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.

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.

Israel Sands has a Bachelor's in Psychology (1974) and a J.D. (1978) from the University of Miami. He passed the FL Bar in 1979. He spent the next 11 years importing shoes from the Far East and exporting to the Caribbean Islands, while spending part of each year in Paris. In 1990 he was a South Beach pioneer. His store, Flowers & Flowers was featured in every lifestyle magazine and had many celebrity clients through 2001.

In 2001 Israel became a television personality. He did 78 half hour shows about flowers and entertaining for MGM Latin America Networks. He graduated from the LL.M. program in Estate Planning at the UM in 2011. While in school he interned with Jerry Chasen, one of Miami's best estate planning attorneys. He brings real life business experience and an appreciation for personal entanglements to his sunny office at Historic City Hall in South Beach. Israel also speaks Spanish and French. He is on the board of directors of the Miami Beach Garden Conservancy and serves on the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council. He likes to kayak and he follows the international art and antiques market.

Paul Seligmann Jordan is a writer, translator and jewelry designer who lives and works in Little Havana.  He studied piano from age 9 to 17, till he traded his piano for a car. After studying design in Italy, Paul created Angelini children's wear which was in stores throughout the US in the 80's. He owned 2 restaurants including Café Montparnasse in Coral Gables. Paul is currently on the board of Camposition where he has collaborated with Octavio Campos in several performance pieces and is currently developing a screenplay for production and has a novel seeking representation. His cooking blog: http://cookingfor11.blogspot.com/ is slowly gaining a following. Paul has been a supporter and admirer of the South Beach Chamber Ensemble since its inception.

Ruth Stoltz 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.

Sandra Walsh is a PhD prepared registered nurse and is a Professor at Barry University in the Division of Nursing. She has degrees from Duke, Wake Forest, East Carolina and the University of South Carolina. She studied piano, violin, and viola as a child and was a violist in the Winston-Salem Symphony as a teen-ager. After years away from the arts, she has renewed her interest in the arts and conducts research that focuses on the effects of the arts and art-making activities in patients and their families. She is an award-winning watercolorist and has begun to play viola again. She is a violist with the Alhambra Orchestra.