Holly Berline obtained her grant writing skills while working for Miami-Dade County’s Administrative Office of the Courts’ Court Services Division. In 1995 Ms. Berline recognized the need for development services in the local nonprofit sector and began impacting the community with her consulting company, Compose Yourself, Business Development Services. The first client, Kristi House, wanted to develop a program serving sexually abused children. Compose Yourself assisted with the transformation of Kristi House from a concept in the boardroom to a multi-million dollar two-story Key West-style facility.

Holly has worked in South Florida developing programs and funding for the prevention, education and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Ms. Berline was the National Director of Technical Assistance for Youth Crime Watch of America until funding for that position expired. While there, she organized an International Youth Crime Watch event for 1500 youth and adults and coordinated Expansion Centers throughout the United States to promote crime, violence and substance prevention programs. Holly is now President and Chief Executive Officer of Capacity Development, Inc., a not-for-profit firm providing training and technical assistance to nonprofit service organizations. One of Capacity Development’s current clients is the Children’s Trust in Miami, Florida.

Gustavo Briand was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Lima, Peru, and Miami Beach, Florida. As a child Gustavo learned about classical music, opera and folk music from his father. His interest in beauty led him to five years of hair education, including a three-year apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon in the US and the United Kingdom. He later joined the Artistic Team of the company, where he trained hundreds of stylists, working with Vidal Sassoon in Chicago, Boston, Santa Monica, Miami Beach, London, and Frankfurt, Germany.

Mr. Briand opened Gustavo Briand Studio in 2007 in Miami Beach, Florida. Committed to making a difference in the area of global warming, his salon was the first in the US to become a contributor to ‘Terra Pass,’ an organization that utilizes funds provided by businesses worldwide to counteract the negative impacts of CO2 emissions. He also performs pro bono work for the Florida Grand Opera, Miami City Ballet and Miami Symphony. Mr. Briand speaks Spanish, German and Italian and is learning French and Russian.

Alan Collins, a master QuantumThink coach, is a gifted, world-class business and life performance coach and program leader. For more than 15 years, Alan has worked with thousands of executives, managers, entrepreneurs and professionals, engaging and empowering them in the practice and achievement of mastery in their business and personal lives.

Born and schooled in London, England, Alan was a successful entrepreneur and business owner before being formally trained as a professional coach. Prior to establishing his own firm with his wife and business partner, Dianne Collins, creator of QuantumThink®, Alan led transformational seminars and workshops for private educational corporations, and was a senior consultant in a Florida-based business consulting firm. Sought after for his easy, ego-less coaching style, he is known by his peers as “a coach’s coach.”

Dianne Collins is a modern wisdom teacher – a visionary thinker, creator, writer, speaker and producer, passionate about showing people new ways of thinking and seeing that make life sublime. Her awards and accomplishments in business, media and the arts – as a graduate student in philosophy, a Fortune 100 corporate manager, photographic artist, video producer, and co-founder of the consulting firm, Star Group – demonstrate her rich palette of experience and interests.

In 1997, Dianne Collins created and trademarked the QuantumThink^® phenomenon, a groundbreaking new system of thinking that blends scientific insight and spiritual wisdom into simple principles that have people instantly thinking in sync with the expanded reality of our Quantum Age.

William Handley is a Financial Manager with over 35 years experience beginning with International General Electric in New York followed by an assignment in Caracas, Venezuela. While in Caracas he accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer of a local Conglomerate with assets of over $2.2 Billion and 3.500 Employees spending over 10 years in Caracas between the two positions. After returning to the U.S. in 1988 he started a Management Consulting Business in Miami to assist small to medium sized businesses achieve their financial goals for over 17 years.

Marianne (Mimi) Pink (Grant Writer, Development) has more then twenty years of experience in the nonprofit sector.  She has held senior positions in public relations, marketing and development for leading organizations in Seattle (Seattle Symphony), New York City and Miami. During her tenure in Florida, she served as Vice President of Public Relations and Marketing for the New World Symphony in Miami Beach and Director of Development for Children's Home Society of Florida in Miami.  She currently holds the position of Development Officer for The Education Fund in Miami-Dade County.  She is married and has two young daughters.

Ruth Stoltz (President) has been a registered pharmacist for Bascom Palmer Eye Institute for fifteen years.  She received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Cincinnati in 1967 and moved to South Florida in 1979 with her family. Ruth took an avid interest in music at age four by starting to pick out melodies on the piano from songs she heard of the radio. She began taking piano lessons at age eight and completed her formal music education in high school.  Being on the board of the South Beach Chamber Ensemble is Ruth’s expression of a life long love of chamber music.