Leonard Bade’s recovery came 8 years after he was first introduced to treatment as a young staff member in 1975 at the  Alcohol Recover Program at the original world renowned Menninger Psychiatric Hospital in Topeka, Kansas.

His recovery began in early 1983 as one of the first patients at the Betty Ford Center. With only a few weeks of sobriety, he was asked to lead the newly formed Betty Ford Center Alumni program in 1983. Moving to Texas in 1985, he continued his recovery service as a board member and president of the local Recovery Resource Council; initiated a 9 year addiction awareness educational series in Fort Worth, TX; and served on various boards and committees with Betty Ford Center; including help establish the North Texas Betty Ford Children’s Program in the mid 90’s.He was asked by Mrs. Ford and the BFC Board to return to the Center in 2001 to help the alumni stay connected in their recovery and connected to the Center. Through 2010, Leonard led a group of 140 Volunteers to establish over 40 support groups in 23 regions across the US and Canada. This group of 140 volunteers that exhibited exemplary “Love and Service” maintained an 80% continuous recovery rate over those 9 years.In 2010, he completed his Master’s thesis at Pepperdine University comparing peer support and volunteer services of  notable treatment programs with community based addiction treatment programs, citing the value of intensive service of volunteers maintaining their long term recovery.

He is a cofounder of Treatment Professionals in Alumni Service(TPASrecovery.org), a nonprofit group of 175 members across the US that devote their lives to sharing best practices and supporting long term addiction recovery, In addition to these efforts, Leonard specializes working with disruptive executives supporting their behavioral health needs, creating and facilitating rigorous recovery plans that emphasizes returning to work with new behavior.

Mendi Baron, LCSW, CEO and co-founder of Evolve Treatment Centers is a passionate advocate for teens in the field of mental health and addiction and the go-to expert to start the conversation on critical issues that impact teens and their families. Clinically trained, Mendi’s extensive experience as a therapist includes individual and group counseling for children, adolescents, and families in various settings. He has worked at several treatment centers including: Chesapeake Center for Youth Development, Carroll County Youth Services Bureau, Chabad Crisis Centers, and Center for Discovery and Adolescent Change.

Mendi’s natural ability to communicate with adolescents, parents, and professionals makes him a sought after speaker at national mental and behavioral health conferences, public and private schools, as well as business and corporate events. Mendi currently blogs for Psychology Today and has contributed to USA Today, Keys to Recovery, In Recovery Magazine, Paradigm, Step 12 Magazine, and The Sober World. He has been cited in the Asbury Park Press and TheWrap.com and has been a featured guest on national, local, and syndicated radio programs across the country. Mendi earned a BA with honors in psychology and social work at The University of Maryland and an MSW at the University of Maryland School of Social Work.

Gary D. Hees MA, LPC has worked in Behavioral Health for 22 years. He received his Master’s degree from the University of Houston-Clear Lake in Psychology-Marriage and Family Therapy. Gary has been licensed in Texas and Arizona for sixteen years. His experience includes working with Seriously Mentally Ill adults, adolescents in a private Therapeutic Boarding School and presently in the treatment of Failure to Launch and Substance Use Disorders with young adults.  Gary’s clinical orientation is developmental and relational taking trauma into account.  He brings a foundational developmental and systemic perspective to Decision Point. His focus is in Human Development and he is trained in multiple therapeutic approaches including Ericksonian Hypnosis, Motivational Interviewing, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Pia Mellody’s Post-Induction Model as well as multiple Family Therapy modalities such as Structural, Strategic, Narrative and Brief Solution-Focused therapy. In addition, Gary has years of experience working with substance use disorders as well as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder.

Matt Holland has been working in the behavioral health field collectively for over 15 plus years in 3 different States in the western United States. After working at various levels and companies, he began to see the gaps in the system and the need for change. This ultimately lead to the creation of the KnKt’d Behavioral Health platform and his goal to change the way we provide treatment. Showing along the way that technology can be used to extend the reach of treatment and can do so in a manner the not only aids the provider but compliments their treatment approaches.

