SASSI Speakers

Lynell Green

Lynell Renee Green is a successful entrepreneur, international speaker, and transformational leader who is committed to people fulfilling their dreams by being at the source of their life. Lynell has started and owns several businesses, ranging from real estate, investing, money coaching, and in 2016 became a partner in her family’s construction business. She is also a senior coach and leads transformational courses at Landmark Worldwide, the world’s premier personal development training organization. In 2019 Lynell was honored for participating in the Goldman Sachs Small Business Program. Lynell raised in Hawaii, holds degrees from University of Hawaii, the Turner School of Construction Management, and USC’s Real Estate Program.

Christi Corradi

Christi Corradi, a transformational life coach and an art therapist, has worked in the personal empowerment arena for over three decades. Christi teaches Creative Thinking, a unique approach that helps people design a life by choice rather than default. She is the creator of “The Creative Way in Five Minutes a Day” and “Tools 4Success”—programs that get personal development off the shelf and into your everyday life. She leads workshops and teleclasses that help you create your dreams. An artist herself, Christi loves traveling the world, making art and enjoying life.

Denise Cotton-Royal

As CEO & Principal Consultant with Cotton Royal Consulting, and Partner at Courageous Leadership, LLC, Denise has helped facilitate the success of non-profits, small businesses, large corporations, and international governments; and has done so alongside renowned industry leaders of international organizations. Her work focuses on values-based leadership, social equity, and capacity building. Previously, she was the Founder of three businesses and a non-profit, serves on two non-profit Boards of Directors, volunteers for non-profits which provide educational services to under-served communities, and holds a Master of Science degree in Psychology.

Debra Shine

Debra Shine is the Founder of Flagship, a business consulting firm. Her background includes 40 years of expertise in sales and marketing, plus 25 years of business consulting and impacting business success. Her background includes creating a $50 million international market in two years for a Fortune 500 company.

Ariana Aparicio Aguilar

Ariana Aparicio Aguilar is from Mexico City, Mexico, she moved to the U.S. at the age of four and obtained her B.A. in Sociology from Sonoma State University in 2011 with Distinction and Cum Laude. This past May, she graduated with her Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ariana has spent the past seven years working to provide access and success opportunities for first-generation, students of color and undocumented students. Her professional career is influenced by her own experiences navigating life and education in the U.S. as an undocumented, DACA recipient and first-generation Latina. Ariana continues to advocate for the immigrant community by sharing her story for media outlets like Univision and the Women's March in San Francisco in 2018 to push for the passing of a comprehensive immigration reform for all 11 million undocumented immigrants. Her ultimate goal is to obtain a Ph.D. in Education.

Juliias Ellis

Juliias Ellis, is the Founder of Design for Earth, a Meetup and platform for creating new conversations for Climate Change by bringing different industries together to connect, collaborate and contribute to the earth; Juliias leads an intensive workshop for people to Discover and Live Their True Purpose and as a UX Designer Facilitates Design Sprints for companies solving Climate Change.