Thought Leaders

Arizona’s thought leaders are here to guide employers on best practices to elevate their brand and improve their workplace. Learn more about each thought leader and their specialty below.

Seity Insight

Seity Insight is an organizational management consulting company working with individuals at all levels to improve value in the workplace. Established in 1999, Seity Insight has earned credibility as a results-based organization providing custom services to companies large and small across several industries. Our methods emphasize a ’whole system’ view of business performance focusing on the effectiveness of people resources – the human capital. This systems perspective uses a participative, proactive approach to business issues and opportunities rather than a reactive, quick fix.

Brightworks Consulting

Brightworks is an award-winning management consulting firm specializing in business transformation from strategy through execution. They offer clients in the public, private, non-profit and education sectors an array of services to include Organizational Assessments, Workforce Development, Strategic Planning, Business Process Improvement, Training and Business Development. When your organization needs professional advice and counsel on strategy and direction, developing your workforce or improving operations, Brightworks offers proven solutions and experienced Consultants with a roadmap for your organization to reach the next level.

canyouhearus

Do your employees really care? Do they eagerly come to work every day because they WANT to, or because they HAVE to? Learn how to capture their hearts and minds, not just their hands and backs. What are they thinking but not saying? Find out EXACTLY how your team members feel, and leverage that to become a better leader and a better company. Learn how to ignite their passion and energy! Don't go it alone. Let our employee engagement experts help you chart a path that will create a work environment your employees will NEVER want to leave and that will attract TOP TALENT to your organization!

CultureWise

Based on the book, Culture By Design, by David Friedman, CultureWise helps companies create, drive, and maintain a high-performing, sustainable culture, with a proven system that’s straightforward, practical, and easy to use.

Peopleink

We help companies create legacy cultures that treat people fairly, build loyalty, and produce solid profitability. With creativity, humor, and fun, People Ink encourages leaders to throw away the rule book and develop a sustainable company culture that believes in people's ability to accomplish the extraordinary, thereby giving them the authority to succeed.

Reveal

Assessing human potential has never been so simple, efficient, and illuminating – The results speak for themselves. Reveal provides an intuitive administrative dashboard that tracks candidates throughout the hiring process, customer service support, and more. You’ll be able to leverage a standardized process to hire with absolute confidence, in less time, while enjoying a reduction in turnover and an increase in retention – giving you time to be present with your team.

Intoo

INTOO is the compassionate response to layoffs. Knowing that the most crucial component to career transition is personalized one-on-one career coaching, we connect candidates with professional coaches faster than any other provider to accelerate that next step in your employees’ careers.

Career Connectors

Career Connectors is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to connecting professionals in career transition to hiring companies and quality resources. We are primarily event driven; connecting people and resources at events. We bring in professional career speakers to deliver content that is relevant and actionable to current professionals.

Duffy Group

Until 1991, there was only one recruiting model, and it was based on only one variable: compensation. Today, that concept seems almost quaint. Of course, compensation is a key criterion, but there is so much more that goes into a perfect match between employer and candidate. The “more” is the foundation of Duffy Group’s Recruitment Research model. Developed in 1991 and constantly evolving, it delivers real-world, actionable knowledge to employers and guides the Duffy Group to unearth hidden talent.

Apex Posture and Sport

Welcome to Apex Posture and Sport, located in Tempe, Arizona. Our clinic is a functional multi-disciplinary clinic that utilizes chiropractic care, exercise therapy, and manual therapy modalities to help people not only get out of pain as quickly as possible but also to help maintain a pain-free and active lifestyle. At Apex Posture and Sport, our Tempe chiropractors with you to accurately diagnose the root cause of your pain and give you the tools you need to get out of pain and improve your overall health.

