Well-Tech World Summit
2023 Speakers

KEYNOTE

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Brittany is Co-Founder and Executive Director of FemTech Focus, Host of the FemTech Focus Podcast, Co-Founder of Coyote Ventures, and an Advisory Board Member for the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Indiana University.

She has also been responsible for Pheramor, the world's first DNA-based dating app, and WeHaveChemistry, a web-based product for couples to discover their love alchemy, as well has launched Capital Factory's Gulf Coast branch and is recognized globally as a women's health leader, speaker, and industry consultant.

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David Meltzer is the Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing and formerly served as CEO of the renowned Leigh (“Lee”) Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire.

Variety Magazine awarded him as Sports Humanitarian of the Year, he has received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and is an Executive Producer of the Bloomberg and Amazon Prime television series 2 Minute Drill and Office Hours.

His mission is to empower 1 billion people on their personal journey to happiness, providing free weekly training sessions.

SPOTLIGHT

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Lesli Ott is the Founder & CEO of Menther, digital platform empowering women globally through female mentorship and support. She is an applied economist, data scientist, and full-stack software developer with a passion for using data-driven technology to create scalable business solutions that address social issues.

Prior to founding Menther, led data and technology teams at Google spin-out and health-tech unicorn Cityblock Health, health-tech startup Remedy Partners and is also a founding member of Chief, a private network focused on connecting and supporting executive-level female leaders.

FIRESIDE CHAT

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Chris Cummings is the CEO of Wellbeing at Work. He is on a global mission to create workplaces where employees thrive. He is CEO of Sonas Group, organizers of the global series of Wellbeing at Work Summits, and the global workplace community The Wellbeing at Work Hub.

Chris is also a Co-Founder of The InsideOut Awards and is an advisor to organizations with purpose around the world.

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Founder & CEO of She Leads Media - a media, marketing, and visibility consultancy offering women leaders and entrepreneurs community, content, conferences and a podcast network to share their stories, thoughts and opinions with the world. Adrienne is an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch Center for Hospitality and Jones School of Business at Rice University where she teaches entrepreneurship. She holds her MBA in Marketing from NYU Stern School of Business. Formerly a finance and marketing executive for media, entertainment and technology brands, Adrienne is now dedicated to helping women to launch and scale their businesses and gain visibility for economic and social impact.

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Alessandra Henderson is the Co-Founder & CEO of Elektra Health, a next-gen healthcare platform on a mission to smash the menopause taboo by empowering women with evidence-based education, virtual care and supportive community.

Alessandra started her career in technology as the sixth employee at Artsy, where she built the content partner business from the ground up. She serves as Executive Director of the MIT NYC Startup Studio, and VP of Network at Human Ventures.

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Alexandra is a former PR strategist, award-winning corporate wellbeing expert, and the founder of Urban Yoga Lab and Oxyzn. She combines commercial savviness, a passion for well-being, and years of corporate experience to bring new possibilities into the human aspect of business. During her time in PR, she experienced burnout which led her to resign and embark on a two-year journey around the world visiting 43 countries to explore ways of transforming her life through body and mind well-being practices. Her aim was to hack sustainable high-performance via evidence-based well-being tools. Through a self-healing journey, she discovered her love for mindfulness which became her life’s purpose to help hybrid employees go the last distance to claim their full potential. She firmly believes that through well-being practices, each one of us can awaken our internal Zen Warrior.

Since 2020, she has been on a three year mission to empower 5,000 HRs to create a positive resilient workplace. Her dedication and passion were recognized by 75+ businesses (i.e. Conrad, RBC, BDO, Wells Fargo) where she delivered a series of well-being programs and eventually helped them to create, not only a happier, but also a more productive environment. Alexandra loves meeting new people, and sailing around the world and when she's not meditating, it's about unwinding with a huge cup of late and a book from Wayne Dyer!


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Amy Beckley is founder and CEO of Proov. The original Proov PdG test is the first and only FDA cleared test to confirm successful ovulation at home.

Following her own battle with infertility, she dedicated her work to supporting women to better understand their hormones and empowering women to live better. Amy holds a PhD in Pharmacology from University of Colorado and an MBA from Kansas State university.

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Barbara is an award-winning CTO and VC Fund Manager with extensive experience in Technology, Entrepreneurship and Fundraising.

