wellness committee

John DiJulius

Keynote speaker, international customer experience consultant and best selling author of three books, John DiJulius, works with world-class companies like the Ritz-Carlton, Lexus, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Nestle, Marriott Hotel, PwC, Cheesecake Factory, Progressive Insurance, Harley Davidson, State Farm, Chick-fil-A, and many more.

John isn’t just talking about it, he lives it, as a successful entrepreneur of two businesses, including John Robert’s Spa, a chain of upscale Cleveland locations, repeatedly named one of the top 20 salons in America, and The DiJulius Group, a customer experience consulting firm that uses the X-Commandment methodology to providing a world-class customer experience.

Brian Gast

Brian Gast is an executive coach, top team facilitator, author and retreat leader. Brian combines his experience as an executive and entrepreneur and trusted advisor to hundreds of leaders of the world’s most dynamic organizations to navigate pragmatic yet transformational change that expands leadership capacity and organizational performance. Brian’s clients include Fortune 1000 companies as well as private regional companies: Roche Pharmaceuticals, DeVry, Inc., Cisco Systems, Polycom Corporation, Clear Channel Communications, and Stryker Corporation. Brian is also a Certified Forum Resource for Young Presidents’ Organization.

Prior to launching his coaching practice, Brian was the CEO of three telecommunications companies—including one publicly traded company and one owned by private equity investors. Prior to becoming a CEO, Brian was a banker and venture capitalist. Brian is the author of the award-winning book, The Business of Wanting More: Why Some Executives Go from Success to Fulfillment and Others Don’t. Brian is a member of YPO Gold. He lives in Littleton, Colorado.

Dr. Mike Hemphill

Dr. Mike Hemphill is the Director for Academic Programming at the Clinton Foundation He is also Director of the Presidential Leadership Scholars program, a collaboration among four presidential centers that gives its participants an unprecedented interactive exploration of leadership with contributions from nationally recognized leadership faculty, senior-level members of former presidential administrations, and the participation of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Dr. Hemphill has been Provost of Centenary College of Louisiana, served as an inaugural faculty member and Chief Academic Officer at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, and spent 24 years on the faculty of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he served as Chair of the Department of Speech Communication and Dean of the College of Professional Studies.

Mike’s teaching and scholarship has focused on interpersonal and organizational communication and he was recognized as the outstanding classroom teacher in the University of Arkansas system. As a practitioner, Mike has delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations for corporations and professional organizations.

Randy Hetrick

Randy Hetrick is founder and CEO of TRX, one of the world’s leading training brands, and creator of the Suspension Trainer®–perhaps the most prolific piece of exercise equipment in history. Over the past three decades Randy’s unique resume includes: collegiate athlete, 14-year Navy SEAL Officer, bootstrap entrepreneur, multi-patented inventor, and growth company CEO whose company earned multiple placements on the rosters of the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies and Outside Magazine Best Places to Work.

Randy holds an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he is a contributing lecturer on entrepreneurship, branding and leadership and is a regular keynote speaker to corporations and nonprofits alike. He recently added television to his resume as host of Spike TV’s reality series “Sweat Inc.”

Rick Houcek

Rick Houcek is the president of Soar With Eagles Enterprises, a company with a singular purpose: To provide high-octane, world-class strategic planning systems for business and life —helping ambitious leaders, teams and individuals achieve extraordinary results. He is creator of the Power Planning™ Strategy system that helps leadership teams of growth-oriented organizations drive peak performance, has led more than 300 high-stakes planning retreats himself, teaches his proprietary Passion Planning™ personal life goal system to ambitious achievers, and has delivered more than 600 high-energy keynotes speeches and presentations to audiences world-wide on leadership excellence, goal setting, high performance, and winner behavior themes.

Additionally, he has led CEO advisory boards for mid-market companies for 10 years, has coached more than 300 CEOs in over 85 industries, worked with 500 advertising clients over an 18-year marketing career, and is author of 22 books, e-books and audio books on self-motivation, team excellence, and peak performance topics.