
Stephanie Armstrong
Co-Founder, Moxie Creative Studios
Stephanie is a visionary architect of brands and businesses. With a Midas touch for transforming brands, she has orchestrated groundbreaking partnerships with global titans like Pepsi, Universal Studios, and Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. She is the Co-Founder of Moxie Creative Studios, leveraging her strategic marketing acumen to propel businesses wordwide, generating over $40 million in growth.
A passionate advocate for diversity and innovation, Stephanie is a driving force in the marketing industry and a catalyst for change in her community. As the architect of Upstate New York's Minority & Women Owned Business Summit, she fosters a thriving ecosystem of empowerment and opportunity. Her commitment to uplifting others is evident in her leadership roles across various organizations, including Rochester Global Connections, Champion Academy, Miss Julie’s School of Beauty, and the New York New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council.
Stephanie’s journey is a testament to the power of vision, determination, and a heart for community. She is a living embodiment of the limitless potential that arises when business acumen meets a profound intention to make a positive impact.

Kathleen Pringle
CEO, Kathleen Pringle Group, Inc.
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Jennifer Sertl
Vice President of Marketing, Circle Optics
Jennifer Sertl is a strategist, author, and leadership development expert focused on helping organizations navigate complexity. She is the founder of Agility3R, a leadership development firm dedicated to strengthening resilience, responsiveness, and reflection. As Vice President of Marketing at Circle Optics, she drives brand awareness and strategic partnerships, highlighting the company’s advanced imaging technology for aerospace and defense. She also works with sayhii, helping leaders use real-time data to improve decision-making. A recognized voice in adaptive leadership, Jennifer co-authored Strategy, Leadership and the Soul and Upstate Founders Playbook, shaping conversations around innovation and human capital. A frequent speaker, she discusses leadership, workforce transformation, and the evolving role of AI in business and society. Her work centers on the intersection of human connection, organizational strategy, and learning velocity. Jennifer helps leaders turn complexity into clarity, guiding them to be more effective in uncertain times. Her personal mantra, "The antidote to chaos is connection," reflects her commitment to collaboration and meaningful leadership.

Rachel Clar, Esq.
Founder and CEO, Interconnected Us
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Raeanne Lacatena
CEO and Business Coach, Raeanne Lacatena Holistic Business Coaching
Raeanne Lacatena is a Certified Professional Coach who helps professionals and entrepreneurs actualize their highest selves and most fulfilling lives and businesses.
Raeanne has been a coach to top advisors, managers and leaders in the financial services industry for nearly 15 years, in addition to a variety of other industries. She is the author of two #1 international best-selling books endorsed by Tony Robbins titled “Cracking the Rich Code” and “The Integrated Entrepreneur.”
She leverages her expertise as a Licensed Registered Mental Health Counselor, Reiki Master, and Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner, to help entrepreneurs to effectively identify what may be holding them back from achieving success. She provides tools and techniques to break through those barriers, and helps them develop their greatest strengths.
Her blend of business management, strategic planning skill, and a knack for unlocking an individual’s potential have equipped her to guide clients toward success and contentment in various aspects of life, including relationships, finances, communication, health, and wellness.
Raeanne possesses acute empathic abilities and communication skills, which set apart her coaching abilities from others in a similar field. Typical business coaching focuses on the external factors of business, such as the tasks, strategy, revenue, numbers, data, tracking. While these things are important, Raeanne has found that focusing on the external factors of business can leave entrepreneurs feeling frustrated, unfulfilled, unmotivated and even unsuccessful, because those factors are often completely outside of their control. Instead, Raeanne defines her program as Holistic Business Coaching, enabling her clients to separate what they can control from what they cannot, and integrate their entire authentic selves into their experience of life and business.
Raeanne believes that entrepreneurship is a personal development plan, brilliantly disguised as a financial opportunity, and she helps her clients realize the same thing.

Jill Peterson
Founder and Chief Growth Strategist, Clover Insights
Over her 25-year career, Jill Peterson has helped transform businesses and organizations in a wide range of leadership roles across finance, operations, marketing and sales, talent management, mentorship and coaching, client management, and strategic planning. As an Operations Executive and Positive Intelligence Coach, she has yielded impressive profitability growth and the development of talent of all of those around her. Her comprehensive operational strategies and execution of innovative solutions consistently exceed the goals of the organizations and individuals who entrust her. She leverages data to drive decisions that streamline operations and increase productivity, while also growing client satisfaction and people.