ROI OF WHY 2026 LOGISTICS

Jacqueline "JaQ" Alexander-Campbell is a dynamic leader, innovator, and dedicated philanthropist whose mission is to transform the wealth management industry and empower the next generation. As the founder and CEO of Alexander Legacy Private Wealth, JaQ has built a firm rooted in mission-based, values-aligned principles — creating a platform where advisors are equipped and empowered to thrive.

JaQ's journey began in 1993 as a high school intern at Comerica's Private Bank, setting the stage for a distinguished career that saw her rise to lead a $1.8 billion investment team at Chase Wealth Management. Today, she leverages that experience to foster a culture of innovation, autonomy, and entrepreneurial excellence. Her firm's strategic partnership with Carson Group, a $32 billion RIA, gives advisors access to cutting-edge technology, advanced investment solutions, and deep expertise — all in service of elevating the client experience.

A passionate advocate for community impact, diversity, and inclusion, JaQ serves on multiple boards and committees, including Year Up and Love Joy Special Needs Center, and supports initiatives spanning churches, sororities, and grassroots organizations. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts with a focus on Diverse Leadership in Financial Services from DePaul University, along with Series 63 and 65 securities registrations.

JaQ's guiding philosophy combines purpose with action. As a mother, innovator, and philanthropist, she draws inspiration from her two children, Austin and Taylor Dion, to operate in her true calling. She believes a giver's mindset is the foundation of true wealth — and through her leadership, she continues to redefine what is possible in financial services, creating opportunities for others to succeed on their own terms.

Joshua Berry is a facilitator of change who has spent the last two decades helping Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups unlock their potential through innovation, adaptive leadership, and organizational transformation.

As the founder and Managing Director of Econic, Joshua partners with organizations to build cultures where innovation, authentic leadership, and adaptability drive meaningful, lasting results. His work has reached organizations including U.S. Bank, John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Nelnet, Ameritas, Omaha Public Power District, Farm Credit Services of America, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska, among others.

As a speaker and author, Joshua delivers practical, grounded talks on overcoming limiting beliefs, adaptive leadership, and the innovation systems and mindsets that create engines for growth. His ability to distill complex ideas into clear, actionable insights has made him a sought-after voice in the space of purpose-driven business and conscious leadership.

Those who work with Joshua consistently point to the same qualities: pragmatic creativity, genuine curiosity, and a natural ability to meet people where they are. He has been described as someone who makes complex concepts accessible, builds cultures of talent from the inside out, and brings both integrity and warmth to every engagement.

At the core of his work is a simple conviction — that people and organizations thrive when they are led with purpose, equipped with the right mindsets, and given permission to grow.

Omani Carson's story begins in a dorm room in 1983, with a phone book, a telephone, and a relentless desire to never repeat what he had witnessed as a teenager — watching his overleveraged parents lose their farm, and seeing his father cry for the first and only time.

From those calls, he built Carson Group into one of the most recognized financial services firms in America — a company now managing more than $55 billion in assets, serving 54,000 families through 150 partner offices across the country. He is one of only two financial advisors ever inducted into Barron's inaugural Hall of Fame, a New York Times bestselling author, and by any conventional measure, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the history of his industry.

And then, at the height of it all, he started over.

In 2022, after hosting indigenous leaders from around the world at his healing ranch in Nebraska, a Lakota chief gave him a new name: Ta Te Omani — walking into a stiff wind. He legally adopted it. He gave away his neckties. He began a deep journey of inner healing through mindfulness, plant medicine, and the kind of honest self-examination that most people at his level of success find reasons to avoid. "I spent most of my life optimizing for success," he says, "but I never asked if I was optimized for joy."

That question has reshaped everything — how he leads, how he lives, and what he is building next. Through Omya, a conscious leadership ecosystem for founders who are financially successful but personally stuck, Omani is devoting his next chapter to helping others make the same shift he did.

He lives in Omaha with his wife Jeanie. He is nowhere near finished.

Molly Coke is a leadership coach and client relationship expert with a demonstrated history of building high-performing teams and setting new benchmarks in the marketing and advertising industry.

Known for her dedication, positivity, and creative problem-solving, Molly brings a rare combination of diplomacy, intellect, and infectious enthusiasm to every engagement. She leads with both head and heart — pushing teams toward ambitious goals while ensuring every individual feels supported along the way.

