After a successful twenty-year career as an executive and entrepreneur, Vish is honoring his soul mission as an East-meets-West Executive & Life Coach. He helps business leaders find balance and success through the wisdom of the Vedic tradition. He has studied and practiced yoga, meditation and Ayurveda (mind-body medicine) for over two decades, learning in Himalayan ashrams and at the Chopra Center in California. Vish coaches and advises senior executives and small-business owners blending Western management thinking with Eastern wisdom traditions and speaks on a variety of topics at the intersection of business and spirituality.

Vish holds a BA in mechanical engineering from Northwestern, an MBA from the University of Michigan and an Executive Coaching Certificate from UC Berkeley. Vish has held publicly elected office overseeing the Beach Cities Health District in Southern California and is the author of The Business Casual Yogi: Take Charge of Your Body, Mind & Career. He is a married father of three and loves to garden, bicycle and fix things around the house!

Ali Dunn, CPCC, is an Empowerment Coach for creative and ambitious executives and entrepreneurs who are seeking more than the status quo. Open to possibilities and ready to grow, Ali’s clients come to her to tap into their higher purpose so they may live and lead from a place of clarity, joy and confidence. Along with formal training from the Co-Active Training Institute, The Berkeley Institute of Executive Coaching, and trained in Dare to Lead, Ali is also the founder of Cup of Clarity, a weekly productivity and planning group for entrepreneurs. Ali also serves as a mentor coach for The Hivery in San Francisco, The Cru and Women for Change and feels most at home when the sun is shining and her coffee is strong. More about Ali can be found at www.alidunn.com

Amy Lynn Durham is the founder of “Create Magic At Work” and a U.C. Berkeley Certified Executive Coach. She is certified to coach in the 21 skills associated with Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) using the SQ21 Assessment and an Emotional Intelligence Practitioner (EQ).

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. As an advocate for building positive company cultures, Amy designed Create Magic At Work to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in cultivating teamwork and harmony in order to improve profits and employee morale. Her company, Create Magic At Work’s intention is to offer Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and Emotional Intelligence (EQ) tools to energize and transform the workplace.

In her spare time, you can also find her spending time with her Cavapoo, Mr. Bingley.

Michelle Florendo is a decision engineer and coach for Type-A professionals. She is known for her analytical approach to coaching - with a BS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Michelle uses a blend of decision engineering, design thinking, and systems thinking to help her clients achieve their goals.

Over the years Michelle has led workshops both domestically and internationally, showing hundreds of driven professionals how to use concepts from decision engineering to help them grow their impact and fulfillment. She has spoken at several conferences and teaches a course on decision making for Stanford Continuing Studies. She served on the inaugural coaching team for Seth Godin's altMBA, was a founding member of the Forbes Coaches Council, spent years as a Senior Coach for Management Leadership for Tomorrow, coaches for Startup Parent, and is an adjunct faculty member at New Ventures West.

Michelle has 1500+ hours of coaching experience spanning a decade. She has a certification from Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, a Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coaching Federation, and an Integral Coaching certification from New Ventures West.

Benjamin Mertz is a musician and educator based in Richmond, California. He leads workshops in Black Spiritual music, African-American history, and racial justice issues. Benjamin has worked for over ten years with faith communities, civil rights groups, nonprofit organizations, and schools. He has recently worked alongside organizations like Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (IM4HI), the NAACP, and the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute (BECI). With an approach firmly rooted in civil rights literature and the oral traditions of the African diaspora, Benjamin brings an open-hearted and nuanced perspective to the cultural and social issues of these times. He has led informational lectures as well as Q&A and group discussions around issues like Black Lives Matter, the prison industrial complex, policing, civil rights, diversity, and white allyship. Benjamin combines his extensive research with years of on-the-ground experience as an activist and songleader, giving him a unique and holistic understanding of how social and demographic data translates to peoples’ lived experiences. A third-generation professional musician, Benjamin’s mother is an opera and jazz vocalist and his “grandaddy” was a bebop pianist who worked with the likes of Sarah Vaughan and Charles Mingus. Benjamin apprenticed under professional musicians who worked the New York City club scene, and grew up in a musically diverse, multi-ethnic church community in Paterson, New Jersey. He has spent his adult life teaching, composing, performing, and running workshops in the Black Spiritual music tradition. He is the founder/director of the Joyful Noise! Gospel Singers and music director of Skyline Community Church in Oakland.

