Get to know the top business leaders and published authors who share their experiences and expertise with you!
Below, you will find each guest’s biography, links to their website and social media so you can connect with them directly, and a link to their appearance(s) on our show.
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Adam Hommey is a speaker, author, trainer, and consultant with nearly 20 years’ experience helping business creators, like you, WIN at the game of business and marketing so you can thrive from YOUR intersection of YOUR brilliance and YOUR passion while making a difference for your community, market, and audience.
Adam is the author of Groundhog Day is an Event, Not a Business Strategy, and a contributing author to Journeys to Success: The Millennial Edition - both international Amazon best-sellers. He has spoken on stages around the country for many years and is a sought-after expert on podcasting for entrepreneurs.
As creator of The R.E.A.C.H. System, Adam helps you exponentially reach more profitable customers!
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Al Jensen is fiercely committed to guiding entrepreneurs, authors, and subject matter experts to achieve confidence in sharing their genius with the world from stage.
He works with them to identify their signature story and prepare to share that story to gain the trust and confidence of those they want to influence.
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Brand name expert Alexandra Watkins is a leading and outspoken authority on brand names with buzz. She is author of “Hello, My Name is Awesome… How to Create Brand Names That Stick” (an Inc. Magazine Top 10 Marketing Book). She is also founder of naming firm Eat My Words.
For more than a decade she and her firm have created love-at-first sight brand names for clients including Amazon, Google, Frito-Lay, and Disney.
Frequently quoted in the press, she has been featured in leading business publications including The Wall Street Journal, Inc., and Entrepreneur.
She is a popular guest speaker at entrepreneur events and speaks regularly to MBA students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, USF School of Management, and other MBA programs.
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Alinka Rutkowska is the CEO of Leaders Press, a USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling press, where she creates books for entrepreneurs from scratch and launches them to best-seller with a 100% success rate.
She's worked with top business leaders such as Po Chung (the co-founder of DHL International), Mark Nureddine (the CEO of Bull Outdoor Products) and Chris Catranis (the founder of Babylon Telecommunications).
Leaders Press' releases have landed on bookshelves together with Nobel Prize winners and World Economic Forums speakers. Alinka's mission is to help 1,000 entrepreneurs share their wisdom with the world by 2030.
Alinka is an official member of the Forbes Business Council and her cutting-edge book creation process has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine.
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Angela Ackerman is co-author of 6 best-selling writing guides and enjoys sharing her passion for storytelling with writers across the globe.
A writing coach and international speaker, Angela believes that writers should never stop striving to learn and grow.
Her desire to help writers in new, innovative ways is a love she shares with Becca Puglisi and Lee Powell and led to a powerful collaboration that became One Stop for Writers®.
In the fiction realm, Angela is sowing her wild oats, playing around with darker themes and interesting plot twists.
While her preferred audience is middle grade and young adult, lately she’s been toying with trying an adult thriller on for size.
A Canadian residing near the Rockies, she enjoys traveling with her family, exploring unusual places, collecting zombie lawn gnomes (don’t ask), and she believes life is too short for boring socks.
More importantly, Angela is all about helping others, and she strives to pay it forward however she can.
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Anne Janzer is an award-winning author, armchair cognitive science geek, nonfiction author coach, marketing practitioner, and blogger.
She’s on a mission to help people spread important ideas through writing.
As a professional writer, she has worked with more than one hundred technology companies, writing in the voice of countless brands and corporate executives.
She is the author of several books including The Writer’s Process.
Her books have won numerous awards, including the Independent Book Publishers IPPY award, the Foreword Indies Book of the Year, Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal, and the IndieReader Discovery Award.
They have been translated into Japanese, Korean, and Russian language editions.
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April O’Leary is the Founder of O’Leary Publishing and the author of six books.
She is committed to creating books that exceed the industry standards for her aspiring authors.
Because of her knowledge of the industry trends, and our team of seasoned professionals, April's authors' titles frequently achieve top rankings on Amazon.
She is a board member of the Florida Authors and Publishers Association (FAPA) and on the Membership Benefits Committee with the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA).
April is a judge for the IBPA national Benjamin Franklin book awards contest.
She is also the host of the I’m Booked Podcast.
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Arvee Robinson, The Master Speaker Trainer, International Speaker, and Author will give you the tools, and confidence, to become a speaking Superstar in your industry!
For over a decade, Arvee Robinson has been successfully training business owners, service professionals, and entrepreneurs how to use public speaking as a marketing strategy.
With these techniques you will instantly attract more clients, generate unlimited leads, grow your business, and get your message out to the world!
Arvee’s proven speaker system has helped over 5,000 individuals gain the necessary communication skills to succeed in business. Exclusive and Signature Speaker Training Programs, Keynote Presentations, Private and Group Coaching, and live events offer multiple opportunities to learn from one of the top Master Speaker Trainers.
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Avery and Brian Baker are dynamic motivational speakers with a passion for building positive relationships.
Helping others build and cultivate those relationships is an essential part of their journey.
As a father and son who are also business partners, they believe in prosperity in business and success in life.
Both of those goals are directly affected by how people manage their relationships.
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Barbara Boyd is a nurturer by nature — she helps people, projects, and plants grow and flourish.
Since 2015, she has helped more than a hundred authors develop their book ideas and edited more than a hundred manuscripts.
Barbara has written or co-written a dozen of her own books, too, including Macs All-In-One For Dummies, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pinterest Marketing, and Innovative Presentations For Dummies.
Her superpowers are active listening, organization, and being able to see both the whole picture and the steps to go from idea to completion.
Whether she's coaching a writer on a book idea, editing a manuscript, or tending the garden, Barbara brings the same care, attention, and intention to the task.
When she's not coaching, editing, or reading, Barbara tends an olive farm in southern Italy, where she lives with her husband and their dog, Lucy.
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Barbara C. Ingrassia is the president of Manage Copyright. She is a copyright compliance and content protection strategist, speaker/workshop facilitator, trainer, and digital content licensor.
Ingrassia enjoys bringing some fun to a serious and important topic.
She has studied the “murkiness” of copyright law with the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland, the Special Libraries Association, Duke University, copyrightlaws.com, and the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School.
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Belinda Pollard is a writing coach, accredited book editor, author, blogger, and podcaster with twenty years’ experience and degrees in both journalism and theology.
Her clients have earned prestigious awards and become niche bestsellers.
Her writing and editing workshops feature at major conferences. She manages a popular blog on her website and publishes crime novels, Bible meditations, and humorous memoir.
Her writing prizes include a Varuna Fellowship.
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Ben Guttmann is a marketing and communications expert and author of Simply Put: Why Clear Messages Win — and How to Design Them.
He’s an experienced marketing executive and educator on a mission to get leaders to more effectively connect by simplifying their message.
Ben is former co-founder and managing partner at Digital Natives Group, an award-winning agency that worked with the NFL, I Love NY, Comcast NBCUniversal, Hachette Book Group, The Nature Conservancy, and other major clients.
Currently, Ben teaches digital marketing at Baruch College in New York City and consults with a range of thought leaders, venture-backed startups, and other brands.
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Bob Burg is best known for his book Endless Referrals.
But it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (co-authored with John David Mann), that captured the imagination of his readers.
The Go-Giver, a Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller, has sold over a million copies.
Since its release, it has consistently stayed in the Top 25 on Porchlight’s (formerly 800-CEO-READ) Business Book Bestsellers List.
The book has been translated into 30 languages.
It was rated #10 on Inc. Magazine’s list of the Most Motivational Books Ever Written and was on HubSpot’s 20 Most Highly Rated Sales Books of All Time.
Bob is the author of many books on sales, marketing, and influence, with a total book sales of nearly two million copies.
The American Management Association named Bob one of the 30 Most Influential Leaders and one of the Top 200 Most Influential Authors in the World by Richtopia.
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Bob "Idea Man" Hooey works with leading-edge business owners and independent professionals who want to profitably enhance their leadership and careers; as well as organizations that want to remain competitive and profitable, to motivate, educate, and empower their staff, improve client acquisition, increase sales, and become even more profitable.
Thousands of readers, leaders, and professionals across North America and the globe have been successfully applying Bob’s idea-rich, creative, practical, and "profitable" Ideas At Work! over the past 25+ years.
Bob "Idea Man" Hooey is an inspirational, confident, results-based leader, motivational keynote speaker, sales success coach, corporate success educator, strategic business coach, facilitator, and award winning author.
He is an international speaker (visiting 61 countries, so far) on personal leadership, sales success, employee motivation, applied creativity, business innovation, and enhanced personal performance.
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Bob Kulhan is an elite improviser and an adjunct professor at both Duke University and Columbia University business schools.
Bob is also the Founder & CEO of Business Improv® – a 21-yr-old consultancy linking improvisation to business through behavioral sciences.
His clients include a who’s who of businesses (from pharma to manufacturing to aerospace), universities, organizations, and government institutions.
He has also worked extensively with entrepreneurs and solopreneurs, individuals looking to develop their creativity muscles.
He is the author of GETTING TO YES AND (Stanford University Press).
The first 100% virtual program Bob led was in January 2017, and for the last 4.5 years Bob has pioneered experiential learning in the virtual space, leading dynamic, high-energy, Virtual (synchronous), Online (asynchronous) & blended solutions.
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Bonnie Budzowski, principal of Gravitas Press, works entrepreneurs, consultants, business owners, and executives who want to write a book to establish themselves as thought leaders.
As a coach, Bonnie helps clients create a strategy to develop a book that will serve as a powerful marketing tool.
As a project manager and publisher, she leads a team to manage the details of getting the book completed and out into the world, enabling the author to focus on serving his or her clients.
For well over a decade, Bonnie has partnered with diverse clients to achieve their dreams of becoming an author. Some of their success stories are detailed in Bonnie’s book, Does Your Business Need a Book: Six Reasons the Answer Is a Resounding, Yes.
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Brian Feinblum, the creator and author of BookMarketingBuzzBlog, was the chief marketing officer for the nation's largest book promotions firm, Media Connect, and has been involved in book publicity and marketing since 1989.
He has served several book publishing companies as a publicist, book editor, and acquisitions editor.
Brian, who earned a BA in English from Brooklyn College, became a published author in 1995 when he penned The Florida Homeowner, Condo and Co-Op Handbook.
He resides in Westchester, New York with his wife, two children, and an 80-pound American Bulldog.
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Brian Jud is the Executive Director of the Association of Publishers for Special Sales (APSS) - formerly SPAN.
He is also the founder of Book Selling University and the author of "How to Make Real Money Selling Books."
Brian offers commission-based sales of books to buyers in non-bookstore markets.
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Bryan W. Mattimore is Cofounder and “Chief Idea Guy” of the Growth Engine Company, a twenty-year old innovation and creativity training agency based in Westport. In his marketing consulting career, Bryan has managed over two hundred successful innovation projects, leading to over $3 billion in new sales for one-third of the Fortune 100 companies.
Bryan’s three best-selling books on ideation and innovation process include “Idea Stormers”, “How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs”. and “21 Days to a Big Idea.” A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth with a major in psychology, he is also an innovation and marketing instructor for Caltech, and on the Board of Advisors for the Global Innovation Institute.
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Captain Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and in-demand coach. He is the founder of the Dream Business Mastermind and Coaching Program.
He is the host of Dream Business Radio, the hit weekly podcast based on Jim's unique brand of Smart Marketing and Business Building Strategies. Jim is best known internationally as 'The Dream Business Coach' and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate 'done-for-you' newsletter marketing program used by hundreds of clients in nine countries.
If you’re curious about Jim and Stephanie’s adventurous "floating" lifestyle, check them out on YouTube.
Jim is the acclaimed author of a dozen books including, DECIDE – The Ultimate Success Trigger.
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Carl Landau is co-author of the new book, Pickleball for Dummies.
He has been an entrepreneur since the age of 26 and now in (un)Retirement is founder of Pickleball Media.
Carl has started and sold three successful media companies and published five magazines (software development, winemaking, and craft brewing industries).
He currently hosts the popular podcast "I Used to be Somebody", inspiring 50-plus-year-olds how to build their (un)retirement good life, including, of course, a little bit about the virtues of the game he loves — pickleball.
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Carol Abrahamson has been thinking about how experts and thought leaders can monetize their book and expertise since her first book brought her one-person business over $2 million in consulting revenues, and over 100 of the country’s largest corporations as clients.
Her company, Executive Authors, has a consulting program that introduces experts and authors to 100 powerhouse marketing tactics — including book awards.
She’s now developing related workbooks, courses, and a 12-month mentoring mastermind group for bringing these chosen action items to life.
Fun Fact: Steve Jobs and Apple became Carol's first consulting client before her business even had a name.
All because someone she knew in a previous corporate job had since joined Apple’s management team.
That experience made her an inveterate networker who keeps in touch with hundreds of former colleagues — just in case she can spark for someone else, or can again be the recipient of, the same kind of game-changing lucky break!
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Since 1995, Carol J. Amato has shown entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, and other experts how to write, publish, and market a quality book based on their expertise so they can rise to the top of their fields, attract leading clients, and charge higher fees.
With her proven, user-friendly process, Carol handholds her clients from idea creation through marketing and helps them avoid the frustration, stress, and usual quagmires that plague many first-time authors.
Carol is the author of 29 fiction and nonfiction books.
Her recent titles include Maximize Your Competitive Edge: 17 Secrets to Make Your Small Business Look Like a Fortune 500 Company, How to Start and Run a Writers’ Critique Group, and How to Write a Teacher’s Guide for Your Middle-Grade Book. Upcoming is Maximize Your Book Sales: Exhibiting at Trade Shows on a Shoestring Budget.
