Thursday, September 17th -
SUNDAY, September 20th, 2020

The Wheeler Opera House
Aspen, Colorado

What :

A Transformative Community Experience by Lead With Love + The Wheeler Opera House

Join us for three exciting evenings of entertainment and inspiration at our “Be The Change” Summit at the historic Wheeler Opera House Sept 17-19, 2020.

Our favorite thing about our Lead with Love Summit in late October of 2016, 2017 and 2018 was meeting inspiring changemakers, many of whom we had never heard of before, who were changing the world for good.

This new event will highlight some of these changemakers and inspire you to “be the change” in your own life taking the things that break your heart, fill you with joy, or even illicit rage or anger, and DO SOMETHING about it!

The world needs all of us to stand up as heart-centered leaders - not just talking about change - but actually being the change.

Learn practical skills and hear heroic, heart-warming stories from those on the front lines doing extraordinary things.

Ricard Joyner

CNN Hero

The son of a sharecropper, Reverend Richard Joyner was born in Bethel. Determined not to be a farmer, Richard joined the US Army , then served in the National Guard. He attended Shaw University in Raleigh where he earned his divinity degree, accepting a higher calling.

Over twenty years ago he returned to eastern North Carolina to work at Nash General as the community chaplain. In 2001, just fifteen years ago, he became the pastor at Conetoe Missionary Baptist church, just a few miles north of his home town of Bethel. He knew that environment of farmers, many in poor health so he began serving their spiritual needs as pastor but also began to look at improving the community and lifestyles of his parishioners.

In 2005, after presiding over too many funerals in his congregation, Rev. Joyner established the Family Life Center and taught young people to plant and harvest vegetables. Today they operate 15 plots covering several acres along with greenhouses and beehives. They sell the produce to area grocery stores, at farmer’s markets and other venues including Ace Hardware and Piggly Wiggly.   The proceeds from these community gardens go into scholarships for the students.

Reverend Richard Joyner was recognized for his dedication to his community in 2014 with the Encore Purpose Prize. In 2015, CNN recognized him as a national hero for his leadership in promoting healthy living.

Tyler Stableford,

Emmy Award Winner

Emmy Award-winning director and photographer Tyler Stableford has captured the boldness of the human experience for iconic documentaries, commercials and stills campaigns. He is one of Canon’s prestigious Explorers of Light, and Men’s Journal named Tyler one of the seven “World’s Greatest Adventure Photographers.”

Tyler’s creative passion is capturing heartfelt stories. His Turning Point TV documentary featuring Reverend Richard Joyner won an Emmy Award, and he helped launch Canon’s flagship Hollywood cinema camera by writing and directing “The Calling” short film with Academy Award-winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter.

Over the past decade, Tyler has volunteered as a cinematographer and photographer for over 20 nonprofits and served as a Book Buddy in public schools. He is also a Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer for abused and neglected children in Colorado’s 9th Judicial District.

Lynne Twist

Co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance + Founder of The Soul of Money Institute

Lynne is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute, which aims to create a context of sufficiency, responsibility, and integrity for individuals and organizations in their relationship with money. She is the author of the best-selling The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life, which examines our attitudes towards money and offers compelling insight into the essence of prosperity. She has worked with over 100,000 people in 50 countries in areas including conscious philanthropy, strategic visioning, and creating a healthy relationship with money.
For more than 40 years, Lynne has been a global visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability.
As a fundraiser for The Hunger Project and cofounder of the Pachamama Alliance, Lynne has worked with some of the most resource-poor and resource-wealthy individuals in the world and has gained a profound understanding of humanity’s relationship with money. Seeing the dysfunction and suffering that is so often attached to money, Lynne is committed to bringing a new level of consciousness to the way that money impacts our life and society.
Lynne has co-presented with some of today’s most influential thought leaders, including the Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, and Deepak Chopra. She has been interviewed by The Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Oprah & Friends radio, and PBS.

Sara Vetter

Business Development Director Pachamama Alliance

Sara is the Major Gifts Officer for Pachamama Alliance, where she leads immersion trips into the Amazon rainforest to educate philanthropists, business owners, executives and entrepreneurs in the culture of the indigenous people of Ecuador.

Sara has traveled to the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), Dharmsala, Liberia and Ethiopia for a delegation in support of a worldwide campaign to end violence against women and girls as tools of war.
Sara also does speaking engagements and co-leads Fundraising workshops with Lynne Twist.

Sara Vetter is currently the Business Development Director at the Soul of Money Institute, where among other things she works closely with the Nobel Women Peace Prize Laureates in funding their work globally.

Amanda Nguyen

Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Amanda is the CEO and founder of Rise. She is a 2019 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. She penned her own civil rights into existence and unanimously passed the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights, after having to navigate the broken criminal justice system after her own rape. 19 bills protecting sexual violence survivors have been created modeled off of her federal law.

The federal law was the 21st bill in modern US history to pass unanimously on the record. Amanda has been named a Forbes 30 Under 30, by Foreign Policy as a Top 100 Leading Global Thinker, Marie Claire as a Young Woman of the Year, and The Tempest's #1 Woman of Color Trailblazer. Previously, Amanda was appointed by President Barack Obama to the United States Department of State as his Deputy White House Liaison and served at NASA. Amanda graduated from Harvard University.

