Dr. Joy Vaughan is a passionate Reinvention and Resilience Specialist who focuses on shifting mindsets one neuron at a time. A native of Barbados and graduate of Columbia and Nova Universities, she is a well-known personal development, neurocognitive, and emotional intelligence practitioner. Dr. Joy has helped many individuals and companies to increase their employees’ performance and bottom line. Her groundbreaking research assisted college freshmen in shifting their brain patterns and graduating from college. Dr. Vaughan is the author of Powerful People: Powerful Lives for Teens and Young Adults, the 7-Step Empowerment Series for the Secular and Christian Souls, and Co-author of the best-selling Expert World Leaders - Vol 2, and The Art of Resilience: Phoenixes Rising. She is the brainchild of the International Business Resilience Summit, which brings businesses from around the world together for a Global conversation on the importance of being resilient.