Treva Graves
Treva Graves is a global personal brand expert and “confidence crusader” fostering self-empowerment and personal development to transform lives. Her expertise focuses on shifting people’s mindset from “I can’t” to “I can.” After facing a childhood trauma, she forced herself to overcome challenges of self-doubt and low self-worth and created strategies that would rewrite her identity and purpose. This led Treva to write her book, “Self-Doubt Detox – 5 Steps to Beat Your Bully and Bloom Confidence which became a best seller on Amazon. In her book, Treva shares how she turned her deepest pain into her biggest mission.
As a coach, national speaker and founder of Bloom Personal Branding, she has empowered business and sales professionals, leaders, coaches, speakers, and politicians to embrace their authentic selves and share their uniqueness through building influential and credible personal brands. Treva shares her thought leadership through writing as an Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine and as Mentor Expert at Powerful Women Today. Her articles and captivating presentations instill confidence and ignite positive change, particularly among women who draw strength from her empowering messages.
Treva holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Sioux Falls and a master’s degree in communication science from the University of South Dakota. She is a certified confidence coach with the American Confidence Institute and a licensed associate of the Imposter Syndrome Institute. Treva is dedicated to guiding people to unleash their full potential passionately advocating for confidence in everyone.
Lambers Fisher
Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical supervisor, adjunct instructor, award-winning author, and national speaker on the topic of multicultural awareness and diversity. For 20 years, Lambers has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds, in private practice, non-profit, as well as ministry environments. Lambers utilizes his marriage and family therapist experience to bring a positive, shame-free, empowering, and relationship-focused approach to equip helping professionals in various fields to increase their cultural self-awareness, reduce the frequency of unintentional cultural offenses, as well as repair relationships damaged by cultural offenses. Lambers’ Diversity Made Simple training has equipped over 20,000 professionals around the country to feel more comfortable, competent, and confident in their ability to meet a greater variety of needs for whomever they have the opportunity to serve. Lambers is the author of the award-winning book, Diversity in Clinical Practice: A Practical & Shame-Free Guide to Reducing Cultural Offenses & Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships.
April Lewis
April Lewis is a woman on a mission to improve the employee experience and develop leaders in organizations. As the President and CEO of the A. Lewis Academy, Inc., a coaching and consulting firm, she uses her extensive training and leadership background to transform organizations from the inside out through proven workplace wellness strategies. Her guiding principle is “Human first, Employee second.”
April’s passion for teaching professionals how to work well has led her to become a keynote speaker and consultant for Fortune 100 companies, organizations, and education institutions across the nation. She served as the Interim Chief Operating Officer of a healthcare system based in Maryland. Despite all of her accomplishments, April remains grounded and passionate about stress-free living. She is also a best-selling author and lover of tacos.
She served as a combat veteran in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Bright Star in Egypt. Her credentials include being a Certified D.I.S.C Facilitator, Certified Health Coach, Certified Executive Coach, and Certified Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner. April Lewis has truly earned the title of “Leadership and Wellbeing Energizer” and her approach to transformation is a reminder to always put people first.
Steve Fredlund
Steve Fredlund is a multi-passionate visionary who has had profound impact as an award-winning actuary, humanitarian, coach, consultant, author, speaker, podcaster, entrepreneur and leader of African safaris.
For ten years, Steve’s journey included two parallel paths: a good life that became increasingly unfulfilling and humanitarian trips to Africa that ended on safari. Steve’s research into happiness and his safari experiences blended into something remarkable. He discovered the “Big 5” factors that impact both, becoming the foundation of “The Safari Way”, a movement to increase the happiness and success of people around the world.
Steve is a two-time TEDx speaker, fellow of the Society of Actuaries and holds an MBA. When not working, he can be found on the disc golf course, playing a poker tournament or suffering through another season as a Minnesota sports fan.
