2025 Seminar Speakers

Meet our Keynote Speakers from the 2025 Leadership Seminar:

Alex Swire-Clark | Personal Leadership 

Speaker biography coming soon!

Ian Holmes | Group Leadership

Speaker biography coming soon!

Dr. LaQuioa Johnson | Inclusive Leadership

An accomplished Clinical Pharmacy Leader who checked all the boxes for success, yet forced to exit a toxic and hostile work environment, Dr. LaQuoia shares a traumatic experience of exclusion and why she chose peace over a paycheck in her book How Rxacism Manifests: Inside the Small World of Pharmacy.  She transformed her greatest pain into purpose as an educator, speaker, leadership coach and pharmacy consultant.  Dr. LaQuoia leverages her pharmacy leadership experience teaching future pharmacy technicians at two community colleges in North Carolina. She is a pharmacy consultant for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) foundation and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. 

Dr. LaQuoia is also the founder of Growing Through It, LLC, a coaching and consulting firm specializing in personal and leadership development. Her mission is to show the world what grace looks like and equip today’s leaders with the skills necessary to lead tomorrow’s workforce. Whether she is speaking for a youth group, conference, church, or corporate event, Dr. LaQuoia enjoys fostering an atmosphere for courageous conversations to be had, so that everyone can be seen, heard, and given the opportunity to grow and thrive together. The legacy Dr. LaQuoia will leave the world is a Grace Culture®, a transformational approach for leading yourself and others from the lens of grace.

Tara LaFon Gooch | Gratitude

Speaker biography coming soon!