Everyday Leaders

What would you do to make a bigger impact in the world?   Melahni Qualls Ake Founder of Everyday Leaders and husband Joe Ake, Founder of Joe Ake Studios Productions Together they created Everyday Leaders 50in50 Podcast Melahni is a passionate professional and personal development leadership coach, trainer and keynote speaker and has been certified through John Maxwell since March 2017 and the WHY...

Munira Zahabi, The Niche Navigator, is an author, speaker, influencer and entrepreneur from Chicago, IL. Through her business, she has influenced many people to navigate to their niche. She firmly believes that all people have a niche but are afraid to explore the deep dark waters within themselves and take a voyage through the raging waters within to find it.  Munira’s mission is to integrate the...

Joe Swinger is the Founder & CEO of The Silver Linings Network, LLC, an organization that helps midlife adults make the second half of their life the best half by living the VIP Life of Vibrancy, Impact & Purpose. He spent 30 years in retail leadership before leaving corporate jail in 2019 when he founded the Silver Linings Network Facebook group, a community of midlife adults over 40 years old. J...

Jodi Bondy has a very wide range of talents and interests. Born and raised in Michigan, oldest of 2 kids in her family, only one to a;end college from her family. She grew up a country girl – picked blueberries for as long as she can remember, spent almost every weekend camping in the wild of western Michigan and then longer family vacaAons to the UP. Her dad did not believe in taking paved roads,...

Silvia is the parent of a child with autism, and has worked with a statewide Parent Training and Information Center, with YAI a large non-profit in New York City as a bilingual behavior specialist working with families of children with developmental disabilities, and served as Executive Director of NYC Parents of Children with Autism. She has worked collaboratively with Family to Family Health Cen...

Dr. Oliver T. Reid is a multi-bestselling and award-winning author, motivational speaker and the founder & president of I Am a Solution Consulting Firm, LLC; a human development organization providing specialized relationship consulting and coaching services. Known as “The Relationship Architect”, he uses cutting edge techniques to help individuals build and restore their family, marriage, ministr...

It’s no coincidence that Suzanne Castle remembers almost every line of Schoolhouse Rock. As a deeply creative spirit with sparkle in her soul, she recognized early on the importance of art to capture our attention – how a small twist on an old idea can inspire us to consider government, grammar, or gravity through the memorable lens of rhythm, melody, and rhyme. This joy-filled ability to recreate...

It’s no coincidence that Suzanne Castle remembers almost every line of Schoolhouse Rock. As a deeply creative spirit with sparkle in her soul, she recognized early on the importance of art to capture our attention – how a small twist on an old idea can inspire us to consider government, grammar, or gravity through the memorable lens of rhythm, melody, and rhyme. This joy-filled ability to recreate...

Regeline Sabbat, known to many as “GiGi,”is a first generation Haitian American, Motivational Speaker, Author, Life Coach, and CEO and Founder of Life Service Center of America, LLC. She is an experienced leader who has adopted a conservative approach to assist Christians with growing spiritually, financially, professionally, and/or personally.  She does this by setting clear and measurable goals...

About Mindy: Mindy Henderson is a Motivational Speaker, Writer and Accountability Coach in Austin, TX. Living life from a wheelchair, the challenges she has overcome have cultivated the very skills in her that she needed to achieve almost every goal she's ever set for herself, to achieve great success and now make her uniquely qualified to motivate others. De- spite living life from a wheelchair,...

  Teresa Quinlan – Founder of her personal brand and the formula IQ+EQ=TQ, Teresa is passionate about emotional intelligence as the key ingredient to leveraging your IQ and breaking through the interference on your way to peak performance success. Having spent over 25 years cultivating a rich and diverse set of skills, Teresa has developed shoot straight coaching, training, and mentoring technique...

Greg Storch https://lion-enterprise.com/about was born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida until joining the Navy when he was seventeen years old. He served in both the enlisted and officer ranks for over 23 years until he retired as the Chief Information Officer of U.S. Naval Hospital Naples, Italy. He is a certified leadership speaker and trainer with the John Maxwell Team and a Certified Profe...

