EMPOWER
Virtual Summit
Topic #1
You Can't Build Great Kids If You're Running on Empty
with Mandy Green | Founder Busy Coach
Topic #2
Growing Our Future
with Aaron Alejandro | Forbes Nonprofit Council & Texas FFA Foundation Executive Director
Topic 3
The Art of Teen Whispering-Turning Cringy Conversations Into Real Connection
with Kriya Lendzion |Parenting Coach, Adolescent Therapist
Topic #4
Raise Remarkable Adults
with Jeff Heggie | Entrepreneur & Success Coach
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Meet Your Host
Mandy Green
Known for her practical, no-fluff approach, she teaches leaders how to move from constant reaction to intentional action.
Aaron Alejandro
National speaker focused on leadership, communication, and empowering students and educators.
Kriya Lendzion
Expert in the art of “teen whispering”- understanding how to build the kind of trust and influence with youth.
Jeff Heggie
Leadership coach and entrepreneur helping people live with intentionality and purpose.
Mandy Green
You Can't Build Great Kids If You're Running on Empty
Mandy Green helps parents, coaches, and youth leaders recognize that they cannot consistently pour into young people while running on empty. Drawing from her experience as a college coach, she shares the mindset shift that helped her move beyond constant reaction and become more present at work and at home. This practical presentation introduces a simple three-question daily framework to reduce stress, protect priorities, and model healthy self-leadership for the next generation.
Mandy Green is the Founder of Busy Coach and Executive Vice President of Tudor Collegiate Strategies, where she helps coaches, educators, and leaders become more effective communicators, recruiters, and team builders.
A former college soccer coach with more than 23 years of coaching experience, Mandy has worked with thousands of coaches, athletic departments, and enrollment teams across the country. Her workshops focus on leadership, productivity, communication, and creating systems that help people achieve more while reducing stress and overwhelm.
Known for her practical, no-fluff approach, Mandy teaches leaders how to move from constant reaction to intentional action. Through her Busy Coach platform and Win the Day framework, she helps professionals build habits, systems, and mindsets that lead to long-term success both personally and professionally.
As a speaker, trainer, and consultant, Mandy is passionate about helping others unlock their potential, lead with purpose, and create meaningful results in their careers, teams, and lives.
Aaron Alejandro
Growing Our Future
Aaron Alejandro challenges adults and young people to stop waiting for the future and start growing it. Using powerful agricultural imagery and his R2A2 framework—Recognize, Relate, Assimilate, and Apply—he shows how intention, gratitude, discernment, self-esteem, and service shape lasting success. This inspiring presentation encourages audiences to ask better questions, live their values, learn from others, and plant seeds of greatness that will strengthen both their own lives and generations to come.
Aaron Alejandro is the executive director of the Texas FFA Foundation, where he has spent more than 23 years developing innovative partnerships that connect corporate philanthropy, marketing strategy, agricultural education, and student leadership.
His work has helped strengthen the foundation’s financial support, organizational culture, and long-term relationships with Texas FFA members, alumni, sponsors, and stakeholders.
Aaron has created strategic sponsorship packages, expanded opportunities for individual giving, and developed plans designed to preserve and grow the Texas FFA Foundation’s impact for future generations. He also serves as an official member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council, where he shares insight on nonprofit leadership, fundraising, organizational development, and meaningful collaboration.
Known as an effective communicator, engaging facilitator, and compelling advocate, Aaron is passionate about agriculture, education, leadership, and the power of young people to shape the future. His work centers on creating opportunities that help students grow into confident leaders and influential citizens.
Through his speaking, leadership, and relationship-building, Aaron challenges organizations and individuals to invest in young people today while building a stronger future for agriculture, education, communities, and the next generation of leaders.
Kriya Lendzion
The Art of Teen Whispering-Turning Cringy Conversations Into Real Connection
Kriya Lendzion helps adults break through the silence that so often defines the teenage years. Drawing from decades of work with thousands of teens, she explains what is happening in the adolescent brain when conversations shut down and shares 12 research-backed skills that create real connection. Parents, educators, and youth leaders will learn what to ask, what not to say, and how to become the safe, trusted adult a young person will actually talk to.
Kriya Lendzion emerged from her own personal journey through teen addiction with a fierce dedication to helping transform adolescence from a time of risk into a springboard for lifelong thriving.
Over the past three decades, she has worked across the youth behavioral health landscape as a school counselor, adolescent therapist, addictions clinician, and prevention specialist - partnering with parents, schools, and communities worldwide to help young people avoid and shift self-destructive behaviors.
Her work has spanned a wide range of settings and populations, including pregnant and parenting teens, adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system, students at risk of dropping out, and those navigating school re-entry after expulsion. She spent 23 years as a middle and high school counselor with diverse students, and has led college wellness and substance use programming. Her clinical experience includes addiction treatment with both adolescents and adults, as well as residential mental health treatment for teen girls.
She now empowers adults to create these same connection-driven relationships, helping young people become addiction- resistant in an increasingly risky and addictive world.
Today, Kriya provides private therapy and early-intervention coaching for adolescents and their families, while also training educators, parents, and youth-serving professionals across the globe. Her clients include school districts, public health departments, and prevention coalitions, as well as organizations such as Hazelden Betty Ford, the DEA, the Georgia Department of Education, and the American School Counselor Association.
Through decades of hands-on work, Kriya has forged an expertise in the art of “teen whispering”- understanding how to build the kind of trust and influence with youth that fosters their receptivity, engagement, and healthy decision-making.
Jeff Heggie
Raise Remarkable Adults
Jeff Heggie challenges adults to look beyond grades, trophies, scholarships, and achievements to the deeper question: Who is this young person becoming? In this inspiring presentation, he shares a practical framework for building identity through resilience, integrity, purpose, and daily habits. Parents, teachers, coaches, and mentors will learn how helping youth make and keep small promises to themselves can strengthen confidence and create a foundation for lasting success.
Jeff Heggie is an author, entrepreneur, success coach, and mental game coach who helps business leaders and athletes reach higher levels of performance.
With more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and an extensive background in the banking industry, he brings practical insight, strategic thinking, and a strong understanding of the mindset required for lasting success.
Jeff works with entrepreneurs to break through the mental and practical barriers that limit growth. His approach begins with mindset, helping clients develop the confidence, discipline, and clarity needed to strengthen both their leadership and their businesses.
Through The Confident Athlete Program, Jeff also helps athletes move beyond the physical side of competition and develop the mental skills needed to reach their full potential. His coaching focuses on confidence, focus, resilience, and consistent performance under pressure.
A former professional rodeo cowboy and longtime basketball coach, Jeff understands the commitment required to compete, lead, and grow. He has more than two decades of experience coaching basketball and enjoys supporting young athletes.
Jeff and his wife, Tamara, grew up in Southern Alberta and now live in Arizona, where family, coaching, and sports remain central to their lives.
