Unified Leadership Summit
August 21st | Virtual | 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM EDT
A virtual Experience
Real Conversations.
Real Leadership.
Real Growth.
Most leadership events give you motivation for a day.
This summit is different.
Unified Leadership Virtual Summit is a full day virtual experience built around honest conversations with leaders who are actively leading businesses, teams, organizations, communities, and people in the real world.
No scripted presentations.
No surface level networking.
No fluff.
Just practical insight, real leadership conversations, and perspectives you can actually use.
UNIFIED LEADERSHIP Summit
Leadership Is Evolving. Are You?
The best leaders never stop learning, adapting, listening, and sharpening perspective.
The challenge is that most people are trying to lead while isolated, overwhelmed, distracted, and surrounded by surface level information.
This summit was created to change that.
You’ll spend the day hearing from leadership experts, entrepreneurs, business owners, and experienced voices across multiple industries discussing:
• Leadership pressure
• Communication
• Decision making
• Team culture
• Execution
• Relationships
• Discipline
• Growth
• Real world leadership challenges
This is not theory.
These are conversations from people actively doing the work.
Leadership grows when ideas move from inspiration to implementation.
You’re not just showing up to listen.
You’re entering a room designed to challenge perspective, sharpen thinking, and help you lead differently.
Choose Your Summit Experience
General Admission
VIP
VIP Access ⭐ MOST POPULAR
Full access to the Virtual Leadership Summit on August 21st.
$47
Perfect for leaders ready to learn, grow, and be part of the conversations.
Includes
✓ Full day virtual summit experience
✓ Access to all live leadership conversations
✓ Leadership insights from 10+ experienced leaders
✓ Opportunity to engage live during discussions
✓ Connections with growth focused leaders
VIP
VIP Access ⭐ MOST POPULAR
Everything in General Admission
plus VIP-only bonuses and deeper access to the speakers.
$97
For leaders who want deeper access, continued conversations, and direct interaction after the summit.
Includes
✔ Everything in General Admission
✔ Recordings of the full event
✔ Expanded leadership networking opportunities
✔ Exclusive 90 minute private mastermind session in September
✔ Live Q&A with summit leaders
✔ Continued leadership conversations after the event
✔ Direct access to discuss real leadership challenges
The Voices Behind Unified Leadership
Together, they create spaces where leaders have honest conversations, sharpen each other, and build real connections that carry over into everyday life and work.
Sifu Rafael
Sifu Rafael is a master instructor, entrepreneur, leadership strategist, and co-founder of Unified Leadership and the Unified Leadership Summit. A lifelong martial artist with more than 50 years of experience, he has spent decades leading, teaching, mentoring, and building environments that help people grow stronger mentally, physically, emotionally, and professionally.
As the visionary founder of Speaking Prowess, the NYC Experience Mastermind, and creator of Sifu’s Mind Body Method™, Sifu Rafael has dedicated his life to helping individuals unlock clarity, confidence, discipline, communication mastery, and leadership from the inside out. His work combines leadership, human behavior, communication, mindset, movement, and personal transformation into practical systems that create lasting impact.
Sifu Rafael is also the creator and host of ten global live shows seen in more than 125 countries, where he leads powerful conversations around leadership, business, communication, resilience, growth, and the human experience. Through keynote speaking, coaching, live events, masterminds, and daily leadership in both business and life, he has inspired and empowered thousands of people across the world to lead with greater purpose, conviction, and authenticity.
Known for his dynamic presence, direct communication style, and ability to challenge people to think deeper and lead stronger, Sifu Rafael continues to build rooms, conversations, and experiences that bring leaders together, sharpen perspective, and create meaningful transformation.
Coach Timothy T.O. Clay
Coach Timothy T.O. Clay is a decorated retired U.S. Marine Sergeant Major, leadership coach, motivational speaker, bestselling author, and co-founder of Unified Leadership and the Unified Leadership Summit. Known for helping individuals and teams lead with discipline, accountability, clarity, and purpose, T.O. Clay brings decades of real world leadership experience into every room and conversation.
With more than 23 years of military leadership experience, T.O. Clay combines practical wisdom, resilience, and a deeply grounded leadership philosophy that inspires people to take ownership, grow through adversity, and move forward with confidence. Through his platform, Lightbulb Lessons, he shares transformational leadership principles that spark breakthrough moments, sharpen thinking, and help organizations build stronger leaders from the inside out.
As the bestselling author of Here To There: Prodigal and Back, T.O. Clay blends spiritual wisdom, hope, determination, and leadership experience to guide people toward meaningful growth and goal driven achievement. Having traveled extensively around the world speaking to businesses, corporations, military personnel, and leadership teams, he continues to impact audiences through his engaging, energetic, and relatable approach to leadership and personal development.