Jasmine Brett Stringer
Jasmine Brett Stringer is an uplifting keynote speaker, award-winning author of Seize Your Life: How to Carpe Diem Every Day, on-air TV personality, host of the podcast and lifestyle blog Carpe Diem with Jasmine and founder of Share the Mic Minnesota. In these times of transformational change, Jasmine is on a mission to help people live empowered and authentic lives. Through her Seize Your Life keynotes, workshops and customized coaching sessions, Jasmine guides clients and audiences through a simple process to identify their goals and achieve their personal definition of success. Jasmine’s common-sense approach to creating a life of one’s own has inspired thousands of people across the world to carpe diem! Jasmine has shared her positive message to corporate and nonprofit organizations such as Land O’ Lakes, Federal Reserve Bank, Airbnb, Cargill, Goodwill, Mondelēz International, Bayer, Boston Scientific, Radisson Hotel Group, NEW, the Network of Executive Women and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Jasmine inspires revelation and change by leveraging her experiences working with some of the world’s biggest brands. Additionally, Jasmine speaks on how to effectively network and how to build synergy and develop interpersonal skills- core tools for living a vision-driven life.
The international “new awakening” to racial inequalities and social justice issues during the summer of 2020 inspired Jasmine to launch a new project, #SHARETHEMICMN. #SHARETHEMICMN was established to give Black and Brown women in Minnesota additional exposure through connection and engagement with new audiences. The goal is that the new conversations and relationships develop into a deeper understanding that will be impactful in tackling and overcoming unconscious biases, racial injustices and racial inequities. Through storytelling, relationship development, programming and collaborations #SHARETHEMICMN strives to help make Minnesota a more inclusive and equitable state. Jasmine is using the #SHARETHEMICMN platform to elevate the voices of women of color, inspire action and allyship, and show the world that a Carpe Diem spirit can drive change.
Jasmine is a graduate of American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington, D.C. She was named one of “100 People to Know in 2021” by Twin Cities Business Magazine, a Twin Cities Fearless Woman in 2017, and a Woman of Promise by the Girl Scouts in 2012. She received the 2020 Team Women Community Impact WaveMaker Award. Additionally, she was awarded Distinguished Alumna of American University and is an active member of the National Speakers Association. Ebony Magazine featured her as one of its “30 Future Leaders Under the Age of 30 in America.” Jasmine is based in Minneapolis but can often be found two hours south of the city working with her husband at the family farm. On a personal note, Jasmine is a Minnesota State Fair ribbon winner for her delicious canned sweet pickles grown with love in Blue Earth, MN.
Tim Eggebraaten
Tim Eggebraaten has been a police officer since 1992 and had many different roles during his career with the Detroit Lakes, MN Police Department – DARE Instructor, Patrol Sergeant, Investigative Sergeant, K-9 Handler, and Chief of Police from 2011 to 2016. Tim retired from the DLPD in November 2016 after 24 ½ years in law enforcement and 3 years as a correctional officer. Tim and his wife, Denise, make their home in Detroit Lakes. Tim began talking about his own career path and leadership journey in 2016 and found that talking with others about personal and emotional topics greatly helped his own healing process and learned that others could benefit from knowing that they are not alone in their own journey. Tim will talk (and sing) with your organization about keeping the harmony in our lives and finding that balance to succeed in all aspects of our lives. Tim has spent many years performing as a one-man band and will use the power of music during his presentation to inspire and move your audience.
Rob Ferre
ROB FERRE Speaker – Event Host – Engagement Expert
An experience you’ll always remember, a message you’ll never forget. Helping you build leaders that get your teams on the dance floor. The ability to retain your key talent matters more now than ever before. As leaders we crave having teams that are excited about the brand, and willing to “dance” into our vision. Rob Ferre has spent most of his life and career getting people engaged in an experience. From Disney to DJ, from Des Moines to Dubai, his work has been built around studying the habits of effective teams, and how leaders can make work fun again.
