TEDxCary

Speakers

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• Angelica Ventrice

  Founder, CEO, High-Performance Strategist

  Angelica Ventrice works with high-performing leaders to bridge the gap between external success and the internal capacity required to sustain it. As a specialist in human behavior and performance psychology, she examines how identity and nervous system patterns shape leadership at pivotal moments of growth. By reframing health as a strategic asset rather than just self-care, Angelica helps leaders recalibrate their internal patterns to achieve lasting clarity, consistency, and fulfillment.

• Dr. Princess M. Cullum

  Founder, CEO, and Executive Leadership Coach

  Dr. Princess M. Cullum is a leadership and executive coach with multi-industry experience in large, complex organizations. She specializes in executive development, women’s leadership, and culture, with work that has driven gains in engagement, retention, leadership pipelines, and organizational capability. She is Founder and CEO of Cullum Business Solutions, LLC, and CEO of You®, with prior roles at FORVIS, Center for Creative Leadership, Bank of America, and more.

• G. Page Singletary

  Author & Business Leader

  G. Page Singletary is a writer, speaker, and business leader who explores the pursuit of a meaningful life beyond constant visibility. Drawing on a career in global technology and entrepreneurship, he created RELEVANCE, a project examining how lasting impact accumulates through consistency and care. Page reframes value not as a temporary achievement, but as the quiet influence of staying present for others. His work helps individuals find fulfillment in the meaning they build across life’s many diverse seasons.

• Jenny Bates Heaton

  Founder, Bates Leadership

  enny Bates Heaton is the founder of Bates Leadership, partnering with individuals, teams, and organizations for greater alignment, clarity, and engagement. She brings corporate leadership experience, including serving as Head of Organization Development at Ahold Delhaize, a Fortune 500 grocery company with a global workforce of 400,000. A certified executive coach and Board Chair of AMI, she aligns talent and business strategies through practical values, clear competencies, and shared purpose.

• Maggie Kane

  Founder & Executive Director, A Place at the Table

  Maggie Kane is a social entrepreneur and the founder of A Place at the Table, Raleigh’s first pay-what-you-can nonprofit café. Driven by a passion for people, she builds unconventional communities to ensure that every individual has a dignified place at the table. By reframing hospitality as a vehicle for social change rather than just service, Maggie helps communities foster deep connection and proves that belonging is the most critical ingredient for collective growth and fulfillment.

• Matt Gulliver

  Founder, Oak & Iron Fitness

  Matthew Gulliver is the founder of Oak & Iron Fitness, a strength and conditioning community based in Raleigh and Cary. A coach turned entrepreneur, he focuses on the compounding power of small, intentional actions and the belief that wellness extends far beyond the gym. By prioritizing consistency over intensity, Matthew helps individuals build physical and mental resilience, challenging them to take radical ownership of their progress to create lasting change one choice at a time.

• Patricia Bauer

  Senior Global Marketing Executive

  Patricia Bauer is a senior global marketing executive with 25+ years of experience leading brands across technology, consumer, and home-improvement industries. With a background in engineering, she brings an analytical approach to B2B and B2C marketing, product leadership, and strategy. She’s also a trained leadership and life coach who practices servant leadership and works to build emotionally intelligent, growth-focused cultures.

• Sonali Ratnasinghe

  Founder, Youth Ambassador of Service

  Sonali Ratnasinghe is the founder and Executive Director of Youth Ambassadors of Service, a leading youth-led nonprofit in North Carolina. A recipient of the Governor’s Volunteer Service Award, she focuses on empowering students through leadership and service. Sonali reframes youth engagement as a catalyst for professional growth and community impact. As an instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill, she bridges the gap between executive communication and the future of work to inspire lasting change.