Leadership Summit Speaker Lineup
Meet leaders in the arena every day, building businesses, shaping teams, and leading in the real world
Dr. Kevin Fickenscher, M.D.
Dr. Kevin M. Fickenscher, M.D. is a globally recognized physician executive, healthcare strategist, and leadership expert with decades of experience in healthcare innovation, technology, telehealth, policy, and organizational leadership.
He has served in executive leadership roles with major healthcare organizations including Dell Healthcare Services, Perot Systems, Catholic Healthcare West, and Aurora Health Care. Consistently recognized among the Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare, Dr. Fickenscher is also an author, speaker, and thought leader focused on healthcare transformation, leadership, and the future of technology in care delivery.
Renee Jackson-Smith
Renee Jackson-Smith is the founder of Soar2Win, LLC and creator of the Leadership PowerShift™ framework, helping leaders move from over-performing and second-guessing to leading with clarity, confidence, and grounded influence.
With more than 30 years of experience in leadership, talent development, and coaching, Renee brings a practical, relatable, and no-fluff approach to executive presence, communication, and influence in the moments that matter most.
Known by many as The Unmuting Coach™, she helps leaders stop performing for approval so they can lead with greater alignment, trust, and impact.
Renee is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Positive Intelligence Coach, and Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP)
Lancelot Theobald Jr.
Lancelot Theobald Jr. is an actor, producer, choreographer, tap dancer, author, talk show host, fitness expert, and motivator whose career is driven by purpose, presence, and progress. From acting in films to performing at the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway and Off-Broadway stages, and national tours, his work lives at the intersection of performance and personal transformation. He has appeared on hit television, choreographed for film, television, and recording artists, and produced creative works that do more than entertain—they empower.
What truly sets Lancelot apart is not just his talent, but his commitment to discipline, legacy, and lifting others up. Whether he is coaching young performers, training athletes from around the world, or creating impact-driven content, he leads with intentionality and a belief that growth is possible at any age. His philosophy is built on courage, consistency, and an unshakeable work ethic.
A former pro athlete turned creative force, Lancelot’s story is one of evolution and endurance. Today, whether he is mentoring, motivating, or commanding the stage, his mission stays the same: help people move from stuck to unstoppable. His message is clear—do not wait to be great. Show up every day, do the work, and become the next best version of yourself.
Ami Maikoski
Ami Maikoski is an Architect of Identity & Capacity Expansion, Transformational Facilitator, Executive Advisor, and Speaker who works with founders, CEOs, senior executives, and leaders responsible for teams, capital, and high-stakes decisions. She specializes in shattering unseen patterns that shape how leaders think, decide, lead, and operate, allowing greater clarity, awareness, execution, and capacity to emerge at higher levels. As leaders shift internally, decision-making sharpens, leadership scales with less force, teams take greater ownership, and results compound across every area they touch.
Ami’s work is not based on cookie-cutter models or surface-level coaching. She facilitates leaders uncovering and accessing new levels within themselves so they operate beyond where they’ve previously been. Ami is the founder of Metamorphose Institute and Be True To Your Best You, and an Executive Partner with Powerful Vibes Institute.
Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller is the founder of W23 LLC (Wear Your Worship), a faith-based identity and lifestyle brand built on the foundation of Matthew 18:20. He is the creator of the SEEN. movement, which focuses on helping individuals feel seen, step into who they are called to be, and build lives rooted in purpose, leadership, and legacy.
Stephen is an author, speaker, and contributor to the Born to Risk: Veterans Edition anthology, as well as a participant in an upcoming Guinness World Record legacy project. With a background in leadership and operations, he has led large teams and driven organizational performance. Through his work, he bridges faith, identity, and leadership to impact both individuals and communities.
Bethany Stone
Bethany Stone is a Montessori educator, speaker, and mindset and life skills coach with more than 23 years of experience helping individuals, leaders, and business owners develop the human skills needed to thrive. Drawing from her Montessori background and real-life experience, she combines practical life skills, emotional awareness, communication, and self-care into transformational coaching, workshops, and speaking experiences.
She is the creator of the Five Buckets of Self-Care framework, a practical approach that helps people build sustainable habits, strengthen resilience, and live with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose. As a mother of six, entrepreneur, and outdoor adventurer, Bethany brings authenticity, energy, and connection to every room she enters.
Michael Rosa
Michael Rosa is a proven operations executive and business builder with over 30 years of experience scaling companies across diverse industries. He has led organizations to significant growth, expanding businesses to $50M in revenue and personally generating over $100M throughout his career.
