Fighting for a Cause while you transcend as a better version
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Candace Lightner
Award Winning Keynote Speaker, Educator, Activist and Consultant. President at We Save Lives, and CL and Associates
About Candace
Candace Lightner, is a groundbreaking activist, cultural movement maker, mentor, author, producer, and spokesperson, who is widely recognized as one of the most influential American citizens of the twentieth century.
She is the Founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, MADD, and We Save Lives and is credited with saving more than 400,000 lives.
Candace is the subject of an Emmy nominated television movie and is featured in numerous documentaries and books. She co-authored “Giving Sorrow Words: How to Cope with Grief and Get on With Your Life,” which breaks the grieving process down into 3 stages: the beginning the middle and the rest of your life.
She speaks to thousands all over the world on how to turn a protest into a movement and the ABC’s of making a difference. As a successful leader, she offers practical ideas and strategies, based on the techniques that have worked for her. Candace has become the “go-to” expert on how to create a successful movement. She will soon be introducing workshops on how to be a successful activist.
As an ongoing guest lecturer at Columbia University’s Personal Leadership Institute, Candace not only serves as an example of how to start a successful movement that lasts, she also knows about navigating the pitfalls on one’s way to becoming the CEO of a large international corporation.
Candace is also a strong advocate for the Courage to Intervene, a We Save Lives program educating bystanders on the best techniques for keeping anyone who will listen from driving recklessly.
Candace continues to inspire and motivate groups around the country, and believes that when others succeed in a noble cause it helps all of us live better.
Specialties include Strategic Planning, building your grassroots, the nuances of developing an effective non-profit, the necessary steps to pass legislation and coalition building.
Take home these learnings
1) How to retain strength, retain, and grit when you choose a difficult battle?
2) Being practical while not being lost by emotion.
3) How to build camaraderie to support a common cause?
4) How to manage a volunteer ecosystem and build an organization from grassroots?
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Gaurav Arora
3 Lessons From 3 Important Women (Mother's Day Special)
Gaurav Arora
Master Coach, Facilitator and founder of xMonks
About Gaurav
Gaurav has a decade of rich experience in the professional services industry as a Facilitator, Coach and Speaker, with a strong track record of building high-performing leadership teams. As a facilitator, he has been recognized for creating stimulating and interactive learning environments, encouraging participation and individual creativity. As an Executive Coach, he works to dismantle barriers that come up in the workplace for leaders and help them in fulfilling their intent. A storyteller by heart, he leverages various methodologies and technique to put his point across and create the breakthrough.
He founded Inspire Coaching Systems in 2009, now known as xMonks and started a social development initiative “iOwn” in 2016, which is a platform to connect coaches with Social Development Sector to create possibilities and transformation for the change makers and bringing coaching to the grass root level.
Gaurav is an Engineer and a Management Graduate in Marketing. He is a recipient of the “Young HR Professional of the Year 2009-10” by Employer Branding Institute and has been awarded as the 100 top Leadership Coach in 2017. Recently, Gaurav has been honored with the 2019 ICF Young Leader Award. Gaurav is a voracious reader and loves adventure sports. In his free time, he does calligraphy, painting, and reads books.
Take home these learnings
2) Message from my teacher, Dr.Marilyn Atkinson
3) Lesson from my sister.
Charles Feltman
Why Building Trust is Important?
Charles Feltman
Transformational Leadership Coach / Expert on Trust at Work
About Charles
Charles Feltman has more than 25 years of experience coaching, facilitating, consulting, and educating people in positions of leadership. His clients' success and wellbeing at work and in other aspects of their lives is an overarching goal in all of his work. He spent a decade in senior roles in the technology industry before launching his coaching and consulting business. Today, Charles focuses his efforts on two key areas: individual leadership coaching and leadership teams, as well as leadership development programmes.
Charles works with executives and managers who want to improve or build critical leadership skills that lead to extraordinary business success. He also works with executives and project teams who want to regularly deliver outstanding results. Based on three decades of experience working with individuals and teams to establish, maintain, and repair trust, Charles is the author of The Thin Book® of Trust: An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work. Charles served as a mentor coach for Newfield Network's programmes after finishing his coach training in 2000.
Charles graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in organisational development and communication from the University of Southern California. He is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (PCC). The Leadership Circle Profile, MBTI, DiSC Work of Leaders, and the Triscendance Trust Assessment for Leadership Teams are among his certifications.
Take home these learnings
2) Identifying your relation with trust.
3) Exploring the 7 steps to rebuild trust.
4) Distinction between trusting and not trusting people.
Kevin Monroe
Hope Grows in Gratitude
Kevin Monroe
Gratitude Ambassador
About Kevin Monroe
During a bout of depression in early 2018 when Kevin began to discover the true power of gratitude and embrace gratitude as a lifestyle. He realized that his early expressions of gratitude were anemic and bordered on robotic. As such, they failed to tap into the power of gratitude that neuroscientists and positive psychologists talk about.
As he adopted gratitude as a lifestyle, he began incorporating gratitude into his work. Whether that was speaking engagements, training or coaching sessions, or his podcast, he started sessions by asking people to pause and express gratitude for something.
Then, in June 2019, he was inspired to host a gratitude challenge. So he did. At first, it was in conjunction with his podcast. He hosted a 10-Day Gratitude Challenge to celebrate the 100th episode milestone. It was a tremendous success with almost 300 participants, and by the second day, a 100-person waitlist.