Kathleen Gramzay

Kathleen Gramzay, Body/Mind Resilience Expert, Author, Speaker, Developer of Kinessage® Mindful Resilience, Kinessage® Self Care, Kinessage® Massage Through Movement, 20-year Board Certified Massage Therapist. In her 16-yr clinical practice, Knead for Balance, Inc, Kathleen proved her methods – first on herself and then with thousands of clients. Concurrent with her practice, her passion expanded to teaching. Kathleen taught Anatomy and Kinesiology at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts before becoming certified as a National Continuing Education Provider. In 2016, Kathleen retired from her practice to share her passion and programs with the wider world of humanity through business.

Vitanya

Vitanya was founded in Scottsdale Arizona in 2012. They have now grown to 20 locations in 6 states. Additionally, Vitanya provide programs to anyone, anywhere through their remote and mobile capabilities. In 2019, Vitanya provided 28,000 brain performance sessions internationally. Vitanya primarily focuses on providing products, technology, and services supporting subtle neural communication on the electrical and chemical levels. A revolution in modern neuroscience reveals how to maximize healthy brain function.

Herozona

Herozona Foundation is a non-profit organization that empowers our Heroes in the community through entrepreneurship, employment, and education. We work with veterans, first responders, and those that bring social good to our future generations and under-served communities.

Vitanya

Vitanya was founded in Scottsdale Arizona in 2012. They have now grown to 20 locations in 6 states. Additionally, Vitanya provide programs to anyone, anywhere through their remote and mobile capabilities. In 2019, Vitanya provided 28,000 brain performance sessions internationally. Vitanya primarily focuses on providing products, technology, and services supporting subtle neural communication on the electrical and chemical levels. A revolution in modern neuroscience reveals how to maximize healthy brain function.

Heal the Hero

Heal the Hero Foundation is dedicated to bring back the potential of our Nation’s heroes. Our protectors are trained to be in “Flight or Fight” mode 24/7 but often lack the ability to turn the mental “switch” off. We aim to “rebalance” our Veterans, Police officers, Fire fighters, dispatchers and their families! Heal the Hero Foundation provides innovative health, education and employment solutions to increase the success potential of our Nation’s finest and their families.

Paragon IT Professionals

Clients of all sizes and varying industries look to Paragon to help drive business through information technology. From finding the right talent to building strategies on how to implement technologies and migrate data, Paragon helps businesses find the resources needed to solve complex problems and move the business forward.

Employee Benefits International

Employee Benefits International (EBI) is a full-service brokerage and consulting firm specializing in Employee Benefits. Every employer deserves to deliver the best possible benefits offering for their employees with the budget available. EBI’s mission is to help employers control unnecessary costs to deliver the highest value and competitive pricing for businesses. Through our expertise, transparency, and data-driven solutions, EBI delivers results that are a win-win for employers and employees alike.

Arizona Helping Hands

Our founders, the late Honorable Paul R. Donaldson and his wife, Kathleen, made a promise to her dying sister to “do a good deed each day without taking credit for it.” Becoming a nonprofit organization in 1998, Arizona Helping Hands has served tens of thousands of needy children. The mission of Arizona Helping Hands is to provide essential needs for children in foster care through our programs promoting safety, permanency, and health.

Sara K Foundation

Sara left this world unexpectedly at 28 years old on Feb. 11, 2018. Sara was a lover of the arts and fashion and was always dancing, singing, and full of life. She was funny, outgoing and vivacious, but could also be introverted and introspective. Our mission is to spread love, empower the impoverished and disenfranchised, and do good works through charitable contributions as influenced by the legacy of Sara K.

Make A Wish Arizona

Make-A-Wish Arizona is simple in its mission: Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Your support, through direct donations, gifts of goods and/or services, and volunteerism, helps the Arizona chapter reach approximately 400 children yearly.

Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona

riven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. Since 1985, with the help of generous donors and volunteers, Habitat has been privileged to build more than 1,150 homes, affect more than 2,500 repairs and help improve a place called home for more than 3,500 Arizona families.