Raj Sisodia

Co-Founder of Conscious Capitalism

Raj Sisodia is FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College, and Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc. He has a Ph. D. in Marketing from Columbia University. Raj is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2013) and Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Matters (2015). He was named one of “Ten Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010” by Good Business International, and one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America for 2010 and 2011. Raj received an honorary doctorate from Johnson & Wales University in 2016.

Raj has published eleven books, including Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose, which was named a top business book of 2007 by Amazon.com. His most recent book is The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World. He has consulted with numerous companies, including AT&T, Verizon, LG, DPDHL, POSCO, Kraft Foods, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Siemens, Sprint, Volvo, IBM, Walmart, McDonalds and Southern California Edison. He is on the Board of Directors at The Container Store and a trustee of Conscious Capitalism Inc.

Suzanne Sterling

CO-Founder Voice of Change + Off The Mat & INto The World

Suzanne Sterling is a dedicated musician, yogi, activist and social innovator who has been performing and teaching transformational workshops for over 20 years. She is co-founder of Off The Mat, Into the World and founder of Voice of Change which offers programs dedicated to inspiring others to find their unique voice and to use self expression as a tool for community building and conscious evolution.

Suzanne has been a featured artist/teacher at numerous festivals and conferences such as, Wanderlust, Omega, Esalen, Kripalu, Yoga Journal, Hanuman, Burning Man, Symbiosis, Ecstatic Dance, Bhaktifest, Boomfest, LIB, Earthdance (where she led the worlds largest Spiral Dance for 5000 people) and many more. She has been guest teacher in numerous Yoga Teacher Trainings and for 7 years has been part of the nationwide faculty for YogaWorks Teacher Trainings

Since 2007 she has been training leaders in spiritual activism and social justice through her co-founded organization Off The Mat, Into the World.  As director of the Seva Challenge, which raised over $4 million, she has spent time in the US, India, Cambodia, Haiti, Ecuador and Africa working in community resilience.  

For 25 years, she has worked with the International Reclaiming Community creating ritual, training teachers and offering yearlong Sacred Leadership trainings.  She has released 5 solo albums and numerous DVD soundtracks.

Dr. Neha Sangwan

CEO and founder of Intuitive Intelligence

Neha Sangwan, M.D., is an internal medicine physician, executive coach, corporate culture consultant, TEDx speaker and author who combines the science of medicine with the art of communication to address the root causes of stress and illness. Her book is TalkRx: Five Steps to Honest Conversations that Create Connection, Health and Happiness. You can learn more at doctorneha.com.

Bob Chapman

CHAIRMAN AND CEO Of BARRY-WEHMILLER

Recently named the #3 CEO in the world by inc., Bob Chapman is very intentional about using his platform as a business leader to build a better world.  

Chapman is chairman and CEO of St. Louis, MO-based Barry-Wehmiller, a $2.8b global manufacturing business with almost 12,000 team members.  The company began as a small pasteurizing and bottle washer business in 1885 and, through acquisition and organic growth, has grown into 12 business units serving primarily the packaging, paper converting, sheeting and corrugating industries. Chapman became the senior executive of this private company in 1975 at age 30 when the 80-year-old business had $20 million in revenue, outdated technology and a very weak financial position. Despite the obstacles, Chapman applied a unique blend of strategy and culture over the next 40 years in leading Barry-Wehmiller through more than 90 successful acquisitions.

Over the past two decades, a series of realizations led him away from traditional management practices to what he now calls Truly Human Leadership--a people-centric approach where his employees feel valued, cared for, and an integral part of the company’s purpose. At Barry-Wehmiller, they have a unique measure of success: by the way they touch the lives of people.  

Chapman’s experiences and the transformation he championed were the inspiration behind his WSJ bestseller everybody matters: the extraordinary power of caring for your people like family, released by Random House/portfolio in October 2015. The book is co-authored by Raj Sisodia, founder and co-author of Conscious Capitalism.

Gina Murdock

Founder of Lead with Love

Gina Murdock is an Aspen, Colo. based writer, yoga & meditation teacher, inspirational speaker & community organizer. She is founder of the Aspen Yoga Society, The Aspen City of Wellbeing, Lead with Love, The Love Ninjas and the Mind, Body, Spirit Rx content brand. Gina’s mission is to shift culture from fear to love from the inside out. All of her endeavors are intended to help people thrive and find joy and freedom in mind, body and spirit. Gina and her husband Jerry created and support the Mind, Body, Spirit Series at The Aspen Institute hosting speakers and events to raise consciousness and honor “The Aspen Idea”. Murdock has a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica with a special emphasis on consciousness, health, and healing. Gina is a certified Chopra yoga and meditation teacher as well as a certified Bikram and Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher and retreat guide who teaches internationally. Gina is also a published author and inspirational public speaker known for humor, enthusiasm, authenticity and vulnerability.

Gina is passionate about optimal wellbeing for the planet and people and leading from the heart. Her absolute belief is that we always have a choice and we can choose love over fear when given the tools and creating the awareness to do so.

The Wheeler Opera House

Since 1889, the Wheeler Opera House has been Aspen’s community performance venue and has become the Roaring Fork Valley’s premiere site for concerts, movies, festivals, lectures, community events, opera, and more. In recent years, the Wheeler has been a leader in producing exceptional festivals in Aspen (Aspen Laugh Festival, Aspen Mountain Film Festival, and Shining Mountains Film Festival), celebrating the comedy arts, global issues, and the craft of songwriting.