Keynote Speakers
Opening Keynote
Clint Swindall
Clint is the president and CEO of Verbalocity, Inc., a personal development company with a focus on leadership enhancement. These solutions include leadership development programs, training, speaking and general consulting.
As a professional speaker, Clint is the recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional designation, the speaking profession’s international measure of professional platform competence. Just over 10% of speakers worldwide who are a part of the Global Speakers Federation hold this designation.
For more than two decades, Clint has traveled the world delivering high-content speeches and training in an entertaining and inspirational style to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and trade associations. His clients include 7-Eleven, American Express, BMW, Valero Energy, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Jack in the Box, and Keller Williams.
In addition to his work as a speaker, trainer, and consultant, Clint is the author of three books on leadership. He has delivered his programs throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Central America, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Bermuda, and The Bahamas. Clint does more than just talk about leadership. His leadership roles in the community include serving as Chairman of the Board of GVTC Communications, a leading provider of communication services. He is founder and Chairman of the Board of the First Chance Foundation, a 501(c)3 dedicated to assisting abandoned, abused, and neglected children, and is Director Emeritus of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rode.
Lunch Keynote
Four Day Weekend
Four Day Weekend is the longest running comedy show in the Southwest having performed more than 8,000 live shows throughout our 28 years in business. We have entertained hundreds of thousands of people in our public theaters, as well as added lively and professional content to our corporate client events.
Our goal is to help organizations retain talent, improve communication, create a more collaborative environment, and develop trust through a fun, interactive, and shared experience.
Using the tenants and philosophies covered in our National Best Selling book, Four Day Weekend describes how we’ve built our 28-year-old business on the methods of “yes, and…”. We take our onstage skills and apply them to the corporate world. This customized training will bring our improv philosophies to life through activities and then ground them in conversational debriefs that tie back to key skills.
Closing Keynote
Dr. Kemia M. Sarraf, MD, MPH, CCC, TIPC
Dr. Kemia Sarraf (“Dr. K” to both students & colleagues) is a physician, public health expert, and global thought leader on the impact of traumatic stress exposure on professionals and first responders. She is internationally recognized for developing and deploying leading-edge programs with actionable skills to disrupt the impact of traumatic stress exposure and harm, restore resilience, and realign organizational cultures. Dr. K is a highly sought leadership strategist whose work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, education, narrative, and organizational transformation.
Trained in Public Health and Internal Medicine, first at the University of Utah and then at Washington University in St. Louis, her 25+ year career spans patient care, public health programming & policy, medical education, nonprofit creation and leadership, state and national advisory roles, and the founding of Lodestar, a professional development consultancy specializing in advanced leadership development, Second Responder engagement (crisis intervention), and culture alignment strategies.
Her keynotes—equal parts rigorous science and human story—equip audiences to confront burnout, traumatic stress exposure, moral injury, and systemic dysfunction with clarity, courage, and practical tools for repair.
Known for unflinching honesty, incisive storytelling, quick humor and deep compassion, Dr. K serves as adjunct faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and has been honored nationally for her vision and impact.
Kemia and her physician-husband have been married for more than twenty-five years, and the couple currently reside on a working farm in Central Illinois with their four “semi-feral sons” and too many critters to count.