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Jeff McManus has a degree in Landscape and Ornamental Horticulture from Auburn University He is an International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist and has been Director of Landscape Services with the University of Mississippi since 2000. He and his team won the National Professional Grounds Maintenance Society Best Maintained Campus twice, and Ole Miss was named most beautiful campus by Newsweek in 2011 and the Princeton Review in 2013. His new book, Growing Weeders into Leaders -Leadership Lessons from the Ground Level, focuses on cultivating excellence among staff. He is also the author of Pruning Like a Pro.
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Bill McGeeney is a curious, analytical leader operating in various capacities and organizations throughout the community. He utilizes precise and well-tailored communication skills and techniques for both problem solving and consensus building. Overall, he is a personable leader possessing significant flexibility. He has a diverse array of passions, focusing on brewery start-ups.
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Founder of Hallway Stories. Advocates for feeling good. Believes that when we feel good we experience more in life and when we experience more in life we share more with others and when we share more with others from a place of feeling good then we inspire, empower and become the light!
Over a decade of experience working in Brand Creation & Brand Expansion. A natural team leader who learns every day creates solutions that have Positive Global Impact & believes strongly in giving more. She understands expectations across multiple levels of sales including television, radio, print, digital, social media and retail. Carey has a proven record of increasing revenues year over year, brand development & training. She encourages growth through multiple aspects of companies.
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Susan Lintonsmith is an accomplished business leader with nearly 30 years of success in generating sales and profit growth in global and national assignments in public and private industries. Susan is currently President and CEO for Quiznos, a Denver-based global restaurant company with nearly 900 locations in 33 countries. Susan joined Quiznos in July 2012 as the Global Chief Marketing Officer and was promoted to CEO in July 2016.
Previously, Susan was the Chief Marketing Officer at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers for over four years where she led many initiatives including strategic planning, menu development and the launch of the highly successful loyalty and 3rd party gift card programs. Prior to that, she served as the Vice President and general manager at WhiteWave Foods where she led the Horizon Organic business and the launch of Horizon Organic milk plus DHA, the first milk with Omega 3. She served as Vice President of Global Marketing at Western Union for four years, and previously was director of marketing for the Coca-Cola Company and Pizza Hut Inc.
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His go-from-poverty-to-prosperity story is one for the movies. Born into a family living in a shack in a small town in Kansas and knowing only poverty, food stamps, and hand-me-down clothes, Michael J. Maher conquered incredible challenges and a near-death experience to be known by many different titles: Millionaire Real Estate Agent, Star Power Star, Referral Guru, Hall of Famer, #1, International Bestselling Author, Moving America Forward Entrepreneurial Award
Michael is known as North Americas Most Referred Real Estate Professional selling over 1700 homes from referrals over the last 17 years and receiving over 500 referrals per year for 8 straight years making millions selling real estate.
His book, (7L) The Seven Levels of Communication: Go from Relationships to Referrals has been Amazon.com's #1 bestseller in the Real Estate Sales category for an incredible 6 straight years. Michael also co-authored the instant bestseller, The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents.
Michael appears with the legendary William Shatner on the TV Show Moving America Forward and on the show, Michael is presented the prestigious Moving America Forward Entrepreneurial Award for innovative products and services. Michael J. Maher is endorsed by such powerhouses as Dave Ramsey, Zig Ziglar, Gary Keller, Dave Liniger, Todd Duncan, Bob Burg, Dr. Ivan Misner, and many more.
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Tevis Rose Trower is convinced working well and living well are symbiotic. She's adamant that once we accomplish having it all, our mandate to create a truly great life begins in earnest.
Since starting corporate productivity and wellness consultancy Balance Integration in 2002, Tevis has collaborated with both best- and worst-practice organizations to apply tools and create systems that help executives remember not only what they wanted to be when they grew up, but to recharge their lives by choosing HOW they want to be while doing it. Prizing passion as a prerequisite for productivity, and personal sustainability as a driver of success, Tevis' approach is an excavation of what values bring each professional fully alive, integrating consciousness tools, creativity theory, neuroscience, mindfulness, self-inquiry, personal-mastery, alignment and as much rule-breaking as possible.