Barbara is the Managing Director at Trailyn VC, a pre-seed fund investing in diverse deep tech founders. As Founder and CTO of Trailyn Ventures, Barbara helps investors and entrepreneurs understand emerging technology. She hosts Host of Female VC Lab Podcast, a Board Member on CryptoKidsCamp; on the Advisory Board of the MIND Institute, Project New Dawn and Freeman Capital; an EIR at Los Angeles CleanTech Incubator; and a Mentor for Springboard Enterprises, Stubbs Alderton PreCellerator, and MakeInLA.

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Beth Lauren brings her passion for wellness and collaboration to her two businesses. She is the producer of the Well-Tech World Summit a conference where leaders in technology and wellness will come together for conversation and mission alignment. As an Ayurveda Wellness Counselor, Beth offers lifestyle and dietary counseling as well as foods that blend healing Ayurvedic herbs and spices with classic Eastern European Jewish foods through her Sangha and Sangha Shtetl brands. The Sangha wellness member’s club is in development with plans to open in NY State in 2024.

Beth is the author of the memoir, Reeling: Misadventures in Moviemaking, Money, and Love which chronicles her healing journey from rape and PTSD survivor to wellness professional.

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Brian is a psychiatrist who works with children, teens, and adults via Mindful based in Texas.

Brian’s dedication to quality clinical practice has awarded him a place on the 2021 Forbes Next 1000 Entrepreneurs. Brian’s ability to identify and implement solutions to complex problems was born from his Triple Board Residency (Pediatrics, Child Psychiatry, Adult Psychiatry) at the University of Kentucky, MD from the Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine, and BA from Baylor University.

Brian’s award-winning methods and unique background position him to iterate, innovate, and implement solutions to connect everyone with their best-fit therapist.

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Claire and James Davis are the husband and wife team behind multi-award winning coaching and fitness company 38 Degrees North, founded 11 years ago in Ibiza, and are highly regarded as leading experts in midlife health and happiness.

Claire & James - AKA The Midlife Mentors - are also co-authors of a bestselling book, public speakers and feature regularly in the UK press. The couple host a highly successful wellness podcast, which aims to lift the lid on their no-nonsense approach to thriving over 40 - in body, mind and soul. Their approach leverages their experience in psychology, NLP, hypnotherapy, stress management, personal training, nutrition and life/business coaching.

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Clarissa Kristjansson, PhD is an internationally recognized menopause educator. She has spoken at events hosted byThe British Civil Service, The Potential Project Leadership Group, Company’s House London and India's Rotary Club. Clarissa is a founder member of the Global Menopause Inclusion Collective, a collaboration of menopause activists.

Clarissa hosts the popular podcast Thriving Thru Menopause and author of the bestseller The Mindful Menopause. Her second book, The Potent Power of Menopause: A Globally Diverse Perspective of Feminine Transformation, was released in March.

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Named one of Inc. Magazines Top 100 Female Founders of 2020, Courtion is a distinguished and award-winning consumer marketer, inventor (20 issued patents), and business leader who leverages over 20 years of cross-functional expertise.

Prior to founding Joylux, she was a marketing executive with Starbucks responsible for growing the Starbucks loyalty program into a multi-billion-dollar business.

Courtion has earned numerous accolades including Most Innovative Company (2019) by the Angel Capital Association.

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Ellen Schell is co-founder and CMO of Proov. After being inspired by Amy’s technology and vision, Ellen joined her 3.5 years ago, developing the name, branding, and growth strategy for the original PdG test.

Ellen is equally dedicated to providing women access to information about their own bodies so they can live and feel their best. She holds an undergraduate degree and MBA from Northwestern University.

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Emily Hochman is the CEO+ Co-Founder of Wellory, a virtual nutrition platform connecting consumers, patients, and communities to in-network dietitians to drive health outcomes with minimal out-of-pocket costs. Their mission is to support 100 million Americans with life-changing 1:1 nutrition counseling by 2030.

Emily is also a Certified Health Coach, early-stage impact investor, and startup advisor. She has been named Forbes 30 Under 30, Most Inspirational Female Entrepreneur, featured in TechCrunch, Business Insider, Well+Good, and Thrive Global, and a recognized leader by the White House to collaborate on the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.

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Fiona Brennan is an acclaimed Clinical Hypnotherapist in Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Fiona specialises in helping people to sleep peacefully, release anxiety, and feel powerful. She is a two-times best-selling author, the mental health expert on Today FM (Ireland), columnist for the Business Post, and a TEDx speaker. Fiona is currently completing further post-graduate training with the Royal College of Surgeons studying for the Professional Diploma in Positive Health in their internationally recognized Positive Psychology Department.

In 2016, Fiona launched her original hypnotherapy program, The Positive Habit and has since expanded this to include Sustaining Positivity and Light Up Your World.

