TUESDAY, MAY 12

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Mind. Body. Money. An Opening Conversation

Setting the Tone for the Health + Wellness Experience

Main Street Station

Fireside Chat

Most wellness conversations aren't built for people like you. They assume you have more time, fewer stakes, and a schedule you can control. This one doesn't.

Kristin Richardson, Founder and CEO of Sherah, opens the Health + Wellness track in conversation with several of our Wellness speakers about their journey and how the three pillars of Mind, Body, and Money integrate to affect and mold your health, effectiveness, fulfillment, and sustainability as a person and as a leader.

No generic advice. Get ready for an honest exchange over these two days about what it actually looks like to lead well and live well when internal and external pressures don't stop.

Featured Guests:

Kristin Richardson, Founder and CEO, Sherah, in conversation with BDIS Health + Wellness practitioners

BDIS Health + Wellness Breakout Session | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

The Founder’s Operating System

Burnout, Boundaries, and the Hidden Dynamics That Shape Performance

Main Street Station

Fireside Chat

Most conversations about founder wellness stay on the surface: more sleep, better routines, a meditation app. The harder conversation is what happens beneath the surface, inside the operating system of the founder and the invisible dynamics that shape how a company actually functions. Stress does not stay where it starts. It moves through an organization, concentrates in leadership, distorts decision-making, and shows up in culture, performance, and growth. Rae Stott brings a practical, non-clinical lens to nervous system regulation, boundaries, burnout, and resilience, translating them into tools founders can use in real time. Drawing on her experience as an operator, ecosystem builder, and advisor to early-stage companies, she names what is happening beneath the surface and offers a clearer way to lead through high stakes, ambiguity, and pressure. The goal is not just successful companies. It is sustainable ones, where performance and well-being are not in conflict.

Featured Guest:

Rae Stott, Co-Founder and CEO, Refraction

BDIS Health + Wellness Breakout Session | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Reset from the Inside Out

An Intuitive Healing and Meditation Experience

Main Street Station

Immersive Experience

You cannot think your way out of burnout. At some point, the body and the soul have to be part of the conversation. This 90-minute immersive experience with Monica Rao is unlike anything else on the Big Dipper program. It is not a talk about wellness. It is a direct, lived encounter with it. Drawing on her own near-death experience and more than 30 years of meditation practice, Monica reframes what becomes possible when we stop managing stress and start actually clearing it. From there, the session moves into a guided meditation and intuitive energy healing designed specifically for high-achieving, high-stress leaders. Attendees are led into a state that quiets the analytical mind, softens the nervous system, and creates space for the body to release what it has been holding. No prior meditation experience is necessary. Come as you are. Leave differently.

Featured Guest:

Monica Rao, MSA, Transformative Energy Healer, Meditation Coach, and Transformational Spiritual Life Coach; Founder, Graphoria

BDIS Health + Wellness Breakout Session | 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

The Money Stories We Carry and the Ones We Still Need to Hear

How Money Shapes Our Minds, Our Bodies, and the Generations We Leave Behind

Main Street Station

Panel Discussion

The money conversation most people never had and the one that changes everything.

Kristin Richardson, CEO of Sherah, sits down with certified financial planners Susan Hulcher of RBC Wealth Management and Elliott Warren of UBS to unpack the generational money stories we carry with us that affect our financial reality personally and professionally, the truths about women and wealth that nobody taught us, and what it actually looks like to rewrite our financial narrative - for ourselves and the generations we leave behind.

Moderator:

Kristin Richardson, Founder and CEO, Sherah,

Featured Guests:

Susan Hulcher, AAMS®, APP, CFP®, RBC Wealth Management

W. Elliott Warren, CPWA®, UBS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13

BDIS Health + Wellness Breakout Session | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Before the Diagnosis

Detecting and Reversing Cardiometabolic Risk Early. Leveraging Advanced Testing and Small Habit Shifts to Change Everything.

Main Street Station

Panel Discussion

Most heart disease doesn’t announce itself. It builds quietly, often missed by standard testing, invisible on routine bloodwork, and shaped daily by stress, sleep, and lifestyle choices we barely notice. Dr. Jennifer Chung and Dr. Matthew Chung break down the link between stress and cardiometabolic health, explain why conventional risk assessments leave dangerous gaps, and share the advanced imaging and advanced biomarkers that give a far more accurate picture. Learn three small, science-backed daily habits that create measurable change. Delivered with real solutions and time for questions and discussion.

Featured Guests:

Dr. Jennifer Chung, MD, Functional Medicine, Internal Medicine

Dr. Matthew Chung, MD, Interventional Cardiology

BDIS Health + Wellness Breakout Session | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

The Full Circle: Designing a Life That Fulfills You

A Values-Based Framework for Living with Greater Intention

Main Street Station

Interactive Session

You’ve arrived. All the hard work, sacrifice, and ambition have paid off, and here you are. But once the initial relief fades, the days start to blur. The to-do lists get checked, the milestones keep coming, and somewhere in the background a quieter question emerges. Is this it? Is this the life I meant to build? You can be successful by every external measure and still feel like something is off. In this interactive session, Dr. Liz Sonntag invites attendees to pause and take a more honest look at their life: not just what’s working, but what may be missing. Using a values-based framework, she guides a full-circle view across health, relationships, career, personal growth, play, and more. This is not about optimizing or achieving more. It is about stepping off autopilot, moving beyond external expectations and the supposed-to’s, and reconnecting with what actually matters. Attendees leave with greater clarity, a deeper sense of intention, and a renewed awareness that they have more agency than they may be using.

Featured Guest:

Dr. Liz Sonntag, Critical Care Physician; Founder, Say More Coaching

BDIS Health + Wellness Breakout Session | 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Energy Reset: Restored and Full Before What’s Next

A Mid-Summit Reset

Main Street Station

Restorative Practice

Midway through the Summit, the mind is full. The body has been in motion. The schedule has been demanding. Before heading into the evening and the final day ahead, this session creates space to integrate what the Summit has stirred up so far. Ashley Williams Hillman leads a restorative practice that draws on therapeutic, somatic, and mindfulness-based techniques to quiet the nervous system, restore energy, and reconnect mind, body, heart, and community. The session is designed to send attendees back out differently than they arrived, with greater self-awareness, inner steadiness, and a clearer sense of what to carry into Day 3.

Featured Guest:

Ashley Williams Hillman, Founder and CEO, The Well Collective

The Health + Wellness Experience is part of the Big Dipper Innovation Summit and included with Summit registration. Attendees can move freely between Health + Wellness sessions and the main Summit programming on the same days.