Becoming a Sage with Dr. Jann Freed

Dr. Nash is Founder & CEO of Jennifer Nash Coaching & Consulting, a global leadership advisory and consulting firm that connects people and performance to deliver exceptional results. She was invited to join Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches organization as one of the world’s top executive coaches. Jennifer is the author of the 2023 award-winning book  Be Human, Lead Human: How to Connect P...

Warren Berger developed his inquiry skills as a journalist for The New York Times , but he first declared himself a “questionologist” with the publication of his best-selling book, A More Beautiful Question (Bloomsbury, 2014). The book illustrates how questioning has been the starting point for innovations ranging from the cell phone to Netflix to the International Red Cross. In it, Berger introdu...

As an award-winning keynote speaker, business leadership coach, a twelve-time New York Times Best-selling author, host of the top-rated Corporate Competitor Podcast, National Geographic’s “Storyteller in Residence,” and longtime Associate Editor for Sports Illustrated, Don Yaeger has fashioned a career as one of America’s most provocative thought leaders.  As a speaker, he has worked with audience...

At age 3, Tim Hebert had big dreams of becoming a superhero. He had all the characteristics needed to be successful—a strong moral compass, a love of adventure, and a desire to have an impact on the world. Somewhere along the way—after many failed attempts to fly—Tim learned that superpowers come in all shapes and sizes and that his special power was igniting the leadership spark in those around h...

Jim O'Halloran started in heavy-duty truck sales in Chicago and moved to Iowa in 1973. After spending 13 years in truck sales and management, Jim started O’Halloran International, Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa in 1981. He completed the sale of the company to his employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan in 2006. He continues to be a mentor to O’Halloran International, Inc. and Quality Serv...

Todd Cherches is the CEO and cofounder of BigBlueGumball, an innovative New York City-based management, leadership, and executive coaching firm. A member of Marshall Goldsmith’s “MG 100 Coaches,” he is a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership at NYU, a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University, a TEDx speaker, and the author of the groundbreaking book, "VisuaLeadership:...

Barbara Waxman, founder of The Odyssey Group, is passionate about building leaders’ personal and professional skills so they can thrive while increasing their ability to manage complexity and maximize their effectiveness. With over two decades of experience coaching CEOs, C-suite leaders, and entrepreneurs, Barbara utilizes a holistic approach to help clients lead and communicate authentically, su...

Margaret Wheatley, also known as Meg, embarked on her journey of caring for humanity in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in post-war Korea. Her current endeavors are concentrated on cultivating and empowering leaders globally, advocating for them to become Warriors for the Human Spirit. These leaders prioritize service over self, exhibit unwavering resilience amidst challenges and setbacks, and eff...

Laura Rotter, CFA, CFP, is the owner of True Abundance Advisors, a heart-centered, values-based financial planning firm based in New York. After a successful career managing money for institutional investors including Citicorp and Para Advisors, Laura discovered mindfulness practices and was drawn to guide professionals facing a big life change to achieve both financial security and life satisfact...

Dr. Pamela Maxson, an executive and leadership coach, mentor coach, trainer/facilitator, and author of "Finding Your Inner Bitch: How to live an authentic and wholehearted life," assists readers in tapping into and expressing their core selves. Alongside her book, she has developed two related courses: "Develop Your Life" and "Mastering Midlife." With over 25 years of...

Susan Latremoille enjoyed a stellar 38-year career as a wealth advisor. During those years, she watched many of her clients move into retirement with high hopes and plenty of money, only to become disillusioned and depressed. She was frustrated because there was no place for her to turn to help them. After selling her wealth practice at the end of 2019, Susan was determined to do something about t...

By living simply, Douglas Tsoi retired at the age of 42 to do what he wanted with his life, which is to help people participate in grace. He runs a platform called  The Appreciation Effect , holds events called the  Gratitude Dojo , and  runs experiments in reparative economic justice . He also teaches personal finance with a spiritual lens in a class called  Financial Freedom . Douglas is a train...

