XCHANGE - Key Persons
Adair Cates serves as a Senior Trainer at xchange and is the heart and soul behind our Awakening Conscious Leadership Experience ("ACLE"). This groundbreaking program explores the nexus of neuroscience, mindfulness, and breathwork to elevate influential leadership. ACLE has garnered attention from a stellar faculty, featuring experts like Rollin McCraty, PhD (HeartMath®), Raj Sisodia (Conscious Capitalism), Dr. Deborah Rozman (HeartMath®), Dr. Becky Acabchuk (Roundglass), Dr. Yvette Miller (Red Cross), Dr. Dan Diamond (NogginStorm), Margaret Wheatley (Author/Berkana Institute), Lee Mallis (Pranic Soul), and Julianna Raye (Unified Mindfulness).
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- Organizational Psychologist and Bestselling Author
Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Willpower Doesn't Work. His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and are featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Cheddar, Big Think, and many others. He is a regular contributor to Inc. and Psychology Today and from 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer, in the world, on Medium.com. Dr. Hardy is a fan of our work at xchange and has written several articles referencing the positive impact and powerful results that xchange delivers.
Author, "The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement"
David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003, with his column appearing every Tuesday and Friday. He is currently a commentator on "PBS NewsHour," NPR's "All Things Considered" and NBC's "Meet the Press." Mr. Brooks also teaches at Yale University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the No. 1 New York Times best selling author of "The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement" In his most recent book, "The Second Mountain", David explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. He believes our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose.
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- President and CEO at HeartMath® Institute
Psychologist; president and CEO of HeartMath Inc. and HeartMath parent company Quantum Intech Inc., which oversees strategic alliances and the expansion of HeartMath technologies internationally. She has trained and spoken to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and the U.S. military, scientific and health conferences, schools, etc. She has done presentations for the American Psychological Association, Health 2.0 and the Partner's Connected Health Symposium. Besides authoring a dozen books herself, including the award-winning Meditating With Children, Rozman co-authored the five-book Transforming Series with HeartMath founder Doc Childre. She is a regular columnist with the Huffington Post.
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- Author of "Leading Well from Within"
Daniel Friedland, MD, an expert on the science of leadership, wellness, and resiliency, authored one of the first textbooks on Evidence-Based Medicine. He was the founding chair of the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine and CEO of SuperSmartHealth, which provided neuroscience, mindfulness, and evidence-based leadership training and coaching. As an international expert in applying the framework of Evidence-Based Medicine to enhance decision-making, leadership, and resiliency, Dr. Friedland worked with Fortune 500 companies; healthcare systems and medical groups; the US Army, Navy, and Air Force; Vistage; Young Presidents' Organization (YPO); Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO); The Global Wellness Summit; Conscious Capitalism -having delivered over 1500 programs and reaching more than 75,000 healthcare and business professionals around the world. He is the author of Leading Well from Within: A Neuroscience and Mindfulness-Based Framework for Conscious Leadership, which is the foundation for the Awakening Conscious Leadership Experience, powered by xchange.
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- Author, "9 Keys of Synchronicity"
Founder & CEO of PMCG, Dr. Phil Merry, is a global leadership and team consultant, coach and speaker for 41 years and has delivered learning events in 61 countries. Phil focuses on team excellence, cultural intelligence, spiritual fulfillment, mindlessness and BEING happy. Phil is the Singapore regional representative for Belbin Team Roles - and has been a Belbin Certified Trainer since 1985. Former head of leadership training for Reuters, Phil works with well-known global organizations, is a United Nations consultant and organized Singapore's first happiness conference where he created the Search (and book) for Singapore's Happiest People. Singapore resident since 1990. Phil completed a PhD in synchronicity with David Cooperrider as his supervisor and is the only person in the world with a grounded theory PhD in Leadership & Synchronicity. A Dr Joe Dispenza NeuroChangeSolutions consultant,HeartMath certified facilitator and Appreciative Inquiry consultant, Phil enjoys linking his work with the ability to help leaders transform in times of change.
