Matt Kelly
Functional Mold Specialist & Indoor Air Consultant
farmacy.com | mold.org
Kristina Baehr
Functional Mold Specialist & Indoor Air Consultant
Just well law
Cristina Greenfield
Healthy Home & Building Science Specialist
conscious healthy home
Steven Antommarchi
International K9 Researcher & Trainer
mold dog knows
Meet the Experts
EVENT EMCEE
Mike McNatt, MBA
Mike McNatt, MBA
(event speaker)
Texas MAC | Mold Remediation Contractor
Indoor Environmental SafeSpace Network | HealthyHome.Help
Mike McNatt, MBA, is a licensed Texas Mold Assessment Consultant and Mold Remediation Contractor with over 15 years of experience helping families tackle mold and indoor air quality concerns. He’s the founder of the Indoor Environmental SafeSpace Network and Executive Director of the nonprofit HealthyHome.Help, where he focuses on practical, evidence-based education for homeowners.
Mike blends deep technical expertise with real-world business savvy to help people make smart, ethical decisions about their homes — and as anyone who’s worked with him knows, he has a knack for bringing humor, warmth, and a human touch that lightens even the most stressful conversations.
Featured Instructors & Topics
Matt Kelly
Functional Mold Specialist | Indoor Air Consultant
Farmacy.com | Mold.org | MoldSchool.com
Matt Kelly specializes in mold toxicity and complex, environmentally driven chronic illness. After mold exposure affected his own family, he recognized a critical disconnect between how mold illness is identified, how homes are tested and remediated, and why so many people struggle to fully recover.
Since 2019, Matt has focused on the recurring patterns that predict failure in both the body and the home. Clinically, this includes improper testing and a lack of awareness of the multiple biological systems affected by mold exposure. Environmentally, it includes missed exposure sources, incomplete testing strategies, and remediations that “pass” while occupants remain sick. His work bridges health outcomes with environmental decision-making, helping both clients and professionals understand what truly makes a home supportive of healing.
It was Matt's own experience with mold exposure that revealed how fragmented and incomplete both the medical and environmental systems can be for people with complex, exposure-driven illness. Through his Farmacy clinic, Matt and his team have helped more than 3,000 individuals and families who were often left without answers. He also runs the largest mold-focused community in the world, supporting over 100,000 people with free educational videos and guidance so that access to help is not limited by cost or circumstance. These experiences continue to shape his focus on practical solutions that actually change outcomes.
Matt lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife Amy and their five children. Navigating chronic illness as a family strengthened their Christian faith, drew them closer together, and required a level of humor and humility that continues to shape how he approaches both life and work.
Kristina Baehr
National Trial Lawyer | Environmental & Toxic Tort Litigation
Just Well Law
Kristina Baehr is the founder of Just Well Law, PLLC, a nationally recognized plaintiff-side law firm focused on toxic exposure, environmental injury, and community safety litigation. A trial lawyer and advocate, Kristina represents families harmed by unsafe housing, contaminated air, unsafe food, and polluted water—often against powerful corporate and government defendants.
Kristina’s work sits at the intersection of justice, prevention, and wellness. Her firm is known for pioneering a client-centered, trauma-informed approach to litigation—one that prioritizes recovery alongside accountability. Under her leadership, Just Well Law has become a national leader in mold litigation and environmental injury cases, and has helped reshape the legal landscape through impact litigation involving military housing, water contamination, and large-scale community exposures.
She is known for leading landmark environmental cases on behalf of families affected by systemic contamination, pursuing litigation that prioritizes transparency, accountability, and prevention of future harm. She works closely with medical experts, scientists, and advocates to translate individual cases into broader systemic change.
Her work is deeply personal. After her own family was poisoned by toxic mold in their home, Kristina experienced firsthand the toll of environmental exposure and the gaps in the systems meant to protect families. That experience reshaped her career and inspired her to build the firm she wished had existed when her family needed help.
A frequent speaker on environmental justice and litigation as a tool for public health protection, Kristina believes effective advocacy can change incentives and outcomes. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and children and is guided by a simple principle: families deserve safe air, safe food, and safe water.
Cristina Greenfield
Wellness Focused Building Professional | Building Science Specialist
Conscious Healthy Home
Cristina Greenfield is the founder and chief executive consultant of Conscious Healthy Home, LLC, a WBENC-certified women’s business enterprise and Texas Real Estate Commission–approved continuing education provider. A Texas-licensed attorney with more than 14 years of experience in commercial law, corporate governance, and compliance, she previously provided executive-level counsel to Fortune 500 companies operating globally.