Clients describe her as having exceptional expertise, willing to go the extra mile, always a pleasure to work with, and as straightforward, honest, and trustworthy - a consummate professional.
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Carolyn Strauss has studied and worked with some of the foremost experts in the world on gender communication, transacting in the marketplace, and voice dialogue.
Through years of continuous practice, study, and learning, Carolyn brings unmatched expertise to serve her clients.
Her passion to create workplaces that support team members, the executive suite and the goals of the business is evident, and she communicates her hard earned knowledge to each of her clients with a keen sense of humor and an engaging delivery.
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Catharine O'Leary has spent her entire 25 year career crafting market research and consumer insights for Fortune 100 companies across the globe.
Starting with an economics degree (well 2 actually) she applies micro-economic theory to survey and quiz design to come up with consumer insights businesses use to develop new products, increase usage and awareness, understand underlying consumer needs, and most powerful of all, segmentation studies that put the power of personalization into corporate marketing and sales hands.
Now Catharine has turned her sites to online businesses to help them level up and exponentially grow subscriber lists and engage clients to be life-long customers and raving fans.
As a fellow entrepreneur Catharine knows how hard it is to grab the attention of the ideal customer, engage, and get to know them as people should, so they become raving fans.
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Cathy Fyock, CSP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, The Biz Book Strategist, provides you with the intensive support you need to get your book DONE.
She is the author of On Your Mark: From First Word to First Draft in Six Weeks, Blog2Book: Repurposing Content to Discover the Book You’ve Already Written, The Speaker Author: Sell More Books and Book More Speeches, and the WSJ, USA Today, and Amazon best-seller, Authority.
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Chandler Bolt is the CEO of Self-Publishing School & SelfPublishing.com, Forbes 30 Under 30, and the author of 7 bestselling books including his most recent book titled "Published.".
Self Publishing School is an INC 5000 company the last 3 years in a row as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the US.
Chandler is also the host of the 7 Figure Principles Podcast and the Self Publishing School Podcast.
Through his books, podcasts, YouTube channels, and Self-Publishing School, he's helped thousands of people write a book that grows their income, impact, and business.
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Chantel Henry believes that in everything, there is always a dynamic exchange taking place; in business, conversation, relationships, you name it; a person a selling and someone is buying.
Through her experience as a college professor, entrepreneur, and sales representative, she has developed an insatiable appetite to provide value through the art of selling.
Tech sales in particular is a passion of Chantel's, because she's seen just how important technology supports the world and enterprises. By using tech software in her business, they were able to grow their revenue by 300% during a global pandemic.
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Charmaine Hammond has been in the business of changing lives for more than 25 years. This former Correctional Officer (yup! She worked in jails) and Corporate Dispute Resolution Expert now travels the world teaching the principles of leadership, business success, and collaboration. In business 21 years, she has owned several businesses in Canada and the US.
She is a co-founder of the Evolutionary Business Council whose collective reach exceeds 140 million. She is also co-founder and co-host of the Global Influence Summit. She has sat on all four sides of the sponsorship table (as a Director of nonprofits seeking sponsorship, a specialist in government responsibility for funding/sponsorship portfolio, as an entrepreneur like you seeking sponsorship, and as a sponsor for other people's events, projects, and dreams).
As a bestselling author (of five books & featured in six others) and Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), she has had tremendous success in finding corporate sponsors to fund her printing, graphic design, venues, travel, media, technology, hotels, even her pet food and dog poop bags! She has developed sponsorship relationships with 100’s of companies.
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With over 25 years of experience in journalism, marketing, research, and content strategy, Chris is the co-founder of Clancy Partners, which specializes in content and media outreach and collaborative writing services.
Chris is the author of the 2021 dystopian thriller WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN.
He lives in Nashville with his wife and children.
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Chris Mullins is a sales and marketing expert and the founder of Law Firm Conversions™, The Intake Acaemy™, and Mullins Media Group™.
For more than 30 years, through her proprietaty and guided training and programs, Chris, along with her team, have helped hundreds of law firms around the country convert more prospects into profitable clients.
In Law Firm Conversions, she covers every aspect of what any lawyer needs to do to ensure that phone calls - the first touchpoint with clients - convert to become profitable clients. Chris delivers the information with energy and passion... along with a "no holds barred" approach.
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Christine Monaghan is your human-potential champion! She believes stress is optional and when understood sources fresh potential in life. She IS a master motivator, influencing the next best version of you. She will nudge you through resistance, fear, old habits to get from where you are to where you crave to be with fresh vibrancy and opportunities.
She provides individuals and organizations with solution-based approaches to 100% focus on what you do want! Implement her proven success principles from training with sought-after international professional-development leaders plus; access her eclectic business and life acumen; learn powerfully methodical, simple systems which work; slow down to move ahead with the 3C’s of Communication. Your ability to RESET anytime with ease is her desired result for you.
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At four years old, Cindy knew she was called to make the world a better place.
In high school, her English teacher told her she would be an impactful writer one day.
For retirement, Cindy dreamed of ghostwriting books on a beach.
Sheʼs been ghostwriting and development editing nonfiction books and articles since 2013.
She doesnʼt have the beach yet, but itʼs coming!
During a long summer weekend in June 2014, Cindy spent two days planning the end of her life by suicide.
The only reason she survived was because a “Sliver of Light” appeared in the middle of her family room.
It had no business being there.
After meditating on it for a long time, stopped crying and Cindy stood up.
It was in that moment she knew she had been led to the deepest level of darkness in order to share her journey of mental illness and educate others how to recognize, treat, and talk about their mental health challenges so they would have the tools to help themselves and others through lifeʼs dark moments.
As the CEO of SoConnected, Cindyʼs “callings” have come full circle to make a difference in the world.
Whether itʼs a story from the stage or an authorʼs story in their book, Cindy and the SoConnected Team is committed to Change Lives. Save Lives. Celebrate Lives! One Story at a Time.
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Claudia Gere, author of Name Your Book: 94 Nonfiction Title Tips, speaker, author consultant, book coach, and literary agent, helps business leaders, consultants, speakers, and other entrepreneurs develop their best writing and publishing strategies to realize their aspirations of becoming an author.
Through speaking, webinars, workshops, and individual coaching, she has launched many first-time authors on a path to writing and publishing success.
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Claudia Volkman is the owner of Creative Editorial Solutions.
She has more than thirty-five years of experience in acquisitions, product development, editing, and typesetting, and has worked full-time for several trade publishing houses.
Now, as the owner of Creative Editorial Solutions, she assists publishers, authors, entrepreneurs, and speakers with their editorial needs.
A Chicago native, Claudia and her husband reside in Southwest Florida with their two charming Corgis.
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Claus Raasted is an executive coach specializing in innovation and storytelling. He’s had the good fortune of having worked with some impressive organizations; from assisting IKEA Centres with rolling out global strategy to having Disney Imagineers visit his events for inspiration.
Part of his work today consists of helping clients both big and small with tackling the problems of tomorrow - and sometimes this happens in the form of regular consulting gigs.
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Cloris Kylie, MBA, is the bestselling author of "Beyond Influencer Marketing" and host of the top-rated "Beyond Influencer Marketing" podcast.
With a background in industrial engineering and digital marketing, she helps expertise-based entrepreneurs build authority, grow their list, and get ideal clients by collaborating with influencers.
She has been featured on platforms with millions of followers including network TV, top-ranked podcasts, YouTube channels, and blogs.
Her motto is "Reveal Your Magnificence".
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Dan Janal works with top business leaders who want to elevate their reputations and set themselves apart from their competition. As a book coach, developmental editor, and ghostwriter, he shapes stories and strategies that can transform a career or business.
No matter where you are in the book-writing process, Dan can help.
With more than 25 years of experience, he can help find the right process for your unique situation because he’s worked with lots of people who have written all kinds of business books and have similar needs to yours.
Dan has written more than a dozen books that have been translated into six languages.
He’s a former award-winning daily newspaper reporter and business news editor.
He’s interviewed President Gerald Ford and First Lady Barbara Bush.
He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in journalism from Northwestern University.
He lives with his wife and two cats in Shorewood, Minnesota.
You can find more information and free resources at WriteYourBookInAFlash.com.
He is the host of the award-winning podcast, "Write Your Book in a Flash with Dan Janal", which was named one of the top 50 podcasts for thought leaders by Thinkers360.com
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As a speaker, trainer, and coach, Dave Bricker helps remarkable people tell remarkable stories—through writing, speaking, graphic design, video, technology, and music.
If you want to say it, share it, or sell it, bring him your story; he’ll help you tell it.
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Dr. David DeLong is an author, speaker and president of Smart Workforce Strategies, a consulting firm that helps organizations find solutions to critical skill shortages and risks of knowledge loss.
He is also a research fellow at the MIT AgeLab, an adjunct professor at Babson College teaching MBAs "Leading & Managing Change", and an acclaimed keynote speaker and co-author of the The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management from McGraw-Hill.
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David Newman is the author of the Amazon #1 best seller Do It! Marketing: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits and Crush Your Competition (AMACOM).
David works with executives and entrepreneurs who want to position themselves as thought-leaders and generate MORE leads, BETTER prospects and BIGGER sales.
David's background overlaps three key areas. First, David has worked inside organizations as the client; he has also worked as a speaker and consultant himself for Fortune 500 companies; and finally, he's helped over 500 speakers, authors, consultants and experts raise their game and deliver their highest value.
Sitting on all three sides of the table, you learn a thing or two!
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Debbie Allen, CSP has decades of business experience and innate business skills allow her to see beyond simple solutions, to visualize outcomes and results far into the future. She then lays out a path and a proven process for her clients to follow to ensure they achieve success. She has the ability to relate to entrepreneurs, business owners, managers, and sales teams at any level.
Debbie understands different types of business mindsets and can tap into each individual’s success potential to guide them towards a deeper understanding and meaning that allows them to move forward quickly.
Debbie has presented in 28 countries and authored 10 bestselling books including "The Highly Paid Expert". As a business consultant, mentor and intuitive, she has decades of experience working one-on-one, small groups and large teams within diverse industries. She has the unique ability to naturally gauge how and where to take a business for expansion and fast growth.
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Deborah Levine is Editor in-Chief of the American Diversity Report.
She is a Forbes Magazine top Diversity & Inclusion Trailblazer, an award-winning author of 15 books, and has been recognized by the Women's Federation for World Peace and the TN Economic Council on Women.
Deborah was featured on C-Span/ BookTV and her published articles span decades in journals & magazines: American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Public Management & Social Policy, The Bermuda Magazine, The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin.
A former blogger with The Huffington Post, she is now an opinion columnist with The Chattanooga Times Free Press.
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Devin DeVries is Indie Books’ publishing project quarterback.
She is responsible for shepherding each book through all the stages of the publishing process and ensuring each author walks away with a book they can be proud of.
In addition, she puts her over eight years of web marketing and e-commerce experience, working for some of the top internet retailers such as ProFlowers and zulily, to use in helping authors and speakers promote their books through websites and social media.
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Diana Jones brings over 30 years of experience in leadership development, working alongside public and private sector companies, professionals and managers, as they manage change and develop relationships to achieve exceptional business results.
Her professional identity is as one of the few Sociometrists in the world.
Her focus is on achieving results through better relationships. Diana assists leaders make sense of feedback they have received so they learn how they are perceived and understand their impact on others. Using interactive methods Diana assists leaders expand their behaviours to ensure mutually beneficial relationships. She uses representational methods to make invisible dynamics visible, and therefore discussable.
The focus of Diana’s work is in assisting leaders achieve better results through better relationships with those around them.
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Diane Windingland, owner of Virtual Speech Coach, was originally trained as an engineer, but since 2011, has been speaking, coaching, and writing on communication skills, and has published 10 books.
Diane often speaks on the importance of using storytelling to sell products, services, and ideas.
Diane lives with her husband in Shoreview, MN and dedicates much of her spare time to Toastmasters International.
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Donn King is The Confidence Cultivator.
He is a professor of communication studies (which means “a professor of standing up in front of people and saying stuff”).
He’s also a pastor, a speaker, a writer and author, and a communication coach.
Donn works with professionals and leaders just like you who want to speak confidently so they can increase their impact, gain influence, and build their careers.
He has spoken to audiences, churches, and radio audiences across the United States and written numerous newspaper, magazine, and blog articles as well as a textbook.
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Donna Serdula has authored two editions of LinkedIn Profile Optimization FOR DUMMIES.
She is the founder and president of Vision Board Media, a professional branding company that helps individuals and companies tell their unique stories on LinkedIn and beyond.
Bringing dynamic brand storytelling to the masses and empowering people to dream big – that's the ink in her pen.
Donna and her team of over 20 writers and coaches help people collide with opportunity and transform their lives via future-forward career branding.
She has been featured on Forbes, Business Insider, Time’s Money Section, Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, LA Times, NBC, SiriusXM Radio’s The Focus Group, and many other news outlets.
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When looking for an internationally recognized Executive Leadership Coach, communicator, and award-winning author who ignites the atmosphere with contagious enthusiasm and a passion for purpose, you have but to look directly at Dr. Gail Hayes.
She has unique ability to help her clients “untangle” challenging communication lines and see solutions.
Although she has lived and spoken on three continents, she is quick to let others know that her favorite place on earth is wherever she and her children (who are also her business partners) can laugh, love, and serve others.
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Dr. Judith Briles, the award-winning and best-selling author of 43 books, including Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms, How to Create Snappy Sassy Salty Success for Authors and Publishers, How to Create CrowdFunding Success for Authors & Writers, How to Avoid Book Publishing Blunders, and How to Create a Million Dollar Speech have all been full revised, retitled, expanded, and republished in 2022.
