Dr. Michelle Rozen, PhD is a game-changing, revenue- building, performance-boosting change expert, keynote speaker, and highly respected authority on the psychology of change. She is an author, a Huffington Post contributor, and a frequent guest on media outlets such as NBC, ABC, FOX News, and CNN. Dr. Michelle’s rare blend of audience engagement, killer take-away strategies, and instant connection with the audience have made her one of the most unique and memorable speakers on the stage today.

Her latest work is around “2-Second Decisions”, helping people to master time management and power through decision making in turbulent times. Dr. Michelle consistently speaks for Fortune 500 companies and her clients include some of the most recognizable companies in the world including Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, and The U.S. Navy. She holds a masters degree and a PhD in Psychology and resides in the greater NYC area with her husband, three kids, and two dogs.

Chorvelle Johnson Cunningham is the Chief Executive Officer of Sagicor Bank Limited – a subsidiary of Sagicor Group Jamaica. With over two decades of experience in the financial sector, she joined the team in January 2018. She is currently the Chair of the United Way Jamaica and the head of the Membership Committee of the Women’s Leadership Initiative. Chorvelle is married to Vaughn, with three children. She enjoys music, dancing, yoga, mindfulness and just being surrounded by family and friends. She strongly believes that “One hand cannot clap” and that it is important to always “Put yourself in someone else’s shoes”.

Mariame McIntosh Robinson is a global financial services leader with 20+ years’ experience as a P&L leader, investor, board member and advisor to leading companies in the US and the Caribbean. Currently, McIntosh Robinson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of First Global Bank Limited. She joined as President and CEO in 2016 to lead the Bank’s transformation and strategic pursuit of Financial Inclusion and during this time, she and her team have transformed the organization’s culture; more than doubled profit; tripled the Bank’s retail network primarily by adding bank agents; and assumed a market leading focus in serving unbanked individuals and small and medium enterprises. Prior to joining First Global Bank Limited, McIntosh Robinson was a Partner at Portland Private Equity, the largest private equity fund manager in the Caribbean; and prior to this she spent nearly nine years at Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company, where she advised CEOs and senior leadership teams of Fortune 500 companies on growth strategy and implementation. McIntosh Robinson currently serves as a Director on several private and public Boards in Jamaica and Barbados, and is a Trustee on the United Way Worldwide Board. She is a Vice President of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ), and the Board Chair of TEACH Caribbean, an educational NGO she co-founded in 2006 with seed financing from Rhodes Trust to provide accessto quality education for economically disadvantaged youth. She is also a member of the Jamaica chapters of the International Women’s Forum (IWF) and Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and was named a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum in 2014. McIntosh Robinson is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Minor in Economics. She also has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was the co-recipient of the Dean’s Award for outstanding leadership on campus, and an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

She is married and has two children.

A former Government Senator, Co-Executive Director of Jamaica’s leading think tank, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI), and Group Strategy Officer for the JMMB Group – a leading Caribbean financial services group, Imani Duncan-Price exhibits a record of successful leadership. As former Chief of Staff in the ‘Office of the Leader of the Opposition’ in Jamaica she supported then Opposition Leader and People’s National Party (PNP) President, Dr. Phillips, in policy formulation with a focus on inclusive growth.

With Imani’s passion for social innovation and impact, she recently established the ‘Imani, Grace and Love’ Foundation focusing on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Affordable Dignified Housing. She also continues her social justice activism supporting the Jamaica Household Workers Union and Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers. As a development practitioner, Imani is also a Consultant with UN Women.

As an international management consultant, she focused on business cluster competitiveness, gender and effective social interventions. Imani also led extensive research and co-authored the case study, “Arrested Development: The Political Origins and Social Foundations of Common Violence in Jamaica”, published in 2008, Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 46.

After her year as Miss Jamaica World 1995, Imani earned a BA from Wesleyan University and Masters in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School.

Named a Young Global Leader 2015, Eisenhower Fellow 2018, Global Governance Forum Fellow 2021 and Vital Voices Public Leadership Fellow 2021, Imani is married to Stephen and mother of three young children, Aidan, Marley and Selah.

Kalilah Reynolds is Jamaica’s leading and most influential business and finance journalist, receiving the highest award from the Press Association of Jamaica in that category in 2017, 2018 and 2019. After serving twenty years at several traditional media organizations in Jamaica and her native Belize, Kalilah branched out on her own, launching Kalilah Reynolds Media (KRM) and kalilahreynolds.com.

KRM is the Caribbean’s first fully digital, multimedia business news organization, with a vision to help Caribbean people create and maintain personal wealth and prosperous economies by making business and finance easy to understand. It’s flagship programmes are Jamaica’s #1 rated business show, Taking Stock, and the financial education programme, #MoneyMondaysJa.  Kalilah is a published author of two books, and has an M.A. in Communications Studies from the University of the West Indies, and a B.A. in Journalism from Fordham University in New York City, both with distinction.  She’s also a mom of three beautiful children, and wife to the world’s best husband.

Marcia Woon Choy is the CEO of Action Coach.

Tanya D. Powell is an International Speaker, #1 Best-Selling Author, and a Results Coach. She empowers individuals to transform their leadership skills to create success in their personal and professional lives. Tanya strongly believes that lasting results are created by transforming from the inside outand effectively guides her clients and audiences to create powerful mindset shifts that elevate them from where they are to where they long to be.