Heal the Hero

Heal the Hero Foundation is dedicated to bring back the potential of our Nation’s heroes. Our protectors are trained to be in “Flight or Fight” mode 24/7 but often lack the ability to turn the mental “switch” off. We aim to “rebalance” our Veterans, Police officers, Fire fighters, dispatchers and their families! Heal the Hero Foundation provides innovative health, education and employment solutions to increase the success potential of our Nation’s finest and their families.

Hold a Gentle Thought – Gene Nay

Gene Nay has written a collection of soft prose, poetry, and short stories to brighten your day and share positivity. Nay found peace in writing about real feelings, and you can enjoy the gentle thoughts of this book with your loved ones.

Strong Words, Simple Truths – Brenda Smull

Brenda Smull writes about the importance of clear, concise communication. This fun, informative book shares Smull's stories based on her experience and is a patchwork quilt of ideas, stories and dreams.

Stop Waiting, Start Living

Every day you are faced with challenges, obstacles, and fears that prevent you from living out your dreams and playing full out. Are you sick and tired of waiting? Waiting for it to be the right time, to be at the right stage of life, and to have the right amount of success? It’s time to stop waiting and live your best life now! Stop Waiting, Start Living will inspire you to take action in your OWN life.

Reimagining Innovation: The Future of Exponential Leadership

Through a collection of nine keys of exponential leadership, authors Aaron Bare and Forbes Shannon have created a formula to navigate the disruption. Exponential leadership--combined with emerging technologies, change, and disruption--will not only disrupt the world but will save it. It is time for a new generation of leadership. A leader that is purposeful, conscious, digital, and above all, exponential. Join us for a journey to reimagine innovation.

Revolutionizing Recruitment

In Revolutionizing Recruitment, Kathleen Duffy shares the insights that have made her a leading authority on recruitment research. As an expert at connecting employers with skilled, talented candidates who make their organizations even better, she has created an innovative method centered around five key steps: strategy development, name generation, position promotion, candidate evaluation, and presentation and reporting.

Women Executive Grit

Incredibly savvy women leaders are visionaries and working to make the world a better place. They often make it their mission to create environments that drive innovation and break down barriers for other women and the underserved in our communities. These women have what we've defined as Executive Grit. Women with grit lead conversations and model their commitment to inclusion and equity.

Constitutional Grit

This book, inclusive of the 100 years following the suffrage movement, is the result of multiple years of in-depth research. It serves to generate new awareness, uncover answers, dissect, and correlate trends to create replicable algorithms, and ultimately, this book and research within, calls for meaningful change in public and private organizations around the world.

Pressing Pause

Pressing Pause: How Pressing Pause Can Help You Reach Your Fullest Potential explores the unexpected power of pausing and how taking a step back can help you take your results to the next level. I wrote this book because this is the playbook I wish I had when I started my career.

Michael Seaver

Michael S. Seaver is an award-winning executive coach, author, keynote speaker, and podcast host. He’s on a mission to unlock human potential to help people uncover and live their purpose, and live a more meaningful and authentic life. Crashing through conventional boundaries, Michael thrives at the intersection of next-generation business strategy concepts, positive psychology, and conscious capitalism.

Y Scouts

Y Scouts doesn’t do placements. They align leaders and work. Placement is a cold top-down approach, focusing on resumes and filling empty seats. By hiring on purpose, Y Scouts take the broken vertical model and flip it on its side, creating horizontal alignment between leader and company. Y Scouts bridge the gap between business’ purpose and a leader’s passions and strengths. It is purposeful and methodical and driven by empathy. It’s why Y Scouts exist.

Tony Bridwell

With over 30 years of global leadership expertise, Tony Bridwell has dedicated his life to inspiring, motivating, and empowering employees to realize their highest potential. He currently serves as Chief People Officer for RYAN LLC, a global leader in the tax services industry. His focus, as head of the global human resource practice, is on enhancing, communicating, and driving RYAN’S award-winning culture to support the firm’s strategic vision.

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