After discovering toxic mold in her family’s home and witnessing its serious health impact on her daughter, Cristina redirected her career toward helping families create healthier living environments. She founded Conscious Healthy Home to bridge building science with practical, accessible guidance, applying the same rigorous due diligence skills she developed through years of complex legal and compliance work.
Cristina holds certifications as a Passive House Builder (PHIUS), Building Biology Advocate, and Healthy Materials Advocate, and is a WELL AP candidate working within the growing wellness real estate sector. She also serves as Vice President of the Malachi’s Message Foundation, supporting families affected by mold-related illness, and is a sought-after speaker and educator for industry and academic audiences.
A mother of two, Cristina lives near Houston, Texas, and is committed to helping families create homes that support long-term health and healing.
STEVEN ANTOMMARCHI
K9 Detection Expert | Police K9 Instructor | AWDA Leader
Next Level K9 Texas | Mold Dog Knows
For the past 17 years, Steven Antommarchi has served the law enforcement, military, and public-safety communities as a police K9 trainer, operational handler, and scientific collaborator. He represented Team USA at the 2025 World Police & Fire Games, earning a Gold Medal in detection with his K9 partner, Bear. His work centers on advancing detection-dog standards, integrating research with real-world deployment, and strengthening programs that protect people and communities.
Steven’s work includes collaborative research with Florida International University and the Global Forensic Justice Center, where he has contributed to projects involving odor analysis, detection-dog reliability, and applied field testing. He also serves as a K9 Subject Matter Expert with the Texas School Safety Center at Texas State University, supporting national school-safety initiatives involving detection dogs and threat-mitigation strategies.
Internationally, Steven has participated in anti-poaching K9 initiatives in South Africa, assisting conservation units in developing canine programs used to combat wildlife trafficking and protect endangered species.
Within the American Working Dog Association, he serves as the Law Enforcement Secretary and has helped develop several nationally recognized third-party certification standards including programs for hemp versus marijuana differentiation, person-borne improvised explosive device (PBIED) detection, and mold-detection canines.
His instruction and consulting work span law enforcement, military, and civilian sectors worldwide. His approach is grounded in service, scientific accountability, and enhancing the reliability of working-dog teams across disciplines.
Steven lives in the D/FW, Texas area with his wife and children, and his approach is shaped by real-world experience and grounded in his core values of faith, family, community, and service. Whether training handlers in the field or guiding K9 teams through certification, his mission is clear: to develop canine teams that operate with precision, discipline, and heart.
Diana Stafford, MD
The Detox Doc
Flourish Wellness
Dr. Diana Stafford, MD is a board-certified physician and functional health practitioner specializing in gut health, mold illness, and root-cause healing. Known online as The Detox Doc, she combines conventional medical training with functional medicine to help people heal safely and sustainably.
After beginning her career in conventional medicine, Dr. Diana transitioned into functional health to deliver more comprehensive, root-cause-focused care. She brings the rare perspective of a conventionally trained MD with specialized expertise in mold-related illness and now operates a fully virtual practice, supporting clients nationwide and internationally.
Her clinical work follows a physiology-first, systems-oriented approach to environmentally influenced illness, focusing on how mold and toxins disrupt whole-body regulation. She emphasizes coordinated, clinically guided care that respects biological timing and resilience. Dr. Diana is an Amazon #1 bestselling author of Conquering Mold and Candida Detox, creator of multiple educational programs on gut health and mold recovery, and a frequent speaker and podcaster on environmental illness and whole-person healing. Through her clinical work and online platforms, she leads communities of more than 100,000 people.
Her work is also shaped by personal experience following her family’s recovery from mold exposure, which deepened her commitment to integrative, systems-based care. Her mission is simple: healing is possible, and people deserve support that enables true, root-cause recovery.
Dr. Diana lives in Virginia Beach with her husband and co-author Andrew, and their three children.
Daniel Stih
Engineer | Systems Thinking for Complex Problems
Ascent Thinking | Healthy Living Spaces
Daniel Stih, BSE, CMC, CIEC is an engineer, author, and problem-solver specializing in mold, indoor air quality, and complex environmental challenges. He helps individuals and organizations resolve difficult problems by improving how they think, decide, and act under uncertainty.
Daniel brings more than 25 years of experience in the mold and indoor environmental quality field, combining scientific rigor with hands-on, real-world practice. He currently serves on the board of the American Council for Accredited Certification (ACAC), is a former board member of the Institute for Building Biology, and is a Chapter Director for the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA).
He holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering and spent a decade working for a Fortune 50 company before founding a construction business, where he worked hands-on in residential building and repair, supported by formal coursework in Residential Building Construction.
Daniel received advanced microscopy training at the McCrone Research Institute in Chicago, specializing in the identification of mold and particulates at the microscopic level. He has partnered with Los Alamos National Laboratory to design and conduct experiments focused on mold—evaluating methods for detection and identification, as well as the effectiveness of products used to treat mold in buildings.
The author of more than a dozen books, Daniel is known for translating complex science into clear, actionable guidance—helping professionals and homeowners alike make better decisions when the stakes are high and the path forward isn’t obvious.
Ashley Hart
Realtor, Broker Associate, Team Leader
HART Realty Team
Ashley Hart is a REALTOR®, Broker Associate, and Team Leader of HART Realty Team, a Top 1% real estate group serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. Ranked among the Top 100 Agents in North Fort Worth and Top 15 Agents in Argyle and Flower Mound for 2025, she has guided clients through more than $91 million in career sales since 2019, averaging roughly $15 million and 30 transactions annually. Ashley is known for pairing strategic expertise with genuine relationship-building, earning the trust of clients navigating major life transitions.
Her approach is shaped by both professional experience and personal insight. After discovering a hidden washing machine leak in her newly built home that led to significant water damage and mold concerns, Ashley experienced firsthand the stress environmental issues can create for families. Working with assessment professionals and a K9 mold detection team deepened her understanding of how easily hidden problems can go unnoticed and reinforced her belief in proactive detection and informed homeownership.
Ashley blends residential real estate expertise with forward-thinking marketing, using AI-driven strategies and high-end branding to maximize listing visibility. Her background in sales, marketing, management, and architecture brings a balance of creativity and operational discipline. She has earned honors including Best of D Magazine (2023–2025), Top Realtors Fort Worth (2023–2025), multiple Real Producers awards, and RealTrends Verified status for 2025.
Rooted in empathy and purpose, Ashley guides clients with clarity and care. A host of the Emmy-nominated and Telly Award-winning television show The American Dream, she highlights Dallas–Fort Worth communities while advocating for informed homeownership. A mother of four and active community advocate, she measures success by the families she serves.
Main Stage Sessions (Day 1)
Keynote presentations from our featured speakers
Main Stage
Matt Kelly
What Mold Illness Looks Like - These Are Your Clients
Mold professionals meet many families at the most difficult moment of their lives, even if it does not look that way yet. In this keynote, Matt Kelly shares his family’s experience with mold illness and the common path many others follow. Declining health, financial strain, isolation, broken trust, and growing desperation often build long before a professional is ever contacted. He reframes mold illness as a lived reality, not just a diagnosis, and explains why understanding this context matters when providing services.
This message invites professionals to look beyond data points and deliverables and consider the human experience behind every call. Matt challenges attendees to reflect on how empathy, communication, and ethical responsibility shape outcomes for families navigating one of the most disruptive and misunderstood health crises of their lives.
Key Takeaways
• What mold illness looks like in real families
• What clients have already lost before reaching out
• ·Why fear and urgency are common and rational
• ·Why trust is fragile when families seek help—and how professionals can rebuild it through transparency and care
• ·How empathy, clarity, and communication can either stabilize or further overwhelm families in crisis
Main Stage
Kristina Baehr
Litigation: Greed or Bravery?
Across the country, families are stepping forward when powerful systems fail to protect health and safety. These cases aren’t about chasing payouts—they’re about accountability. Kristina Baehr challenges the narrative that litigation is driven by greed and reframes it as an act of courage, prevention, and meaningful change.
Drawing from her own experience with toxic exposure and her work representing families nationwide, Kristina explores how litigation can serve as a critical tool for accountability when prevention fails. This session examines the role of the legal system in protecting public health, deterring future harm, and driving higher standards of responsibility across industries that impact where and how we live.
Key Takeaways
• Why litigation is often the last line of defense when regulatory systems fail
• How families, experts, and lawyers become reluctant advocates
• The difference between profit-driven litigation and impact litigation focused on prevention
• How reframing litigation changes juror perception, public narrative, and long-term outcomes
• Why telling the truth—clearly and humanly—is the most powerful tool in the courtroom
Main Stage
Cristina Greenfield
Prevention by Partnership: Where High-Performance Meets Healthier Homes
Cristina Greenfield translates advanced building science into practical, real-world construction strategies that prevent moisture problems before they start. In this session, she explains why truly healthy homes require intentional collaboration between designers, builders, and homeowners—not just better materials or products.
