Nagham Alsamari is the Founder and Behavioral Resilience Trainer at Imkan Leadership Development LLC, a Michigan-based company helping organizations build managers who can hold under pressure instead of burning out. She's a Maxwell Certified DISC Behavioral Analysis Consultant and Trainer and a doctoral candidate in Education, bringing 20 years of experience in education, from classroom teaching to school administration to Director of Staff Mentoring and Coaching, along with 13+ years focused specifically on training and professional development. Nagham is on a mission to combat Band-Aid Management, the quick-fix culture that patches problems instead of building the underlying strength to handle them. She's the creator of Behavioral Resilience Training™, a framework that helps managers recognize and break the reactive patterns that lead to burnout. She's the 2024 HRUnite Inspire Award recipient, the 2025 Toastmasters International Speaking Competition District Winner, and is currently writing her first book, Train Your Resilience Muscle.

Website: https://imkanleadership.com/about-us

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadwithimkan/home/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NaghamAlsamari

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naghamalsamari/

Manager Resilience Scorecard: https://imkanleadership.com/training/manager-resilience-scorecard 

Organizational Resilience Audit: https://imkanleadership.com/organizational-resilience-audit 

Manager Pressure Index: https://imkanleadership.com/manager-pressure-index 

Blog: https://imkanleadership.com/blog

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Michelle McQueen is a Detroit Native, a Business Owner, and a voiceover artist. Michelle has been in the voiceover industry since 2011 and has been in business since September 2020. Michelle has over twenty years of sales experience and was in the Real Estate industry for the past seventeen years. Michelle trained under Kate Hart in 2011 at the Michigan Voice Over Talent training in Michigan and she was the voiceover talent for Rocket Homes from 2011-2018. Michelle's vision is to help small, medium, and large size businesses increase their revenue by providing them professional voiceover services such as voicemail greetings, corporate narrations, and commercials. Michelle McQueen Voiceovers LLC is WBE and WOSB certified. Michelle resides in the metro Detroit area with her Husband Aurelio and their son Alexander.

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Ezra Zimbler is the Chief of Staff at Barrett Solutions, a software consultancy focused on building custom products, AI-driven solutions, and scalable systems for growing businesses. He began his career at LinkedIn, where he worked closely with companies on hiring, go-to-market strategy, and growth. Today, he operates at the intersection of strategy and execution, helping drive business growth, partnerships, and operations inside Barrett Solutions. Ezra is also the creator of The Profile Experience, a curated, in-person community that brings together founders, operators, and professionals across SE Michigan to build meaningful relationships and grow together. 

Ezra's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezimbler/

The Profile Experience LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theprofileexperience/

The Profile Experience website: http://theprofileexperience.com/

Barrett Solutions Website: https://barrettsolve.com/

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Whitney Combs is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach and former Physician Assistant who helps women change their relationship with alcohol and build lives they no longer feel the need to escape from.

After getting sober in 2017, Whitney transitioned from clinical medicine into coaching so she could support people through a more holistic, whole-person approach to healing and behavior change. She has trained through leading health coaching organizations and holds board certification through the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching.

Whitney’s coaching style blends practical tools, nervous system support, and compassionate accountability to help women create freedom, self-trust, and lasting change.

When she’s not coaching, you can find her reading, journaling, making sourdough, playing mahjong, or eating all the chocolate.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whitney.combs/

Website: www.whitneycombs.com

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DeLasheà Strawder serves as Executive and Artistic Director of Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, where she also leads as the primary music teaching artist for the teen ensemble. As an alumna of the program herself, she brings an intimate understanding of the transformative power of youth voice and leadership. Her approach is deeply collaborative—she regularly consults program participants in critical organizational decisions including program design, evaluation, marketing, resource development, and power-sharing initiatives, embodying her commitment to youth-centered leadership and authentic community building.

To learn more about Mosaic: https://mosaicdetroit.org/history-and-accomplishments/

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Sharnell James, LLMSW, is a mental health and self-care advocate, educator, and speaker dedicated to advancing wellness, resilience, and self-preservation among women of color. She is the founder of Dear Self Care, a transformative platform committed to dismantling mental health stigma and promoting sustainable self-care practices.

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dearselfcare?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

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Tathiana Machado is a career and leadership coach who helps ambitious professionals navigate meaningful career transitions and build work lives aligned with their values. A former McKinsey consultant and INSEAD MBA, she has over a decade of experience in strategy and leadership roles across tech and consulting, working across Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Today, she is an ICF-certified coach who supports professionals, particularly women and consultants, who are questioning their next career move and want to choose their path consciously rather than by default. Her work focuses on helping clients gain clarity, build confidence, and design careers that integrate ambition with personal fulfillment.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tathianamachado/

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Ber-Henda Williams is a Womanist Cultural Strategist, speaker, and convener, and the creator of Culture Shift(Hers)™, a practice rooted in Soft Power leadership, storytelling, and community transformation. She is a contributing author to the #1 international bestselling anthology Modern Day High Priestess.

https://sociatap.com/BerHenda/

Melisa Keenan is an eight-time international bestselling author, founder of The Heart Open Publishing Enterprise, and an intimacy mentor devoted to helping leaders and visionaries tell the truth of who they are. Her work bridges authentic storytelling, lineage healing, sacred feminine leadership, and the reclamation of pleasure as power.

https://www.melisakeenan.com/

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Amber Poupore is a Michigan-based plant-forward culinary entrepreneur and educator, and the founder/owner of Cacao Tree Café—an established plant-based café in downtown Royal Oak known for nutrient-dense meals, superfood smoothies, and decadent raw desserts made with thoughtfully sourced ingredients. Her work is rooted in more than 25 years of living a plant-strong lifestyle and over two decades in the vegetarian restaurant world, including nearly a decade at Inn Season Café, one of metro Detroit’s pioneering vegetarian restaurants.

In addition to leading her café, Amber teaches and supports wellness-focused food education through community programming and partnerships, helping people build practical, sustainable habits around real food. She has been featured in local media and in the documentary Eating You Alive, reflecting her commitment to making plant-forward eating approachable, satisfying, and inclusive. 

Amber is currently developing Herban Grounds, a community-oriented coffeehouse concept offering crafted coffee and tea, smoothies, elixirs, and a vegetarian breakfast-forward menu in a welcoming, alcohol-free gathering space.

Website: https://www.cacaotreecafe.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063595392908 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cacaotreecafe/

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Mark Lane is a communications strategist, storyteller, and host of Ghosted by the Machine, a podcast exploring the human side of modern hiring. With over two decades of experience in corporate communications and media production, he brings both executive insight and real-world job search experience to conversations about AI, hiring, and making the process more human.

LinkedIn: Mark Lane | LinkedIn

Facebook - ghostedbythemachine  

Instagram - @ghostedbythemachine1 

TikTok - @ghostedbythemachine 

X - @MarkL95619 (ghostedbythemachine)

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