Serving clients in over 70 locations across the US and UK, her work has garnered the attention of countless media outlets including Forbes, BusinessWeek, Fortune, CIO, WWD, Glamour, CNBC, The New York Post, MSNBC, FoxBusiness and Yoga Journal, to name a few. She has headlined executive events with thought-leading organizations including Harvard Business Review Events, Kripalu Center, Young Presidents Organization, Bloomberg LP, Kripalu Center, Google, and Omega Institute among others. Tevis isn't just talking about these concepts, she shares them with professionals of every type
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Jeannie lived around the world while growing up and she landed in Denver 8 years ago. Her first real job was as a flight attendant at Delta Air Lines; She moved into marketing, project management and then really found her niche in leadership development. Since Delta shes worked with medium size to fortune 5 companies and holds multiple certifications in several world-class training programs.
While attending a leadership program at the Wharton School of business - Jeannie had a light bulb moment. She was participating in an innovation tournament created by 2 professors there: Chris Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich.Innovation Tournaments are a multi-phase process that helps teams generate and evaluate great ideas. These ideas can become the next game changer product- or more simple improvements of existing services. She realized
how beneficial this process could be for companies trying to improve, change their game, grow their market, make a difference.
Jeannie now brings this process to teams and business of all sizes to help them innovate and grow their business
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Sarah Jones is the founder of Introverted Alpha, the premier dating coaching company for introverted men.
With over 250K unique site visitors and $595K in revenue within its first three years, Introverted Alpha has become the strong alternative to pickup artist advice, an oasis for men who want genuine connections with women.
Sarah has loved introverted men all her life, and she naturally brings out their best. She has been featured in Business Insider, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Ramit Sethi's GrowthLab, Entrepreneur on Fire, So Money, and many more.
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With 19 years of Outdoor Advertising experience, Betsy has planned, managed and executed many fully integrated Out of Home (OOH) advertising campaigns throughout North America and worldwide.
Today she leads a team of experienced, dedicated strategists who help clients maximize the potential of Outdoor advertising (OOH), by complimenting a robust integrated media plan. EMC Outdoor works seamlessly with an agency or within a media department to deliver pitch-perfect programs and outstanding results each and every time. Complete client satisfaction is their ultimate goal.
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Liza Adams is a transformative senior marketing executive with a successful track record of taking companies to the next level of growth by building and leading teams through business transformations. She inspires change with a clear vision and strategy and by driving modern marketing approaches to strengthen customer preference and engagement. She’s an energetic leader that fosters teamwork, collaboration, and innovation that challenges the status quo. Liza’s unique go-to-market insights from having in-depth experience as a software/hardware vendor, service provider, integrator partner, and customer have been instrumental in business success. She is passionate about measuring and achieving results, developing talent, and making an impact towards a greater good.
Liza has over 25 years of experience in B2B technology and has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She is currently the Vice President of Solutions & Segment Marketing at Brocade Communications, a $2.5B data center, wireless, software, and storage networking company based in San Jose, CA. Liza and her team of subject matter experts drive content development and campaign execution globally across the customer infinity loop along with human-centric, be-there-be-useful, as well as marketing automation and digital approaches.
Prior to Brocade, she held marketing leadership roles at Juniper Networks, Virtela (now part of NTT Com), Level 3 Communications, TeleChoice, WorldCom, and WilTel. Liza has been instrumental in transforming marketing into a growth engine for businesses leading go-to-market strategy, demand generation, product and solution marketing, brand and communications, and sales and field enablement. Liza and her teams are known and have been recognized for launching some of the world’s first networking and cloud services, repositioning companies and products to lead in high-growth areas, developing and executing innovative go-to-market approaches to strategically position companies with C-level and P&L customer contacts, and contributing significant revenue influence from marketing,
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Liza Adams is a transformative senior marketing executive with a successful track record of taking companies to the next level of growth by building and leading teams through business transformations. She inspires change with a clear vision and strategy and by driving modern marketing approaches to strengthen customer preference and engagement. She’s an energetic leader that fosters teamwork, collaboration, and innovation that challenges the status quo. Liza’s unique go-to-market insights from having in-depth experience as a software/hardware vendor, service provider, integrator partner, and customer have been instrumental in business success. She is passionate about measuring and achieving results, developing talent, and making an impact towards a greater good.
Liza has over 25 years of experience in B2B technology and has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She is currently the Vice President of Solutions & Segment Marketing at Brocade Communications, a $2.5B data center, wireless, software, and storage networking company based in San Jose, CA. Liza and her team of subject matter experts drive content development and campaign execution globally across the customer infinity loop along with human-centric, be-there-be-useful, as well as marketing automation and digital approaches.
Prior to Brocade, she held marketing leadership roles at Juniper Networks, Virtela (now part of NTT Com), Level 3 Communications, TeleChoice, WorldCom, and WilTel. Liza has been instrumental in transforming marketing into a growth engine for businesses leading go-to-market strategy, demand generation, product and solution marketing, brand and communications, and sales and field enablement. Liza and her teams are known and have been recognized for launching some of the world’s first networking and cloud services, repositioning companies and products to lead in high-growth areas, developing and executing innovative go-to-market approaches to strategically position companies with C-level and P&L customer contacts, and contributing significant revenue influence from marketing,
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A native of Ohio but calling Colorado home since 1996, Katie Hedrick has been a businesswoman and serial entrepreneur from her teenage years. Katie has owned and operated a series of highly successful businesses comprising of photography studios, web-based hotel marketing platforms, personal development programs and lately, to fulfill her lifelong love of technology, is the founder and CEO of the 2017 Longmont EDP Cornerstone Award Winner for Best Start Up, Colorado Tech Shop.
Katie is also Co-Founder and COO of Dynatech Biomedical, a new enterprise developing the next generation of cutting-edge Therapeutic Ultrasound medical devices, designed and built right here in Longmont CO. And to round things out, she is also co-founder and Director of Smart Target Technologies, which manufactures a line of acoustic-based Electronic Scoring Targets.
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Jane Park-Gonzales was born and raised on the island of Maui - the most beautiful place on earth! She grew up in the outdoors, the beach, the jungle, the sun and the waterfalls. Her educational background is a mixed bag, studying fine literature, creative writing, and journalism at the University of Colorado, at Boulder and a Culinary Arts and Food & Beverage Management degree from the Art Institute of California.
Jane returned to Maui when she was 23 and fell into Event Planning by chance. She founded Belle Destination Weddings & Events in 2008, finding a need for a planning company that created truly soulful experiences for couples traveling to Hawaii for their wedding celebrations. Belle is the anti-cookie cutter planning firm, taking the mundane and cliche out of events and providing their couples and their guests with unforgettable memories that truly stand out.
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Jane Miller is a 30-year food industry executive with experience working with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. She is also the founder of Janeknows.com, a career advice website geared towards young leaders starting their careers. She is the author of Sleep your Way to the Top (and other myths about business success), a sassy business book targeted at Millennials.
Currently, Jane is the CEO of HannahMax Cookie Chips and recently, Jane was the CEO and President of ProYo, a high protein natural food and ingredient start-up. Previously, she was the CEO and President of Charter Baking Company, a private-equity backed rollup of organic and natural bakeries.
Over the course of her career, Jane was part of an executive team that brought Hostess out of bankruptcy, worked for HJHeinz as the Chief Growth Officer and then the President of the UK & Ireland Division, and she ran the Western division of Bestfoods Baking. The first fourteen years of her career were at PepsiCo, where she rose to be the President of the Central division of Frito-Lay.
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With diverse experience working in outdoor apparel & equipment, pre-school & youth toys, food & beverage, household product and chemical companies ranging from 50 employees to 50,000 employees, Tom has found success in bringing teams together and leading them to collectively achieve extraordinary business results. He has demonstrated leadership in both high growth product
innovation-driven businesses and highly competitive market share battle businesses. He has also successfully grown challenger brands in resource-thin environments and startups.
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Chuck Hodges is a co-founder and current CEO of Zebulon Solutions, an eight-year-old product development company specializing in transforming R&D projects into manufacturing-ready products. Under Chuck’s leadership, Zebulon Solutions has helped its global customers design and industrialize diverse products, ranging from clean-tech batteries to IoT electronics to wearable medical devices. He has also served in interim/fractional executive roles for a number of late-stage startups and is an occasional angel investor.
Prior to Zebulon Solutions, Chuck held various executive positions at Flextronics over a fifteen-year period. He started and built up Flextronics’ engineering services business unit, as well as managed various operations and global design teams. Chuck’s experience spans both successful startups like Palm and Therasense as well as global leaders like Ericsson and Avery Dennison. He has an MSEE from Stanford University, has lived and worked overseas, and has done business on six continents. In his free time, he is a well-published author of science fiction and fantasy short stories, including a few podcasts.
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Sarah Brown is a growth catalyst for B2B tech companies. She co-hosts Helping Sells Radio podcast, a technology podcast focused on helping customers discover, adopt and thrive using your software, and is the Director of Marketing at ServiceRocket, which helps fast-growing software companies help their customers get the most out of their software through training, implementation, and support.
