Theme: Possibility

A combination of TEDLive videos and live speakers to bring ideas worth spreading to our local community.

Dare Recording Studios
261 Suburban Ave # F
Deer Park, New York, 11729
United States

Aniekeme Umoh

Coach, Speaker, Host

Aniekeme is an MBA Admissions Consultant and Career Coach dedicated to helping ambitious professionals win at work. She is also a professional speaker trusted by organizations like Meta, Columbia Business School, and the Mandela-Washington fellowship. Aniekeme has a corporate background in consulting, investment banking, and tech, working at companies like PWC, Evercore, and Peloton. She earned an MBA from Wharton and a BS from Columbia University.

Anita Halvorssen

Academic Lawyer

Dr. Anita Halvorssen is the Director of Global Legal Solutions, LLC, an international think tank and consultancy. Halvorssen was an Adjunct Professor at University of Denver, Sturm School of Law, lecturer at University of Colorado, and was a Legal Advisor at the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment. She is a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise. Halvorssen has her first law degree (Juridisk embetseksamen) from the University of Oslo, Oslo Norway, and her Master of Laws (LLM), and Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) degrees from Columbia University, New York. She also has a Diploma in Agronomy from the Agricultural Academy, Oslo, Norway.

Dan Tomasulo

Academic Director & Core faculty, Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI), Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. Tomasulo is the Academic Director and core faculty at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI), Teachers College, Columbia University, and on the teaching staff at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology, MFA in writing, and Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Review Editor for Frontiers in Psychology, special section: Positive Psychology, and has been honored by Teachers College, Columbia University, with their 2021 Teaching Award. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on hope. His bestselling book, Learned Hopefulness, The Power of Positivity to Overcome Depression, is hailed as: “…the perfect recipe for fulfilment, joy, peace, and expansion of awareness” by Deepak Chopra, MD. Sharecare honors Dr. Tomasulo as a top-ten online influencer on depression. His new book, The Positivity Effect, will be released June 1st of 2023.

David Corbin

Author, Mentor

Four-time Wall Street Journal Best Selling author, David has been referred to as “Robin Williams with an MBA” because of his very practical, high-content speeches, coupled with real life, entertaining and sometimes side-splitting stories and applications. He’s known as the “Mentor to Mentors” and Entrepreneur Guru as he’s trained and advised, mentored and guided many luminaries in the fields of speaking, consulting, entrepreneurship and big business. A former crisis intervention counselor with a background in healthcare, he has served as a management and leadership consultant to businesses and organizations of all sizes. He has worked directly with the president and office of the president of companies such as AT&T, Hallmark, Dominos, Kaiser Permanente, Mountain States Mortgage as well as the Hon. Secretary of Veterans Administration and others. David was awarded the Innovation of the Year by Bank of America.

Ivy Slater

CEO of Slater Success

Ivy Slater is the CEO of Slater Success, a boutique training, consulting and coaching company focused on growth strategies and leadership development for high-level, service-based businesses. Ivy is a professionally certified business coach, speaker, internationally bestselling author and podcast host. Prior to Slater Success, she spent 20 years as owner and operator of Slater Graphics, a printing company in NYC, scaling it to 7-figures. She is the author of two books, "Conquering Your Fear of Money, A Woman’s Guide to Business Success" and "From the Barre to the Boardroom: Choreographing Business Success Through Authentic Relationships." She hosts a weekly podcast, Her Success Story, interviewing dynamic leaders, as well as a monthly LinkedIn Live show bringing on guests to share insight and advice on leadership, team communication, diversity and inclusion, legal and finance. In 2020, she was a recipient of a Power Women of New York and of Long Island award.

Kris Sidial

Chief Investment Officer, Ambrus

Kris is the Co-CIO of Ambrus. Before joining Ambrus he was part of the exotic derivatives trading team at Bank of Montreal and the proprietary trading team at Xanthus capital and Chimera Securities. Kris gained an in-depth understanding of volatility trading early on, as the sole junior trader to the CBOE legend, Robert Kanter. Kris is a frequent guest on Bloomberg TV and has been profiled by many financial media publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, Reuters, Nasdaq, and many more. Due to his expertise in the trading community, he has received recognitions such as alumni of the decade at LIU, along with being the main feature for Crain’s 20 in their twenties. M.S The University of Pennsylvania.