Andrew Lazar is an Academy Award–nominated producer and founder of Mad Chance Productions, a company he launched in 1995 to develop smart, compelling stories across genres and budgets. His early success included 10 Things I Hate About You, and he went on to produce American Sniper, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper, which became the highest-grossing domestic film of 2014 and earned six Academy Award nominations. Lazar’s recent work includes Clouds for Disney+, Persuasion for Netflix, and Nyad, starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster. He continues to develop high-profile projects through a first-look deal with Warner Bros., including adaptations and biographical films in collaboration with industry leaders such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Taika Waititi, Dr. Dre, and Jimmy Iovine. Across film and television, Lazar’s credits include Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Get Smart, I Love You Phillip Morris, Death to Smoochy, Space Cowboys, and the Showtime series George & Tammy. Known for his range and storytelling instincts, he has built a career shaping projects that resonate with both audiences and the industry at the highest level.

Ashley Orozco is a junior creative with a passion for graphic design, illustration, and visual storytelling. Her work reflects a strong eye for design and a thoughtful approach to how visuals communicate meaning. She currently serves as Social Media Lead for the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) creative agency, where she helps shape the agency’s digital presence through strategic, platform-driven content. Ashley is also expanding her expertise in social media strategy, integrating her creative skills with audience-focused thinking to develop content that is both engaging and purposeful. As an emerging creative, she is building a versatile skillset that bridges design and strategy in today’s evolving media landscape.

Mark Millhone is a storyteller, educator, and creativity evangelist. He currently serves as Integrated Media Program Director at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media and Director of the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) Creative Agency, where he mentors emerging creatives while building a next-generation model for agency-based creative education. As producer and host of the EPIC Impact Society and Strategic Play podcasts, Mark curates conversations with creative leaders across education, leadership, brand strategy, emerging technology, and the arts.

Gene Lim is a business and creative leader with nearly 25 years of experience spanning business development, marketing, branding, storytelling, and strategic partnerships. He is the Founder and CEO of MAV12, a creative agency working across corporate and entertainment sectors to build brands and businesses through strategy, film, television, digital media, and influencer-driven campaigns. His work integrates emerging technologies, including proprietary algorithms and green screen innovation, to create impactful, scalable content solutions. Gene has collaborated with leading Fortune 500 and global entertainment brands, including Disney, DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox, Sony, Universal Pictures, Paramount, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, AT&T, SAP, and Microsoft.

On the philanthropic side, Gene has played a global leadership role with the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), serving as Global Chairman of the Strategic Alliances Committee. In this capacity, he has helped raise millions of dollars and build partnerships with organizations including the United Nations, G20, NYSE, and the White House. He also helped launch NYSE Big Startup, connecting global business leaders with high-growth entrepreneurs, and represents the U.S. as part of the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance (YEA), supporting entrepreneurship and economic development worldwide.

Mallard Tieder is a graphic designer focused on brand and marketing design, with a passion for creating visual identities that authentically reflect the stories they represent. His work is grounded in a lifelong commitment to art and storytelling, shaped by early experiences in drawing, painting, and the responsibility of designing work that holds meaning and memory. Mallard currently serves as the Graphic Design Lead for the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) creative agency at Colorado Mountain College, where he develops brand systems and campaign visuals that support real-world clients and community partners. He has also gained industry experience through an internship with Backbone Media, further strengthening his skills in strategic design and professional creative workflows.

As an emerging designer, Mallard is dedicated to building thoughtful, effective brand identities that communicate clearly, resonate deeply, and connect with audiences in meaningful ways.