Her work spans team development, client satisfaction, and organizational performance, with deep expertise in marketing management, SEO, and CRM within agile environments. Whether she is managing large-scale initiatives, cultivating client relationships, or developing the people around her, Molly's commitment to excellence is evident in the results she consistently delivers.

Those who work with her describe a leader who can articulate a vision and make it feel achievable, a mentor who instills confidence while raising the bar, and an advocate who approaches every challenge with creativity and genuine care.

At the core of everything Molly does is a belief in the power of collaboration, integrity, and purposeful leadership — the conviction that when teams are built on trust and led with intention, extraordinary things follow.

Kevin Edwards started at Real Leaders as an intern. Today he serves as its CEO — and the distance between those two points is a story about what happens when someone decides to build a movement rather than just a career.

Real Leaders began in 2010 as a magazine spun out of YPO, dedicated to writing about a new standard for business success — one that recognized impact alongside revenue, and celebrated CEOs who were innovating for good rather than growth at all costs. Kevin joined that mission early and spent the past decade transforming it from a publication into a global community. Under his leadership, the Real Leaders Awards program grew to more than 500 recognized companies in four years, connecting and elevating the top impact-driven business leaders in the world.

He is also the host of a Top 100 U.S. Business News podcast, where he has conducted more than 1,000 interviews with leaders including Gary Vaynerchuk, Mel Robbins, Daymond John, Jay Shetty, and Simon Sinek — building a body of work that reflects his core conviction: that better leadership creates a better world.

Kevin is widely regarded as a connector, a community builder, and an organizer who understands that the most meaningful things in business don't happen in transactions. They happen in rooms where the right people are finally in conversation with one another. That instinct is exactly what he brings to the ROI of Why Conference, where he will facilitate the Real Leaders CEO Mixed Forum — giving attendees a firsthand experience of the peer-driven dialogue that has made Real Leaders one of the most trusted communities in purpose-driven business.

Dr. Helen Fagan is a leadership scholar, executive coach, and global strategist who equips leaders with the tools to unlock human potential and advance meaningful results.

As the founder of Helen Fagan & Associates, she helps high-impact leaders move beyond checklists and competencies into true self-mastery. Her research and leadership development philosophy integrates Emotional Intelligence, Intercultural Mindset, Psychological Capital, and the Neuroscience of Transformation to create lasting change in people, culture, and legacy.

Currently serving as Graduate Faculty in Leadership at Doane University, Dr. Fagan designs learning experiences that challenge conventional leadership development models and raise the bar on what it means to lead with depth, discernment, and discipline.

Her upcoming book, Lead Like People Matter, is a memoir-meets-manifesto for leaders who refuse to lead on autopilot and are ready to do the hard work. She holds a PhD in Human Sciences with specialization in Leadership, brings decades of experience designing executive-level programs, and is a trained executive coach and Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

Dr. Fagan Is a recipient of the Key to the City of Lincoln,  has been honored with the 2020 Inspire Leadership Excellence in Education Award and the 2021 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Fulfilling the Dream Award, and 2025 50 Nebraskans over 50 impacting the state.

Coach Dan Gordon is a leadership strategist, keynote speaker, and executive coach who helps people transform authentic connection into lasting impact. A former Hollywood filmmaker turned international facilitator, Dan has spent nearly three decades guiding thousands of professionals through breakthrough experiences that blend humor, candor, and practical tools.

Dan's path from filmmaker to facilitator is not as unlikely as it sounds. Storytelling, after all, is his native language — and what he discovered along the way is that the most powerful stories aren't on a screen. They happen in the room, between people who are willing to be honest with one another. That insight became the foundation of his work.

His sessions are interactive, story-rich, and designed to inspire action, not just inspiration. Known for his ability to help audiences drop their armor and engage at a deeper level, Dan creates the conditions for the kind of real conversation that most organizations quietly hunger for but rarely make space to have. He works with leaders and teams across industries, guiding them toward breakthroughs that carry well beyond the workshop itself.

Dan's core belief is disarmingly simple: when people show up authentically and connect with genuine intention, everyone rises together. In practice, that belief reshapes how teams communicate, how leaders listen, and how organizations solve problems that have resisted every conventional approach.

His clients leave not just inspired, but equipped — with practical tools, a new vocabulary for connection, and the lived experience of what it feels like when a room truly opens up.

