June 11-13, 2020
Martha’s Vineyard
Maximize your impact
Get Notified
Notify me when registration opens for the 2020 event.
June 11-13, 2020
Martha’s Vineyard
Maximize your impact
Get Notified
Notify me when registration opens for the 2020 event.
World Class Keynotes
Be inspired, get motivated and learn from stories of unbelievable human triumph.
Can’t Buy Experiences
Want a crazy story to tell, and a very effective way to build relationships?
Networking Dinners
Enjoy award-winning cuisine, meet extraordinary people, and find ways to lift each other up.
THANK YOU TO OUR 2019 SPEAKERS
TIM GROVER
CEO of ATTACK Athletics, Inc.
VIEW BIO
TIM GROVER
CEO, ATTACK Athletics
Tim S. Grover is the CEO of ATTACK Athletics, Inc., founded in 1989. World-renowned for his legendary work with elite champions and Hall of Famers, including Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and hundreds other NFL, MLB, NBA, and Olympic athletes, he is the preeminent authority on the science and art of physical and mental dominance and achieving excellence.
Author of the national bestseller RELENTLESS: From Good to Great to Unstoppable and creator of digital training platform “The Relentless System,” Tim appears around the world as a keynote speaker and consultant to business leaders, athletes, and elite achievers in any area who want to know how the best can get better in anything they do, teaching the principles of relentless drive, result-driven performance, and mental toughness. A featured columnist at SI.com and Yahoo.com, he also appears regularly on ESPN, FoxSports1, and other media outlets.
DR. ALAA MURABIT
Physician, Advocate, Feminist, Strategist, Speaker, Writer
VIEW BIO
Dr. Alaa Murabit
Physician | Advocate | Feminist | Strategist | Speaker | Writer
Alaa Murabit is a medical doctor, Canadian Meritorious Service Cross recipient, one of 17 Global Sustainable Development Goal Advocates appointed by the UN Secretary General, and a UN High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment & Economic Growth. In 2016 she founded a global Mentorship Programme for emerging leaders and co-founded The Omnis Institute, an independent non-profit committed to challenging critical global issues through the empowerment of emerging local leaders, and became the Executive Director of Phase Minus 1, which provides thought leadership in conflict resolution and inclusive security. Alaa previously founded The Voice of Libyan Women at the age of 21
An MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and International Deliver For Good Influencer, Alaa serves as a board member for The Malala Fund, Women’s March Global, International Alert, and Malaria No More.
Her efficacy in security, health policy & sustainable development was most recently recognized as one of Canada’s 25 Most Influential Women. She also received the 2018 Nelson Mandela International Award from The Mandela Family.
In 2017 she was named a Forbes 30 Under 30, Aspen Institute Spotlight Scholar, and Bay St. Bull Canada’s 30×30. Her leadership in global policy and in elevating the role of women, particularly young, minority women, on global platforms was recognized by Harvard Law who named her the youngest 2017 Woman Inspiring Change.
Watch Dr. Murabit’s interview with Lewis Howes on School of Greatness
LAVAL ST. GERMAIN
Mountaineer, Endurance Athlete, Ocean Rower, Airline Pilot, Speaker
VIEW BIO
LAVAL ST. GERMAIN
Mountaineer | Endurance Athlete | Ocean Rower | Airline Pilot | Speaker
Expert at turning dreams into goals into reality, Laval St.Germain knows what it takes to unzip the tent door and step out from high camp on Everest for a cold, gasping, trip to the top or to shove off the dock to row alone across the North Atlantic Ocean.
Laval is the only Canadian to have climbed Mount Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen, the only person to have climbed and skied Iraq’s highest peak, and the holder of the fastest ever crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean by solo ocean row boat from mainland North America to mainland Europe.
Laval has climbed the highest peak on 7 of the earth’s 7 continents, and the highest peaks of more than a dozen nations.
Uniquely blending extreme high risk outdoor adventure with the deliberate and strict adherence to procedures, checklists and risk management inherent in an airline pilot has kept Laval alive.
