Lei Comerford
Executive Coach
Lei Comerford Consulting, LLC
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Lei partners with individuals, teams, and organizations to amplify communication skills, relationships, and leadership effectiveness. Known for her thought partnership and passion for empowering clients, she helps them achieve and surpass their goals through increased self-awareness. 

Lei is a highly effective Leadership & Executive Coach, Facilitator, Speaker, and AI Enablement Specialist with over 20 years of strategic and operational experience in healthcare and over 5 years in hospitality.

She currently volunteers as a Board Member of ATD Nashville, an Advisor for the HBA Ambassador program, and gives back via coaching services through the Humanitarian Coaches Network.

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Monday, June 12, 2023 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Joshua Shelton
Threat Assessment Manager
FedEx
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Joshua Shelton has worked for FedEx for almost 10 years and with the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, Georgia as a detective 13 years prior to that. He currently chairs the Georgia DFCS Region IV Board and seeks to spread the word of violence prevention. Josh is a Certified Threat Manager (CTM) and serves on the Southeastern Region board of The Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, an organization of law enforcement, prosecutors, mental health professionals, and corporate security practitioners in the field of assessing and managing threats of violence. 

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Trudi Chalmers
VP of Impact
headversity
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Dr. Trudi Chalmers is an accomplished behavioural scientist and business leader. Trudi chose to enter the business sector after gaining extensive experience in academia to apply her knowledge of behavioural science in solving business challenges. Trudi has since contributed to the development and growth of numerous technology firms. Currently, Trudi is the Vice President of Impact at headversity, a Calgary-based company that provides digital, preventative mental health solutions for the workforce. Trudi's work at headversity focuses on ensuring that headversity's mental health content is grounded in science and positively impacts employers' and employees' mental health concerns. Outside of work, Trudi enjoys adventuring outside and exploring the mountains with her husband and two daughters.

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Gretchen Phillips
Chief Revenue Officer
headversity
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Gretchen Phillips is the Chief Revenue Officer of headversity, a preventative workforce mental health platform. She is responsible for strategic partnerships, sales and client success- working with employers of all sizes to reduce the costs of poor mental health in the workplace.  Over the past two decades, Gretchen has held many executive leadership roles in the Group Benefits space, including head of Disability Claims. When she’s not working, Gretchen is a devoted swim and music theatre parent, and whenever possible, plays golf, chess, and the piano.  Gretchen is a graduate of Bucknell University and lives in Morristown, NJ with her husband, two sons and rescue dog, Maverick.

 

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Trudi Chalmers
VP of Impact
headversity
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Dr. Trudi Chalmers is an accomplished behavioural scientist and business leader. Trudi chose to enter the business sector after gaining extensive experience in academia to apply her knowledge of behavioural science in solving business challenges. Trudi has since contributed to the development and growth of numerous technology firms. Currently, Trudi is the Vice President of Impact at headversity, a Calgary-based company that provides digital, preventative mental health solutions for the workforce. Trudi's work at headversity focuses on ensuring that headversity's mental health content is grounded in science and positively impacts employers' and employees' mental health concerns. Outside of work, Trudi enjoys adventuring outside and exploring the mountains with her husband and two daughters.

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Lei Comerford
Executive Coach
Lei Comerford Consulting, LLC
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Lei partners with individuals, teams, and organizations to amplify communication skills, relationships, and leadership effectiveness. Known for her thought partnership and passion for empowering clients, she helps them achieve and surpass their goals through increased self-awareness. 

Lei is a highly effective Leadership & Executive Coach, Facilitator, Speaker, and AI Enablement Specialist with over 20 years of strategic and operational experience in healthcare and over 5 years in hospitality.

She currently volunteers as a Board Member of ATD Nashville, an Advisor for the HBA Ambassador program, and gives back via coaching services through the Humanitarian Coaches Network.

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Scott Lesnick
President
Successful Business Solutions llc.
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Scott Lesnick is a sought-after global leadership keynote speaker. He presents powerful keynotes and interactive sessions at 30+ events a year and is an author. Also, Scott earned his CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation from the National Speakers Association. Only 12% of speakers world-wide have this designation! Scott is also a Certified Virtual Presenter.

Scott recently presented at TEDx. And, he’s run the equivalent of 2X around the planet. That’s 50,000 miles! In addition, Scott spent 24 award-winning years leading sales teams at Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway Fortune 500 company.