Her personal memoir, When God Says NO-Revealing the YES When Adversity and Loss Are Present in 2021.
To date, they have earned more than 50 book awards.
The Author's Walk will be published in 2023 and her historical fiction debut The Secret Journey in 2023.
Her books have been translated into 17 languages with over 1,000,000 copies sold!
Judith's books, and work, have been featured in over 1,000 radio and TV shows including repeat appearances on CNN, CNBC, and Oprah.
She has worked with over 1,500 authors and created 500 plus best-sellers. Print publications include Newsweek, People, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and... The National Enquirer!
Based in Colorado, she is the founding Partner in The Book Shepherd, a book and publishing consulting and project management firm that works with authors at all stages of their book to create a book they never regret!
In 2019, she founded the first Authors' Hall of Fame exclusively dedicated to ensuring the legacy of authors connect in some way with Colorado.
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Dr. Karen Y. Wilson-Starks is President of TRANSLEADERSHIP, INC.®, she has more than 30 years of experience as a trusted advisor for executives in corporations, the US Military and Federal Government, and non-profit leaders in faith based organizations and Foundations.
Dr. Karen Y. Wilson-Starks is the host of the twice weekly podcast, The Voice of Leadership, author of Lead Yourself First: The Senior Leader’s Guide to Engaging Your People for Greater Performance and Impact; and creator of the online course: Teams Empowered for Dynamic Organizational Results. Her upcoming TV show, Dr. Karen Speaks Leadership on Raven International Network will air on Roku and Amazon Fire.
Educated as a Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Wilson-Starks’ previous positions include serving as an active duty Army Psychologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.; the First Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas; the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York; operating private practices in a variety of locations; functioning as the Chief of the Psychology Service for the Exceptional Family Member Program in Frankfurt, Germany; and working as the Chief Assessor and a Senior Program Associate for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Colorado Springs.
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Dr. Roger Firestien has trained more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world.
He is the Senior Faculty member at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at SUNY Buffalo State, and President of Innovation Resources, Inc.
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Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author. She’s built a reputation as a fresh, modern voice in the business world by pairing her scientific grounding in human behavior with a pragmatic approach to professional development. Over her 15-plus-year career, she’s helped thousands of leaders become more self-aware and successful.
With a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Tasha is the principal of The Eurich Group, a boutique executive development firm that helps companies—from start-ups to the Fortune 100—succeed by improving the effectiveness of their leaders and teams.
Her primary areas of expertise are executive coaching, executive team development, and leadership and high potential development programs. Her diverse client list includes organizations like T-Mobile, KPMG, Walmart, IBM, Royal Bank of Canada, Vail Resorts, and the Miami Heat.
Thinkers50 has named her one of the top 30 emerging management thinkers in the world. Tasha was also chosen from more than 16,000 candidates as one of Marshall Goldsmith’s “100 Coaches” to advance the practice of leadership with Dr. Goldsmith (recognized as the world’s most influential leadership thinker).
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Ellen Finkelstein is a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint, presentation skills, and speaking. She teaches speakers, writers, and experts to get their knowledge out to the world with a knowledge-based online business.
Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs.
She is a PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional), a Microsoft award for experts in its product who contribute to the user community, one of only 18 in the United States.
Her website offers a huge assortment of tips, techniques, tutorials, and articles.
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Elsa Kurt is a successful author of women’s fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books.
She has proven that TikTok can be a terrific marketing platform for authors who want to sell more books.
You can follow her on TikTok at “TheOtherElsa.”
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Erik Huberman is the founder and CEO of Hawke Media, the highly successful marketing agency known as Your Outsourced CMO® that’s helped grow over 3,000 brands worldwide, and is valued at more than $150 million.
His highly-anticipated first book, The Hawke Method, demonstrates that marketing is more than a numbers game: calculations for business growth and sustainability go far beyond systemic analysis.
His voice is both accessible and humorous as he reveals the details of his successes and failures, from his first entrepreneurial venture at age nine to running a $150M business.
Erik's work appears across top-tier publications like Rolling Stone, Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc., and more as well as on Hawke Media’s Insights blog.
In addition, he is a lauded recipient of a number of honors and awards, including: Forbes 30 Under 30, CSQ’s 40 Under 40, Inc. Magazine’s Top 25 Marketing Influencers, The International Business Awards’ Entrepreneur of the Year, and a Telly Award for the Hawke Media commercial he co-wrote and starred in.
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There are many podcasts and coaches who teach you the technical side of podcasting. Erik K. Johnson is the premiere coach focused on the art of podcasting.
Erik K. Johnson has been near the top of the radio ratings since 2000. He has also coached many others to do the same with even greater success. Erik is a nationally recognized talent coach, on-air personality and radio program director.
While programming and on the air at KQCH/Omaha, his show ranked #1 or #2 nearly 90% of the time over 10 years. When he moved to KXKT/Omaha, he was #1 for over a year straight and in the top two for nine out of eleven ratings periods.
Erik coached other shows on both stations to great success and #1 rankings.
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Erik Pelton has been in the field of trademarks for more than 20 years, worked as an Examiner at the USPTO, registered more than 2,500 trademarks, and has been actively involved in a variety of intellectual property organizations.
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Everett O’Keefe is an International #1 Bestselling Author, having authored six Amazon #1 bestselling books.
He has also helped create and launch more than 45 bestselling books for his clients.
Everett speaks across the nation on the power of publishing.
He is the founder of Ignite Press, a hybrid publishing company that specializes in helping entrepreneurs, as well as business and medical professionals, ignite their businesses by becoming bestselling authors.
Everett is the winner of multiple awards, including the Publish and Profit Award for Excellence in Publishing, the Make Market & Launch It Award for Product Creation, and the Top Gun Consulting Award, among others.
He is the co-founder of the Business Accelerator Group, a high-level mastermind group composed of international marketers and publishers.
He also helped found the Mastermind Retreat and continues to host international mastermind events.
Everett is sought out as a speaker, coach, and consultant by authors and marketing experts worldwide. With a passion for entrepreneurialism,
Everett helps his clients become recognized experts in their fields through speaking and authorship while allowing his clients to focus on their own areas of giftedness.
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Georgie joined Girl Friday Productions in 2018, after authoring three books of her own and as a lifetime reader inspired by favorites including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Auntie Mame.
A marketing professional with over 20 years’ experience in media and magazines, Georgie’s passion for helping authors achieve their unique version of success makes her a client favorite, and her support of her talented marketing strategists makes her beloved by her team as well.
One of an increasingly rare breed of locals who grew up in Seattle, she has stories to tell, but she probably won’t.
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Gerald J. Leonard is the CEO of Principles of Execution (PofE), a Certified Minority Business Enterprise, Strategic Project Portfolio Management and Culture Change consulting and coaching practice with over 20+ years experiencing working with large Federal and State Governments and Multi-National Corporations.
Gerald provides an insightful and unique way of combining his experience and expertise as a professional bassist and a certified Portfolio Management Professional consultant.
During the last 20+ years, he has worked as an IT Project Management consultant and earned his PfMP, PMP, MCSE, MCTS, CQIA, COBIT Foundation, and ITIL Foundation certifications.
He has also acquired certifications in Project Management and Business Intelligence from the University of California, Berkeley, Theory of Constraints Portfolio Management Technical Expert from the Goldratt Institute, Hoshin Kanri Strategic Planning, Executive Leadership Certification from Cornell University, and The Wharton School: Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program.
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Geri England is the creator of the Discover Your Story to Success© System and founder and President of Janus Resource Group, LLC dba Positive ChangeWorkz, a company dedicated to inspiring and helping leaders and entrepreneurs to achieve their deepest aspirations and highest potential through the power of their stories.
She is an executive coach, educator, speaker, author, and organizational development consultant.
She teaches courses for the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management in the Graduate Executive & Professional Coaching Skills/Masters Degree Program.
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Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., has written and published about 200 book - 50 with traditional publishers, 150 through Changemakers Publishing.
She has also written and executive produced 6 film projects, which include 4 feature films, a pilot for a TV series, and a documentary, as a co-producer through Changemakers Productions.
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Bestselling author Greg Godek has sold more than 1 million copies of “1001 Ways to Be Romantic.”
He has appeared on Oprah and Today Show.
Jay Leno once joked about the book during his monologue.
He’s been featured in the Sunday New York Times and Playboy (not naked).
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Henry DeVries is the CEO (chief encouragement officer) of Indie Books International, a company he cofounded in 2014.
He works with independent consultants who want to attract more high-paying clients by marketing with a book and speech.
As a speaker, Henry trains business development teams and business leaders on how to sell more services by persuading with a story.
He is also the president of the New Client Marketing Institute, a training company he founded in 1999.
Henry is the former president of an Ad Age 500 advertising and PR agency and has served as a marketing faculty member and assistant dean of continuing education at the University of California, San Diego.
In the last ten years, he has helped ghostwrite, edit, and coauthor more than 300 business books, including his McGraw-Hill bestseller, How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett - now in five languages, including Chinese. He has a monthly column with Forbes.com.
Henry earned his bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego, his MBA from San Diego State University, and has completed certificate programs at the Harvard Business School.
As a result of his work, consultants and business owners get the four Bs: more bookings, more blogs, more buzz, and a path and plan to more business.
On a personal note, Henry is a baseball nut.
A former Associated Press sportswriter, he has visited forty-one major league ball parks and has three to go before he “touches ‘em all.”
His hobby is writing comedy screenplays that he hopes will one day be made into films.
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Jackie Lapin has been a lifelong pioneer and innovator.
Her current role as founder of SpeakerTunity®, the Speaker & Leader Resource Company, and leading expert on getting booked to deliver your message on multiple platforms, is the most recent evidence of her instinct for identifying and filling an evident need... and blazing new pathways.
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Jacqueline Grant is Founder & Director of The Management Academy, LLC.
Her company currently serves entrepreneurs, medium, and large sized businesses, providing full circle business management consulting and professional development courses, workshops, and seminars.
The focus of TMA is to provide its clients with current project management, business, marketing, leadership, career development courses, and activities, to promote personal growth and professional advancement.
As a professional trainer, speaker, author, certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Developer Certified (SDC), Scrum Master Certified (SMC), Scrum Certified Trainer (SCT), and Agile Expert Certified (AEC), her passion and enthusiasm for teaching and life-long learning are the key elements, which make her effective with her clients.
She is the author of “What to Expect When Taking the PMP Exam” and “Where are the Risks in Your Organization?”
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Jamie Crump has focused her career in strategic sourcing and supplier diversity across a variety of industries including: banking, catastrophic insurance, heavy equipment rental, IT, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and welding and medical supply.
A frequent speaker at sourcing and supplier diversity events across the U.S. and Canada, Jamie has also been responsible for strategic sourcing, business services and operations, software development, capacity provisioning, and supplier diversity over the course of her career.
She has also served on a number of boards and in industry/trade associations. Currently, she is an advisory board member to Diversity Professional, ProcureCon and Spend Matters. She is a member of Association for Luxury Suite Directors (ALSD), Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), Institute for Supply Management (ISM), and National Small Business Association (NSBA).
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Dr. Janice Harper’s writing has been featured in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today.
She is the author of several nonfiction books and articles and the ghostwriter of over a dozen memoirs and nonfiction books.
Prior to starting her own writing coaching business, Dr. Harper was a professor of anthropology where she directed students in writing their theses and dissertations, a skill she brings to her coaching as she guides authors from the early stages of conceptualizing their projects, through publication of their books, proposals, dissertations, theses, short stories, magazine articles, and peer-reviewed articles.
With a keen eye for storytelling, language, pacing, character development, and dialogue, Dr. Harper’s expertise has helped beginning and experienced authors turn their stories, ideas, and visions into compelling and prize-winning books.
When she’s not writing or working with her clients, Dr. Harper enjoys cooking, chocolate-making, gardening, and watching our political leaders do one dumb thing after another.
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Janine Kelbach, RNC-OB, started her nursing career in a community hospital learning the basics of labor and delivery, admitting patients, the normal newborn, and scrubbing into the operating room. She quickly became a breastfeeding resource nurse and certified CPR instructor.
In 2007, she took a position in a higher acuity facility in the Cleveland, Ohio area. There she worked postpartum and labor and delivery. She became the assistant manager and educated new nurses, developed educational content, and managed other labor and delivery specifications.
From then until now, she has obtained her high-risk OB certification and her BSN.
She started writing for different healthcare blogs and websites in 2012. Currently, Janine is currently writing articles and social media content for publishing companies and various clients.
Janine enjoys spending time with her husband, two young boys, and their Great Danes, Marvin and Jupiter. She enjoys the beach, outdoors, working out, running, but most of all, she loves being a busy mom. See Episodes
Jeff C. West is the bestselling and award winning author of the heartwarming business fable, The Unexpected Tour Guide, winner of The Axiom Business Books Award – Bronze Medal in 2015, and recipient of kind endorsements from bestselling authors Bob Burg, Brian Tracy and Tom Hopkins.
His latest parable, Said the Lady with the Blue Hair: 7 Rules for Success in Direct Sales, Wrapped in a Wonderful Lesson for Life, co-authored with Direct Sales Legend, Lisa M. Wilber is an Amazon #1 bestseller and the winner of The Axiom Business Books Awards – Silver Medal for 2023, as well as awarded as a Finalist in The National Indie Excellence Awards for 2023.
He has been a guest on national and international sales shows such as The Go-Giver Influencers – Making a Significant Impact, hosted by Bob Burg, The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore, The Author Your Brand Show with Doug Crowe, Mastery Unleashed with Christie Ruffino, Badass Direct Sales Mastery with Jennie Bellinger and Monday Morning Madness with Lisa M. Wilber, and has been a quoted source for publications such as Sales and Marketing Management Magazine, the National Federation of Independent Business, and Peak Sales Recruiting.