Laval is an acclaimed keynote speaker, with emotional and striking stories from up there above the clouds and out there beyond the ocean horizon.
Hear and see what it takes to have the ability to step out way past normal, and shove off way past safe, but come back alive.
AMELIA ROSE EARHART
Around the World Pilot & Speaker
VIEW BIO
AMELIA ROSE EARHART
Around the World Pilot & Speaker
Named by the Jaycees as one of the “Top Ten Young Americans”, Amelia Rose Earhart set out to complete the 1937 flight of her namesake, Amelia Mary Earhart.
Her 28,000 mile flight around the world in a single engine aircraft became a symbol of determination, courage and empowerment for anyone who has ever decided to seek new horizons.
Fortune 500 Companies, The United States Air Force Academy, dozens of Universities and Civic Organizations, just to name a few, have been impacted thousands have been jolted awake by Amelia’s contagious enthusiasm for action, her raw and charming leadership style and her ability to take audiences along on their own flight around the world with her story..
Learn more here.
MARQUIS TAYLOR
Disrupter, Educational Leader, Entrepreneur
VIEW BIO
MARQUIS TAYLOR
Disrupter, Educational Leader, Entrepreneur, Founder of Coaching4Change
Marquis started Coaching4Change while in graduate school at the age of 27. He was an Echoing Green Fellow and a Pahara Institute NextGen Fellow. Marquis’ passion is inspiring people to understand that where you start is not where you have to end up. He works with young people to encourage them to fight negativity by taking action, evaluating, and thinking differently. Marquis grew up in a low-income community in South Central Los Angeles, where he witnessed violence, experienced failure and overcame many challenges, all of which led him to dedicate himself to motivating others to do the same.
After Marquis failed out of the Naval Academy Prep School in Newport, RI, he graduated from Stonehill College with a BS in Communication. He worked for four years in the world of real estate finance but, sensing a different calling, he returned to school to obtain a MA in Teaching from Smith College. He has been featured in Boston.com, Harvard Business Review, People Magazine, Huffington Post, CBS, and CNN.
Learn more here.
VALERIE ALEXANDER
Tech CEO | Amazon #1 selling author | TEDx speaker | Screenwriter
Valerie started her career as an IPO lawyer, investment banker and Internet executive in the Silicon Valley. She then transitioned to Hollywood, where she enjoyed success as a screenwriter and director, working with and for with Joel Schumacher, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ice Cube and others. Valerie recently returned to her tech roots by founding Goalkeeper, a company that builds micro-social platforms to make it easier to make the people you love happy. She has written three books and published several more under her trademarked “…as a Second Language” series. All of Valerie’s talks are based on brain science and evolutionary biology, and she holds degrees from Trinity University, U.C. Berkeley and Berkeley Law, as well as an honors certificate in the Science of Happiness from the Greater Good Science Center at U.C. Berkeley. In addition to running Goalkeeper and traveling the world as a keynote speaker, Valerie writes Christmas movies for the Hallmark Channel, which she knows you secretly love, even though you’ll only admit to watching them with your mom.
Watch Valerie’s TED Talk.
VALERIE ALEXANDER
Tech CEO | Amazon #1 selling author | TEDx speaker | Screenwriter
VIEW BIO
PATRICK SWEENEY
Olympic Level Athlete, Tech Entrepreneur, Cancer Survivor, Full Time Adventurer, Fear Expert
VIEW BIO
PATRICK SWEENEY
Adventurer
- Olympic level athlete, tech entrepreneur, cancer survivor, full time adventurer, fear expert
- First person to ever attempt cycling the seven summits; first to officially bike to Everest base camp; holds multiple cycling world records; named one of the “World’s Real Fittest Athletes” by Outside Magazine TV
- Founder and CEO of three technology companies worth millions of dollars; author of “RFID for Dummies”; received Presidential recognition for contributions to business and charity
- Interviewed neuroscientists and psychologists from Tufts, Harvard, MIT and NYU to unlock the secrets of fear and peak performance
- Featured in CIO Magazine, The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, ABC News; graduated top 5 MBA from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
WHY Patrick?
