Aki Asahara, Ph.D., is an AI systems performance engineer and the Chief Marketing Officer at Fixstars. With a doctorate in astrophysics and more than 15 years of hands-on engineering and project management experience, he specializes in GPU performance engineering for large-scale AI training and inference workloads. His work spans autonomous driving, finance, healthcare, and industrial AI applications, with expertise in distributed training, mixed-precision optimization, and cluster-level observability on NVIDIA H100/H200/B200 architectures.

Aki serves as a Session Chair and Speaker at HPC Asia 2026 and has delivered invited talks at multiple GenAI-focused conferences in Japan. He also represents Fixstars as an exhibitor at the Supercomputing Conference (SC). He contributes to publications in AI systems performance engineering and leads industry projects that significantly improve throughput and cost efficiency.

Aki Asahara, Ph.D., is an AI systems performance engineer and the Chief Marketing Officer at Fixstars. With a doctorate in astrophysics and more than 15 years of hands-on engineering and project management experience, he specializes in GPU performanc... Show more

Aakanksha is a med student with a strong interest in the intersection of tech and medicine and its potential to drive innovation in healthcare. She is a co-founder of Curaximo, where she explores tech-driven approaches to medicine. She has volunteered with multiple medical organizations and has been actively involved in organizing academic conferences. She enjoys applying her writing and analytical skills to research, especially in areas related to neuroscience, data science, and health tech.

Aakanksha is a med student with a strong interest in the intersection of tech and medicine and its potential to drive innovation in healthcare. She is a co-founder of Curaximo, where she explores tech-driven approaches to medicine. She has volunteere... Show more

Himaja Boinapalli is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and psychotherapist based in New York City, with nine years of experience advancing mental health equity through clinical practice, policy, and advocacy. She holds a dual Master of Arts and Master of Education from Columbia University, alongside two additional Master's degrees in Counseling Psychology.

For the past three years, Himaja has provided trauma-informed, culturally responsive therapy to clients across diverse backgrounds and identities, drawing on an eclectic, integrative approach that includes TF-CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, and somatic therapy. Her policy work spans the NYC Office of the Mayor and the United Nations Headquarters, where she engaged global stakeholders on mental health advocacy and authored policy initiatives.

A published researcher, her work on authentic leadership and ethical decision-making appeared in the International Journal of Ethics and Systems in 2025, and she has presented at the World Psychiatric Congress and the International Congress of Psychology. Himaja speaks on topics including intergenerational trauma, social determinants of mental health, and destigmatizing mental illness through an intersectional lens.

Connect: himaja-boinapalli.net | Instagram & Blog: @PsychologyAndUs | Twitter: @Himaja_B09

Himaja Boinapalli is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and psychotherapist based in New York City, with nine years of experience advancing mental health equity through clinical practice, policy, and advocacy. She holds a dual Master of Arts and Mast... Show more

I'm a Generative AI & ML Engineer based in Austin, TX — and I genuinely believe we're living through the most exciting moment in the history of computing. I've spent the last 8+ years turning that belief into production systems that actually move needles.
Right now, I work as a **Senior AI Engineer at [Twin Health](https://www.twinhealth.com/)**, where I architect multi-agent AI platforms for personalized digital health. The work hits close to home in the most literal sense: the AI systems I build — ones that ingest real-time wearable data, interpret lab results, and deliver hyper-personalized diet and nutrition guidance — have contributed to a **37% Type 2 diabetes reversal rate** across our patient population. That's not a dashboard metric. That's people reclaiming their health.
Before Twin Health, I spent over a year at **Cigna Health** building Generative AI into the Prior Authorization process — a notoriously slow, paper-heavy corner of healthcare that desperately needed agentic intelligence. And before that, I spent two years at **Walmart Global Tech**, where I built a voice/text-driven AI tool that saved **130,000 associate work hours every single week**, and a RAG-based system that cut attribute-extraction costs by **80%** with **24× faster turnaround**. Large-scale impact is something I've come to expect from this work.

