Delaware, coaching MBA students and alumni. When she's not working, she enjoys reading, writing, good food & wine, running through Delaware's beautiful parks, and hanging with the people she loves the most.

Vincent Moiso is an Entrepreneur, Coach, Author and Speaker. He founded his own coaching business VIS Aspire Inc, and is also Principal and President of Oceanside Glasstile Company, an international glass manufacturer. His alter ego brand, Surthriveal Gear recently launched along with his new book, How to Survive the Wilderness - The Playbook for the Entrepreneur and High Performer.