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Nick Suell is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur that built a Grammy award-winning talent management company and a boutique digital branding/tech company. Nick returned to Los Angeles after attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and immediately began co-producing several of Los Angeles' premiere film festival (AFI presented by AUDI, Turner Classic Movies, Outfest, etc.) and creating media content for big brands like AT&T, Southwest, and Absolut Vodka prior to taking the leap into entrepreneurship. After having managed recording artist, songwriters, and touring musicians for seven years, in March of 2016 Suell began reprioritizing professionally to maximizing resources and talents to focus on a contribution and problem solving on a higher and much more impactful level. “I now get to focus on solving grand challenges and ‘scaling good’ on a global scale.” Immediately after transitioning from the entertainment business, Suell began working on Peter Diamandis’ $15M Global Literacy XPRIZE (xprize.org) with an international team, speaking to schools and startup on intentional inclusion & exponential thinking. As a Social Engineer, Suell is currently developing a local ecosystem of entrepreneurs to solve grand challenges, speaking to the masses about unique insights about social paradigms, and advising for startups. “Speaking about exponential ideas and third-space paradigms is my passion. Ushering in a new social paradigm is my calling. In addition to developing ideas that matter, I’m also an advisor for startups. My goal is to impact 1 billion people.”

Changing the narrative with Nick Suell Are our narratives serving us or holding us back? Being aware of our narrative requires honesty to determine if it is keeping us stagnant or propelling us forward. Join us in a conversation about how our mindset can shift us to a new paradigm. A new bold vision that creates change and one which we can drop our anchor and draw us toward. Nick Suell is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur that built a Grammy award-winning talent management company and a boutique digital branding/tech company. After having managed recording artist, songwriters, and touring musicians for seven years, Suell began reprioritizing professionally to maximizing resources and talents to focus on a contribution and problem solving on a higher and much more impactful level. “I now get to focus on solving grand challenges and ‘scaling good’ on a global scale.” As a Social Engineer, Suell is currently developing a local ecosystem of entrepreneurs to solve grand challenges, speaking to the masses about unique insights about social paradigms, and advising for startups. “Speaking about exponential ideas and third-space paradigms is my passion. Ushering in a new social paradigm is my calling. In addition to developing ideas that matter, I’m also an advisor for startups. My goal is to impact 1 billion people.”

Shawnee Harkins is an accomplished celebrity trainer, thought leader, TBI survivor and entrepreneur.  She has been featured on two TV series - Dr. Phil's Ultimate Weight Loss Race and Showtime's Hydra Executives. She trains celebrities, professional athletes, pro boxers, models, cheerleaders, trainers, other TBI survivors and works with the NFL, NHL, and Major League Soccer. In addition she's a brand ambassador, writing fitness columns and developing content & program for health & fitness companies.  She is a motivational speaker on overcoming adversity and is an LGBT activist.  Tune in to hear her insights on her fitness ecosystem and her takeaways on how we can all make strives to improving our overall health.

Ekené Okwuegbunam is a Nigerian born and New York City based life and Business coach. Although he has been coaching family and friends for years, he started coaching professionally in 2014. He works with young men and women to turn their wildest dreams into reality. He also works with startups on developing branding, business model, marketing, and leadership strategy to take their business to the next level. Ekene has a law degree and worked as a corporate attorney. He is currently working on a series of reinvention boot camps and his debut book Becomiin - Find out, break out and stand out is being released later this year.