At ServiceRocket, Sarah drives customer acquisition and foster customer growth throughout the lifecycle through digital channels. She oversees customer marketing, social media, public relations, communications and recruitment marketing for the company. She is on the partnership team for Workplace by Facebook, contributing to ServiceRocket's partner strategy and content and enabling companies to implement, adopt and get the most out of Workplace. Sarah launched and currently co-hosts ServiceRocket's Helping Sells Radio podcast, which made the iTunes "New and Notable” and "What’s Hot” lists in the Technology category in 2016.
In 2014, Sarah founded Flatirons Tech, a diversity- and inclusion-focused tech meetup based in Boulder, CO. Flatirons Tech works with local startups and organizations to put on events that promote inclusion in tech throughout the Front Range and beyond. Sarah currently sits on the National Center For Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Affinity Group Alliance (AGA) representing Flatirons Tech.
In 2015, Sarah created and executed the marketing strategies for three self-funded B2B SaaS startups that were each rapidly acquired that same year. In 2016, she received ServiceRocket's "Share The Knowledge" Award. In 2016, she was also named to Amity's "Customer Success A-List" and included in Search Engine Journal's list of 100 Amazing Women Marketers to Follow on Twitter. In May 2015, May 2016 and again in April 2017, Sarah received the Top 100 Customer Success Influencer award from MindTouch. In July 2017, she was named a Top 75 SaaS Influencer by Tenfold.
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At the age of thirty-three, Robin Behrstock, author of ADVENTURES OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS, started Alchemade, a copper mug business just as they became a popular trend. In less than three years, she grew the business to annual sales of $3 million.
For Robin, the best part of being an entrepreneur isn't making money or selling lots of copper mugs; its inspiring people to take control of their lives and turn their dreams of starting a business into reality. Robin is currently a partner in Radius Partnership, a consulting firm focused on working with small businesses.
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Dug is an accomplished entrepreneur, musician, producer and transformational inspirational speaker. He is a Master Practitioner and Licensed Trainer of NLP and Neo Ericksonian Hypnosis. Dug was a top speaker/trainer for Tony Robbins and co-authored Multiple Streams of Inspiration with Jack Caneld. He is VP of Training and Development at Palm Healthcare in Delray Beach, Florida.
His greatest passion is to help human beings achieve their full potential to live their dreams. His training and experience have given him keen insights and skills to support his clients to “Feed their Passion, and Starve their Fear”.
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Nitin Chhoda is an immigrant who arrived in the US penniless in 2002, in a post 9-11 world. Delivered pizza, slept in his car, and didn't have money for winter clothes, but always a hustler. Became a licensed physical therapist, entrepreneur, author and public speaker in 2007. Now owns and runs several multi-million dollar companies with 30+ employees worldwide.
He is the author of "Total Activation: The 5 Step Fitness Mantra". It is a dynamic new approach to weight loss and personal wellness. It is a system modeled in three stages of change: Identity, Compare, Integrate (ICI) which has 5 components: Emotional, Physical, Social, Spiritual and Intellectual (EPSSI).
In connection, Nitin has created a skincare and nutrition line - products that work in synergy to activate the best version of you. Since its launch in April 2014, our team has grown and our nutrition and skincare products have been purchased by thousands of customers largely by word of mouth. We have bootstrapped the entire way. We're now happily providing nutrition and skincare products to customers in 7 countries.
As a licensed physical therapist, Nitin is also a co-owner of an industry-leading electronic medical records software, In Touch EMR, which offers scheduling, clinical documentation, billing, practice management and referral generation modules for physical therapists.
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Kelly Conroy, the Director of Marketing for Kneaders Bakery and Cafe, is a seasoned marketing industry professional with experience managing the advertising campaigns of both large and small clients in a variety of industries. Prior to joining Kneaders, Conroy worked as an Associate Director at Salt Lake City advertising agency, The Summit Group, where his professional focus turned to the food industry including Subway Restaurants.
Conroy supervised the advertising strategy for 4,800 locations within 41 markets throughout the United States. As Director of Marketing for Kneaders, Conroy manages all marketing and promotional campaigns at the local and national level for the brand’s 57 locations throughout seven states. His focus on clean, quality images, accompanied by his genuine approach to branding, has contributed to the 100% growth in total sales the brand has experienced over the past three years.
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Stephen Woessner is CEO of Predictive ROI and the host of the brilliant Onward Nation podcast. He is the author of three bestselling books, The Small Business Owners Handbook to Search Engine Optimization, Increase Online
Sales Through Viral Social Networking, and Profitable Podcasting: Grow Your Business, Expand Your Platform, and Build a Nation of True Fans.