Mark Grainger has spent more than twenty-five years at the intersection of conscious leadership, transformational communication, and the inner work that makes both possible. He is a speaker, leadership coach, and communication expert whose work is grounded in a simple but demanding premise: that the quality of a leader's presence determines the quality of everything around them.

Before dedicating himself full-time to leadership development, Mark served as a Senior Branding Strategist for Clear Channel, where he wrote more than 1,100 radio campaigns for brands including Porsche, Harley-Davidson, AFLAC, and Marriott. That background in the craft of communication — how words land, how presence is felt, how truth either reaches people or doesn't — informs everything he does on stage and in the consulting room.

Mark has shared stages with Jack Canfield, Les Brown, and Robert and Kim Kiyosaki, and has worked with hundreds of companies to embed the principles of Conscious Capitalism into their cultures — helping leaders move from managing outcomes to leading from purpose. He served as a consultant for Marianne Williamson's U.S. presidential campaign.

His inner life is as developed as his professional one. Thirty years of studying A Course in Miracles, combined with credentials in Qigong, breathwork, meditation, and neuroscience, inform a leadership philosophy that is as concerned with who a leader is being as with what they are doing.

Mark's core conviction is that love — not strategy, not systems — is the most powerful force available to a leader. And that when fear is replaced by love in the way we communicate, decide, and lead, everything changes.

"When you know how much wealth is enough and the impact you want to make, that clarity becomes your benchmark. From there, decisions get simpler."

Brandon Hatton is a wealth manager, author, and founder of Conscious Wealth®, a company that helps individuals, families, and founders align capital with purpose and impact. His work sits at the intersection of money, meaning, and responsibility, with a focus on how financial decisions shape culture, relationships, and long-term outcomes.

Brandon began his career at Merrill Lynch, where success was defined by a single metric: make more money. While advising clients with significant financial resources, he noticed a recurring disconnect. Many were financially successful yet lived with anxiety, insecurity, and a constant pressure to accumulate more. That realization was personal. His own pursuit of wealth had come at the cost of health, relationships, and a grounded sense of self.

This experience reshaped his approach. Brandon helps people move from accumulation to alignment by clarifying what enough looks like and how capital can support the impact they want to create. Through disciplined investment strategy and facilitated conversations, he guides clients toward confidence, accountability, and the intentional use of wealth. The result is capital that supports growth, contribution, and shared well-being.

Brandon is the author of Conscious Wealth: Money, Investing, and a Financial Awakening for the Person Who Has It All. He is a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® and a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor®. His work and perspective have been featured through platforms including the Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit, the Chat With Leaders Podcast, and the Working on Wellbeing Podcast.

Dr. Anthony Hendrickson doesn't think like most academics — and he'll be the first to tell you why. As Dean of Creighton University's Heider College of Business, he operates from a conviction that most business schools quietly resist: that businesses, not just students, are his true customers.

That belief has shaped everything at Heider since Hendrickson's arrival in 2005. Enrollment has grown significantly, and the college has become known for dissolving the boundary between classroom and workplace. Students engage in etiquette dinners, mock interviews with real employers, and internship programs offering thousands of placements with companies including Union Pacific, Nike, and Cerner. Many students complete two or three job stints before they graduate. Heider is also home to the only student-run campus Apple store in the country, where store management is integrated directly into the business curriculum.

The results speak for themselves. Heider graduates have averaged a 97 percent placement rate, landing roles at Berkshire Hathaway, Microsoft, Boeing, Mutual of Omaha, Toyota, and dozens of other leading organizations.

Hendrickson's ambition, in his own words, is not to get students through the next four years of college, but to prepare them for the next forty. He argues that the number one complaint among CEOs — the inability to find people with the professional and personal skills to succeed — is precisely the problem Heider is built to solve.

A businessman turned educator, Hendrickson brings a practitioner's impatience to one of the oldest institutions in American life. His presence at the ROI of Why Conference reflects a shared conviction: that the next generation of leaders must be equipped not only with knowledge, but with character and vision.

What does it actually look like when a business is both profitable and principled — and how do you build one?

Timothy Henry has spent more than thirty years not just asking that question, but answering it. As CEO and co-founder of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., he was in the room when the movement began, joining John Mackey, Raj Sisodia, and others at the retreat that would become the first CEO Summit of Conscious Capitalism. He has been a guiding force of it ever since.

