Featured Speaker and Presenters

FEATURED SPEAKER

Gloria Witt, Define Success Coaching & Facilitation Services

Gloria is an awarding winning communicator and community advocate who boosts performance outcomes as an executive coach, consultant, facilitator, and keynote speaker. She is committed to coaching executives and leaders to become known for their ability to produce results whether in a commercial, non-profit, government, or faith-based organization. Gloria is the Founder of Define Success Coaching and Facilitation Services, LLC and is certified in Linkage’s Advancing Women Leader’s products and Leading with a Mindset of Inclusion.

Gloria launched Define Success Coaching and Facilitation Services following a 32-year career within the energy sector where she specialized in talent management, leadership development, and performance management consulting. Known for her ability to establish credibility and rapport, Gloria consistently engages clients with a dynamic, empowering leadership style. Her coaching style is that of a distiller of stories applied to leverage the power of questions that responds to the needs of the client to achieve desired outcomes. Her versatility has honed her ability as an articulate communicator skilled at uncovering and facilitating collaborative solutions for her clients.

She has led various organizational change initiatives and recently worked with a client to implement an executive leadership-driven cultural transformation that significantly enhanced employee engagement measured by improvement scores using Gallup Q12.  In addition, she has designed and facilitated strategic leadership development programs with the latest being a senior executive solution aimed to connect organizational and people objectives to optimize performance results.

Gloria believes that every individual has the power to achieve. She is passionate about serving others and coaching individuals to transform behavior to create measurable results. She has a B.A. degree in Communications with minors in Sociology and Economics from Randolph Macon Woman’s College and an M.B.A. from Capella University. Gloria resides in Central Virginia where she enjoys family, friends, reading, and advocacy for youth, social justice, and entrepreneurship.

ADDITIONAL PRESENTERS

Gordon Loeb, Loeb Leadership Development Group

Gordon is the COO of Loeb Leadership, a leadership and management development company. His responsibilities include business development, marketing, financials, and client and consultant relations. Gordon helped grow LCG from a single independent consultancy to a thriving company with over 25 consultants that provides training and development, executive coaching, public workshops and student leadership development programs. Gordon has an extensive entrepreneurial and corporate background including starting and growing two successful companies and running a division of Automatic Data Processing (ADP). Gordon is the proud co-founder of a teen advisory committee in Marlboro, NJ — an organization that helps teens develop leadership skills through community service projects. The organization has over 1,500 local teen members and is the recipient of a 2015 New Jersey State Governor’s Jefferson Award.

Alix Cohler, Collegiate Empowerment

From the spelling of her nickname, Alix has always been an iconoclast. A native Manhattanite (in other words a unicorn), she’s been performing since age three. Fluent in French, she went to Pomona College to see what the fabled West Coast was like. While she loved the sunshine, she missed seasons and came back East. What Alix is most passionate about is showing others, both by example and more deliberately, that they don’t have to be stuck in the boxes to which they’ve been assigned. As an actress, she has played such “forbidden” roles as Hamlet and Iago. As an edutainer, she inspires students to go after their own dreams, even if they have to break down some walls along the way. She also loves traveling and meeting new people and learning from their experiences – especially when they’re different from her own. In addition to her work on stage as an educational performer, Alix is also a content developer with Collegiate Empowerment’s sexual assault education project, The Zero Shades® Trilogy.