Clients like Amazon, Dell, and LinkedIn, are just a few of the groups who have had raved about Rob’s custom host experiences. Not only does he bring the energy, the humor, the fun, and, yes, the music, Rob also brings his four-step system that leaders can implement immediately to create stronger more engaged teams. His interactive events are designed to get your people moving, inspire them to seek change,and leave them with a method of putting it into action for years of positive results. It truly is an experience you’ll always remember, and a message you’ll never forget.
Jordana Green
Jordana Green is an Emmy award winning television news anchor, a Marconi award winning podcast writer and producer, and drive-time news-talk radio talk show host. Jordana started her career in television news at various stations in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Her career advanced to television news anchorwoman in Indianapolis and the Twin Cities. Jordana migrated from a teleprompter to broadcasting her points of view on a variety of topics as the co-host of the “Paul & Jordana Show” on WCCO Radio in the Twin Cities. She considers learning how to snowboard at age forty as one of her greatest physical accomplishments until being challenged with a rare form of leukemia in 2020. Her straight talk Jersey girl truth telling is funny, transparent, and humble. Her colleagues all agree that when Jordana enters a room, the energy shifts to the positive and everyone knows she’s there… and on ‘their’ side. She has learned many life lessons from her challenges of and rebounding from job loss, moving from city to city, divorce, balancing her career with motherhood, and leukemia. She remarried and is raising three teenagers in her Minneapolis home filled with lunacy, love and laughter. “Finding Your Moments of Clarity”, Jordana’s presentation allows listeners to dig deep into their experiences to identify life changing moments that have molded their past decisions. She offers clear steps to identifying future ‘moments of clarity’ that will generate the confidence everyone needs to make the next right moves. Jordana is inspiring, vulnerable, and funny. She connects deeply with all who hear her and motivates them with specific guidelines to be on their true career, personal and spiritual paths.
Rick Kupchella
I thrive on helping major global brands better understand the accelerating pace of innovation and what is required to thrive in today’s markets.After years as an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter and television news anchor in the Twin Cities with stints in New York and Washington DC. I’m now a serial-entrepreneur in news, content marketing, and strategy businesses – combining investigative journalists, digital strategists and senior business and marketing leaders help businesses drive revenue and influence.Among other topics, I speak on the future of media, news consumption, and the changing landscapes of marketing and innovation. I believe the greatest business results will be achieved by those who figure out how to. Be The Media.Fun Facts- I’m passionate about the environment and humanitarian relief efforts. I serve as a Board Member of The Nature Conservancy, in the Upper Midwest, Former Chairman of the Board for Smile Network International, and Past President of The Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.I authored two children’s books, including one with Former Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor, America’s first woman in space, Sally Ride and Olympic superstar Jackie Joyner Kersee.
Wendie Pett
Wendie Pett, is passionate about motivating people to make fitness and good nutrition part of their daily routine. She teaches the balance of mind, body and spirit through her Visibly Fit™ wellness program. Wendie has a nationally syndicated television program that airs every Tuesday on the NRB Network. Her show also airs on Upliftv, WLCN, and IBN Television. She contributes weekly on KTIS radio in the Twin Cities as ‘Coach Wendie’ and is a featured columnist in VEGWORLD Magazine, The Christian View, Best Ever You, Refreshed, Vegan Lifestyle, and Diet.com. Wendie is a full-time business owner, a naturopathic doctor, wife, mother, author, speaker, TV host, advisory board member for Christian Women in Media and part-time volunteer. Her business consists of whole-food/plant-based wellness coaching, emotional healing, personal online training, fitness planning, educational and motivational speaking, and creating new products/tools to assist clients along their wellness journey. After a major injury to her shoulder, she resorted to body weight resistance exercises for strength and healing and hasn’t turned back to any other form of training since. She has helped countless others reach their fitness and health goals without ever compromising their joints, tendons, or ligaments – teaching that Your Body Is Your Gym™ and instilling new diet habits that have shown to reverse multiple diseases and allow people to get off medications.