Valerie Holden is a confidence coach, speaker, and former law enforcement professional who helps female entrepreneurs overcome fear, anxiety, and self-doubt so they can confidently show up, speak up, and grow their businesses.

Through her From Anxiety to Authority framework, Valerie teaches practical strategies that help women regulate stress, build confidence, and take meaningful action in sales conversations, networking events, presentations, videos, and other high-stakes business situations.

Drawing from more than 20 years in law enforcement and her extensive experience helping clients navigate personal and professional challenges, Valerie helps women move from overthinking and avoidance to clarity, courage, and confidence.

• Fear
• Anxiety
• Calming techniques
• Hypnosis
• Overthinking things
• Zones
  • Green Zone
  • Yellow Zone
  • Red Zone
• Noticing Thoughts…
• Breathing Techniques
• Fear of speaking up
• Fear of failure and success
• Fear of AI
• Sound healing

• Website
• LinkedIn

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Nick Jonsson is widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on Executive Loneliness. His pioneering work has earned him a dedicated Executive Loneliness Wikipedia page and international recognition, establishing him as one of the world’s most respected voices on leadership, vulnerability, mental wellbeing, and authentic connection.

Ranked #28 in the world among the Global Gurus Top 30 Coaching Professionals, Nick is a TEDx speaker, international bestselling author of Executive Loneliness, Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Certified Master Coach (CMC), qualified Counsellor and Psychotherapist, and a certified Team Psychological Safety practitioner.

After more than two decades in international business leadership, Nick experienced burnout, addiction, and profound loneliness while leading from the top. His recovery transformed both his life and his purpose. Today, everything he teaches is grounded in lived experience as well as professional expertise.

Nick works globally with leaders, teams, and organizations through keynote speaking, executive coaching, counselling and psychotherapy, leadership facilitation, and Team Psychological Safety training. He is also a top 2% Ironman triathlete, founder of a men’s support group, suicide prevention volunteer, and host of The Limitless Podcast, featuring conversations with leaders and changemakers from around the world.

His mission is to empower people to build a limitless life through vulnerability and holistic wellbeing.

• Executive Loneliness
• Asking for help
• Rock Bottom
• Talking to others
• Physical training
• Relationships
• Honest converesations
• Relationships replaced alcohol
• Share how you feel
• Fear
• Don’t overshare

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Book
• Podcast

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Ekaterina Gorbacheva is Global Expansion Director at Udora, a fast-growing gifting platform operating across 50+ countries and 1,500+ cities. She leads international growth through an experiment-driven approach, combining real-time localization data, customer insight, and cross-cultural product thinking to build systems that scale without adding headcount.

Under her leadership, Udora has delivered 123% YoY order growth and 129% GMV growth. She manages CRM, content, partnerships, and optimisation teams across 10 time zones, and has secured strategic partnerships with 10+ UAE banks and fintech companies, with expansion now active in Brazil and Spain.

Before Udora, she co-founded Spare Leash as CPO, launched a fully functional MVP in two months, expanded into the Chinese market during COVID, doubled the user base in six weeks, and automated all operations to keep the business running at full capacity without her direct involvement.

• Background
• Localization
• Digital Behavoir
• Culture and expanding globally
• AI’s role
• AI Training for all teams
• Give yourself a Deadline
• Accountability
• Go for it.

• LinkedIn
• Website

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Rob Snyder is a serial startup founder and a fellow at Harvard Innovation Labs. He graduated from Harvard Business School and previously worked at McKinsey & Company. He is also an entrepreneur-in-residence and venture partner for early-stage venture capital funds. Snyder lives with his wife and daughter in New Hampshire.

• Rob’s background
• Entrepreneurship is hard
• PULL Framework
  • P = Problem (the customer has a real problem or project they need to accomplish)
  • U = Unavoidable (they can’t simply ignore it or postpone it indefinitely)
  • L = Limitations (existing solutions have meaningful shortcomings)
  • L = Looking (the customer is actively looking for a better solution)
• Painpoints and Problems
• Start-up Journey
• What is real demand?
• Demand exsist out there… you just have to find it
• What to do if your product isn’t gaining traction?
• Bottom-up Model
• Guide to staying sane as a founder
• Serve people that are stuck

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Book

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Craig Taylor is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2001 and a 30-year veteran of cybersecurity. In 2014, he co-founded CyberHoot, a cybersecurity awareness training company built on a simple but powerful premise: people learn better through positive reinforcement than through fear. CyberHoot serves more than 350 MSP partners, 100 direct customers, and over 100,000 end users worldwide. Craig also leads a cybersecurity consultancy that has delivered virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) services to more than 50 companies across a wide range of industries and sizes.

Throughout his career, Craig has led cybersecurity organizations at the intersection of high stakes and high complexity. He built and led security teams in web hosting at CSC, financial services at JP Morgan Chase, and manufacturing at Vistaprint, each environment demanding a different approach to culture, risk tolerance, and human behavior. Those experiences taught him that the hardest cybersecurity problems are rarely technical. They are organizational. Getting people to change behavior, make better decisions under pressure, and take ownership of their role in security requires the same skills as any leadership challenge: trust, clear communication, and a culture where doing the right thing is rewarded rather than punished. That insight is the foundation CyberHoot was built on.