Guest will begin to understand how building decisions around design, detailing, and execution directly impact moisture control, durability, and long-term occupant health. Cristina also highlights common breakdowns between disciplines and offers a clearer framework for building homes that perform as intended—supporting both structural integrity and a healthier living environment.
Key Takeaways
• ·How Passive House principles reduce mold risk
• ·Why prevention depends on teamwork, not just technology
• ·The importance of early planning, specifications, and accountability
• ·How poor construction practices create avoidable liability
• ·The role of humidity management and air control in reducing microbial growth
• Why proactive water management (envelope, drainage, and HVAC) is foundational to a healthy home
• How informed decision-making and education empower better outcomes for homeowners, builders, and inspectors
Main Stage
Steven Antommarchi
The State of K9 Mold Detection — Science, Standards & the Future
The mold industry is evolving—and so are the tools used to locate and verify contamination. Steven Antommarchi delivers a clear, evidence-based overview of where K9 mold detection fits within modern mold investigations and why scientific rigor, standardized training, and third-party certification are essential for industry credibility.
Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how trained detection dogs identify mold-related odors, how those alerts should be interpreted, and what separates reliable K9 teams from unvalidated methods. This session also addresses the growing need for accountability and defensibility as mold cases increasingly intersect with remediation decisions, legal scrutiny, and client trust.
Key Takeaways
• The current state of the mold industry and emerging challenges
• ·How K9 mold detection integrates into professional investigations
• The science behind canine odor detection and mold VOCs
• Common misconceptions about K9 mold detection
• The importance of standardized training and documentation
• The Importance of Third-Party Certification Standards
• What professionals, attorneys, and clients should expect from a credible K9 team
Main Stage
Dr. Diana Stafford
From Exposure to Healing
Mold exposure can disrupt the body in complex ways, but the body also has an inherent capacity to heal when it is properly supported. In this session, physician Dr. Diana Stafford shares a clear, medically grounded framework for understanding what mold does to the body and the core pillars that support recovery after exposure.
Drawing on her perspective as a conventionally trained MD with expertise in mold-related illness, Dr. Diana explains how healing is supported through restoring gut health, regulating the nervous system, addressing environmental factors, lowering overall toxin load, and identifying stealth infections that mold exposure may unmask. Rather than focusing on rigid timelines or one-size-fits-all protocols, this talk emphasizes how coordinated, thoughtful support allows the body’s innate healing processes to come back online.
Designed for both mold professionals and mold-affected individuals, this session offers a shared language for understanding recovery, helping professionals better support their clients and helping individuals recognize that healing is possible when the right foundations are in place.
Key Takeaways
• How mold exposure impacts the body in ways that require whole-system support
• ·The non-negotiable role of gut health in recovery
• ·Why nervous system regulation is foundational to healing and detox tolerance
• ·The importance of environment and ongoing exposure reduction
• ·How lowering total toxin load supports recovery through targeted supplements, nutrition, and lifestyle strategies
• Why mold can unmask underlying or stealth infections and why addressing them matters
• How supporting the body’s physiology allows its natural healing capacity to re-emerge
Main Stage
Daniel Stih
How to Think Clearly: About Mold
The Problem
When it comes to mold, technical skill alone aren't enough.
Cases are often filled with conflicting opinions, partial data, emotional homeowners, tight budgets, urgent timelines, and competing protocols. Good professionals can find themselves stuck—misaligned with clients, second-guessing interpretations, or watching small misunderstandings cascade into expensive, stressful problems.
Most breakdowns in mold cases don’t come from a lack of expertise. They come from unclear thinking under pressure.
The Solution
This talk focuses on how to think when mold cases are complex, uncertain, and high-stakes.
Rather than telling professionals what to think or how to test, Daniel Stih introduces a clear thinking process that helps practitioners surface hidden assumptions, test interpretations, and reduce risk before decisions harden and errors multiply.
Attendees learn a way of thinking they can apply within their own specialty—inspection, remediation, consulting, lab analysis, or project management—so their technical work translates into clear decisions, confident communication, smoother projects, and happier clients.
This presentation is about making good technical work hold up in the real world.
