ADVISORY BOARD
Teresa de Grosbois
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Teresa de Grosbois is an international speaker sought by entrepreneurs and large corporations wanting to better understand how local gossip can suddenly turn into epidemic word of mouth. Specializing in the topics of influence and success, Teresa has a proven track-record in understanding word of mouth epidemics having taken three books to best-seller status in only 8 months. Teresa teaches business and marketing courses around the globe, including teaching courses to start-up entrepreneurs in developing countries. As the Chair of the Evolutionary Business Council, Teresa leads an international, invitation-only council of speakers and influencers dedicated to teaching the principles of success. Learn more about Teresa here www.TeresdeGrosbois.com
Dr. Valerie René Sheppard
Trabuco Canyon, CA, USA
Dr. Valerie describes herself as a “recovering corporate executive on radical sabbatical.” Her organizational leadership experience includes roles as VP of Marketing leading a $900 million dollar portfolio of brands, a nine year award-winning track record at Procter & Gamble, and consulting for Fortune 250 companies. During her career, she has launched, grown and turned-around corporate brands, contributed to the health and growth of international non-profits, as well as founded and taught in corporate universities.
Dr. Valerie is #1 international best-selling author of multi-award-winning Living Happy to Be ME!©, and is Founder and CEO of ed tech company, The Heartly Center for Mindfulness and Self-Mastery™. She helps young people and adults, executives and entrepreneurs overcome limiting beliefs, manage stress and complexity, set strategic and tactical plans, and lead teams to high-performance results. She is a certified Sacred Contracts coach, and has been trained in compassionate communication, spiritual direction and HeartMath. Her much-loved personal development curriculum at the University of California, Irvine is being evolved for global expansion.
Dr. Valerie is a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success, and a 2016 recipient of its Excellence in Service Award. Other prestigious recognition includes the 2020 Gold Mentorship Award and the 2019 More Award from The Evolutionary Business Council, as well as numerous appearances in podcasts, radio and television as an expert on leadership and success.
Through her CA-based 501(c)3 non-profit Hearts Awakening, she seeks to serve emancipated foster youth, low-income and 1st generation college students.
Learn more about Dr. Valerie here – happytobeme.net
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Laura Rubinstein
San Diego, CA, USA
Learn more about Laura here – SocialBuzzClub.com / TransformToday.com
Susie Carder
Carlsbad, CA, USA
Susie Carder is a business coach and BELIEVE BUSINESS SHOULD BE FUN, NOT PAINFUL! She is passionate about business owners living a life that is fulfilled! Achieving holistic success is a priority for her and her clients. Susie’s commitment is that all of business owners are paid the value they bring to their business and are the first to be paid not the last.
She BELIEVES IN MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD! You are a gift from God and what you do is your gift back to your community which makes a difference in the world!
PROFIT is an essential part of success and it should be planned for. It is imperative for long-term sustainability.
PLANNING and STRATEGY brings peace of mind, it allows business owners to spend more time with family, friends and in activities that they love outside of work.
Learn more about Sudie here – https://susiecarder.com/
Dame Doria (DC) Cordova
San Diego, CA, USA & Maui, HI, USA
CEO / Owner of Excellerated Business Schools® / Money & You® Program – the organization that brought to the world Experiential, Transformational Entrepreneurial Education (now both off- and on-line), since 1979 with 165,000+ graduates from over 85 countries. The program has inspired some of today’s best known business education and wealth experts, and has touched the lives of millions globally. Her programs are presented in English, Chinese and Japanese – soon expanding to Tamil, Hindi and other Indian languages– plus, Spanish, Bahasa and others.
Doria is a humanitarian, philanthropist, an author and has been in countless Webinars, podcasts, films and book series. She is a Global Business Developer for the world’s leading solar architect, Huang Ming of the unique and only www.SolarValleyChina.com ; and other organizations that are in alignment with her purpose: to uplift humanity’s consciousness through socially-responsible businesses.
The latest version of her www.GlobalExcelleratedBusinessSchool.com covers the three arenas that are most important for conscious entrepreneurs to understand today: New Technologies, Renewables and Contribution.
One of her missions is to transform educational systems around the world and eradicate poverty and hunger – all the endeavors that she is involved in must be in alignment with that mission.