My path here wasn't strictly linear. I started as an Electrical Engineering undergraduate at **IIT Roorkee**, pivoted into data science at **Indiana University – Bloomington** (where I earned a Master's and the Luddy Outstanding Research Award), and along the way published research at **NeurIPS** (Best Paper) and **ACM COMPASS**. More recently, I completed an **MBA in Entrepreneurship** from University of the Cumberlands — because building great AI isn't just an engineering challenge, it's a product and people challenge too.

I'm a Generative AI & ML Engineer based in Austin, TX — and I genuinely believe we're living through the most exciting moment in the history of computing. I've spent the last 8+ years turning that belief into production systems that actually move nee... Show more

Naveen Anand Mishra is a Senior Architect specializing in enterprise AI, data platforms, and regulated healthcare technology. His work focuses on modernizing large-scale data and integration architectures, designing governed AI systems, and applying agentic AI patterns to complex enterprise workflows. He has experience across cloud architecture, event-driven platforms, data quality, API modernization, and AI governance. Naveen is also an IEEE member and an active contributor to industry–academic research on AI agents, healthcare interoperability, and enterprise architecture.

Naveen Anand Mishra is a Senior Architect specializing in enterprise AI, data platforms, and regulated healthcare technology. His work focuses on modernizing large-scale data and integration architectures, designing governed AI systems, and applying ... Show more

Dynamic and results-oriented Lead Software Architect with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing scalable software solutions including the following disciplines:
• Architecture in cloud-native applications that leverage AI, machine learning (ML), and large language models (LLM) to address business challenges.
• Implementing design thinking principles in application architecture.
• Serving as a proven and highly motivated technical leader with a results-driven approach

Dynamic and results-oriented Lead Software Architect with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing scalable software solutions including the following disciplines: • Architecture in cloud-native applications that leverage AI, machin... Show more

Christen is an experienced data management specialist with over 10 years of expertise as a data analyst, engineer, and architect, and Snowflake is the only thing she has not broken (yet). Passionate about innovation and process improvement, Christen has successfully modernized data platforms, implemented new technologies, and identified major cost savings at companies in Healthcare and Oil and Gas. She loves sharing knowledge with others and enabling teams to choose optimal solutions. Currently a Senior Solutions Engineer, Christen helps customers build innovative, cost effective solutions to business challenges in Healthcare using the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Christen is an experienced data management specialist with over 10 years of expertise as a data analyst, engineer, and architect, and Snowflake is the only thing she has not broken (yet). Passionate about innovation and process improvement, Christen ... Show more

Clara enjoys working in the intersection of Machine Learning, Product, and Engineering, solving problems in a pragmatic and iterative way. She currently leads Applied AI at Sword Health, where her team is reinventing how patients access and receive care, by creating a more human, more clinically effective, and more scalable way to treat patients. She is focused on building and scaling machine learning systems that help achieve Sword's mission of freeing 2 million people from pain.

Clara enjoys working in the intersection of Machine Learning, Product, and Engineering, solving problems in a pragmatic and iterative way. She currently leads Applied AI at Sword Health, where her team is reinventing how patients access and receive c... Show more

I'm a Senior Software Architect working on agentic AI systems in healthcare diagnostics. Most of my time is spent figuring out how to make large language models play nice with enterprise security requirements—especially when those models need to access patient data across chat, voice, and SMS channels.

Before diving into AI, I built developer experience tools and led engineering teams where I learned that the hard problems are rarely about the technology itself. They're about making complex systems work reliably when real people depend on them.

I've been deep in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) world lately, building servers that let AI agents interact securely with backend systems. That work surfaced a lot of messy authentication challenges that don't have clean answers in the OAuth specs. My talk comes from those real-world battle scars.

I'm based in Omaha

I'm a Senior Software Architect working on agentic AI systems in healthcare diagnostics. Most of my time is spent figuring out how to make large language models play nice with enterprise security requirements—especially when those models need to acce... Show more

Edy Hourany is a senior software engineer at Doctolib with a PhD in software engineering 🎓, but don’t let that fool you. He's a dog psychologist 🐕 and a paramedic 🚑 on the side! When he’s not writing code or helping dogs work through their issues, you’ll probably find him zipping through the sky as an FPV drone pilot 🛸.

