Heartbeat For Hire with Lyndsay Dowd

Courtney Turich is a bold risk-taker, seasoned sales leader, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the medical device and healthcare industries. From securing a deal on Shark Tank with Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner, to helping cancer patients minimize hair loss as Global VP of Sales and Marketing at Cooler Heads, Courtney's career is defined by innovation and impact. She is passionate...

Christine is a dynamic C-level executive, transformational leader, and leadership coach, celebrated for blending business innovation with human-centered leadership. With expertise spanning healthcare, technology, biotech, and consumer packaged goods (CPG), she drives commercialization, scalability, and growth by uniting people around shared visions and creating empowered, collaborative cultures. A...

Jackie Summers is a James Beard Finalist, seasoned public speaker, and serial entrepreneur. Summers is the founder of JackFromBrooklyn Inc. and the creator of the award-winning Sorel Liqueur. His accolades include: Being named among the inaugural "Drink Innovators of the Year by Food & Wine Magazine, being named among the inaugural "Wine Enthusiast Future 40", being ranked among the world's "100 M...

Maggie Brady is a progressive leader with 20 years of global HR leadership experience spanning Fortune 500, private equity, and venture capital backed companies. She started her career journey at Arthur Andersen as part of their Change Enablement consulting practice and then pivoted to HR, earning her stripes as a graduate of GE's HR Leadership Program. Since then, Maggie has gained experience lea...

Rashmi Airan is a captivating and motivational speaker, consultant, and catalyst for transformation with a mission to foster organizational cultures centered around authenticity. Her powerful story transcends the pitfalls of making a life-altering decision; it's a tale of leadership, core values, and decision-making, capable of creating a safe haven for courageous and often challenging conversatio...

Ryan Lavarnway, a former Major League Baseball catcher, is now a sought-after leadership coach and keynote speaker. With a 15-year MLB career that included winning the 2013 World Series with the Boston Red Sox, Ryan also represented Israel in the World Baseball Classic and Olympics. A Yale standout, he set records and earned MVP honors internationally. Today, Ryan inspires audiences with his dynam...

WGA, DGA, GOLDEN GLOBE nominee, and Emmy Governors award recipient, Greg Berlanti is the force behind some of the most creative and acclaimed works in film and television. He began his career in TV as a staff writer on the hit show Dawson's Creek, becoming an executive producer and showrunner of the series after only one year on staff. Since then, Berlanti has served as a creator or executive prod...

Damion Lupo is a seasoned entrepreneur who has launched and grown over 70 companies from $0 to $100 million throughout a remarkable 25-year journey. In addition to being a prolific author with 12 published books, Damion is celebrated for his extraordinary achievements in building multiple companies from the ground up, many of which have reached seven, eight, and even nine-figure valuations. Despit...

Denise Brosseau has the unlikely expertise of being a thought leader…about thought leadership. She is the bestselling author of Ready to Be a Thought Leader? (Wiley) and the CEO of the Thought Leadership Lab, where she works with executives and their teams on their journey from leader to thought leader. Her clients have included executives at Genentech, PayPal, eBay and many other Fortune 500 comp...

Laura's secret superpower is seeing your greatness and reflecting it back on you, so that you can get "unstuck" — and achieve extraordinary results. A regular contributor to Good Morning America, the TODAY Show, Harvard Business Review, and Oprah Daily, Laura is the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of three books, Wonderhell, Limitless, and Mission-Driven. Laura's 30-year resume is defined b...

Rebecca is the founder of Tactical Harmony, an online business dedicated to mentoring ambitious professionals and businesses on holistic leadership and mindset strategies. She is also the host of the "Tactical Harmony" podcast, in which she shares game-changing, transformative tactics supporting her community to gracefully navigate their career and homelife, while enjoying freedom, abundance and b...

Dan's journey is a testament to the power of passion and entrepreneurship. Growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he spent his summers at Camp Takajo in Maine, where he developed a deep love for the camp experience. Little did he know that his hobby of creating a Dave Matthews Band Tour Archive website in high school would lay the foundation for his future career. In 2001, while still a c...