Learn more about Doria here – dccordova.com
Sam Liebowitz
New York, NY, USA
Learn more about Sam here – consciousconsultant.com
Dame Maria Simone
Redondo Beach, CA, USA
Maria Simone is the co-Founder and co-CEO of ZenMoose Capital, an innovative Social Impact Fund and Transformational Media Company. Maria is a transformational business and funding strategist, speaker, author, philanthropist, event producer, serial entrepreneur, and consummate dealmaker. As a ‘Soul, Impact and Profit Catalyst’, she educates on attracting funding for your dreams, how to powerfully collaborate, and how to makeover your business (and life) to have more meaning and profit. She has been featured in Success Magazine, had appearances on ABC and Fox TV, is a DAME of The Order of St John – Hospitaliers of Jerusalem, Russian Priory and proudly serves as a Founding Member of the Association of Transformational Leaders (ATL) and hosts the acclaimed Enlightened Entrepreneur Summit.
Maria has been an active leader in EBC as a call-leader and a volunteer money-coach for EBC leadership.
Learn more about Maria here – zenmoosecapitalllc.com
Mark Bernard
Middlebro, MB, Canada
Mark has been both a call-leader for EBC as well as leading the EBC’s BIPOCA Action Committee (Black, Indigenous, People of Color and Allies).
Learn more about Mark here – bernardtraining.com
EBC WISDOM COUNCIL – ADVISORS TO THE BOARD
(Made up of past Board Members)
Dr. Shawne Duperon
Novi, MI, USA
With her PhD in gossip, numerous EMMY® awards and social media reach topping 120 million per month, Dr. Shawne Duperon is considered by many to be one of the most innovative consultants on communication today.
From London, to Athens, to Munich, to across North America, Dr. Shawne educates corporations, universities, governments and entrepreneurs, on how to effectively communicate resulting in increased retention, engagement and productivity in the workplace. Her popular and progressive conversations on forgiveness as a leadership tool, amplify inclusion and respect in the workplace.
Her case study is Project Forgive, a non-profit and non-religious educational foundation that reaches millions in social media and tens of thousands in her Facebook Live Broadcasts.
You’ve seen this Six-Time EMMY® winner featured in major media including: CNN, ABC, Inc. Magazine, and USA Today.
As a scholar, Dr. Shawne’s expertise is leading-edge. Applying gossip theory, she implemented strategies that caused Project Forgive to go viral, garnering an endorsement from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the honor of a Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for her work on global forgiveness. Join us at www.facebook.com/projectforgive
Joel Young
Coulsdon, Surrey, UK
Joel Young is the Originator of NPA, a Visionary Leader in the field of Human Consciousness and a genuine 21st Century Heretic, with over 16 years experience of healing & teaching internationally. In his inspiring talks and seminars, Joel shares the NPA Process and its message, asking you: “Are you ready for profound positive change that comes this easy?” Joel originally worked in IT & Marketing in the field of Orthopaedics. Events led him to meet Brandon Bays in 1995 as she began sharing The Journey™. Described by Brandon as “A living expression of Grace” and “The best therapist in the northern hemisphere”, Joel is a Senior Accredited Therapist and, before ‘NPA’, was a Presenter for The Journey in Europe, USA & The Middle East.
Over the years, Joel has also trained in NLP, Shamanism, and The Work of Byron Katie (Author of ‘Loving What Is’). Joel describes how in January 2006 he ‘disappeared’ in a cave in India, and in January 2007 he received a revelation in answer to a prayer. He was ‘given’ a simple process, and a Tri-fold message. The simplicity of the process belied its power and the profundity of the message is expanding through Consciousness, and the Global Community.
Joel is renowned for his dynamic, humorous and clear delivery and has a knack for communicating the essence of a topic in a simple, heartfelt and easy to digest way. Get to know Joel here – www.nonpersonalawareness.com
Daniel Gutierrez
Los Angeles, CA USA
To get to the highest tops, one must explore the deepest depths. Nobody knows that better than Daniel Gutierrez.
Once a high-powered executive and in-demand consultant who graced the covers of Latin Business, Cypen and Color Magazines, Daniel realized that there was more to success than a 7-figure earning potential. As President of PRIMER, a prestigious national leadership organization and an advisor to the Department of White House Personnel for the Obama Administration, Daniel was a highly regarded and deeply revered leader. Though Daniel was listed as one of the “Top 100 Hispanics in America” along extraordinary individuals such as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, actor Edward James Olmos and CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, something was still missing.
Daniel clearly mastered the outer game. But his intuition told him that to feel fulfilled, he must also master the inner game.
To everyone’s surprise, at the height of his career Daniel dared to leave it all behind, and decided to dedicate the next chapter of his life to becoming a Master of Mindfulness. During the past 10 years Daniel has led nearly 30 quests to the heights of the Machu Picchu, the depths of the Amazon and the top of the Himalayas. After the boardroom, now he has been guiding entrepreneurs and experts in deep dive mindfulness immersions. Though mindfulness is a lifelong practice, Daniel has become known for giving life-altering strategies in as little as 60 seconds.