For over 30 years, Jeff coached and led sales teams in multiple industries and was among the top sales performers and leaders in the nation.
For over twenty years, he was an entrepreneur in field sales management with the Fortune 500® insurance company, Aflac.
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Jeff Davidson, the Work Life Balance Expert®, can move an audience like few others. Jeff offers dynamic learning keynotes and seminar presentations. He combines outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration to help listeners manage information and communication overload. Jeff supercharges his audiences to master their to-do lists, manage interruptions, and take action.
Frequently quoted or featured in USA Today, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times; in Fortune, Forbes, and Businessweek; and on 175 talk shows, more than 2,316,000 people have found Jeff’s award-winning books (cumulatively selected by book clubs 41 times), audio-books, videos, keynote presentations, and executive seminars to be enlightening, entertaining, and transformational.
Jeff’s ground-breaking book, Breathing Space, reveals how to avoid racing the clock and gain more control over each day. His Amazon Kindle #1 best-selling book, Simpler Living, with a foreword by Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul, is the definitive work on simpler living, offering nearly 2000 tips arranged by every aspect of life! His first gift book Dial it Down, Live it Up sells all over the world.
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Jennie Nash is the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company that trains and certifies book coaches.
She is leading this new industry to establish standards of excellence in book coaching.
Jennie published her first book at age 25, and has published seven total—four novels, including The Threadbare Heart, The Only True Genius in the Family and The Last Beach Bungalow; and three memoirs, including The Victoria’s Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer — a book that has more than 100,000 copies in print thanks to a special cross-promotion she did with Ford Motor Company.
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Jess Todtfeld, CSP, is one of the leading communication and media training authorities in the U.S.
With more than 15 years as a media trainer and consultant, Todtfeld helps CEOs, business executives, spokespersons, public relations representatives, experts, and authors to become more confident, more in control, and to create more results from their speaking engagements and media appearances.
He brings with him 13 years experience as a TV producer for NBC, ABC, and FOX, having booked and produced over 5,000 segments.
Jess’ time in front of the camera includes features reporting, guest spots on national / international news programs, and hosting of “America’s Premiere Experts” and “Times Square Today” (2015-present) which has been broadcast on ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS affiliates in the U.S.
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Jill Lublin is an international speaker on the topics of Radical Influence, Publicity, Networking, Kindness and Referrals.
She is the author of 4 Best Selling books including Get Noticed...Get Referrals (McGraw Hill) and co-author of Guerrilla Publicity and Networking Magic. Her latest book, Profit of Kindness, went #1 in four categories.
Jill is a master strategist on how to position your business for more profitability and more visibility in the marketplace. She is CEO of a strategic consulting firm and has over 25 years of experience working with over 100,000 people plus national and international media.
Jill teaches Publicity Crash Courses as both live events and live webinars and consults and speaks all over the world. She also helps authors to create book deals with major publishers and agents, and well as obtain foreign rights deals.
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James M. Kerr is the founder of Indispensable Consulting and author of Indispensable: Build and Lead a Company Customers Can’t Live Without, which is his 6th business book.
He specializes in supporting inspired leaders achieve their vision for the future. He does this by co-creating solutions with them and their team of experts that enables his clients to become the company customers can't live without.
Jim is an expert in the development and implementation of multi-faceted change initiatives centered on strategic plans, culture redesign and organizational effectiveness. He enjoys forging new ideas and devising practical solutions to client’s broadly relevant business problems, while shape-shifting them into opportunities for their success.
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Jim Kukral is recognized as an expert in online marketing and branding. He delivers insightful and entertaining keynotes to growth-oriented organizations on attention-getting marketing, creative branding and understanding how customers think, react, and most importantly, buy.
Jim is...
* One of the top experts (24+ years) in creative marketing and Web business building
* A ten-time author of books on marketing, entrepreneurship, motivation and publishing
* An adjunct professor (10+ years) for The University of San Francisco’s Internet Marketing Online Program
* An award winning blogger and producer of popular content that has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Brandweek, BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur.com, Huffington Post, Forbes, Inc. and more
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Her book, “A Guide to Positive Disruption,” focuses on her experiences working though the ups and downs of the corporate world to make positive changes at the companies for which she has worked. It provides readers with a framework to become change makers themselves.
She has spent her career creating innovative ways for companies to reduce costs or grow their bottom-lines. Joanna led transformation initiatives for businesses in different sectors: among them Johnson & Johnson, Diageo, AllianceBernstein LP, and Cushman & Wakefield. Her clients today range from technology startups and professional organizations to Fortune 50 companies. She has also held client-facing roles, effectively giving her the opportunity to “sit on both sides of the table”.
She was named a Distinguished Alumna by Rutgers College of Engineering and now sits on their Industry Advisory Board. Joanna has been recognized for innovation or customer excellence by Determine, American Express, Egencia, and Heublein. She was named to the list of Top 20 Global Procurement Influencers and Top 50 Culture Thought Leaders by Thinkers360.
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JoAnne Funch has helped professionals become seen and build influence on LinkedIn since 2008.
Her vision is to be more than a resource about how to use the LinkedIn social platform; her goal is to inspire business professionals to think differently about developing a network of valued connections.
JoAnne works with business owners, salespeople, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders who want to leverage LinkedIn and their relationship-building strategies to gain more exposure for their brand so they ultimately have more impact, income, and credibility.
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Joanne McCall is unique in that she’s a media insider and a veteran publicist who operates on a first-name basis with hundreds of top-tier producers, editors, and writers at such outlets as USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Investment Business Daily, The View, Today, The Huffington Post, Yahoo, and many others.
Her clients include business consultants Brian Tracy and Ken Blanchard, radio host and author Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author, Geneen Roth, The Deepak Chopra Center for Wellbeing, and the founder of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler, among others.
Through webinars, teleseminars, and consultations, she trains entrepreneurs, coaches, and consultants on how to attract media, work with them once they land the interview, and finally helps them to deliver a fantastic interview.
As a master practitioner of NLP, she helps those who want to expand their reach by embracing visibility and allowing big success into their lives.
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Joel Comm is an entrepreneur, NY Times bestselling author, and new media innovator.
An expert on harnessing the power of social media and mobile applications to expand your brand's reach and engage in active relationship marketing, Joel is a sought-after public speaker who leaves his audience inspired, entertained, and armed with strategic tools to create a new media campaign that will explode their business.
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Joey Vitale is the CEO & Founding Attorney at Indie Law, a trademark law firm that helps you get peace of mind knowing you legally own your brand.
He and his team are on a mission to be the best brand protectors they can be, and they’ve filed well over 750 trademarks.
In addition to being an award-winning attorney, Joey is an internationally renowned speaker and a trusted business growth consultant.
Joey has spoken to tens of thousands of people across the world.
He has also been a repeat guest on popular podcasts and is the host of his own chart-topping podcast, The Business Growth Advantage.
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John Corcoran is a recovering attorney, and a writer, author, father of four, and a former Clinton White House Writer and Speechwriter to the Governor of California. Throughout his career, John has worked in Hollywood, the heart of Silicon Valley, and ran his own boutique law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area catering to small business owners and entrepreneurs.
He is the author of three books about relationship building and client acquisition and has written for Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Lifehacker, The San Francisco Chronicle, and basically anywhere else that will let him. He has been the host of the Smart Business Revolution podcast since 2012, through which he has interviewed hundreds of CEOs, founders, authors and entrepreneurs, from Peter Diamandis and Adam Grant to Gary Vaynerchuk and Marie Forleo.
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John DeSimone is a professional memoir ghostwriter, editor, and novelist.
He began working as a freelance editor for A-1 Editorial where he performed developmental and copy editing for both novelists and non-fiction writers. He guided authors through the developmental process of refining their voice and subject matter for publication.
During that time he edited over a hundred books, both fiction and nonfiction.
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John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker and best selling author of Duct Tape Marketing, Duct Tape Selling, The Commitment Engine, The Referral Engine, and SEO for Growth.
He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System and Duct Tape Marketing Consulting Network that trains and licenses small business marketing consultants around the world.
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John Li is a co-founder of PickFu and has been a serial entrepreneur for over a decade.
With degrees in Computer Science and a strong product background, John is passionate about building systems that help others succeed.
When not building PickFu, John shuttles his kids around in his dream car (a minivan).
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Judy Weintraub is an accomplished entrepreneur, business executive, and attorney and is a bestselling author of The Essentials of Negotiating Effectively and the author of How to Build Successful Business Partnerships.
She is the founder of SkillBites, providing book writing and publishing services designed to help business owners and professionals get their books written and published easily and quickly.
In addition to SkillBites, Judy runs Weintraub Legal Services, providing dispute resolution services and corporate law services to small businesses.
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Julia Kuris is the founder and creative director of Desginerbility, a branding and design studio in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
For the past 15 years she's had the privilege to lead the strategic and creative direction of multiple projects for national and international brands.
Julia has an insatiable curiosity to know what matters to her client’s customers.
She wants to know what drives, excites, and empowers people to pick a certain brand over another.
Your brand and its identity are crucial in the decision making of consumers, something which is often overlooked by business owners.
It is this customer-centric approach that enables Julia to build highly visible, unique, distinctive, memorable, and much-loved brands which increase your profits.
Having a distinct and definite brand identity that is aligned with your target audience is the ultimate secret to your brand's success.
It is Julia's passion to create a clear, concise and consistent brand message for you and your business that excites and dazzles your customers and enables your unique business to be clearly defined in a heavily-saturated market.
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Julie Broad is an Amazon Overall #1 Best Selling Author, an International Book Award Winner, and recipient of the Beverly Hills Book Award for Best Sales book.
As an entrepreneur and successful real estate investor, she was also awarded the Top 20 under 40 Award.
Founder of Book Launchers, she started the company to help busy entrepreneurs and professionals build their brand and boost their business by writing, publishing, and selling a top quality book.
In 2017, she also became a new Mom and moved from Vancouver Island, Canada to Los Angeles, California.
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Justin Brady works with the most forward-thinking brands on earth to increase their exposure and engage their employees. His hands-on sessions, podcast, weekly radio show, and writing have helped millions of managers, CEOs, directors, and executives cultivate amazing ideas and develop cult-like followings. His clients are in healthcare, tech, biosciences, advanced manufacturing, and health.
His media work has earned top marks and appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, 99U, Quartz, iHeart Radio.
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Dr. Kaihan Krippendorff was elected to the Thinkers50 RADAR list as one the 30 management thinkers to look out for in the coming and shortlists as one the 8 most influential innovation experts in the world.
He is a top business strategy, growth and transformation keynote speaker that has helped inspire, motivate, and arm hundreds of thousands of people with the tools and mindset needed to win the future.
Having begun his career as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company, Dr. Krippendorff is now the founder of the growth strategy firm Outthinker and The Outthinker Strategy Network, a global community of heads of strategy of large corporations including Pfizer, CVS, QVC, Macmillan, BNY Mellon, and Viacom.
His work has generated over $2.5B in new annual revenue for his clients.
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Karen Dimmick of Arcane Covers is a Fantasy and Paranormal book cover designer.
She specializes in making genre-specific covers that sell books. She works with both indie authors and one traditional publishing house.
There are usually some of her covers in the bestsellers lists and she has also done various re-covers for books already in the top 50 of their category, that have doubled their sales.
Karen's clients love working with her because she's easy to work with, communicates well and delivers on time, like you’d expect any professional to do. Having had her own bestselling books, she has the advantage of having seen both sides of the cover design process.
Fantasy and magic have been a passion for Karen for as long as she can remember & she's been in the publishing industry for nearly a decade.
Karen believes authors should be able to give their books every possible chance to succeed, with a cover that attracts readers and meets their expectations for the genre. That’s why Karen created Arcane Covers – to help you make your book sell.
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Karen McNally Upson has been with Girl Friday Productions for seven years.
She came to GFP with five years of experience working for Amazon Publishing and their retail hardlines division.
She’s passionate about helping authors achieve their goals and ensuring an excellent client experience.
Areas of expertise include end-to-end book production, complex book design, and illustration management, as well as all stripes of print management.
She also knows a thing or two about football and is one of the firm’s most analytical Monday morning quarterbacks rooting on her beloved Seahawks.
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Kathy Antoinette Norris is an African American novelist whose works are informed by coming of age during the civil rights and feminist movements of the 1970’s.
Her short stories have appeared in three anthologies.
Kathy hosts a podcast, “The Quill & The Quantum: AI & Writing Craft” which explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and the craft of writing.
Kathy is a member and has served on the Board of Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles.
She is also a member of Crime Writers of Color, an organization supporting and celebrating diverse mystery, thriller, and suspense writers.
Kathy was born and raised in Los Angeles, and, as the child of educators, fell in love with reading at an early age.
She didn’t realize the life-changing, earth-quaking power of language until she read Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as a freshman at Wellesley College.
In Morrison’s protagonist Pecola Breedlove, Kathy recognized her own story in print.
The feminist movement of the early 70’s led Kathy to a fascination with powerful women.
Her works, whether in short story or novel format, tend to center on strong women of color.
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Ken Lizotte is Chief Imaginative Officer (CIO) and founder of emerson consulting group inc., a consulting firm that transforms individual business experts, companies, executives, law firms, and professional services firms into “thoughtleaders.”
Since 1996, emersongroup has guided over 350 “client thoughtleaders” toward publication of books and articles, toward speaking opportunities at targeted business events and toward media opportunities such as print interviews and guest appearances on business radio and podcasts.
