Annual Wellness Summit

Founded in the United States in 1948, Dr. Bronner's is the top-selling natural soap brand in North America and a leading mission-driven brand worldwide. The company is a third-generation, independent, family-owned business based in Vista, California. Guided by its six Cosmic Principles, the company offers unparalleled employee benefits, including childcare and tuition assistance, zero-deductible health care coverage, onsite bootcamp, subsidized massages, and a fantastic daily vegan lunch. Benefits are offered equally across all company positions in recognition of the humanity of each employee, a principle at the core of company founder Emanuel Bronner's All-One philosophy and Constructive Capitalism principles. Lisa Bronner will share the leadership and decision-making processes, undergirded by a 5:1 executive salary cap, that make these benefits possible and fuel outcomes such as an annual employee turnover rate of only 4%, double-digit average annual company growth over the last 25 years, and a contribution of 30% of profits to charitable and activist causes.

Attendees will be able to:

• Assess equity in benefits access and analyze the strategic impact of compensation ratios
• Envision a financially sustainable, values-aligned rewards initiative
• Craft a compelling business case that connects employee care and wellness to company performance.

Disruption isn't a future event; it's our current operating environment. Health care uncertainty, economic whiplash, cultural change, and global instability have made leadership more complex, more personal, and more consequential than ever. In this candid and energizing session, Dr. Michael Burcham challenges the idea that leadership is about having the right answers. Instead, he shows why the leaders who endure—and emerge stronger—are those who can make clear, principled decisions when certainty is unavailable and pressure is unavoidable. Drawing from decades of advising founders, executives, investors, and public-sector leaders, Michael shares real stories from the front lines of disruption, as well as insights from moments when the map was wrong, the data incomplete, and the stakes very real. His message is especially relevant for solopreneurs and mid-level leaders who are quietly carrying more responsibility than their titles suggest. This session is about what happens after the frameworks fail: when the data is incomplete, the clock is ticking, and people are looking to you for direction. Leadership in these moments is not performative. It's quiet, disciplined, and consequential. The ability to decide well, under pressure, is what ultimately separates leaders who endure from those who don't.

Attendees will be able to:

• Demonstrate how to lead decisively when the playbook no longer applies
• Utilize a practical framework for making high-quality decisions under pressure
• Employ ways to stabilize yourself (and others) when anxiety and ambiguity rise
• Demonstrate how you earn trust and build momentum during uncertain times.

We often talk about physical health and mental health, but there's another pillar of well-being that we've been overlooking—it's at the root of why so many of us feel exhausted despite rest, disconnected despite success, and burned out despite all our wellness practices. Creative health is the emerging field focused on the cognitive and emotional capacities that allow us to feel genuinely rejuvenated, vital, and fully alive. In this keynote, Katina Bajaj, creative health scientist and chief science officer of Daydreamers, explores why creativity is a biological necessity in an overwhelmed world, how it revives our nervous system in ways sleep alone cannot, and the science-backed practices wellness professionals can bring back to their work and organizations. Attendees will leave with an accessible new framework for understanding vitality and practical tools to help themselves and their communities reclaim what makes them feel most alive.

Attendees will be able to:

• Understand creative health as a distinct dimension of well-being, alongside physical and mental health
• Learn the neuroscience behind why creative engagement uniquely restores vitality and combats burnout, especially for underserved populations
• Identify the barriers to developing creative health in individuals and communities
• Gain practical, evidence-based practices to integrate creative health into existing wellness frameworks or programs.

Leadership is not a title. It is a behavior, and culture is built in the moments we think do not matter. In this closing keynote, Kyle Ewing reframes leadership for those without formal authority and shows how trust, ownership, and well-being are shaped from the middle of organizations, not just the top. Drawing from real-world experience building high-performance teams, Kyle reveals how small shifts in language, responsibility, and service can transform burnout into engagement and compliance into commitment. Attendees will learn how healthy cultures are sustained by people who take initiative, remove friction for others, and model clarity under pressure. This session is not about doing more or carrying the weight alone. It is about leading in ways that make work more human, sustainable, and energizing. The keynote closes the Summit with a renewed sense of agency and responsibility, reminding attendees that culture change starts exactly where they are.

Attendees will be able to:

• Identify at least three daily behaviors that strengthen trust, ownership, and psychological safety within their teams or organizations
• Apply servant leadership principles to reduce friction, improve collaboration, and support well-being regardless of job title or seniority
• Demonstrate how to positively influence workplace culture through clear communication, accountability, and service-oriented leadership actions.