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Carmella Johnson is a Life and Business Coach, Trainer, Transformational Speaker and member of the Les Brown Unlimited Team. The ingenious Carmella has been a leading-edge Mental Health and Marriage and Family Therapist, College Instructor of Psychology and Education, entrepreneur and business consultant for 26 years. This astute business woman owns three businesses: Carmella Johnson Consulting, “Excelling Beyond the Game” EBG a scholar-athlete development program that specializes in equipping youth with the life-skills and motivation needed to excel in the twenty-first century and Grande Vino Paint and Wine Tasting Company. This dynamic transformation coach has a unique way of simplifying difficult situations and concepts for her clients. In both the coaching and business setting she examines the predicaments of her clients from different perspectives, discover the core hindrances to their success, assists them in mapping out a strategic plan as well as works with them through the execution of the plan. Fundamentally, she takes her clients through a cognitive transformation which prompts life changing results. Whether speaking to 100’s or a single Individual she galvanizes each one to tap into their inner champion. Her passion, heartfelt concern and expertise allows her to connect with each individual on a personal level, helping them identify the caustic beliefs and negative thought patterns which are producing behaviors that yield undesirable results.
$251 - $1,500
Arlene Cogen is an experienced Philanthropic Leadership Consultant who works closely with professional advisors, nonprofits and their clients to integrate philanthropy into personal, financial and estate plans to make a charitable gift one never imagined. Arlene’s passion is fostering deep relationships, engaging the next generation, and making a lasting difference through leadership and philanthropy. Arlene, a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), spent over 20 years in the trust and investment world on the leadership teams of US Trust of NY, Citibank and First Union (now Wells Fargo). Desiring change and the opportunity to give back, Arlene later acquired nonprofit development expertise and excellence helping guide the ninth largest community foundation in the country for almost a decade. Arlene is an accomplished speaker, trainer, coach, and the author of GIVE TO LIVE: Make a Charitable Gift You Never Imagined. She teaches from experience and shares what she learned during her extensive career. Arlene’s clients range from nonprofits to professional advisors including: Samuels Yoelin Kanter, Northwest Investment Counselors, Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette, Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, National Christian Foundation, and US Bank Charitable Services. Arlene received her coaching and training certifications from John Maxwell and 21/64 Multi-generational Philanthropy. From Wall Street to Main Street when you work with Arlene, you get an expert, professional perspective on giving.
$5,001 - $10,000
Norwegian-born Unni Turrettini is a speaker and Human Connection Expert who helps people connect with their source of power so they can feel confident and excited about stepping into transitions. She is also the author of Betraying the Nobel: The Secrets and Corruption behind the Nobel Peace Prize and the award-winning, The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer, which examines Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik from both a psychological and sociological perspective and focuses on what we can learn from that tragedy to prevent rampage killings spurred by loneliness. Unni has appeared on ABC's The List, NTD News, TRT World, GB News, Ticker News, Fox26, CSPAN, The Tedx Stage, The James Altucher Show, BBC, and in The World Today, Authority Magazine, Voice of America, NY Post, The Spectator, LittleThings, WWD, KK, and Ledernytt. Unni grew up as a global citizen, spending half her life abroad, including the United States, France, and Switzerland before returning to Oslo in 2016. With law degrees from Norway, France, and the United States, she is a member of the New York Bar, and worked in law and finance for nearly a decade before becoming a full-time author, speaker, and facilitator.
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Mr. Barney is currently the Director of the Safety and Mission Assurance at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He is responsible for the safety of over 10,000 people, 100% success for space and earth science missions totaling over $5B, engineering workforce technical development and assuring a diverse and inclusive culture. Throughout his 35 career at NASA, Mr. Barney has led mission and instrument teams from around the world in the development of new technologies and state-of-the-art space flight hardware and software. Specifically, he developed several new science instruments flown aboard NASA Space and Earth science missions such as the Cosmic Background Explorer, Broad Band X-Ray Telescope, Cassini-Huygens, Spitzer Telescope, Astro-E, Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, Hubble Space Telescope, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Aquarius mission. Mr. Barney received a bachelor's degree in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1986 while participating in the Cooperative Education program with NASA. He also earned a masters degree in Engineering Management from George Washington University in 1992. Rich holds two US Patents and has been honored with several awards including two NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals.
