Mike uses the platforms of business coaching and leadership training to fulfill his passion: helping others maximize their own personal and professional value.

As a member of the 8150 Advisors team, Mike collaborates with private practice owners through strategic growth, creating next level leaders, operational efficiency, and team engagement. Several practices have doubled in practice value as result of their collaboration. Prior to joining the 8150 team, Mike helped Rock Valley Physical Therapy grow from 26 to 52 locations as their first VP of Growth & Development. New patient volumes increased 210% during his six-year tenure where he was responsible for de novo and mature clinic growth. While serving as Director of Operations for Proaxis Therapy, he was an integral leader in developing physician relations, operational excellence, and a five-star patient experience.

Dedicated to life-long learning, Mike earned a BS from Mount Union College, an MDiv with Leadership Specialization from Indiana Wesleyan University, and a DPT from the Duke University School of Medicine. Mike is a Certified Coach and DISC Personality Assessment Trainer through the Maxwell Leadership Team. Mike began his career at the Ohio State University Sports Medicine Center where his experiences included consulting with the US Army Special Forces, treating a Masters champion and several NFL draft picks. He has served APTA and PPS as a Federal Affairs Liaison, APTA Delegate, PPS Impact Editorial Board Member, and PPS Annual Conference presenter.

In addition to his business ventures, Mike serves part-time as the Partner Relations Manager for Zoe Empowers. Zoe is an empowerment-based program in India and nine African countries which transforms youth-led households to self-sufficiency in just three years. He has led several trips to Rwanda, Kenya, and Malawi to allow US partners to see the program’s impact. Mike lives in Iowa and enjoys time with his wife Kim (also a PT!), their four boys, and two dogs.

Derrick Mains as a guest for your podcast. Four time author, Emmy winner, host of The Process Fixer, serial entrepreneur, and CEO, Derrick has consulted on process optimization for hundreds of companies from Walmart to Exxon.

American business culture often rewards stoic, strong man behavior where our emotions are checked at the door but it’s impossible to truly remove our human instincts and limbic responses. Derrick’s approach to process optimization and change management is centered in acknowledging and managing these human instincts. He believes that when we see, value, and empower employees as whole humans, they reflect that value back to the customer.

A born storyteller, Derrick weaves history, psychology, philosophy, and lived experience into powerful conversation on how we can shape the human-centric workplace of the future.

America’s Leadership Authority” Dr. Derrick Noble has been helping business leaders take their leadership and communication skills to the next level of excellence for two decades. His passion has led him to support those from all walks of life to become more influential leaders and more confident communicators.

Throughout his youth, Noble endured years of speech therapy for a severe stutter and speech impediment. Once quoted as stating he was “the least likely person to be a professional speaker,” Dr. Noble has since gone on to become an award-winning TEDx speaker, speech coach, and trainer. He now famously quips “At first, I couldn’t talk, and now they can’t shut me up!”

Noble works directly with leaders, speakers, business owners, CEOs, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies. His clients throughout the years include The United States Air Force, The United States Navy, The United States Forestry Service, The FBI, the City of Los Angeles, and so many more.

In 2020, Noble was one of only 12 Black entrepreneurs admitted into the Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce’s prestigious Business Evolution Program – an intense 12-month program in which he was personally mentored by some of the most successful Black entrepreneurs in the city. In 2021, he was featured in the Los Angeles Business Journal as an influential African American business leader. He currently serves as the featured Leadership Expert for BizTV, a national broadcast network for entrepreneurs and business owners, and he hosts “The Dr. Derrick Noble Show” on KGGR of Dallas, TX – the largest Black-owned radio station in the US.

In December 2022, Noble released his highly anticipated first book, Leadership Launch: Essential Skills for New Leaders. It quickly became an international best seller, and was designated as the #1 new business book worldwide within its first two weeks of availability. The book includes a foreword by Civil Rights hero Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals, a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to integrate Little Rock Central High School.

Noble has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English - with a double minor in Speech Communication and Psychology - from Angelo State University (1994), a Master of Divinity degree from Morehouse School of Religion (1997 Class Valedictorian), a Doctor of Ministry degree from Ashland Theological Seminary (2008 Class Valedictorian), and completed Ph.D. coursework in Educational Curriculum at Emory University.