Megan Reilly started as an entrepreneur at age 19 and over the last two decades has built an international franchise, started a top 12 podcast and ignited crowds all around the country as a keynote speaker. A 2012 Shark Tank Alum, Megan and her former business partner received multiple offers from Sharks yet decided to grow their business on their own. As owner and COO of Tippi Toes, Inc, Megan he...

Jennifer Sethre is the CEO and founder of Intry, a technology-driven matchmaking service connecting job seekers with employers. Intry was showcased at the White House in 2018 as a company to watch, and Jennifer has participated in prestigious events such as the Yale CEO Summit and Yale CEO College at the New York Stock Exchange. Throughout her career, she has held leadership roles as President, CE...

Michael Sheldrick is a policy entrepreneur, author and a driving force behind the efforts of Global Citizen to end extreme poverty. As a Co-Founder and Chief Policy, Impact, and Government Affairs Officer, he leads the organization's campaigns to mobilize support from governments, businesses, and foundations. He is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for In...

Cynthia Barnes is a powerhouse in sales empowerment and women's professional development. As the Founder of the National Association of Women Sales Professionals, Cynthia is revolutionizing how we think about confidence and success. Her groundbreaking work explores a fascinating question: Can we reverse engineer confidence through deliberate affirmation? Cynthia's innovative approach centers on th...

Pete Schramm loves bringing people together! A serial entrepreneur, award-winning speaker, and bestselling author, is passionate about connecting people and fostering intentional, sustainable, and meaningful relationships in the workplace. With a background in farming and basketball before traveling the world and getting into mechanical engineering and leadership roles at Lockheed Martin, QinetiQ,...

Kevin Rempel is a 2013 World Champion and 2014 Sochi Paralympic bronze medalist in sledge hockey with an incredible story of overcoming a tremendous amount of adversity.   After a freestyle motocross accident left Kevin an incomplete paraplegic at the age of 23, he was told by doctors he would likely never walk again.   Ironically enough, Kevin's father, Gerry, was also paralyzed just four years e...

JESSICA ZWEIG, has been described as "a voice of her time" by Marianne Williamson and a "Personal Branding Expert" by Forbes. A serial entrepreneur, Jessica founded three businesses and recently sold her agency, SimplyBe., the nation's premier personal branding company. Her first book was the #1 bestseller, Be: A No Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self-Worth and Your Net Worth by Simply Being Yo...

Noah Pusey is the President and CEO of Ripple Analytics - a cloud-based talent assessment platform that replaces the annual review with timely, objective and actionable peer-to-peer data. Ripple disrupts how organizations evaluate talent and empowers leaders to build stronger, engaged, efficient, productive and culture-driven Teams. Noah received his undergraduate degree from Boston College and hi...

Frankie Russo is a visionary in authenticity, imagination and growth. An entrepreneur with a proven track record for using innovative methods to unlock rapid growth. Russo has led multiple companies to remarkable growth landing on the Inc. 500/5000 list 8 years in a row, including 60X growth in three years of his tech company 360ia, leading to an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company. Organizations...

Sam Horn helps people "connect the dots forward" and create one-of-a-kind presentations, pitches, books, brands, businesses, and messages that scale their impact – for good.   Sam has authored 10 books including Tongue Fu!®, POP!, Wash Post bestseller Got Your Attention? Her latest book Talking on Eggshells received a glowing Pub Weekly review, was featured in Forbes, and endorsed by Marie Forleo,...

Dr. Paul J. Zak is Distinguished University Professor at Claremont Graduate University and is in the top 0.3% of most cited scientists. Paul's two decades of research extending the boundaries of behavioral neuroscience have taken him from the Pentagon to Fortune 50 boardrooms to the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. His most recent book is Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source o...

With 20 years of experience in sales and lifestyle strategy, Felicia Kelly empowers women in intense, high-stress environments to find alignment in their personal and professional lives. After more than a decade of training high-performers and making her first $1,000,000, Felicia faced a tragic loss and was diagnosed with MS. These experiences led her to become an EMT and speaker, dedicated to hel...

Steve Cadigan is a highly sought-after talent advisor to leaders and organizations across the globe. As Founder of his own Silicon Valley-based firm, Cadigan Talent Ventures, Steve advises a wide range of innovative organizations that include Google, Cisco, Intel, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Manchester United Football Club, Salesforce and the BBC. He is also regularly retained by some leading VC (...