A. Tom Horvath, Ph.D., ABPP, is founder and president of Practical Recovery, a self-empowering addiction treatment system in San Diego, past president of the American Psychological Association’s Society of Addiction Psychology (Div 50), the world’s largest organization of addiction psychologists, past president of the San Diego Psychological Association, author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions (a “Self-Help Book of Merit” of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies) and volunteer president of SMART Recovery, an international non-profit offering free, self-empowering, science-based mutual help groups for abstaining from any substance or activity.

Dr. Reef Karim (Dr. Reef) is a leader and pioneer in the fields of mental health, addiction medicine & relationship therapy. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and the founder of The Control Center in Beverly Hills. Dr. Reef is a Published Research Scientist in the field of Behavioral & Chemical Addictions with articles in the International Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Addiction Medicine and other prestigious journals. Dr. Reef is also a well known media personality with multiple appearances on: Oprah, Dr Oz, Dr Phil, Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360, The Today Show, Dateline NBC, Chelsea Lately and others. Dr Reef currently hosts the new online talk show Reef Madness.

David Lisonbee is President and Chief Executive Officer of Twin Town Corp., Dba Twin Town Treatment Centers, which operates a network of six Los Angeles and Orange County based outpatient addiction treatment programs.  Possessing over twenty-eight years of behavioral health management and executive experience, Mr. Lisonbee oversees corporate governance, development, finance, compliance, quality management and clinical service. He completed his Bachelors Degree in psychology and has assorted graduate work and continuing education in psychology, public and hospital administration, healthcare and human resource law, and addiction science. Prior to operating Twin Town Treatment Centers, Mr. Lisonbee developed and operated psychiatric hospitals and outpatient psychiatric programs in such roles as Director, COO, CEO and Regional President. Beginning his executive career in the eighties, David adapted traditional inpatient and outpatient programs to the constantly evolving economic influences, particularly those created by the behavioral managed care movement.

Having both personal and professional investment in addiction recovery, David is an advocate for the addiction treatment profession, which includes fostering consumer, regulatory and political causes. Mr. Lisonbee believes that the profession of addiction treatment is best served by scientific research, empirical and experiential insights into the disease, combined with personal and social commitments and ethics.

Mr. Millette is the Executive Director of CeDAR, The Center for Dependency, Addiction and Rehabilitation at the University of Colorado Hospital, Anschutz Medical Campus.  He has 27 years of experience in the behavioral health, addiction and recovery field in the roles of clinician, trainer, supervisor, change agent and administrator. Prior to his role at CeDAR, he served as the Executive Director of Treatment Services at Pavillon International in North Carolina and Hanley-Hazelden in Florida. He received his undergraduate degree in Psychology and holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. Mr. Millette is a Licensed Addiction and Mental Health Counselor.

Sonia Mookherjea M.S. PA-C is a Medical Science Liaison for Genomind with clinical practice experience in Functional Medicine and extensive clinical education experience in biotechnology, medical device, and the pharmaceutical industry. Her areas of expertise are pharmacogenomic testing, psychopharmacology, and the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders. She delivers educational presentations to medical practices and academic centers on the clinical significance of genetic variations that affect the phenotypic presentation and treatment response for patients with MDD, GAD, BPD, ADHD, and SUD. She also provides individualized consultation to clinicians to interpret pharmacogenomic assay results and tailor treatment strategies according to each patient’s clinical presentation, medication history, and gene results. She has authored case reports demonstrating the utility of pharmacogenomics testing for publication in various journals.

Sonia is a graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies Program and has completed the Neuroscience Education Institute Master Psychopharmacology Program. She is dedicated to bringing personalized medicine to psychiatry and addiction treatment and educating clinicians on how to apply pharmacogenomic results to clinical practice to improve patient response to treatment.

