Adair Finucane (she/they), LMSW is a trauma-informed facilitator, speaker, & coach who delights in co-regulated nervous systems. Passionate about the intersections of self- and collective care, Adair supports people who are gifted at giving of themselves.  

Adair’s offerings are informed by professional experience as a trauma researcher, somatics, yoga & meditation teacher, therapist, performer & multidisciplinary artist, and Ayurvedic specialist. 

Her lived experience as a queer, neurodivergent mom brings depth to her offerings. For more info, check out www.withadair.com, or find Adair's writing and guided practices on Substack (https://substack.com/@beingextraordinary).

Bobby Newell, LCSW, SEP, is a somatic therapist, executive coach, and founder of Mindful Collaboration, a trauma-informed mental health practice based in Raleigh, North Carolina. With more than 20 years of clinical experience, Bobby integrates Somatic Experiencing®, polyvagal theory, and DBT skills to help high-achieving professionals regulate their nervous systems and lead with clarity, authenticity, and resilience. As a consultant and speaker, Bobby partners with corporations, medical groups, and universities to address workplace stress, burnout, and trauma using practical, embodied tools employees can implement immediately. 

Bobby’s work centers on helping individuals “rebuild from the inside out” by interrupting survival patterns, restoring presence, and strengthening communication and boundaries. Bobby is the author of S.H.I.F.T. Happens: Reclaim Your Energy and Focus — Without Quitting Your Job, which guides professionals in cultivating nervous system resilience and sustainable well-being.

Brooke Deanne is a Trauma Healing Mentor, Rapid Transformational Therapist (RTT), and NLP Practitioner who empowers survivors to reclaim their lives by rewriting their stories. Having personally overcome indoctrination, abuse, and toxic relationships, Brooke brings profound insight and unwavering dedication to her work. As a highly sought-after speaker, best-selling author, and passionate advocate against religious abuse and domestic violence, Brooke's influence extends well beyond her practice.
She empowers women to shatter the chains of abuse and childhood trauma, enabling them to create healthier relationships and reclaim their true lives. She specializes in helping women break free from the cycles of abuse and trauma to build fulfilling and authentic lives.

With her holistic approach, Brooke works through years of emotional baggage in half the time of traditional talk therapy. By helping her clients create a new foundation for their sense of self, healing their nervous systems, and removing outdated stories and patterns, she enables them to access new levels of mind, body, and spirit integration. This transformative process empowers women to reclaim their power and live in their authenticity.

Chuck Price is the founder and owner of Blue Collar Consulting, providing independent consulting in human services leadership, trauma-informed organizational culture, and workforce well-being. He previously served as Deputy Director of Social Services in Wood County and as Director of Health and Human Services in both Adams and Waupaca Counties. Chuck is also the former President of the Wisconsin County Human Service Association (WCHSA), where he led an Organizational Effectiveness process to strengthen infrastructure and statewide leadership development.

For the past four years, Chuck and Blue Collar Consulting have supported leaders in county human service departments and agencies across Wisconsin and the country. His work centers on bringing more ‘humanness’ into the workplace through a human-centered, trauma-informed leadership approach. With more than 30 years of experience in urban and rural settings, Chuck brings a grounded and practical perspective. He enjoys Brewers baseball, golfing, and life in Wisconsin Rapids with his wife, Laurie, and their dogs, Smalls and Benny.

Ed Cohen is a global leadership strategist, author, and speaker whose career has spanned nearly five decades and more than 75 countries. He has held senior roles, including Chief Learning Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton and Tech Mahindra, Chief People Officer at SprintRay, and co-founded Nelson Cohen Global Consulting with his wife, Priscilla Nelson.

Ed is the author of Leadership Without Borders and the upcoming Transforming Teams (ATD Press, 2026). His newest work, Vulnerable: One Man’s Journey from Abuse to Abundance (Nathan and Evan Publishing, 2026), shares his raw and personal journey, naming aloud the truth he carried for decades. It reveals that healing is never linear—and it only begins when the silence is broken.

