Meet Our Team
“If you love what you do, it will show in your heart, your smile and your life.”— SportsIQ
Brian Gulbranson Bioresonance / Co-Founder
Brian Gulbranson is an industry professional with over 22 years of experience in business and management. He started his career with the Tiger Woods Foundation running the day-to-day logistics and operations for the multiple fundraising projects, including the AT&T National Golf Tournament, Tiger Jam and Target World Challenge. In 2008, Classic Tents was the largest party rental and event company in the United States, and recruited him to support as Project Manager for their largest contracts. After 8 years and multiple advancements, Brian moved on to become the General Manager at Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy, a 96,000 sq. ft all-inclusive sports facility in his hometown of Thousand Oaks, CA. Most recently, he held the title of COO of Quantum Epigenetics, LLC, an energy balancing center in Malibu CA, where he discovered his true passion for helping people use their own bodies abilities to heal themselves.
Erikka Dean-Gulbranson Co-Founder
Erikka has over 30 years of experience in youth sports programming, curriculum development and volleyball. Her experience in volleyball ranges from playing, coaching, directing and managing youth, collegiate and international teams. Her expertise in developing sports programming has taken her throughout the nation and all over the world to build successful and self-sustaining volleyball programs.
In her pursuit of knowledge, Erikka traveled throughout the nation and into over 40 countries, writing programming, directing & leading training as well as her many years of mentoring athletes, coaches and parents. Most recently, Erikka was a Founder and Director of Operations & Youth Programming with Mamba Sports Academy. While developing her playbook, Erikka spent:
13 years experiencing the NCAA Division I, II and NAIA programs. While at the University of Southern California, assisted in the development of a 3x Consecutive National Championship team. In her final college coaching leadership position, Erikka took Vanguard University from a fledgling program to a NAIA National contender year after year.
She was a USA Volleyball National Team Head, Assistant Coach & CAP III Cadre leader for USA Volleyball from 2003 – 2007, taking Junior & Youth Teams to countries all over the world to compete in Qualifiers & World Championships.
Erikka represented the USA as an Embassy Sports Envoy Ambassador in Brazil & Peru. Traveling throughout the country training children and adults in the sport of volleyball as well as meeting with government representatives to educate and compel them to develop curriculum to include all ages, boys, and girls in sport. Earlier in her mentorship, she participated in the Nigerian Volleyball Project as a coach & ambassador. The project, which was sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, collaborated with the Institute for International Sport, and was specifically designed by Erikka & her colleagues to bring the sport of volleyball to children that would never have had the opportunity to participate any other way.
Erikka is also a book author, and spent several years writing coaching manuals for USA Volleyball’s National Teams. Erikka developed a High-Performance Coaches technical training manual, used to train all National Team program staff in the Nation. During this period she was also hired to travel throughout the nation to train coaches and players under these new USA Volleyball Training methodologies, all while teaming up with former Olympic Team Coach Toshiaki Yoshida in 2005 to write the book “Inside Out of Passing.” In 2014, the “Inside Out of Passing,” was translated into Polish with the help of Grupa Codex and given to all Volleyball Trainers and Physical Education Coaches throughout Poland.
Erikka grew up locally, is an alumni of Conejo Valley Little League, So Cal & Zuma Bay Volleyball Clubs as well as Thousand Oaks High School Volleyball & Softball.