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Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain. Dr. Miller is a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University and the Founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology. She has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Miller is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality, Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. A graduate of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her doctorate under the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, she has served as Principal Investigator on multiple grant funded research studies. Dr. Miller speaks and consults around The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child for the US Military, businesses (including tech, finance, HR and sales), personal development, faith based organizations, schools and universities, and for mental health and wellness initiatives.

Nazar Yasin has built and backed multi-billion-dollar technology ventures around the world - as an entrepreneur and as an investor with firms like Rise Capital, Tiger Global, and Goldman Sachs.

His journey has convinced him of the vital role that purpose plays in driving meaningful impact. As an early pioneer of the "profits with purpose" movement, his current focus is answering a pressing question: how do we strengthen human purpose in the age of AI?

Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sol, the #1 spiritual and mental health app in the United States, which helps people discover and deepen their own sense of purpose. He is also the Founder of Rise Capital, where he invests in purpose-driven unicorns across emerging markets, fueling innovation and social progress.

His achievements have been recognized with Northwestern University’s Distinguished Entrepreneur Award in 2017 - an honor previously awarded to leaders including Governor J. B. Pritzker, Chuck Templeton (Founder of OpenTable), and Randall Kaplan (Co-Founder of Akamai).

Nazar holds an engineering degree from Georgia Tech, a JD from Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.