MichaelAaron Flicker is founder and president of XenoPsi Ventures, a brand incubator
firm providing financial, marketing and intellectual capital to a growing portfolio of companies.

He launched the business as a high school freshman 27 years ago in Ridgewood, NJ. Strategically, he focuses on managing XenoPsi Ventures portfolio of businesses, launching new companies and building equity-based partnerships with advertisers via XenoPsi Ventures’ innovative remuneration packages based on equity, not billable hours for services rendered.

He is president of Method1, Function Growth and Z/Axis Strategies, three of XenoPsi Ventures professional services portfolio companies. He is also the president and founder of the Wellow compression sock e-commerce brand launched in November 2021 with no outside investment.

He is a co-founder of the Consumer Behavior Lab in tandem with Richard Shotton. The CBL’s mission is to explore how behavioral science can be applied to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of media and marketing.

In 2022, he was recognized as one of the “40 Under 40” by NJBIZ. He is a Board Advisor to Shady Rays and Frances Prescott. Between 2022 – 2024, XenoPsi was named every year to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

MichaelAaron has worked with many of the country’s leading brands including Nike, JPMorgan Chase & Co, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, ACE Insurance, Chubb, & Evan Williams Bourbon.

Outside of work, MichaelAaron is Executive Director of Super Science Saturday (a Northern New Jersey science extravaganza for kids), a loving husband, and father of three beautiful children.

• Background
• Behavioral Science
• 17 Brands
• What is the “Why” behind what works
• Human Mind
• Not what we say, but how we behave
• Ikea affect
• Choices of words matter
• A->B Testing your leadership style
• Assume everyone has your best intention in mind
• Respond with open ended questions

• LinkedIn
• Book
• Podcast

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Bogdan Micov is the go-to transformation expert for elite entrepreneurs, sales professionals, and leaders who want one thing: permanent emotional freedom – Fast. With deep mastery across NLP, Hypnosis, Timeline Paradigm techniques, Quantum Linguistics, and Polarity Integration, Bogdan created The BeRelentless Method™ – a surgical approach that deletes years of emotional baggage, identity friction, and subconscious sabotage in a single day. The Psychology of Calm Power: Why Cortisol Is Killing Your Performance From Overthinking to Overpowering: Deleting Your Emotional Brakes Stop Coping — Start Deleting: The End of Self-Help as You Know It Burnout Isn’t a Strategy Problem — It’s a System Glitch The Identity Reboot: Remembering Who You Were Before the Fear Set In After surviving a stroke at 33 and walking away from $50M+ in high-ticket sales, Bogdan rebuilt his life around one core truth: you don’t need more mindset work – you need deletion. Helped 300+ high-performers permanently eliminate internal blocks and friction Clients have collectively generated $25M+ in revenue post-transformation Survived a stroke and rebuilt his nervous system and performance from the ground up Creator of The BeRelentless Method™ and The Finger Snap Method™ His work is trusted by 300+ top performers across industries who were tired of managing their triggers, battling burnout, or hiding behind productivity hacks and finally wanting to feel clear, calm, and powerful from the inside out. This isn’t coaching. This is system re-coding

• Emotions
• Brain Chemicals
• Freedom
• Stroke
• Ownership of your emotions
• Results
• Emotions coming from our Thinking…. Our meaning making process
• Conditioning – learning from past experiences
• Cause and Effect
• Emporement.. get out of that victim’s mindset
• Perspective
• Lenses – Deleting, Distorting, Generalizing
• What are your limiting beliefs? limiting decisions?
  • Challenge the fruitfulness of your thoughts
  • Weaken the belief
  • Question how it serves you
  • After it is removed, how would you feel
  • Give examples
• Karate

• LinkedIn
• Instagram – DM Bogda “Podcast”
• YouTube

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Tamara Laine is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, fintech founder, and business growth strategist. As the founder and CEO of MPWR, she is transforming how credit and capital are accessed by gig workers, women, and underserved communities through AI and alternative data. A former gig worker herself, Tamara brings lived experience to her mission of building a more inclusive financial system. She has launched and scaled eight-figure tech ventures, advised banks on equitable capital access, and is a recognized expert in financial inclusion, ethical tech, and economic innovation. Tamara also co-hosts What the Frac?, a podcast on startup growth.

• Ethical AI
• Innovative Leadership
• Journalism vs. Entrepreneurship
• Leadership
• Start with Why?
• Emotional Leadership
• Grounded in a good foundation
• Product first, then Vision
• Executive Coaching
• Empathy as a leader
• Empathy takes Time
• Being a Mentor
• Your network, and how you treat your community
• What the Fract show

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Podacst – What the Frac?