Noble is an avid fan of the Los Angeles Clippers, Lakers and Dodgers; of classic jazz (particularly John Coltrane, Art Tatum, and Miles Davis), and also plays the jazz trombone himself. In addition, he is an ardent golfer, and loves watching classic martial arts movies.

• Jordan Burton is a seasoned executive assessor and interviewing trainer with over 17 years of experience. He specializes in training top Venture Capital and Private Equity investors and high-growth companies in hiring the best talent.
• Jordan is the co-founder of Talgo, where he manages relationships with industry giants like Sequoia Capital, TH Lee and Palantir Technologies.
• Jordan is a former Partner at the renowned leadership advisory firm ghSMART and a former consultant at Bain & Company. He’s a graduate of Duke University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
• Check out the Talgowebsite for more info!

Key Focus: Transforming hiring practices through world-class interviewing, exceptional candidate experiences, and innovative talent acquisition strategies.

Paul Epstein

2x Bestselling author, The Power of Playing Offense andBetter Decisions Faster
🚥 Success Magazine Top Speaker that Gets Results
🚥 Former NFL & NBA Executive and WHY Coach of the 49ers
🚥 Set an all-time Super Bowl revenue record
🚥 Took a Jerry Maguire leap from sports, to graduate from career to calling
🚥 Advisor to Fortune 500’s, Pro Athletes, and High Growth Founders
🚥 Led a $3B leadership development laboratory
🚥 Featured in USA Today, ESPN, NBC, Entrepreneur, and Fox Business
🚥 Clients range from Zoom, Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, and NASA to the Lakers and Cowboys
🚥 Proudest titles: father, husband, son, Trojan, and Wolverine
🚥 Bacon lover, just don’t make it too crispy
🚥 Got married on the field of Levi’s Stadium (her idea, I swear!)

Dr. Michael Mayrsohn was raised in a household where discussions about private practice in physical therapy were routine. He graduated from Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management in 2008 and earned his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Stony Brook University in 2012. Dr. Mayrsohn is board certified in Orthopedics and holds extensive training as a manual therapist. He joined Metro Physical & Aquatic Therapy in 2014 as a staff physical therapist at the Garden City office. At that time, Metro operated 5 locations with fewer than 50 employees. Today, Metro has expanded to 45 locations with over 700 employees and 400 providers, establishing itself as one of the largest private practices in the region.

Since assuming the role of CEO in 2016, Dr. Mayrsohn's leadership has guided Metro through 25 acquisitions, and the opening of 15 Denovo locations since 2017. Recognizing the importance of strong leadership, he launched an emerging leadership program in 2019 aimed at nurturing leaders within the organization. The ongoing program spans one year, with an average class size of 30 participants. Dr. Mayrsohn envisions Metro becoming a top-performing PT company nationally and aims to be an influential leader in the field.

John Rossman is the author of four books on leadership and business innovation including the best seller The Amazon Way and Big Bet Leadership. He is an early Amazon executive who played a key role in launching the Amazon marketplace business in 2002. Today he is a leading keynote speaker on leadership for innovation and transformation. John is an operator and builder whose love is diving into business problems and customer needs designing innovative solutions and business models and creating durable enterprise value. He has served as the senior technology advisor at the Gates Foundation and senior innovation advisor at T-Mobile.

His new book, Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era, is an actionable playbook for senior leaders to succeed at complex transformations.

John is the founder of Rossman Partners, a strategy & leadership solutions firm.

Melanie is the Founder of Leaders Who Fiction, an online book club and community that offers a unique way for people to acquire and develop leadership qualities through reading and discussing novels.

On this fast-growing platform, leaders meet on the last Wednesday of each month for intellectual, business-oriented conversations centered around a selected novel.

Melanie is also the Co-Founder of Strategic Piece, where she works with C-suite executives at growth-stage companies to deliver exceptional revenue growth by bringing together their marketing, sales, and service teams around an information-driven customer experience built on the HubSpot platform.

She has been an entrepreneur for almost a decade and witnessed a great deal of what works and doesn't work in leadership and how reading fiction equips leaders with the skills they need to achieve their professional goals.