Scott served as the Academy Dean for Professional Speakers and the National Speakers Association. He is a graduate of The University of Miami, Florida. His memoir, Kidjacked – A Father’s Story and his book Lifejacked: Life Lessons on Leadership were published to critical acclaim.

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Scott Lesnick
President
Successful Business Solutions llc.
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Scott Lesnick is a sought-after global leadership keynote speaker. He presents powerful keynotes and interactive sessions at 30+ events a year and is an author. Also, Scott earned his CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation from the National Speakers Association. Only 12% of speakers world-wide have this designation! Scott is also a Certified Virtual Presenter.

Scott recently presented at TEDx. And, he’s run the equivalent of 2X around the planet. That’s 50,000 miles! In addition, Scott spent 24 award-winning years leading sales teams at Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway Fortune 500 company.

Scott served as the Academy Dean for Professional Speakers and the National Speakers Association. He is a graduate of The University of Miami, Florida. His memoir, Kidjacked – A Father’s Story and his book Lifejacked: Life Lessons on Leadership were published to critical acclaim.

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Mary Celeste
Professor
Judge Mary A. Celeste (ret.), LLC
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Judge Mary A. Celeste (ret.) sat on the Denver County Court bench 2000-2015. She was the Presiding Judge 2009-10 and the co-founder of the Denver County Court Sobriety Court. She is currently a law school professor teaching Marijuana and the Law at California Western School of Law and at the Florida Gulf Coast University Fall 2023. She is considered a national content expert and speaker on the topic of cannabis and the law. She recently coordinated the successful National Interdisciplinary Cannabis Symposium 2022. She is a former board member of the IALGBT+ Judges’ Association and member of the Judicial Advisory Board for the Foundation for the Advancement of Alcohol Responsibility (FAAR); Faculty for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) and the National Judicial College (NJC). She has also served as the past chair of ABA National Conference of Specialized Court Judges; the President of the American Judge’s Association and the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation, and, as a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Judicial Outreach Liaison. She has written many articles and is a national expert and speaker on the topics of cannabis, marijuana, marijuana and drug impaired driving, drugged driving, and cannabis and specialty courts.

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 7:30am to 8:30am
Mary Celeste
Professor
Judge Mary A. Celeste (ret.), LLC
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Judge Mary A. Celeste (ret.) sat on the Denver County Court bench 2000-2015. She was the Presiding Judge 2009-10 and the co-founder of the Denver County Court Sobriety Court. She is currently a law school professor teaching Marijuana and the Law at California Western School of Law and at the Florida Gulf Coast University Fall 2023. She is considered a national content expert and speaker on the topic of cannabis and the law. She recently coordinated the successful National Interdisciplinary Cannabis Symposium 2022. She is a former board member of the IALGBT+ Judges’ Association and member of the Judicial Advisory Board for the Foundation for the Advancement of Alcohol Responsibility (FAAR); Faculty for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) and the National Judicial College (NJC). She has also served as the past chair of ABA National Conference of Specialized Court Judges; the President of the American Judge’s Association and the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation, and, as a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Judicial Outreach Liaison. She has written many articles and is a national expert and speaker on the topics of cannabis, marijuana, marijuana and drug impaired driving, drugged driving, and cannabis and specialty courts.

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Bill Pace
President of North America
Cardinus
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Bill Pace is President of Cardinus LLC. He has worked in the US HR software market since 1995 and has specialized in ergonomics solutions for business for over 12 years. He has worked with several Fortune 500 and 100 companies including the University of California (all 12 campuses, 5 medical centers, and research facilities), Marsh, and Visa.

 

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Jennifer Gamboa
Managing Partner
Sustainable Health Index
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Jennifer M. Gamboa, PT, DPT, OCS is the co-founder and a managing partner of the Sustainable Health Index, a data consultancy that delivers a clear path to savings by identifying the highest value opportunities to mitigate migration of risk and decrease the cost of caring for employees.  Trained as a Physical Therapist and a board-certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist, Dr. Gamboa founded an interdisciplinary physical therapy and wellness clinic almost 30 years ago. She has spent her entire career working to maximize function, prevent illness, and empower whole health; initially through individual patient care and ultimately through partnering with employers to design and deliver direct primary and musculoskeletal care solutions.  A Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, Dr. Gamboa has learned that it is vitally important to collect meaningful data in order to discern the complex interconnected relationships among health, safety, and wellbeing and redesign processes, policies, and procedures to advance the collective health of people and the longevity of organizations.

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