Theme: TEDxWilmington

The 2023 TEDxWilmington event will once again be held at the historic Theatre N in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Mill Auditorium (Theatre N).
1007 N. Orange Street
Wilmington, Delaware, 19801
United States

Anna Choi

Founder of SolJoy

Anna Sun Choi, Founder of SolJoy and Forbes Author, is committed to elevating humanity's consciousness serving high achieving, creative, conscious business leaders who want to quiet the mind chatter, cut through distractions, and tap into boundless energy. Her 20 years of coaching experience blends ancient wisdom, energy mastery, and martials arts as a Korean Qigong Yoga Instructor, Black Belt in Taekwondo, Awakened Life Meditation Teacher, and certified Dahn Master. As a broke art major with zero experience or connections, she started and sold her first socially responsible financial planning business in five years. Her second business was in event marketing and consulting for social impact, while also being on faculty for a multi-million dollar personal growth, training, and development company.

Bianca McCall

Founding Principal, Reach-In Now(tm)

Bianca D. McCall is a retired professional women's basketball player, world renowned Keynote and TEDx Speaker, and a leader of a meaningful fashion campaign which promotes global well-being and charity, in partnership with Parisian Fashion House; pioneer for inclusion and diversity, Givenchy. Bianca is a Licensed Clinical Therapist with more than 25 years of social service in behavioral health, and suicide prevention. She is 11 years a healthcare CEO, health-tech entrepreneur and creator of the mobile application and program called Reach-In Now™. Bianca is an author, trainer, and certification specialist for the Centers for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT); at the University of Nevada, Reno. She holds board positions with the DDW- a group which encourages diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Kentucky Derby; and affiliate Village Schools Organization; and is a contractor for the National Suicide Prevention Resource Center, Lived Experience Committee.

Christine Burych

President, StarlingBrook Leadership Consulting

From the front lines of community mental health to senior management, to global consulting and training, Christine has pursued her life’s passion on raising awareness of mental health issues in the workplace and providing tools on how to develop resilience. As the President of StarlingBrook Leadership Consulting, Christine infuses every leadership training with guidance and awareness of our mental health and the impact it has on how we show up as leaders. Awareness is great but action is better. Globally, Christine teaches leaders how to support mental health issues in the workplace to enhance compassion and productivity. She is an executive coach and certified resilience practitioner. Some of her clients have included, Toyota, PepsiCo, Porter Airlines, Staples, Deloitte and first responder. She is an Amazon number 1 best seller and focuses on liberating people from their limiting beliefs.

Craig Handley

Entrepreneur, Speaker, Musician, and Philanthropist

Craig Handley is an entrepreneur, speaker, musician, and philanthropist. He believes in “living life like an extreme sport.” He started his professional career as a paperboy, winning a contest to go to Disney for most new subscribers at the age of 13, he followed up with 3 years of door-to-door insurance sales, where he again won the companies highest award 8 times. He worked in a call center in telephone sales and again was one of 3 employees (Out of 950) selling over a million dollars a year in product. A respected advisor for hundreds of brands, products, and services in almost every category, he has also contributed articles and been interviewed for leading marketing and business magazines, blogs and podcasts and he's spoken at conferences, company retreats, seminars, and private masterminds.

Dan Vega

Entrepreneur

Dan Vega started his first business at 19. He has written and spoken in the field of business for over 20 years and has been hailed as America’s #1 Results Guy. He has achieved extreme success in several careers including sales, marketing, management, corporate restructuring and consulting. He understands the business world from top to bottom and specializes in helping companies to become profitable multi-million dollar enterprises. Dan was also considered one of the top experts in the country assisting companies to secure funding. He has been connected with as many as 400 Private Equity Investors, Institutional Investors, Venture Capital Groups, and Angel Investors. He now holds ownership in several successful companies and is personally invested in several spaces in the market. Some of these include film & television, technology, health, environmental, spirits, art, and fashion.

Donovan Moore

Musician

Donovan is passionate about alternative education projects, personal knowledge management (PKM), and jamming with people on instruments and ideas. As a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, he views voices as instruments and ideas as songs, and always jumps at a chance to create something beautiful with a friend.

Dr. Larry Farwell

Neuroscientist

Dr. Larry Farwell is a Harvard-educated neuroscientist. TIME magazine selected Dr. Larry Farwell to the TIME 100: The Next Wave, the top innovators of the century, “the Picassos or Einsteins of the 21st Century.” Dr. Farwell has been featured on CBS Evening News, ABC World News, CNN, CBS 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, ABC Good Morning America, PBS, BBC, Discovery Channel, Science Channel, the New York Times, TIME, US News and World Report, and news media around the world. Dr. Farwell invented Brain Fingerprinting, a scientific technique to detect criminals and terrorists and exonerate the innocent by measuring brainwaves. He invented the first brain-computer interface, allowing paralyzed patients to use brainwaves to communicate through a computer and speech synthesizer. Dr. Farwell’s revolutionary scientific discoveries have presented a new paradigm in science and human life.