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Ken Wachsberger, The Book Coach is Vice President of Marketing, National Speakers Association-Michigan and a Contract Advisor, National Writers Union.
He is available for professional contract advising and speaking in front of groups about book contracts as well as book writing and publishing.
Ken is the #1 International Bestselling Author and Editor of "You’ve Got the Time: How to Write and Publish That Book in You."
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Kim Eley specializes in personal development books with practical takeaways where people share their real-life stories, and also thoughtful children’s books – the common thread of both is to help people see what’s possible and shift to a more enjoyable, fulfilled life.
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It took Kim O'Hara three decades to publish her first book. Yet, she was hardly a slacker.
At the age of 25 she had produced her first million dollar movie.
She loved making movies because she could lose herself in stories and bring to audiences the empathy evoked by story telling.
She loved reading books as a child – it was an escape from the abuse – and in movie producing she was always looking for that next great book to bring to the screen.
Today, she has a thriving coaching business, serving dozens of published clients all over the United States.
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Kimberly Hobscheid is co-founder of I’m Hearing Stories which connects authors, narrators, speakers, and listeners.
Her mission is to get entrepreneurs seen and heard in a huge way - from live stages to podcasts, web summits, and TV.
Because if you aren’t being seen, you’re being overlooked! Let her get you connected and out on stages, live and online, so that you can get your message out and stop being overlooked!
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Kon Apostolopoulos is the Founder and CEO of Fresh Biz Solutions, LLC, a Human Capital Management consulting group that provides performance improvement and training solutions to help organizations develop their people, improve business results, and reap the benefits of a comprehensive Talent Management strategy. He is also the coauthor of the timely book, “7 Keys to Navigating a Crisis. A Practical Guide for Emotionally Dealing with Pandemics & Other Disasters.” He is a regular contributor to Thrive Global and Achievers Engagement Blog.
As a speaker and expert in performance improvement and change management, he has delivered hundreds of workshops and events for leaders in North America and Europe, sharing fresh ideas and best practices that engage his audience and empower participants to take the next bold step forward in their professional and personal life.
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For over 20 years, top global philanthropies have requested Kris Putnam-Walkerly’s help to transform their giving and catapult their impact.
As a philanthropy expert, advisor, and award-winning author, she’s helped over 90 foundations and philanthropists strategically allocate and assess over $500 million in grants and gifts.
Kris’s clients include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, J.M. Smucker Company, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Heising Simons-Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, Walton Family Foundations, Avery Dennison, and Fujitsu, among dozens of others.
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Kris Ward is the founder of the Win The Hour, Win the Day philosophy. She helps entrepreneurs with productivity and creating their W.I.N Team (what is next) team so you can get your ideas to implementation and make your ambitions come alive!!
After the loss of her husband, Kris returned full-time to her work as a marketing strategist. She was thrilled to see that her business had not only survived her absence but was thriving.
Now, Kris has completely changed the landscape for entrepreneurs by sharing the successful practices that allowed her absence.
Kris has been interviewed by one of the original sharks from Shark Tank, Kevin Harrington, and ABC’s The Secret Millionaire - James Malinchak. She has been featured on award winning podcasts, radio, and TV shows.
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Leah Fink is a registered social worker, who has been supporting people with their personal development for over 11 years.
Her passion and expertise encompasses providing experiential activities that foster a better understanding of self.
Her company supports individuals in self awareness and advancing their mental wellness by facilitating experiential opportunities that develop social emotional learning skills.
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Lee Ellis is President and founder of Leading with Honor®, a leadership and team development consulting and coaching company, and FreedomStar Media®, a publishing company that provides leadership resources and training.
A prolific writer, blogger and thought leader, Lee’s latest award-winning book is entitled Engage with Honor™: Building a Culture of Courageous Accountability. His last award-winning book, Leading with Honor®: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton, shares his POW experience and the 14 leadership principles that helped him and his compatriots resist, survive, and return with honor. His previous book, Leading Talents, Leading Teams, was published by Northfield Publishing and shares in-depth team concepts on how to lead and manage based on individual, innate gifts and talents.
Some of his appearances include interviews on networks such as CNN, CBS This Morning, C-SPAN, ABC World News, Fox News Channel, plus hundreds of engagements in various industry sectors throughout the world.
He was awarded two Silver Stars, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with Valor device, the Purple Heart, the Air Medal with eight Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Prisoner of War Medal for his service in Vietnam.
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“She kicks your butt and then gives you cookies,” Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan, a long-time friend and client says of Leslie Ungar. As a coach Leslie’s style is direct in order to accelerate your success. You might call it the carrot and stick approach using Oreos instead of carrots!
As president of Electric Impulse Communications, Inc., Leslie Ungar helps individuals and corporations supercharge their leadership. Benefit from Leslie as Coach, Speaker, and Speechwriter.
As you listen to and study with Leslie you will hear about how excelling in the horse show ring is similar to excelling in your own area of expertise: first place is always first place. She was a nationally ranked equestrian in the Top Three in her field.
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Lin Eleoff is an Internet business lawyer, coach, and author.
Lin has written two books: The Dignity Diet: How to End the Cycle of Cry-Eat-Repeat and Gutsy Glorious Life Coach: How to Turn Your Life Coaching Business Into a Soulful Money-Making Business.
The books highlight the two areas of Lin’s expertise: BODY and BUSINESS.
What do they have in common? Whether your goal is to get in the best shape of your life or build your own business, you'll be required to become the woman of YOUR dreams, first, meaning: Neither your best body nor your best business will ever make you happy, but becoming happy first will always lead you to getting everything you want.
Lin's superpower is her ability to quickly get to the heart of what's holding a woman back. She developed what she calls The Woman UP Protocol using brain science, transformational psychology, and years of experience coaching hundreds of women how to go after everything they want. Everything!
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Dr. Linda Henman, known as the Decision Catalyst®, is the founder of Henman Performance Group, a leadership consulting firm. Linda helps C-suite leaders make decisions that they must get right and can’t afford to get wrong.
In fact, in more than 35 years, none of her projects has failed. Some of her clients include leaders in organizations like Avon, Emerson, Estee Lauder, Kraft, and Tyson.
Linda first studied decision-making while working on her PhD in 1994. She conducted long-term original research on 138 American POWs (including John McCain) who had survived five or more years of brutal imprisonment. The study, under the direction of the U. S. Navy, uncovered the pivotal decisions the POWs made to stay resilient—decisions about their beliefs, identity, and life’s purpose. These research findings have guided Linda’s work with executives ever since.
Today, Linda works predominately with those in the c-suite to help them make decisions on issues like business growth, CEO selection, mergers & acquisitions, and succession planning. (In fact, Linda was one of eight succession planning experts who worked with John Tyson after his company’s acquisition of International Beef Products—one of the most successful acquisitions of the 21st Century.)
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Named one of Silicon Valley’s Top 100 Women of Influence and a member of Alan Weiss’s Million Dollar Consulting® Hall of Fame, Linda J. Popky has extensive experience in marketing – in industry, agencies, and consulting.
Linda is the founder and president of Leverage2Market® Associates, Inc., a strategic marketing company that helps organizations get heard above the noise in the marketplace. She is the author of the book Marketing Above the Noise: Achieve Strategic Advantage with Marketing that Matters (Bibliomotion, March 2015), and the Executive Director of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting.
If it relates to marketing, Linda has done it. Her expertise includes corporate marketing, communications and messaging, marketing team development, facilitation, sales training and support, partner and channel programs, market sizing and intelligence, field marketing, marketing operations, industry/market development, and product marketing. She also edits and ghostwrites business and nonfiction books for other authors.
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Ranked Number 16 in SAP’s Supply Chain Influencers and recognized as one of the top 1% of consultants worldwide, Lisa Anderson has deep experience partnering with manufacturers and distributors to maximize value.
Lisa Anderson is the founder and president of LMA Consulting Group Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in manufacturing strategy and end-to-end supply chain transformation that maximizes the customer experience and enables profitable, scalable, dramatic business growth.
Known for creating bold customer promises and profits, she is experienced in working with closely-held, private-equity backed and large, complex organizations in industries ranging from aerospace and defense, building and industrial products to food and beverage.
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Sales Leadership expert Lisa Earle McLeod created the Noble Purpose Methodology after her research revealed that organizations driven by a Noble Purpose outperformed the market by over 350%. Her bestselling book, Selling with Noble Purpose, has been a game changer at global firms like Flight Centre, Hootsuite, and Roche.
McLeod is the Sales Leadership expert for Forbes.com. She has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, Oprah.com and Good Morning America.
A sought after keynote speaker who has rocked the house everywhere from Apple to Peterbilt Trucking, McLeod is known for her cutting edge ideas, practical techniques, and inspirational humor. She is the author of 4 bestselling books, in 4 genres: leadership, sales, personal development and a collection of humor essays.
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Lisa Levy is the Founder and CEO of Lcubed Consulting.
Lcubed elevates organizations in adapting and transforming quickly for achieving their strategic goals. Lcubed clients include American Express, Honor Health, Freedom Financial Network and The Salt River Project and range from enterprise-level to medium sized organizations.
A nationally recognized authority on organizational change management, Lisa has contributed as a guest expert on numerous media outlets including NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX. Lisa is the soon-to-be author of the upcoming book, "Future-Proofing Cubed: The Definitive Guide to Improving Productivity, Refining Process and Bolstering Profitability in Today's Disruptive Business Environment" and a frequent speaker at conferences for business executives across the country.
A resident of Phoenix, Arizona, Lisa is an avid technology enthusiast and Porsche performance sports car driver who sits on the NAU College of Business Information Systems Advisory Council and enjoys spending time with her family and hound dogs - Danny and Ottoman.
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Awarded the Silver Stevie for "Mentor/Coach of the Year" Lisa Tener is an inspiring and empowering book writing and publishing coach, who can help you get your book written, refined, and out into the world, whether you envision a traditional book deal or self-publishing.
Lisa has won four prestigious book awards for The Joy of Writing Journal: Spark Your Creativity in 8 Minutes a Day, a book helping thousands of readers develop a consistent and inspired writing practice.
Her book-coaching clients have also won many dozens of illustrious book awards.
As "The Creativity Catalyst" Lisa can help you access your juiciest ideas, write in a state of flow and do your finest work.
As a Book Coach, Lisa Tener is known for helping visionaries, experts, entrepreneurs, creatives, healing professionals, therapists, coaches, and others with all aspects of book writing: from creating your book concept to writing and editing.
She has specialized expertise with helping authors write successful book proposals.
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Liz J Springer is the Innovative Strategist specializing in business strategy and video marketing techniques and her industry experience spans over 15 years.
She is an author, speaker, and she has her own podcast show “Innovators Influence” and a video marketing agency. She is also a business and video funnel coach helping businesses to get their message across using the power of video.
Liz brings her vast expertise in business strategy, growth marketing strategies, video marketing techniques and organizational change in consultancy, working with a broad-range of clients in the fields of education and health, transport, oil and gas, information technology, investments, finance, retail, media, and e-commerce.
Among her clients have been the Central Bank of Nigeria, British Airways, Transport For London, Cazenove, Prevista and West London universities, Equazen, and Rethink.
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People call Lou Bortone "The Video Godfather," because he's been doing this a long time, and he's really damn good at it. He spent 20 years in the television business and another 15 in digital marketing. He's been doing video marketing since long before it was a "thing."
When it comes to creating your video marketing plan, he guides you through the process, step-by-step, and set you up for success with video.
He's done it for thousands of entrepreneurs, from tech averse newbies to online rock stars like Michael Port, Ali Brown, Mari Smith, Peter Shankman, Dr. KellyAnn Petrucci, and many more.
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Author, speaker, facilitator and coach, Marc helps your teams ignite their passions, enable your leaders to recenter their focus, and drive continuous improvement through connected and engaged employees. This will allow you to realize your competitive advantage with a connected purpose and consistency of customer experience across your brand.
Tap into Marc’s 35 years of operational excellence experience and imagine a world in which the majority of us put more love and care in being of service. Where people dare to be the exception, every day.
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As CEO and founder of Advancing Wellness, Mari Ryan is a workplace well-being strategist guiding organizations to create people-centric workplaces where employees thrive. During her career, she has worked with businesses of all sizes from start-ups to global powerhouses such as Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and Northrup Grumman. She brings a wealth of experience and expertise.
Mari holds a Bachelor Degree from Lesley University, an MBA from Boston University, and a Masters in Health Promotion from Nebraska Methodist College. Mari is an active member of the National Speakers Association.
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Bestselling author Marjory Wildcraft is the author of “The Grow System: True Health, Wealth, and Happiness Come from the Ground.”
She is an expert on sustainable living and the founder and CEO of The Grow Network, the online home of a global network of people dedicated to self-reliance, community, and protecting the planet through homegrown food.
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Mark Amtower is a consultant, speaker, business best-selling author, columnist and radio host. He is among the most recognized and quoted professionals in the government market.
Guy Timberlake dubbed him “the Godfather of government marketing” and the industry veteran Bob Gosselin called him the “best of the best of government marketing gurus.”
Mark was selected by BtoB magazine as one of the Top 100 Business Marketers in the United States 2008 and his LinkedIn profile was selected as one of the seven best (out of 50 million) in the 2009 contest, Rock the World with Your Online Presence.
In 2018, he was awarded the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Government Marketing.
Mark advises small, medium and large companies on all facets of marketing to the government. He specializes in helping companies develop thought leadership positions in a defined niche and leveraging social media to gain targeted visibility in the government contracting market.
His expertise in both marketing to the government and LinkedIn makes him a sought after consultant, keynote, luncheon and workshop speaker.
