2012 Conference Speakers – Florida

The DivaGirl Conference will be a full day experience full of flirty fitness, fun & inspiration! We are so excited to be offering the most fabulous experience possible confirming incredible speakers and amazing content!

We invite you to browse through our current speakers and session descriptions. Please stay tuned for more information as additional fabulous presenters and classes are constantly added to our schedule.

Alena Casey
Ultimately, my goal is to inspire the every day woman to achieve not only a fit, but a healthy lifestyle. As a mother of two I completely understand the challenges of incorporating fitness into the every day routine.  I sometimes find myself trying to squeeze in a 20 minute workout while my kids are eating dinner or seeing how long it takes to splash all of the water out of the tub and onto the bathroom floor. We all share the same struggle, finding the time.  I started when I was fifteen.  Simple gym sessions of a treadmill run, light weights and aerobics were my weekly routine.  When I was introduced to the vast world of fitness training and all that it encompassed is when I changed. I started understaning the connection betwen daily life struggles, food consumption and exercise.  I realized that after a session at the gym, regardless of what I did, I felt sexy!  I love showing how personal fitness not only improves your life, but improves how you feel about your life.   I have been training for over 10 years now and everytime I step in the gym, I HAVE FUN!  Challenging myself and others for just one more rep, one more minute to finish strong is my main goal.  We are all in this together.  We are all women.    Fitness is a passion within us all.  All it takes is to realize we all can achieve it.  And you can achieve it all!

Jacqueline Giurleo

Jacqueline Giurleo is a Passionate International Speaker, Entrepreneur, Coach, Certified Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner and Event Coordinating Extraordinaire. With an unquenchable thirst for personal and business development as well as a passion for contribution Jacqueline has dedicated her life to educating, empowering, and positively impacting the lives of others.  She completes this mission through her company Jackie G Events (www.JackieGEvents.com) which is dedicated to creating unforgettable experiences designed to not only provide individuals with the content, tools, and strategies to take their lives to the next level but to also take a moment to reconnect to who it is that they truly are and what is most important to them.  All designed in a fun and supportive environment full of surprise adventures, contribution days, and hundreds of magic moments. Jackie G Events designs day and evening workshops, conferences, and specializes in weekend or destination retreats.  She has coordinated and hosted successful events including Jairek Robbins Rapid Results World Tour in throughout the US and Canada, Financially Free Fun and Fabulous Events For Women, Spirit Of Entrepreneurship Workshop, A New Beginning Workshop with Anandagiri, DivaGirl Conference Toronto and Florida, Kaddy Shack For Kids Charity Ball and more.  Jackie is active in volunteering in her community as well as speaks at private, community and corporate functions.

Laura Furtado

Laura Furtado, a successful international Dancer, Instructor, Choreographer and Presenter, is the Founder and Owner of DivaGirl (www.divagirl-inc.com). DivaGirl Inc consists of 4 divisions: DivaGirl Fitness (dance/fitness company that currently consists of 32 Licensees across Canada, Brazil & Israel), DivaGirl Entertainment (professional dance company), DivaGirl Beauty (spa/beauty division) and DivaGirl-Preneur (providing entrepreneurial seminars and networking events for women specifically in the Arts). With over 24 years of experience in the dance and fitness realms, she has made a presence across North America and Europe, including Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Ukraine and Portugal. Laura has been titled Canada’s Top Young Entrepreneur of 2010, one of Canada’s Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs of 2009, Nominee for the Arts Entrepreneur of the Year, Nominee for the Emerging Performing Artist of the Year, Lululemon Ambassador and Diva-Preneur. She is also the Co-Founder Women in Dance (www.womenindance.com), a creative showcase featuring the top female Dancers and Choreographer in Toronto; she produced the show for three years. She has recently been featured in the first edition of the Toronto CRAVE book, featuring the top 125 sassiest women entrepreneurs in the city. She sits on the committee for the National Ballet of Canada’s Young Professional Group, Turnout, and is on the Board of Directors for the Dance For Life Foundation, a non-profit organization that believes that dance can be used to bring global communities together to support and assist individuals in need. She is also an active mentor in Toronto for young entrepreneurs.

Heidi Bilonick

Heidi Bilonick is a Master Certified Life, Health, and Relationship Coach.   With an incredible background and esteemed professional positions varying from the Vice President of top level companies, Franchise Development, Company Turnaround Expert, Leadership Expert and more, her true passion lies in enhancing the lives of others.  Heidi loves educating, inspiring and motivating individuals to change the way that they think, feel, believe and act with her expert insight into human behavior has been changing lives for the past 15 years.  Her experience lies in Leadership, Self-Esteem, and Empowerment.