George Jones

Founder

George Jones is a former NFL player who grew up in the projects of Greenville, South Carolina. He grew up without a father or any positive role model in his life. When he was in middle school, the Broome family “adopted” George and provided him with a stable home. George talks about Monnie and Jackie providing him with the gold standard of parenting and his first experience with unconditional love. After a successful college and professional football career, George is now a stay-at-home dad to three boys he shares with his wife Katie. GJ (16), Max (13) and Cooper (11) are what George describes as his purpose in life and his greatest accomplishment. George has tackled fatherhood the way he approached football a journey that is rooted in constant learning, reflection and feedback. When not sitting in the carpool lane, George is in the gym, coaching his sons in sports or advocating on behalf of his son, Max, who has Down's syndrome and autism.

Greg Zlevor

Author and Entrepreneur

Greg Zlevor is an 8X Amazon bestselling author, winner of the Global Coaching Leadership Award and the founder of Westwood International. He and his team are proud to partner with some of the brightest leadership minds and practitioners in the world, deploying tailored, high-impact programs that have energized the vision of global brands like The Singapore Police Force, Kimberly-Clark, Volvo, Pfizer, The State of Hawaii, and General Electric. Over the past 25 years, he and his team have collaborated with Fortune 50 companies, governments, and industry leaders across Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia on programs that have profoundly shifted the way they do business.

Ira Bowman

Owner of Bowman Digital Media

Professionally, Ira is an entrepreneur who focuses in the digital space. Ira owns Bowman Digital Media and ProjectHelpYouGrow and is proud to have been married for over 20 years to his wife Alicia. They have 8 children and the family currently lives just outside of Los Angeles in Southern California. Ira is a systems-based thinker who loves to help people accomplish their professional goals. Many people are fascinated by the large following of people who follow Ira on social media, about 500,000 in total on platforms like LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube where Ira creates content and engages with his community on a daily basis.

Jason Duncan

Author, Podcast Host, Mastermind Leader, and Coach

Jason Duncan is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs to discover their true purpose in life by showing them how to run a profitable business in under 10 hours a week. As the founder of one of America's fastest-growing privately held companies and a leading entrepreneurial expert, he draws on his own experience as an unemployed schoolteacher who launched his own successful business in 2010. Through his mastermind program, The Exiter Club, and his internationally-syndicated podcast, The Root of All Success, Jason teaches the principles of #ExitWithoutExiting, a method for breaking free from the daily grind of business operations and living the #TheExitLifestyle. He is also committed to helping 10,000 people escape poverty and mediocrity through entrepreneurship, and plans to start a nonprofit organization with the help of his mastermind group to further this mission. Jason enjoys riding motorcycles and camping with his wife and their two grown children

Joy Vanichkul

Entrepreneur / Model

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Jules Weldon & Stacey Pierce

Founders

Jules & Stace have often been referred to as the “Dynamic Duo”. Partners in all things life and business, they are founders, inventors, authors, podcast hosts, adventure seekers, travel junkies, and dog lovers. As they were building their outdoor gear company, OME Gear, they reached a point in their startup where the only asset they had left was their house, so they sold the house, invested the equity into their company and bought an RV that they wrapped in their branding. They have been traveling for the last 2 years all across the US building their company. The two are no strangers to “All In”. As part of OME Gear, they are also the hosts of a podcast called Do It In Nature, where they have engaging conversations with people who are doing inspirational things connected to the outdoors. In addition, Weldon and Pierce have co-authored a children’s book called Rescued By Rico. Building businesses is a definite passion and building genuine relationships is one of their greatest joys.

Lisa Yeung

Integrative Coach

Dr Lisa Yeung, Medical Director turned Integrative Coach and Stress Specialist, is a first-generation Chinese American. Lisa was the first in her family to go to college, graduated from a top medical school and became one of the nation’s youngest medical directors. A series of unexpected life circumstances left Lisa at rock bottom. In healing herself from burnout and depression, she discovered wisdom and truths lacking from her traditional training. After serving in the Bronx on the frontlines of the pandemic, Lisa decided to expand her impact beyond the local community and limitations of conventional medicine. Today, Lisa integrates her medical expertise with alternative modalities to help leaders and organizations worldwide escape the cycles of stress and realign with their true selves. Dr Lisa Yeung’s mission is to heal the world of chronic stress, depression and burnout so that everyone can be their best selves, live their best lives, and have an even greater impact on the world.

Manuel Godoy

Chief Executive Officer

Black Sands Entertainment serves as the most trusted Black owned brand in the nation. Established in 2016, Creator and President Manuel Godoy and his wife Geiszel, founded Black Sands Entertainment with the mission to publish content that caters to Black families. Black Sands has produced numerous comics and animated series and has sold more than 200,000 units to date, garnering hundreds of thousands of followers online, and 3 million dollars in sales. With such popularity, Black Sands has decided to use its influence to help black creators reach a massive audience with the launch of The Black Sands Publishing App. The Black Sands Publishing App will serve as an exclusive platform for Black creators and continue to bridge together readers and creators in the Black and brown community.

