Gunnar Peterson is a Beverly Hills-based personal trainer whose clients are celebrities, professional athletes, and everyday people. Gunnar is also the Los Angeles Lakers’ Director of Strength and Endurance. He is widely known for his expertise in functional training and his commitment to developing and implementing innovative fitness techniques. With over 28 years in the fitness industry, Gunnar’s dynamic approach, boundless energy and humor only add to the effectiveness of the experience his clients love. With a client list as diverse as his training tactics, Gunnar promotes strength training modalities that can be transferred from the gym to daily life, from training camp to championship game. He has worked with athletes from the NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB, USTA, professional boxing and different NCAA
sports. Many film and television celebrities have also sought Gunnar’s guidance in preparing for roles and have stayed on to become year-round clients, making him a cornerstone of their fitness regimen.

Gunnar’s innovative approach and his devotion to pursuing and communicating only the most credible and effective fitness information have led to several corporate partnerships and business opportunities. Gunnar currently enjoys relationships with Propel/Gatorade, Adidas, SmartFit, MitoQ, Theragun and SleepScore Labs.

After piecing together countless gyms for clients over the years, in 2016 he officially started his Gunnar Gym Design company in order to bring his training style to life worldwide, as it is in his Beverly Hills gym. His residential as well as commercials gyms are well received in the US and abroad. In 2017 Gunnar partnered with the Dream Hotel Group and designed a Gunnar gym in their Hollywood location.

He is the developer of Core Secrets, a project done with the Gunthy-Renker Corporation, that is an 18 DVD fitness system featuring full-body and body-part specific workouts that concentrate on strengthening the core of the body. In the Spring of 2010, Gunnar released, in partnership with Giam and Shape magazine, the ‘Best Ever Hollywood Workout’ DVD. He published his first book, G-Force, in January 2005. Now out in paperback as The Workout, the book is about training, making it a part of your life, creating and keeping a positive mindset, as well as improvising to keep workouts effective and fun. Through his own fitness product development company, Outside Shot, Gunnar has built The Bottom Line™, a total body exercise machine, The RAC™, an accessory that incorporates weighted upper body
work with Spinning®, and Hoop Hands™, a basketball-specific resistance training aid.

Gunnar is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association and is a graduate of Duke University. He is an editor and wrote a regular column for Muscle and Fitness magazine for over a decade, he is on the advisory board for Fitness magazine as well as
contributor to Clean Eating magazine. Gunnar is also regularly featured in Allure, Elle, In Style, In Touch, Us, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Self, and other magazines. His television
appearances include The Today Show, Fox & Friends, CNN, CNN Headline News, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, Extra, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Lala’s Full Court Life, Revenge Body and numerous shows for E! and VH1.

Mimi and Alex Ikonn are serial entrepreneurs focusing on lifestyle businesses. What began as a $20,000 investment from a personal line of credit turned over the next 8 years into a premium beauty lifestyle company with 250,000+ customers in 165+ countries. Luxy Hair grew largely from social media and word of mouth including their YouTube channel which has 3.2+ million subscribers, half a billion views, and is one of the world’s biggest hair related channels. Luxy Hair is ranked in the top 2% of the best places to work in Canada. In
late 2018, they successfully exited from this business when it was acquired by Beauty Industry Group.

The Ikonns mission is to deliver value to the world and to build brands and products that people love.

Since leaving their first business, they continue their mission of delivering value to the world. They have another company now - Intelligent Change which created the mindfulness journal movement and created products like the Five Minute Journal which has sold 500,000+ copies around the world and Productivity Planner with over 100,000+ sold.

Marie Forleo

Marie Forleo (born December 7, 1975) is an American entrepreneur. She is a New York Times bestselling author for the advice books, Everything is Figureoutable and Make Every Man Want You. According to Harper's Bazaar, Forleo is a "self-made millionaire" that started her career "serving drinks, cleaning toilets, and waiting tables" as well as hip-hop dancing.

With nothing more than passion, a laptop and a dream, Marie Forleo created a digital empire that inspires millions. She’s the star of the award-winning show MarieTV, with over 47 million views, and the author of a new guide to high achievement that Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert says ‘will change lives’.

Named by Oprah as a thought leader for the next generation, Marie presents her award-winning online show, Marie TV and podcast to her 1.5 million fans around the world. She is the founder of B-School, a transformative online business school and she has mentored young business owners at the Richard Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship. MarieForleo.com is one of Forbes magazine’s Top 100 Websites for Entrepreneurs and her work has appeared in Inc. magazine, Women’s Health and Entrepreneur among others.