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With over 30 years of transformational leadership experience, Dr. Meade brings evidence-based insights and practical wisdom to organizations navigating complexity. As a senior leader at NASA, he led the cultural transformation following the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, guided the workforce transition during the Space Shuttle retirement, and helped reinvent Kennedy Space Center into the world's busiest commercial spaceport.

Today, he works with Fortune 500 companies, high-growth tech firms, and international consulting groups to drive meaningful, lasting organizational change through deep systems thinking and authentic leadership development.

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Patricio Larrea believes leadership begins with clarity and becomes powerful through courage and purpose. For more than 15 years, he has helped leaders across the Americas communicate in ways that inspire trust, ownership, and action.

His path is anything but conventional. Trained as an architect, Patricio first led teams in high-pressure construction environments where communication was not optional. It directly impacted safety, performance, and results. That experience shaped his pragmatic view: when words are unclear, consequences are real.

Now Partner and Chief Growth Officer at The Humphrey Group, Patricio helps leaders navigate tension, take a stand, and speak with impact. As a Forbes contributor and advisor to Fortune 500 executives, he brings a rare blend of structure, humanity, and real-world insight to the stage.

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J. Sebastian Uzcategui's life has been shaped by a relentless pursuit of purpose, freedom, and impact. Born in Venezuela and raised in Florida from the age of three, he carried both the hopes and the sacrifices of his family and spent his life turning that pressure into purpose.

He discovered entrepreneurship early. At 14 he began studying the stock market, at 16 he launched his first business, and by 18 he founded Stocks University, a platform that has educated over 1,200 students in financial literacy and trading. Then public speaking changed everything. Through a handful of key events, Sebastian quadrupled his business and scaled it to multiple six figures, not through ads or algorithms, but by standing in rooms, telling the truth, and serving people with integrity.

Since then he has spoken at over 300 events across churches, conferences, schools, and workshops. Through Speak Up Express, he now empowers aspiring speakers and entrepreneurs to refine their voice, step into their authority, and reach global platforms.

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Philip Chan is the CEO and President of Lightspeed Investing, a private investment firm helping professionals build financial independence through futures and options trading. A former aspiring surgeon who transitioned from medicine due to burnout, he now leads a team of elite traders and mentors focused on precision, performance, and sustainable wealth-building.

Walking away from a medical career he had invested over a decade into was not just a pivot, it was an identity crisis. But burnout forced clarity. Philip realized he was no longer chasing healing, he was chasing validation. That shift taught him to build a life around performance and purpose instead of prestige, and opened the door to futures trading, where he learned to turn pressure into precision.

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Angelie Kapoor is a faith-based speaker, award-winning author, and Executive Director of the Women's Network at C-Suite for Christ. Through her speaking, writing, and leadership, she equips Christian women and leaders to align their lives, leadership, and calling with God's purpose.

Drawing from more than two decades of experience across healthcare, business, and ministry, Angelie brings practical wisdom, biblical insight, and authentic encouragement to audiences seeking to lead courageously, live intentionally, and create eternal impact. As a lifelong introvert who overcame her own struggles with visibility and confidence, she helps women recognize their God-given identity and lead with clarity and courage.

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Driven by a lifelong passion for health and a spiritual journey that began early in life, Nancy Miller discovered that transitioning to a vegan diet profoundly elevated her personal practice and connection to the world. Armed with a BA from UC Irvine, she is now dedicated to sharing these transformative insights globally to help others uplevel their spirituality through conscious nutrition.

Her true catalyst was her sister. When she was diagnosed with cancer, she threw herself into researching the connection between nutrition and the body, changing her diet to support her healing. After she passed, her legacy became Nancy's fuel. She delved deeper into the synergy between a plant-based diet, holistic health, and spiritual alignment, carrying her sister's torch forward and sharing that awareness with the world.

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Russ Katzman is the Founder and Principal of Progeny Coaching & Consulting, known as 'The Swiss Army Coach' for his ability to help entrepreneurs and executives solve the leadership challenges that don't fit neatly into a single discipline. A former enterprise strategy executive who has led global transformation initiatives and presented in 26 countries, Russ combines operational credibility with practical insight.

He helps leaders build stronger organizations while creating lives they're proud to live. Whether leading strategy for a global organization or sitting across from the owner of a small business, Russ kept finding the same truth: people come with one problem, and within a few conversations realize that wasn't the real issue at all. His gift is seeing the patterns others are too close to recognize.

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With a background in engineering and years of active investing, Brandon Pitts has seen how traditional approaches, whether real estate, side hustles, or outdated financial advice, often leave professionals burned out and overwhelmed. His message is simple: time is limited, but the right system changes everything.

Brandon helps higher-earning professionals who want financial freedom and the skills to break free from the traditional path. Driven by a vision for abundance and the desire to bless others in the world, he equips those who believe there is more to life than what they currently have.

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Angie Pichardo is a motivational speaker and Christian purpose life coach whose life message is built on resilience, faith, and transformation. After surviving a life-threatening crisis, Angie believes she was given a divine second chance and now lives with one powerful conviction: she is still here for a reason.

For a long time she asked God why she was saved. Over time, she came to understand that she was still here because He had a purpose for her life. Her mission is to share the hope, healing, and transformation she has experienced, so that others who are still struggling can know that the same restoration is possible for them.

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