Brad Deutser is the visionary leader behind Deutser and Deutser Clarity Institute (Houston, New York, Bermuda and Arizona). He is a trusted counselor, executive coach and leadership guru for CEOs, Board Chairs, and top corporate management. His unique insights and original approach to affecting a human approach to sustainable organizational change have impacted top businesses, leading universities, professional sports franchises, and cause-based organizations. He is an expert in creating spaces and leadership capacity for belonging and inclusion. Brad is recognized for his ability to navigate complex, contentious, ambiguous business and people challenges, both inside and outside organizations. He is sought after as an authority and innovative thinker on matters of organizational change, belonging, DEI, and complexity in leadership. He is the bestselling author of Leading Clarity: The Breakthrough Strategy to Unleash People, Profit, and Performance.
Debra Devi is an award-winning author, journalist and musician based in Jersey City NJ. She has co-authored numerous books with Steve Mariotti, including The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting a Business, How to Start and Operate a Small Business, winner of the Golden Lamp Award for excellence in educational publishing, and An Entrepreneur’s Manifesto. Devi’s book The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (foreword by Dr. John) received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. As a journalist, Devi has written for Investor’s Daily, American Banker, Crain’s New York, The Village Voice, RollingStone.com, Guitar World and more. An accomplished guitarist and singer, Devi performs internationally and received a proclamation from Jersey City for her contribution to the arts.
Jeanne Devon is a New York Times bestselling author, political writer, and the founding editor of the multiple-award winning blog, The Mudflats. Devon catapulted to national attention when Sarah Palin was nominated as the Republican candidate for Vice President, and The Mudflats became one of America’s primary sources of information for all things Palin. The Mudflats is a two-time Bloggers’ Choice Award winner for best political blog in the nation, and has also been honored by The Alaska Press Club, receiving multiple awards for best blog commentary across all media, including for her coverage of the Alaska militia movement in 2014. Devon is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. Her reporting has been featured on CNN, Daily Kos, and TruthOut. The Mudflats has been linked and cited by many media outlets including The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Salon, Politico, The Week, The Guardian, Wonkette, and The Los Angeles Times. She has been a guest on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Politics Nation with Al Sharpton, the CBC’s News Network, and many national, regional and local radio broadcasts.
A New Jersey native, she moved to Alaska more than two decades ago seeking adventure, and found it. During her time on The Last Frontier, she has sold radio advertising, hosted a daily radio feature, shot a halibut, owned a retail gift shop, blogged about politics, and raised two awesome kids.
Elisabeth DeVos is the author of science fantasy novel The Seraphim Rising, as well as short fiction that has appeared in Talebones magazine and the anthology Imagination Fully Dilated. Her stories explore what happens when mythical, mystical beings collide with the Muggle world of religion and rationalism. Elisabeth grew up near Orlando and earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of Central Florida. She has lived in the Seattle area for over a decade and read her first Harry Potter while flying diagonally across the country for the umpteenth time.
Dr. Todd Dewett is a globally recognized leadership educator, author, and speaker. After working with Andersen Consulting and Ernst & Young, he completed his PhD at Texas A&M University in Organizational Behavior and enjoyed ten years as an award-winning professor. He’s delivered over 1,000 speeches around the world and created a library of courses enjoyed by millions of professionals in nearly every country on earth. His clients include Microsoft, IBM, GE, Pepsi, ExxonMobil, and hundreds more.
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Mike Diamond is an author, television personality, director, life coach, and interventionist. He is best known for his work on the hit TV shows NY Ink and Bondi Ink Tattoo Crew, which is currently nominated for a Logie Award for Best Reality Series. After winning a green card in 1997, Mike moved from Australia to the US where he found work on various television projects. He eventually found himself properly introduced to the world of tattooing when he made an appearence on Miami Ink. To the outside world, Mike looked like he was living the dream but, on the inside, Mike was spiritually bankrupt and miserable. He realized that if he didn’t turn his life around, he was going to die. April 16, 2006 was the day Mike Diamond got sober. Since then, Mike has literally helped hundreds of people on the road to recovery. He is on beck and call to all his clients and friends, helping them through their life problems and battles with addiction.
Joey “CoCo” Diaz is a Cuban-American actor, comedian, podcast host, husband, and father. Diaz was born in Cuba and immigrated to the United States at age 3. Orphaned in his teenage years, Diaz ventured into the world of crime and landed himself in jail for kidnapping, before changing his life around and finding his true calling with comedy.
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Natalie Diaz is a worldwide premier twin parenting authority. With over a decade of experience after creating Twiniversity, Natalie has single-handedly changed the way expecting and new parents of twins operate. A twin parent herself, Natalie has made twin parenting information mainstream with her bestselling book What To Do When You’re Having Two, her award-winning website Twiniversity.com, the most inclusive twin parenting app on the market, her extraordinary podcasts, and creative and educational classes about all things twins. Today, she’s reaching over 2 million families a week with Twiniversity’s nurturing and supportive environment created just for twin families.
Natalie is also a twin-specific lactation consultant, a child passenger safety technician, and a trained Lamaze educator. She’s received numerous accolades within the baby and parenting industry and has been featured in major worldwide publications and on national television helping the world have a better experience with their own twin parenting adventure.
Melissa Dickinson is a professional graphic designer and aspiring writer. She and her husband own a consulting company that specializes in custom Web development and intranet business solutions, but they are hoping to shift gears into restaurant ownership very soon. Her Star Trek story “Triptych” appeared in Strange New Worlds, Volume II.