So, he launched a second session of the challenge. And it grew—organically and globally. By the fifth session, more than 1,000 people from 40-plus countries had participated, and by the 10th session, that number grew to over 2,000 people from more than 50 countries. Somehow, Kevin had tapped into the power of gratitude and people’s hunger for it.
He also co-created The Gratitude Challenge Card Deck, a resource that shares 52 of the creative prompts from The Gratitude Challenge for people to use to grow and guide gratitude in their life, work, or family.
His latest endeavor is 30 Days IN the Power of Gratitude, an app-based journey helping people explore and embrace the power of gratitude in a 30-day journey.
He is the founder and host of This Extraordinary Life Global Community and Podcast.
Kevin is a graduate of Gonzaga University with a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership. He has an undergraduate degree in theology from Mercer University. He is a Fellow with Creating the Future and The Colson Center. He lives in Woodstock, Georgia, where he enjoys being a husband, father, grandfather, friend, creator, and gratitude guide.
Take home these learnings
2) How living from a space of gratitude changes life?
3) How to practice gratitude during the dark times of your life?
4) Discovering rituals of gathering those gratitude moments on a day to day basis.
Alain Hunkins
How everyday people can become everyday leaders?
Alain Hunkins
Keynote speaker, facilitator, coach, and author
About Alain
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A sought-after keynote speaker, facilitator, coach and author, Alain Hunkins helps leaders achieve performance goals, easier.
His work connects the science of high performance with the performing art of leadership. Leaders trust him to help unlock their potential and expand their influence, leading to superior results, increased engagement, higher levels of retention, and greater organizational and personal satisfaction. He has a gift for translating complex concepts from psychology, neuroscience and organizational behavior into simple, practical tools that can be applied on the job.
With his Master’s in Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Professional Theater Training Program, and a BA from Amherst College, Alain is on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education, ranked #2 worldwide in 2019 by Financial Times on its list of customized Executive Education programs. He also serves on the Academic Advisory Board for the New Delhi Institute of Management, and has lectured at UNC Kenan-Flagler’s business school, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology, UMass-Boston College of Management and Columbia University. Alain's was invited to Den Helder, Netherlands to give a TEDx talk called "The Basic Truth Most Leaders Neglect."
Take home these learnings
1) Transcending from moments of pause
2) Inner reflections aligning with purpose, beliefs, and assumptions.
3) Sense of lack vs sense of awareness
4) How to create commitment rather than compliance?
5) Managing teams and cultivating leadership
Spud Marshall
Ways to Build Communities that Thrive
Spud Marshall
Founder of My Creative Community, Author
About Spud
Spud Marshall is a social entrepreneur, community builder, and fog machine enthusiast. He is the founder of My Creative Community, which supports groups in designing engaging experiences for their communities. He works with a variety of organisations, including the Sullivan Foundation, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as Teach for America, the American Planning Association, and Johnson & Johnson, as a facilitator, coach, and consultant. He was the Innovation Director of 3 Dots Downtown, a community art and innovation event facility that he founded. He's also the originator and driving force behind the co.space, a 20-person intentional community for young changemakers that's been dubbed one of higher education's most innovative innovations.
Spud launched New Leaf Initiative, which now acts as a dedicated co-working facility and innovation incubator, prior to those activities. He has been named a Knight Foundation Emerging Cities Champion, as well as one of the country's top millennial civic leaders and one of central Pennsylvania's "Foremost Under 40" business leaders. Spud has a master's degree in strategic sustainability leadership with a very impressive failure track record (contact him if you're interested). He and his wife, faithful dog, and curious cat currently reside in State College, Pennsylvania.
Take home these learnings
2) Role and traits of a community builder.
3) Difference between a cult and a community.
4) Three important pillars of our community
David Clutterbuck
Reflections on Life & Coaching
David Clutterbuck
Practice Lead At David Clutterbuck Partnership
About David
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Professor David Clutterbuck is credited with introducing sponsored mentorship to Europe in the early 1980s. He combines a wealth of research-based knowledge and experience to deliver a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to coaching, mentoring, and talent management as an EMCC Master Practitioner (EIA, ESIA, and IPMA).
David is the author or co-author of almost 70 books. He is a visiting professor in four universities’ departments of coaching and mentoring – Henley Business School, Oxford Brookes, Sheffield Hallam, and York St John – as well as a visiting lecturer at a number of overseas universities. David is a practice lead at Coaching and Mentoring International Limited, a global network of researchers, trainers, and consultants specializing in coaching and mentoring in over 100 countries.
David’s current research interests include coach maturity transitions, the role of artificial intelligence in coaching, the ripple impact of mentoring, and the democratization/decolonization of coaching. Among his numerous humanitarian endeavors is the goal of establishing five million coaches and mentors for children in elementary school.
Outside of work, David’s hobbies include the use of humor for social and emotional well-being, authoring children’s books, ice skating, and traveling to distant regions of the world. Each year, he sets a new learning objective for himself.
Take home these learnings
1. Defining Coaching and Mentoring.
2. Improving team dynamics by opening up meaningful dialogue via Systemic Coaching
3. Creating a distinction as a coach
4. A Coach's vision in coaching