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ta is a Partner at venture capital firm GingerBread Capital, which backs high growth female founded companies. Her mission is to engage, educate, and elevate the next generation of successful women business leaders and investors. In 2014, Ita founded Tigress Ventures, an advisory and consulting firm that tapped her considerable network to bring together visionary entrepreneurs with seasoned professionals to help women scale their businesses and hone their leadership skills. She began her career at Goldman Sachs as an analyst in Credit Capital Markets and an institutional trader of preferred stock.

Ita holds an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; and earned a Bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in Psychology, with a certificate in Finance, from Princeton University.

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Jane P. Madden is an award-winning authority on ESG policy, performance, and communications. Most recently, she was the Managing Partner and led Finn Partner’s Global Sustainability & Social Impact Practice.

Jane has worked in sustainability her entire career, including over a decade as a World Bank Official. She has held sustainability leadership positions at Edelman, ERM, and BCW and is a trusted advisor to Global 500 companies on ESG strategy, reporting, and communication. Jane has lived and worked in more than 30 countries.

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Jayarajan is a Specialist in Traditional Indian Medicine, Scholar & Educator, serving Kerala Ayurveda USA as Director of all academic programs and wellness services. With over two decades of experience in India and USA, he has touched the lives of thousands of clients across a wide array of disorders.

He is also a Lead Trainer for Domain Experts in Ayurveda with rich experience developing internal resources and new offerings in Ayurvedic Education. His Ayurvedic Wellness offerings have been effectively demonstrated and implemented in India, Europe and the U.S. He is a member of the Expert Curriculum Committee for Masters in Ayurveda at Bastyr University, Seattle and serves the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) Board of Directors.

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Jennifer "Jaki" Johnson is the Founder and CEO of WellMiss, a subscription-based community and virtual healing space for women mobilized by AI that triages and creates a tailored wellness plan of masterclasses and coaches.

Following the passing of her 15-year-old son Christian, she identified the need for a healing community. She is on a mission to democratize holistic and integrative wellness care for women by making it affordable, accessible, and equitable.

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Katie is a Women’s Empowerment Master Coach, Love & Dating Mentor and Divine Masculine / Feminine Embodiment Guide who founded The School of Self-Love for women who want to learn a more authentic, aligned and empowered way of doing life.

Her first book, ‘The Self Love Affair - A Woman’s Guide To A Daring & Mighty Life’ was published in 2015. Katie is the creator of the ‘Meet Your Soul Mate’ experience which is transforming women’s lives and allowing them to receive love in midlife with ease. Her passion and expertise is inspiring women to create a life they love without burn-out or guilt.

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Kirsten Franklin is a self-proclaimed, recovering attorney turned entrepreneur, life & business coach. With deep knowledge of NLP, Strategic Intervention, DISC, hypnosis, positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy coaching, and much more.

She has worked with over 1000 High-level CEOs, Hedge Fund Managers, Professional Athletes, Founders and SMB owners and is known for helping them reach their next-level while eliminating anxiety, reducing stress and increasing their impact.

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Laura is one of the UK’s leading experts on managing workplace mental health in a digital age and a thought-leader on minimising digital overload at work and protecting work-life balance.

In 2013 Laura’s dysfunctional relationship with her work email, and increasingly disintegrating work life balance, led to her experiencing a period of poor mental health. Her journey of recovery, which involved learning to balance and regain control of the role digital technology played in her life. She co-founded Shine Offline in 2015 with the aim of helping businesses to improve their digital workplace cultures by supporting staff and leadership to have healthier, more sustainable relationships with their technology.

Recent clients include the NHS, UK Parliament, The Crown Prosecution Service, Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Discovery and Alnylam Pharma.

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Lauren Demarest, founder of Sweat Booker and Sweat Vacay has created a community around workouts with local flavor. Sweat Vacay launched its Mykonos, Greece locations in 2019 with yoga, Pilates, and spin classes taught by locals and elite global trainers + yogis from around the world. Each class has an epic view or is set in a tranquil outdoor setting so guests can take in the natural beauty all around them. In 2020, Lauren launched the online wellness booking tool Sweat Booker making it free to list a gym, studio, classes or wellness experience online; connecting the world of wellness and giving fit-pros tools they otherwise might not be able to afford in some emerging markets.

Sweat Booker is Lauren's third start-up venture. Her professional background is in advertising. She earned her MFA in Advertising copywriting from the Savannah College of Art and Design and worked as a creative at McCann New York for eight years before starting her global companies and making the move to Mykonos, Greece to run Sweat Vacay + Sweat Booker full-time. She joins the WellTech conference in hopes of finding like minds, potential collaborators + supporters for Sweat Booker, and... of course... inspiration.  