There are times in your life when you need to make a change. Those times of change become milestone moments that alter everything. You get a glimpse of what life could be if you reached inside and changed things to become the person you were meant to be. For years, Patrick worked hard building technology companies that would earn him millions. He was working 75-hour weeks, pushing his body to the limits, and feeling completely exhausted and unfulfilled.
The day he stepped out of a hospital, having fought for his life on the operating table against a rare case of Leukemia and almost losing it, he had one of those milestone moments. He felt the wind for the first time and took the opportunity to stop and think, “What the hell am I doing with my life?” Things changed from that moment and today, he chases adventure for a living. Yes, that’s right. Patrick is a full time adventurer on a mission to help people around the world find their adventurer within.
The day Sweeney started taking steps to find his adventurer again, he unlocked a passion and energy for life that had been lost for a long time. He has seen too many people spend a lifetime working for the weekend and saying, “I wish I could do that but I can’t.” Life is meant to be fun and Patrick discovered that he could change the story he was telling himself and find adventure in his life again. In fact, he needed to do it for himself, his kids and for the people in his life who mattered the most. He has been an Olympic level athlete and best selling author and grown technology companies around the world and sold them for millions. But right now; this very day, he is living his life to its fullest, exploring the adventurer within, breaking world records, and embracing every day as if it were his last. Patrick wants to help others do the same, and become better partners, parents and people.
MELINDA WITTSTOCK
Serial Entrepreneur, CEO & Founder Wings Media & Podcaster
VIEW BIO
MELINDA WITTSTOCK
Serial Entrepreneur, CEO & Founder Wings Media & Podcaster
Melinda Wittstock is a four-time serial entrepreneur who has built 6, 7 and 8 figure businesses across media, technology, data and social engagement. An acknowledged influencer and visionary in conscious leadership, evolved enterprise, and authentic engagement, Melinda is the the founder and CEO of the “consciousness company” Wings Media, a fast-growing curated community, coaching and content platform, as well as social intelligence company Verifeed assuring its clients a Return on Authenticity™ from social media engagement. Melinda speaks on transformation and personal growth, entrepreneurship, and how business can be leveraged as a force for social good. She’s the host of two acclaimed and fast growing podcasts: Wings of Inspired Business, featuring female founders and catalyzing an ecosystem where women mentor each other, invest in each other and buy from each other, and 10X Together: Couplepreneurs In Business, about how to juggle entrepreneurship, parenting, love and more. A meditation, yoga and devotee of visualization and inspired living by intention, Melinda is also an adventurer whose travels have taken her to many exotic places including Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island and the Amazon Rainforest. Melinda is also an award-winning journalist and former TV host across the world’s biggest media brands. Steve Jobs told the 24-year-old Melinda she “asked the best questions” as a correspondent on the Times of London; She went on to create and grow a newsmagazine for BBC TV to an audience of 20 million, built one of the first crowd-sourcing apps to 3 million users in 8 months, and most recently was named one of Washington DC’s top 25 in technology. She’s a loving mom to two teenage kids and a golden retriever.
Learn more at here.
GEOFF WOODS
Vice President, The ONE Thing and Host of The ONE Thing Podcast
VIEW BIO
GEOFF WOODS
Vice President, The ONE Thing
Geoff Woods is the Vice President of The ONE Thing and the host of The ONE Thing podcast which is in the top 5% of all podcasts in the world. After hearing the Jim Rohn quote that “you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with” Geoff set out on a mission to surround himself with high level CEOs and successful entrepreneurs. Fast forward just 10 months, Geoff went from employee to entrepreneur, launching a company with the co-authors of the best selling book The ONE Thing. Geoff has been featured in Entrepreneur.com and is on a mission to teach people how to take back control of their time and get clarity on how they want to invest it.
