Title: Regional Ambassador/Doctor of Chiropractic

Phone: 859-582-1417

Email: kbranson@chiroone.net

Experience/Education: Psychology, B.S

Regional Marketing Ambassador for Georgetown, Winchester, Ashland, and Frankfort

Presentation: We have a variety of wellness related topics. The most popular are: Stress/Eat like a Pig, Look Like a Twig/Sleep/Proper Bending, Lifting and Twisting.

Audience: Wellness

Fee: NONE

Description: Contact Kari today for more information on our speakers and topics. All of our seminars are at no cost to you, supported by our Community Education program.

*Other representatives will also be available through this contact.

Title :  President/CEO kidsGROWkentucky, Inc.

Phone :  (502) 395-1513

Email :  kgk@kidsGROWkentucky.org

Experience/Education :  Social Entrepreneur and former Scoutmaster with multiple degrees including water resources and sociology and 30+ years in adventure outfitting.

Presentation :  Nature Adventures That Foster Leadership and Gumption

Audience :  Students, parents, teachers and civic leaders

Fee :  None

Description :  Our kids are too fat, spend too much time with a screen, attend schools that are not equipping them for successfully achieving their goals, are afflicted with Nature Deficit Disorder, are disengaged from ‘adult’ leaders with personal agenda. They have become living robots that struggle to find their way in a world with increasing opportunities for innovation. We have a way to fix this and revive democracy.

Title: Owner of Bourbon & Beans and The Wholesome Chef

Phone: 646-379-0861

Email: carolyn@bourbonandbeans.com

Experience/Education: B.S. Social Enterprise, The New School; Chef's Training Diploma, Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts; Master's in Business Administration, Midway College (in progress)

Presentation: Teaching to cook local foods; How to organize a business around social issues, etc.

Audience: All ages

Fee: Please inquire

Description: Talents in the kitchen and the office! Kitchen: teaches clients about the connection between food, health and how to prepare local, seasonal, organic foods that are accessible to the average person. Office: helps small business clients integrate social enterprise activities into their businesses, offering strategic planning, communication design and ad and magazine layout. Strong organizational structure, marketing plans can lead to effective social change.

Title : Owner, Mary Claire O’Neal Communication Consulting, LLC

Phone : 859-272-2515

Email : maryclaireoneal@yahoo.com

Experience /Education : Author of the national award winning  GREEN book, Becoming What You Want to See in the World. Communication consultant, speaker, coach for over 15 years. President of the National Speakers Association/KY. Founder and owner of the only Green Press Initiative Publisher, River Birch Publishing, in Kentucky.

Presentation : Achieving Balance in Today’s World

Audience : Conferences, Meetings, Retreats, Associations, Nonprofits (10--2000)

Fee : Fee quotes available (depending upon time formats, size of group, non-profit, etc)

Description : Principles and six powerful tools to more easily and effectively deal with stress and overwhelm in order to achieve more balance—making one better able to meet challenges in times of change.

Title: Chair, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Eastern Kentucky University

Phone: 859-622-1889

Email: Jack.rutherford@eku.edu

Experience/Education: PhD in Exercise and Wellness Education from Arizona State Univ.

35+ years teaching in higher education

Newspaper columnist on health & fitness

More than 60 presentations to conference delegates and community groups

Presentation: Exercise and wellness topics including nutrition

Audience: All

Fee: Negotiable

Description: Written more than 800 newspaper columns in the areas of health and fitness and am willing to present on most areas.

Title: Professor, Registered Dietitian

Phone: 270-745-6943

Email: wan-ju.yen@wku.edu

Experience/Education:

Ph.D. in Nutrition from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Teach Nutrition and Dietetics at Western Kentucky University.

Presentation: Nutrition and Dietetic Education

Audience: The community; schools

Fee: None

Description:

Overview of nutrition and wellness