Dr. Laurine LeBlanc-White is a nationally recognized trauma-informed clinician, transformational speaker, and author of Unapologetically Resilient. With over 15 years of experience in mental and behavioral health, she has helped families, veterans, and diverse communities move from trauma to transformation. As co-founder of Xponential Growth Academy LLC in Hawai‘i, Dr. LeBlanc-White brings powerful insights on resilience, epigenetics, and healing that inspire audiences worldwide to lead, heal, and transform.

ElDon White is an Executive Leadership Strategist, Transformational Speaker, and retired U.S. Army Sergeant Major with over 21 years of distinguished service, including 15 years in Special Operations and the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. As the first enlisted ICF-Certified Executive Coach in the Department of Defense and Joint Special Operations Command, he has led thousands through high-stakes environments and now brings that same expertise to corporations, schools, and organizations worldwide. Based in Hawai‘i, ElDon empowers leaders, teams, and individuals to ignite purpose, build resilience, and achieve lasting transformation.

In an era where digital technologies increasingly govern decision-making, organizations face the dual challenge of protecting data privacy while ensuring that people remain at the center of progress. This keynote, Human Leadership: Elevating People Over Process, builds on our earlier work, Lessons of a 1% Leader: Redefining Leadership Through Healing, Epigenetics, and Emotional Intelligence, by asserting that data-driven systems cannot replace the human capacity for trust, empathy, and ethical discernment.

While digital processes streamline efficiency, they often reduce individuals to data points and thus creating unseen risks not only for privacy but also for dignity, identity, and psychological safety. Human leadership reframes this reality, placing people above algorithms and embedding healing-centered practices into organizational cultures. Drawing from neuroscience, lived leadership experience, and emotional intelligence, we present a model where leaders integrate data awareness with human values to safeguard privacy while fostering resilience, creativity, and innovation.

This keynote challenges leaders to view data privacy not merely as a compliance issue, but as a human responsibility where protecting information is inseparable from protecting people. Through this lens, we will explore practical strategies for cultivating leadership that honors human identity in the digital age, ensuring that technology serves humanity, not the other way around.