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Loretta Dignam is an award-winning Marketer of the Year, who opened the doors to The Menopause Hub, Ireland's first and only dedicated multidisciplinary menopause clinic in December 2018. Loretta is the founder and CEO. The Menopause Hub includes a team of doctors, a dietitian and nutritionist, a women’s health physiotherapist, and an acupuncturist.

Loretta is an advocate for menopausal women and has developed a program around menopause in the workplace awareness and education training, and policy development, delivered online and through e-learning.

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Madeline Darcy is the Founding & Managing Partner of Kaya Ventures, an early-stage investment firm that supports companies that expand access to wellness. Prior to founding Kaya, Madeline held investment roles as a Managing Director at CircleUp and as a Vice President at Victress Capital.

Madeline is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and earned her MBA from the Harvard Business School. She currently serves on the boards of the HBS Association of Boston and Synergist.

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McKeever “Mac” Conwell II is a software engineer by trade and was a former DOD contractor with a top-secret clearance. He was a two-time founder with an exit and a failure. Mac moved on to the venture capital world via the Maryland Technology Development Corporation as part of their Seed Investment Team.

During his four years there, Mac amassed created the Minority Business Pre-seed Fund, the first state-backed pre-seed fund for women and minorities. In September 2020, Mac founded RareBreed VC, a pre-seed fund that invests in exceptional founders outside of large tech ecosystems.

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Melissa Stonard, is a leading energy and empowerment mentor. A type 1 diabetic since the age of 4 , she has made it her life long mission to improve the condition through energy work and empowerment. She has now reached the pinnacle of understanding the emotions behind the disease, and how to improve or eradicate many other conditions. This has been made possible by channelling her own therapy, Etheric Regeneration and Bioresonance (ERB for short). She runs transformational workshops and courses, trauma, physical, mental and emotional healing programs, as well as one to one sessions, both online and in person. Her mission: Reclaim your divinity..

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Murty Chennubhotla has 30 years of experience in IT. While he has been calling California home for the past 27 years, he has traveled extensively across the globe on strategic technology consulting engagements for leading Fortune 50 companies. Murty founded Ayurmegha Inc. in San Ramon, CA to bring the most modern technology to Ayurveda to deliver authentic, trusted and secure Ayurveda to one’s doorstep. Ayurmegha’s portfolio today includes TeleVeda™ EHR, ayurmegha.com and ayurmegha.shop.

TeleVeda™ EHR helps Ayurveda practitioners to document client data in detailed Ayurvedic intake forms in Ayurvedic Case Sheet templates and has templates for Ayurvedic Treatments that have been derived from Ayurvedic classical text books such as Charka Samhita and Ashtanga Hridayam. TeleVeda™ EHR is currently used by leading Ayurvedic hospitals in India and has been endorsed by Ayurvedacharya Prof (Dr.) GG Gangadharan, a leading authority on Ayurveda in India.

Ayurmegha.com connects the best Ayurveda doctors with patients across the globe with an inbuilt scheduling tool, secure payment gateways and a patient portal . Ayurmegha.shop is an e-commerce marketplace that brings genuine Ayurvedic products from some of the most trusted Ayurvedic manufacturers.

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Nessa Feehan is a Yoga Teacher and Ayurvedic Practitioner, based in Birr, Co. Offaly. She is passionate about learning and teaching about how yoga and Ayurveda can enrich our lives. Nessa strives to empower her clients to feel better in body, mind and soul through gentle movement,breathwork, and the cultivation of healthy habits, for a happy, healthy and balanced life. She loves spending time outdoors and in her free enjoys hiking, kayaking, stand up paddle boarding and being in the company of nature.

Nessa first stepped onto a yoga mat 10+ years ago while living in Madrid, a step that led her to India in 2016 to complete her 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training. On her return to Ireland in 2018 Nessa began to Study Ayurveda, qualifying as a Ayurvedic Practitioner in 2020. She has since completed a 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training here in Ireland and has completed many other trainings and courses along the way.

Nessa combines her love of yoga and nature in her classes, teaching mindful movement, gentle Hatha yoga, yin yoga, and flow style yoga classes with rest and relaxation being a key feature to all her classes.

