Deanna Wolfe
MS, RDN
Deanna, a registered dietitian by trade, has since become a marketing, sales, and content expert who has built a 7 figure annual business, multiple million dollar+ online programs, and leads a team of 10 with continual annual growth. Deanna leads several online programs, including her signature Online Entrepreneur Academy, which has helped over 250 health, fitness, mental health, interns and medical professionals grow and scale their online business. She speaks regularly to dietetic & entrepreneur focused organizations about entrepreneurship.
Session: How to Make 7 Figures as a Dietitian
Day 1 (August 7)
Kristen Carli
MS, RD
Kristen Carli is an expert media dietitian skilled in nutrition communication. She mentors aspiring media dietitians, helping them make a bigger impact while making a big income. . Her nutrition expertise has been featured in InStyle, Bustle, Livestrong, The List, MyFitnessPal and many others. Additionally, Kristen is often featured via local TV segments sharing nutrition tips and tricks. You can also find her reading, running, and exploring new restaurants with her husband and baby boy.
Session: Dietitian Dream Jobs Panel
Day 2 (August 8)
Matthew Landry
PhD, RDN, FAND, FAHA
Matthew Landry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention within the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Among several research areas, Dr. Landry is interested in how barriers such as impostor syndrome can be overcome to foster diversity and inclusion within science, academia, and the dietetics profession.
Session: You Belong: A Discussion on Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Day 1 (August 7)
Amy Plano
RD, MS, CDE, CDN
Amy is a successful private practice dietitian passionate about helping dietitians create a profitable nutrition private practice using an insured-based model. Together with her husband, Marc Plano, she runs the profitable, The Plano Program, a health and wellness-based center in Orange, CT. Through her reimbursement coaching programs, online resources, and seminars, she teaches dietitians exactly how to use health insurance to make money in their nutrition practices. As The Reimbursement Dietitian, she helps dietitians get credentialed, bill the sh*t out of insurance, and make the money they deserve.
Session: The World of Insurance-Based
Private Practice
Day 2 (August 8)
Amy Goodson
MS, RD, CSSD, LD
Amy Goodson is a registered and licensed dietitian, Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics, and owner of Amy Goodson RD Courses. Her business focuses on nutrition communications and sports nutrition. With a bachelor’s degree in communications and a master’s degree in sports nutrition, Amy is passionate about marrying the two together to provide quality, science-based nutrition information through speaking, media, writing, and consulting, in addition to creating education resources and courses for dietetic interns, and new or transitioning registered dietitians, to help start, grow, and launch their dream careers!
Session: Cultivating Career Confidence – The 5 C’s to Help You Confidently Step Into You Career
Day 1 (August 7)
Shani Jordan-Goldman
MS, RD, CDN, CDCES
Shani has been a clinical dietitian for over 10 years, teaches graduate-level nutrition, and is the founder of Nutrition Cheat Sheets. During the past decade as she has precepted interns and talked to her students, she saw so many new RDs having the same struggles with understanding how to do clinical nutrition that she also had when she first started. Nutrition Cheat Sheets supports dietetic interns and new RDs in learning how to do clinical nutrition in the real world with everything from easy-to-use handouts to courses to live online workshops. Clinical is hard, Nutrition Cheat Sheets is here to make it easier.
Session: The 3 Big Questions Every Future Dietitian Should Be Asking About Clinical Nutrition
Day 1 (August 7)
Farrell Frankel
MS, RD
Farrell is a sports dietitian who works with college and professional athletes. She started her sports nutrition career at Penn State University as the Assistant Director of Sports Nutrition from 2016-2019 where she oversaw 31 teams. She served as the Director of Football Nutrition at West Virginia University from 2019-2020 and is currently the Director of Football Nutrition at Boston College, where she was their first full-time sports dietitian to build a program in 2020. Farrell uses her online platform, @fueledbyfarrell, to educate athletes on performance fueling and also give future dietitians an inside look at the daily responsibilities of a sports dietitian.
Session: Sports Nutrition Panel
Day 2 (August 8)
Kathryn Durston
RD
Flourish Virtual Assistants is a 100% remote, premium assistant service for dietitians owned by registered dietitian Kathryn Durston. It is a growing team of six dietetic interns, students, and registered dietitians. Flourish offers a wide range of services targeted at helping dietitians with the tasks they need to grow and flourish their businesses! Their work combines aesthetic, pleasing visual appeal with evidence-based, quality nutrition information. Flourish VA started the first-ever Virtual Assistants for Dietitians Facebook group, now with 3K members, and they run a VA course in collaboration with All Access Dietetics.
Session: Becoming a Virtual Assistant
Day 2 (August 8)
Gillean Barkyoumb
MS, RDN
Gillean is a media dietitian, speaker, writer, and spokesperson who is committed to making nutrition simple and convenient. Gillean has contributed to respected publications such as Shape, Women’s Health, Well+Good, My Fitness Pal, and DailyBurn and frequently shares nutrition tips on various networks including ABC, NBC, and FOX. She has extensive experience partnering with brands such as Ninja Kitchen, ALDI, Wonderful Pistachios, POM Wonderful, and Fry’s as a spokesperson to promote their products through TV segments, satellite media tours, social media, and online and print publications. She mentors aspiring media dietitians, helping them expand their reach and magnify their impact – while at the same time maximizing income.
