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Aaron Wallace, the owner of Balance Your Fitness, has a B.S. in Exercise and Health Science from Alma College. Additionally, he is certified as a CHEK Practitioner, Holistic Lifestyle Coach, and Golf Biomechanic. His educational background allows him to scientifically customize a program that addresses the specific needs of his clients. The tools he uses include traditional exercise prescription, mind-body fitness, soft tissue therapies, lifestyle and stress management, healthy eating habits, chiropractic principles, and orthopedic rehabilitation. After gathering data about clients' physical, chemical, mental, emotional, and spiritual stressors, he develops a customized program that helps them achieve their goals of golf performance, weight loss, and pain reduction.

Sit Means Sit Dog Training Detroit provides professional dog training in Detroit, Troy, Rochester, Waterford, and surrounding Michigan areas.

Nick Brown is the owner of Sit Means Sit Detroit.With thousands of dogs trained since 2008, Nick’s experience with all types of dogs, their obedience issues and behavior modification makes him a sought-after trainer and speaker. Nick is an avid volunteer at local and national Leonberger Dog Bred shows, as well as being asked to handle other people’s dogs in the show ring. Nick enjoys working with dogs on film and showing in conformation--i.e., dog shows. 

Andy Cowdery has been working summers at Sit Means Sit as a trainer for several years while he attended college for an advertising and PR degree. With his two golden retrievers, Maple and Tillie, Andy is a member of our Go Team Therapy & Crisis Dog team and has also started to train for AKC and UKC hunt tests with Maple.

While Sit Means Sit doesn’t endorse child labor, Andy has been around since Tillie was a puppy and Andy was about 13 years old. Even then, his commitment to his dogs was clear and, as a youngster, was usually one of the best handlers in the room. Andy’s favorite part of training is the ability to give dogs and their owners the tools to live a safe and fulfilling life together. When not working, Andy enjoys hiking with the dogs, photography, and doing therapy work at a local elementary school.

Arthur White is Detroit Opera’s Director of External Affairs. He has worked in multiple aspects of opera as a singer, manager, and community leader. In addition to having sung in several productions at MOT and with all the professional opera companies in Chicago, he has spent the last 20 years in artist management, the marketing of operatic productions, and as an impresario. He has produced and presented artists in concert at venues across the United States including Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Arthur originally joined Detroit Opera—then called Michigan Opera Theatre— in 2013, tasked with increasing community engagement. During this time he created its Opera Clubs, where opera singers give free community performances throughout Metro Detroit, followed by lectures of Detroit Opera’s upcoming operas. Arthur’s efforts were recognized by Opera America in 2015 as an example of successful grassroots engagement in the United States.

Outside of opera, he has served as the personal manager of Grammy Award-winning singer William Warfield and legendary folk singer Odetta. He also produced baritone Robert Sims’ recital in the new and recently opened Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall and managed his second appearance for Carnegie Hall in Jessye Norman’s “Honor” in 2009.