Founder

Haley Stracher
Haley Stracher
Founder & CEO
Iris Design Collective
Haley Stracher is the founder of Iris Design Collaborative, and an expert designer and marketing strategist. 🙌 Haley loves playing with her young son, yoga and being outdoors.
Jason Mesut
Jason Mesut
Founder
Resonant
Jason helps people and organizations navigate their uncertain futures.
Wil Reynolds
Wil Reynolds
Founder & VP of Innovation
Seer Interactive
Wil has been helping Fortune 500 companies develop brand marketing strategies since 1999. As Seer’s Vice President of Innovation, Wil develops strategies and innovations to help clients build traffic and make money.
Lisa deBettencourt
Lisa deBettencourt
Founder & Principal
Forge Harmonic
Lisa is a product strategy and design leader. She works with organizations in healthcare and life sciences to discover, develop, and operationalize innovative ways to improve the patient and clinical experience.
Julia Beauchamp Kraft
Julia Beauchamp Kraft
Founder
Speak To Inspire
Julia Beauchamp Kraft is the founder of the public speaking training company, Speak To Inspire. Founded in 2014, Speak To Inspire has trained 1000’s of entrepreneurs and professionals as well as 100’s of companies like LinkedIn, Salesforce, ZScaler, Twitter, etc.
Stephen P. Anderson
Stephen P. Anderson
Founder
The Mighty Minds Club
Stephen P. Anderson is a speaker and author who spends too much time thinking about visual collaboration, how people learn, and board games; not necessarily in that order. Oh, and he’s on a mission: To make learning the hard stuff fun, by creating ‘things to think with’ and ‘spaces’ for generative play.
Pasha Moore
Pasha Moore
Founder & Principal
Holland Taucher Consulting Group
Pasha Moore is the founder of Holland Taucher Consulting Group (HTCG), a full-service political and not-for-profit fundraising and event planning firm. Pasha covers all aspects of fundraising and strategy, with a focus on major donor cultivation and corporate partnerships; event production and execution; public affairs and advocacy in various roles.
Antionette Carroll
Antionette Carroll
Founder & CEO
Creative Reaction Lab
Antionette D. Carroll is the Founder and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit social enterprise designing healthy and racially equitable communities for Black and Latinx populations.
Dr. Steve Julius
Dr. Steve Julius
Team Psychologist & Founder
Human Resource Consulting Group
Dr. Steve Julius is the founder and chief executive of HRCG, a Chicago based firm specializing in executive leadership, high performance teamwork, organizational effectiveness and strategic human capital solutions.
Jared Spool
Jared Spool
Founder & Co-Founder
User Interface Engineering & Centre Center
Jared Spool is the founder of User Interface Engineering (UIE), the largest usability research organization of its kind in the world. If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably the most effective and knowledgeable communicator on the subject today.