Conference Speakers

Kristen Crockett is the founder and CEO of The Crockett Collective, a leadership and personal development company. Kristen is an expert at helping people enhance communication, navigate change in the workplace and embrace inclusive styles of leadership, behaviors, and communication styles. Having worked with leaders and executives at PBS and Radio One, Kristen is a highly intuitive transformational coach. She helps people and teams uncover what doesn't always come easy - knowing their strengths, living in their zone of genius and learning how to lead from their gut.

In addition to being a Certified Professional Coach, Kristen holds a B.A. in Communications from Loyola University in New Orleans, an M.A. in Film and Video from American University, and a J.D. from George Washington University.

Featured on FOX, CBS, ABC, NBC & TEDx, Betsy Allen-Manning is a renowned leadership speaker & corporate culture expert for fast growing companies. As founder of Corporate Culture Training Solutions, known as one of the top leadership training companies in Dallas, Texas, her specialty is improving workplace culture, creating better employee experiences, & developing ‘ready-now leaders’ who are equipped to attract, engage, motivate & retain talent in a hyper-competitive marketplace. She's the author of 3 published books and is one of the top leadership motivational speakers in Dallas. Through her dedicated research, expertise in human behavior, experience working as a manager for 5-star hotels, and her involvement with the John Maxwell Team, she is honored to have trained over 15,000 leaders & teams for small businesses, franchises & associations, to multi-billion dollar corporations, such as Toshiba, Aflac, Fidelity & the US Department of Defense.