Theme: By Design

From planning metropolises like San Francisco to scheduling a meeting in the conference room on your floor, the world around us has been created through structure and intention. However, that’s quickly changing.

In order to navigate all the moving parts, we need to live a life by design, full of intentional and purposeful decisions.

Today, our speakers are going to bring you unique and innovative ideas of why living a life by design sets them apart on a national and global scale.

Ball Theatre
570 South Grant Avenue
Crawfordsville, Indiana, 47933
United States

Ben Battaglia

Director of Marketing at Lessonly

Ben is the Director of Marketing at Lessonly, a leading Indianapolis software company, that helps over 3 million people learn, practice, and do better work. Previously, he led a variety of teams at Young Life, one of America's largest nonprofits. Ben has been named a Mitch Daniels Leadership Fellow, and holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Northwestern University. Ben spends his free time with his wife and three children, but also enjoys reading about organizational behavior and presidential history, listening to a litany of podcasts, and keeping up with Oscar-worthy films and Netflix originals alike. Born and raised in Chicago, he now calls Indianapolis home.

Casey Gauss

Entrepreneurer

Casey Gauss is the founder and CEO of Viral Launch, an Indianapolis-based tech company offering innovative software and creative services to Amazon Sellers. Casey founded the company in 2014 when he was 21. He has gone on to leverage his passion for tech, building cool things, learning, and helping others through the expansion of the company to over 60 employees. He continues—nose to the grind—in his obsession with Amazon market philosophy, helping a growing number of Amazon businesses achieve success in the world’s largest ecommerce marketplace. Viral Launch is the premier platform for Amazon success, offering software and services that help businesses become dominant forces in the world’s largest e-commerce marketplace. Our mission is to establish client brands as the most successful and powerful brands on Amazon.

Goddess Smith

Author

Goddess is an award winning Speaker, Author and Wisdom Teacher. My background is in law as a court reporter. I had the privilege to alongside Judge Judy when she was a Family Court Judge. I am also a Licensed Massage Therapist and energy healer. Right now in this present moment, my PASSION and PURPOSE in the world is to shift the consciousness of humanity, propelling individuals to Know Who They Really Are.

Jelanna Morgan

Athlete Life Coach

Jelanna is a change agent for emerging leaders. She empowers them with strategic professional opportunities while focusing on unlocking their core strengths. In October, Jelanna created a nonprofit aimed at high performing first generation athletes transitioning from sporting careers to professional careers

Jordan Paris

Podcast Host

Jordan Paris is a 22-year-old author, podcast host, and entrepreneur featured in Forbes, Men’s Health, Yahoo! Finance, Market Watch, and NASDAQ. Jordan’s podcast, Growth Mindset University, is ranked #6 in Apple’s Self-Improvement category, #3 in the Training category, #5 in the How-To category. In Education, one of Apple’s most competitive categories, the show was ranked #15. The show is also ranked highly in 40+ countries worldwide. On the show, he interviews young up-and-comers and the most successful people on planet earth like James Altucher, Grant Cardone, Kevin Rudolf, Mark Manson, Dan Millman, Naveen Jain, and Dan Lok. Jordan runs a marketing and production agency for serious podcasters.

Jordan Syatt

Entrepreneurer

Jordan is a five time World Record Powerlifter, a Precision Nutrition and Westside Barbell Certified coach and also has a Bachelor’s of Science in Health & Behavior Science with a focus in Strength & Conditioning. He runs a Client Services business that helps others learn more about health and wellness. Through this, he was able to coach Gary Vaynerchuck and others. He also loves coffee.

Julian Guthrie

Author

Julian Guthrie, founder, Alpha Girls Institute, is a New York Times best-selling author and keynote speaker. She is the author of four books, including two national best sellers. Her new book, Alpha Girls, is the untold story of pioneering women in Silicon Valley. Described as Hidden Figures meets The Social Network, Alpha Girls is the story of the real unicorns of Silicon Valley, the women who bucked the system and found ways to survive and thrive in this high-stakes, male-dominated world. The book explores the rise of such companies as Facebook, Tesla, Oracle, Trulia, Imperva, F5 Networks, Acme Packet, ForeScout, Google, Salesforce and more – all through the eyes of trailblazing “alpha girls” of Silicon Valley. The book is being adapted for a television series by Academy Award-winning producer Cathy Schulman and TriStar.

Lew Ziska

Professor

Dr. Ziska is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. After graduating from the University of California, Davis, he began his career as a Smithsonian fellow, and then took up residence as the Project Leader for global climate change at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines before 20+ year career at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. He has worked primarily on documenting the impact of climate change and rising carbon dioxide levels on: Crop selection for CO2 responsiveness; Climate and agronomic pests, especially weeds; Climate, plant biology and public health. Dr. Ziska is a contributor to the 2014 International Panel on the Climate Change report.

Mark Metry

Entrepreneurer

Mark Metry is 22 and on Amazon Prime's TV Docuseries "The Social Movement" season 2 attempting to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Mark faced severe social anxiety and other issues with his mental & physical health his whole life to becoming the Host of the Global Top 100 podcast called Humans 2.0 featured by Forbes, NASDAQ and Yahoo Finance as the "Top 21 Growing Podcasts you must listen to in 2019." Humans 2.0 has been listened to over 5 million times and features the greatest leaders of our time and frequently converses with Billionaires, Professional Athletes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and New York Times Bestselling authors exploring today's dynamic of the human experience in modern technological times of 2019.

Matt Gagnon

Life Coach

Matt Gagnon is a professional Co-Active coach certified by the Coaches Training Institute, credentialed by the International Coach Federation, a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, keynote speaker, best selling author, with brings 15 years of corporate sales and leadership experience. Matt believes in living a life aligned with your values. The problem is that many people live life with values defined by others leaving one to feel empty and like they are never enough. Matt was living what society would define as a successful life with a six-figure job, nice house, nice car, nice clothes, etc. Behind the curtain he was actually spirally out of control resulting in chronic illness, depression, addiction (especially to praise and the approval of others), and an attempted suicide. He sold his soul to the corporate life and missed most of the special events in his life and the lives of those he loved in the name of his career.

Melissa Hughes

Author

Dr. Melissa Hughes is a keynote speaker, best-selling author, and self-proclaimed neuroscience geek. She is the author of Happy Hour with Einstein, Happier Hour with Einstein: Another Round, and the companion Happier Hour Gratitude Journal – all designed to help people learn how the brain works and how to make it work better. Having spent the first decade of her professional career in education studying the science of learning through the lives of her students, she realized there were simple, applicable strategies that could optimize performance outcomes and cognition. As a keynote speaker delivering to a wide range of audiences – from classroom teachers to executives in the boardroom of Fortune 1000 companies – Dr. Hughes combines her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction and her vast experience in marketing communications with extensive research in neuroscience and behavioral psychology.

Mia Cosco

Entrepreneurer

Mia set out with a deep passion to heal hearts and minds by leading the first entheogenic research organization at her university at age 20, graduating with a degree in psychology at 21, and becoming a globally impactful project manager in conscious capital at age 23. Today, Mia has advanced psychology to integrate the newest paradigms in science for mainstream acceptance and societal benefit with startups and established companies in education, technology, activism, nonprofit work, and more. She is currently writing a book on the present era of technology, wellness, and women's empowerment through humanitarian work in Southeast Asia. Mia founded Consciousness Hacking Vancouver and boosts conscious businesses centered around health, transformative technology, psychedelics, and quantum psychology by working closely with executives of mid-level market companies.