Beyond the business, Craig brings a lifelong commitment to service and personal development. He is a Toastmaster, a Rotarian in Portsmouth, NH, and a 12-year Pan-Mass Challenge rider who has raised more than $150,000 for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, covering 192 miles every August in support of cancer research.

• Background
• Cyber Security
• Security Awareness Training
• Cyber Awareness based on psychology
• How is AI affecting this?
• 20% off for Podcast Referral code “AGEEKLEADER”
• Rewards and incentives
• Eliminate the Deception based cyber training
• AI Slop
• Mythos
• Retention Policy
• New Risks… Zero Days

• LinkedIn
• Website

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Uma Subramanian founded Limitless Leaders to help mid-career tech professionals become confident leaders who inspire trust, build influence, and drive meaningful impact in their careers. With over two decades of experience in the tech industry, including a 20-year tenure at Microsoft, she understands the challenges of stepping into leadership roles, gaining recognition, and thriving in today’s fast-paced workplace.

Uma is on a mission to build a community of empowered, sought-after leaders in tech. Her coaching programs provide the mindset, tools, and strategies needed to lead authentically, think strategically, and achieve measurable success—without sacrificing personal well-being. By blending practical strategies with actionable insights, she helps professionals grow into impactful leaders who inspire teams and deliver results. Her expertise spans communication, emotional intelligence, and strategic leadership, enabling her clients to lead with clarity and purpose.

Uma brings deep expertise through certifications in Executive Coaching, DISC Behavioral Analysis, and the Corporate Facilitator Program from Maxwell Leadership. She has also completed advanced training in Positive Psychology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and Coaching for Leaders through Seattle Coach.

Outside of work, Uma is a proud mom of two teenagers and a beloved dog. She enjoys exploring personal development books, traveling to new destinations, and dancing to the vibrant beats of Bollywood music. Uma is deeply committed to balancing a fulfilling career with family life and inspiring others to live with purpose and intention.

• Time at Microsoft
• Individual contributor to Manager
• Work on yourself first
• Leadership
• Coaching
• Perception Gap
• Hardwork isn’t enough
• SOAR Framework
  • Strategic Impact
  • Outstanding Communication and Influence
  • Authroity and Personal Brand
  • Relationship
• The Value you bring vs. the Value others see
• Communicate the Value
• Evaluate the Value

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Book

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Chris Miller is the Founder and CEO of One Atlanta Tax Solutions, a firm dedicated to delivering advanced tax strategies for accredited investors, business owners, and high-income professionals.

A Certified Tax and Business Advisor (CTBA) with over 16 years of experience, Chris has focused his career on entrepreneurship and tax mitigation—helping clients legally reduce tax exposure while improving overall capital efficiency.

Chris built One Atlanta Tax Solutions to address a structural gap in traditional tax planning, where most advisors focus on reactive strategy rather than proactive strategy. Under his leadership, the firm specializes in institutional-grade solutions designed to reduce tax liability and optimize capital deployment, including leveraged charitable structures, alternative investment strategies, and advanced tax mitigation frameworks.

He works closely with a national network of CPAs, financial advisors, and strategic partners to source, structure, and implement high-impact opportunities. His approach is centered on preserving client capital and repositioning it for more efficient long-term outcomes.

Chris remains actively involved in client strategy, partner development, and firm growth, and has positioned One Atlanta Tax Solutions as a resource for individuals seeking solutions beyond conventional tax planning.

• Background
• Tax savings
• Big Beautiful Bill
• Taxes
• Bonus
• Planning ahead
• Exit Strategies
• W2 strategies
• 1 year of planning for FREE! (mention you heard about it on A Geek Leader)
• AI

• LinkedIn
• Website

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Chris’s passion is helping entrepreneurs achieve their vision by enabling them to get more of what they want from their businesses.

He does this by transforming the traditional business mindset into a more disciplined, execution-focused, military-inspired approach. Having spent nine years in military and civilian law enforcement roles—leading others at a young age—he draws on the best of his leadership training and real-world experience across both military and business environments.

He is currently authoring his first book, The Business Sergeant’s Field Manual: Military-Grade Business Execution Without All the Yelling and Push-Ups. In it, he outlines a practical framework for building high-performance teams that “re-enlist” every quarter by embracing a structured leadership style and implementing a simple, proven business operating system that keeps all aspects of the organization aligned.

At the core of his approach is EOS® (the Entrepreneurial Operating System), created by Gino Wickman. He considers EOS the “silver bullet” for business execution.

EOS is a comprehensive, proven system that integrates a holistic business model with a complete set of simple tools designed to align and synchronize every part of an organization—helping businesses achieve the results they’ve always wanted.

More than 5,000 companies have used EOS to take their organizations to the next level. Through EOS, leadership teams experience:

• Vision: Ensuring everyone in the organization is 100% aligned on where the company is going and how it will get there.
• Traction: Building discipline and accountability so teams consistently execute on that vision.
• Healthy: Creating a cohesive, functional leadership team—because great organizations require leaders who truly work well together.

• Background
• Military Service
• Agentic AI
• EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System
  • Vision
    • Values
    • Mission
    • Goals
    • Rocks
    • Long-term Issues
  • People
    • right people in the right seats
  • Data
    • What are your metrics? Weekly, Monthly, Yearly
  • Issues
    • 7 Day Action Items
  • Process
  • Traction
    • Bring the vision down
• GoExpand – AI

• Business Sargent
• LinkedIn
• GoExpand

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