Learn more at the1thing.com
LOU MERLONI, MODERATOR
Radio and Television Personality and Former Red Sox Player
VIEW BIO
LOU MERLONI, MODERATOR
Radio and Television Personality and Former Red Sox player
Louis “Lou” Merloni, nicknamed “Sweet Lou,” is currently a radio and television personality most known for his time spent between the Boston Red Sox and their Triple-A affiliate, the Pawtucket Red Sox in a career that lasted eight years with Major League Baseball.
The Framingham native graduated from Providence College in 1993 where he still holds several single-season and career records for the Friars. That year, he was drafted by the Boston Red Sox and entered the MLB at the time of the 1994 strike as a replacement player. Merloni spent the next four years shuffling through the Red Sox farm system until he made his major league debut in 1998 blasting a three-run home run over the green monster. After playing in Japan for a year, Merloni found himself back in Boston in 2001. First with the Red Sox and then again with the Pawtucket Sox coining these numerous transfers back and forth as “The Merloni Shuttle.” He continued with the Red Sox until 2003 when he was traded to the San Diego Padres. After finishing the season in San Diego, he skipped around for the next three seasons with the Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Angels and ending his career with the Indians in 2006. Over an eight year span, Merloni averaged a career .271 batting average with 14 home runs and 125 RBI’s. In 2010, Merloni was inducted into the Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame.
Merloni currently resides in his home state of Massachusetts. He has worked as a co-host for WEEI radio programming since 2008, and currently has a show with Glenn Ordway and Christian Fauria. He is also a baseball analyst for Comcast Sports Net New England and NESN.
Learn more at here.
2019 MV VIP EXPERIENCES
Our “MV VIP Experiences” let you enjoy the Vineyard in ways that money can’t buy while at the same time getting to know your fellow conference attendees, featured guests and speakers.
Biplane Rides over the Vineyard
Host: Amelia Rose Earhart
Ice Bath and Tummo Breathing
Host: “Fear Guru” Patrick Sweeney
Fishing in Menemsha Village
Fishing with Jamie Golden
As a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, Jamie Golden’s love for the outdoors began at an early age, spending Summers with Grandparents on Cape Cod, and visiting family on Cape Ann. It was here that he was first introduced to the wonders of the sea. A place filled with finned creatures, and spiny crustaceans, the coast offered a breath of salt in the air. Jamie’s teen years saw his angling skills honed in the metrowest region, just 30 miles west of Boston, where he challenged bass and trout to refuse his temptations. But the draw of the ocean eventually evolved into a lifestyle highlighted by chasing monsters of the surf; striped bass, bluefish, false albacore, sprinkled with offshore trips to remote destinations for sailfish, tarpon, and tuna!
Today, Jamie’s main profession is highlighted as a Business Intelligence Architect, for a major travel agency in the Boston area. With close to two decades in data analysis, Jamie strives for exploring new frontiers; and this led him to challenge himself as a writer. This challenge saw a merging of his natural creativity and his love of fishing; and for the past 10 years, Jamie has contributed approximately 60 articles to the Northeast’s top fishing magazines, regaling his tales of those that didn’t get away, and some that did, all with a personal twist.
Jamie currently resides in Hopkinton, MA with his lovely wife Shannon, and their 11-year old son, Jack, and has a newly-wedded daughter, Kasey, living in the greater Boston area. In his leisure time, in addition to his fishing quests, Jamie enjoys spending time with family, watching the New England Patriots, and playing guitar.
Jamie currently resides in Hopkinton, MA with his lovely wife Shannon, and their 11-year old son, Jack, and has a newly-wedded daughter, Kasey, living in the greater Boston area. In his leisure time, in addition to his fishing quests, Jamie enjoys spending time with family, watching the New England Patriots, and playing guitar.
Brunch on the Farm
Host: Tim Grover
Strategic Planning Session
Host: Alaa Murabit
Island Kayaking
Host: Laval St. Germain
