Felicia Brown, LMBT

Felicia Brown, LMBT is the owner of Spalutions!, (www.spalutions.com) a firm that provides business and marketing coaching and education for massage, spa, and wellness professionals. Felicia is passionate about inspiring others with her practice by sharing her knowledge and experiences. This practice of “cooperative competition” has been a cornerstone of Felicia's career ever since she became a massage therapist in 1994. She continues to apply this way of thinking in her coaching, writing, and teaching. With appearances at many state, national and international conferences for the massage, spa, and wellness industries, Felicia has become a sought-after speaker and educator. She is the author of Free & Easy Ways to Promote Your Massage, Spa & Wellness Business: Volume 1 and Reflections of My Heart: A Poetic Journey of Love, Life, Heartbreak and Healing. She is also a contributing author to several other books. Additionally, Felicia has written for numerous trade publications including Les Nouvelles Esthetique & Spa, DAYSPA, Spa Magazine, Skin, Inc., Massage Therapy Journal, Massage Magazine, Massage & Bodywork, Spa Management Journal, Spa Business and Dermascope. She is also a practicing massage therapist, Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach and NCBTMB/FL Approved Provider. Over her career, Felicia has won numerous awards for her business skills and accomplishments including 2005 Small Business Person of the Year from the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Other awards include 2011 Volunteer of the Year (American Massage Conference); 2009 Spa Person of the Year (Day Spa Association); Top Entrepreneurs of 2009 and Top 25 Movers & Shakers of 2008 by Business Leader Magazine, 2007 National Volunteer Committee of the Year (American Massage Therapy Association), 2004 Women in Business (The Business Journal), 2003 Forty Leaders Under Forty (The Business Journal), 2003 Best Places to Work (The Business Journal), and 2005 Best Spa in Greensboro (Triad Style). As one who loves to educate others, Felicia also hosts the Pre-Conference Broadcast Series on One Concept Radio where she interviews various massage, chiropractic and wellness speakers and educators. She is also a member of the editorial advisory board for DAYSPA Magazine. Felicia makes her home in Greensboro, North Carolina. In her spare time, Felicia is a casually competitive tri-athlete and also enjoys yoga, reading, cooking, travel, and spa/travel adventures of most any sort.

Douglas Nelson, LMT, BCTMB, CNMT

Douglas Nelson is the founder of Precision NMT seminars, Doug has taught hundreds of seminars and to various populations from physician's conferences to educational seminars for lay people. Practicing massage therapy since 1977, he has studied with a host of great educators and worked in several clinical environments. He is the president of BodyWork Associates, a sixteen therapist massage therapy clinic in Champaign, IL which has been in operation since 1982. Doug still maintains a very active practice; he doesn't just teach, he has a busy personal practice (seeing over 1,100 client visits annually); the clinic is the laboratory for the development of PNMT. Doug has treated thousands of clients over the years, from the NBA to the NFL, factory workers,and high level musicians who suffer musculoskeletal pain. Doug is passionate about the efficacy of the work and has conducted many clinical research studies to investigate PNMT. He is a member of the International Myopain Association and the International Association for the Study of Pain and is also a regular columnist for Massage and Bodywork magazine. He is the author of Table Lessons: Insights in the Practice of Massage Therapy and The Mystery of Pain. He also contributed the chapter on fibromyalgia to the book Massage Therapy: Integrating Research and Practice. Doug was awarded the 2013 Massage Therapy Educator of the Year from the Illinois Chapter of the AMTA. He has spoken to numerous state and national AMTA conferences, both giving workshops and keynote addresses.