Jerome Triplin II is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and seasoned sex educator who has spent over two decades guiding individuals and couples toward deeper connection, healing, and liberation. With 20 years as a sex educator and 5 years in clinical practice, Jerome bridges the wisdom of therapeutic insight with embodied, experiential approaches to intimacy and relational repair.

Rooted in lived experience as a member of both the kink and polyamorous communities, Jerome brings not only professional expertise but also a deep personal understanding of the complexities, joys, and challenges of alternative relationship structures and erotic expression. His work sits at the intersection of healing, pleasure, and justice—helping people move through relational stuck points, reclaim authentic desire, and practice consent and communication as pathways to freedom.

Drawing from both clinical training and community-based education, Jerome creates spaces where vulnerability becomes strength and erotic expression becomes medicine. As a speaker and facilitator, he brings warmth, depth, and a trauma-informed lens that empowers participants to explore with safety and courage. At the Edge of Excellence Summit, Jerome contributes a vision where kink, care, and ethics are not only compatible, but essential to collective healing and embodied liberation.

Mistress Mia Payne is a Transformational ProDomme, Sacred Kink Coach/educator, and the owner/Mistress at Payne With Purpose, a self-development dungeon. Her practice focuses on Transformational BDSM, rites of passage work, trauma recovery, shame release, and self development. She has a unique perspective as a once-fundamentalist-Christian-turned Mistress, and can hold space for those who are faith-observing or in the midst of deconstruction. She is located east of Toronto Ontario in Canada, and offers services locally, onsite through travel within Canada, and Virtually. She is passionate about Kink education, and when she isn't holding a whip and a leash, you can find her at her laptop writing, or cuddling with her partner and their Cornish Rex named Cosmo.

Mistress Mia Payne has been a professional dominatrix for 10 years, and the past seven of those she has spent working with clients who wish to rediscover their inner strength, find their self-confidence, increase their resilience, as well as process grief and trauma.

As a kink educator and advocate, Mistress Mia helps those who wish to improve or learn new skills- both for personal and professional use. She also assists couples in learning how to use power exchange to create deeper bonds, and helps them learn how to experience the richest joys of BDSM safely.

Lady M (M for Monroe) (she/her) is a Lifestyle Domina, coach, storyteller, and practitioner of conscious power exchange with over 8 years of lived experience in authority transfer-based relationships. With a 20-year background in professional coaching and personal development, her work bridges embodiment, relational clarity, and deep energetic presence.

Known for her direct approach and strong grounding in lived practice, Lady M brings both tenderness and structure to the spaces she leads. Her coaching supports individuals and power exchange dynamics in becoming more fully expressed, integrated, and intentional.

She identifies as a sacred disruptor—someone who lovingly challenges systems, roles, and habits that no longer serve. Her work invites others to engage the uncomfortable with honesty, and to meet transformation with discipline, devotion, and self-responsibility.

Lady M is a founding member of the Kink Professional Standards Alliance (KPSA) and serves as an instructor and mentor in the 2026 CPKP cohort.