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- Executive Medical Officer, Red Cross
A powerhouse in transfusion medicine, Dr. Yvette Miller is helping to shape clinical practices, broaden awareness and understanding into the plights of those living with sickle cell disease and how blood donors who are Black can help. With a long-distinguished career at the American Red Cross, she serves as the executive medical officer of the donor and client support center in Charlotte, North Carolina. A fierce advocate for leading critical conversations on structural racism and its impact on the social determinants of health, Dr. Miller is Black excellence. Yet, what others may view as Black excellence, the recent Richard J. Davey, M.D. Lectureship Award recipient simply considers her divine purpose.
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- Graphic Design & Marketing
Emily Santillo supports the team with marketing, graphic design, and in-event operations. She joins xchange with a background in marketing & communications for arts-based nonprofit organizations.
As a member of our Event Operations team, Jana Engelbreth manages the technology support and creates a magical experience for our participants. Jana is passionate about engaging with and facilitating connections for our members on a heart level as she deeply believes the right connection can open up worlds.
Jeremy Reisig is a professional musical facilitator and has brought xchange facilitation to over 1,000 events. He uses empowering music to engage and energize live music into Online xchange Experience trainings.
Dr. Jodi Berg is fourth-generation president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Vitamix, a 99-year-young, family-owned, mid-market manufacturer of high-performance blending equipment for the consumer and food service commercial markets. She joined Vitamix in 1997 with the directive to lead the company's overseas expansion. At the time, Vitamix had a presence in a few countries. Under her leadership, Vitamix products now are available in more than 130 countries around the world. She established Vitamix as the world leader in high-performance blending and led the company to organic growth of more than 400%. She was named executive vice president (in 2007), then president (2009) and CEO (2011).
As the creator and founder of xchange, Jon Berghoff is considered a pioneer in the field of transformational group facilitation.
He is the collective wisdom whisperer to global CEO summits, leadership conferences, and high-stakes gatherings for organizations like Conscious Capitalism, Women Presidents Organization, HeartMath®, Arthur Page Society, NASA, Keller Williams and many more.
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- Author and Founder & Chairman of Generon International
Joseph Jaworski has devoted much of his life to exploring the deeper dimensions of transformational leadership. He has founded both Generon International and the Global Leadership Initiative, where he advises CEOs and senior executives in Fortune 500 companies. He specializes in the design and execution of large-scale organizational change as well as strategy formation and implementation.
Julianna Raye is devoted to deepening people's ability to practice and understand research-supported mindfulness and to empowering anyone to guide others in its practice. She has been training individuals and groups in the Unified Mindfulness system for over two decades. She received her BA in psychology from Duke University. As CEO, lead curriculum designer, and head trainer at Unified Mindfulness, she is dedicated to disseminating Shinzen Young's comprehensive mindfulness meditation system through the creation and presentation of educational programs and teacher-training certification programs. Julianna also consults and offers private coaching, as well as onsite and online mindfulness training.
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- Vice President of Human Resources & Sustainable Development at Clarke
As Vice President of Human Resources & Sustainable Development at Clarke, Julie has been with the company since 2000 and in that time has developed a Human Resource department, formalized company policies and procedures, streamlined benefit programs and guided organizational development. Most recently she has championed Clarke's organizational design to foster and advance sustainability initiatives. Julie is a graduate of Lake Erie College in Ohio where she earned her Bachelors of Science in Management. Since joining the human resources profession more than 20 years ago, she has gained a wide knowledge base on a variety of issues and industry types. Her well-rounded experience and knowledge was highlighted when she was honored as the 2013 Human Resources Professional of the Year by the Management Association of Illinois.
As a member of our Event Operations team, Kristell De La Cruz-Malibong supports many aspects of our training experiences before, during, and after the event and supports our community members on their learning journey with xchange.
As a sought-after Transformation Coach and Experience Designer, Leah Lovelight founded Lovelight Way, renowned for its transformative self-love journey. She is also a co-creator of REVEAL Retreats for women and an esteemed author of "Modern Fear The Invisible Prison". She is also the host of the empowering Lovelight Micro-Dose Conversations podcast. As a soulFULL teacher, Leah guides heart-centered leaders, change makers, soul seekers, and intuitive, curious individuals, utilizing her expertise as a Master Facilitator, international award-winning retreat leader, certified xchange Guide, Breathwork Facilitator, and intenSati Leader. Having spent 16 years in corporate America, Leah recognized the importance of balancing her type A personality with her intuitive connection to life. Leah firmly believes that the change in the world starts within, and her mission is to empower those who seek to support others, fostering collective growth and rising together as a community.