Mark Millhone is a storyteller, educator, and creativity evangelist. He currently serves as Integrated Media Program Director at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media and Director of the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) Creative Agency, where he mentors emerging creatives while building a next-generation model for agency-based creative education. As producer and host of the EPIC Impact Society and Strategic Play podcasts, Mark curates conversations with creative leaders across education, leadership, brand strategy, emerging technology, and the arts.

https://iworks.agency/
https://coloradomtn.edu/programs/integrated-media/
https://mav12.com/
https://www.epicimpactsociety.org/podcast

Brett Morgen is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker whose work as a writer, director, producer, and editor has helped redefine documentary cinema. Widely regarded as one of the most influential nonfiction filmmakers of the past 25 years, he is known for bold formal experimentation and immersive, music-driven storytelling—with The Wall Street Journal calling him “the greatest revolutionary of American documentary film.” His most recent film, Moonage Daydream, a David Bowie IMAX experience, has been hailed as one of the greatest music documentaries ever made and marked a major evolution in the form. Distributed by Universal Pictures, it became the highest-grossing documentary of the past decade and the first nonfiction film in over 50 years to receive Academy recognition for Sound. Morgen’s previous work includes Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck and Jane, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing. Across his last three films, he has received 12 Primetime Emmy nominations. Additional credits include Crossfire Hurricane, ESPN’s 30 for 30: June 17, 1994_, and The Kid Stays in the Picture, widely regarded as one of the greatest films about Hollywood. He began his career at NYU, where his thesis film On the Ropes earned an Academy Award nomination. Morgen is the only filmmaker to receive all four major guild honors as an individual artist: the DGA, WGA, PGA, and ACE Eddie Awards, along with recognition for excellence in sound editing.

John Felix Shaw is a photographer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary creative working at the intersection of visual media and experiential design. His work spans commercial and documentary media, live event production, and immersive installations exploring themes of consciousness, perception, and human connection. He is currently a student in the Integrated Media program at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media, where he is developing a portfolio that blends storytelling, creative technology, and experiential media.

Mark Millhone is a storyteller, educator, and creativity evangelist. He currently serves as Integrated Media Program Director at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media and Director of the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) Creative Agency, where he mentors emerging creatives while building a next-generation model for agency-based creative education. As producer and host of the EPIC Impact Society and Strategic Play podcasts, Mark curates conversations with creative leaders across education, leadership, brand strategy, emerging technology, and the arts. 

Joe Rosenberg has built a career spanning both the entertainment industry and academia. With more than 25 years of experience, he began as an agent at Creative Artists Agency, gaining a comprehensive view of the global entertainment business. He represented acclaimed directors including Ridley and Tony Scott, David Fincher, and Michael Bay. Rosenberg later transitioned into education, serving as Director of Professional Programs at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television while teaching in the MFA Producers Program. He has lectured at leading institutions including NYU Tisch, Columbia University, and UNC School of the Arts. He currently serves as Director of Industry Relations and Artistic Associate Professor at Dodge College of Film & Media Arts, Chapman University.

Katie Bottinelli is dedicated to helping people explore their professional identity within arts and entertainment. She serves as Manager of Career Development & Industry Relations at Chapman’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, supporting over 1,500 students while building alumni and employer partnerships. With over five years in higher education advising and an M.S. in Counseling, she brings a thoughtful, student-centered approach to guiding career pathways.

Marco Beltran is a photographer drawn to capturing bold, compelling images that tell a story—moments that feel alive, expressive, and full of meaning. His work focuses on finding the emotion, energy, and narrative within a frame, using photography as a way to connect people to an experience or feeling. He is currently a student at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media, where he is developing his creative voice and building a body of work that reflects both curiosity and a passion for visual storytelling.

Mark Millhone is a storyteller, educator, and creativity evangelist. He currently serves as Integrated Media Program Director at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media and Director of the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) Creative Agency, where he mentors emerging creatives while building a next-generation model for agency-based creative education. As producer and host of the EPIC Impact Society and Strategic Play podcasts, Mark curates conversations with creative leaders across education, leadership, brand strategy, emerging technology, and the arts.

