SUCCEED WITHOUT SIGHT SUMMIT
The Ultimate Game Changer for the Blind and Low Vision Community,
Igniting Success Driven Mindsets like No Other Event!
Join Alexander Howard live from the Sundance Film Festival as he shares his journey as a low-vision entertainment professional and advocate for audio description and disability inclusion. Explore how storytelling and accessibility can come together to create a more inclusive entertainment industry.
Self-Brain Surgery with Lee Warren, MD: Unlocking the Power of Your Mind to Thrive From Impossible to Unstoppable: How Clarke Reynolds Became "Mr. Dot," the Blind Braille Artist Tech That Transforms: The Latest Tools for Thriving with Sam Seavey
Seeing the World Differently: How Meta Smart Glasses Empower Accessibility with Michael Smedley
Persistence Pays Off: Harnessing the THRIVER Formula for Unstoppable Success with Michele Felix
Energy Ignite! Special Session with Motviational Speaker L.A. WilliamsBreaking Barriers in the Workforce: Extraordinary Careers for the Blind & How to Get Them with Dr. Kirk Adams
Making the World Talk: How RightHear Brings Environments to Life Through Audio
Empowering Entrepreneurship with Sakshi Srivastava Founder of SenseAble
Thriving is a Family Affair: Get real about thriving with a teenager living with vision loss.
Watch to the end of Summit Part 2 to hear the announcement of how billionaire Grant Cardone is inviting Thriving Blind Academy's highschool and college age young people to a $5000+ per person event for FREE! Interested to join us in Miami? Send an email to [email protected]
Maria, Summit 2025 Attendee
Living the Life of Your Dreams Regardless of VIsion Loss!
Parenting, Education, Workforce Success & More!
Assistive Technology and other tools to THRIVE!
Thriving Blind Academy Yearly Membership includes the ALL ACCESS PASS to recordings of every Succeed Without SIght Summit PLUS speical events PLUS webinars PLUS weekly coaching/mentorship community calls.
Thriving is better in a Community!
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Kaleigh Brendle, Sudent, VIllanova University
2021 Summit Speaker
Join Dr. Lee Warren as he reveals how to rewire your thinking, overcome obstacles, and take control of your future. Discover the transformative tools of "self-brain surgery" and learn how to harness the power of your mind to create a thriving life!
Join Michelle Guadalupe Felix Garcia, trailblazing blind audio engineer and advocate, as she shares her journey from the stage with Coldplay to breaking barriers in the music industry. Learn how persistence, innovation, and the powerful THRIVER Formula fuel extraordinary success!
Discover how Clarke Reynolds defied expectations and turned "impossible" into a global career as a blind artist. Be inspired by his journey of resilience, creativity, and using braille as a universal language of art.
Making the World Talk: How RightHear Brings Environments to Life Through Audio
Join Darren Gladstone of RightHear to explore how talking signage and real-time audio descriptions are transforming the way people navigate and experience the world. Discover the innovative technology empowering independence, safety, and exploration for everyone, everywhere.
Empowering Lives with Innovation: How SensAble is Redefining Accessibility
Join Sakshi Srivastava, founder and CEO of SensAble, as she shares her mission to revolutionize wearable devices and reshape the narrative around disability. Discover how cutting-edge technology is breaking barriers and creating a more inclusive future for all.
Seeing the World Differently: How Meta Smart Glasses Empower Accessibility
Join Michael Smedley, of Disney Live Entertainment, as he shares how he uses Meta smart glasses by Ray-Ban to navigate the world and enhance independence. Learn how innovative technology is breaking barriers and creating new possibilities for accessibility.
Join Sam Seavey, creator of
The Blind Life, as he shares cutting-edge assistive technologies that empower independence and success. Discover the tools and tips that can revolutionize how you navigate and thrive in everyday life!
Join Alexander Howard live from the Sundance Film Festival as he shares his journey as a low-vision entertainment professional and advocate for audio description and disability inclusion. Explore how storytelling and accessibility can come together to create a more inclusive entertainment industry.
Join Dr. Kirk Adams as he unveils an extraordinary cybersecurity company that’s creating inclusive career paths and offering cutting-edge training for blind and visually impaired professionals. Discover how this innovative approach is breaking stereotypes and empowering a new generation to thrive in tech.