Susan Musetti is a clinical consultant for Twin Town Treatment Centers and has been working in the field of addictions and mental health for more than twenty-six years.  She is Chairperson of the Substance Abuse/Co-Occurring Disorders Program at Phillips Graduate Institute in Encino and is a clinical supervisor for a large children’s mental health agency. She has worked as a Chemical Dependency Specialist for a medical model recovery program and as Director of Recovery Services in a women’s social model recovery program. Susan also has a private practice in South Pasadena.

Jennifer Musselman, MA
Clinical Psychology, MFTI,
CEO/Founder
S'Well Life Inc.,
Executive Advisor, Strategy & Innovation Profound Treatment,
S'Well Life Inc. Consulting & Profound Treatment

Jennifer Musselman is CEO/Founder of S'Well Life Inc. Consulting, a healthcare consulting business that empowers people and inspires brands through program and services development, brand engagement and executive coaching.  She has her Master's degree in Clinical Psychology and is board-registered with the BBS in California.  She has developed and launched several outpatient programs before launching her consultancy, and currently serves as Executive Advisor, Strategy & Innovation Profound Treatment, an outpatient in West Los Angeles and Chief Clinical Executive, iRecoveryFit, an online, recovery tool that further connects aftercare to personal care, launching 2016. She is an adjunct professor at University of Southern California and writes for her HuffingtonPost blog.

Pete Nielsen is the Chief Executive Officer for the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP) and former Executive Director of the California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CAADAC), the California Certification Board of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (CCBADC), and the California Foundation for the Advancement of Addiction Professionals (CFAAP).Mr. Nielsen has worked in education as a campus director, academic dean, and an instructor. He has worked in the substance use disorders field for eighteen years as an interventionist, family recovery specialist, counselor, and administrator.

Phil Scherer is the Chief Clinical Officer at New Directions For Women in Costa Mesa CA. Mr. Scherer is certified through several State and National Credentialing bodies in the intervention and treatment of people suffering from addictive disorders.  Mr. Scherer has worked in the field of addiction since 1991; he has worked in all areas of treatment including Clinical Supervisor, Adolescent Inpatient, Adult Inpatient, Adult Intensive Outpatient, Adult and Adolescent Continuing Care, and Adult and Adolescent Family Education programming. Mr. Scherer has been treating pathological gamblers since 1993 and started treating other behavioral addictions in 1996. He has been involved in trainings around the country in the Identification and Treatment of Pathological Gambling and other Addictions since 1999. He is also a trained interventionist and is a Certified Intervention Professional. He was originally trained in the Johnson Model of intervention in 1996. He has since been trained in the ARISE Model as well as the Systemic Family Systems Model of intervention as well. He helped develop and is a trainer in The Family Meeting Approach to Intervention. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of Intervention Specialists, Inc. and is the current President of the International Interventionists Credentialing Board, Inc. He is a sought after trainer who has trained nationally and internationally on identifying, intervening on, and treating addictive disorders and other problematic behaviors.

Dave was recently named Executive Director of the Sober Living Network, the largest recovery housing organization of its kind in the nation, supporting 500 independent recovery residences in Southern California.

He has been involved as a volunteer and board member for several nonprofit recovery organizations. As a co-founder and member of NARR’s executive committee, Dave’s principal focus is on the establishment and growth of sustainable and effective systems of recovery housing. He advises state and regional groups on the formation and successful operation of recovery residence provider standards and support organizations. He is also active nationally in fair housing advocacy issues affecting recovery residences, particularly threats to the rights of disabled individuals to live in the housing of their choice. Dave regularly presents at industry and government conferences on recovery and housing rights topics.

Janelle Wesloh, Executive Director of Recovery Management, has been in the addiction treatment field for over 20 years. Wesloh has held many roles, including youth counselor, intake counselor, continuing care counselor, electronic medical record designer, and privacy officer. She oversees MORE (My Ongoing Recovery Experience) an online recovery support program; Connection--an intensive recovery support and monitoring program; and the Lodge program and weekend retreats at the Dan Anderson Renewal Center.  Wesloh is a licensed alcohol and drug counselor; she has an undergraduate degree in psychology with an emphasis in chemical dependency counseling, and an MBA from Hamline University.