As a strategic leader and revenue architect, Michael specializes in identifying high-value opportunities, designing scalable growth strategies, and building brands that command market presence. His operational expertise drives profitability while maintaining exceptional customer satisfaction across every sector he serves.
Expertise:
Leadership | Operations Management | Business Development | Startups | Revenue Growth | P&L Management | Financial Strategy | Strategic Planning | Process Optimization | Team Building & Mentoring
Diane McDowell
Diane McDowell is a therapist turned coach, emotional safety expert, and creator of The Brain-to-Heart Code™, a neuroscience backed method that helps high performing individuals rebuild deep, honest connection from the inside out without years of therapy or needing their partner to change.
Her work reveals what most relationship advice misses: disconnection isn't caused by poor communication, but by nervous system wiring that still associates closeness with risk. She calls this The Brain Hijack™, a survival reflex that triggers flinching, freezing, or people pleasing in the moments that matter most, even among the most self aware individuals.
Diane's approach blends brain science, somatic regulation, and emotional leadership. Her clients are insightful, growth minded people who've already done significant inner work, but until they address the body's internal alarms, shutdown patterns, people pleasing, and performance mode, nothing sticks. She teaches them how to restore internal safety, trust their own emotional truth, and reconnect from a place of strength, not survival.
This is not a traditional Summit.
The Unified Leadership Summit is designed as a working leadership environment where ideas are not only shared but implemented.
You will leave with frameworks, strategies, and relationships that
continue to strengthen your leadership long after the event ends.
Here are some common questions you may be thinking about
This Summit follows a simple rhythm designed to move ideas into implementation.
Do I need to attend live?
Yes. The summit is designed as a live, interactive experience where you can engage directly with speakers and other leaders in real time. VIP ticket holders receive lifetime access to the full recordings, so you can revisit key moments after the event.
What makes this different from other leadership events?
Most leadership events are built around motivational keynotes and surface level networking. The Unified Leadership Summit is a working environment where you hear from leaders actively in the arena, implement what you learn, and leave with strategies you can use immediately. VIP participants also continue the conversation in an exclusive 90 minute mastermind following the event.
Can I bring my team?
Absolutely. Team attendance strengthens alignment and gives your entire leadership group a shared language and framework to work from. Contact us at [email protected] for team pricing options. ( subject line: Team)
Who should attend?
This summit is for entrepreneurs, business owners, team leaders, executives, coaches, and anyone leading people, projects, or organizations. If you're building something, leading others, or sharpening your leadership skills, or starting on your journey into leadership, this is for you.
What if I can't attend the full day?
We strongly recommend blocking the full day to get the most value. However, VIP ticket holders receive lifetime access to recordings so you can catch anything you miss and revisit key sessions.
What platform will the summit be hosted on?
You'll receive login details and platform instructions via email one week before the event. The platform is simple, accessible from any device, and optimized for an interactive experience.
Is the Summit recorded?
VIP ticket holders receive lifetime access to the full summit recordings. General Admission ticket holders experience the event live only.
The VIP Leadership Experience
For VIP participants, the experience continues beyond the Leadership Summit.
VIP Access — $97
The conversation doesn’t end when the summit ends.
VIP Access is designed for leaders who want deeper conversations, continued growth, and direct access to the speakers and leadership community after the event.
This is where leaders continue the conversation, ask deeper questions, and work through real world leadership situations together.
VIP participants receive:
✔ Everything in General Admission
✔ Lifetime access to the full summit recordings
✔ Expanded leadership networking opportunities
✔ Exclusive 90 minute private mastermind session in September
✔ Live Q&A with summit leaders
✔ Continued leadership conversations after the summit
✔ Direct access to discuss real leadership challenges
✔ Additional leadership insights, strategy, and follow up conversation
Where the Unified Leadership Summit Happens
No flights. No hotel. The Unified Leadership Summit meets you in your own space while you connect with leaders who are building businesses, leading teams, and doing the work in real time.
How to Join the Unified Leadership Summit
Secure Your Seat
Choose your General Admission or VIP ticket and confirm your spot at the Unified Leadership Virtual Summit.
Prepare Your Space
Set up wherever you work best. Connect to a Smart TV or second monitor for a theater-style experience, or join from your laptop. Create a space where you can focus, take notes, and engage fully.
Join the Virtual Experience
Log in on August 21st and participate in a full day of leadership conversations, real world insights, and interactive discussions with leaders actively in the trenches.
One Day Can Shift Perspective.
August 21, 2026
The right conversation can change how you lead, communicate, think, and move forward.
Join leaders from different industries for a full day of real conversations and real growth.
General Admission: $47
VIP Access: $97
Virtual Experience
August 21st | 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM EDT
7:30 AM – 2:30 PM CDT | 6:30 AM – 1:30 PM MDT | 5:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
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