• How a podcast becomes the Trojan Horse of selling
• The importance of content in thought leadership
• How a podcast can create 30-40 pieces of content
• Why you need to check the vitals of your business
• How to create engagement with your internal team using podcasting
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Molly D. Shepard is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Leaders Edge/Leaders By Design, a company dedicated to the advancement of executive and high-potential leaders. She has more than 30 years of experience in career counseling, leadership development, executive coaching and executive search.
Peter J. Dean, Ph.D. heads Leaders By Design, the men's leadership development and executive coaching division of The Leaders Edge. With over 30 years of national and international experience in the industry, Peter bases his executive coaching and consulting on current reviews of literature and research from the ever-expanding field of leadership development and the best practices in leadership development and executive coaching.
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Chris Hallberg one of Inc. magazine’s Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts has been taking big risks and getting outside of his comfort zone his entire life.
He joined the Army National Guard Military Police at 17, was an officer at a Maximum Security prison at 20. By the ripe age of 23, he was a Sergeant in both organizations leading other officers and soldiers in dynamic and challenging environments.
After serving in uniform, he began his career in sales and marketing and quickly became the #1 producing Sales Representative. Chris then leveraged all of his leadership experience and training and then led several sales teams to success. As Sales Manager, he took a $3M Remodeling company and helped them grow to $8M in 3 years, and then as VP of Sales took a $9M Restoration company and led them to $20M in revenue in just 1 year. After two years over $25M in revenue, the company was successfully sold to a private equity group.
Chris then started his own energy efficient remodeling business in 2009 at the onset of the “great recession” and despite difficult market conditions he quickly scaled the business to $2M in sales, and sold the company after two years of profitable operations with over 20% Net Profit to the bottom line.
After selling his business Chris started to help other entrepreneurs with their businesses while coaching several entrepreneurs he noticed that the majority of business owners were basically just “Making it up every day” so he looked for a solution to help them. In early 2014 He found it, it’s called EOS® or the Entrepreneurial Operating System® and became one of 50 Certified EOS Implementers nationally. He has been personally trained by EOS creator and best-selling author of Traction-Get a grip on your business Gino Wickman. Chris uses EOS as the main “Framework” for all of his coaching engagements with entrepreneurial leadership teams across the nation.
Chris has successfully leveraged his time serving in uniform with all of his business experience to “Meld” both worlds together as “The Business Sergeant” and is currently working on his first book titled “The Business Sergeants’ Field Manual, Military Grade Business Execution, without all of the Yelling and Push-ups!” He provides a fun, fast-paced learning environment that keeps his leadership teams highly engaged by teaching simple, practical tools that are proven to help you “Break through the ceiling”, and propel your company to new heights.
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Chris Hallberg one of Inc. magazine’s Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts has been taking big risks and getting outside of his comfort zone his entire life.
He joined the Army National Guard Military Police at 17, was an officer at a Maximum Security prison at 20. By the ripe age of 23, he was a Sergeant in both organizations leading other officers and soldiers in dynamic and challenging environments.
After serving in uniform, he began his career in sales and marketing and quickly became the #1 producing Sales Representative. Chris then leveraged all of his leadership experience and training and then led several sales teams to success. As Sales Manager, he took a $3M Remodeling company and helped them grow to $8M in 3 years, and then as VP of Sales took a $9M Restoration company and led them to $20M in revenue in just 1 year. After two years over $25M in revenue, the company was successfully sold to a private equity group.
Chris then started his own energy efficient remodeling business in 2009 at the onset of the “great recession” and despite difficult market conditions he quickly scaled the business to $2M in sales, and sold the company after two years of profitable operations with over 20% Net Profit to the bottom line.
After selling his business Chris started to help other entrepreneurs with their businesses while coaching several entrepreneurs he noticed that the majority of business owners were basically just “Making it up every day” so he looked for a solution to help them. In early 2014 He found it, it’s called EOS® or the Entrepreneurial Operating System® and became one of 50 Certified EOS Implementers nationally. He has been personally trained by EOS creator and best-selling author of Traction-Get a grip on your business Gino Wickman. Chris uses EOS as the main “Framework” for all of his coaching engagements with entrepreneurial leadership teams across the nation.
Chris has successfully leveraged his time serving in uniform with all of his business experience to “Meld” both worlds together as “The Business Sergeant” and is currently working on his first book titled “The Business Sergeants’ Field Manual, Military Grade Business Execution, without all of the Yelling and Push-ups!” He provides a fun, fast-paced learning environment that keeps his leadership teams highly engaged by teaching simple, practical tools that are proven to help you “Break through the ceiling”, and propel your company to new heights.
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