Lori Addicks, CEO of Larkspur Group, is a master facilitator, performance consultant, and executive
coach specializing in leadership and organization development, team coaching & development,
strategic planning, as well as cognitive and multi-generational diversity. She has
more than 30 years of experience partnering with senior executives in North America,
and 60 countries around the world to translate business goals into value-added people
strategies across the spectrum of talent management. With expertise in selection,
assessment, change management, performance management, strategic planning, diversity
and inclusion, team coaching & development and leadership development, she specializes
in serving as a catalyst for growth for individuals and organizations. She knows how
to inspire people to get the desired results, especially during times of transition.
Lori serves as a TEDx Speaker Coach and has performed as a keynote speaker for the
MSU Women’s Circle of Excellence, International Women’s Day Summit, Business & Professional
Women, 406 Creatives, Bozeman Business & Professional Women, and Prospera.
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Jillian Deitle is an Enterprise Account Executive for AceUp, a coaching and leadership development
software solution matched with technology and analytics. Jillian has been working
remotely in Helena, MT as an Enterprise Software Sales professional for the past eight
years and has extensive experience working with coaches on topics such as leadership
development, well-being and the power of positivity and gratitude. Previously, she
has worked on large and complex sales processes for Oracle Healthcare, Acumatica,
Epicor, and Insight Software. In 2019, she signed up with a life and career coach
to bring more fulfillment and purpose to her everyday work. She holds a Master of
Business Administration from Boise State University. Jillian will be sharing real-life
techniques and processes that you can start using today to feel inspired, motivated,
and empowered in both your professional and personal life. She will also shared ideas
for how you can be leader in all areas of life.
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Susan Bennett Fisher is a Co-Founder and Teacher of Body of 9, alongside her husband. Body of 9 is an innovative, body-based personality assessment
that, through your posture, body type, and how you physically express yourself, identifies
your Natural Number.
Since 2012, Susan and her husband have been working together to identify over 8000
people from around the world and to build and share the understanding of how the Body
of 9 shows up in so many aspects of human experience.
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Brandy Lawson is a catalyst for discovering insights and simplifying them into clear positioning
and messaging. Her experience and genius is finding opportunities and more effective
approaches so businesses can work smarter, not harder. Clients and partners have described
her as incredibly insightful, upbeat and completely authentic. She would describe
herself as a tech fan, ridiculous shoe lover, clarifier, and recovering know-it-all.
Brandy is an MSU alumni and leads FieryFX, a systems agency helping entrepreneurs
and leaders maximize their use of technology to scale. You'll also find her on the
weekly podcast Leverage Your Spark delivering snackable knowledge bombs to simplify,
systematize & innovate in business & life.
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Nissa Liesz is a Success & Fulfillment Coach on a mission to help high-performing women unlock
their full potential and live their most authentic, aligned, and fulfilling lives.
With a diverse range of skills and knowledge in business development, reiki, meditation,
mindfulness, and manifestation, as well as training from the world-renowned iPEC,
Nissa creates a holistic approach to personal and professional development for clients
around the world. When she's not working with her incredible clients, you'll find
Nissa chasing after her son's busy soccer schedule, traveling, cooking, bingeing a
good show, reading too many books at once, or simply enjoying the beautiful Missoula
area she calls home.
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Karen Lum supports individuals who are elevating their businesses and teams, through her unique
approach to coaching, training and consulting. Her career of 25 years, has spanned
many industries including, luxury travel, software, non-profits, manufacturing and
retail. Karen’s work is anchored in understanding the human experience and mapping
it to business culture, leadership, and service.
Karen is a certified Co-active Coach and trainer to many solopreneurs and business
leaders throughout greater Montana and beyond. Her training programs receive consistently
high praise for being interactive, practical, and energizing. Her coaching programs
carve out critical time that leaders need to get thoughtful and strategic about the
areas in their businesses and their own skill sets, that need attention.
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Carmen McSpadden has been the director of the MSU Leadership Institute, focused on leadership development
for MSU students. She worked five years as director of the academic Leadership Fellows
Program and five years as an instructor for the Jabs College. She brings her experience
as a certified trainer for Leadership Challenge™, Leadership Challenge Coaching™,
Gracious Space™, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ (MBTI), Facilitating Intercultural Dialogue™,
Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument™, Real Colors Personality Test™, Sustained
Dialogue & Diversity™, Equity and Inclusion™, Brain Mapping™ and Ki ThoughtBridge™.
In 2023, Carmen received her 8th Chamber of Commerce/MSU Alumni Association’s Award
for Excellence. In addition, she was chosen as one of MSU’s 125 Extraordinary Ordinary
Women throughout MSU’s 125-year history. She was honored with the Community Mediation
Center’s Peacemaker Award, Bozeman Daily Chronicle’s Woman of the Year, Prospera &
WCOE Mentor of the Year, Leadership Montana’s Service Award and The ATHENA Leadership
Award.
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Deb Penner is a life coach, speaker, author, retreat organizer, and unfailingly passionate guide
for women based in Butte, Montana. She believes when women come home to themselves,
they open the door to magic, and her mission is to offer her sisters permission, provocation,
and powerful tools to do just that. Deb helps women find their authentic center so
they can begin living joyfully from that space, creating the lives they long to be
living and the path to honoring the world with their unique gifts. When she's not
alongside women creating authentic alignment, you'll find Deb in nature with her two
dogs, falling deeper in love with food in her kitchen, curled up with a book, or immersed
in music on the dance floor.
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Amber Raile is an Associate Professor of Management in the Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship.
As an organizational communication scholar, Amber sees communication as the force
that develops, maintains, and changes our sense of ourselves, our relationships with
others, the organizations in which we work, and even the countries in which we live.
Her scholarship cultivates applied solutions around the complex social issues related
to gender inequity across local, state, national, and international communities. As
a professor and trainer, Amber focuses on developing communication skills to improve
the relationships that shape our personal and professional lives.
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Stacey Scott is the Director of Manufacturing for West Paw in Bozeman. She has held a number of
other positions at the company including Accounting & Business Analyst, Product Innovation
Leader, and National Sales Manager.
Originally from Billings, Stacey graduated with her Master of Professional Accountancy
(MPAc) degree from MSU. Stacey is also very involved in the community and at MSU.
She served on the Board of Directors for the Verge Theater, was a CAP Mentor through
Thrive for over 14 years and has volunteered with the Special Olympics. Stacey also
serves on the Jabs College's Accounting Advisory Council.
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Lorca Smetana is an expert in the human capacity to recover and sustain life and health from crisis,
change and burnout. At the age of 16 she was a survivor of the 1986 school mountaineering
tragedy on Mount Hood and has been a vibrant explorer of designing human resilience
since. She founded a medical aviation non-profit and holds an MA in international
diplomacy. Today, she is a speaker and educator, a regenerative farmer and writer,
also serving on the Leadership Development faculty at Montana State University. She
is an architect of resilience and wholeness in education, teams, communities, and
our world.
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