Julia McConnell

Julia McConnell

Julia McConnell leads the Family Creations team as its founder and CEO. After working in the egg donation and surrogacy industry for several years, she was inspired to create the standardized procedures that have become central to the mission of Family Creations: delivering professional, compassionate services to each and every…

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Dana Obleman

Dana Obleman

Dana Obleman is the founder and CEO of Sleep Sense Publishing Inc., an education and training company dedicated to helping parents teach healthy sleep habits to their children. After becoming frustrated looking for easy-to-follow information online to help her with her own son’s sleep challenges, she launched Sleep Sense from…

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Jill Koziol

Jill Koziol

Jill Koziol is the co-founder and CEO of Motherly, a wellbeing destination empowering mothers to thrive with expert content, innovative product solutions, and supportive community. Motherly engages an audience of 40 million+ readers and viewers a month, with on-demand parent education classes, Webby-award winning videos, The Motherly Podcast, essays, and…

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Jan Helson

Jan Helson

Jan is a dedicated philanthropist, passionate entrepreneur, and successful businesswoman. Along with her husband Tim, she operated and developed Golden Foods/Golden Brands for 20 years and built the brand into a global leader in the industrial baking industry. The convergence of her daughter Rachel’s philanthropic journey and Jan’s professional journey…

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Erik Ammann

Erik Ammann

Erik is the founder of Red Orka, a circular baby clothing company. with its mission to save energy and resources. Where did the idea for Red Orka come from? My grandfather started making baby clothing in 1957 with the aim for high quality and long lasting garments. The company still…

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Megan Preston Meyer

Megan Preston Meyer

Megan Preston Meyer is an author, speaker, and communications expert. She’s the creator of the Supply Jane & Fifo Adventures and ‘Twas the Month Before Christmas: A Supply Chain Carol. Megan spent ten years in the corporate world, working in process improvement, supply chain, and analytics roles. After digging through…

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Robert Mendonsa

Robert Mendonsa

Dr. Robert Mendonsa, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon from Flower Mound, TX, left his private practice and moved to Kenya in 2008. He and his wife Julie founded Naomi’s Village Children’s Home in Jan 2011. The home now provides total care to 89 parentless children. They also opened Cornerstone Preparatory Academy…

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Corrin Haskell

Corrin Haskell

Born and raised in Seattle, WA, Corrin Haskell moved Oakland, California in the mid-nineties to pursue a teaching career after graduating from the University of Washington. Currently, he has been teaching 5th grade at Brookfield Elementary in Oakland, CA for the past 25 years. He also coaches a variety of…

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Erin McConaghy

Erin McConaghy

Erin (Morgan) McConaghy began teaching movement-based development classes for children 0-6 years old in Tribeca’ over 15 years ago, creating curriculum and leading staff training. After receiving her AMS Montessori certification in 2009 Erin co-created a Montessori based pre-preschool program in downtown Manhattan, focusing on observation of little ones ages…

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Mick Carr

Mick Carr

Mick Carr has a proven track record of driving start-up companies from concept, through to commercialisation and profit. He has delivered significant growth to global leading companies across a diverse range of product categories. An entrepreneur by nature, Mick showcased his nose for business at 8 years old when he…

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