Through his sessions, Ed blends leadership insight with lived experience, inviting others to see vulnerability as weakness as the pathway to courage, trust, and collective healing at home, in community, and at work.

Felice Upton is a nationally respected consultant and facilitator specializing in trauma-informed leadership and organizational culture. With over two decades of experience in youth justice and human-service systems, she supports leaders and teams navigating stress, secondary trauma, and change. 

Felice is known for translating trauma-informed principles into practical leadership strategies that strengthen trust, accountability, and resilience across organizations.

Heidi is a Certified Grief Educator, International Best-Selling Co-Author, and International Speaker. She has spoken at Harvard University, and Oxford University with a passion for changing the narrative on grief so we don’t lose the legacies of those we have lost. She educates people about grief, and how to support others who are grieving, as she learned firsthand after losing her husband unexpectedly in 2018. 

Her experience with friends and loved ones saying the wrong thing or completely disappearing gave her first-hand knowledge that many people have never learned how to grieve, which often leaves grievers to grieve in isolation, and it means we stop talking about those we have lost. Heidi is helping people to feel equipped to lean in and support their loved ones so we can grieve with grace together.

Jesse Kohler serves as CTIPP’s executive director on loan from The Change Campaign. In this role, Jesse manages organizational operations and programming and leads administrative efforts as a board member. 

His career began with grassroots work in Philadelphia for nonprofit organizations, and he transitioned to full-time work on systems transformation at the start of the pandemic. Jesse’s personal experiences early in life, marked by both tragedy and triumph, as well as the support he has received from his family, friends, and professional network, have positioned him to play a role in helping to support and build the trauma-informed movement, which he feels fortunate to be a part of.

He lives in Washington, DC, with the love of his life and their two guinea pigs, Bryce and Jalen, and gets to visit his family back in Philly at least once a month during executive weekends in his Master's program at Penn. He has always held a strong vision and hope for the future.

Katie Kurtz (she/her) is an internationally recognized and award-winning trauma-informed thought leader, speaker, and consultant.

Through a trust-centered, trauma-informed approach, Katie helps socially conscious professionals and companies close the gap between intention and action - so culture becomes a true competitive strength, not a statement on paper.

Her work blends neuroscience, systems thinking, and practical skill-building to help people create environments where trust, collaboration, and resilience can thrive.

Katie brings over 15 years of experience advancing trauma-informed care, relational leadership, and trust-based organizational strategies. She has partnered with recognized institutions and mission-driven companies, including: University of Southern California, LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland, The State of Ohio, OhioHealth, and Diabetes UK.

In 2025, Katie was honored with the Ohio Trauma-Informed Care Award for exemplary leadership and her contributions to advancing trauma-informed practices statewide.

Malaysia Harrell is a board-certified psychotherapist, holistic wellness expert, spiritual transformational coach, keynote speaker, author, philanthropist, and award-winning entrepreneur devoted to helping individuals reclaim freedom, healing, and fulfillment. Through her integrative work, she empowers high-achieving women, leaders, and veterans to reconnect with their inner wisdom, release past trauma, and build lives rooted in balance, purpose, and authentic success.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board-Certified Psychotherapist, Malaysia blends clinical excellence with spiritual guidance and intuitive coaching. Her signature approach centers on mind-body-spirit alignment, integrating evidence-based therapeutic modalities, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and energy work to facilitate deep, lasting transformation. Her work helps clients dismantle emotional blockages, transcend limiting beliefs, and recover from chronic stress and burnout.
Malaysia’s journey is one of extraordinary resilience. Having survived childhood trauma, a life-threatening illness, and the demands of military service, she embodies the very healing she now teaches.