Joanna Bloor believes that it’s time for us humans to rethink how we take on the modern working world. The what, where, when, and how of work is changing, a shift that technology and business have embraced yet people haven’t.  Joanna’s on a mission to help us prepare for the big leap into the working future. To identify and articulate our human value and our place in the next chapter of the workin...

Jeff Hancher is the President and Founder of Jeff Hancher Enterprises that specializes in sales and leadership consulting, keynote speaking and executive coaching. Prior to starting his own business, Jeff was a Regional Director of Sales for Cintas Corporation. From his humble beginnings as a truck driver, he was promoted nine times in his 23-year career with the company. While with Cintas, Jeff e...

As a Pioneer and leadership expert I love to help people at all stages of their leadership career to think and act differently to improve their MINDSET and generate highly effective success strategies that deliver outstanding results – both personally and in the organizations they lead. I passionately believe in you as an individual and I have a real desire to help you to maximize your gifts and t...

Alejandro J Tornato is a sought after International Speaker, Transformational Coach and Professional Development Trainer certified through the John Maxwell Team. Alejandro is an agent of change in people’s lives. His teaching on “No Limits Living” and communication style immediately connect with individuals and groups from all backgrounds. His journey from his home city of Buenos Aires to England,...

Dr. Kimberly Hambrick is a certified coach, teacher, trainer, and speaker with an emphasis on leadership and human development and growth with a focus on maximizing the potential of individuals and organizations. Business and personal performance management; and leadership development and growth provided via individual or group coaching, speaking, and/or training. I DESIGN empowered leaders to ach...

Shannon Smith Cox is a Mother of Triplets, Cancer Survivor,Believer and finding her passion to break the cycle.  Listen in as Shannon describes her passion for life and how she has influenced others:  Shannon is an accountant, a leader in Thirty One-bags and makes Cancer Pouches for Healthcare workers.  Everything she does is to make an impact in the world!  What would you do to make a bigger impa...

Back-to-basics positivity, engagement, humor...and Visualization. That is the formula Steve Gamlin has been bringing to stages of all sizes for more than 16 years.   "If you wake up tomorrow and THINK one more positive thought, SPEAK one more kind word or take at least one more positive ACTION...our time together is a massive win."  This is how Steve opens every event, explaining his mission as "T...

Allison Liddle is a 2x best-selling author of Life Under Construction: Designing a Life You Love & The Art of Imperfect Action: All Success Comes From Daring to Begin, top motivational speaker, leadership trainer, podcast host, CEO/Founder of Allison Liddle Consulting, President of Prosper Wealth Management, and mother to two. Allison’s companies have won national industry awards and trained leade...

#speaktish Founder of Dream Bigger Academy where I host powerful vision board workshops for amazing people who are ready to unleash their brilliance, manifest their dreams and be unstoppable, no matter what!   What would you do to make a bigger impact in the world?   Melahni Qualls Ake Founder of Everyday Leaders and husband Joe Ake, Founder of Joe Ake Studios Productions Together they created Eve...

Nathan is an expert thinking coach, international speaker, and expert facilitator. He is recognized by world renown leadership expert, Dr. John C. Maxwell, as a coach and speaker who values people and adds value to them. Nathan’s mentors, colleague and clients describe Nathan as “incredibly talented, insightful, powerful and wise beyond his years”. Whether working one on one with Nathan or listeni...

  Wael Elhalaby is a full-time street musician who can be found playing his violin throughout the French Quarters. https://www.facebook.com/ https://bandcamp.com/search?q=%20Wael%20Elhalaby  

Deb Hallberg is the CEO for Pass the Torch for Women Foundation. She is a well-connected business professional with a broad background in facilitating successful outcomes for both organizations and individuals. Management expertise, grounded in a broad career in legal and entrepreneurial environments, has garnered recognition and respect by high profile industry groups, trade associations and corp...