Loren Slocum

Loren Slocum is the Founder, CEO, and President of Lobella International, an incredible organization inspired to help women “stay true to who they are,” Loren is committed to empowering women to realize their natural gifts.  She believes, “There is absolutely no reason that women can’t have it all – it’s just a matter of staying true to who you are and consciously and creatively using the gifts and resources that are around you.”  Loren has had the honor of being featured in over 30 business magazines and various national media outlets including Woman’s World, Working Mother, Martha Stewart Baby, Parenting and more. She is also the author of No Greater Love: Being An Extraordinary Mom (October 1999: St. Martin’s Press).  For 16 years Loren served as the Staff Director for the recognized authority on the Pyschology of Leadership and Peak Performance Anthony Robbins. During this time period Loren lead and supervised a staff of up to 250 cities around the world for events ranging from 1,000 to 20,000 participants.  She is a distinguished international Personal Development Seminar Leader, Speaker, Coach, and Author. She has also had the remarkable experience of traveling the world helping people to discover who they are in their core for the past 20 years.   Most recently, Loren has facilitated over 80 six-day, comprehensive programs for Anthony Robbins in Fiji, Puerto Rico, and Europe, which emphasize the power of living in balance. In this program featuring such influencers as Wayne Dyer, Caroline Myss, and Deepak Chopra, Loren has guided people to completely balance themselves – in everything from finances to health, spirituality, and relationships.  Loren excudes the essence of enjoying being alive and truly getting all there is out of life. A thriving, successful and dedicated mother and entrepreneur, Loren stands as a model of possibility for women everywhere.  She is an example of what it means to have it all, do it all, and love it all by living her truth.

Yvonne Oswald

Yvonne Oswald is a National U.S. award winning pioneer in the field of personal growth. Voted a 2010 Woman of Influence and Inspiration by the Ministry of Government Services, Ontario, and Chair of the Board of Toronto Youth Day, she is a renowned and respected Communications Trainer and Keynote Speaker, a Certified Trainer of Hypnosis and a Master Practitioner of NLP. Nominated for the COVR Visionary award for her unique CD “Mind Magic”; her way to release negative emotions and limiting beliefs in less than a minute, she has an outstanding reputation for her exciting, innovative and interactive seminars. A British born, qualified teacher with 20+ years’ experience, Yvonne helps every audience (live, radio/television) clear issues and quantum leap their personal growth and life choices. Her best selling book, “Every Word has Power” was published by Atria/Beyond Words, who brought you The Secret.

Sarah Nephew

Sarah Nephew is a Certified Pilates Instructor, Fitness Specialist, and owner of Pilates and Fitness – Private Studio located in Melbourne, Florida. She is a regional leader in the health and fitness industry with plans of expanding her positive influence throughout Florida.  Her signature ‘Integrated Pilates and Fitness Training’ blends traditional Pilates principals and exercises with more modern personal training concepts and techniques to create tailored exercise programs benefiting everyone from the first time exerciser to the skilled athlete. She also specializes in programs for the injured, seniors, children, and pregnant women, to safely and effectively achieve desired results.  Prior to opening her private training studio in warm and sunny Florida, Sarah held positions as Fitness Specialist, Personal Trainer,  Massage Therapist, and program developer with World Class Health and Fitness in Wisconsin, as well as Pilates’ private and group instructor with Westwood Health and Fitness, and as General Manager for Seaport Health & Fitness in New York City.  A graduate of The University of Iowa with a bachelor’s degree with a focus on Dance and Physical Education , and additional Summer course work at Duke University, Sarah has earned Personal Fitness Certifications from National Council of Strength & Fitness, American Muscle & Fitness, and Fitness Together. She completed an intensive 1000 hour PilatesTraining Certification from the Pilates Studio of Los Angeles (Florida division) and has earned Pilates Certification from the Pilates Method Alliance.  Sarah is in the process of developing a teaching curriculum for her Integrated Pilates and Fitness Training methodology to spread its benefits far and wide.

Nancy Matthews

An International Speaker, Author, Business Advisor and Talk Show Host, Nancy combines her 25+ years of business savvy and ingenuity with an intuitive understanding of people to deliver engaging and entertaining content that provides practical solutions to today’s life and business challenges.  Whether she’s delivering keynote presentations to large audiences, facilitating workshops or in her exclusive one on one coaching programs, Nancy is “The Catalyst” that causes  her clients  to move forward at an accelerated pace and produce their desired results.  She has shared the stage with some of today’s leading experts on business, motivation and transformation including Jack Canfield, John Maxwell, Bob Burg, Loral Langemeier and many others. She is known as the “Visionary with Guts” for her willingness to  blaze through challenges and obstacles and to turn adversity into advantage and empowers and equips others to do the same.   Nancy lives in South Florida with her 2 children and is the Founder of WomensProsperityNetwork.com (WPN), which provides online and offline resources within a trusted network of professionals.  For more info go to:  www.NancyMatthews.com or call (800) 928-6928.   Nancy@NancyMatthews.com

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