Session - Building Your Personal Brand: Shaping and Evolving Your Professional Impact

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Hilani Ellis has spent her career helping administrative professionals and the leaders they support work better together. As the founder of Exceptional Admins and Exceptional Talent Group, Hilani works alongside organizations to hire exceptional professionals, helping ambitious companies scale.

Her depth of expertise stems from working in lock step with highly successful professionals, including a founder of a private equity firm and a celebrity. Each day, she leverages her vast and dynamic experiences to support scaling executives and businesses build exceptional teams.

Through her work across the administrative profession, Hilani continually uncovers the patterns that separate good partnerships from exceptional ones. These insights become the foundation of every contribution she makes, whether she is delivering a keynote, facilitating a workshop, moderating a
panel discussion, hosting a podcast conversation, or authoring content that helps others achieve greater productivity.

Hilani brings high-energy and an unconventional approach to every conversation, helping professionals fulfill the demands of today and the future.

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Session - Welcome Intro & Main Session: Mirage

Mike Gould serves as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Visioneering Studios, where he walks alongside churches through every phase of their building journey — from the earliest conversations about vision through design, construction, renovation, and beautification. He doesn't take that trust lightly.

Before joining Visioneering, Mike served in executive and worship leadership roles at churches of all sizes. That time shaped how he sees his work today: not as a vendor relationship, but as a genuine partnership. He understands what it means for a congregation to pour their hopes into a building project, and he brings that understanding into every conversation.

Mike has always believed that the best outcomes come from people working well together — that no single person, regardless of talent or experience, produces what a unified, communicating team can. That conviction shapes how he engages with both the clients he serves and the colleagues he works alongside. He's the kind of person others want in the room.

What people notice about Mike is that he listens. He asks good questions, communicates clearly, and stays focused on what matters most — that churches end up with spaces they love, on time and on budget, with a team they'd gladly work with again. He believes the best buildings are the ones that quietly do their job: drawing people in, fostering community, and creating environments where people want to be.

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Session - Leading from a Settled Place

Elizabeth Settle is a speaker and biblical counselor with a passion for helping individuals and communities embrace their true identity and live in freedom. With a heart for guiding others to hear God's voice and experience personal transformation, she blends practical wisdom with deep spiritual insight.

She and her husband Jason have been married for over 25 years. They are cofounders of SettledCo, a counseling, coaching, and consulting company. They have two 20-something kids who are each figuring out how to “adult” in delightfully distinct ways.

Host

Anne Milam is passionate about serving Jesus in this generation. With over 30 years of ministry experience, Anne is a wife and a mother of four. She has been a youth pastor, church planter, children's pastor...and in another life, a high school English teacher and cheerleading coach. Currently, she is the Strategic Events Manager at Visioneering Studios, host of the Admin Conference 2023, and host of AdminsLive on Instagram. She loves her Nespresso and hot yoga and has possibly an unhealthy addiction to HomeGoods.

Breakout Topic 1: TBD & Breakout Topic 2: Tell Me More

Hilani Ellis has spent her career helping administrative professionals and the leaders they support work better together. As the founder of Exceptional Admins and Exceptional Talent Group, Hilani works alongside organizations to hire exceptional professionals, helping ambitious companies scale.

Her depth of expertise stems from working in lock step with highly successful professionals, including a founder of a private equity firm and a celebrity. Each day, she leverages her vast and dynamic experiences to support scaling executives and businesses build exceptional teams.

Through her work across the administrative profession, Hilani continually uncovers the patterns that separate good partnerships from exceptional ones. These insights become the foundation of every contribution she makes, whether she is delivering a keynote, facilitating a workshop, moderating a
panel discussion, hosting a podcast conversation, or authoring content that helps others achieve greater productivity.

Hilani brings high-energy and an unconventional approach to every conversation, helping professionals fulfill the demands of today and the future.

Breakout Topic 1: Be the BRIDGE

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Breakout Topic 2: Maximizing Your Leader's Impact by Stewarding Energy

Holly Sage serves as the Executive Administrator at Plum Creek Church in Castle Rock, Colorado. With nearly a decade of experience in church administration, she has learned that administration is far more than managing tasks—it's a calling and strategic partnership to empower leaders, and help the Church fulfill its mission.

Holly is passionate about creating environments where people can discover God's calling on their lives and cultivating cultures of trust through faithful encouragement. She has the privilege of leading the administrative team at Plum Creek, helping administrators embrace and grow in their God-given gift of administration. She often refers to her team as "the team within the teams," recognizing the unique role administrators play in strengthening every ministry they support.

Outside the office, Holly has been happily married to her high school sweetheart for 20 years. Together they have two sons who are beginning the exciting journey into adulthood at 17 and 20 years old. When she isn't serving at church, you'll likely find her paddleboarding on a mountain lake, hiking Colorado trails, or simply soaking in the fresh mountain air with her family.

Breakout Topic 1: The Content Mistake That Limits Your Reach

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Breakout Topic 2: Your New Assistant: Practical AI for the Church Office

Jesse Carbó is a Cuban American and Miami native who has spent 30 years in full-time pastoral ministry alongside Anitra, his high school sweetheart, with whom he's raised four kids. He has served as a youth pastor, church planter, executive pastor, and network leader giving him a wide angle view of church life paired with a lifelong entrepreneurial streak.

While planting a church, Jesse taught himself digital marketing to supplement his income, then realized those same skills could help churches reach the people right in front of them. In 2022 he began helping churches and nonprofits secure and use the Google Ad Grant, which provides up to $10,000 a month in free advertising to reach people online. Today he leads the Digital Missions Project, an agency of "ministers who know marketing" that helps churches and faith-based nonprofits reach their neighbors through Google Ads, SEO, and content strategy. He's especially focused on equipping ministry leaders to put AI to work turning sermons into content, reaching searchers faster, and freeing pastors from the marketing tasks that pull them away from the people they're called to serve.

Breakout Topic 1: Healthy People Create Healthy Ecosystems

Elizabeth Settle is a speaker and biblical counselor with a passion for helping individuals and communities embrace their true identity and live in freedom. With a heart for guiding others to hear God's voice and experience personal transformation, she blends practical wisdom with deep spiritual insight.

She and her husband Jason have been married for over 25 years. They are cofounders of SettledCo, a counseling, coaching, and consulting company. They have two 20-something kids who are each figuring out how to “adult” in delightfully distinct ways.

Breakout Topic: Stop Guessing: A Practical Guide to Social Media for Churches

Gabby Fontes is the Marketing & Digital Designer at Visioneering Studios, where she leads the company's social media strategy and manages content across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other digital platforms. She specializes in content creation, video production, photography, and social media marketing, helping communicate Visioneering's mission and connect with churches and ministry leaders across the country.