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Nina Hersher is Chief Education Officer of the Digital Wellness Institute, author of the bestseller, Your Playbook for Thriving in the Remote Work Era, and an internationally renowned speaker. A leading expert in Digital Wellness, Hersher holds a specialized MSW from Washington University in St. Louis in Digital Culture and Program Development. She runs Evolving in the Digital Age™, a consulting firm dedicated to best practices in mental health in a fast-paced world, and holds additional credentials as an Oasis in the Overwhelm Facilitator, Teen Outreach Program Facilitator, and Meditation Teacher. Hersher is also the Co-founder of Digital Wellness Day, reaching over 7.5 million people across the globe. Most recently, Hersher’s work was featured at Spotify, The King Abdulaziz Center, Dolby, and in publications including The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Al Jazeera, and Voice of America.

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Richard leads the mental health work at workplace consultancy Byrne Dean and is the Executive Officer of the Mindful Business Charter, a cross-business initiative looking to reduce the unnecessary stress in our working behaviors and relationships.

He also co-chairs the Lord Mayor of London’s This is Me campaign, using storytelling to break down the stigma around mental illness. He is a coach, a Mental Health First Aid instructor, and part of the International Bar Association’s global task force on improving mental health. In 2018 he published a memoir of his experience of illness and recovery – This Too Will Pass, Anxiety in a Professional World.

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Ross Szabo is the Wellness Director and founding faculty member at Geffen Academy at UCLA. Ross is also an award-winning speaker, author, and CEO of Human Power Project, a company that designs mental health curriculum.

Ross is the author of Behind Happy Faces; Taking Charge of Your Mental Health and A Kids Book About Anxiety. Human Power Project’s first curriculum titled, Behind Happy Faces, is being utilized by over 200,000 students. The curriculum received the 2016 Excellence in Education Award from the Association of Fraternity and Sorority Advisors.

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Sarah is the Director of Programs, Center For Health & Wellness at the David Lynch Foundation. A Certified TM Teacher, Sarah is passionate about consciousness-based education - and has implemented the David Lynch Foundation “Quiet Time/TM Program” in various schools.

Sarah is a lead teacher with the Center for Health & Wellness teaching TM courses for veterans with PTSD, survivors of domestic and gender-based violence and sexual assault, as well as for government staff and business professionals.

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Sofia Dagg is the founder of the community Elemental Empress Medicine. She shares how fire, air, earth, and water are a path to embody a reality of resonance and abundance.

As a plant medicine integration guide and meditation practitioner, Sofia supports you in feeling safe exploring your inner worlds.

The community Elemental Empress Medicine welcomes people who desire to understand more about the truth behind healing. Sofia has been using her knowledge of conscious community building to bring sacred energy into the online world with new and exciting technology.

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Stefana Bosse is the co-founder of Alalaho, a personal and spiritual development organisation delivering safe and legal psychedelic retreats (using the psilocybin-containing truffles) in the Netherlands. The retreats support people to open up to the unfiltered wisdom at the core of their being, become empowered to take responsibility for their lives and feel free to express their unique gifts.

Stefana has worked with psychedelics for over a decade, and facilitated psychedelic journeys since 2016. She is trained in various psychotherapeutic modalities, has participated in the MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training with the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, explored sensuality and sexuality work with different tantra and embodiment teachers, studied in the shamanic lineages of the Americas, and participated in a modern Mystery School training in New Zealand. Prior to her shift towards inner work, she worked in political campaigning at the human rights organisation Global Witness.

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Tom Coleman is a qualified Health Scientist and holds an Honours Degree in Health Promotion & Public Health. Tom has spent over a decade consulting and working with elite teams, coaches, and blue-chip multinationals in aspects of Sleep, Fatigue and Health. Tom has worked with high-level wearable technology developed by the US military to accurately analyse fatigue. His clients include Conor McGregor, PayPal, eBay, Coca Cola, Pfizer and many others.

Tom has contributed to research on Sleep in corporate Ireland, sitting on an expert panel in 2018 along with other experts like Prof. Russell Foster from Oxford University. Tom is a valued contributor to national media on Sleep, and spends much of his time speaking, and advocating on the importance of Sleep.

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Tyler Rice is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of the Digital Wellness Institute. As a leading digital wellness innovator, Tyler’s work focuses on designing new tools, training, and data measurements to drive awareness of the importance of digital wellbeing for enterprise clients. Motivated to fill this need from his own feelings of digital burnout in a fast-paced corporate environment, Tyler completed coursework through Stanford’s “Idea 2 Market” business incubator - and is in the midst of receiving his Master’s Degree in Public Administration and Social Innovation at NYU - to design solutions that promote human flourishing. He has presented at Cisco’s Annual Tech Conference and Collision North America, and his written work has been published by the Global Network of Workplace Wellbeing Professionals.