Tanya has spent over two decades in Multibillion-Dollar companies serving in Senior Leadership positions. She is now aCertified Executive and Personal Development Coach with John Maxwell Team and the CAPP Institute, delivering insightful and capacity building leadership and communication training and coaching to corporates. She is also an International Award-winning Team engagement coach.

Despite a Global pandemic and cancer diagnosis in 2020, Tanya has emerged as a cancer thriver, and has founded the ishiftInstitute for Transformation, has been a featured speaker on international stages with speakers such as Les Brown, Jon Talarico, and Dr. Cheryl Wood and has co-authored multi-bestselling transformational books.

Tanya shares a powerful, transformational message of Self-Leadership, especially through adversities and empowers her clients and audiences to not just survive but to thrive through those times. She has delivered keynote presentations for a host of small and large organizations and has been featured on numerous podcasts, radio interviews and magazines.

Known as ‘The People’s Coach,’ Tanya believes that “It is in change that you discover your purpose.”

As the Vice President, Clinical Care & Recovery and Chief Nurse Executive at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Dionne plays an integral part in helping the organization achieve its goals towards integrated and equitable care and supports for people with mental illness. She leads the program that supports those with the most complex illnesses and is dedicated to improving access to excellent patient-centred care so that people may live their best lives. Dionne brings high energy, a strong work ethic and a positive attitude to all that she does.

 

Dionne is also a member of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) Black Nurses task force and an active member of the College of Nurses of Ontario's Employer Reference Group. As a Certified Healthcare Executive (CHE), Dionne's previous leadership roles include: Multi-Site Director, Diversity and Cultural Advancement at Orillia's Soldiers Memorial Hospital and SouthLake Regional Hospital in Newmarket.

 

Dionne has held many leadership roles in her 35 years of clinical experience, including:  Clinical Director, Medicine Program at Southlake Regional Hospital, Director of Home and Community Care Planning and Strategy at the North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), Clinical Director Complex Continuing Care, Saint Vincent Hospital; Bruyere Continuing Care and Clinical Manager, Mental Health and Addictions at Humber River Hospital. Dionne is a mother of 3 beautiful girls, an entrepreneur, a motivational speaker, and an award-winning fitness professional.

Ms. Valerie Veira, Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Business Development Corporation has over thirty-one (31) years’ experience in industrial development, and has led a number of industry development programmes funded by International Agencies. She has been instrumental in leading two major projects for designing and establishing two government limited liability companies, that provide support to the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Sector (MSME’s). 

Ms. Veira has led various teams in negotiating technical assistance for Jamaica with a number of international organizations. These include the United Nations Development Organization (UNIDO), Canadian Industrial Development Agency (CIDA), United States Agency for International Development (U.S.AID) and Commonwealth Secretariat. 

She is a part-time Senior Lecturer in the Management Studies Dept. at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, where she prepares students to participate effectively in the business sector as entrepreneurs.  

She is the former Chairman of the Board of the Devon House Development Company Ltd. and has served as a Director on the following Boards; National Youth Service, Museum of History & Ethnography (Institute of Jamaica), Churches Cooperative Credit Union Ltd., Centre for the Development of Enterprise- Belgium and the Jamaica Productivity Centre. 

Valerie Veira is a trained communicator with strong organizational and negotiating skills. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (General) from the University of the West Indies, Mona, a Graduate Diploma in Public Administration and a Master’s Degree (MPA) from Harvard University. Valerie Veira is also a Justice of the Peace (J.P).

Zachary Harding is Executive Chairman and co-founder of Delta Capital Partners, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL) Group both based in Kingston Jamaica. He is a member of the Forbes Business Council and was also named the 2021 Stockbroker CEO of the Year for Jamaica by the Global Banking & Finance Awards®. Prior to taking the helm of SSL, Harding was founder and Chairman of Hyperion Equity, a private investment firm with holdings in technology, cutting edge entertainment, and infrastructure ventures. Over the years, he developed a stellar track record while in senior positions including CEO, Head of Strategy, and Director of Marketing, among other leadership positions within companies such as Appliance Traders Ltd, Wisynco, Red Stripe (Diageo) and Grace Kennedy Remittance Services Ltd. He was the first CEO of the Caribbean Climate Smart Accelerator, an initiative started by Virgin boss Richard Branson along with three Caribbean Prime Ministers.

In 2012, Harding was named as one of the Top “50-under-Fifty Business Leaders Shaping Jamaica's Future” by the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica and The Gleaner Newspaper. As a venture capitalist Harding invested heavily in the Creative Industry, both funding and producing the documentary “One People” - the official documentary of Jamaica’s 50^th Anniversary of Independence, as well as the acclaimed feature film “Sprinter”.  In 2021 he presented the C.A.R.E-Ful decision-making model, (a proprietary, culture-based structure) at TEDx Aston University.

Harding has been dubbed a “rain-maker” and “marketing guru” based on several ground-breaking campaigns and brand turnarounds. His innovative mind and strategic acumen have led him to be selected as Special Advisor to the Minister of Tourism and Deputy Director at the Jamaica Tourist Board. He is currently appointed by the Minister of Finance to serve as the Government of Jamaica representative on the Board of Caribbean Airlines Ltd., and by the Prime Minister to serve on the board of JAMPRO where he chairs the Projects and Marketing Subcommittee. Previously, he has served on several other boards, including the Port Authority of Jamaica, the Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association, the Urban Development Corporation, Jamaica Antidoping Commission, the Sports and Entertainment Network under the Ministry of Tourism where he is deputy chair. He also serves his country as a Justice of the Peace.