Nicole Middendorf
A domestic violence survivor in the male dominated financial industry uses her own experience to change lives with the Live It List™.
Nicole is a knowledge junkie, a mentor, and a born coach. She is an entrepreneur who has run her own business since 2003. Nicole is the author of five books, and the mother of two phenomenal children. She is also a world traveler, a philanthropist, and an accomplished public speaker.
As a speaker Nicole shares a real-life perspective on life and happiness with audiences across the country. Her primary goal is to inspire others to make real change in their lives by taking complicated things and making them easy to understand and giving actionable items to make change.
As a domestic violence survivor, Nicole continues to trudge through the male dominated financial services industry. Nicole completely understands the feelings of intimidation, control, and empowerment.
Nicole developed the Live It List™, a tool that changed and transformed her life. Nicole speaks across the world and shares her story and her tool, helping others to change their lives by finding happiness and fulfillment.
The world needs more people—especially women—to be financially savvy, wholly independent, happy and living a life of balance. Through Nicole’s writing, public speaking, coaching program and work, she wants to be the one who supports them on all levels.
Jill J. Johnson
Jill J. Johnson, MBA, is the President and Founder of Johnson Consulting Services. This two-time Business Hall of Fame inductee is a management consultant who has personally impacted more than $4 billion dollars worth of business decisions for her clients. Jill’s deep expertise includes the evaluation of complex marketplace dynamics and assessing the impact of these market forces on long-range strategic plans, at both the board and operating level.
With a passion for results, Jill’s content is laser-focused to provide clarity to audiences who want to understand the critical market forces shaping the future of their enterprises. She cuts through the clutter and quickly gets to the core issues. She brings a wealth of practical and proven business acumen to her presentations to provide your team or audience with meaningful insight and a platform for enhanced professional success. Jill is a powerful speaker with the rare ability to deliver substantive content in a way that is engaging and easily accessible. She is known for her thought-provoking content, candid story-telling, actionable takeaways, and her humor. She has earned Professional Member status in the National Speakers Association and is a Certified Virtual Presenter.
The value of hiring Jill to speak? Your attendees will think more strategically, become more effective leaders, make better decisions, and achieve real results.
Lindsey Seavert
Lindsey Seavert is an Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, and Alfred I. duPont award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker fueled by a calling to bring untold stories to light.
The legacy of teaching in her family inspires Lindsey to use stories as a vehicle to empower, educate, create empathy and spark systemic change. Her parents were Minnesota public school teachers who gave her the gift of curiosity, so with a book and pencil often in hand, she began writing as a young child, and hasn’t stopped since.
She worked as a reporter at five news stations stretching from Northern Minnesota, Nevada, and Ohio before coming home to the Twin Cities and working as a reporter at WCCO-TV and KARE-11 TV.
In 2020, Lindsey moved to a freelance journalist and filmmaking role after releasing her first award-winning documentary, Love Them First.
The feature-length documentary, created at KARE 11, features a courageous Minneapolis principal fighting to get her students off the list of ‘failing’ schools while grappling with Minnesota’s vast achievement gap between Black and White students.
Love Them First has received hundreds of screening requests from school districts across the country and continues to change the conversation among educators when it comes to racial inequities in schools, the injustices of standardized testing and the best practices to teach children experiencing high levels of stress and trauma.
The film, which received one of journalism’s highest honors with the 2020 Alfred I. duPont award, has been applied into collegiate educational curriculum, featured at national education conferences and utilized at countless education staff development workshops.
The impact is only beginning, and Lindsey hopes to continue this advocacy, raising consciousness about the intersection of race and education, as she explores future film projects. Her work often focuses on women, families and children in underrepresented communities. Much of her inspiration comes from her late father, who spent his career advocating for teachers.
Lindsey is dedicated to mentoring young journalists and volunteering in the Twin Cities community. Her hobbies include running, fitness and creative writing.
The greatest chapters of her own story feature her family, her husband Ian, her son Stellan and daughter, Phoebe. They live in southwest Minneapolis.
Gaye Lindfors
Is your team struggling to find meaning in the daily grind? Gaye gets it. She sees life up close—with all its grand celebrations, everyday chaos, and those “you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me” moments. Not afraid to laugh at her own mishaps, she delivers practical business and life insights wrapped in hope and humor from her journey as a successful corporate and non-profit leader, business owner, and self-proclaimed “Chief Encourager.” She reminds you that both your work and your life truly matter.
Whether you’re leading a department, volunteering in your community, managing the home front, or showing up for colleagues, Gaye understands your desire to feel purposeful. With her engaging style and thoughtful wit, she helps you rediscover joy in your everyday responsibilities and recognize the ripple effect of your contributions. Audiences leave her presentations feeling genuinely refreshed—as if they’ve hit a mental reset button—with renewed energy and clarity about the meaningful difference they make every day.
Gaye’s experience comes from diverse leadership roles: leading a human resources team for 11,000 airline employees, serving as Special Assistant to a university president, and earning an M.A. in Industrial Relations. Her leadership extends to associations, non-profits, and professional women’s organizations. As past-president of the National Speakers Association/Minnesota chapter and former Midwest Regional Director for Christian Women in Media, Gaye brings perspective from both corporate and community settings. She has authored several books, including “This is Livin’!” and “Getting My Ducks in a Row and Other Stories of Faith.”