As an uber-connector and cross pollinator of people and ideas, Christie is dedicated to bringing together visionaries, engaged activists, world catalysts and planet changers to rebuild a healthy world for healthy beings.

As a custom designer of face-to-face executive visibility speaking programs for corporate clients, Christie works with thought leaders and designers around the world opening doors and building lasting partnerships between businesses, organizations, people and communities expanding their reach to making the world better.

As founder and developer of the Niehaus Ryan Wong, Inc. Speakers Bureau, Dames created the first speakers bureau ever dedicated to strategically placing leaders and visionaries before rapidly growing audiences in the new and evolving technology arena. Her vision opened new doors in the conference industry by bringing tech speakers to the forefront through innovative settings, in-depth research methods, broad-based audience appeal and strategic speaker development.

Earlier in her career, Christie worked to develop Public / Private partnerships involving organizations such as Goodwill Industries, Kimpton Hotel Group, Hilton Hotels, and the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Program. These grew out of her own organization “San Francisco Shine”, a forerunner of the San Francisco Business Improvement District, which hired the homeless to clean up the downtown area and was featured on CNN and C-SPAN.

Additionally, for the past 12 years Christie has translated her business experience into her personal mission — helping people find the answers to seemingly unanswerable health problems. As a medical detective, she helps people to explore new paths, find new answers, locate the hidden causes that lead to physical conditions, and build their own “map of choices” to get better.

Dangerbird Records & Publishing President, 20+ years radio promotion, artist development & management.

Mary Jurey joined the Playing In Traffic Records/Loophole Management team in August of 2010 becoming the GM of the label. Most recently, she has also taken over GM duties at The Noise Company - Ben Kweller's boutique label based in Austin, TX.

Prior to working at Playing In Traffic Records, Ms. Jurey worked in Los Angeles, CA for New West Records. In her 7 years at New West, she oversaw more than 150 releases including Grammy winning albums by Delbert McClinton and Steve Earle. In addition, she was responsible for managing the label's international business and was project manager for the series Live From Austin, TX which saw the release on CD and DVD of the extended performances from the award winning TV show Austin City Limits.

Previous to her work at New West Records, Ms. Jurey worked at Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment as part of the West Coast A&R department with legendary A&R man John D. Kalodner. Notable releases during this time were Aerosmith's Just Push Play (Platinum) and Shawn Colvin's Whole New You (Gold).

Ms. Jurey's foray into the music business began with a three year stint as the personal assistant for the 5 time Grammy winning artist Mary Chapin Carpenter.