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Dave Quinn, CEcD is a passion-filled father and husband, inspiring others to take ownership of their lives and make a positive impact in the world by sharing their God-given talents and abilities. He travels the country encouraging audiences to passionately pursue their purpose to live their best life. Prior to taking the leap into entrepreneurship, Dave was the Vice President of Frisco Economic Development Corp. in Frisco, TX where he helped lead a team of highly skilled economic developers in one of the nation's fastest-growing cities. Delivering 58 projects totaling 21 million square feet of potential development, 43,000 potential jobs and capital investment over of $3 Billion since 2015. Previously Dave held the position of Executive Director of Bastrop Economic Development Corp. working closely with Opportunity Austin, the regional economic development initiative of the Austin Chamber, helping drive financial investment and revitalization in historic Bastrop, Texas. Including the out-of-state expansion of JAMCo, a Georgia-based company, who furnishes and installs exterior envelopes for high-rise buildings. Dave's career in economic development began as Executive Director of Levelland EDC in March of 2004. During his tenure as Levelland EDC’s Executive Director, Dave facilitated a number of economic development projects including the $64 mil Levelland/Hockley County Ethanol plant and an $8.6 mil Levelland Industrial Rail Park. Dave received the International Economic Development Council’s Certified Economic Developer designation in 2010. A Master Graduate of Rapport Leadership International, a leadership development program, Dave has completed over 100 hours of intense leadership training. Dave served two terms as the Chairman of the High Ground of Texas, a regional economic development marketing coalition covering 60+ counties in West Texas and is one of the founding board members of the High Ground’s Education Foundation.
$1,501 - $5,000
I am an international keynote speaker, researcher, author, professor and executive who is recognized as an expert in human capital, leadership, organizational transformation, and the Future of Work. A trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions and government entities, I specialize in the scholarship and practice of interpersonal behaviors including Employee Experience (EX), managing organizational uncertainty and driving digital transformation & innovation. My energetic and informed keynotes provide deep insights and inspire audiences to action.
$5,001 - $10,000
Prem is a mountaineer with over 15 expeditions across the globe in a short span of 8 years. In 2013 alone, Prem climbed the highest mountains on four continents, including Mount Everest (Asia), Mount Elbrus (Europe), Aconcagua (South-America) and Puncak Jaya (Oceania). More recently Prem was featured as one of the contestants on a NDTV Prime reality show "XC Adventure", which he won. Prem has spoken at various events for various organisations which include : EZSywpe India, Constitution Club of India, Aryabhatta College, Entrepreneurship Cell of Guru Dronacharya College, Indian Navy, Delhi Police Training College, TEDx MNNIT, Wheelchair Federation, What After College, etc. "We all have our mountains to climb in life, dreams that we want to achieve deep down, the one place where we want to be in life. But does dreaming alone take us there? Or do we need more than just dreams to be successful? What are the other factors that actually determine whether or not you will achieve your goals? What are the ingredients for success? Drawing parallels from his experience of having climbed the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, plus many more peaks across the globe, mountaineer Prem Kumar Singh reflects on the insights that allowed him to not only survive, but thrive in the extreme corners and conditions around the world. Prem's uniqueness is the ability to translate these lessons of the Far and Wild into an everyday language and show how the same core principles can be utilized on the path of turning your dreams into deeds, regardless of your line of business or domain. Prem distills his long and hard-fought battles down to simple Mantras of success that cut through the often fluffy and vague inspirational jargon and provide listeners with applicable steps to implement in their daily life. Through grit and discipline, Prem Kumar Singh has converted himself from a dreaming college-kid into one of the hardiest alpinists in India. Prem has not only ascended peaks in the Himalayas in India and Nepal, but in the far corners of the world, from the war torn lands of Russian Far South to the untouched swamps and rainforests of New Guinea, as far from the modern civilisation as anywhere on the planet.
$251 - $1,500
Erin Schmidt is a Financial Advisor and Investment Adviser on a mission to help others, especially women, to attain financial freedom. She is in the process of getting her book "The American Dream on Life Support" published and hopes to spread hope and a guiding light on how we can fix our Economy and help people to repair their personal finances to get back on the road to living the American Dream. After my own personal struggles with financial setbacks following a difficult divorce, I can easily connect with the audience on how to get past setbacks in your personal finances and find hope for a brighter future. I am also the mother of a 11 year old daughter with Autism, so I understand that people are facing difficult challenges in getting ahead and helps to inspire those who might be feeling defeated in life to get back up and keep fighting! My upcoming book "The American Dream on LIfe Support" examines how our Economy has stacked the cards against the Middle and Poorer Classes to the point that most Americans are barely getting by every month. My book helps to guide people to a better financial future and looks at the deeper issues of how we got to where we are in our Economy. I hope to inspire, enlighten and help others to Thrive, no matter what our Economy our the Stock Market is doing!
