Speakers
Coralyn Musser
Coralyn Musser is a TEDx speaker, keynote presenter, and culture coach who helps businesses cultivate generous, people-centered workplaces through hands-on service and meaningful engagement. Through her signature Learn. Give. Do. framework, she designs immersive experiences that deepen employee connection and drive lasting cultural change.
She serves as the Director of Outreach & Engagement at MEI Total Elevator Solutions, where she champions company culture and leads philanthropic strategy, volunteer programs, employee education initiatives, and community partnerships. Her leadership has contributed to significant growth in employee generosity, nonprofit engagement, and cultural alignment company wide.
She holds an MBA and hosts the Lead Like a Girl podcast, using real stories to empower everyday women in leadership and life.
Dan & Angie Bastian
Dan and Angie Bastian, entrepreneurs, co-founders and namesake of Angie’s BOOMCHICKAPOP, took a kernel of an idea and popped it into one of the fastest growing brands of natural popcorn. They founded their snack company in their Mankato, MN garage in 2001 as a means of creating a college fund for their children. Their gluten-free, non-GMO, whole grain popcorn is proudly sold internationally. Angie’s BOOMCHICKAPOP is loved by fans as an empowered, spirited brand of authentic food and great tasteangie. The company attracted investment from private equity and was acquired by Conagra Brands October of 2017. It is one of the fastest-growing and most successful popcorn brands in the market today. The Bastians currently serve on several corporate and non-profit boards, advise, and invest. Angie is currently the board chair of the B-Corp, Prospera Foods and is a national corporate speaker with Leading Authorities, Inc.
Angie was awarded Pioneer in Food, United Nations Women’s Entrepreneurship Day #WEDO2017. The subject of a children’s educational book series, Female Foodies, entitled “Boomchickapop Boss.” She is an inductee at the Minnesota Women’s Business Hall of Fame. Honored by the Girl Scouts as a Pioneering Trailblazer and shares Connect Business Magazine’s 2012 Person of the Year with her husband Dan. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, quoted in Forbes Magazine and appeared on the Martha Stewart Show. She and Dan were featured in Guy Raz’s live NPR Podcast, “How I Built This” and “The Tony Robbins Podcast.” Their products have been recognized and awarded by national publications and media.
Angie (Miller) Bastian graduated from Goshen College with a BSN and from Emory University with a master’s in nursing. She worked in her profession for 28 years until she retired as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in 2011 to immerse herself in full-time entrepreneurship.
Dan Bastian graduated from St. John’s University with a BA in history. He served as a teacher in Benque Viejo, Belize Central America and taught English as a Second Language in Mérida, Mexico before becoming a full time H.S. teacher and coach in New Mexico and in his hometown of Mankato, MN.
It was his idea to start a kettle corn company. He retired from teaching full-time entrepreneurship in 2004.
Angie and Dan have been married 29 years and have two young adult children.
Beth benike
Army veteran turned entrepreneur Beth (Fynbo) Benike brings a unique perspective shaped by military service across 14 countries and innovative business success. During her decade in the Army, she became the first embedded journalist deployed to a warzone in 2003, developing problem-solving skills that would prove essential in entrepreneurship.
At age 40, watching babies constantly drop items during lunch sparked an idea that revolutionized parenting solutions. Despite no product development experience, Beth created the Busy Baby Mat—the first patented placemat and tether system. She transformed this kitchen table prototype into market success in just 18 months.
Featured on Shark Tank, Busy Baby earned Inc. 5000 recognition in 2023 and 2024, with retail presence in Target and Walmart. The company now operates from a 7,000-square-foot facility with eight patented products, manufacturing in China and distributing in Korea during current trade tensions.
Beth serves on community boards, mentors entrepreneurs, and speaks on topics including mental health in entrepreneurship, drawing from her military and business experience.