Edy has had the chance to work with diverse, multidisciplinary teams from all over the world 🌍, and he loves bringing people together to solve tough problems. Whether it’s debugging software or calming a reactive pup 🐶, he’s always ready for the next challenge (preferably one that involves both!).

Edy Hourany is a senior software engineer at Doctolib with a PhD in software engineering 🎓, but don’t let that fool you. He's a dog psychologist 🐕 and a paramedic 🚑 on the side! When he’s not writing code or helping dogs work through their issues,... Show more

Patrick Junghanns is a product management professional with a strong background in molecular diagnostics and healthcare innovation. Currently working as a Product Manager for Connected Consumables, he focuses on developing connected solutions to improve patient safety and optimize clinical workflows. Prior to this, he gained extensive experience across oncology and IV workflow management in international roles, combining technical expertise with marketing and sales capabilities. With an academic foundation in molecular and cellular biology, he brings a scientific mindset to business challenges and enjoys translating complex information into practical solutions

Patrick Junghanns is a product management professional with a strong background in molecular diagnostics and healthcare innovation. Currently working as a Product Manager for Connected Consumables, he focuses on developing connected solutions to impr... Show more

Brad Schlicht is a Distinguished Engineer at Medtronic, where he focuses on modernizing cloud architecture and building out next-generation platform capabilities to accelerate product development.

His background spans building distributed on-premise infrastructure solutions, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and cloud architecture across several premier Minnesota-based companies.

Currently, Brad is focused on embedding Generative AI and Agentic AI workflows throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), building intelligent developer experience (DevEx) platforms that eliminate friction and increase engineering velocity at scale.

Brad Schlicht is a Distinguished Engineer at Medtronic, where he focuses on modernizing cloud architecture and building out next-generation platform capabilities to accelerate product development. His background spans building distributed on-prem... Show more

Vasant Kearney is founder and CEO of Onlay AI, where he builds agentic healthcare revenue-cycle infrastructure across claims, eligibility, attachments, payer follow-up, payment posting, and bank reconciliation.

He was previously co-founder and CTO of Retrace, an AI company focused on healthcare automation. Before startups, Vasant was an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology Physics at UCSF, completed a medical physics residency there, and earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He mentored radiation oncology residents at UCSF and machine learning students at the University of San Francisco. His scientific work spans a broad range of topics, including generative MRI-to-CT translation, tumor localization, anatomy segmentation, treatment-planning optimization, NVIDIA CUDA programming, and dental disease classification.

His work sits at the intersection of healthcare operations, regulated workflows, multimodal AI, and production agent systems.

Vasant Kearney is founder and CEO of Onlay AI, where he builds agentic healthcare revenue-cycle infrastructure across claims, eligibility, attachments, payer follow-up, payment posting, and bank reconciliation. He was previously co-founder and CTO... Show more

Jennifer Gilman is a Board-Certified and Functional Medicine Certified Health & Wellness Coach and founder of New Way Health Coach, dedicated to helping high-performing professionals prevent burnout before it costs them their health. After a 26-year corporate career—and her own experience with burnout and autoimmune challenges, Jennifer now blends science-backed strategies, functional medicine insights, and real-world tools to help individuals and organizations restore energy, focus, and resilience. Known as the “self-care muse,” she empowers professionals to build sustainable habits that support well-being, clarity, and longevity—both in and out of the workplace.

Jennifer Gilman is a Board-Certified and Functional Medicine Certified Health & Wellness Coach and founder of New Way Health Coach, dedicated to helping high-performing professionals prevent burnout before it costs them their health. After a 26-year ... Show more