Co-author of The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide, published by Harvard Business Press, Timothy brings something rare to the stage: the conviction of a true believer and the pragmatic tools of a seasoned operator. His work spans Fortune 20 companies to entrepreneurial businesses across the globe, always grounded in the same core belief — that purpose, culture, stakeholder orientation, and conscious leadership are not soft ideals. They are competitive advantages.

This session makes the case. Not purpose as a talking point, but purpose as an operating system — embedded in how decisions are made, how people are led, and how results are delivered.

Timothy Henry has spent more than thirty years asking a question that sounds deceptively simple: what does it actually look like when a business is both profitable and principled — and how do you build one?

He is the CEO and co-founder of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., the organization that has done more than any other to formalize and spread the idea that purpose, culture, stakeholder orientation, and conscious leadership are not soft ideals — they are competitive advantages. Timothy was in the room when it all began, joining John Mackey of Whole Foods, Raj Sisodia, and others at the retreat that would eventually become the first CEO Summit of Conscious Capitalism. He has been a trustee and guiding force of the movement ever since.

With Raj Sisodia, he co-authored The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide, published by Harvard Business Press — a practical, hands-on companion for leaders who want to move beyond inspiration and into implementation. He is also co-host of The Conscious Capitalists podcast, where he explores what it means to lead with clarity, courage, and conscience in pursuit of real performance results.

His approach is resolutely practical. Timothy is not interested in purpose as a talking point. He is interested in purpose as an operating system — embedded in how decisions are made, how people are led, and how results are delivered. His work with CEOs and leadership teams spans Fortune 20 companies to entrepreneurial owner-managed businesses across the globe, always centered on the same conviction: that when purpose and strategy align, cultures come alive and sustainable growth follows.

A product of Jesuit education and shaped by decades of experience, Timothy brings to every room both deep conviction and the pragmatic tools to back it up.

Brett Hurt is the CEO of Love Conquers Fear, an organization focused on his highest-utility mission: helping humanity reach Abundance for All. His podcast, also called Love Conquers Fear, launched in September 2025.

Brett was most recently the CEO and co-founder of data.world, which raised over $150 million and grew into a global company serving customers across all major verticals, from federal government to financial services. data.world was acquired by ServiceNow for their enterprise AI platform.

Prior to data.world, Brett co-founded and led Bazaarvoice as CEO through its unicorn IPO, a follow-on offering, and two acquisitions. Before that, he co-founded and led Coremetrics as CEO — which was acquired by IBM for $300 million. Alongside his wife Debra, Brett is also co-owner of Hurt Family Investments, a portfolio that spans 150 startups, 50 venture capital funds, and multiple philanthropic endeavors.

Brett is the author of three books. The Entrepreneur's Essentials is available on Amazon and free online at TheEntrepreneursEssentials.com. The Lattice is a science-fiction novella offering a positive vision of how humanity evolves from 2030 to 2085. His third book, Love Conquers Fear: Humanity, AI, and the Age of Abundance for All, is being published by Do More Good® Publishing.

He has been recognized as one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, received the Best CEO Legacy Award from the Austin Business Journal, and was named Batshit Crazy Entrepreneur of the Year by Silicon Hills News — an honor he likely wears with pride. Brett is a Henry Crown Fellow and Braddock Scholar at the Aspen Institute. He began programming at age seven, credits his mom for that, and holds a degree in MIS from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Brett lives in Austin with his wife Debra. They have been married for 29 years and have two children, Rachel and Yuzu.

Tut Kailich is a community organizer, entrepreneur, and storyteller dedicated to one central conviction: that true transformation starts from within, and ripples outward from there.

He is the founder of YATO — You Are The One — a lifestyle brand built on the philosophy of internal transformation. Through YATO, Tut has cultivated a movement of self-growth and authenticity, challenging individuals to stop waiting for permission and start living into their fullest potential.

Beyond YATO, Tut hosts Blazin' A Trail, a podcast featuring in-depth conversations with trailblazers and changemakers about overcoming obstacles, navigating uncertainty, and building a life of meaning. His ability to draw out honest, human stories has made him a sought-after voice in communities across the country.

His commitment to service is equally deep. In 2020, Tut co-founded Give4Good alongside Mitch Peppmueller — a grassroots philanthropic initiative that has grown into a community-driven movement, spearheading coat drives, back-to-school supply campaigns, and other efforts to meet real needs where they exist.

What connects all of it is a belief that leadership is not a title. It is a practice — lived out through conversation, action, and showing up consistently for the people around you.