In the midst of Manhattan chaos, Daniel has been turning cubicles from a place of stress to pads of serenity. When facing extreme pressure, executives now go from high-strung to highly productive. Even Wall Street had to admit that when you want to climb to top, there is nothing like following someone who is as comfortable in the boardroom as on the backbone of a mountain, having lead thousands to the greatest heights of true success.
A beloved mentor and sought-after motivational speaker, Daniel was featured in the documentary Luminous World Views as one of eighteen world-renowned thought leaders in the area of transformation and leadership. He is a bestselling author, who is excited to release his fifth book, Radical Mindfulness.
Harrison Klein
Sunrise, FL, USA
Harrison Klein describes himself as “a cosmic traveler on a mission to change/elevate 1,000,000 lives into source consciousness, wealth, love, wisdom, transcendence and happiness in every way I can, and with all my heart!” He is endorsed as an award-winning personal-growth transformationalist and business growth consultant across the globe, who helps entrepreneurs, salespeople, executives, coaches, marketers and healers build multi-million dollar companies. Through a combination of psychological genius blueprinting, applied best practices, leadership skills and abilities, and marketing skills, Harrison conveys such metaphysical laws through workshops, articles and books, public speaking events, and traveling the world spreading his mission. Believing the big picture brings clarity, beauty, and financial rewards, he thinks and plans between two years and two generations forward; creating conscious elevation through unique successful companies, products and legacies that are living organisms that will last long after the CEO departs. Harrison sits on the board of several multi million dollar organizations including the 1st World Spiritual Parliament, The New York Association for Research and Enlightenment – (which are subscriber and speaking based organizations with a reach in excess of 2 Billion people) and is the American delegate to India for World United Speakers. As the owner of The Masters Gathering, Women Power and Purpose, True Millionaire Stories, 100MX3, and ProAbundance LLC’s, he develops information and popular products around the leading edge of the spiritual, metaphysical, and coaching industry.
Learn more about Harrison here – www.iamharrisonkleininternational.com or www.iamharrisonklein.com
Jennifer Hough
Jennifer Hough is a seer, alchemist, author and Facilitator of Awakening. Her ability to ‘see’ people holographically evolved as a result of running one of the largest Holistic Nutrition Clinics in Canada (The Vital You) from 1994 until now. That ability evolved from medical intuition such that she could witness individual lives, histories and the collective societal status in holographic form. This was a far cry from her University Studies in Economics and Accounting! It was quite an Awakening for her, because she could never have imagined that her life would be given to interpreting multidimensional information and using it to assist others to transcend their past effortlessly and then flourish in their current lives.
Jennifer founded The Wide Awakening in 2008 to assist us all to remember more deeply the reason we are here, based on the information that she sees and continues to evolve. Her programs include Spiritual Adventures all over the world; her flagship program “Get Out of Your Own Way,” now in 7 countries; “Embody Your Innate Abilities,” a powerful recent addition; and, for her advanced students, six months of “Flight School.” Jennifer loves to hike, climb, mountain bike, snuggle with her dog, and eat the culinary creations made by her sweetie, Adam, a professional chef. (He is the chef on many of her retreats.) Jennifer is the author of several books, audio series and Weekly Awakenings. She and the company are based in the Toronto area.
Colin Sprake
Surrey, BC, Canada
Colin Sprake is devoted to people achieving huge success in their businesses. There is a very definite reason WHY Colin does what he does and it all stems from childhood. Colin was not a happy teenager as he was severely bullied in school and many times thought of suicide. Colin knew that he would have to work on his mindset in order to regain his happiness and did so by meeting John Kehoe, who had a dramatic impact on his life and where he is at today. Colin now spends time assisting business owners and entrepreneurs to find happiness, build a powerful mindset, and grow sustainable and highly profitable businesses with a ton of love in their life. Colin is also a sought after keynote speaker & trainer.
Colin’s information is here – http://www.mymsuccess.com
Marilyn Suttle
Novi, MI, USA
You may have seen Marilyn Suttle on TV news or read about her in magazines such as Inc. Magazine, Corp, Ladies Home Journal and Woman’s World. As a founding member of the Evolutionary Business Council, Marilyn is a sought after transformational communication expert, international speaker, and her bestselling book, “Who’s Your Gladys?” has recently been released in paperback. She works with many Fortune 500 companies like Ford Motor, and, Kimberly Clark helping professionals raising profits, by fueling passion, purpose, and unbreakable bonds with customers.
