Ray Ravaglia is the Chief Learning Officer at Opportunity Education, a foundation transforming secondary education. Active in online education since 1989, Ravaglia was the Founder and Principal Architect of the Stanford Online High School and is the Vice-Chairman and Founder of Dwight Global School.  He was the Founder of the Precollege Division at The School of The New York Times where he led two national events on college admission and preparation.

Charlie Javice is the founder and CEO of Frank, the leading platform connecting students to financial aid at US colleges. In less than three years, the company has helped over 4.25 million students find $12 billion in tuition savings for college. At 19, Charlie was the youngest person to be named one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People.” In 2019, she topped the Forbes 30 under 30 list in the Big Money and Finance category. She’s a thought leader in fintech and education authoring op-eds for the NY Times and Wall Street Journal. She’s currently working on a bill to advocate for a change in student loan disbursement that would save students billions of dollars in interest fees. Charlie graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

As Founder and Director of College Strong, Marti is an experienced professional with demonstrated experience in higher education, program assessment, curriculum development, & team building. College Strong promotes a successful and smooth transition for high school seniors (or returning students) as they begin their freshman year of college. The online course prepares students for the full college experience by teaching academic study skills as well as much needed soft skills.

Vincent is the founder of Vyten, an online coaching program that helps ordinary people get incredible jobs with the pay and purpose they deserve. He specializes in helping job candidates interview with confidence, and secure a job that enables them to enjoy the best that life has to offer.

He has been featured in Forbes, Entreprenuer.com, Fast Company, The Tennessean, Nashville Business Journal, and STORES Magazine. He is also the 2020 award recipient of the Nashville Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. 

Since 2014, Vincent and Vyten have helped over 800,000 job seekers advance their careers!

Marybeth Kravets is the Director of College Counseling for Wolcott College Preparatory High School and is the President of Marybeth Kravets & Associates providing college counseling and educational consulting. Ms. Kravets graduated from the University of Michigan and earned her master’s degree in Guidance and Counseling from Wayne State University (MI).  She has served as the President of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, as well as, the President of the Illinois Association for College Admission Counseling. She is the noted co-author of The Princeton Review/Random House book The K&W Guide to College for Students with Leaning Differences 15th Edition.(2021) She is the recipient of the Community Service Award from the Harvard University Club of Chicago, the Community Service Award from the University of Arizona SALT Program, the NACAC Gayle C. Wilson Award for outstanding service to her profession and the John B. Muir Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Literature of Educational & Admission Counseling”. Marybeth is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and a Board of Trustee member for the United World College-USA.

Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentoring and leadership development and is currently a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. She also has a weekly show and podcast by the same name where she gathers high achievers to talk about their journey to success. In 2021, she was one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking.

During her extensive career, she has personally coached and mentored thousands of people ranging from undergraduates to faculty members.  As Assistant Dean for Mentoring she oversaw the success of nearly 1,800 faculty members at Weill Cornell Medicine. Currently, she researches the most successful people of our generation, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, CEOs and Olympic champions, in order to learn about their habits and practices so that we may optimize our own success.

Dr. Gotian received her B.S. and M.S. in Business Management from the University at Stony Brook in New York and certificates in Executive Leadership and Managing for Execution from Cornell University. She earned her doctorate at Teachers College Columbia University where she studied Adult Learning and Leadership and focused her research on optimizing success.

Dr. Gotian publishes on topics ranging from networking, mentoring, leadership development and optimizing success and has given talks on these themes all over the globe. She regularly publishes in such journals as Nature, Scientific American, Academic Medicine, Forbes and Harvard Business Review. She is the co-editor of a book on medical education, won numerous mentoring awards and is the author of the upcoming book The Success Factor – Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance.