Stephanie Mikulasek is Managing Director and Founder of the ServantEDGE, a company that designs and facilitates game-changing international immersion experiences, executive coaching, and experiential leadership development.  Drawing from decades of global leadership, academic scholarship, and immersive transformation work, Stephanie blends wisdom, wit, and depth to inspire leaders and teams to challenge the illusion of certainty, disrupt ineffective patterns, invite radical belonging, and rediscover what matters most.  

Previously, Stephanie was a U.S. Diplomat for 18 years with both USAID and the Department of State, serving in Washington, DC, El Salvador, Panama, Chile, Tanzania, Afghanistan, Barbados, and frequent travel across Latin America and the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, India, Europe, and the Middle East.

Stephanie holds a Master of Public Administration in International Management, a Master of Arts in World Religions and Cultures, and is currently a George Mason University PhD candidate researching how to develop transformational leaders through immersion experiences.  She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a certified Executive Coach from Georgetown University, and a certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher under Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.  She has studied and trained with Dr. Richard Schwartz, Steve March, Jennifer Garvey Berger, Jim Dethmer, Kate Ebner,  Humberto Maturana, and with faculty at Harvard University.  

A frequent guest on podcasts, Stephanie is sought after for her engaging and dynamic keynotes and workshops.  She publishes weekly on Substack and LinkedIn, and her forthcoming book on Managing Multiple Generations in the Workplace – including AI will be published this Fall.  Connect with her on LinkedIn and at The ServantEDGE.

Dr. Jessica Salvador, Belonging by Design: Building a Community Where Everyone Can Thrive
Across the country, communities are navigating increasingly complex realities shaped by shifting immigration policies, rising costs of living, and growing cultural and political divisions. These challenges affect not only immigrant families, but the health and resilience of our communities as a whole. In the West Salish/Puget Sound region, more than 18,000 immigrants call this area home. They contribute as workers, entrepreneurs, neighbors, parents, and community leaders while often navigating significant barriers to opportunity, including language access, legal complexity, healthcare access, and economic insecurity.
 
Join Dr. Jessica E. Salvador, Executive Director of the Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center (KIAC), for a conversation about what it means to build belonging by design. Drawing from her lived experience as the child of immigrants and her work, Dr. Salvador will explore how communities can move beyond simply welcoming newcomers to intentionally creating systems, relationships, and opportunities that allow everyone to thrive. Through stories, insights, and examples from KIAC’s work, this presentation will examine how belonging strengthens communities, why it matters for all residents, and what we can do together to build a more connected and resilient Kitsaps.

Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine founding editor, Suquamish Foundation board member, and former member of the Bremerton Race Equity Advisory Board will be our speaker.

Some of us here in Kitsap County have arrived recently. Some have been here since time immemorial. Some of our ancestors crossed an ocean by steamer or plane — or came in chains. Understanding our diverse histories, righting old wrongs, and showing up for our neighbors could be the first steps in getting along — not just politely, but well.

Sarah van Gelder will look at current questions affecting us here in Kitsap County, like what it means to show up for immigrant neighbors, coworkers, and local business owners facing an ICE crackdown? To build respectful relationships with the Native peoples who have called this place home for thousands of years? To honestly reckon with the divides that have long disadvantaged Kitsap’s African American community?

She’ll draw on her work as a local organizer and as a researcher and writer to explore what it means to be a good neighbor — honest about the past, and focused on what’s possible now. She’ll offer a way forward rooted in mutual respect, a shared understanding of history, and the kind of community that makes all of us more resilient.