Marliyn’s information is here – www.marilynsuttle.com
Charmaine Hammond
North Vancouver, BC Canada
For many years I have helped leaders, HR professionals and teams resolve conflict in the workplace, develop leadership skills, & build teams and resilience. The clients that I provide training/speaking, consulting and facilitation for include: corporations, oil & energy industry, government and non profit organizations – I help leaders and teams identify the barriers to success and solve problems getting in the way.
I have a Master’s Degree in Conflict Analysis & Management, and an interesting career path which began in Correctional Services where I was a Correctional Officer and then managed young offender facilities. Later specializing in dispute resolution, I was a mediator and educator in the field of dispute resolution, facilitating and mediating some of the most complex corporate disputes. I have owned my business for the past 18 years, and now have an office in the US as well as Canada. As a transformational speaker, trainer, facilitator and consultant, my presentations have been described by clients as no fluff, content rich seminars and team building sessions that produce positive results.
I am the author of 5 best selling and award winning books, and am featured in six others. My popular book, Bounce Forward has helped thousands of leaders and team members building their team and reaching higher levels of success. Building a Respectful Workplace is my new book, due for release fall 2016.
Dr. Anita Sanchez
Boulder, CO USA
Joyfully drawing on indigenous wisdom, modern science, and decades of training and consulting experience, Dr. Anita Sanchez inspires people to discover and trust their gifts to become a life-giving connection to all. She has trained tens of thousands of leaders and their teams in Fortune 500 corporations, education and non-profit organizations. Whether on stage speaking to 6,000, in a board room or in a training room, Anita guides us in how to create vibrant, diverse and inclusive workplaces where ordinary people can together achieve extraordinary results. TedX presenter of Humanity’s Hope, Dr. Sanchez is author of four books including #1 international best-sellers: Success University for Women in Business, and The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times, Simon & Schuster.
Dr. Sanchez is a Board member of Bioneers and the Pachamama Alliance non- profit organizations, and a member of the Transformational Leadership Council. She leads an annual journey into the sacred headwaters of the Amazon rainforest
Anita’s information is here – www.SanchezTennis.com and www.FourSacredGifts.com
Lisa Marie Platske
Alexandria, VA USA
Lisa Marie Platske left her action-packed life as a Federal law enforcement officer after 9/11 to become the CEO of international leadership development company, Upside Thinking, Inc.
An award-winning leadership expert recognized by the White House and Small Business Administration, she is the Founder of Design Your Destiny Live™, a 3-day leadership experience held in Manhattan Beach in January for the past 11 years.
Lisa Marie delivers high-energy presentations using her seven (7) step leadership model centered on connection, positioning and executive presence. Past clients include the Department of Homeland Security, Honeywell, Santander, the National Association of Realtors, Aflac, the Federal Regulatory Commission, Pacific, Gas, and Electric, and Perry Ellis International to name a few.
Since opening Upside Thinking, Inc. in 2005, she has mentored over 10,000 mission-driven, transformational leaders to grow a bigger vision, create a meaningful brand, and position their expertise so they increase their impact and influence.
Because of Lisa Marie’s leadership background in the Federal government and intuitive gifts, she has a unique way of hearing brilliance and seeing the small shifts needed to capitalize on bigger opportunities.
She works with outliers, trailblazers and boat rockers, coaching leaders around the globe — and is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. An international best-selling author in 5 countries, Lisa Marie has written 7 books.
Giving of her time, talents and treasure, she serves as on the board of Project Forgive, the Executive Advisory Council for Leadership California – and was recognized by The International Alliance of Women as one of the top 100 Women Making a Difference in the World.
Lisa Marie lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her loving and supportive husband Jim and their pet fox.
Lisa Marie’s information is here – UpsideThinking.com
Robert Clancy
Albany, NY, USA
Learn more about Robert here – GuideToTheSoul.com / SpiralDesign.com / MindsetRese
Lisa Mininni
Canton, MI USA
Lisa travels the globe educating small business owners, entrepreneurs, and business leaders on your biological hardwiring. Your wiring dictates the type of environment in which you are best equipped to thrive and succeed, and the kind of environment you prefer to live and work.
Your hardwiring drives you in business and is primarily unconscious. Hardwiring and how you run your business systems are deeply connected. Lisa shows you how to make those connections so you increase your profits to levels you didn’t think were possible.
You’ve seen her featured in major media including Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping and radio shows across North America. Lisa will show you her systems approach to profitability that has been shown to:
– Increase productivity by 40%
– Decrease turnover from 99% to 0 in 3 months
– Increase sales by 90% in 30 days
For more information, visit https://www.excelleratea
