Women's Conference

Sarah Bland 
Enter Peace Print & Wellness Collective

With over a decade of teaching experience in diverse classroom settings, Sarah holds two degrees in English from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, her MA with an emphasis on Teaching Writing, and is a certified mindfulness meditation instructor through The Interdependence Project in New York City.
In 2024, Sarah founded Enter Peace Print and Wellness Collective out of her lived experience as a public school teacher as she sought balance, wellness, and liberation within a system that often asks too much and gives too little.

Angie Lange
Express Employment Professionals

Angie is a seasoned leader and catalyst for personal growth, currently serving as a key leadership figure at Express Employment Professionals. Over her 11-year tenure with Express, she has dedicated herself to helping individuals discover their full potential and thrive in their careers. Angie passionately believes that great leadership starts from the inside out. Driven by the conviction that she can make a profound impact on people’s lives everywhere she goes, she shows up every day intentional about lifting others up and mentoring the next generation of leaders.

Teresa Reiniger 
Living After Grief 

Teresa Reiniger is a Certified Grief Specialist, Women’s Coach, speaker, and founder of Living After Grief and Becoming: A Space to Breathe, Heal & Begin Again. As a Certified Grief Recovery Method® Specialist, NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, and Integrated Time Line Therapy practitioner, Teresa helps women navigate grief, loss, identity changes, and life transitions with greater understanding and self-compassion. Through individual coaching, groups, workshops, retreats, and her podcast, Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa combines emotional insight, practical tools, and an understanding of how the brain and nervous system respond to change. Her work helps women release the survival patterns that once protected them, reconnect with their voice and identity, and intentionally step into the life they are becoming ready to lead.
 

Lisa Colon
Gateway CEO Facilitator/ ReMax Alliance

Lisa Colon is the Gateway CEO facilitator, Realtor with RE/MAX Alliance, a military wife and mom, and a lifelong believer in the power of community and connection. Her journey has taken her from growing up as a pastor’s daughter, through the corporate world and 25 years of military life, into real estate and ultimately into mentoring the next generation of young adults through Gateway CEO. Lisa is passionate about helping young people discover who they are, recognize the gifts they bring to the world, and develop the confidence, resilience, communication skills, and critical thinking needed to navigate real life. Through her experiences in business, family, and mentoring, she brings a practical and deeply personal perspective to what it means to show up, be real, and help the next generation find their way.

Dawn Mushill
Customer Services & Beyond

Dawn Mushill is a professional keynote speaker, author, customer service trainer and attitude changer.  She has over 30 years of speaking experience and has a passion for all of her audiences, both big and small.  Her ability to engage the audience with her stories and real-life examples brings everyone together to take away tips to utilize in their day-to-day life.  
In addition to owning her own company, Dawn has also served as the President/CEO of the Troy/Maryville/St. Jacob/Marine Chamber of Commerce since 2000.

Carol Sparks
Beckemeier LeMoine Law 

Carol L. Sparks is an estate planning and business succession attorney with Beckemeier LeMoine Law, licensed in Illinois and Missouri. She helps families and business owners protect what they have spent a lifetime building — wills, trusts, lifetime gifting, buy-sell agreements and ownership transitions — and guides trustees and personal representatives through the administration that follows. Carol brings an owner's perspective to that work: she built and ran her own firm in Troy before joining Beckemeier LeMoine Law. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Leadership Council of Southwestern Illinois, on the advisory board of the Illinois Small Business Development Center at SIUE, on the advisory board for First National Bank of Waterloo, on the Board of Directors of Compass Community Counseling, and as the past President and current board member of the Troy Maryville St. Jacob Marine Chamber of Commerce. 

Robyn Kessler
AgeSmart Community Resources

Robyn Kessler is a Caregiver Specialist with AgeSmart Community Resources, where she supports family caregivers and older adults throughout the region. As a Certified Dementia Practitioner, Robyn is passionate about dementia education, caregiver support, and helping families navigate the often overwhelming realities of caring for a loved one. Through her work, she provides education, resources, support programs, and community connections designed to help family caregivers feel informed, empowered, and less alone. Robyn brings a practical, compassionate, and relatable approach to her presentations, combining practical knowledge, compassion, and a healthy dose of humor, because sometimes caregivers need a resource, a plan, and someone who understands exactly why they’re laughing instead of crying.

Bethany Peters 
The Leadership Coaching Lab

Bethany Peters, Ph.D., PCC, is an executive and leadership coach, facilitator, and founder of The Leadership Coaching Lab. She specializes in leadership development, helping leaders and teams strengthen self-awareness, navigate complex challenges, improve how they work together, and lead with greater clarity and intention. Bethany holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation. She is also a certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator and is certified to administer and interpret a range of assessments, including CliftonStrengths®, Working Genius, MBTI®, and EQ-i 2.0®. Bethany brings more than 20 years of experience in leadership development, coaching, facilitation, and higher education to her work with leaders and organizations.

Alison Tindall
Thriving Willow Holistic Wellness

Alison Tindall, RN, BSN, MHA, NC-BC, CPT, CHMLDP, is the founder of Thriving Willow Holistic Wellness, where she empowers women to reconnect with their strength, prioritize their well-being, and create lasting change through every season of life. A board-certified nurse coach, personal trainer, and holistic manual lymphatic drainage practitioner, Alison blends clinical knowledge with compassionate, whole-person support. Her work is deeply personal: after undergoing bariatric surgery and losing approximately 160 pounds, she transformed her own health and went on to become a CrossFit competitor, triathlete, and passionate advocate for women who are ready to stop starting over. Through coaching, movement, education, and wellness services, Alison helps women move beyond survival mode and build lives in which they can truly thrive.