Vineel Muppa is a dynamic Salesforce Principal Architect with over 11 years of specialized experience in event-driven architectures, DevOps implementation, AI-driven automation, and security compliance frameworks. As a thought leader in the Salesforce ecosystem, he has spearheaded digital transformations across healthcare, telecom, and retail industries.
Currently serving as Principal Architect at Amgen in Tampa, Florida, Vineel leads the architecture, strategy, and governance of their Patient Service Platform built on Salesforce Service Cloud and Health Cloud. This critical system supports over 2.9 million patients and 216,000+ physicians. His implementation of event-driven architecture using Pub/Sub API and Platform Events has enabled real-time patient data synchronization with electronic health records and specialty pharmacies.
Prior to Amgen, Vineel demonstrated his technical leadership at T-Mobile, where he designed and developed a Salesforce-based B2B platform managing 6,000 T-Mobile stores and 50,000 store employees. His automation solutions reduced employee provisioning time by 40% while implementing Copado-based CI/CD automation that reduced manual deployment efforts by 80%.
At GrubHub, Vineel automated restaurant onboarding processes for 365,000+ restaurant partners and integrated Einstein Analytics to deliver AI-driven insights into peak order hours and menu performance trends. His focus on security included implementing OAuth 2.0 authentication and platform encryption to protect sensitive business data.
Vineel holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from National University in San Diego and maintains an impressive array of certifications, including Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect, Sharing and Visibility Architect, Service Cloud Consultant, and Sales Cloud Consultant.
Throughout his career, Vineel has consistently demonstrated his ability to lead cross-functional teams, mentor junior developers, and establish best practices in event-driven design, DevOps, and scalable Salesforce implementations. His technical expertise combined with his leadership skills make him a valuable asset in enterprise-level Salesforce implementations.

Vineel Muppa is a dynamic Salesforce Principal Architect with over 11 years of specialized experience in event-driven architectures, DevOps implementation, AI-driven automation, and security compliance frameworks. As a thought leader in the Salesforc... Show more

Vicki Landers, PT, MHA, ACC is a physical therapist, certified professional coach, and former healthcare software analyst and strategist who has spent her career at the intersection of people, systems, and technology. Her work spans roles as a clinician, supervisor, director, and Senior Systems Analyst/Strategist at North Kansas City Hospital, where she led software strategy, implementations, and workflow analysis for home health.

Working inside complex healthcare systems taught Vicki something that applies far beyond healthcare or technology: the biggest problems aren’t always technical—they’re often rooted in the perspective people bring to the problem.

Today, Vicki speaks to leaders, innovators, and teams about a simple but powerful idea: the lens you wear matters. Through her coaching and speaking, she helps people recognize how their perspective shapes decisions, communication, and collaboration—and how a brief pause can shift a reaction into a more intentional response. Her work gives audiences practical ways to notice their lens, rethink assumptions, and show up differently in the moments that matter most.

Vicki Landers, PT, MHA, ACC is a physical therapist, certified professional coach, and former healthcare software analyst and strategist who has spent her career at the intersection of people, systems, and technology. Her work spans roles as a clinic... Show more

I'm a relationship marketing consultant partially informed by my experience as a sex and relationship therapist.

With fifteen years working across some of the world's major brands, including Tesco, Formula 1, PayPal and Coca-Cola, through agencies including BBH and Ogilvy, I now consult independently and teach on the Advertising Master's programme at University of the Arts London.

I am also in the final months of a COSRT-accredited diploma in psychosexual and relationship therapy.

My two disciplines have no business being this similar, yet each keeps making the other better: humanity and insight from therapy, creativity and rigour from brands. I write about the crossover between these worlds at Vulgar Thoughts on Substack.

I'm a relationship marketing consultant partially informed by my experience as a sex and relationship therapist. With fifteen years working across some of the world's major brands, including Tesco, Formula 1, PayPal and Coca-Cola, through agencies... Show more

Jordan Tyler is a business architect, operations strategist, and leadership speaker focused on helping founders and organizations scale without losing clarity, culture, or control. With a background in healthcare leadership, innovation, and operational design, he has helped build and optimize systems that supported more than $200M in organizational growth while leading process improvement and innovation initiatives across large teams.

Jordan speaks on topics including leadership under pressure, operational scaling, overcoming fear-driven decision making, and building businesses and lives with intentionality. His approach blends real-world business experience with honest conversations around growth, resilience, faith, and personal transformation.

