Conference

Jaunai is a Business Coach, Speaker, Coach & Trainer in the areas of sales/marketing & personal development. She is the creator of Peak Your Power to Profit Program which is a bi-product of her award-winning sales career. Jay has over 19 years of sales experience and she is the Chief Inspiration Officer at the Success Group Inc. Through her work as a business coach and speaker, Jaunai helps entrepreneurs achieve their goals and reach their full potential. Drawing on her own experiences as an entrepreneur and her extensive knowledge in the field of sales and marketing, she provides valuable insight and [...]

After 14 years as a Registered Nurse, I went into the grind of nursing practice – first in a Level 1 Trauma Center ER, then as a nursing supervisor and cardiac nurse navigator, only to return to the ER. Why? I badly missed the variety of the Emergency Room. I went back to school for my BSN in hopes of more opportunities; To my surprise, changing my environment did nothing to reduce the toxicity of working in healthcare. That's when I realized I needed to get entirely OUT of bedside nursing. Even so, I found it hard to leave the bedside; [...]

Teresa Sanderson helps nurse entrepreneurs & hospice liaisons get in front of medical and community referral sources so they can serve more clients. An RN for 30 years, she is a Certified Case Manager and was formerly a Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse. Teresa maintains an active Nursing Continuing Education Program accredited by the Kansas State Board Of Nursing and serves as a Business Coach to nurse entrepreneurs and as a Hospice Marketing Consultant to organizations across the USA. She resides on a homestead in rural Northeast Kansas with her husband, livestock and honeybees.

Benita Bannis, Ed.S. is the Assistant Director of the UF/IFAS International Support Team (IIST) at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Science (UF/IFAS) in Gainesville, Florida.   As the leader of the IIST, Benita leverages over ten years of experience supporting over $100 million dollars in research, extension, and teaching activity to provide training, guidance, and representation to UF/IFAS faculty, staff, and administration regarding international collaboration and engagement. UF/IFAS is home to dynamic and innovative international projects, including two major USAID awards that, together, touch three continents. The IIST provides financial, administrative, compliance expertise to ensure that UF/IFAS [...]

Dr. Alicia Bannis, PhD, DNP RN MSN APRN GNP CNS ONC   Dr. Alicia Bannis has over 39 years of experience as a registered nurse. She holds a Ph.D. in nursing education and a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree (DNP). Her focus of interest is on nursing research and curriculum development. Dr. Bannis provides consultation with national and international nursing agencies on curriculum development. She has undertaken various research studies focusing on Cultural Competence in nursing.   Over her tenure in nursing education, Dr. Bannis has taught various nursing education levels to the Master's level of nursing education. She is currently [...]

Through more than a decade of leadership in post-acute care, Nena has been in roles that allowed her to grow and develop into a thriving leader, and she has been in roles that crushed her and created a feeling of failure. She started as a nurse's aide and worked her way up to corporate executive roles, determined to fix the broken systems she experienced. Nena has her Master's in nursing administration. She is the Founder of Hart Healthcare Solutions, which helps post-acute care providers take back the operational health of their organization, stop the vicious cycle of agency use and critical [...]

Dr. Tricia Kassab, EdD., RN, FACHE, CPHQ, HACP Tricia Kassab is the District VP of Quality & Patient Safety at Palomar Health in San Diego, CA. Tricia is a systems thinker and is passionate with patient safety and mitigating preventable patient harm. She is the Immediate Past President of Healthcare Executives of Southern California. In addition, Tricia is an adjunct professor at University of Massachusetts Global University in the School of Business. Dr. Kassab's background as a RN began in the cardiovascular ICU at Mass General. She has worked at high performing organizations across the nation over her 35+ years of [...]