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The Science Behind Connection as a Skill for Growth

Jim Morris wrote Connect or Die: How to Survive AI and founded Human Touch Publishing. A TEDx and keynote speaker, he has bought and sold multiple businesses and now teaches leaders how to become the kind of human other people choose to bet on. As host of the IMPACT Effect event series, Jim speaks on why genuine human connection is the one skill no algorithm can replace.

You’ll walk away with

• 01Connection Reps: the daily practice that makes connection a skill, not a personality trait
• 02Integrity as a system: keeping small promises so people bet on you before you ask
• 03Compassionate curiosity: questions that move a conversation past small talk
• 04The relationship ladder: moving people from acquaintances to allies to confidants, on purpose

The Catalyst of Courage: From Judgement to Connection

Kat Polsinelli is a TEDx speaker and the founder of The Dragon Reclaimed community. She hosts Real Chat with Kat, a top 2.5% globally ranked podcast airing on six radio stations across six states, and has spent the last five years changing how we talk about judgment and what it actually takes to build a life and a business on your own terms. After surviving a decade of abuse and raising two boys as a single mother, she understands what it means to rebuild from the bottom up, and how judging ourselves and others shapes the choices we either step into or walk away from. Kat has lived every word of what she shares, and she brings tools that change how you show up from this day forward.

You’ll walk away with

• 01Judgment is the gap: everyone in the room is already judging something. Kat names it and gives you a framework to interrupt it, without shame.
• 02Courage is a choice, not a feeling. You don't need to feel ready. You need to be willing. Immediately applicable to every decision you're currently avoiding.
• 03Curiosity over assumption: one question can change the entire conversation, in a sale or anywhere else.
• 04Connection is a practice, not a personality trait. You don't have to be naturally warm or extroverted to create real connection.
• 05Your brain is running on old information. The judgments you make are filtered through past experiences that may no longer be relevant. Recognizing that is the beginning of changing it.

Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Author of The Ghost in the Habit

Anna DiCarlo is an author as well as the creator of the Resolution Reset method, which is dedicated to helping people build meaningful relationships with themselves. This method specializes in pattern recognition and self-connection. Anna bridges the gap between cognitive strategy and physical execution. Her work integrates neuroscience principles with somatic biofeedback (muscle testing and kinesiology) and intuitive assessment to help people expose blind spots, disrupt hidden behavioral loops, and align their execution with their strategy. Make sure to check out her upcoming psychological fiction novel, The Ghost in the Habit, launching this November.

She hosts the evening, from the opening welcome through speaker introductions to the transition into hot seats and Networking Not Normal.