Rex Miller is a renowned coach, researcher, and practitioner with over 40 years of experience in architecture, construction, and organizational consulting. He has a proven track record of driving change and progress for global organizations and industries through his consulting firm, MindShift. He has been a keynote speaker at more than 200 events and has coached and trained over 17,000 people using the CliftonStrengths assessment. He has worked for and partnered with Haworth for over twenty years. Rex is a recognized expert in Integrated Project Delivery and pre-fabricated architectural products. He has won several awards for his work, including the CoreNet Global Innovator Award, the Industry Excellence Award, and the IFMA's Distinguished Author award.

Rex has worked for an owner and in sales leadership for Haworth, Kimball, HNI, two Herman Miller dealers, and a Haworth dealer. He created the first evergreen business development process, SWARM, Smart Work, and Referral Marketing. 

He has written eight books, six with Wiley & Sons Publishing, and is a member of the Association for Professional Futurists. He has been trained in Improv Comedy, CoreClarity, Strengths training, DiSC, and the 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team. He has an impressive list of clients, including Google, Facebook, GoDaddy, FAA, USACE, GSA, Federal Reserve Bank, Haworth, OFS, and HNI. Rex has a unique background as a certified tennis professional and coach for Hall of Fame and Olympic athletes. In 2022, he opened the River Rose leadership and retreat ranch, a unique and inspiring environment for individuals and organizations to develop leadership and teamwork skills.

With over 20+ years of experience in Learning and Development / Human Resources, Courtney Ramsey knows about helping others succeed! As a speaker, author, and consultant, she’s known for creating and facilitating programs that empower, motivate, and drive results.

Courtney received her MBA and BBA in Marketing from Texas A&M University. She served as part of the adjunct faculty at the SMU Cox School of Business, and is the President of the National Speakers Association North Texas.

As a wife, mom, and frequent flyer, her idea of a good Friday night is TexMex and a glass of wine while watching true crime in her PJs. (Dateline is her favorite!) 

Bruce Tulgan is an adviser to business leaders all over the world and a sought-after keynote speaker and seminar leader. He is the founder and CEO of RainmakerThinking, Inc., a management research and training firm, as well as RainmakerLearning, an online training resource. Bruce is the best-selling author of numerous books including Not Everyone Gets a Trophy (Third Edition, 2023), Bridging the Soft Skills Gap (Revised & Updated 2022), The 27 Challenges Managers Face (2014), and It’s Okay to be the Boss (Revised & Updated, 2014). His newest book, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work, is available now from Harvard Business Review Press.
Bruce lectures at the Yale Graduate School of Management, as well as other academic institutions. He has written for the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, HR Magazine, and writes regularly for Training Magazine, Forbes.com, and Psychology Today.
Since 1995, Bruce has worked with tens of thousands of leaders and managers in hundreds of organizations. In recent years, Bruce was named by Management Today as one of the few contemporary figures to stand out as a “management guru” and he

was named to the 2009 Thinkers50 Rising Star list. On August 13, 2009, Bruce was honored to accept Toastmasters International’s most prestigious honor, the Golden Gavel.

Bruce is a lifelong practitioner of Okinawan Uechi Ryu Karate Do and holds a seventh degree black belt, making him a Kyoshi master in that style. He lives in New Haven, CT with his wife Debby Applegate, Ph.D., who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for her book The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday, 2006). Her new book, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age, is available now from Doubleday.

Lauren Saidel-Baker
ITR Economics, Speaker and Economist​