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Retired U.S. Air Force Captain Mark David Gibson, like many other young people lost and searching, joined the military as a “ticket out” to find himself and see the world. The strict structure of the military was the perfect solution for harnessing this young person’s scattered energy, poor life choices, and dangerous decisions. Despite a life foundation built on shifting sands of denial, secrecy, shame, and guilt, Mark found a place to call home in the Air Force. Long before the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy it was an unwritten rule invented and perfected as the accepted way of life for young Mark.
Gibson, a 20-year, highly decorated, war veteran, served 10 years enlisted, took an educational break in service, and then served 10 more years as a Public Affairs Officer. He deployed multiple times to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Noble Eagle.
Gibson re-entered the workforce, applying authenticity strategies and techniques to every facet of his new life. Landing a job familiar to his expertise in Public Relations, Mark moved back to the United States and took a job with the U.S. Small Business Administration in Atlanta, Georgia. Before long, Mark was tapped by SBA Headquarters to co-author and lead a National LGBT Outreach initiative, along with the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. “LGBT Business Builder” would be recognized by the White House and become the gold standard for LGBT inclusion in the federal government. LGBT Business Builder received recognition from Harvard University and became the recipient of the "Bright Idea – Innovation in American Government Award."
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Since Echelon Management’s inception in 1990, Mark Faust has conducted hundreds of sessions for clients from companies such as Apple, IBM, Monsanto, Cable & Wireless, John Deere, P&G, Syngenta, Bayer, government agencies, nonprofits, and a host of small to mid-sized companies including many multi-generational family owned companies.
Faust has been an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio University and he has held the roles of adjunct COO and VP as well as being an active member on several board of directors. His book Growth or Bust! has been a #1 best seller in the business section of one region of Barnes & Noble.
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Mark Hunter aka “The Sales Hunter” delivers highly sought-after training seminars and keynote addresses to companies like Salesforce, Novartis, Mattel, Lenovo, and others. He is the author of High-Profit Selling.
Mark lives and breathes sales, and it comes through in each keynote. His energy and personal approach will engage and inspire to create lasting change.
The audiences he’s presented to range from Fortune 100 companies to startups and associations. He’s shared the stage with Simon Sinek, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Arianna Huffington, “Magic” Johnson and numerous others. He’s also one of the founders of the OutBound Conference, the largest prospecting-focused sales event held annually.
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Mark Levy is the founder of Levy Innovation LLC, a positioning and branding firm that helps consultants and other thought leaders increase their fees by up to 2,000%.
His clients include:
* a former department head in the White House
* a speaker to the United Nations
* CEOs of major organizations
* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling authors
* TED and TEDx speakers
Before devoting his work fulltime to Levy Innovation, Mark served as Chief Marketing Officer at an Inc. 5,000 experiential branding organization whose clients include Bank of America, Gap, Samsung, Time Warner, Tivo, and Harvard and Stanford Universities.
Mark has written for the New York Times, and has written or co-created five books. His latest book, “Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content,” has been published in ten languages. Mark has also taught research writing at Rutgers University.
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There is nothing worse than having a vision for a brand experience - where your clients, customers and users are engaged, buying more programs and products, referring your business to so many people and...
Not know how to turn your vision into reality.
You are deeply proud of your work, of your products/services, and your message is amazing!
However, the idea of actually getting your clients, customers and users engaged with the programs and products and then growing their relationship with your brand...It is outside your wheelhouse and the idea that it can happen feels like a pipe dream.
What if there was a solution to support you once and for all to get momentum with growing your online community?
Maruxa "Muh-roo-shah" Murphy is a Culture and Community Architect for companies that want to use their platform to bring more good into the world.
Over the past 20 years, she has helped 100+ brands develop and grow their communities as their advisor and consultant.
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A high-energy keynote speaker, Mary C. Kelly is focused on using research, laughter, and experience to show professionals how to excel.
Her relatable, no-nonsense approach inspires audiences to embrace their roles, surpass their goals, and plan for the future.
Mary speaks to 100+ organizations a year and has worked with organizations such as AMC Institute, National Association of REALTORS, HealthOne, U.S. Air Force, LPL Financial, and many more.
Mary Kelly graduated from the United States Naval Academy and served over 20 years on active duty in intelligence and logistics.
She retired from the Navy as a commander.
She has master’s degrees in history and economics and a PhD in economics.
Mary Kelly has EXPERIENCE, and it’s this experience that helps your executives and audiences change how they view crises, challenges, and changes. Mary turns obstacles into opportunities.
Mary was a professor for over 30 years, and she loves helping others navigate the economy, build their businesses, become even better leaders, and accomplish more in less time.
Combining inspirational military and corporate stories, unforgettable energy, and a little comedy, Mary always delivers customized and memorable programs!
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Mary Kate Gulick is Founder of Real Deal Content Coaching, Amazon bestselling author, and award-winning, 20-year content marketing veteran.
She came up through the ranks at digital marketing agencies and in Fortune 500 marketing departments. Most recently, she led the category-crushing, award-snagging, game-changing digital and content marketing team at TD Ameritrade Institutional and the creative team at a Midwest ad agency that’s 100% focused on bringing attention to changemakers – nonprofits, community-focused financial institutions, health care organizations – you know, the good guys.
Over the years, Mary Kate has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, small businesses, nonprofits and global enterprises do one critical thing—share their unique know-how in a way that solved problems.
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Melanie Benson, host of the Amplify Your Success Podcast, is the Expert-preneur’s Authority Amplifier.
For over 20 years, online business owners, course creators, authors, speakers, and service professionals have used her proven strategies to STAND OUT in a crowded market, create a magnetic message that generates a flood of ideal leads and exponentially increase revenues by leveraging their Unique Profit Amplifier.
Melanie is author of Rewired for Wealth, co-author of Voices of the 21st Century and Entrepreneur.com’s Start Up Guide to Starting an Information Marketing Business, and her success tips are featured in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Woman’s Day, and Parenting Magazine. Melanie serves on the Women Speaker’s Association Executive Team and is a member of the Association of Transformational Leaders.
Melanie combines her extensive traditional education (she holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management) with multiple advanced certifications in Project Management, Results Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and even a license as a Spiritual Counselor to get her clients past their obstacles and into impacting the world in a fulfilling, and profitable, way.
Melanie lives just outside of the Los Angeles area with her husband and bonus children who she practices her hobby on - being a closet gourmet paleo chef. As an avid lifestyle enthusiast she spends her free time in search of the best spas and beaches in the world.
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Melanie Herschorn is a Content Marketing Strategist and Coach on a mission: to support women business owners to land more clients by conquering their content marketing challenges. Through her company, VIP Digital Content, Melanie provides the strategies necessary for her clients to attract their ideal clients, nurture leads, and position themselves as experts in their field.
A small business owner since 2012, Melanie understands the entrepreneurial journey and that it truly takes a village. She has worked as a print, radio, and TV journalist and as a PR specialist in Hollywood.
Melanie has won numerous journalism awards and received her master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California. She also loves to provide marketing tips on her podcast VIP Access and in her Facebook group VIP Digital Marketing Tips.
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Melissa Davies, an internationally respected coach, trainer, and project facilitator, consistently delivers a deep level of cultural team training, leadership skills and professional development to all her clients.
She believes in a hands-on approach guided by principals in effective communication and personal development, to build a level of trust and understanding for diverse communication styles and leadership needs.
Ms. Davies has traveled extensively with clients throughout Asia, Europe, and the Middle East while her personal travels have taken her to other unique locations such as South Africa, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malta, and Nepal.
Through her international leadership consulting and training, Ms. Davies has developed innovative professional development and training programs. Her key emphasis in leadership skills and effective communication successfully align management teams and company sectors to generate collaborative systemic solutions.
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Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to Watch by Currency Fair, business growth expert Meridith Elliott Powell is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, and business strategist.
With a background in corporate sales and leadership, her career expands over several industries including banking, healthcare, and finance. Meridith worked her way up from an entry-level position to earn her seat at the C-Suite table.
Meridith is a Certified Speaking Professional©, a designation held by less than twelve percent of professional speakers. She is also a member of the prestigious Forbes Coaching Council.
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Michael Levin built up his first ghostwriting business, BusinessGhost, into the world’s most prolific ghostwriting company and sold it in 2018.
Now, he focuses on ghostwriting for a small number of elite clients worldwide.
Michael writes books for the world’s most successful, innovative, and fascinating people... including athletes like Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, NBA star Doug Christie, and 3x Super Bowl winner Chad Hennings, Pats star Benjamin Watson, and running back Maurice Jones-Drew of the NFL; the FBI’s top undercover agent Joaquin Garcia, Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp founder David Fishof; broadcasters like Fox Sports' Chris Myers, business leaders, financial and insurance professionals, best M.D.s, and thought leaders in all fields... all positive people with positive messages.
As a result, he's appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank; on the BBC and FoxNews; in Inc., Forbes, and Bloomberg/Business; and in People Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Michael is deeply honored that Jay Abraham, the world renowned marketing authority, calls him "The Master of the Business Fable."
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Michael Whitehouse is The Virtual Event Guy.
Having run events since 1996, he was fascinated by the potential of virtual events when everything went online in 2020.
The events he saw were often dull, unengaging, and little better than a YouTube playlist, and he wanted better so he started running his own.
Focusing on interaction over opt-ins, he creates events which are a truly human experience across a virtual platform.
Attendees (and speakers) come away with new connections, new ideas, and often new prospects and partners.
Now, he runs these highly interactive, powerful, and fun events for clients to reach their audience with their message.
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Mike Capuzzi is an Amazon bestselling author, publisher and coach for business owners and sharp, aggressive entrepreneurs looking to get to the next level in their business. Throughout his 25 years in marketing and 21 years as a consultant, Mike’s diligent and innovative use of High Impact Marketing has consistently surpassed the expectations and outcomes of traditional “corporate” marketing concepts and business strategies for his clients.
This expertise has led him to be a guest speaker on the stages of some of the world’s most foremost experts on marketing, including Dan Kennedy, Bill Glazer, Rory Fatt, Ed Rush and Julie Steinbacher. To date, Mike has helped thousands of business owners create more profitable marketing.
Mike is the inventor of the wildly successful software product, CopyDoodles®. CopyDoodles are hand-drawn graphic files that enable anybody to literally drag and drop attention-grabbing enhancements to their offline and online marketing materials. Tens of thousands of business owners, marketers and copywriters have benefited from the use of CopyDoodles.
In 2019, Mike launched Bite Sized Books, a new publishing venture founded on his proven formula for creating short, helpful books (known as shooks) for Main Street business owners. Shooks are ideal for local business owners who are looking to increase their level of authority, while also providing helpful information in bite sized books.
When he’s not focused on marketing or helping his clients, Mike is the proud father of two beautiful daughters, Caroline and Nicole. Caroline, who is attending Penn State University to study journalism, published her first shook, Dog Joy, in 2018. Dog Joy is a collection of dog rescue stories as told by the people who rescued them. She has donated all the profits from Dog Joy (over $5,000 and counting) to help support a number of the rescues featured in the shook.
Mike has been married to his amazing wife Becky for 24 years and counting. Becky is the invisible driving force behind everything Mike does to serve clients, including being the original handwriting artist for CopyDoodles.
To learn more about Mike’s opportunities, visit MikeCapuzzi.com. If you’re looking for a content-rich, unique speaker for your in-person or virtual event, contact Mike at friend@mikecapuzzi.com or by faxing a note to 888.654.9310.
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Milo Shapiro has been coaching and running corporate classes in public speaking skills since 2004. He meets San Diego clients both in person and remotely (ie: Zoom).
His interactive programs use improvisation games, story sharing, and even “Simon Says” to wake up the house and make an impact through his uplifting blend of play and information.
Milo's program on improving our personal relationship with risk and failure has been called “a wake-up call for America” that leads us in seeing and changing how we limit ourselves when we attempt to be perfect.
Attendees recall lessons better when learned through fun like this; they’ll leave eager to return for more.
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Global Credibility Expert Mitchell Levy is a TEDx speaker and international bestselling author of over 60 books.
As The AHA Guy at AHAthat, he helps to extract the genius from your head in a two-three hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it, and make you an Amazon bestselling author in four months or less.
He is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. He’s provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.
Mitchell has been happily married for thirty years and regularly spends four weeks in Europe with family and friends.
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Nadia Bilchik is an internationally renowned television personality, communication training expert, best-selling author, and keynote speaker.
As a TV anchor, reporter and editorial producer at CNN for the weekend morning show, she anchored and hosted feature programs for CNN and CNN International.
Her uniquely dynamic, entertaining, and substantive approach to communication skills training comes from her extensive experience in delivering keynote addresses, conducting training workshops, and coaching business professionals across a range of audiences both in the USA and globally.
She has interviewed President Nelson Mandela, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, and George Clooney, amongst others.
Nadia’s clients include The Home Depot, Coca-Cola, Porsche, The Institute of Nuclear Power, Samsung, Georgia Tech, Emory School of Business, and Northeastern University, among many others leading organizations.
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Since 2009, Bye-Bye Boring Bio Workbook Author and Get Known Get Paid Mentor Nancy Juetten has upgraded bios for speakers, experts, and authors who once struggled to spell out their greatness and broadcast their brilliance on paper or online.
With her workbook as the foundation, she created the Podcast Dream Guest Mastery™ course, Broadcast Your Brilliance Boot Camp and Get Known Get Paid Private Mentoring Program to serve clients around the world, while building a business that allows her to enjoy a great quality of life from a comfortable home office with her dog at her feet.
Clients value her “all of the help and none of the hype” advice. Nancy says a brilliant bio opens the door to something more … instead of a snore.