After more than 20 years of active-duty service, Malaysia transitioned into a global mission of service through holistic health advocacy. As Founder and CEO of Blissful Life Consulting LLC, she leads transformational coaching programs, corporate wellness initiatives, retreats, and leadership development experiences that restore balance, elevate performance, and cultivate emotional wealth.

Maria Belanic is a bereaved mother, Certified Grief Educator, and speaker for parents living with loss. She believes you’re not broken, you’re grieving.

Her work stays with what most people rush past. No fixing. No reframing. No timelines. Maria meets parents where they are and creates space for what grief actually looks like after the world moves on. 

She walks alongside parents navigating how to carry love and loss at the same time.

Meghann Dawson is a transformational speaker, certified empowerment coach, and the creator of the Imperfect LEVEL UP™ framework—a seven-step roadmap for turning survival into self-trust and pain into purpose. With over 20 years of leadership experience spanning cross-functional teams, executive development, and large-scale learning experiences, Meghann brings a rare blend of strategic workplace insight and deeply human truth to every room she enters.

A chronic trauma survivor, she understands what it looks like to “function” on the outside while silently unraveling on the inside—and she’s passionate about helping leaders build cultures where people don’t have to mask, power through, or disappear to belong. Meghann is also the host of the Becoming is Messy podcast, where she shares real stories of resilience, healing, and courageous leadership.

Morgan Hannaleck, LCSW, is a mental health speaker, licensed clinical social worker, and author. Her work focuses on helping individuals reconnect with their bodies, voices, and sense of self through a trauma-informed and compassion-centered approach.

Morgan integrates clinical insight, embodiment-based perspectives, and nervous system awareness to explore how experiences of trauma, disconnection, and societal conditioning shape our relationship with ourselves. Her work emphasizes self-trust, emotional safety, and gently unmasking patterns developed for survival rather than authenticity. 

Through thoughtful education and honest conversation, Morgan creates spaces that support healing, reduce shame, and encourage individuals to reconnect with their bodies as sources of resilience, agency, and self-understanding.

Thomas R. Wilson is a professional Advocate, Writer, Consultant, Business Owner, and Sensory Friendly Event Specialist. His work is centered around an empathic and person-first mindset that works to empower and uplift community voices. His work is inspired by his own personal experiences within his life as a member of the Neuro-diverse and Mental health community.

His work has been highlighted internationally and he has partnered with over 40 + businesses in the United States. Overall, Thomas' work continues to be a bright spot that is celebrated by the community.

Troy Love, LCSW, is a therapist, educator, and founder of the Finding Peace model, a trauma-informed framework designed to help individuals and couples heal attachment wounds with clarity, safety, and integrity. Known for being both trustable and compassionately credible, Troy creates profoundly safe spaces where deep emotional work can occur without shame or coercion.

His approach is radically accepting while remaining clinically clarifying, helping people make sense of patterns that once felt confusing or overwhelming. Troy’s work is deeply restorative and professionally revitalizing, offering pathways that are expansive, elevating, and grounded in real-world application.

Through teaching, speaking, and experiential work, Troy focuses on redefining roles, layering sustainable breakthroughs, and facilitating transformational change that lasts beyond insight. He speaks with warmth, precision, and presence—bridging clinical wisdom with lived human experience.

Rev. Dr. Xenia Barnes is a distinguished Social and Behavioral Scientist, keynote speaker, and trauma expert whose groundbreaking work bridges academic research with practical community intervention. As the "Trauma-to-Triumph Transformation Model" architect and a leading voice disrupting the culture of betrayal in the workforce, she has pioneered innovative approaches to healing and resilience in urban communities.

Her continuous research in advanced human behavior, active community engagement, and policy advocacy ensure that her work remains at the forefront of trauma-informed practice. Whether through speaking engagements, published works, or direct community intervention, she offers readers theories and proven strategies for creating lasting change.

Dr. Barnes addresses critical issues like workplace trauma, cultural betrayal, and systemic barriers while building resilient teams to handle modern workplace challenges.