Keynote Speakers
Professor Lisa Miller
Lisa Miller, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Education, Director of the Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia University's Teachers College, and founder and Executive Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute. Professor Miller’s research has been published in journals including JAMA-Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and Weekend Today as an expert psychologist. She is the author of "The Spiritual Child," which contains over a decade of research on the impact of religion and spirituality. "Every child is born a spiritual child. We all are 'hardwired' with a natural spirituality, but this inborn capacity can be strengthened into the greatest of all our human resources through parenting." She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children. Professor Miller will keynote the morning session of the conference to discuss spiritual awareness and development in childhood and adolescent years.
Bob Roth
Bob Roth is one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in America. Over the past 40 years, Bob has taught Transcendental Meditation to many thousands of people and authored an authoritative book on the subject, fittingly entitled, Transcendental Meditation, which has been translated into 20 languages. Bob currently serves as the Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity which has brought meditation to over 500,000 inner-city youth in underserved schools in 35 countries, to veterans and their families who suffer from post-traumatic stress, and women and children who are survivors of domestic violence. Bob also directs the Center for Leadership Performance, another nonprofit, which is bringing meditation to Fortune 100 companies, government organizations, and nonprofit charities. Bob is the host of the SiriusXM radio show, "Success Without Stress" and has spoken about meditation to industry leaders at such gatherings as Google Zeitgeist, Aspen Ideas Festival, Wisdom2.0, and Summit.