Given the impact of podcasts and virtual speaking in the COVID-19 era, Nancy says the time to make your message memorable is right now.
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For more than 20 years, Nina Durfee has assisted lawyers and judges with her instinctive editorial eye, drafting, editing, and proofreading legal documents and correspondence, knowing full well that a misplaced comma can change the meaning from innocence to guilt.
She has authored multiple books, and her work has been showcased in a variety of publications, including Writers’ Journal.
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Noah St. John helps people make money: Since 1997, he’s helped his coaching clients add more than $2 BILLION dollars in sales.
Noah is the only author in history to have works published by Hay House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Mindvalley, Nightingale-Conant, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher. His 14 books have been published in 18 languages.
A highly in-demand keynote speaker, Noah is famous for inventing AFFORMATIONS® - a new technology of the mind – and helping busy entrepreneurs and executives get rid of their head trash so they make more money.
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Nona Prather is the Owner of Prather Marketing Services, LLC.
She specializes in setting up marketing plans for professional speakers, through phone calls, email campaigns, social media, and marketing materials.
Nona has worked in marketing for 10 plus years and holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Business Management.
She has worked with Speakers Bureaus and individual speakers.
Nona also enjoys road trips and has a goal to see all the National Parks in the US.
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Pamela S. Harper is the Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc. (BAI), a strategic growth advisory firm based in Glen Rock, NJ. Throughout her life, Pam has established a track record of finding the hidden opportunities in every situation, and taking bold action to turn them into game-changing success.
For more than 20 years, she has used these talents to enable visionary leaders to take advantage of every opportunity along their journey, and get big results faster. This has led to hundreds of millions of dollars of value in both top and bottom line growth. Clients have included CEOs, boards, and senior executives in entrepreneurial, mid-market and Fortune 500 companies across more than 30 industries.
Pam regularly shares her insights as co-host of the weekly professionally produced audio podcast series Growth Igniters Radio with Pam Harper and Scott Harper®. Guests have included award-winning CEOs and authors of best-selling business books.
Pam has been quoted in and/or featured in prominent business media including Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur, and major newspapers around the world. Her articles have been featured in media including CEO.com, Chief Executive Magazine, and CEO World. She has also been featured as a regular guest on business radio and podcast programs including The Small Business Advocate Show with Jim Blasingame.
Among Pam’s off-hour claims: Singing and performing in Comic Opera (where she met Scott), becoming a yellow belt in Aiki Jiu-Jitsu, and having a great sense of direction − which has been enormously helpful when traveling to cities in 5 continents. She also enjoys sharing stories, games, and great meals with family and friends.
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Pat Iyer is an experienced author, coach, and writer who loves to help others polish their writing.
Her expertise comes from writing or editing over 800 books, articles, case studies, online courses, or chapters.
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Patrice Perkins is an Army brat who lived in Germany, Hawaii, and other less exotic locales during her Dad's illustrious 29-year Army career.
A propensity for the limelight first surfaced after she thoroughly routed 2nd-grade competition to appear live as one of Santa’s Reindeer Keepers on the German public access show, “Potpourri."
The stories and cultures of the people Patrice has met have always been fascinating - and over the last 10 years, she's been privileged to interview and curate the stories of 85+ highly successful business leaders from across the globe in the private, non-profit, and state government sectors.
One thing she's learned is that your Brand Story shouldn't remain static; rather, it should evolve with and convey the current stage and strategy of your company.
At The Word Architect, Patrice's proprietary Vibrant Listening Framework (VLF) distills the essence of your Brand Story Brilliance, then, she uses Strategy as a Service to craft compelling content to engage your audience on an emotional level.
The result? Your Brand is elevated through exquisite writing.
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Patricia Fripp simplifies and demystifies the process of preparing and presenting powerful, persuasive presentations. She delivers her message through keynote speeches, breakout sessions, and in-depth customized training and coaching. Patricia is now virtually everywhere with FrippVT, her interactive, learn-at-your-own-pace, virtual presentation skills training.
When your message must be memorable, your presentation powerful, and your sale successful call Patricia Fripp. One of the few professional speakers who can transform the presentation skills of others, she is an executive speech coach and sales presentation skills trainer. Kiplinger's Personal Finance wrote that one of the best investments you can make in your career is Patricia Fripp’s presentation skills training.
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Pauline Wiles specializes in strategic website design that gets bottom line results for consultants and authors.
Working with the Squarespace platform, she's an expert in websites that convert in your industry.
As well as a full time professional website designer, Pauline is an author and consultant too.
She published 6 books independently before pivoting to become a professional website designer.
Her work helps you grow your impact and authority through your website and related online marketing.
When Pauline is not creating websites for authors and speakers, you’ll find her running, reading, or searching for the next place to enjoy tea and a slice of cake.
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A professionally developed Operations Manual will equip your franchisees with all the tools needed to gain competitive advantage - year on year.
Penny Hopkinson is a franchise publishing consultant, content writer, and developmental editor who advises and coaches clients on how best to document their know-how and business systems so that franchisees can follow a franchisor's proven system.
Her expertise encompasses more than 40 years’ experience as sub-editor, copywriter, Editor-in Chief and Managing Editor in the trade, technical, and specialist sector.
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Per Sjorfors is the Founder of Atenga Insights. Pricing has always been an interest area for Per.
He appears regularly on business radio shows and gets quoted regularly in the financial press, including Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Inc., Industry Week, Business Insider, and the Financial Times.
Prior to Atenga, Per had more than 25 years of executive management experience where he gained an appreciation for the importance of optimal pricing.
He used pricing as the leaver to turn around several European and US companies, and while setting up a number of Joint Venture companies in Asia he gained additional insight into pricing practices from a global perceptive.
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Peter Montoya’s business acumen, inspirational journey, human behavioral insight, and decades of real-life experience have helped him to become one of the most sought-after speakers and coaches in the United States.
He speaks thoughtfully and passionately about the need for transformational leadership development in today’s world, and truly believes that all people and organizations have a special role in perpetuating the survival of our species, our civilization, and our planet.
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Phil Symchych is focused and driven to help owners of privately held companies improve their business operations and financial results, increase their value delivered to their customers, and build their shareholders’ business wealth.
His results-oriented business growth services are tailored to each client’s specific business, operational issues, and financial needs.
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Rebecca Morgan has authored 28 books, including two bestsellers which have sold 250,000 each.
She has been helping improve people’s skills for decades. She works with corporate, small business, and individual clients to enhance their effectiveness and success.
Through her in-person and virtual speeches, workshops, consultations, coaching, books, and other learning resources, Rebecca partners with you to ensure your development goals are achieved.
She works with clients around the globe. The best way to determine if you’d work well together is to set up a complimentary 30-minute Zoom meeting.
She is the inventor of the “slook” - a book based on slide presentations and multimedia.
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Richard Citrin, Ph.D., MBA brings more than 25 years of business leadership and consulting experience to his clients and their organizations. He is one of those rare individuals who bridges strategy, keen insight and a tell it like it is attitude with practical suggestions that can be immediately put into play.
Richard Citrin's Website:
https://www.citrinconsulting.com/
Michael A. Couch’s unique background in organization effectiveness, business management, and operations allows him to partner with senior leadership, wear many hats, and collaborate with people throughout an organization, building work cultures that have a positive impact on the bottom line.
Michael A. Couch's Website:
https://www.mcassociatesinc.com/
Rita Gunther McGrath is a world-renowned thought leader and a professor at Columbia Business School, where she directs the popular Leading Strategic Growth and Change program.
She is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty.
In her speeches and consulting, Rita works with Fortune 1,000 companies, helping boards, CEOs, and senior executives act strategically in rapidly changing and volatile environments.
She has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking.
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Robbie Kellman Baxter is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC, a management consulting firm, as well as the author of the bestselling The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction & Build Recurring Revenue.
Her new book The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscription Model So Compelling, Your Customers Will Never Want to Leave was released in April of this year.
Her clients have included large organizations like Netflix, the Wall Street Journal, and Microsoft, as well as dozens of smaller venture-backed companies.
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Robbie Samuels is an award-winning author of three books and recognized as a networking expert by NPR, Forbes, Amazon, Lifehacker, Harvard Business Review, and Inc.
He coaches entrepreneurs to build a book launch team of 150+ likely prospects and referral partners, get 50+ Amazon reviews, and host a virtual book launch party that creates a pipeline for their next offer.
Conversations with prospects lead to new revenue, which is a measure of success you can take to the bank!
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Robert Plank is the founder of Done For You Podcasting (DFYPodcast.com), host of the Marketer of the Day podcast (MarketerOfTheDay.com) and author of WWHW: Why, What, How-To, What-If (WWHWBook.com).
He has helped thousands of entrepreneurs create online businesses through 840 podcast episodes, 15 books and 15 online courses.
How can YOU use your podcast and book as an advertising, marketing and traffic tool to fulfill your wildest dreams?
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The Boston Globe calls Robin Ryan "America's top Job Search Expert". A popular trainer and speaker, Robin has been a keynote speaker at numerous national and regional conferences and is also a weekly columnist for Forbes.com.
The Boston Globe calls Robin Ryan America’s top Job Search Expert. If you are looking for help with you career, call on Robin Ryan. The media frequently calls on Robin to offer her expertise. She’s appeared on over 2000 TV and Radio shows including Oprah, Dr Phil, NBC Nightly News, CNN and NPR. Her advice has been seen on the pages of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Forbes, Money just to name a few.
ABC NEWS SAYS, Robin Ryan has the inside track on how to get hired. Robin spends many of her days working in her busy career counseling practice where she offers career and job search services to clients nationwide including resume writing and interview coaching. Robin has had over 30 years of direct hiring experience and has an extensive HR background.
A popular trainer and speaker, Robin’s high-energy style, coupled with her informative and engaging message has had her in front of over 1200 audiences. She’s been a keynote speaker at numerous national and regional conferences, and is often in front of association members, employee groups, or seen on college campuses talking to alumni and student groups. She is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences teaching HR professionals and recruiters how to advance their own careers, along with other trending topics.
Robin Ryan holds a master’s degree in counseling and education from Suffolk University and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Boston College. She is the former Director of Counseling Services at the University of Washington.
Robin loves helping people find jobs and improve their lives. Making a difference in this way is what she's dedicated her life to. She can help you!
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Just as editors do more than splash your text with missing commas, writing coaches do more than tell you to write.
They are a bit like doulas helping you birth your books and stories.
If you have questions, we'll share the answers or find them for you.
Rusti coaches authors to find the words that their hearts speak.
Working as an empath, she guides writers to open up to what their story is and the most authentic way for them to share it, helping them place the right words at the right time for all the right reasons.
Sometimes a book and sometimes Rusti helps you discover many other ways to best use your story and plant your words to meet your strategic objectives.
Words exist in her blood and bones.
She specializes in helping you find, craft, and tweak yours!
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S. Paul Moehring is a Certified Business Coach, Speaker, and Author.
His knowledge, expertise, and coaching abilities aid to the success of small business owners; from personal achievements to their professional development.
His experience covers over two decades of guiding and coaching new business owners. His services provide support every step of the way; from business plan development to advanced-level coaching, he is committed to helping you develop strategies to achieve your goals.
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Sam Richter is an internationally recognized expert on digital information and is considered the father of modern-day Sales Intelligence.
His award-winning experience includes building innovative programs for start-up companies and some of the world's most famous brands.
Multiple times, Sam was named by InsideView as one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in Sales, and he was also named as one of the Top Chief Marketing Officers on Twitter.
He has been recognized by LinkedIn as having one of the world's most viewed profiles.
Sam has been featured in thousands of television and radio programs and national and online publications.
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Scott Plum is the President of the Minnesota Sales Institute and facilitates most of the classes taught.
He started his selling career in 1987 and since then he has been sharing the skills and techniques he learned.
His goal for students is to “inspire growth and change in your presence and have it last and continue in his absence.”
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Shawn Casemore is an entrepreneur, an owner of multiple businesses, and known internationally for growing small businesses.
As Founder of the Unstoppable Entrepreneur Network, he has coached hundreds, if not thousands, of small business owners and entrepreneurs, helping them to design and structure their business for rapid growth, while reducing the headaches that often come with managing people and dealing with customers.
He has worked with small business owners with only one or two employees, all the way up to multinational organizations with thousands of employees.
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7 of Shel Horowitz' 10 books have won one or more awards and/or been translated and republished by publishers in other countries (his US publishers include Simon & Schuster and John Wiley & Sons).
A TEDx Talker and International Platform Association Certified Speaker, Shel has given talks like “Impossible Is a Dare” and “Making Green Sexy” as far east as Istanbul and as far west as Honolulu.
Both a marketer and an activist since he was in high school, Shel's consulting offers a unique perspective on how to successfully combine business success with social betterment—not through guilt and shame but using enlightened self-interest.
Frequently interviewed in major media, Shel has been profiled and quoted in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Entrepreneur, ABC News, BBC News, Voice of America, NPR's Marketplace, Boston Globe, and dozens of others.
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Speaker Paul Ross is an author, speaker, trainer, Master Hypnotist, and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. For the past 30 years, he’s taught tens of thousands of people the power of language to persuade, sell, heal, turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones, and pain into passion.
Paul’s speeches and trainings have motivated audiences around the world to discover their power to design their own results.
If you can already begin to see yourself getting your prospects to convince themselves to buy, adding top dollars to your bottom line, and doing this without resorting to sleazy sales tricks, you will enjoy his acclaimed, industry-shifting book, Subtle Words that Sell.
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“Small Business Stacey” is a marketing expert on a mission to “Save Small Business One Marketing Plan At A Time”.
No small feat for sure!
