Speakers

Hear from our diverse and award-winning experts…

Mind

Iris Polit, CAPP

Iris is a career transition and personal branding strategist and coach who is obsessed with human thriving. Her mission is to help professionals and entrepreneurs take ownership of their success and live a more fulfilling life. As an award-winning marketer and applied positive psychology practitioner, she also leverages two decades of experience in both non-profit and corporate environments to help her clients get unstuck, live to their fullest potential, and thrive through transitions.

Iris is a multi-passionate corpreneur. She is the best-selling co-author of Mastering the Art of Success, a co-producer of the 4-time Emmy Award-winning documentary A New Leash on Life: The K9s For Warriors Story, and was recently featured on an episode of Success Today which aired on ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates across the US.

Mary Poffenroth, MS

Mary is a biology lecturer and fear researcher for San Jose State University. In addition to contributing to Science magazine, Forbes, TED, and SXSW, she advises growth driven individuals and organizations on how to use science and the power of LEGO® Serious Play to transform their relationship with fear to increase creativity, improve strategic decision making, and cultivate more authentic communications.

Ashaunda' Davis, MA

Ms. Ashaunda’ Davis, is a wealth management advisor and financial coach with a unique approach. She has a passion for and leads a practice specialized in servicing ambitious women professionals and business owners. Her clients say they gain clarity in their financial goals, find money they are currently losing unknowingly and unnecessarily, and feel empowered because they have a written financial plan and an accountability partner as an advisor.

Ms. Davis has her MA/MBA, Series 6 & 63 Securities licenses, ranked agent of the year, first woman to break the production record in her firm, featured on an Essence Magazine and Northwestern Mutual panel before 300+ women on the topic of “Her Wealth, Her Way”. She has also been asked to contribute articles to Essence Magazine on “6 Ways to Save on Valentine’s Day this Year” and Black EOE Journal on “Five Ways to Keep Your Finances in Check when Between Jobs”.

Christina C. Bieg, MS, CSCC, CHES, CAPP

Christina is a Vitality Specialist, Holistic Health Coach and Positive Psychology Practitioner, a dynamic speaker & trainer in all areas of vitality, health, fitness, integrative nutrition, behavior change,and positive psychology. She has been speaking, training and teaching various age groups for over two decades. Christina started her coaching and consultation practice (NRG Training) in 2006 as an outlet to help individuals and groups make personal connections to their overall wellness and to help teach the value of vitality, health and positive behavior change.

In 2015, Christina decided to step away from the lecture halls where she taught for over a decade, to pursue her dream of bringing personal connection & vitality back into people's lives on a grander scale this ultimately creating better, healthier, happier individuals who will spread the positive benefits of health and happiness to others around them by leading more purposeful, meaningful, intentional healthy lives.

Jennifer Kauffman, MS

Jennifer is an award-winning results coach, inspirational speaker and executive producer of the documentary A New Leash on Life: The K9s For Warriors Story. She is also the best-selling author of Shattered: The Boston Marathon I Never Wanted To Run and Did! The Journey of Healing Naturally.

In 2017, Jennifer received the Quilly award for her contributions in Jack Canfield ’s best-selling book, Mastering the Art of Success. Jennifer was inducted into the National Academy of Experts, Writers, and Speakers in 2016 and in 2011 she was awarded the Stars 40 Under 40 award as an emerging leader in her community.

Carolina Zeldin-Matos

Carolina Matos is an experienced yoga instructor who has spent the last 6 years practicing yoga. She earned her 200 Teacher Training Certification from American Yoga in 2016 and has been instructing ever since. Whether through group classes or in one on one instruction, she has enabled hundreds to take advantage of the mental and physical benefits of yoga. Her favorite style of yoga is yin which is passive and aims to hold poses for longer periods of time to intensify stretches and increase flexibility.

Yamarie Grullon

Yamarie is a Certified Canfield Success Principles Trainer, tarot reader, and the creator of Namaste N’ Slay. She combines her training as a life coach with intuitive guidance to provide tarot readings that empower her clients to break free of subconscious blockages and become more empowered.

Dr. J, PhD

Dr. J is a licensed psychologist and certified hypnotherapist who provides mental fitness coaching™, a new way of approaching life for those who feel out of shape emotionally and spiritually. She specializes in working with motivated individuals to reach a new freedom - freedom from outside noise and feeling out of control in order to: 1) connect authentically with their purpose, 2) create amazing relationships, and 3) live with confidence, clarity, and conviction.

Dr. J received her graduate degrees from Columbia University and University of Connecticut and has trained in Positive Psychology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and Hypnosis to create subtle and effortless shifts that produce fulfilling life changes. She has been featured and published on ThriveGlobal, Bustle, Goalcast, Fatherly, and Thriveworks.

V.Da

V’s perspective and experience on life changed in 2007 after reading Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr. Brian Weiss, a renowned psychiatrist and author. After attending her first Past Life Regression seminar with Dr. Brian Weiss in 2016, she finally experienced regressions. These visions inspired her calling as a healer to continue Past Life Regressions, meditation, and healing touch. She conducts private cosultations as well as leads corporate wellness sessions and meditations.

V is not a trained psychotherapist, however, in May of 2017 under The Weiss Institute, V completed a certified professional training course for Past Life Regression Therapy under Dr. Brian Weiss.