About

Stand Up for Passion creates dynamic and engaging live events in cities across the world. Seven energetic speakers from all walks of life take the stage for seven minutes to share their stories and life’s passions. The speeches are followed by a reception, where speakers and attendees can mingle, connect to the community and network with one another.

On October 6th, you’ll hear stories from an actor, a lawyer from Nepal, an inventor, a founder of a media company, a founder of a finance tech company, a tech genius with Aspergers and a mental toughness coach. The show starts at 7PM SHARP and will be over by 8:15 pm. There will be a Q&A and networking reception afterwards for our community to mingle and connect.

Speakers

Renita Kalhorn, A Juilliard-trained concert pianist and martial arts black belt with an MBA from INSEAD, Renita Kalhorn is passionate about human performance.

Founder of performance strategy firm Step Up Your Game Now, Renita coaches entrepreneur CEOs and their teams to perform better under the pressures of fast growth. She has delivered leadership and development programs in the US and Asia for Fortune 500 clients such as Deutsche Bank, Pfizer and Time Warner, and worked with individuals and teams at companies including Accenture, NASA, Optimum Nutrition, Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg. Renita also mentors Navy SEAL candidates and Green Berets in mental toughness. http://stepupyourgamenow.com/

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Anatoliy (Toli) Zaslavskiy, is a tech startup advisor, who comes from an engineering background, with a specialization in UX and data visualization.

Toli has a passion for keeping on top of the latest trends in tech and especially the Javascript community. He frequents the Brooklyn.js, Manhattan.js, Papers We Love, CodeGenius, and many other technical meetups. He also volunteers at ScriptEd, a non-for-profit.

Toli was diagnosed with Aspergers when he was 17 years old. He will be speaking about how this has affected him and what he has learned from it.

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Dilli Raj Bhatta, is the founding member of the firm. He has extensive experience in all phases of commercial transactions, litigation, and intellectual property law. He advises clients on a broad spectrum of matters and provides unique strategic solutions in resolving complex legal issues. He continues to represent individuals and corporations in complex transactions and cases in New York and in United States Federal Courts. Aside from commercial litigations, Mr. Bhatta advises and represents business entities on international trade and transactions, commercial arbitrations, contractual disputes, Intellectual Property matters, and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Prior to this firm, Mr. Bhatta worked for The Myers Law Firm, a prestigious Northern California law firm based in San Francisco. He also worked as an intern at the San Francisco District Attorney’s office where he gained in-depth trial experience working with the DA. He also represents tech starts-up and engineers.

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Jean Safar,

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Suki Sohn, started her career as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers. This was followed by over a decade of developing businesses for global media companies such as the Walt Disney Company and News Corporation. In 2007, she joined Fortress Investment Group in the Capital Formation group primarily responsible for the marketing initiatives including all investor collateral and events. She is currently CFO/COO Onslot Group, a hybrid creative agency and production company based in NYC. She is also a certified Feng Shui Master and Dahn Yoga Master. Suki is married to Performance and Transformation Coach John O'Connor and is the mother of two boys Jake and Jaden.

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Nadine Cino,

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Gail Thomas, Gail’s curious.. she’s a writer, editor, storyteller, lawyer, actor, barista, yoga teacher, dog sitter, hiker, biker, traveler, survivor... If she ever writes a book, it will be called “Bouncing Back” or something like that.

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