https://iworks.agency/

https://coloradomtn.edu/programs/isaacson-school/

https://www.epicimpactsociety.org/podcast

Jeremy Barber is a Partner in the Motion Picture Literary and Talent Departments at United Talent Agency (UTA). Prior to UTA, Barber was President of Catch 23 and Catch 23 UK, the production and management company which he helped found. During his tenure, Barber executive produced One Hour Photo and King's Ransom. Barber was also head of Production and Acquisitions at Artisan Entertainment where he oversaw films such as Requiem for a Dream, The Blair Witch Project, and Buena Vista Social Club. Barber began his entertainment career as an attorney at Loeb & Loeb (after working for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, clerking on the Ninth Circuit, and working in the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Columbia). Prior to Hollywood, Barber had a career in politics, where he worked on the Dukakis/Bentsen Campaign, for Senator Chuck Schumer, Senator Herb Kohl, and on Bill Clinton’s Chicago Convention. Barber serves on: the Georgetown University Law School Board of Visitors, the Telluride Film Festival’s Esteemed Council of Advisors, the board of The People Concern, UTA’s Advisory Council and Leadership Council, Campbell Hall’s Advancement Committee, and served as Chairman of the Board of the UCLA Lab School - where he now maintains an emeritus position. Jeremy holds a law degree from Georgetown University and an MA and BA from Cambridge University and is a graduate of The Harvard Divinity School. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Conor Tomlin, originally from Delaware, moved to Colorado to pursue his passion for narrative filmmaking. A creative student at Colorado Mountain College, he is driven by a deep love for visual storytelling and a commitment to crafting emotionally grounded, compelling narratives. Conor is currently directing Future Proof, a documentary following the iWorks team’s journey through Los Angeles, and is developing a narrative short film, Lonestar, a dramatic Western. As an emerging filmmaker, he is focused on developing his voice while exploring how visual media can create shared experiences and meaningful human connection in an evolving media landscape.

Mark Millhone is a storyteller, educator, and creativity evangelist. He currently serves as Integrated Media Program Director at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media and Director of the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) Creative Agency, where he mentors emerging creatives while building a next-generation model for agency-based creative education. As producer and host of the EPIC Impact Society and Strategic Play podcasts, Mark curates conversations with creative leaders across education, leadership, brand strategy, emerging technology, and the arts. 

Steven Amato is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Contend, a trailblazing innovation studio with offices in the U.S. and Canada that is reshaping content creation and giving it an end game. Amato is an innovator in the worlds of marketing, advertising, and entertainment. Under his leadership, Contend has attracted leading global brands—including Amazon, Ticketmaster, Microsoft, Netflix, NFL, Meta, Bud Light, Warner Brothers, Disney, and Verizon—pushing the boundaries of storytelling, technology, and entertainment through innovative campaigns and immersive experiences that drive culture and consumer engagement. With a constant eye on the future, he has founded and invested in emerging technologies including Apex (a virtual smart stage), HoT (a mobile fitness game), and Corto, a proprietary audience intelligence and AI company. Prior to founding Contend, Amato served as President & Chief Content Officer of Omelet, the award-winning agency he co-founded in 2004, and as a Creative Leader at TBWA\Chiat\Day. He has worked with major brands including Wal-Mart, AT&T, Facebook, PlayStation, Lexus, Samsung, Harley-Davidson, the Academy Awards, DirecTV, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An innovative storyteller and thought leader, Amato has consulted with the Obama White House, is a frequent speaker and moderator at global conferences, and continues to create as a writer and producer of original long- and short-form content.

Mallard Tieder is a graphic designer focused on brand and marketing design, with a passion for creating visual identities that authentically reflect the stories they represent. His work is grounded in a lifelong commitment to art and storytelling, shaped by early experiences in drawing, painting, and leading the design and production of his K–12 charter school yearbook—an experience that reinforced his attention to detail and the responsibility of designing work that holds meaning and memory. Mallard currently serves as the Graphic Design Lead for the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) creative agency at Colorado Mountain College, where he develops brand systems and campaign visuals that support real-world clients and community partners. He has also gained industry experience through an internship with Backbone Media, further strengthening his skills in strategic design and professional creative workflows. As an emerging designer, Mallard is dedicated to building thoughtful, effective brand identities that communicate clearly, resonate deeply, and connect with audiences in meaningful ways.

