Michele L. Shelton, CPC, CPCC

SESSION ONE:

Positioning REST² As Your Next Power Move

9:00am ET | 8:00am CT

You'll walk away with a new way to see rest as a strategic advantage, and the framework that anchors your plan for the day.

Michele serves as your retreat host and principal speaker. She designs and guides organizational leaders through life-changing and affirming conference experiences, immersion retreats, and coaching. In a career spanning 25 years, she has served as a trusted and impactful HR/DEI organizational leader, coach, consultant, and advisor to C-level executives in business, government, healthcare, education, non-profit, and faith-based sectors.

After health challenges forced her into an unexpected year-long hiatus of recovery, reflection and repositioning in 2025, Michele created The PEACE in Power Platform™, a transformative framework for women leaders navigating the often unspoken truths of leadership in the workplace. Through group coaching and immersive retreats, her clients are positioned to boldly confront the effects of challenges to their success, increase their capacity for authentic organizational impact, and sustain unbreakable PEACE in their positions of power.  

SESSION TWO:

The Energy Exchange: Renewing Your Field of Influence & Impact

10:30am ET | 9:30am CT

You'll walk away with knowing how to spot the positions and patterns draining your energy despite outward success, and how to reclaim it.

Crystal Stroessner is an Energy Coach and self-proclaimed "Modern Day Mystic." Her work is focused on the energy anatomy of the chakra systems, integrating both spiritual and biological perspectives, combined with archetypal frameworks influenced by Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. Crystal is driven by a deep passion for helping people identify the energetic imbalances that keep them stuck, anxious, or exhausted, despite outward success.

Through a blend of knowledge, intuition, truthfulness, and grounded compassion, Crystal helps clients gain perspective on their internal dynamics and relational patterns. She is known for guiding people to recognize what's out of alignment and empowering them to navigate their relationships, family dynamics, and inner world with greater clarity, stability, and self-leadership.

SESSION THREE:

Maintaining Your Mental Posture in the Workplace and Beyond

12:00pm ET | 11:00am CT

You'll walk away with practical tools for boundaries, resilience, and managing anxiety and overload in high-pressure roles.

India is a trauma-trained therapist specializing in BrainSpotting, CBT, DBT, EMDR, and Mindfulness. She helps high-achieving professionals in life transition overcome anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. 

As Founder of Safe Space Therapy with India, she is passionate about helping clients build resilience, set healthy boundaries, and develop skills that strengthen mental health. She believes everyone deserves to feel safe, supported, and equipped with the tools to navigate life’s challenges. Her passion for this work stems from a personal experience that taught India the power of feeling heard, protected, and understood during difficult times. This inspires her to help others see the light at the end of their own tunnels. 

SESSION FOUR:

From Proving Yourself to Trusting Yourself: Clearing Conflict with Confidence

2:00pm ET | 1:00pm CT

You'll walk away with proven techniques to promote the quick and respectful resolution of conflict, so it stops following you home.

 Dana helps you resolve conflict that is keeping you from successfully running your personal or professional life. From her years of experience as mediator for court-ordered civil and family cases, she has developed and refined a unique conflict resolution process where you quickly achieve real resolution, so you can focus on what matters most. 

Founder of The Mindful Strategy LLC, Dana merges CPA Big 8 Accounting and her international career with The Coca-Cola Company with vast global life lessons from working and living for 22 years across diverse cultures on six continents – including seven years in Bangkok, Thailand, where she learned mindfulness directly from Eastern philosophical teachings. First-hand experience to litigation resulting in personal hardship and serious financial loss led Dana to her passion and commitment to helping you avoid the pitfalls of unnecessary conflict.  

SESSION FIVE:

How Healthy Living Fuels Your Purpose, Leadership and Legacy

3:30pm ET | 2:30pm CT

You'll walk away with clinician-informed shifts to prioritize and expand protection of your physical health as your responsibilities and tenure grow.

Dr. Marcella Berry Dyson, FNP-C, DNP, is  a functional medicine nurse practitioner, speaker, and passionate advocate helping women live healthier, purpose-driven lives. Her journey in healthcare began as a Certified Nursing Assistant and, through perseverance and purpose, led her to earn her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. Marcella now combines her clinical expertise with her passion for empowering others to pursue their full potential as founder of Las Vegas Functional Health & Wellness Center.

Through her message of “Nursing Your Dreams,” Marcella encourages women in leadership to prioritize their health, energy, and personal growth so they can lead with clarity and impact. She believes when women care for their bodies and nurture their purpose, they unlock the ability to live and lead at their highest level.