Ali Schultz is a coach and the co-founder of Reboot.io. She weaves her business acumen with the innate wisdom of the body, the philosophies of the world’s wisdom traditions, and the“way of the horse” to help clients find their voice in service of finding themselves. Ali earned her Master’s degree in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder, studied Transformational NLP at NLP M...

Dr. Michael S. Lewis, M.D., is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon and former consultant for the Chicago White Sox baseball team, Chicago Wolves hockey team, and the Chicago Bulls basketball team, with whom won two championship rings. Previously, he served as the chief of staff at NorthShore University HealthSystem’s Skokie Hospital and received a teaching award from Rush University Medical College...

Her exuberance as a non-linear thinker and visionary in the brand intelligence space has always taken center stage. But Mary van de Wiel, dubbed brand psychologist and master provocateur by her corporate clients, brings 35 years of multicultural experience redefining brands and bringing emboldened thinking to organizations. As Founder, CEO and Executive Creative Director of an independent branding...

Susan Turnbull is the founder and Principal of Personal Legacy Advisors. She the author of The Wealth of Your Life: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Ethical Will , and creator of Life Legacy Cards and the Life Legacy Conversations Tool , all designed for those who agree that wealth transferred to future generations has both tangible and intangible dimensions. Susan is a member of the Boston...

Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of the world’s leading industrial designers. She has designed hundreds of products, from toilet seats to office systems to potato peelers to concept cars. You’ve probably held or sat on something she has designed for Herman Miller Knoll, Target or Toyota, among many others. Her work has earned her several nicknames—Queen of Toilets, Queen Bee (for office sy...

Home is Baja and Breckenridge for this former pro snowboarder who's launched and operated hotels, produced events on beaches and glaciers, managed pro athletes, and worn the hats of writer, restaurateur, and more. The common thread? Christine is passionate about creating experiences that change people's lives—be it in our classroom, our community, or in our workplace. Christine cares deepl...

Dr. Gena Cox, CEO of Feels Human, LLC, is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of Leading Inclusion , an award-winning guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizatio...

Bruce Rosenstein is Managing Editor of Leader to Leader , a publication of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum and Wiley/Jossey-Bass. He is the author of Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way , (McGraw-Hill and Brilliance Audio, 2013) and Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life (Berrett-Koehler, 2009). He worked for USA TODAY from 19...

At only sixteen years old, Jacqueline Wales fled from her childhood home in a desperate search for happiness. Looking in all the wrong places, she left a trail of abandoned children and a pattern of self abuse that threatened her life. But that’s just the beginning of her story. From Leith, Scotland, to London, England; from the California coast to Paris, Amsterdam, New York, and Bali, Jacqueline’...

Click here to register for Chana's workshop! Read from Chana herself: I am the youngest child of Reb Zalman Schachter Shalomi Z"L and his first wife Tziporah Faygl. I have 68 years of Life Experience. I am currently not retired but "Reinspired" and ready to share Sageing with you with special insights of having been raised by Reb Zalman as I was growing up in Winnipeg and decades of continuing to...

Jenn Lim is the bestselling author of Beyond Happiness, and the CEO of Delivering Happiness [DH], a company she and Tony Hsieh [the late CEO of Zappos.com] cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. DH has worked with or spoken at more than 400 companies and organizations worldwide, including Starbucks, Sallie Mae, Lockheed Martin, Zoom...

Think Brené Brown meets Biker Babe, with a dash of Liz Gilbert. As former Chief Marketing Officer of Harley-Davidson, Shelley Paxton found herself at the top of the proverbial mountain feeling success-EMPTY instead of success-FULL. That awakening led her on a profound Soulbbatical journey that became her mission, business, and bestselling book,  Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Y...

A short history of Kay: "After graduating in Biochemistry from King’s College, London I spent a year in the Max Planck Institut fur Biophysik in Frankfurt, and with 2 published papers in learned scientific journals under my belt, I made the rather unexpected move into market research and advertising (where I stayed for far too long!). By the age of 32 I had been on the board of directors of 2 Lond...