Mark Millhone is a storyteller, educator, and creativity evangelist. He currently serves as Integrated Media Program Director at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media and Director of the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) Creative Agency, where he mentors emerging creatives while building a next-generation model for agency-based creative education. As producer and host of the EPIC Impact Society and Strategic Play podcasts, Mark curates conversations with creative leaders across education, leadership, brand strategy, emerging technology, and the arts. 

Emmy winner and Academy Award & Golden Globe nominee, Bill Gerber, has spent over 30 years in the film business in several positions including President of Production at Warner Brothers Pictures. As an executive, he has had a hand in dozens of movies including: LA Confidential, JFK, Heat, You've Got Mail, Twister, The Perfect Storm, Three Kings, and the Harry Potter series. Bill established Gerber Pictures with a long-standing first-look deal with Warner Bros. He has since produced such films as A Star Is Born, Gran Torino, A Very Long Engagement,  Grudge Match, and Moonage Daydream. In 2019, Bill was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for A Star Is Born, which he also received a Golden Globe nomination for. Bill also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for A Very Long Engagement in 2005. In 2002, he was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Made for Television Movie for James Dean which James Franco received a Golden Globe for Best Actor in the title role. In 2020, Bill received a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Long Documentary for the HBO documentary series, What's My Name | Muhammed Ali. His most recent documentary with HBO, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, premiered in August 2024. Before joining Warner Brothers, Bill was a partner at Lookout Management, a premier music management company that has over the years represented such classic rock artists as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty, The Cars and Devo. Along with Elliot Roberts, Bill co-managed The Cars, Devo, Heaven 17, ABC, Scritti Politti and Paul Reubens. For the last 30 years Bill has served as an advisor for several companies including AOL, Authentic Brands Group, Lennar Homes, and Udio.

Conor Tomlin, originally from Delaware, moved to Colorado to pursue his passion for narrative filmmaking. A creative student at Colorado Mountain College, he is driven by a deep love for visual storytelling and a commitment to crafting emotionally grounded, compelling narratives. Conor is currently directing Future Proof, a documentary following the iWorks team’s journey through Los Angeles, and is developing a narrative short film, Lonestar, a dramatic Western. As an emerging filmmaker, he is focused on developing his voice while exploring how visual media can create shared experiences and meaningful human connection in an evolving media landscape.

Mark Millhone is a storyteller, educator, and creativity evangelist. He currently serves as Integrated Media Program Director at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media and Director of the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) Creative Agency, where he mentors emerging creatives while building a next-generation model for agency-based creative education. As producer and host of the EPIC Impact Society and Strategic Play podcasts, Mark curates conversations with creative leaders across education, leadership, brand strategy, emerging technology, and the arts. 

Dr. Steve Ralph is a faculty member at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, where he teaches creativity and innovation, leadership, and team dynamics. His research focuses on creativity, leadership development, personal disruption, pause practices, and the impact of exponential technologies. He is the founder and director of the EPIC International Summit, an award-winning global conference on creativity and social innovation recognized by BizBash as one of North America’s most innovative meetings. Dr. Ralph also consults with organizations worldwide, leading workshops and retreats on creative problem solving, innovation culture, and leadership. 

John Felix Shaw is a photographer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary creative working at the intersection of visual media and experiential design. His work spans commercial and documentary media, live event production, and immersive installations exploring themes of consciousness, perception, and human connection. He is currently a student in the Integrated Media program at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media, where he is developing a portfolio that blends storytelling, creative technology, and experiential media.

Mark Millhone is a storyteller, educator, and creativity evangelist. He currently serves as Integrated Media Program Director at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media and Director of the Isaacson Works (“iWorks”) Creative Agency, where he mentors emerging creatives while building a next-generation model for agency-based creative education. As producer and host of the EPIC Impact Society and Strategic Play podcasts, Mark curates conversations with creative leaders across education, leadership, brand strategy, emerging technology, and the arts. 