Dan Lyons is a World Champion and Olympic rower turned leadership innovator who has spent his career helping organizations unlock the power of true teamwork. As the founder and CEO of Team Concepts Inc., Dan has guided thousands of leaders and teams toward greater alignment, trust, and performance through experiential learning grounded in the principles of elite sport.

A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former Navy officer, Dan rowed on seven U.S. National Teams, captured a World Championship title in 1986, and represented the United States at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. His athletic journey instilled in him a deep understanding of what it takes to perform under pressure — lessons he now translates into business and organizational excellence.

Through programs like Team Champion, Team Concepts' signature rowing-based leadership experience, Dan helps participants feel what true collaboration and flow look like in action. His approach blends Olympic-level discipline with human-centered leadership, proving that when teams align around purpose and rhythm, extraordinary results follow.

Today, Dan is a sought-after speaker and consultant known for his engaging storytelling, hands-on insight, and ability to help teams move — literally and figuratively — in the same direction.

Neil Markey's path to building one of the most innovative wellbeing companies in the world runs through some of the most demanding environments a human being can enter — and some of the most difficult internal terrain a person can face.

A former Captain in the U.S. Army's Special Operations 2nd Ranger Battalion, Neil completed three combat deployments — one to Iraq and two to Afghanistan. When he returned home and began a dual MBA/MIA program at Columbia University, unresolved PTSD and depression surfaced. Conventional approaches weren't working. What did work — what he credits with saving his life — was a combination of mindfulness practice and plant medicine.

That personal transformation became a professional calling. Neil earned his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher certification from Jefferson University, co-led McKinsey & Company's internal mindfulness initiative, and co-led Columbia University's Mindfulness for Business Leaders program. Before founding Beckley Retreats, he served as Chief Growth Officer for a $450 million private equity portfolio company, overseeing strategy across a 3,500-person organization.

Today, Neil is Co-Founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats, a holistic wellbeing company that merges the science-backed benefits of psychedelics with contemplative practices to support lasting transformation. He is also a part-time Master's student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, researching the impact of integrative health programs — including psychedelic-assisted therapies — on individual and community wellbeing.

Neil sees no real divide between science and spirituality. A curious mathematician by nature, he is drawn to Einstein's framing: there are two ways to live your life — as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is. Neil has chosen the latter, and built his life's work around helping others make the same choice.

Adam Marr is a veteran, entrepreneur, and international advocate for innovation in mental health and human flourishing. After nearly a decade of service as an Army Apache helicopter pilot with over 1,500 flight hours, Adam transitioned from the battlefield into a mission focused on healing the invisible wounds of war.

Over the past decade, he has worked at the intersection of program development, advocacy, and public policy to advance new approaches for treating post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury. Adam serves as Director of Operations for the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition (VMHLC), a national coalition of service organizations, researchers, clinicians, and policy leaders working to expand access to effective and innovative mental health care. He also serves on the advisory board for Psychedelics Europe, supporting international efforts to advance innovative mental health treatments for trauma related to war and conflict.

Adam has testified before the United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs regarding alternative therapies for veteran mental health. He has helped pioneer integrative approaches to TBI recovery alongside leading physicians and contributed to the design and launch of innovative treatment programs for veterans, including the Beond Service Ibogaine Program in Cancun, Mexico.

Adam is the co-host of the American Legion's national podcast and the Chaplain for his local post in Dothan, Alabama. He previously worked as a transformational change consultant at Accenture, advising large organizations on strategy and systems transformation.

He is the founder of CallSign Mobile, a mission-driven telecommunications company built on a simple idea: everyday economic activity can help fund healing and strengthen communities.

Adam lives in Alabama with his wife and three children and continues to dedicate his work to helping veterans and communities build a healthier future. His goal is to reflect his faith in Christ through servant leadership and a lifelong commitment to building systems that heal.

Jonathan D. "JD" Messinger is a leader dedicated to helping individuals and organizations unlock their full potential. As Executive Director of the Do More Good® Movement and founder of The Messinger Institute, he equips people with timeless wisdom, universal laws of success, and actionable strategies for personal and professional growth.

A Distinguished Graduate of the United States Naval Academy, JD's career began as a nuclear submarine officer before taking him to the highest levels of global business and crisis leadership. He served as CEO of EY Management Consulting in Southeast Asia and as a crisis response leader during the Valdez Oil Spill — a range of experience that few leaders can match.