Ms. Taiwo Onibokun is an Authentic and results oriented visionary with over 20+ years of progressive experience in the Technical arena. She is a Intentional leader who works tirelessly to drive employee engagement, honors an environment of diversity of thought and intersectionality in the workplace. Highly motivated by empowering and creating high performing teams and moving the needle towards a more just and equitable workplace, and providing thought leadership in social justice groups and ERGs.

Taiwo is currently the Director of Revenue Operations for Yahoo/Edgecast, formerly known as Verizon Digital Media Platform group, out of the Jefferson, Playa Vista California Office for almost 12 years. She moved from the East to beautiful Southern California to lead a Global Sales Operations team; where she has lived since 2014 with her husband & 4 children (5 yr twin daughters, 10 yr stepson, 9 yr stepdaughter).

Taiwo graduated from UCD, in Denver with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications, minoring in Technology Management, received a MBA from UoPX and recently was part of the 2021 BECI February class.

An advocate for leadership development via story sharing and creating inspirational moments that drive pivotal momentum for change. Taiwo’s number one motivation are her kids, who challenge her to do more for her community & be a positive example of turning pain into progression. She works to impact the future for all children, where someday they too will have a seat at the ‘Decision-making’ table based on individual contributions, talent and never sex/race or creed.

Kati founded A Positive Adventure (APA), a learning and development consulting firm based in the Bay Area. APA has built world class, award-winning training programs for companies like Instacart, Marine Layer, Bill.com, Gannett, LivingSocial, and others.

She is a professionally trained and engaging public, keynote speaker. She has spoken at industry conferences including Training Industry Conference & Expo (TICE), ATD International Convention, contributed content to publications such as #GirlBoss.com, TD, been quoted in Fast Company on effective team building practices and books such as Scaling for Success.

Kati’s passion is motivating founders, employees and making learning stick by helping others reach their full potential through a positive and successful learning adventure.

Susan Schmitt Winchester is the Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for Applied Materials, a Fortune 200 Silicon Valley company, and its more than 25,000 global employees. She has more than 30 years of experience in HR providing executive leadership most recently as Head of HR for Rockwell Automation and prior to that in multiple leadership roles for the Kellogg Company. She continually looks to meet today’s global business challenges with creative HR strategies that engage people, support a dynamic, inclusive corporate culture, and enable company exceptional performance. Her passion is teaching and inspiring executives, leaders and professionals how to succeed by discovering greater self-acceptance, fulfillment and joy at work and in life. She believes doing so will also positively shift company cultures.

Susan is also the author of the book, Healing at Work: A Guide to Using Career Conflicts to Overcome Your Past and Build the Future You Deserve, with Martha I. Finney.

Additionally, Susan is a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources—the highest professional honor for leaders in HR. She serves as a Board member for the HR Policy Association and on the Executive Committee of the Peer Roundtable for CHROs. She is Vice Chair, Leadership Advisory Board to the Dean of Engineering, College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. And Susan is a member of the Forbes HR Council.

For more information about Susan, please visit:

www.susanjschmitt.com

Aaron Tabacco, PhD, RN is an Executive Coach and the Director of Staff Experience in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. A former professor of developmental pediatrics, Aaron transitioned into his current line of work three years ago, becoming a thought leader in the development of holistic workplaces, transferring nursing skills and values to leadership development and DEI efforts, and conducting internal institutional workforce research. Aaron has numerous professional publications in the US, Europe, and Japan, and is a LinkedIn content creator. He's the father of three young adult sons, an avid creative writer, and a terrible-but-joyful aspiring watercolor artist. Aaron divides his time between homes in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon with his partner, Karl.