Whether speaking to entrepreneurs, leadership teams, or faith-based groups, Jordan brings practical insight, authenticity, and a systems-driven perspective that challenges people to stop operating in survival mode and start building with purpose.

Jordan Tyler is a business architect, operations strategist, and leadership speaker focused on helping founders and organizations scale without losing clarity, culture, or control. With a background in healthcare leadership, innovation, and operation... Show more

Laura Merritt, LCSW, is a trauma therapist, speaker, and educator specializing in PTSD, anxiety, and psychedelic informed care. With over 20 years of experience, she bridges evidence based trauma treatment with somatic, cultural, and holistic approaches, helping clinicians navigate complex conversations around trauma healing, ethics, and emerging therapeutic practices.

Laura Merritt, LCSW, is a trauma therapist, speaker, and educator specializing in PTSD, anxiety, and psychedelic informed care. With over 20 years of experience, she bridges evidence based trauma treatment with somatic, cultural, and holistic approac... Show more

Dimitrios Kiousis is an engineering leader with a career spanning aerospace to clinical technology. For more than 10 years he has worked at the intersection of healthcare and software, building teams that care about clean code and, more importantly, about software that works when lives are at stake. He is a strong advocate of agile methodologies in regulated environments and holds a PhD in computational biomechanics. Dimitrios believes the hardest problems in software development are rarely technical.

Dimitrios Kiousis is an engineering leader with a career spanning aerospace to clinical technology. For more than 10 years he has worked at the intersection of healthcare and software, building teams that care about clean code and, more importantly, ... Show more

Dr. Heather is a leadership strategist, physician, and founder of Solutionists International Consulting. With more than 20 years of leadership and leadership development experience, she helps high-achieving and emerging professionals build sustainable leadership journeys rooted in clarity, well-being, and impact.

Throughout her career, Dr. Heather has worked with brilliant, mission-driven leaders who care deeply about their teams and organizations—but who often face the hidden strain that leadership can bring. Her work focuses on helping leaders move beyond burnout, misalignment, and uncertainty to rediscover purpose, strengthen team cohesion, and lead with renewed energy.

As a speaker, coach, trainer, and consultant, she partners with organizations to address complex leadership challenges with practical strategies that produce lasting results. Her engaging and thoughtful approach encourages deep reflection while equipping audiences with tools they can immediately apply.

Dr. Heather’s academic background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Paine College (HBCU), a Master’s degree in International Health from Trident University, and a medical degree from the Latin American School of Medicine—one of the most diverse medical schools in the world. She is also a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Member and a DISC Behavioral Analysis Consultant.

She draws on a diverse background in mathematics, global health, medicine, and leadership development to bring a multidisciplinary, human-centered perspective to every engagement. Dr. Heather helps leaders reconnect with their strengths, align with their values, and lead in ways that sustain both performance and well-being.

Her sessions leave audiences with greater clarity, stronger communication, healthier leadership habits, and a renewed vision for the future.

Dr. Heather is a leadership strategist, physician, and founder of Solutionists International Consulting. With more than 20 years of leadership and leadership development experience, she helps high-achieving and emerging professionals build sustainabl... Show more

Dr. Arshiya Seth is the Chief Medical Officer at the Community Health Center of Cape Cod, MA. A highly experienced physician leader with +10 years of extensive patient safety, risk, quality, and performance improvement experience. She completed her internal medicine residency at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) through Harvard University, where she went on to spend 16 years as a primary care provider. She was a Primary Care Innovations Fellow, Harvard University, and Linde Leadership Fellow at BIDMC. Dr. Seth also served as Performance Improvement Coach to multiple teams, leading several projects designed to improve overall quality and provider satisfaction within the CHA system of care. Dr. Seth is a Certified Professional in Health Care Quality and a Six Sigma-Lean Professional. Dr. Seth is recognized as a national speaker on provider Burnout, AI, patient safety and quality and has dedicated her career to improving patient and staff experience of care through innovation and quality improvement. 
 