Session: Dietitian Dream Jobs Panel
Day 2 (August 8)
Dylan Bailey
MS, RD, FAND
Dylan is a Senior Nutrition Specialist with Ketchum and Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics who works across nutrition, food, beverage, ingredient, agriculture and wellness accounts to ensure accuracy in reporting science and research communications, as well as providing strategic reputation management counsel. He also is a Freelance Writer for outlets including Forbes Health and Healthline Media. Dylan has also published several scientific manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include appetite hormones, obesity, weight bias, feeding behaviors, diversity in the dietetic profession and the impostor phenomenon among nutrition and dietetics professionals.
Session: You Belong: A Discussion on Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Day 1 (August 7)
Amanda Frothingham
RD
Amanda is a Registered Dietitian, Business Owner, and content creator living in Richmond, VA. She founded her Private Practice, The Balanced Peach LLC, immediately following her internship and has since cultivated an online community of 85,000+ where she shares eating disorder and body image inspiration and education. She currently works both 1:1 and in her signature group program The Food and Body Freedom Project to help young men and women heal their relationships with food and. advance in their eating disorder recovery. When she isn’t online she’s most likely playing with her dog Milo, listening to Taylor Swift, or continuing her passion for dance by working as a dance teacher.
Session: Dietitian Dream Jobs Panel
Day 2 (August 8)
Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes
MS, RD, CDCES, LDN, NASM-CPT
Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes, MS, RD, CDCES, LDN, NASM-CPT is a mother, wife, co-author, health writer, recipe developer, health speaker, diabetes and fitness expert, and holistic plant-based women’s health registered dietitian of over 15 years. She has been featured in various scholarly and popular media outlets, is the founder of 360Girls&Women- a health and wellness company for girls and women and co-founder of culturd – a digital healthcare app that connects dietitians to clients based on culture.
Session: Actionable Steps to Culturally Competent Care in the Dietetics Field
Day 2 (August 8)
Jenna Werner
RD
Jenna Werner is a registered dietitian nutritionist and owner of Happy Strong Healthy, a weight neutral, behavior focused, health first private practice that uses mindful eating, behavior change management and intuitive eating to help clients heal their relationship with food, fitness, body and self. Jenna is also the co-host of the What the Actual Fork podcast, a platform that uses research, experience and fun to help all humans realize that they are made for so much more than chasing a smaller body. Jenna believes food should be fun and communicates the message, that you can reach your health goals without deprivation and diet micromanagement and that true health is dependent on both physical and mental wellbeing, across her social media platforms.
Session: Dietitian Dream Jobs Panel
Day 2 (August 8)
Reilly Beatty
MS, RD, CSSD
For the past 1.5 years, Reilly has successfully owned and operated her own sports nutrition consulting business, Reilly Beatty Sports Nutrition (RBSN). RBSN serves a diverse clientele of athletes and over the past 4.5 years has helped over 1000 athletes at the Olympic, Professional, NCAA, and high school levels. Through her business and social media presence, Reilly has garnered a reputation for providing simple and realistic nutrition strategies that yield tangible results. Along with being a CSSD, she earned dual bachelor’s degrees in Human Biology and Nutrition Science from North Carolina State University in 2014 followed by master’s degrees in Nutrition Science and Exercise Science from San Diego State University in 2017.
Session: Sports Nutrition Panel
Day 2 (August 8)
Jessica Isaacs
RD, CSSD
Jessica Isaacs is a Los Angeles-based Sports Dietitian. She has an eclectic career, working as a full-time dietitian in the NBA, social media content creator, and is a highly sought-after speaker. Jessica’s professional career as a sports dietitian began at Kobe Bryant’s MAMBA Sports Academy, where she worked with athletes from youth to professional level in a variety of sports. From MAMBA, Jessica served as the Performance Dietitian for UCLA Men’s and Women’s Basketball and is headed into her 3rd season as the Lead Sports Dietitian for the LA Clippers. Jessica uses her social media to share performance nutrition education in an entertaining and engaging way, to debunk nutrition misinformation, and to disrupt diet culture.
Session: Sports Nutrition Panel
Day 2 (August 8)
Junichi Sakaki
PhD, RD
R&D Senior Scientist at PepsiCo
Junichi is an R&D Senior Scientist at PepsiCo where he innovates new beverages by interpreting nutrition science – chiefly, clinical studies and nutrition policies – for novel claims, ingredients, and propositions. Junichi works with the PepsiCo brands Evolve, Soulboost, and the Pepsi-Lipton Partnership. His career journey started in clinical dietetics, leading him to furthering his education in nutritional epidemiology at the University of Connecticut where he earned his PhD in 2022. Junichi decided to make the transition from academia to industry to be part of a fast-paced work environment with opportunities to engage with and learn from experts across all manners of science and business.
