Truly Significant honors Dr. Michael Suk, third generation orthepedic surgeon, attorney, former White House Fellow, polymath, and leader of MDEnvoy, a Physician agency representing medical doctors.

Dr. Suk is a mission driven physician, selfless servant to his patients and is skilled as an eco-system creator.

According to recent reports, a growing number of physicians are taking a page from professional sports and are now seeking the kind of agent representation that athletes have long relied on.

Learn from MDEnvoy CEO and co-founder with famed sports agent- Leigh Steinberg, about the impact of MDEnvoy as an "intentional architect of significance." With MDEnvoy, Dr. Suk aims to help today's physicians enter into long-lasting and mutually successful relationships with their employers, providing other strategic support such as relocation planning, wealth management, intellectual property protection, branding and marketing.


Learn more at www.mdenvoy.com today.

Ann Keil Dux is a person of significance. Former TV journalist, Emmy Award winner and cancer survivor, she has lived a remarkable life.

You will be inspired by this whip smart, executive communications coach and strategist. Ann talks about the important soft skills fueled by emotional intelligence. She dives into high impact communication moments and how we should react authentically.

Show up as the best version of yoursefl. Communicate from your real self from real places. Consider active verbs that describe you and connect with those words.

Self proclaimed as THE GLUE, connect with Ann Keil Dux on LinkedIn or www.DuxCommunications.com.

Luz Maria Mack is a Truly Significant™ thought leader because she is doing something larger than writing children’s books: she is helping people understand that identity, belonging, and cultural memory are built through the stories we choose to tell—and the stories we choose not to leave out.

Luz's significance through six dimensions: 1. She turns representation into belonging Luz's work isn't representation for representation's sake. Her central question is essentially: “Does a child see themselves in the story?” Her Dominican and Afro-Caribbean children's literature gives young readers cultural mirrors while also giving other children windows into experiences different from their own.

The Secret of the Plátano, for example, was selected by Bank Street College of Education among its Best Children's Picture Books of 2023. That fits the Truly Significant lens beautifully: Significance happens when someone feels seen, valued, and connected because you were willing to tell the story. 2. Her "side quest" became a mission This is perhaps the strongest connection to Side Quests to Significance. Luz's path wasn't simply, “I want to become a famous author.” Her motherhood, cultural experience, professional life and encounters with the publishing world led her toward a creative calling that answered a need she saw around her.

She has described moving beyond waiting for publisher approval and instead creating stories rooted in her community. That's a classic Side Quest: Curiosity → Need → Action → Significance. She didn't necessarily set out to build a cultural platform. She followed a need—and the need revealed the mission. 3. She understands that stories can preserve culture Luz isn't merely entertaining children. She is preserving pieces of Dominican and Caribbean culture for another generation. Her books explore language, music, family, heritage and identity. Her animated adaptation of ¡Pequeña María descubre su baile! won recognition at Bridge Fest and was subsequently featured on PBS.

TrulySignificant.com honors writer, advocate, and co-founder of Children's Arts Guild Alexander Kopelman. His profound book is For Real: Helping Children Remain Their Authentic Selves in a Limiting World.

Alexander has guided programs that help young people challenge limiting cultural messages and express who they truly are through creativity, reflection, and self discovery. His philosophy is simple yet powerful: when adults show up authentically, childnen gain the courage to do the same.

Before founding the Gulld, Alexander served as Director of Marketing at Girls Inc, the leading girls empowerment organization in the United States.

Key message: Childhood is NOT a waiting room for humanity.

Tom Jasper is truly significant. His career on Wall Street led him to a pioneering role in the $800 TRILLION derivative market.

Tom is debuting his book Wall Street Maverick: Musings on a Career of Innovation, Derivatives, Credit, and Risk.

Finding your mentor is a central message from Tom along with knowing when to take risk and challenge the establishment.

