Peter is passionate about helping companies grow revenue with and through partner ecosystems. He was recruited out of business school to Apple Computer where he spent nearly a decade honing his ability to “Think Different” while contributing to several go to market “firsts”.Peter’s experience in Global VP roles in Fortune 500 as well as pre-IPO startup companies enabled him to build, test and execute go to market strategies that materially impact revenue.At NetApp, he led the effort to diversify their North America partner ecosystem with a team that delivered $600M in revenue. Peter next led the team brought FlexPod to market resulting in a multi-billion-dollar business for Cisco and NetApp.

Peter’s leaders, teams and key stakeholders credit his innovative thinking, entrepreneurial approach and ability to generate cross functional alignment required to deliver desired results.More recently he has served as an advisor, consultant and executive coach t0 leaders responsible for improving sales with and through complex partner ecosystems.

Peter was born and raised in California, and after living in Chicago and the United Kingdom, calls the San Francisco Bay Area home.

Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences.

‍Early Work with Stem Cells
‍Dr. Lipton began his scientific career as a cell biologist. He received his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville before joining the Department of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine in 1973.Dr. Lipton’s research on muscular dystrophy, studies employing cloned human stem cells, focused on the molecular mechanisms controlling cell behavior. An experimental tissue transplantation technique developed by Dr. Lipton and colleague Dr. Ed Schultz (published in the journal Science) was subsequently employed as a novel form of human genetic engineering.

‍Breakthroughs in Cellular Biology and Quantum Physics
‍In 1982, Dr. Lipton began examining the principles of quantum physics and how they apply to his understanding of the cell’s information processing systems. He produced breakthrough studies on the cell membrane, which revealed that this outer layer of the cell was an organic homologue of a computer chip—the cell’s equivalent of a brain.
His research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, between 1987 and 1992, revealed that the environment, which operated via the cell membrane, controlled the behavior and physiology of the cell, turning genes on and off.

Natural Partners (now FullScript) is a 20 year old, technologically powered resource for health care practitioners who strive to improve patient wellness by providing high-quality professional grade nutritional supplements to their patients. Prior to founding Natural Partners, Tye was Founding Partner of PETsMART where he served in the capacity of the original VP of Operations and VP of Human Resources and Training. Before that Tye was an executive at Wherehouse Records and is still an avid collector of vinyl and all things Rock and Roll. His personal passions are dogs and pets, organic gardening with heirloom seeds, meditation and alternative health. He is also very interested in music, both creative expression and live performance. Above all, his abiding passion is world wellness and the reduction of suffering.

I am a bestselling author and the international expert on Influencing Language, researching and teaching for over 30 years. My first book, Words That Change Minds, is an international bestseller, available in 20 languages, and a Forbes best management book. Organizations in over 30 countries ask me to help them increase their impact and influence. I started learning Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)in 1982 in Paris after immigrating there. As a communication trainer, working in English and French in international organizations such as IBM, UNESCO, CERN,I found using NLP unlocked people’s abilities ‍to think and communicate better. As part of my NLP training, I was introduced to Rodger Bailey’s ‍Language and Behavior Profile, (LAB Profile®), and it set me on a decades long journey of discovery and development of tools to help people get their message across.

Neal is a highly sought after executive sales leader, sales coach, and mentor. He began his Sales leadership career with Deepak Chopra in July 2004 where he 10x’dtheir revenue (from $800k to $8M) in just under 3 years. He then went on to be part of the founding team that built Tony Robbins’ Business Mastery. Working under the legendary, late, best-selling author of “The Ultimate Sales Machine” Chet Holmes, he became the top producer in Business Mastery program sales, exceeding his new revenue quota by over 120% 3 years in a row. His work focuses on increasing sales, reducing sales cycles, expanding profits, and winning market share, utilizing the most ethical, efficient, and effective leadership, influence, selling, and client relationship skills.

Steve Lishansky has been selling his entire life. Over the last 24 years thousands of top professional services providers, high-end salespeople, and leaders from more than 40 countries have increased their impact, value and results through their work with Steve.The content found in Steve’s book, The Ultimate Sales Revolution, has been embraced as critical to massively accelerating and expanding the success that program participants have achieved with their clients. Now it is available to you.Steve’s clients range from the Fortune 500 to high growth entrepreneurial companies to leading consultants and firms with high-level technical expertise. Learning to apply his fundamental, universal human dynamics produced extraordinary levels of engagement and success in sales results, communication effectiveness, professional relationships, and team leadership.Steve’s professional passion is helping his clients to quickly and profoundly transform their client relationships, improve their most important results, and be known as the leaders in their field. He is also fervently dedicated to family, traveling, and changing the world.He founded the Institute for Sales Innovation in 1992 to transform the speed and impact of sales done in the most ethical, principle-based, rapid, and highly effective.ways. As many leaders, managers and technical experts discovered his work, he created Optimize International to focus on helping them and their teams accelerate and go beyond the results they normally achieved. He calls this “teaching sales skills to people who would never call themselves salespeople”. Of course, once they learn his methods, they realize that they, and everyone else sells. Now they know how to do it in ways that are impact, value and results oriented in the service of their constituencies.