With more than 20 years in Business Development and Capture, Paul has a knack for engineering engagement that builds emotional investment in stakeholders driving impact, enrollment, and funding. Paul’s recent 10.5-year mission at NASA/JPL began with capturing nearly $200M in mission funding his first 2 years, co-leading JPL’s Proposal Shop, becoming Sr Staff to the Formulation Office and in the end, helped capture billions of dollars for NASA/JPL.

Paul's knack for “communicating complexity” and the “right kind of crazy” led to him establishing NASA’s first “story accelerator”: StoryLab. As Founder and Chief Story Architect of this strategic communications shop, StoryLab leverages the power of storytelling and narrative thinking to amplify JPL's impact on humanity.

He has successfully executed large scale ecosystem campaigns ranging from billion-dollar science missions like Mars Sample Return to unveiling the habitability of Venus to finding the biosignatures of life on other worlds. These campaigns involved creating and leading a strategic communications plan including executive, crisis, and internal communications, managing multi-stakeholder interests, and building emotional investment that drives impact, enrollment, and funding.

Paul has consulted or spoke on capture strategy and the power of a kindred quest through a shared story with NASA HQ and other NASA centers, the UNDP, Boston Consulting Group, Google X Moonshot Factory, Caltech, Pepperdine, CSUN, ASU, CalArts, Art Center, SXSW, C2 Montreal, California Science Center, Exploratorium, and several other Institutions across the globe.

Global Day of Unplugging® (GDU) is an annual awareness campaign, celebrated the first weekend in March. Visit www.globaldayofunplugging.org to learn more.  Unplugged Collective was the recipient of the 2024 EPIC Impact Award.  

Kim Anenberg Cavallo, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, Unplug Collaborative. 

With 25 years experience raising money for nonprofit organizations, event planning and building community, Kim has been passionately focused on the intersection of social impact and digital wellbeing since she founded lilspace in 2016 — where the Unplug for a Cause® concept was born. Now a part of the nonprofit organization behind Global Day of Unplugging, Unplug for a Cause® is a feature of the resource center that provides support for people to spend their time being of service, gathering in person, and generally prioritizing social wellness and healthy tech habits. Kim has served on multiple nonprofit boards, and is the co-founder of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival which will celebrate its 20 year anniversary in 2026. Kim is also currently on the Board for Sound Mind Live and is the COO at Done Deal Management.

Claudia Erickson (BSW, MPH), Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, Unplug Collaborative. 

Claudia is a Digital Wellness expert, community strategist, dedicated to restoring authentic human connection. As the Co-Executive Director of the Unplug Collaborative as well as Public Health Advisor to the Ethan Dallas Hopeful Hearts Foundation, she is at the forefront of the global movement to help others reclaim their offline lives. Claudia’s work is rooted in the philosophy that it takes a village to navigate today’s digital landscape. Drawing on a 30-year foundation in Social Work and Public Health, she spearheads strategic planning and global partnerships to build the support systems that make unplugging possible. She advocates that digital wellness is rarely a solo journey, but rather a collective effort fueled by shared accountability and community-driven infrastructure. Aside from speaking engagements, Claudia can be found leading hands-on activities and community-driven events designed to give people the tools and social permission to step away from their screens together.

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Gillis first garnered attention for his drama short film Hold Me Down, which depicted a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother and sex worker in The Bronx, New York, where Gillis lived for 11 years. The film was based on true events and featured a cast consisting entirely of real life survivors of sexual exploitation and domestic abuse. Through a partnership with the NGO, Project Rousseau, the women involved were able to escape the clutches of prostitution, gain access to safe housing and higher education. Hold Me Down received universal praise by critics, including CNN, and won the award for Best Short Film at the Harlem International Film Festival.

His fashion film for Native Son was compared to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema by New York Magazine, and he has been championed as “the premiere talent to watch” by Nike. He is currently represented by XYZ Films in the US.