More about Tom....he is a Risk Magazine "Risk Pioneer" and 2002 Risk Hall of Fame inductee for his profound contributions to the field of risk management. He was instrumental in creating the foundations for today's $800+ trillion derivatives market, among other successes, during his 40+ year career on Wall Street. A business creator and innovator throughout his career, Jasper was a managing director at Salomon Brothers, where he established and led its interest rate swap business. While at Salomon, he founded and co-chaired the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA). Jasper went on to become chief executive of Primus Guaranty Ltd., a highly innovative credit default swap business. He is currently a managing partner of Manursing Partners, LLC, serves on several Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) Fund boards, and continues to give back to his community. He and his wife reside in Connecticut.

By a miracle, Jenna Phillips Ballard is alive today. After a horrific brain injury and coma, she re-arrived in life as a visionary leader, transformational coach, artist. She is now the founder of I•▲M—a global movement dedicated to helping people embody their highest selves and live in alignment with purpose, prosperity, and love.

She began her career in 2006 as a certified personal trainer and mindset coach, working with A-list clients including Ben Stiller, Blink-182, and Saudi Arabian royalty. Quickly becoming one of Los Angeles’s most sought-after fitness experts, she was featured on Dr. Phil, The Doctors, KTLA, and Good Morning LaLa Land, with editorial spotlights in Harper’s Bazaar, Lucky, Allure, and Madame Figaro.

In 2011, Jenna discovered emotional intelligence and somatic healing, igniting a deeper mission to awaken the leaders of the new era. She immersed herself in leadership trainings and transformational coaching, helping top executives and influencers access their highest potential and create legacies rooted in integrity and impact. In 2016, Jenna and her husband, Brad Ballard, co-founded Ascension Leadership Academy (ALA)—a premier emotional intelligence training company that has transformed thousands of lives, helped businesses 10x their growth, and raised over $4MM for charity. Now based in Austin, Jenna continues to mentor high-level leaders, founders, and creators while expanding her I•▲M ecosystem—which includes her transformational book I•▲M Her Now.

Honoring Dr. Greg Allgood, leader at World Vision, focused on clean water to 700 million people in need. World Vision works in a variety of sectors, with water being a central focus.

Greg shares a life changing story of Mercy, a woman was taking toxic water to her family. Greg offered his P&G product, a water purification packet, that instantly cleared the muddy water. He saw changed and improved lives.

Visit worldvision.org and drop down to water or go to www.drgregallgood.com. It only takes $50 to transform a life or buy two copies of his book Thirsty for a Miracle and Greg's team will contribute $50 to help an individual with clean water.

What makes Greg's story is that he didn't simply give to people in need. He used science, business, partnerships, persistence and personal conviction to build a system capable of helping millions.

1. He made clean water a life mission Dr. Allgood spent 26 years at Procter & Gamble and founded the P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program. With his background in toxicology and public health, he recognized that P&G's water-purification technology could do far more good as a humanitarian program than it could as a conventional commercial product.
2. He turned corporate capability into humanitarian impact This may be the most significant part of his story. Allgood persuaded P&G to create a nonprofit model around its water-purification technology. The little packets could transform contaminated water into drinkable water in about 30 minutes. The program eventually delivered more than 23 billion liters of clean water, reaching millions of people.
3. Greg became a bridge between unlikely partners Allgood understood that no single organization was going to solve the global water crisis. He helped build partnerships involving P&G, World Vision, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Gates Foundation, UNICEF, WHO and USAID. That's a powerful Side Quest to Significance lesson: sometimes your calling isn't to do everything yourself. It's to connect the people, resources and institutions that can accomplish something together that none could accomplish alone.

Arie Kruglanski is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland whose career spans human judgment, motivation, goal pursuit, cognition, group behavior, and radicalization.

He has published more than 300 articles, chapters and books, and in 2024 received the Association for Psychological Science's William James Fellow Award for lifetime contributions to psychology. His most significant contribution: the Quest for Significance Kruglanski's breakthrough idea is Significance Quest Theory: human beings have a fundamental motivation to feel that they have worth, dignity, respect and meaning.

His 2022 formulation describes the quest for significance as the need to have social worth. That idea becomes especially powerful when connected to Side Quests to Significance work. Kruglanski essentially asks: What makes a person desperately want to matter? Side Quest work asks a complementary question: What if we intentionally discover the things that make us matter—to ourselves, to others and to the world—and pursue them? Enjoy hearing about the fascinating bridge.