Dr. Shelley Scammell is a clinical psychologist(PsyD)in the San Francisco Bay area. Her book, Spiritual and Religious Competencies in Clinical Practice, (Vieten and Scammell, 2013),based on original research with five colleagues, has been part of a trend to reconnect spiritual and religious beliefs into psychological processes for clinical therapists. Shelley has been an adjunct professor at CA Institute of Integral Studies, American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sonoma State University, New York University and Baruch College. She’s been teaching mindful meditation weekly since 2019, using Vipassana, Zen and Tibetan methods. She incorporates insights from Vedic astrology into her therapeutic work with clients.

Dr. Richard Mendius specializes in neurology in Santa Rosa, CA and has over 45 years of experience in the field of medicine. He graduated from University of California, UCLA School of Medicine with his medical degree in 1977.
He is co-author of the book Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom along with Dr. Rick Hanson. By combining breakthroughs in neuroscience with insights from thousands of years of mindfulness practice, the book teaches you how you can use your mind to shape your brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom. Buddha's Brain draws on the latest research to show how to stimulate your brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and worth. Using guided meditations and mindfulness exercises, you learn how to activate the brain states of calm, joy, and compassion instead of worry, sorrow, and anger. Most importantly, you will foster positive psychological growth that will literally change the way you live in your day-to-day life.
Rick studies the confluence of Buddhist traditions and Western scientific thought, especially current neuroscience, and teaches meditation.

Jim Coughlin has built three profitable IT staffing firms to triple-digit growth rates, multi-million dollar sales revenues and lucrative liquidity events since 1990. While leading the Business Development organization at PermaTemp Agency he grew sales from $8 million to $30 million in 5 years. The company was acquired by Accustaff/Modis in 1995. In 1996 he founded Star Temps, Inc. which grew from$500,000 to $18 million in sales in 4 years. The company was acquired by The Plus Group in 2004. In 2004 as Vice President & General Manager, Jim transformed Foundation Systems, Inc. from a $2 million local staffing firm to a $22 million global IT staffing organization for Fortune 100 companies. Foundation Systems, Inc. was ranked on Forbes Fastest Growing 500 Private Companies list and in 2009 was acquired by American Cyber Systems, Inc. In addition to being a special consultant to Commit to Greatness Consulting, Inc., Jim also consults for VMS Accelerators which offers strategy and leadership services to large multi-national staffing organizations. Concurrent with his career in the Staffing and Leadership Consulting Industries, Jim has managed to build a thriving yoga practice and business. Jim was first introduced to yoga in 1968 at the age of 11. Since 2002 he has been Business Manager and Yoga Teacher at Downtown Yoga, LLC in Pleasanton, CA. Jim is an accomplished yoga practitioner who has travelled to India over 15 times to study with his teacher – a world-recognized yoga master. Jim has a unique ability to combine a deep knowledge of yogic principles and practices, with a very pragmatic and action-oriented business approach that produces outstanding results and builds great teams.

Judi is the founder and master consultant for both Spear-Rhodes, Ltd, her Canadian based company and RVRhodes, Inc., her US based company. She has spent more than two decades refining and developing her craft as a consultant with companies ranging in size, from small to large, including non-profit organizations and for-profit corporations. Since 1996, Judi has served more than 50,000 leaders.
Judi’s expertise is found in leadership development, organizational development and executive coaching. Her experience and passion have led her to work with leaders at every level of an organization. She guides them to acquire the essential tools and skills necessary to blend understanding people and strategic thinking. These approaches are key to building a strong foundation and a strong business.
Key insights are discovered through Judi’s coaching process. She uses three coaching approaches: Performance Coaching, High Potential Coaching and Intervention Coaching. Within each of these approaches she guides leaders to have a better understanding of themselves and others to create alignment around goals and effective relationships. When leaders work with Judi, they develop strategies that allow them to use their strengths to off-set their challenges, they acquire what they need to experience lasting change and they feel confident they are in roles that use their gifts. Ultimately people feel inspired and energized to perform.
Judi's clients across North America are in manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, energy, health care, utilities, entertainment, and First Nations government. Universities and colleges also seek her help. She created Developing Your Capacity for Personal Mastery for graduate students in Education and Personal Leadership for MBA students. Her signature leadership development program is Results-based Leadership created for the corporate sector but also used successfully by non-profits. She has traveled for Vistage International (TEC in Canada) as an Emotional Intelligence expert.
Judi loves learning which earned her a bachelor's in Business and a master's in Organizational Leadership and Communication. She's a graduate of the Center for Creative Leadership and Leadership Buffalo. Judi is certified as a Management Consultant (CMC) and designated as a Board Certified Coach (BCC) and executive coach (BCEC) by the Center for Credentialing & Education (CCE). She is certified and/or a master trainer for a range of personality and behavioral tools. Judi is Mohawk and a member of Six Nations, Ohsweken, Ontario. She resides in Southern Ontario.