Key Takeaways
• How hidden assumptions quietly shape mold cases and how to surface them early
• ·How to separate what actually matters from noise when data, observations, and opinions conflict
• ·How to frame mold findings in ways homeowners can understand and trust
• ·Why most failures in mold projects are process failures, not knowledge gaps
• ·How to think clearly under pressure, uncertainty, and client expectations, leading to better outcomes and better client experiences
Main Stage
Ashleigh Hart
Bridging the Gap: Mold Awareness and the Role of Real Estate Professionals
Real estate professionals operate at a unique intersection of health, construction, and accountability, often without formal training in mold awareness or building science. This session explores how mold considerations surface in real-world transactions, including new construction, and why greater awareness is becoming essential within the industry.
Drawing from both professional experience and personal insight, Ashley Hart examines how construction complexity, environmental factors, communication gaps, and occasional homeowner or builder oversight can contribute to mold-related challenges. She highlights how these issues emerge in everyday transactions and what professionals can realistically do to navigate them.
The session reframes the real estate professional’s role from transactional participant to trusted guide. Through practical discussion of awareness, communication, and documentation, attendees will see how collaboration, rather than confrontation, protects relationships, supports clients, and advances a more informed, cooperative future for the housing and mold industries.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Real estate professionals play a critical role at the intersection of health, construction, and accountability, and increased mold awareness is becoming essential to modern practice.
• Mold-related challenges in transactions often stem from a mix of construction complexity, environmental factors, and communication gaps — issues that can be better managed with proactive awareness
• Shifting from a purely transactional role to that of a trusted guide helps professionals protect client relationships while navigating sensitive environmental concerns
BREAKOUT SESSIONS (Day 2)
Discussions from our featured instructors
Breakout session 1 & 2
Matt Kelly
The Single Biggest Point of Failure for Mold Recovery
For most people struggling to recover from mold illness, the problem is not the protocol. It is the environment. Matt explains why recovery so often stalls when mold sources are missed, testing is incomplete, or a home is declared safe while exposure remains.
Key Takeaways
• Why the environment is the primary driver of ongoing illness
• ·How improper testing creates false reassurance
• ·Where mold sources are most commonly missed
• ·How to apply a three step process to find mold more reliably
• ·What changes the odds of successful remediation
Breakout session 1 & 2
Kristina Baehr
Mold Expert 101: Lessons from the Trenches
What does it really take to be an effective legal expert—and why should you testify at all? This candid, practical session explores what juries actually believe, trust, and expect from experts. You may know the science—but do you know the jury?
Key Takeaways
• What juries actually look for in experts—and the most common mistakes that undermine credibility
• How to translate complex science into testimony jurors can understand, trust, and remember
• ·When expert testimony helps a case—and when it quietly hurts it
• ·How to maintain integrity and independence while working within an adversarial system
Breakout session 1
Cristina Greenfield
Construction Documentation Essentials — Specifying Means, Methods & Accountability
Cristina walks attendees through how stronger documentation, clearer specifications, and defined inspection phases can prevent moisture failures and reduce disputes before they begin.
Key Takeaways
• How to write stronger, protective construction specifications
• How to define means and methods that prevent moisture problems
• ·Where critical inspection checkpoints should occur
• ·How better documentation reduces risk for professionals and homeowners
Breakout Session 2
Cristina Greenfield
Root Cause vs. Surface Findings — Solving Moisture, Not Just Mold
Cristina explains why visible mold is only a symptom — and why failing to identify moisture sources creates recurring problems and legal risk.
Key Takeaways
• Why surface mold findings are incomplete without moisture analysis
• How hidden moisture pathways drive recurring mold issues
• ·Where mold sources are most commonly missed
• ·Why treating symptoms instead of causes increases liability
• ·How root-cause analysis leads to safer, healthier homes
Breakout session 1
Steven Antommarchi
Real-World K9 Deployment: Best Practices for Professionals
A practical look at how K9 teams should be used in homes, commercial buildings, and complex structures. Designed for inspectors, remediators, and building professionals.
Key Takeaways
• When K9 mold detection is appropriate and when it is not
• Preparing a structure for a K9 mold search
• ·Understanding airflow, odor movement, and environmental variables
• ·Avoiding common deployment errors that lead to misinterpretation
Breakout session 2
Steven Antommarchi
The Science of Odor Detection & Third-Party Certification Standards
This science forward breakout session explores the biological and environmental principles that make odor detection possible, and how these principles apply to mold-specific VOC recognition.
Key Takeaways
• How canine olfaction works at a biological level
• Odor recognition, discrimination, and generalization
• ·Why third-party certification matters in mold detection
• ·Overview of AWDA certification standards for mold detection teams
2026 Working Mold Summit
28 & 29 March 2026 • Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
Featured Instructors & Topics