Jamie Winship

Jamie Winship has decades of experience bringing peaceful solutions to some of the world’s highest conflict areas. 

After a distinguished career in law enforcement in the metro Washington DC area, Jamie earned an MA in English and developed a unique process called the Identity Method. This process of identity transformation is the key to resolving inner conflict and acquiring new levels of learning and creativity. His unconventional efforts to bring about societal and racial reconciliation led him to Indonesia, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Israel and back to the U.S. 

Jamie has worked with leaders in professional sports, business, education, law enforcement, government, non-profit, and other sectors. He is the author of the book Living Fearless.

Jamie and his wife, Donna, are co-founders of Identity Impact, a nonprofit to bring identity method and connection into education and Identity Exchange, a training and consulting agency that helps individuals and teams discover new levels of creativity and resiliency within the framework of true identity.

Jamie is an untier of knots and a militant peaceamaker.

Donna Winship

Donna Winship left the American dream with her husband, Jamie and their three boys and spent 25 years raising their family in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. This was a journey that would forever change her life.

Living overseas in a predominantly Muslim country, Donna discovered the principles of the Connection Worldview and true identity. She has a B.S. in Elementary Education and has worked as a teacher and an elementary principal. Donna is the co-author of the Knowing Rediscovered, Becoming What You Believe and Identity Method courses on personal transformation at the identity level.

Donna, and her husband Jamie are co-founders of Identity Impact, a nonprofit to bring identity method and connection into education and Identity Exchange, a training and consulting agency that helps individuals and teams discover new levels of creativity and resiliency within the framework of true identity.

Donna is a timeless life giver and designer of tranformation.

Rebecca Pankratz

Rebecca Pankratz serves as the Executive Director of Identity Impact, where she leads with a clear sense of direction, deep discernment, and an unwavering commitment to restoring what has been lost. Known as a Mobilizing Revealer and a Mother of Lost Coins, Rebecca has a unique capacity to name what is true, surface what has been hidden, and guide individuals and systems toward alignment and wholeness. She has been instrumental in building and mobilizing movements across Kansas focused on poverty resolution, trauma-informed schools, and resilience-centered systems, helping educators, leaders, and communities move from reactive responses to transformative change rooted in wholeness and connection.

Rebecca’s work is shaped by both professional expertise and lived experience. After overcoming poverty as a single mother of three, her journey into education and systems leadership ignited a statewide trauma-informed schools movement and positioned her as a nationally trusted voice. Formerly serving as Director of Student Services and leading the ESSDACK Resilience Team, she guided districts in developing sustainable, compassionate frameworks that honor the whole child and the adults who serve them. A master facilitator and compelling storyteller, Rebecca distills complex concepts around brain science, behavior, and healing into accessible, actionable pathways forward. Through Identity Impact, she continues to reveal truth, gather what has been scattered, and steward movements that restore dignity, belonging, and purpose in schools and communities across the country.

Dawn Rowe

Dawn has been teaching in public education since 1988. She currently teaches Adv Placement Psychology, World History, and Applied Psychology at Prairie High School. She has been married to her husband, Stuart, since 1988, and she has one son, Dustin. She has worked with youth her entire adult life, and her favorite people to be around are teens.

Dawn wrote a book in 2019 called, The Ripple Effect of Love in the Classroom. The book was published in 2022, which was timely since education dramatically changed during COVID. The book gives strategies to educators on how to improve classroom and school culture with the hope of encouraging educators to find joy and fulfillment in their teaching profession.

Dawn is a trailblazer, a mentor, a mother to many, and a freedom fighter for youth.