Mary Lynn Ziemer

Coach and Author

Mary Lynn Ziemer is a Master of Advanced Life Concepts, a Certified Master Life Coach and Executive Business Advisor, Author, and Speaker who teaches her clients how to create the life of their dreams by using the power of their minds. Mary Lynn’s dynamic and authentic coaching style creates trust, inspires, and moves people toward positive change with tangible results. She assists her clients in finding their deep inner happiness, helping them define and achieve goals as they consistently live a more joyful life. Before pursuing her current passion as a Master of Advanced Life Concepts, Certified Life Coach and Executive Business Advisor, Mary Lynn spent more than 25 years as a successful international senior executive with two Fortune 100 companies. She has led organizations ranging in size from 700 to 5,000. Faced with her own personal crossroads in 2008, Mary Lynn took the leap and found her purpose and joy had shifted from the corporate environment to helping others.

Megan Miller

Intentional Living Expert

Megan Miller is a professional speaker, host of Attention to Intention podcast, and self-proclaimed Intentional Living Expert. Megan is dedicated to offering high performing go-getting professionals simple, daily micro-steps for putting attention to intention so they can stop sleepwalking through life and start living with inspiration and fulfillment.

Morry David

Entrepreneur and Producer

Morry David's education in electronics, advertising, marketing, and journalism has allowed his entrepreneurial nature to flourish. His music industry career started as a music teacher at age sixteen and continued for many years as a professional musician. As an eleven year board director of HVAA, his marketing and fund-raising efforts supported the activities of thousands of children. His involvement with the E. S. J. F. foundation has helped raise over $3 million for breast cancer research. He has written multiple best selling books under his pen name: M. David. "The Chase" and "The Ghost of Sheppard's Inn" convey messages of hope and inspiration to readers of all ages. His 3rd book, (Cosmo), is currently on its way to become a major motion picture of which he is the producer. Currently, with his publisher, is his latest book: "Why Some People Can Fly", which explains the traits of an entrepreneur.

Patty LaRoche

Retired Teacher / Author

Patty is a wife, a mother of three, a step-mother of three, a grandmother of nine and a great-grandmother of three. She has been married to Dave, a former professional baseball player/coach, for 50 years and because of his career, has lived in over 40 cities, ranging from California to New York. Her three sons followed in their father’s footsteps, and all were drafted into professional baseball. One remains in the game today. After retiring from teaching high school speech, theater, debate and forensics, Patty split her time between Kansas and Mexico where she volunteers for local orphanages. She speaks professionally and writes a weekly religious column for three area newspapers. In her spare time, she plays tennis and Pickleball, reads, hangs out with family and friends and roots for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Shelby Jo Long

Chief Executive Officer

Shelby is a 4x bestselling author and 4x international bestselling author, speaker, professor and business strategist that helps people establish a business from their brand vision by developing custom programs and courses. The transformation of unique ideas & approaches that experts have developed in their lines of work into a program or course so they can scale their operations. Her book, "I See Your Genius: Transform your idea into income" was published in August of 2022. Shelby’s business coaching and consulting work is primarily in the business culture and leadership training at state and private organizations. She has also been invited to speak at women’s conferences, chamber events and real estate conferences about leadership, organizational culture, and branding. Her communication and advocacy backdrop gives a unique perspective in how a business communicates their message to their audience.

Sol Alsina

Owner of Mundoh Media Digital Designs for Social Good

Sol is the owner of a Women-led Branding & Design Agency where understanding the psychology and feelings behind the brand are essential to create a client’s website and positioning. Sol is passionate about crafting powerful digital media designs that Spark Social Change for purpose-driven companies and professionals. She is known for disruptive design methods that blend biomimicry and human centered design. Sol Alsina is committed to helping impact makers shine with a digital presence that is eye-catching & purpose oriented. Sol Alsina has also created conscious tech product to measure employee emotions and company culture in real time. Choosing Mundoh means people are reducing the gender gap in technology. Mundoh actively trains single mothers, refugee women, and young girls.

Talia Jacqueline

CEO of Visceral & CIO of The BEEC

Talia dived deep into the intimate connection between psychology and communication, and she has spent the last several years cementing those bonds after establishing Visceral in 2016. Working with business leaders, entrepreneurs and their most valuable team members, Talia has helped companies generate the recognition, traction and growth that they deserve. Talia currently lives in Austin, Texas, with her partner Max and their cat, Beau. She regularly travels to Los Angeles, where she was born and raised, and to countries around the world to visit friends and family. Outside of her business ventures, you can find Talia hiking around the flat landscape of Austin -- AKA walking -- as well as painting, dancing and convincing friends to start their own businesses.