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Matt Watson learned the power of product-driven development the hard way.

In 2003, at just 22 years old, he founded VinSolutions with exceptional technical talent but little product focus. The team built flawless features—yet few customers wanted to use them. Everything changed when the company shifted its mindset from “coders” to true product owners. By transforming its development culture, VinSolutions cut cycle times in half, dramatically increased feature adoption, and scaled to $35M in recurring revenue before being acquired by AutoTrader for $150M in 2011.

He carried those lessons to Stackify, where a product-first culture was embedded from the very beginning. Developers weren’t just writing code—they were innovating by deeply understanding user problems. That approach fueled another success story, leading to Stackify’s acquisition by Netreo in 2021.

Today, as founder of Full Scale, Matt helps other technical leaders make the same transformation. With a team of more than 300 developers serving 60+ clients worldwide, Full Scale demonstrates that a product-first approach works across time zones and geographies.

This isn’t theory—it’s battle-tested experience from building and scaling multiple successful software companies.

• Background
• Coding
• Product Driven
• Empathy
• Purpose
• Leadership
• Field Trips
• Feedback loops
• Product Managers could become the bottle neck
• Getting engineering involved in product
• Learn to say NO
• What if we “don’t do it”
• One way Door, or Two way Door Decisions
• Don’t stress about 2 way door decisions
• How you communicate every day
• Courage
• Thank and reward people for sharing
• Delegate
• Hire people you trust
• learn to let go
• don’t be the bottle neck
• Create Personal Relationships to build Trust
• Know the Why?

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Book
• Full Scale
• Podcast

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Emily Chase Coleman is a visionary in higher education analytics, reshaping how institutions use data to drive strategy. As the Co-founder of HAI Analytics Inc., she helps colleges and universities make informed, data-backed decisions about enrollment, financial aid, and student success. With over 20 years in higher education leadership and a PhD in Social Psychology and Statistics from Cornell, Emily is uniquely positioned to bridge the gap between data science and institutional strategy.

At HAI Analytics, Emily is leading the charge in making predictive modeling and data visualization tools more accessible to university decision-makers. Her team has developed an innovative software-with-service platform, empowering institutions to use analytics for long-term sustainability without relying on full-time consultants.

Emily is also a strong advocate for education reform, challenging outdated models in admissions and financial aid. She critiques the high-price, high-discount tuition system for exacerbating socioeconomic disparities and pushes for test-optional admissions to promote equity in college access.

Beyond higher education, Emily champions women in leadership and tech, sharing insights from her journey as a female founder in edtech and data analytics. She is passionate about increasing representation in STEM and creating pathways for women entrepreneurs.

• Background
• Higher Education
• Analytics and Data
• Visualization for data modeling
• Interactive Dashboards
• Understanding the Data

• LinkedIn
• Website

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Magdalene Amegashitsi is an accomplished digital and data leader, currently serving as Senior Manager in Digital Advisory at Avanade, where she brings over 12 years of experience in helping organisations unlock value from data through AI, data strategy, governance and digital innovation.

Throughout her career, Magdalene has held a variety of roles spanning Data & AI advisory, data science, team leadership and digital ethics. Her hands-on approach and strategic vision enable mission-driven organisations to transform through intelligent solutions that tie business, data and technology together.

A passionate advocate for inclusion, leadership and empowerment, she founded the Women’s Employee Network (WEN) for the UK & Ireland at Avanade in 2019. Under her leadership the community grew to 150+ active members, fostering growth, connection and professional development for women in technology and leadership. In 2023, she took on the role of Co-Chair for the WEN for the Europe Chapter (covering 16 countries), broadening her impact across the region.

Magdalene’s dedication to driving change has also been recognised across the tech industry. Notably, she was selected as one of six Role Models and Ambassadors for the Tech Talent Charter “Doing It Anyway” campaign and in 2022 received the TechWomen100 Award by WeAreTheCity.

Outside of her corporate role, Magdalene invests in mentorship, hosts webinars, and partners with charities to support girls from under-privileged backgrounds in entering STEM and tech fields. Her personal mission: do what matters — creating impact, developing people, and building inclusive futures.

• Magdalene’s background
• AI
• Anaiya
• AI Governance
• AI Strategy
• Roadmap
• Value
• Data and Analytics
  • Time Saved
• Change Adobption Journey
  • AI Ready Culture
  • High Engagement
  • Have Champions in each department/area
• AI Transformation Engagement
• Technical Mastery
• Transformational Leadership
• Organizational Navigation

• LinkedIn

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