 For most of the 90’s Dorte Nielsen worked in advertising in London. Her creative work won her recognition at the Cannes International Advertising Festival, D&AD, the British Television Awards, Epica, London International Advertising Awards, Campaign Poster Awards among others.

 Since moving back to Denmark, Dorte Nielsen has been teaching and researching creative thinking at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, where she founded the Creative Communication education, a bachelor degree programme for art directors and conceptual thinkers. Under her leadership Creative Communication became one of the most award-winning advertising bachelor programmes in the world.

 After her success training creativity at university level, Dorte Nielsen took her uniquely effective creativity curriculum to primary schools. Dorte Nielsen is the author of eight books and numerous articles on creativity and creative thinking.

 Dorte Nielsen is the founder of FourSight Denmark and holds the position of Chairman of Creative Circle, the Danish society for the creative industries, which holds the biggest creative award show in Scandinavia, celebrating creative excellence.

Recognizing that marketing often lacked rigor and specificity, Meshach created science-based frameworks to illuminate a repeatable path to success. Harnessing the irrational yet predictable science of human behavior, his unique, evidence-based approaches create humane experiences that nurture deeper engagement and enduring affinity—driving sustainable growth for social impact organizations, startups, and Fortune 200s.

His mentorship on growth mindset and the science of behavior change has also driven positive company culture change for both fledgling startups and global enterprise businesses.

Harry lives in the Netherlands with his wife and has three adult children. He started his professional career as a teacher. He taught English at a Business School for seven years and in that period he wrote A Basis for Business, an English textbook for business students. After that he worked as director of various educational departments for 15 years. 

After he was invited to take a certification course in Six Hats in Dublin in 2004 he got hooked on creativity. A year later he went back to get certified in Lateral Thinking (Dublin 2005). Harry became an expert in De Bono techniques and in 2012 he was appointed de Bono Master Trainer in Six Hats. Until 2019 he was director of the De Bono Center of Expertise. This was the center for creativity and innovation at King William I College / School for the Future.

He is also a FourSight Certified Facilitator (2017) and LEGO Serious Play Facilitator (2017) and next to that he has been trained and certified in various other thinking techniques and approaches like Creative Problem Solving, Design Thinking, Scenario thinking, Polarity Thinking, Time Management and Memory training which he incorporates in his daily (working) life and which he uses when facilitating groups both in business and education. 

He graduated from Radboud University in Applied Linguistics and, since 2004, he has trained and facilitated thousands of people in the field of creative and critical thinking at national and international conferences and at companies and schools in the Netherlands, Belgium, the USA, Canada, Ireland and Italy.

In his new position Harry is now very much inspired by the so-called 5P model. The 5P model is based on the work of Mel Rhodes (Person, Process, Press, Product)  and Bob Eckert (Policy) and is used as a framework for innovation in his school.

From 1994 to 2014, Mr. Farber worked in the Sports and Entertainment Industry. After short stints with a top talent agency and a film company based at Sony Pictures, Mr. Farber became a go-to attorney and crisis management expert for athletes, entertainers, and high-profile entrepreneurs. As an attorney, he represented Amaru Entertainment (the Estate of Tupac Shakur) for more than 18 years, as well as dozens of professional athletes and highly visible businesspeople. His clients included first-round draft picks, all-Pro NFL Players, Andre Ward (Olympic Gold Medalist and undefeated boxer), the founder of MySpace, and Charles Yim, (founder of Breathometer, the most successful company to come out of Shark Tank). Mr. Farber is an AV Rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbel and has been named a SuperLawyer by Law and Politics Magazine over 8 times.

In 2020, Eric published The Case for Culture, How to Stop Being a Slave to Your Law Firm, Grow Your Practice and Actually Be Happy. The Case for Culture, quickly hit #1 Bestseller on Amazon and was named by Forbes as a top 8 book to “rethink work relationships”.

In 2021 he launched Creators Legal, the online DIY legal platform for Creators. Creators Legal is the first and only legal platform build just for content creators.

