Ali Carson, MBA, ACC

Ali Carson, MBA, ACC, is a two-time #1 international best-selling author, experienced coach, and dynamic facilitator with two decades of experience in human resources, leadership development, and team effectiveness.  

As the Founder and CEO of Movere Coaching, LLC, Ali helps high-achieving professionals and organizations unlock their strengths, lead with authenticity, and create thriving workplaces. She is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, a Results-Certified Brain-Based Coach, and holds the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the ICF.  She brings tools founded in neuroscience to her strengths-based approach to create impactful coaching and learning experiences for her clients.  Before launching Movere Coaching, she held senior talent development roles in both the healthcare and legal industries.  

Outside of work, Ali is a wife, mother to two teenagers, and sister. She enjoys exploring nature through camping trips in the family RV, filled with hiking, paddleboarding, and discovering great local restaurants.

Angela Astuto

Angela Astuto has been working in education and training for her entire career. With experience teaching at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels as well as consulting and developing curriculum and training, Angela has worked in many areas of learning and training. Currently, you can find her working as an instructional design specialist at Easterseals Midwest, teaching a variety of courses as an adjunct professor, and consulting with schools and organizations around the world as they integrate technology tools for education and training.

Artrell Williams

Artrell Williams is a dynamic force in the learning and development (L&D) landscape, blending humor, innovation, and strategic insight to create transformative educational experiences.

With extensive experience in designing and implementing innovative training programs, Artrell specializes in empowering individuals and organizations to excel in their professional journeys. His expertise spans instructional design, leadership development, and gamification, making him a sought-after speaker and consultant. Artrell’s passion for creating impactful learning solutions has left a lasting impression across industries. 

Artrell's expertise is underscored by his certifications as a Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and a Certified Professional in Training Management (CPTM).  His commitment to excellence is further evidenced by his pursuit of the Master Craftsman gamification certification with Sententia Inc.

Beat Bartlome, Senior Vice President, Technology Motivation Technologies

Beat holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Ingenieurschule Bern, Switzerland. He is currently leading an experienced team of 13 world-class web developers, releasing cutting-edge AI and web applications into the wild at break-neck speed. He has a track record of successfully delivering complex projects on time and within budget, helped by his 30 years’ experience in software development across various industries, including over 20 years leading fast-paced development teams in challenging environments.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/beat-bartlome-5226784/

Steve Hoerner, Director of Operations, Motivation Technologies

With more than 25 years' experience in the technology and marketing fields, Steve has served in just about every capacity you can imagine. While technology was always his first love, it was always done in pursuit of projects with a creative bend. This led to corporate work on some of the first web-based systems for a number of Fortune 100 companies and ultimately into the agency space helping disparate teams connect around difficult concepts. Take the occasional development project, add in client management and a dash of extra travel and there you have it.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevehoerner/

Blake Martin, Account Executive at 7taps Microlearning

With years in the learning space, Blake helps L&D and enablement teams solve for low engagement, poor retention, and slow course creation. At 7taps, he supports organizations like Cisco and Johnson & Johnson in driving real behavior change through targeted, impactful learning interventions. He’s your go-to for training that’s faster to build, easier to launch, and impossible to ignore.

Once described as “The person in the room with the most best friends,” Jami Dix is a Senior Consultant at Chapman & Co. Jami plays a dynamic role leading people, facilitating and developing new content, most recently on diversity and inclusion. Motivated by people and connection, Jami’s role allows her to leave work energized. When asked about leadership, Jami’s response is that “Leadership can be found in everyday, simple moments. You don’t have to have a title to be a leader, you just have to make the choice.”

Jami is a certified coach with experience in leadership, development and consulting. Jami has a BS in Education from The University of Kansas.

Jesse Favre is a global trainer and public speaker on a mission to advance well-being and performance in the workplace. Through transformative and memorable speaking events, she skillfully dissects human behavior, ensuring insightful and engaging experiences. She brings a dual Master of Social Work (MSW)/ Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Washington University in St. Louis and certification in Mental Health First Aid (Adult and Youth). In 2024, she was invited to become a member of the international Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) Speaker’s Bureau. Before creating her training and speaking company, she spent more than a decade in the healthcare industry as a community educator, hospital leader, consultant, and strategist. During this time, she led business development and performance improvement efforts across the country and spoke nationally on patient and family engagement and continuous quality improvement. 

Session Title: "Playing" It Forward: How Gamification Unlocks Lifelong Learning

Natalie Gillard is the award-winning creator of Factuality, a facilitated dialogue, crash course, and interactive experience, designed to simulate the impact of fact-based realities.

For nearly a decade, Natalie has led virtual and in person FACTUALITY facilitations for over 65,000 global participants.

Factuality has supported professional development initiatives at hundreds of multinational companies, universities, government agencies, and nonprofits (including Google, FOX, Nike, American Express, Under Armour, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Rikers, United Way, Big Brothers Big Sisters, American Heart Association and more). 

Session Title: Storytelling - Making Mythology Motivate Learners

Seasoned Head of Learning & Development with 20+ years of leadership experience driving

large-scale L&D transformations for global enterprises. Proven track record of aligning

learning strategy with business objectives, optimizing workforce capabilities, and delivering measurable ROI. As a trusted advisor to C-suite and senior leaders, I specialize in consulting with multinational organizations to design and implement high-impact learning ecosystems—leveraging cutting-edge technology, data-driven insights, and scalable frameworks to elevate performance, leadership, and employee engagement.

For over 30 years, Stuart has been working as an innovative resource to leaders and teams who are looking to achieve better results and go beyond what is the accepted standard.  Clients have engaged Stuart to work across their businesses from Strategy to Culture.  Through this broad scope of work, Stuart has been continually advancing a wholistic methodology and set of tools that bring clarity to the often-complex worlds in which leaders and teams operate. 

The source and inspiration for providing successful solutions has come from a unique career path that includes engineering and the fine arts and has resulted in a balanced approach that leverages Analytic and Creative Thinking.  This wholistic style of thinking has provided a foundation to design and deliver logical and practical solutions for leaders and teams to accelerate and gain more momentum.   

Through his company, The Morse Group, Stuart has had the opportunity to work with, and learn from, extraordinary leaders to deliver adaptive results-based solutions.  This has built a trusted network of aligned resources that provides expertise and scale to address the range of challenges that leaders encounter. 

A fulfilling aspect of Stuart’s professional work with leaders and teams is that it aligns with his passion to create positive change.