LeaderSips

Bill Goodwin has over 30 years of leadership experience in growing
and building individuals and teams with proven leadership training
and dynamic speaking for growth. Bill is Maxwell Leadership
Executive Team Member with his mentor, John C. Maxwell, and a
member of the National Speakers Association (NSA). Speaking for
years, to groups of all sizes, he brings messages of hope through
personal stories with practical application with enthusiasm!
A former lead pastor, after serving for over a decade as a Youth
Pastor, he founded Priority Living Consulting Group to add value
and equip leaders to reach their full potential. He’s the author of
the soon-to-be-released book: Priority Living - 7 Pillars to Make
Your Life Count.

Michelle Bockman serves as President & CEO of KeraLink International (KLI), a nonprofit committed to ending avoidable blindness through innovation and access. Bockman stepped into her role at KLI with over 25 years of diverse leadership experience at Fortune 100 companies and Silicon Valley startups. She arrived with a proven track record of consistently driving innovation, disruption, and a customer-first mindset that fueled significant growth and market expansion. Having started her career on the factory floor and risen to the C-suite, she brings a practitioner’s perspective and hands-on leadership to her position. Prior to joining KLI in 2024, Bockman served as President of STANLEY X, the innovation division of Stanley Black & Decker, where she led efforts to drive growth and technological advancement.

TEDx Speaker Robin Nathaniel has a story of resilience, creativity, and reinvention. Beginning his career as a musician, Robin’s artistic roots laid a unique foundation for his journey. This experience in music, with its emphasis on connection and storytelling, naturally paved the way for his transition into the professional world of social media. Living by the motto "Connect. Create. Contribute," he aims to inspire a wave of positive transformation.

Steven's career started as a newscaster/interviewer for the #1 youth news show in the DC/Baltimore market (on WTTG-TV), then as a junior software engineer & Thomas J. Watson Scholar at IBM. After attending USC in Los Angeles, he began working in film production, producing computer-generated visual effects for 14 movies, including Independence Day, which won the Academy Award for Visual Effects. Steven’s first tech company was Centropolis Effects produced those CGI effects, and he eventually sold it to the German media conglomerate Das Werk when he was 28. Steven produced indie films and eventually went studio-side to develop and produce live-action features as VP of Development & Production at 20th Century Fox (running the Die Hard and Wolverine franchises) and an EVP at DreamWorks Pictures for Kurtzman-Orci Productions, where he worked on Star Trek, Transformers and more. After Fox, Steven returned to building tech companies and founded The Sukha Company.