Leaders Who Care®

Meet Vandana Tolani, Founder/CEO at Convanto. Hear her rich experiences in International and domestic business advisory & fund raising. Singapore, Indonesia, India. Proven history of mentoring start-ups, identifying growth avenues, developing innovative strategies and building high-performing teams. Recognized multiple times as a top leader, a role model for women leadership. One of the Leader...

Meet Stan Chen, CEO of RecycleGO and founder of Sinansys. Following in his Dad’s recycling footsteps, he helps organizations transition from reactive crisis management to proactive, transparent, and profitable sustainability strategies. Hear how he delivers practical, technology-driven solutions to the world’s most urgent sustainability challenges.

Meet Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri. She’s like multiple Leaders Who Care®. Anthropologist. Regenerative Futurist. Filmmaker. Artist, Director. Entrepreneur and Thought Leader, driving transformational economic, social and environmental impact. Founder, @OpenOrigin, fueling the future, and @ShaktiRegenerationInstitute, to empower and share ancestral wisdom traditions. Indrani has worked with Bowie and Gaga...

Meet Matt Soule, CEO of Parallel Systems, bringing the future of autonomous rail to the present. Hear his story and experiences from advanced electronics in aviation, to Space, and yes, back to Earth on Rail.

Wafa Al Obaidat, Founder/CEO of PLAYBOOK, a pioneering EdTech platform, professional network, and global community, led the growth to be a platform with across 100 countries and 222 cities. With 200+ experts, PLAYBOOK offers access to over 16,000 minutes of exclusive content. Their partnerships with 100+ corporate organizations pave the way with opportunities and change for women worldwide.

Meet Alastair Callender of Moravia Yachting. With over 20 years experience in yachting, as a kid in the UK, to being the only yacht charter vacations & sales expert that has won International Awards for Sustainability, Innovation and Yacht Design. Hear how Alastair has combined purpose, philanthropy and impact on the seas.

Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum is a leader in preventive cardiology. In private practice in New York, her passion led her to be Founder, CEO of Heart-Tech Health, a med-tech innovation to decrease the risk of women’s cardiovascular disease and bring prevention to every woman regardless of location or circumstance. She published Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum’s Heart Book: Every Woman’s Guide to a Heart Healthy Life...

Brenda Andress has always been one to skate to where the puck is going, shoot and score. strategic entrepreneur, passionate advocate, and global thought leader committed to shaping the future of all women’s sports. Founder and President of SheIs and visionary behind the SheIs Sports Network. Previously Commissioner of the Canadian Women’s Professional Hockey League, making it the world’s premier w...

Meet Kevin Koharki, Founder at CAE Consulting. Capital Allocation Enhancement? Capital allocation is a firm's most important task. Hear Kevin discuss what Leaders Who Care® understand - business is a "team sport" that requires all employees to understand how their roles and actions drive firm performance, as well as effectively communicate using the "language of business."

Meet Sultan Moraished, who leads the technological innovation and strategic development across all facets of RSG’s tech operations across corporate, consumer, and developments. Overseeing the company's technology strategy, including the implementation of cutting-edge solutions to drive efficiency and innovation. His leadership extends to fostering a culture of technological excellence and Leaders...

Dr. Ola Brown, Founding Partner of Healthcap; a pan-Africa investment company focused on healthcare/clean energy & social infrastructure investments that create a healthier world. The venture capital arm has invested in 30 pre Series A start ups in fintech and healthtech. She previously founded a tech enabled urgent care services marketplace called Flying Doctors Nigeria, servicing in over 100...

Meet Alexandra Milewich, Founder of Project Blackbird, mental health advocate, actor, and filmmaker. Hear her story of her physical and mental health challenges, and the hope for others she offers by her own fight and resilience. Her mission as one of the Leaders Who Care® to destigmatize mental health is one from the heart, from personal experiences.

They say when you want something done, give it to a busy person. Meet Divya Chander, CEO of Lucidify, making an impact from medical and neuroscience perspectives to technology to support human space exploration and astronaut health.

Meet Ilona Mardiyan, one of the present, future Leaders Who Care®. “My journey of making a change is just starting but from a very strong perspective.” She is “now preparing for my life’s first serious project that I strongly believe will change a lot in today’s reality of America.” Great student, curious and creative, committed and respectful, grateful for family and travel opportunities, and tak...

Meet Austin Fowler (not Powers!), Founder, CEO of Stairway Invest , offering savings accounts paying 8% per annum, & alongside contributes impactful support for Opportunity International . Giving a hand up to many to earn financial wellbeing; and, still activates his passion for investing, while happy to share details about how he accumulated 31 rental properties to date.

Meet Henrik Bennetsen, CoFounder FoodXClimate. “I’ve founded, scaled, exited, and shut down companies—and I’m still in love with the startup game.” He has raised $100M in venture capital, led teams from seed to growth stage, and founded and built four companies. “Along the way, I’ve learned that leadership is about more than strategy—it’s about building cultures people want to stay in.”

Andy Swindler , Founder, Chief Empathy Officer at  CoGo . “My purpose is to seek & reveal truth where it hides most deeply. I envision a unified humanity where every person experiences dignity & agency.” Andy is building an AI relationship navigator to foster relational flourishing by turning conflict into connection, starting with couples. Like Leaders Who Care® he credits Influencers. Hi...

From dream to award winning platform, South Asian women coming together. An attempt to make sense of how humans and nature can coexist without completely ruining each other.

Innovator, collaborator, rule-breaker and changemaker. That’s Chelsea Myers. Founder at MediTEAtion “I love God. I love my family. I love my kids.” Passionate about helping others become the best version of themselves. Creator, mentor, and energetic transmitter guiding visionary leaders, investors, and families into aligned expansion, purpose-driven impact, and multidimensional success. True Leade...

Presenting Nick Tietz. Founder ILT Studios / ILT Academy / Endowment Fund. Nick is an Innovator, collaborator, rule-breaker and changemaker. “I love God. I love my family. I love my kids.”  And he is very passionate about helping others become the best version of themselves.  Website: https://iltacademy.io/ Endowment Fund:  https://funds.ifound.org/ilt-endowment-fund/

Meet Mario Hernandez, Confounder Impact Circle and Knobl. “I’ve always believed that startups and nonprofits share more in common than most think. Both can innovate, drive change, and learn from one another,  leaving a trail of measurable change along the way.”

Oakland McCulloch is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and the author of the 2021 release, Your Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be. His leadership talk is based on his 40+ years of leadership experience (23 years as a combat arms officer in the United States Army) in combat, peacekeeping operations, disaster relief operations and in the boardroom.  Oak highligh...

Meet Nesma Bensalem, Founder / CEO of WeCare Impact. Truly purpose driven, one of the Leaders Who Care® “We believe creativity, technology, and community are powerful tools for social, cultural, and environmental change. Through our global network of creators, innovators, and partners, we turn bold ideas into opportunities for positive transformation.” Hear about her journey of impact.

You gotta love someone who changes her life, so passionate about putting more love in the world, Jen changed her last name to “Loving”. Just like you would teach a baby, “Loving Is…” teaches AI by creating technology that will filter AI outputs, to ensure that they’ll be loving instead of harm. It’s Love Intelligence language used by AI aligned with Leaders Who Care® about being intentional for a...

Meet Khalid “Kal” Mentak, PhD, Venture Partner, Zuehike Ventures. His vision is clear. Eradicate blindness. “Imagine a world where these breakthroughs aren't just cutting-edge, but accessible to everyone, everywhere. We need to invest in scaling these technologies, in making them affordable and readily available in underserved communities. Let's not just celebrate the "now," but fuel the "next" in...