Speakers

Mayor Glenn Hendricks

Glenn Hendricks is the current mayor of the City of Sunnyvale. He is also a manager at the Program Management Office at PayPal. Previously, he has had experience working at eBay, Visa International, and Charles Schwab. Along with his involvement in numerous city and county advisory boards, work, and family, he has many responsibilities to fulfill. Yet, he recognizes the importance of taking a step back to relax, and balances the numerous duties while maintaining a positive mindset.

Joelle Rabow Maletis: Initiating Good Mental Hygiene and Emotional Regulation

Joelle Rabow Maletis, MA.Ed, MA., LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in individual, couples, teens and family therapy; maintaining a private practice in Mt. View. With compassion and understanding, Joelle works with each individual to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing. Joelle is now one of the leading military psychology experts in the field. She specializes working with public service officers, first response providers, veterans, military relationships, combat stress and deployment trauma. In addition to being a prominent relationship psychotherapist, she has written and presented at National conferences such as CAMFT and to general audiences speaking on the topics of Military psychology, eating disorders, wellness and addictions. She is also an adjunct clinical psychology professor for San Jose State University. Joelle has been featured on ABC7 with Cheryl Jennings, and makes National radio appearances regarding Military/Veteran's psychological issues as well as PTSD.

Principal Greg Giglio

Mr. Giglio has spent the past 18 years in education, first as an English teacher at Berkeley High and then at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton. He was promoted to vice principal at Amador and was named principal of Village High School, the alternative high school in Pleasanton Unified School District, where he served for 7 years before coming to Homestead in January of 2013. Prior to education, Mr. Giglio worked in advertising and marketing after graduating from Fresno State with a bachelor’s in Journalism. He also attended San Francisco State and Cal State East Bay to get his teaching and administrative credentials. Currently, he participates in the Stanford Principal’s Fellowship with other middle and high school principals throughout the Bay Area. He is married to Paige, who also works in education as a job coach for students with moderate to severe disabilities in Pleasanton. She is currently getting her teaching credential as well. They have three children, the oldest is a senior at Montana State in Bozeman, Montana; their middle daughter is a senior at Amador Valley High School, and the youngest is a 6th grader at Hart Middle School also in Pleasanton.

Michael Susi: Being Fit for Life

Michael Susi currently holds the position of Global Wellness Manager at LinkedIn. Prior to joining LinkedIn, Michael was in the process of founding SusiFit.com an online service designed to assist people achieve their health and wellness goals. Michael’s progress through the Health and Wellness discipline coincided with various sales and marketing roles at companies that ranged from large corporations to internet startups over a 12 year span. Michael also experienced a short stint as a collegiate football coach prior to moving to New York City and entering the corporate world. Michael received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Lebanon Valley College, specializing in Secondary Education. Michael was a member of the football team at LVC where he played cornerback and also participated in track and field, running the 100m, 200m and 4x100 relay. He is from Hershey PA and now resides in Sunnyvale, CA.

Chris Clark

Chris has been physically active his entire life. He always had an interest in martial arts so at the age of 26 he took his first Kenpo Karate class and eventually achieved his 1st Degree Black Belt. Karate was also his first taste of “spiritual movement.” After a year long soul searching journey from 2011-2012 Chris was introduced to yoga by a fitness client’s wife after he mentioned that he was looking for something more spiritual but with movement. She gifted him a 30 day package at a local yoga studio where he met Nikki Wong. After a brief conversation he offered to help Nikki complete the work to get her new studio ready to open. A friendship developed, he took Nikki’s yoga teacher training in 2012 and has been teaching ever since.
Secret Super Power: Knowing what people need to help them move forward in their life journey.
Best Advice: Stop talking and listen.

Ken DeLeon: An Optimized Life

Ken DeLeon is the founder and visionary behind DeLeon Realty. Ken is a real estate rockstar - it took him less than ten years to skyrocket from a brand new agent to one of the country’s best and most successful, with over $275 million in sales in 2011 alone. In June 2012, The Wall Street Journal and Real Trends, Inc. announced that Ken DeLeon was the nation’s #1 real estate agent out of over 1.2 million agents, the only agent in Silicon Valley to ever be ranked the nation’s top agent. In Ken’s 43 years, he has seen more challenges in his personal life than most people. His only sister died in his arms when they were both teenagers; a drugged-up driver going 45 mph plowed into him, leaving him nearly dead on the side of the road; he was diagnosed with and overcame cancer. These challenges taught him to live each day to its max. Ken takes great pleasure in spending time with his four children, playing with them, and teaching them life’s values. When Ken is not with his kids, he enjoys spending time with friends, and of course, his favorite activity, dancing.