From there, JD forged a path that is genuinely difficult to categorize. He has pioneered multiple world-first innovations, authored a number-one Amazon bestseller in spirituality, and created hit television and radio programs. He has inspired more than 30,000 people as a sought-after speaker and has advised organizations ranging from early-stage companies to established enterprises on strategy and execution. His thought leadership has been featured in Chief Executive Magazine, Leadership Excellence, and other top publications.

A dedicated philanthropist, JD has served on several boards and advised organizations including the Salvation Army and Holt International. He serves as an Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship Week, championing the power of possibility and human potential on a global stage.

At the core of JD's work is a simple conviction: true success begins within. By understanding the connection between mind, body, spirit, and environment — and aligning with universal laws — anyone can achieve transformative growth.

Over thirty years ago, Miren Oca was a young single mother in Miami with a practical skill, a backyard pool, and a belief that she could build something meaningful. She started teaching swim lessons. What followed is one of the most quietly remarkable stories in American entrepreneurship.

Those swim lessons grew into Ocaquatics Swim School — now a nationally recognized company that has delivered millions of lessons focused on water safety, confidence, and community. Under Miren's leadership, Ocaquatics became the world's first swim school to earn B Corporation certification. And in 2024, she took an even bolder step: transitioning the company to 100% employee ownership, making her team not just contributors to the mission, but co-owners of it.

That decision was not a departure from the culture she had built. It was the natural expression of it. For decades, Miren had led Ocaquatics as if the people around her had a stake in the outcome — because she believed they did. The Employee Ownership Trust simply made it official.

Miren is also the founder of Ripples of Impact, a nonprofit which provides tuition assistance for swim lessons to families experiencing financial hardship. As a speaker, she brings decades of hard-won, real-world experience to the stage — on purpose-driven leadership, employee ownership, B Corporation certification, and what it actually looks like to build a business that serves everyone it touches.

Her story resonates because it is not theoretical. It began in a backyard. It was built through resilience, values, and an unwillingness to separate profit from purpose. And it continues to ripple outward in ways she could not have imagined when she gave her first swim lesson.

Graham Pansing Brooks is a business strategist and social enterprise leader committed to driving impact at the intersection of purpose and sustainable business practice. As the co-founder of the Do More Good® Movement, Graham has been part of a mission to champion a fundamental shift in how businesses operate and contribute to society.

With a background spanning social enterprise, healthcare, and executive leadership consulting, Graham has built a track record of helping organizations leverage their operations for meaningful impact. He holds a Master of Legal Studies with a focus on Corporate Law from the University of Nebraska College of Law, and dual Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Global Health, Society & Culture from Emory University.

Graham's work sits at the crossroads of strategy and service. Whether advising on organizational structure, facilitating high-stakes leadership conversations, or mentoring emerging leaders, he brings both analytical rigor and genuine care to the work. His expertise spans executive consulting, public speaking, social enterprise strategy, and advanced information technology systems — a combination that allows him to meet leaders where they are and help them build what comes next.

At the core of everything Graham does is a belief that profitability and purpose are not competing priorities — they are complementary ones. He continues to push organizations to rethink traditional business models and step into their full potential as forces for good.

Dr. Stephen G. Post has spent more than four decades asking one of the most unfashionable questions in modern science: what does love actually do to us? The answer, it turns out, is everything.

A professor, researcher, and bestselling author, Dr. Post is the Founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and the president of the Institute for Research on Pure Unlimited Love. His work sits at the remarkable intersection of neuroscience, spirituality, public health, and human flourishing — exploring how compassion, generosity, and connection shape not only our inner lives but our physical health, our organizations, and our communities.

His landmark book, Why Good Things Happen to Good People, translated into more than a dozen languages, brought together leading-edge science and perennial wisdom to make a case that most people feel intuitively but rarely see proven: that giving is good for the giver. His most recent work, Pure Unlimited Love: Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace, carries a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Professors of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School have called his contributions to the science of altruism and generosity pioneering.

Dr. Post has spoken for Fortune 500 companies, universities, and healthcare organizations around the world. He brings warmth, rigor, and a profound humanity to every stage he steps on — and a message that feels more urgent by the day: when we lead and live from love rather than fear, everyone around us rises.

David Rich is the founder of Palabra, a company that helps leaders and organizations deepen trust through curated conversation. Whether navigating a transition, seeking alignment within a team, or exploring new directions, Palabra provides space to reflect, connect, and move forward with clarity.