Dr. Arshiya Seth is the Chief Medical Officer at the Community Health Center of Cape Cod, MA. A highly experienced physician leader with +10 years of extensive patient safety, risk, quality, and performance improvement experience. She completed her i... Show more

Christina Elenbaas is a healthcare data leader with 15+ years of experience helping organizations turn complex clinical, operational, and financial data into decision-ready insight that leaders actually use.

Across healthcare, she has seen a consistent pattern data is often technically correct but operationally disconnected leading to debates over numbers, delayed decisions, and missed opportunities for impact. Her work focuses on solving this problem at its source by aligning data to how decisions are actually made across clinical, financial, and operational teams.

Christina specializes in connecting care delivery to financial and operational performance in a way that is clear, trusted, and actionable. She has helped leaders move beyond fragmented metrics to shared, decision-ready views where changes in patient flow, access, or readmissions are directly understood in terms of their real-world impact.

Her approach goes beyond building analytics. She focuses on how data is interpreted and used in practice designing metrics, models, and narratives that reduce ambiguity, eliminate rework, and support faster, more confident decision-making in high-stakes environments.

Operating at the intersection of data, strategy, and leadership, Christina brings a practical, experience-driven perspective to healthcare analytics centered on one core idea: data is only valuable if it changes what happens next.

Christina Elenbaas is a healthcare data leader with 15+ years of experience helping organizations turn complex clinical, operational, and financial data into decision-ready insight that leaders actually use. Across healthcare, she has seen a consi... Show more

Azin Etemadi, MD, is the founder and CEO of Vivendur, an enterprise AI memory company building infrastructure for organizations to retain, govern, and operationalize institutional knowledge across AI systems. Her work focuses on the next layer of enterprise AI: secure memory, contextual intelligence, knowledge continuity, and governance for companies deploying AI at scale. With a background in medicine and systems-level problem solving, Azin brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to how organizations can move beyond generic AI tools toward AI systems that remember, adapt, and compound organizational intelligence over time.

Azin Etemadi, MD, is the founder and CEO of Vivendur, an enterprise AI memory company building infrastructure for organizations to retain, govern, and operationalize institutional knowledge across AI systems. Her work focuses on the next layer of ent... Show more

Kingsley Madikaegbu is CEO/CTO of HealID Inc., addressing the $6B+ healthcare interoperability challenge. He brings 10+ years leading enterprise technology at Google Cloud and Accenture for Fortune 500 clients and government agencies. At Google, he led API management at scale and modernization delivering $10M+ in value. Experience includes HIPAA-compliant systems, Healthcare.gov, and SEC.gov (5M+ users, 99.9% uptime). Speaker at Open Source Summit North America 2024.

Kingsley Madikaegbu is CEO/CTO of HealID Inc., addressing the $6B+ healthcare interoperability challenge. He brings 10+ years leading enterprise technology at Google Cloud and Accenture for Fortune 500 clients and government agencies. At Google, he l... Show more

Sheila Hall is a functional medicine health coach, reflexologist, and speaker specializing in nervous system regulation in midlife women. Her work bridges somatic therapy and clinical observation to support emotional, physical, and cognitive balance.

Sheila Hall is a functional medicine health coach, reflexologist, and speaker specializing in nervous system regulation in midlife women. Her work bridges somatic therapy and clinical observation to support emotional, physical, and cognitive balance. Show more

Dr. Ben Lippe is a licensed psychologist who is Board Certified in Clinical Health Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology.

He is an expert on topics related to health, wellness, fitness, and behavior change.

Award-winning instructor, psychologist, author, and consultant.

He is available for workshops and keynote addresses for:
Healthcare organizations
Professional associations
Clinical teams seeking insight, clarity, and practical inspiration
Support Group organizations (e.g., cancer, chronic pain, transplant)

He speaks candidly about the realities of modern medicine—burnout, leadership challenges, patient communication, healthy behaviors, system constraints—while offering practical strategies that audiences can immediately apply in their own settings.