He grew up in Toronto, Canada and Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Farber has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Arizona State University and a J.D from Golden Gate Law School. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife Diana and their dog Auggie.

ReFOCUS has certified hundreds of asylum seekers in media skills and assists them in securing employment as freelance creators. In 2019 ReFOCUS premiered their first feature documentary “Even After Death”, which chronicled deaths at sea and the struggle of identifying the missing. In the face of extreme challenges in 2020 well-beyond Covid, ReFOCUS felt compelled to launch a citizen journalism program to report on the structural violence being faced every day, fueling their 2nd feature documentary “Trapped in the Playground”, premiering Fall 2021. ReFOCUS continues to shed light on the ongoing human rights abuses faced every day along the borders of Europe.

As an Armenian-American raised in Santa Barbara, California, Dalida grew up in a contrast between deep heritage and the seaside Californian lifestyle.  Her experiences led her to value the power of culture, stories, and the natural world in how it shapes our lives, which can be heard in her sound. As a classically-trained pianist, she performed with orchestras at age 13 and 17, and continued to privately study piano with Walter Ponce, distinguished faculty, at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.  Her music is inspired by what happens in her life, such as a hopeful dream, a loving conversation, a difficult argument, or a heartbreaking loss.  She doesn’t follow any rules on the piano; there are no limits, because her goal is to simply be honest, to connect, and to comfort.

With the help of her mentor Jane Semel, she launched the Mindful Music Program, which became a part of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior. For over half a decade (Pre-COVID, of course) the program hosted regular concerts for health professionals, patients, and scientists. During COVID-19 she brought the Mindful Music Program to the virtual space via YouTube garnering thousands of views per video concert episode.  Her work has been featured on HuffPost, TedX UCLA, International Arts & Health Conference in the UK, as well as Southern California newspapers.

She brought the Mindful Music Program to a place it can exist and thrive without her leadership.  She now takes on creative projects by day at Oniracom in the marketing and business strategy space (to keep a roof over her head) while continuing her musical journey.  She received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Public Health from UCLA. She went on to earn a Certificate in Leadership and Management from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Executive Program.

Jeffery founded Cranberry Mgmt whose motto is to "hustle with kindness" because they  believe it never costs you anything to be nice.

Cranberry Mgmt represents Echosmith who have built a global career with triple platinum hit “Cool Kids” & double platinum hit “Bright” with their debut album going platinum. Other hits include the Over My Head and their new album "Lonely Generation" which is an amazing commentary on the effect of social media on all of us. To Date the band has well over a billion streams on their music.

Cranberry Records is a boutique label w/ homes @ Warner/Ada & Sony/Red. Their first signing is Audien. His second single “Favorite Sound” hit the top 10 on billboard’s dance charts.

Jeffery has had over 350 syncs (Monday Night Football, MTV, VH1) and has also written for TV shows, including The Voice, Glee, American Idol, The Biggest Loser and ESPN. Additionally, David scored 12 worldwide commercials for brands including Guess, Southwest Airlines and Lamborghini.

She lives and plays with her family near Whistler, Canada.

Coonoor has helped Deloitte create, prototype, and launch an in-house design thinking consulting arm; be a part of a “stealth” team of design strategists and researchers guiding numerous teams at Starbucks; trained more than 100 people at Bethpage Federal Credit Union in design thinking; helped the Department of State and the Pentagon use improv to be more creative and collaborative thinkers; and has helped the Inter-American Development Bank’s Gender & Diversity Division generate and come to consensus on their strategic vision.

Coonoor is also the author of I Quit! The Life-Affirming Joy of Giving Up, which will be published by New Degree Press in April 2021. The book seeks to help readers rethink and reframe quitting by sharing stories from everyday people who summoned the courage to quit things in their lives.

Coonoor has been an improv comedy performer for over 10 years, is an avid fan of professional tennis, and dotes on Nikka, her Bernese Mountain Dog.