PHOENIXRISING - Key Persons


Allison Adams

Job Titles:
  • Founding Partner of the Big Calling
Allison Adams, founding partner of The Big Calling and Future Impact Partners. The Big Calling is a transformational training agency for leaders, teams, and stakeholders. Future Impact Partners, a social impact consultancy, multiplies a company's return on investment by including return on impact in all areas and stages of business development. Our global network of partners work with companies of all sizes and have the heart to evolve business for economic coherence and sustainability. Allison blends many fields of study, methodologies, science, degrees and certifications to support clients and companies to overcome systemic challenges and build a coherent, resilient and optimal future. You can also find Allison leading change via The Economy for the Common Good-USA, a global non-profit movement, as well as fulfilling her dream of leading and co-creating global Transformational Leadership Workshops and Retreats.

Bridgit Wald

Job Titles:
  • Coach
Bridgit Wald is a coach, organizational development consultant, and passionate student and facilitator of human and organizational systems transformation. She began her career as an independent marketing and strategic planning consultant and merges her background in strategy and business development with extensive training and practical experience in leadership and organizational development. She custom-curates programming to meet wide-ranging organizational development needs, with her primary focus areas being individual and team leadership development, coaching and training, and the cultivation of thriving, innovative workplace cultures. Her approaches draw heavily on her training in Design Thinking, Theory U, UX, and regenerative systems frameworks, along with intensive study and practice of embodied leadership frameworks. She has studied extensively in the equine integrated leadership development space and is the founder of EquusLibere, a Boulder, CO-based equine facilitated learning organization offering Equine Facilitated Coaching, Leadership Development, and Transformational Learning Experiences for individuals, groups, and organizations. She holds a B.A from McGill University in Montreal, QC.

Elmar Dornberger

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Hemisphere Consulting

Heidi Piper

Heidi has been speaking publicly for four decades. She is available to speak about topics related to leadership, transformation, resilience, work-life balance, high performance and self-care, psychological safety at work, diversity and inclusion, working globally and remotely successfully, up-leveling your life, creativity and innovation, and finding inspired purpose.

Lisa Marie

Job Titles:
  • Main - Continuum Consulting
Lisa Marie Main, MA, ABS, is passionate about activating the potential of humanity in all that she does. She is an accomplished leader, insightful consultant, executive coach, and engaging facilitator who delivers results with backbone and heart. She has traveled the world partnering with leaders and teams in all forms of business including Fortune 50 companies such as Procter and Gamble, JP Morgan Chase, Nestle, Kellogg's, Pfizer, as well as community organizations and INGOs. Her acute understanding of the subtle energies and dynamics in human systems, coupled with creativity, are brought-to-life in all that she designs and delivers. As the COO of an international company Lisa Marie gained a deep understanding and respect for the complexities challenging leaders and organizations today. She earned her Masters Degree in Applied Behavioral Science, Leadership and Organization Development in Human Systems and is the Co-Founder and Co-President of Continuum Consulting Services. Since 1999, she has incorporated and promoted the leading-edge knowledge and benefits of somatic-systemic approaches supported by neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology and regenerative practices. Lisa Marie enjoys immersing herself in nature and can be found gardening, hiking and skiing whenever possible in her home state of beautiful Colorado.

Mukara Meredith

Mukara Meredith, MSW, Matrixworks Founder and CEO and Certified Hakomi Trainer, with humor, often refers to herself as a 108 year old Tibetan Elf. Mukara's life's-work has been devoted to bringing human-friendly values into businesses and organizations to ensure meaningful work, marketplace fairness and organizational success. She believes in the power of care and compassion to help all organizations grow and prosper. As organizations grow, they will help create a more caring and sustainable world that works for all of us. She feels nothing is more important than our personal and collective evolution in these times. This purpose led to the founding of MatrixWorks in 1999. As President of MatrixWorks, Mukara is committed to creating new cultures of creativity, nourishment and innovation in workplace relationships by using the power of small groups. MatrixWorks has been at the forefront of introducing cutting-edge neuroscience and brain-functioning understanding to leaders, managers and their teams so that they and teams learn to access collective intelligence and practice the skills of collaboration and connectivity. Mukara has worked with Procter & Gamble, Mattel, General Mills, The Hershey Company, GAP, Old Navy, PopTech, General Electric's HealthyMaginations, Mayo Clinic and Escola Santi. She has also served in the fields of education, healthcare, and therapeutic modalities such as somatic experiencing, Hakomi, and cranial therapy. Currently, Mukara is working extensively in Brazil and Japan, with schools, small businesses and community organizations.