Dr. Ben Lippe is a licensed psychologist who is Board Certified in Clinical Health Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is an expert on topics related to health, wellness, fitness, and behavior change. Award-... Show more

Chairman of AIM Austria, Expert for Medical Informatics, Clinical Decision Support Systems and Ambient AI application

Chairman of AIM Austria, Expert for Medical Informatics, Clinical Decision Support Systems and Ambient AI application Show more

Hello. I'm Tim. It has been a long strange trip to my becoming a motivational-inspirational speaker. I have always loved speaking with people either one-on-one or in groups. As an IT Professional for over 36 years, I have had to interact with many different types of people in many different industries doing many different things. I have spoken in church both informally and as a Lay Minister in the Methodist and Disciples of Christ denominations. I am also an Adjunct Instructor at a local community college and a local university.

I have always thought that my life was pretty normal. After I graduated from college and entered the "real world" I came to understand that my life had some twists and turns. I came to realize that I have suffered from depression and anxiety since childhood. It really didn't effect me until I became a father. I subconsciously decided to place my wife's happiness and my son's happiness before my own. When my son was almost 7, I had a mental break that caused me to seek help. I have learned, to a certain extent, what was causing mental issues and how to deal with them. I have had to seek help when things happened in my life to help make sense and be able to handle things well.

Recently my professional career has taken a downturn. I was working for a consulting company with government contracts. When government began reforming spending my contract was effected and I lost my position along with many of my colleagues. I expected to find another position but soon discovered that the IT market had changed and employers were very particular in what they were looking for. I do not have some of the experiences they are looking for and thus was not being consider for positions.

So I decided to pivot and focus and over skills I have. Namely speaking about my experiences in life, giving inspirational messages and helping people along with life. I also speak about spiritual matters and how they relate to society today.

The attendees of your conference, retreat, annual meeting, gathering, or event will be uplifted, encouraged and have their confidence increased.

Hello. I'm Tim. It has been a long strange trip to my becoming a motivational-inspirational speaker. I have always loved speaking with people either one-on-one or in groups. As an IT Professional for over 36 years, I have had to interact with many di... Show more

I am passionate about fostering mental health that helps teams perform under pressure.

I am driven to help people use performance psychology principles to improve their lives! After nearly 20 years as a sport and performance psychologist, I’ve learned that high performance is not only a set of tools but a way of being that we bring to everything we do. Yet, in several high performing industries, we’re behind in taking action on mental health—and in some ways I get it because how we’ve talked about mental health in these spaces doesn’t consider important nuances of high performance.

Fortunately, the message I share is informed by two decades of experience within several demanding industries that also have high mental health stigma including healthcare, higher education, and collegiate and professional sport (including collision sports, such as football and ice hockey). I’m also from a family of rural farmers, so my message is designed to reach even the most skeptical audience members! You can simply trust that what I have to say will reach the high performers on your team.

I’m a passionate and enthusiastic speaker (who might talk too fast at times) and am skilled at translating important concepts into practical strategies that you can immediately use. (You can thank my herding rescue dogs for helping me streamline my communication strategies!)

I have a PhD in Clinical Psychology, am a Certified Mental Performance Consultant® (CMPC), and am a Licensed Psychologist, specializing in high performing populations. I am the Founder and CEO of Haugen Performance Consulting, a firm that provides education, training, and performance psychology solutions for sport organizations, corporations, and professionals. I've held a variety of positions including the Director of Mental Health and Performance Psychology at a Division I NCAA member institution and former Board member (2017-2019) and Past-President (2018-2019) of the North Dakota State Board of Psychologist Examiners (NDSBPE).

Throughout my career, I have actively involved in training the next generation of healthcare leaders. I am an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Dakota and former faculty member at the Altru Family Medicine Residency (2016-2020). I continue providing mental health and performance psychology training to sports medicine fellows in physical therapy, athletic training students, and graduate students in clinical and counseling psychology. In 2023, I was also awarded the prestigious Jack Weakley Award of Distinction from the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) for lifetime contributions to athletics, athletic training, and sports medicine, and I am the first mental health professional to receive this award.

I am passionate about fostering mental health that helps teams perform under pressure. I am driven to help people use performance psychology principles to improve their lives! After nearly 20 years as a sport and performance psychologist, I’ve lea... Show more