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- Founder, Pranic Soul Yoga
Leigh Mallis has a gift in making the yogic science tools accessible for all of us to use, no matter what our stage in life or belief system. Her superpower as a guide and teacher is holding space for her students to do the work so that they can realize their innate potential and prosperity. Many of her students have found their unique calling after studying with Leigh. She's empowered students for over 20 years, taught thousands of classes, founded Pranic Soul Yoga School with over 50 graduates, and has held many beautiful retreats including at Blackberry Mountain and Tulum. She's had extensive training and practice in many yoga traditions including Kundalini, Ahstanga, and Vinyasa.
As a member of the Event Operations team, Lindsey Nicole coordinates the logistics for learning events at xchange. Lindsey is an event professional who has managed countless events and authored a self-help book titled Choose Joy.
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- Author, Speaker, Co - Founder of the Berkana Institute
Margaret Wheatley began caring about the world's peoples in 1966, as a Peace Corps volunteer in post-war Korea. In many different roles--speaker, teacher, consultant, advisor, formal leader--her work has deepened into an unshakable conviction that leaders must learn how to invoke people's inherent generosity, creativity and need for community. As this world tears us apart, sane leadership on behalf of the human spirit is the only way forward. Sheisco-founder and president of The Berkana Institute, an organizational consultant since 1973, a global citizen since her youth, and a prolific writer. She has authored ten books, starting with the classic Leadership and the New Science. She has been honored for her ground-breaking work by many professional associations, universities, and organizations.
Natalie Alcantara is a member of the Admissions team at xchange and is renowned for her belief in people, purpose, and potentiality. With a passion for all aspects of transformation, Natalie enjoys inviting great humans into the xchange Community and facilitating experiences that inspire and empower individuals to step into their greatness.
As the Community Architect at xchange, Nick Hemmert leads our operations. Able to navigate seamlessly between disparate worlds connecting people, and resources to exponential outcomes, Nick is focused on raising the consciousness of humanity one xchange at a time.
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- Author of "Shakti Leadership"
Nilima Bhat, author of "Shakti Leadership," is a facilitator of personal transformation, coaching individuals and organizations in their quest for conscious evolution. She is an author and international speaker and trainer on organizational culture, conscious business, women in leadership, and self-awareness for work-life balance, as well as Indian wisdom and wellness traditions.
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- Co - Founder, Conscious Capitalism Inc
Raj Sisodia is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc. and has published ten books and over 100 academic articles. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, CNBC and many other media outlets. His most recent book, "The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World" , continues to explore how business can be a force for good in the world and as we approach an inflection point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time. The Healing Organization shows how corporations can become healing forces.
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- Director of Research at HeartMath® Institute
Scientist, psychophysiologist, executive vice president and director of research at HeartMath Institute, member of the Global Coherence Steering committee and project coordinator of GCI's Global Coherence Monitoring System. His studies, research and extensive professional articles have appeared in numerous journals, including the American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Stress Medicine and Biological Psychology. He contributes periodically to the Global Advances in Health and Medicine journal.
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- Head of Training & Client Relations
Steve Bouchard, Head of Training at xchange, has been instrumental in establishing what many regard as the gold standard for creating transformational learning experiences. As curriculum designer and lead facilitation coach, Steve serves our vibrant, global community of xchange students from over 40 countries. He is also the guiding force in our most significant client partnerships, having worked with industry giants like Google, Conscious Capitalism, Second Nature, American Petroleum Institute, Stanford, EOS, and Clarke, among others.
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- Creator of the Membership Experience Searchie Co - Founder
Since 2008, Stu McLauren has been working intimately with tens of thousands of authors, speakers, coaches, consultants and business owners to transform what they already know, love and do into recurring revenue by launching, growing and scaling 6, 7 and 8-figure membership businesses. As the former co-founder of the world's leading membership platform for WordPress, WishList Member, and now creator of the TRIBE Experience, he has a unique behind-the-scenes perspective of what works in membership and subscription markets
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- Author and Serial Entrepreneur