Session: Exploring Diverse Career Paths: Nutrition Professionals in the Food Industry
Day 1 (August 7)
Lexi Halpert
MS, RD
Communications Manager at PepsiCo
Lexi is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Human Nutrition with a concentration in Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Science in Global Strategic Communication from Loyola University of Chicago. Lexi has been with PepsiCo for over 7 years in a variety of regulatory roles and more recently on the corporate communications team leading internal and external communication efforts for the company’s R&D organization. Prior to PepsiCo, she completed a dietetic residency program at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois consisting of inpatient and outpatient counseling, community, and wellness nutrition rotations.
Session: Exploring Diverse Career Paths: Nutrition Professionals in the Food Industry
Day 1 (August 7)
Luis Gonzalez
MS, RD
Account Manager at Eat Well Global
(Moderator)
Luis Gonzalez, MS, RDN is an Account Manager at Eat Well Global, a highly specialized strategic communication consultancy on a mission to empower global change agents in food and nutrition. Prior to this role, Luis spent years working in clinical nutrition and food service management. In 2020, Luis co-authored 30-Minute DASH Diet Cookbook: Fast and Easy Recipes to Lose Weight and Reverse High Blood Pressure. He is also the owner of LG Photography, LLC. Luis received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Nutrition and Dietetics from Florida International University, and completed a Graduate Certificate in Food Writing and Photography from the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
Session: Exploring Diverse Career Paths: Nutrition Professionals in the Food Industry
Day 1 (August 7)
Morgan Sowers
PhD, MBA, RD
Associate Principal Scientist, Health & Nutrition Sciences at PepsiCo
Morgan is a Registered Dietitian with education and expertise in public health nutrition, nutrition communication, and marketing. She has been with PepsiCo for 4 years working across the North America foods portfolio on a variety of brands and she currently represents the Life Sciences team at the Frito-Lay headquarters in Plano, TX. In her role, she provides nutrition science support for the Frito-Lay North America food business in the U.S. and Canada and delivers guidance for new and existing snack products to achieve PepsiCo’s nutrition goals and ensure the scientific credibility of nutrition claims.
Session: Exploring Diverse Career Paths: Nutrition Professionals in the Food Industry
Day 1 (August 7)
Hava Tabari Ungar
MPH, RD, CDCES
Hava is a Health Coach/Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator working in outpatient primary care clinics based on corporate campuses for over six years. She uses a non judgemental, relaxed approach to help people feel confident in their nutrition choices. She holds a masters degree in public health and nutrition from UC Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in business from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to becoming a dietitian, Hava had a career in marketing in Silicon Valley working at Palm and later Motorola. After a family member had cancer and needed nutrition support for digestion and healing, she was inspired to make the switch to helping people maintain their health.
Session: How to Become a Health and Wellness Coach and Why I Chose Wellcoaches
Day 1 (August 7)
Dalina Soto
MA, RD, LDN
Dalina is a Latina and bilingual Registered Dietitian who celebrates eating cultural foods without guilt. Having grown up in a Dominican family, she strives to support and inspire others to build nourishing new narratives that don’t include depriving oneself of the foods that connect us to our culture.Through her outspoken advocacy on social media and educational content, Dalina has garnered a strong community of over 250,000 followers and now uses her platforms to actively teach the importance of reclaiming the flavors and foods we love, (like white rice!) while educating on how to better incorporate them into our daily lives with empowerment and awareness. Dalina has spoken across the country on this topic, has partnered with various advocacy groups to co-create campaigns in support of these efforts and most recently was invited to The White House to share her insight with key policy makers. Dalina also teaches Nutrition and Culture at West Chester University.
Session: Dietitian Dream Jobs Panel
Day 2 (August 8)
Christina Belarde
MS, RD
Christina Belarde, an Intuitive Eating dietitian and recipe creator is dedicated to helping individuals foster a healthy and balanced relationship with food and their bodies. With a passion for nourishing recipes and a compassionate approach to wellness, Christina empowers people to embrace intuitive eating principles, find joy in their meals, and cultivate sustainable habits. Christina works with a non-judgemental approach to meet the client where they are in their relationship with food. Christina also uses her Instagram page, @Chrissy_Eats_ to reach a large audience to share nourishing recipes and provide nutrition tips. Her overall goal is to help her patients and online community better understand nutrition science and that food is healthful and not hurtful.
Session: Dietitian Dream Jobs Panel
Day 2 (August 8)
Frequently Asked Questions
This event takes place virtually on Zoom on Monday August 7 and Tuesday August 8. Registration closes August 6 2023 at 11:59pm CST.
This event is tailored to RD2BEs on their journey to become a registered dietitian. New RDs are welcome to attend as well! Whether you’re an undergraduate student, career changer, dietetic intern, graduate student, are studying for your RD exam, or are somewhere in between, we encourage you to RSVP for this event.
That’s ok! Make sure to RSVP so you get the link to attend whichever day you’re able to make live and we’ll send you a recording of the entire event to watch on your own time.
$0! This event is completely free.
Yes! Make sure to RSVP even if you can’t make it so you get the recording. You will have indefinite access to the recording!
Yes! We invite you to network amongst your fellow RD2BEs, with speakers, and with brands who will be represented at this event. Everything you need to network will be in your RD2BE Summit Toolkit!