The Succeed Without Sight Summit is hosted by the Founders of Thriving Blind Academy
Kristin Smedley is a TEDx speaker, filmmaker and author of the best selling book Thriving Blind:Stories of Real People Succeeding Without Sight and What I Can Be Is Up To Me. Kristin is Co-Founder of Thriving Blind Academy and the SuccessAbility You Tube channel. She has two sons that are blind due to CRB1-LCA and a sighted daughter. All three of her children are thriving - and out of the house at college and the workforce!
Charlie is Co-Founder of Thriving Blind Academy and the SuccessAbility channel on YouTube, a certified Success Principles speaker/coach, and author of the book Tripping Into the Light. Charlie has been featured in two of Jack Canfield's The Success Principles books. Charlie was diagnosed with Stargardt's Disease in his teens and is legally blind, married and a father of two successful sighted daughters.
All Thriving Blind Academy Yearly Members have access to the 30+ hours of previous summit sessions.
For more than 30 years Bob has helped companies, sales leaders, and their teams to more effectively communicate their value, sell at higher prices with less resistance, and grow their businesses based on Endless Referrals.
Bob has regularly addressed audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000 — sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities, Olympic athletes and political leaders including a former United States President.
Although for years he was best known for his book Endless Referrals, it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that captured the imagination of his readers. The Go-Giver, a Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek Bestseller, has sold well over a million copies.
L.A. Williams is the Vice President of Dealer Synergy. He has 10+ years of automotive sales experience and has made it his mission to help, educate and level up anyone he comes in contact with. LA once started as a frontline analyst for the organization, but quickly worked his way through the ranks to most recently landing him his current role of Vice President and an official company partner.
LA is also a very successful music producer. He has produced tracks for Dr. Dre, Lil Wayne, Katy Perry, Karina Bradley, and scores more. In addition to having worked with some of the best in the music industry, LA has worked in movies. He was even the voice for Jigsaw in 4 of the SAW movies!
Suzette May is a passionate advocate and workshop speaker dedicated to making workplaces, clinical trials, and pedestrian areas accessible for the blind. As an entrepreneur and student at Arizona State University, she's pursuing undergraduate studies in Disability Studies and a graduate degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Legally blind herself, Suzette has a Seeing Eye Dog and advocates for disability and pedestrian accessibility, braille literacy, and early vision screening.
Campbell Rutherford is a sophomore at Harvard pursuing an applied mathematics concentration on the biological sciences track. She's hoping to work in medical research after graduate school, which was inspired by the many rabbit holes of biology that she fell into during sciences classes as a homeschooler. Campbell is also a classic pianist and is currently a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum mixed voice choir. She describes herself as a "standard nerd" and she's probably not wrong, though there's nothing standard about her.
Liza Rutherford is the homeschool mom of two girls and a choreographer/dance instructor by trade. She has been homeschooling for 11 years, from preschool to grade 9 for her 14 year old sighted daughter Harris, and grades 5-12 for her blind daughter, Campbell, who is now a sophomore at Harvard. That's 3 bouts of Algebra now, including her own attempt the first time through, if anyone's counting!
Hailed as “The funniest blind Comedian in stand-up”, by Voyage San Antonio Magazine. Comedian Leon the Jokester has one focus in comedy and that is to spread: Love, Hope, and Laughter. Widely known for his clean and relatable comedy for all age groups, Comedian Leon the Jokester brings a style of humor the entire family can enjoy. He addresses life issues, finding hope in tough times, and how to walk by faith and not by sight in every season of life. In 2016, he became the co-founder of the non-profit organization “Oklahoma Comedy Zone, LLC. In which he teaches “tweens” and “teens” how to write clean jokes and become comedians.
First and foremost, Matt is a believer in Jesus Christ. He is a Husband, Father, Son, and Brother. He feels blessed to work for Microsoft as a Customer Solutions Architect aka M365 Apps Ranger. Matt was diagnosed with Stargardts when he was 19. Matt says: In life we have a choice we can either ROLL OVER or RISE UP...it's your choice.
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**Thriving Blind Academy Membership includes a FREE VIP ticket to the Summit!
Membership in the private Thriving Blind Academy Facebook group
Access to all Summit Sessions
Access to all Summit day Q&A Sessions
Membership in the private Thriving Blind Academy Facebook group
Access to all Summit Sessions
Access to all Summit day Q&A Sessions
Access to the entire online portal of recordings, masterclasses, webinars, trainings of success principles for thriving with blindness/low vision
Weekly LIVE group mentorship calls (and recordings)
Recordings of all Summit speakers
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