A multi-exit entrepreneur, advisor, and facilitator, David has spent two decades guiding people through high-stakes transitions — company exits, leadership changes, reinventions, and the ambiguity that often follows success.

Most recently, as an executive at Teamshares, David helped oversee nearly 100 small business transitions and supported more than 150 entrepreneurs as they stepped out of the operator seat and into their next chapter.

His own post-exit journey led him to the Modern Elder Academy, the world's first midlife wisdom school, where he serves as guest faculty. Through Twig Lane Advisory, he coaches entrepreneurs and executives to develop a comprehensive roadmap for navigating transition with purpose and intention. He also informally mentors a select group of young professionals each year, helping them navigate uncertainty, make sense of ambition, and define success on their own terms.

His work has been used by venture capital firms, founder networks, investment banks, and leadership teams looking to build alignment and unlock trust that lasts.

Misha Safran is a keynote speaker, leadership coach, and trainer with over 35 years of experience helping people communicate more effectively, navigate conflict with greater skill, and build workplaces where connection and collaboration can thrive.

She is the founder of CEEQ, the Center for Empathy and Emotional Intelligence, where her keynotes, training programs, and team coaching engagements support organizations in strengthening communication, deepening connection, and shifting from reactive patterns to more intentional, collaborative ways of working. Her work is grounded in a clear belief: when people feel seen, heard, and valued, trust grows, engagement increases, and healthier workplace cultures become possible.

Misha is trilingual, fluent in English, French, and Spanish, and brings a dynamic blend of warmth, insight, and presence to every stage she steps on. She creates engaging, interactive experiences that invite reflection while offering practical tools participants can immediately apply in their work and lives.

A former educator turned coach, trainer, and speaker, Misha draws on her background in education, emotional intelligence, and mediation-informed practices to design experiences that are both reflective and actionable. Her work centers on empathy in leadership, cultivating joy and resilience, and transforming conflict into meaningful connection, helping people lead, communicate, and collaborate with greater clarity, confidence, and humanity. 

At the ROI of Why Conference, Misha brings a perspective that is both deeply personal and rigorously grounded - and a presence that tends to change the temperature of a room for the better.

Masami Sato believes that the most powerful force for change in the world isn't a government program or a philanthropic foundation. It's a business that has decided to weave purpose into everything it does — not as an afterthought, but as a natural expression of how it operates.

That belief gave rise to B1G1 — Buy One Give One — the global giving initiative Masami founded in 2007. The idea was radical in its simplicity: what if every business transaction could create a ripple effect that changes a life somewhere in the world? A coffee shop that provides access to clean water with every cup sold. An accounting firm that gives a child a day of education for every client served. An author who plants a tree for every book purchased. Small actions, compounding into something extraordinary.

Since its founding, B1G1 has partnered with thousands of businesses around the world to create more than 365 million giving impacts — not through grand gestures, but through the consistent integration of purpose into everyday commerce.

Masami is a two-time TEDx speaker, an Amazon bestselling author, and a globally recognized voice on purpose-driven business. Her books, including Giving Business and Better Business, Better Life, Better World, have inspired leaders across industries to stop waiting for "one day" and start building impact into the way they work right now.

Her message — that small, intentional choices made consistently can reshape the world — is at the heart of everything she does. And it fits naturally within the ROI of Why community's own conviction that business, when practiced with purpose, is one of the most powerful forces for good humanity has ever known.

Raj Sisodia is FEMSA Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise and Chairman of the Conscious Enterprise Center at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. He is Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. He has a PhD in Business from Columbia University. Raj is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2013) and Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Matters (2015). He was named one of “Ten Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010” by Good Business International, and one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America for 2010 and 2011. Raj received an honorary doctorate from Johnson & Wales University in 2016 and the Business Luminary Award from Halcyon in 2021. He has served on the boards of Mastek and The Container Store.

Raj has published sixteen books, including Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose, which was named a top business book of 2007 by Amazon.com. His most recent books are Awaken: The Journey to Purpose, Inner Peace & Healing; The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World and The Global Rule of Three: Competing with Conscious Strategy. His most recent book is Healing Leaders: Seven Steps to Recovery of Self, which published by Berrett-Koehler in January 2026. Raj has consulted with and taught at numerous companies, including AT&T, Verizon, LG, DPDHL, POSCO, Kraft Foods, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Tesoro, Siemens, Sprint, Volvo, IBM, Walmart, McDonalds and Southern California Edison.