Stacey knows that one thing – and one thing only – will accomplish that mission: MARKETING PUT INTO ACTION
That’s why she wrote the book “Small Business Marketing Made EZ” to share her simple 6-step system any small business owner can put into ACTION – literally and figuratively.
Stacey knows first hand what great marketing can accomplish. She has won numerous awards through her career for her marketing efforts. But not all days in her marketing world were bright, sunny and profitable. In her coffee and smoothie business, which she still runs today, at one point she was $500K in debt and about to lose it all – her house, her family, her sanity. She harnessed her marketing prowess to tap into the power of using daily deal sites like Groupon, which was a key strategy that took her business from $500K in debt to a 7-figure profitable business.
She created the Daily Deals for Massive Profits Training Program to teach small and local business owners how they can skyrocket their business growth and get massive profits from using daily deal sites like Groupon. Small business owners cheered at their transformations but wanted more marketing support. So Stacey introduced Silver Platter Marketing where small business owners can get a done-for-you marketing system. No more excuses of “no time”, “no expertise”, “no budget”. Now small business owners can say MARKETING DONE! Stacey also helps independent coffee, smoothie, juice bar, ice cream, dessert and snack shop owners learn how to stop selling by the cup and start selling by the gallon with lucrative catering market through her numerous Cups to Gallons programs.
When Stacey’s not busy saving the small business world with marketing, she loves spending time with her family, eating chocolate (who doesn’t!) and sipping red wine.
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Stephanie Chandler is the author of several books including The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan: The Professional Guide to Profitable Self-Publishing and The Nonfiction Book Marketing Plan: Online and Offline Promotion Strategies to Build Your Audience and Sell More Books.
Stephanie is also founder and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association, a vibrant community for writers, and the Nonfiction Writers Conference, a traditional writers’ conference experience conducted entirely online.
A frequent speaker at business events and on the radio, she has been featured in Entrepreneur, BusinessWeek, and Wired magazine.
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Steve Eriksen is an integration specialist and automations nerd.
In his previous role as the Chief Technology Officer for Mary Morrissey, an 8-figure life coach certification organization, he was responsible for all the tech that went into their events with thousands of attendees.
When Steve hosted a summit for his own coaching business, he couldn't find a good system to help him run his event.
So he used his technical background in the events space, along with his real-world experience as an event host, and created EventRaptor, a system that makes virtual event management easy.
With Steve's unique blend of business, development and technical background, he's uniquely positioned to create a product that is both wanted and needed by the world's virtual event organizer and coaching communities.
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In 2016, Stu Heinecke released “How to Get a Meeting with Anyone,” later named one of the top 64 sales books of all time. “Get the Meeting” followed in 2019, resulting in the American Marketing Association declaring Stu the "Father of Contact Marketing.”
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Susan Crossman is a communications professional with more than three decades of top-tier experience in the areas of journalism, government and corporate communications, marketing, and creative writing. She is also a speaker, the Amazon best-selling author of five traditionally published fiction and non-fiction books, and a content marketing expert. She has spoken on stages and delivered workshops in Canada and the United States, as well as in a number of other countries. And she loves to travel!
Susan has a BA (Hons.) in Political Studies and an MA in English Literature. She has earned certification as a General Practitioner and Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), and she is a certified Awakening Coach. She has training in the Enneagram, the Language and Behavior (LAB) Profile, How to Fascinate, Emergenetics and the DISC system of personality profiling.
She has undertaken hundreds of hours of training in creative writing, and the application of NLP to sales and marketing, among other topics. And she speaks five languages (three reasonably well).
It is Susan’s very great privilege to help Awakening Authors share the stories they are here to tell in powerful and inspirational ways. Her expert book coaching and editing guidance helps her clients:
* gather and organize their ideas and insights
* structure their manuscript
* beautifully express exactly what they want to say
* get set up to publish and market their books
* step into a more profound embrace of who they are and what they are on the planet to accomplish
Susan is a member of Editors Canada and she is a member of the US-based Editorial Freelancers Association.
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Susan Friedmann, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) is a well-respected niche marketing expert who's on a mission to wipe out sameness and add vitality and differentiation to your author marketing.
For over 25 years, through her company, Aviva Publishing, she’s coached over 400 non-fiction authors, to use their books to become the recognized trusted authority in their field.
Susan’s written 17 books including her international bestsellers, “Meeting & Event Planning for Dummies,” and “Riches in Niches: How to Make it BIG in a small Market.”
She’s appeared on a variety of radio and TV talk shows and hosts the award-winning podcast, “Book Marketing Mentors.”
From being chased by an elephant to hugging a tiger, from teaching yoga to being rescued by the National Guard, enjoying 3 grandchildren, and traveling with her life partner of 50 years, she leads a full and exciting life.
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Susan Harrow helps CEOs, speakers, entrepreneurs, authors, start-ups and business leaders double their revenue with media interviews by using sound bites effectively. For the past 31 years, she has been the brains + heart behind Harrow Communications Inc., a media coaching + marketing agency based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She’s also the author of the best-selling book, Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul®: A Woman’s Guide to Promoting Herself, Her Business, Her Product or Her Cause with Integrity & Spirit (HarperCollins) and a regular contributor to the The Huffington Post and Psychology Today.
She’s been featured, quoted or profiled in: The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Inc., CNN, Advertising Age, Woman’s Day, Ladies’ Home Journal, Women’s Wear Daily, Entrepreneur, Salon Magazine, Pink, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Orlando Sentinel, and Investor’s Business Daily, and on CNBC, NPR, and national/syndicated TV and radio including the CNBC special, The Oprah Effect.
Her media philosophy is to tell the right story to the right people with the right angle, at the right time, with the right tone. And most importantly: tell the truth.
Her media training + coaching clients range from CEOs to soccer moms, reality TV contestants to rock stars. She’s coached + created marketing strategies for Fortune 500 CEOs, Internet millionaires, world-renowned speakers, award-winning documentary film producers, civil rights activists, best-selling authors, Food Network personalities, Yoga Gurus, and the occasional Jesuit priest in San Francisco, New York, Europe, Australia and beyond.
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Named by Forbes.com as one of the networking gurus, Susan RoAne is an in-demand international keynote speaker who has shared her message of connection and communication with audiences worldwide.
She has been featured in New York Times, The Guardian, on CNN, The BBC, Chicago Tribune and Wall Street Journal to name a few. Susan was quoted by Sir Richard Branson in his "10 Quotes to Mark Things Happen" as his #6!
Her clients include Coca Cola, The US Air Force, UnitedHealth Group, Yale University, Apple Computer, Intel, Stanford University, LinkedIN, The National Football League, — and, her personal favorite . . . Hershey Chocolate!
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Known as The Book Angel for cause publishing, Susie Schaefer believes that books are the gateway to creating a movement.
Her love of books goes far beyond the feel of a fabric cover or the smell of a library.
Whether writing a book helps an author heal trauma or raises awareness for a global crisis, Susie honors and empowers storytellers to be part of the global conversation and create a ripple effect of social impact.
Working with business owners brings her tremendous joy, particularly when an author’s book shares their own personal story and creates “Business Ascension” by melding an author’s mission and message.
Susie hails from corporate America with a vast array of talents - teaching and training, being a marketing expert, working with non-profits, and a stint in radio broadcasting and commercial acting.
Susie skillfully guides authors through the independent publishing process to finish that dream book, launch a speaking career, or build a business with a book that gets results and gives back.
In addition, Susie works with authors to write and edit screenplay adaptations of her clients’ books through her passion project, Movie Muse Productions.
Susie’s understanding of social impact, or “cause” publishing, enables her to offer a unique foundation for publishing by building community, creating connections, and serving as a catalyst for change.
When not reading, publishing books, or writing award-winning screenplays, Susie can be found practicing her downward dog (yoga), meditating on the beach, or planning her next travel adventure.
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Tamara S. Raymond is a certified leadership development and career coach/strategist committed to professional, career and leadership development for adults and emerging leaders; as well as guidance for teens in determining their career paths.
Tamara’s 15-year professional tenure has featured leadership, career and executive coaching; corporate management consulting; serving as an HR subject-matter-expert and organizational change leader; educational speaking; and authoring Careering: The Pocket Guide to Exploring Your Future Career (Morgan James Publishing, New York, NY, November 2017).
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Todd Cherches is the CEO and co-founder of BigBlueGumball LLC, an innovative New York City-based management and leadership consulting, training, and executive coaching firm. BigBlueGumball’s patented VisuaLeadership® methodology leverages the power of visual thinking and visual communication to equip, enable, and empower business professionals of all levels—from individual contributors to senior executives—to maximize their performance, their productivity, and their potential.
Drawing on his unique and diverse background (which features many years of experience in the media and entertainment industries with such leading companies as Ogilvy & Mather, Disney, and CBS), Todd is known for his innovative approach to management training, leadership development, presentation skills, and executive coaching which leverages the power of visual thinking and visual communication.
Todd is a three-time award winning Adjunct Professor of leadership at NYU, a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University, a TEDx speaker, and the author of VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life (Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster, May 2020).
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Tom Antion has never had a job.
He's an Internet Multimillionaire "guy next door" and founder of the only licensed, dedicated Internet marketing school in the country.
He's the subject of a Hollywood Documentary "The American Entrepreneur" premiering fall 2021.
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Tom Corson-Knowles is a serial entrepreneur, blogger and international bestselling author. He started his first business at age 13, manufacturing SAD lamps out of his father’s garage. By the time he graduated from Indiana University Kelley School of Business at age 22, he was earning a full-time income from his first successful business which he started in his dorm room.
Tom then decided to share the keys to success that he had learned along his journey to becoming a financially independent entrepreneur through his books, videos, and seminars. Today, he teaches new and established authors how to achieve incredible success by mastering the fundamentals of writing, publishing, and marketing great books.
Tom’s bestselling books include Secrets of the Six-Figure Author, The Kindle Publishing Bible, Rules of the Rich, and The Kindle Writing Bible, among others.
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Tony Guarnaccia’s mission is to make podcasting profitable for hosts and guests.
Tony has grown over 10,000 small businesses and a dozen Fortune 500 companies, including ADP, Ford, and AutoNation and became the Google Partner of the Year.
Later, Tony returned to his entrepreneurship roots to bring the strategy, tactics, and resources normally reserved for large enterprises to small businesses.
Today, he is focused on bringing that same vision to podcast hosts and guests – to make podcasting profitable.
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Trae Bohlen is a personal brand photographer, digital creator, social media manager who specializes in creating heart-lead content for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Her friend Bob Burg says: People work with people they know, like and trust - and Trae loves helping people understand their personal brand and who God created them to be.
Trae believes in the power of storytelling to create genuine connections and drive impact.
She and her team are dedicated to understanding your brand's soul and translating that into a brand story that will resonate.
They're passionate about sharing your heart and will go above and beyond to ensure your brand shines bright.
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Victoria Andersen was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, she experienced personal, social, and environmental transformational events, such as the death of her mother, riots, and natural disasters, including a major California earthquake.
While running a successful antique business with her husband, she was guided to move to a town she’d never even heard of before, just outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Leaving everything behind, she moved to the Southwest and begins a new life.
She currently lives in central New Mexico with her husband, cats, and wildlife that roam through her yard, near the Rio Grande River.
When she isn’t writing, she’s working in her ceramic studio, gardening, or hiking ancient Native American petroglyphs near her home.
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W. Terry Whalin understands both sides of the editorial desk–as an editor and a writer. He worked as a magazine editor and his magazine work has appeared in more than 50 publications.
A former literary agent, Terry is an Acquisitions Editor at Morgan James Publishing. He has written more than 60 books through traditional publishers in a wide range of topics from children’s books to biographies to co-authored books.
Two of Terry’s book proposals garnered six-figure advances.
Several of Terry’s books have sold over 100,000 copies.
Get Terry’s newest book, 10 Publishing Myths for only $10, free shipping and bonuses worth over $200.
To help writers catch the attention of editors and agents, Terry wrote his bestselling Book Proposals That $ell, 21 Secrets To Speed Your Success. The revised and updated edition will release October 5th.
Also, Terry has an innovative online training course to help authors effectively connect with literary agents and editors called Write A Book Proposal.
Terry is a popular speaker and teacher at numerous writers’ conferences and an active member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
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Wendy Strain has been a newspaper journalist, editor, university instructor, tutor, grant writer, and ghostwriter.
She now brings that expertise together to help clients tell their stories across multiple formats and platforms – from books to blogs, course content to content marketing.
Her special talent is taking big ideas and translating them into everyday language and understandable metaphors.
Her passions are making new friends, seeing new places, and exploring ideas while fighting for the empowerment of people and the preservation of our environment.
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Weston Lyon is Founder of Plug & Play Publishing which helps coaches, consultants, speakers, and education-based service providers write and publish books to position themselves as authorities in their field and grow their business.
He is the author of 19 books (including his newest book, Stop Chasing Prospects), has given over 480 presentations, and is the Founder of Plug & Play Publishing.
Weston started his entrepreneurial journey in 2000 after dropping out of college (going into his senior year!) to start my first business. Risky? You bet. But, if you know Weston, he wouldn't change any of it because it led him to where he is now!
Since 2000, Weston has seen his share of successes and failures. He's been involved in multiple businesses; ranging from skin care, to janitorial services, to gift incentive sales, to fitness coaching, to marketing and publishing.
In 2005, Weston wrote his first book, Use It To Lose It (a fitness workbook). Between 2008-2009 Weston went on a writing rampage and wrote 9 books in 11 months! That little act of lunacy led him to start Plug & Play Publishing.
When Weston is not working, he’s enjoying life with his son, family, and friends, training in an array of martial arts, or out on the mountain bike trails.
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