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Jessica Walker—a digital media strategist, expert, and consultant—helps experts build, grow, and project confidence in their digital presence to attract high-value clients, maximize growth opportunities, and increase sales. Jessica offers expert digital media strategy and consulting services to high-caliber clientele—executives, entrepreneurs, international speakers—or, anyone determined to succeed and take their business to the next level. Jessica’s clientele enjoys highly personalized, concierge-like consulting services, including: ▪ One-on-one social media training; ▪ Individualized digital media training; ▪ Custom digital media technology training; ▪ And more. Build, grow, and project confidence in your digital media presence with JawSpeaks’ Digital Media Services. You know your customers. You know your business. You know your industry. You know your competition. But you don’t know digital media—yet. JawSpeaks. Where smart, driven, ambitious people up their digital media game. Master digital media. Build a brand. Become the go-to expert in your niche! Share your expertise with more people!
$1,501 - $5,000
Joanne M. Hill, Ph.D., Chief Adviser for Research and Strategy, Cboe Vest Financial LLC Joanne Hill has over 25 years of experience in research and strategy with an emphasis on indexes, options and quantitative investments. Prior to joining CBOE Vest, Dr. Hill worked with ProShares for 8 years, as Head of Institutional Investment Strategy, focusing on ETF research and education, and spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs, where she was a Managing Director leading global equity index and derivatives research and advising institutional investors on strategies using index and risk management tools. A recognized leader in the financial industry, Dr. Hill is a recipient of the William F. Sharpe Indexing Lifetime Achievement Award and has published extensively on quantitative investment topics, index products, and derivatives. Dr. Hill is a co-author (along with Dave Nadig and Matt Hougan) of A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Tra ded Funds (ETFs) published by the CFA Institute Research Foundation. She heads the research committee for the "Q" Group and the CFA Institute Research Foundation where she is also a board member. She also serves on the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Alternative Investments, and Journal of Index Investing. Money Management Executive named Dr. Hill one of the ten inaugural recipients of the Top Women in Asset Management Awards. She was a Founding Member and Co-President of Women in ETFs and currently serves on their board. She is a member of the Investment Committee of the Montgomery County Public School Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution pension plans. Prior to her career on Wall Street, Dr. Hill was on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and she has a Ph.D. in Finance from Syracuse University.
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Karen, Daniela and Stephanie Carvajalino are 3 passionate dreamers, social entrepreneurs, authors and education activists. The Carvajalino Sisters are the founders of The Biz Nation, an ed-tech company that empowers youth with technology skills, entrepreneurship and financial education applying a revolutionary methodology that significantly improves student learning. By donating 15% of their profit, the social enterprise takes high quality education to the most vulnerable communities in Colombia. The Biz Nation was named by the World Economic Forum and The World Bank as 1 of the 50 companies reshaping the future of Latin America. The young leaders started their first chocolate company when they were only 6,7 and 8 years old. Since then, they became speakers and embarked on a mission of dramatically reshaping education and jumpstarting the economic growth of their region. Karen, Daniela and Stephanie have dedicated the past decade to inspiring and impacting more than 500,000 people around the globe. They are also the authors of Parents and Coaches:Unleash Your Children's Inner Entrepreneur. The sisters have been nominated to different international awards including the White House Champions of Change and were also declared Historical and Cultural Heritage of their home country, Colombia.
$5,001 - $10,000
Parenting and teaching people about parenting is my passion! I graduated from East Carolina University with a Bachelor's Degree in Family and Community Services with a concentration in Child Development and Family Relations. I have completed my Master's in Clinical Social Work and working towards my licensure in the state of NC with a focus on Parent-Child Interaction. I have taught parenting classes in multiple different settings and I am currently working on my first parenting book, which will be available for purchase by late spring titled "Taming the Wild Child." I look forward to accepting more speaking engagements starting mid March 2018.
$251 - $1,500