Timmy Tamisiea has spent more than thirty years in relationship with Launch Leadership — first as a delegate, then as a volunteer, board member, and Curriculum Director, and now as Executive Director. Few people understand more deeply what it means to be shaped by a leadership program at a formative age, and then to spend a lifetime giving that gift to others.

But Timmy's path to leading Launch was anything but conventional. He built his early career in comedy and performance — writing, directing, and teaching improv across the country, leading applied improv workshops for working professionals, and serving on faculty at the College of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. As Executive Director of the Omaha Comedy Fest, he helped raise over $50,000, secured nonprofit status for the organization, and built the event into a nationally recognized showcase.

What connects the performer and the leadership developer is not as surprising as it might seem. Improv teaches the same things great leadership requires: active listening, presence in uncertainty, trust in the people around you, and the ability to say "yes, and" when circumstances don't go according to plan. Timmy has spent decades helping both young people and seasoned professionals discover that those skills are learnable — and that learning them changes everything.

At Launch Leadership, he brings all of it together: the storytelling instincts, the facilitation skills, the comedic timing, and a genuine belief that every young person in the room is capable of more than they know.

He lives in Omaha with his wife and two kids, and has recently taken up LEGO again — which he describes as deeply calming, and which we choose to believe him about.

Jay Wilkinson is the founder of the Do More Good® Movement, a nonprofit on a mission to inspire and support one million Do More Good® Companies by 2030 — organizations that prove profit and purpose are not in competition, but in partnership.

His own career has been a thirty-year experiment in that idea. In 1992, he opened an AlphaGraphics franchise in Lincoln, Nebraska with more conviction than capital. That business became Firespring, a Certified B Corporation that appeared seven times on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies and was named one of America's 50 Best Places to Work by Inc. Magazine in 2016.

Beyond Firespring, Jay has founded more than a dozen companies, invested in over 100 startups as a founding board member of Nebraska Angels, and raised millions for nonprofits across the country. For more than three decades, he has volunteered with Launch Leadership, teaching servant leadership skills to high school students — a commitment that says as much about his values as any business credential.

Jay's TEDx talk on purpose-driven business has surpassed one million views, and his work has been featured on CNN and other national outlets. He is an alumnus of MIT's Entrepreneurial Master's Program.

At the core of everything Jay does is a belief that conscious leadership is an inside job — that the businesses most capable of changing the world are led by people doing the harder work of changing themselves first. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife Tawnya, and he is nowhere near done.

Dr. Ellonda L. Williams has spent her career asking the tough questions like: what would it look like if business actually worked for everyone?

As Co-Executive Director at B Lab U.S. & Canada — the nonprofit behind the global B Corp Movement — Dr. Williams works at the intersection of community, strategy, and systemic change. Her role is to help shape the frameworks, practices, and leadership cultures that enable businesses to move beyond good intentions and into accountable, measurable impact. In her own words, B Corp and Fairtrade standards work in harmony: one looks inward at how a company operates, the other looks outward at how it sources and trades. Together, they create a holistic model for what responsible business actually looks like.

Before joining B Lab, Dr. Williams spent more than a decade focused on human development, equity, and connecting resources to underserved communities. Her academic foundation — a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Management — and her research on bias, micro-messaging, and leadership performance inform an approach to organizational transformation that is both grounded and deeply human.

She has been recognized for her leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion work, earning accolades such as the national DiversityFIRST DEI Champions Award. As a speaker, she brings strategic clarity and empathy in equal measure — inviting audiences not to admire the problem, but to move through it toward practices that center belonging and shared prosperity.

Dr. Williams doesn't traffic in platitudes about purpose-driven business. She builds the infrastructure that makes it real — and she challenges the leaders around her to do the same.

Kate Williams is CEO of 1% for the Planet, a global movement that inspires action and commitment so our planet and future generations thrive. In more than a decade of leadership, Kate has scaled 1% for the Planet’s impact to more than $846 million in certified giving to environmental solutions. A dedicated changemaker, Kate was a 2026 MO 100 Top Impact CEO and 2026 Real Leaders Top Impact Speaker, and received Chief’s 2024 New Era of Leadership Award. She’s also a mom to two grown children and an avid trail runner, living in Vermont with her husband and their dog.