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Content Creator for Communities | IoT | Sustainability | Podcaster | Infrastructure | Author | Sustainable In A Circular World | Speaker Radio host, author, editorial director, and president of Specialty Publishing Media, Peggy provides a panorama of the disruption and digital rejuvenation that is required to achieve sustainability and circularity. Her role is to help guide transformative shifts in designing and building the right solutions from conception, and that means leveraging IoT and digital transformation for the innovation of products and ecosystems. She offers content building, storytelling, and support, to help thousands of customers aggregate, process, and make key decisions about data so they can navigate the IoT and digital transformation journey. Therefore, her passion is to do whatever she can to adhere to her motto, “with great technology, comes great responsibility.” Peggy has been fortunate to have clocked in more than 25 years of experience to be considered a futurist/specialist in IoT, AI, construction, sustainability, infrastructure, and digital transformation. Coupled with a highly qualified and supportive team, she has a long history of covering manufacturing and construction, infrastructure, and an even stronger passion to empower a younger workforce and women to join STEM, IoT, and digital innovation. Completing her latest book, “Sustainable in a Circular World,” affords her the greatest opportunity to help move the world from grey to green by shining light on future generations and inspiring innovation. She has had the honor of collaborating on eight books and authoring her first book “Mending Manufacturing” in 2014. As an award-winning journalist, one of the most laudable is the 2019 ASCE Excellence in Journalism Award. Much of her success is a result of The Peggy Smedley Show surpassing more than 750 episodes, and it continues to be ranked the No. 1 IoT and digital transformation broadcast, airing every Tuesday at 12 pm central. She serves on the Boards of Advisors as a Member for both InSkill, CPAC, and New Urbana, and has previously served on IFTNEXT (Institute of Food Technology) Think Tank and IoT Council in Chicago.
$5,001 - $10,000
Ivy Meadors, founder and CEO of High Tech High Touch Solutions, Inc. (http://www.hthts.com), shares her knowledge through speaking, consulting, coaching and mentoring, contributing to people’s growth personally and professionally in business and in life. Her dynamic and charismatic imprint has been felt among Fortune 50 to Fortune 1000 corporations, U. S. Government agencies, and non-profit agencies worldwide. Ivy has developed a platform of excellence upon four pillars; psychology of leadership, customer service as the lifeblood of businesses, multi-faceted communication techniques, and progressive deployment of specialized technologies.
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Imagine a time in life where you wake up and realize that now is the time to change your life and to help change the world. To shed all of your fears, doubts, and thoughts that held you back. To become a person of change. To tell your story, uplift others to tell their truth, and to be 100 % honest.. The time is now. My name is LeRon L. Barton and I am a writer and speaker committed to fighting for social justice and helping you become your most authentic version of yourself. I have written over a hundred essay's and articles about racism, mass incarceration, politics, gender, business, and dating. My pieces have appeared in the following publications: • Black Enterprise – A Black Man’s View: 5 Ways To Be A Better Male Ally In The Workplace • Salon – My Reality: 10 Truths About Being Black In America • Media Diversity – Why I Don’t Code Switch • The Good Men Project – Men and The Need To Be Vulnerable • Raconteur - Is Silicon Valley Using Culture Fit To Disguise Discrimination • Elephant Journal - 7 Life Lessons From Great People • Ravishly – Using Uber While Black In 2018, I gave my first TEDx speech in Florence, Alabama for TEDxWilsonPark! My talk, “How I Overcame The Fear of My Stutter” described growing up with a stutter, attending school, going to job interviews, and dating with the stammer, and how I finally defeated my fear of stuttering. I have received dozens of messages from people telling me that the TEDx has inspired them to not live in fear and to pursue their dreams. To this date, “How I Overcame The Fear of My Stutter’ has been viewed over 140,000 times! Since then I have given talks at Speakers Who Dare, General Assembly, RSM, Remind, and Defy Ventures. I give talks about the following subjects: • Racial/Social Justice • Overcoming Adversity • Stuttering and Speech Disorders • Regaining Confidence • Redefining Masculinity • Diversity in Technology As someone who is dedicated to telling accurate stories and giving engaging speeches that motivate, I am eager to connect with you! To contact me, email me at lbarton78@gmail.com www.leronbarton.com
$1,501 - $5,000
Renzo is a Minister, Educator, Speaker, and Emcee with more than 20 years of experience working in the non-profit sector. His ability to connect with a diverse group of people has allowed him to devote his life to serving people all over the world. Born in Callao, Perú (South America) and raised on the East Coast, Renzo has a style of his own, unapologetically engaging his audience with humor, professionalism, and energy. Born in Callao, Perú, (S.A.) Renzo and his family moved to the United States when he was 9. They settled down in East Boston, Mass. where Renzo, his Sister, and his Mother lived for 10 years before moving to Hollywood, Florida to help his mother start a family business. It was while living in South Florida that Renzo became a Christian at the age of 24. Ever since that day, Renzo has dedicated his life to helping people from all walks of life. He enjoys teaching people about God, God's love and God's plans for our future. This desire to serve led him to embark on missionary journeys in Ecuador, Colombia, and his native Peru. While in Peru he met his wife Miluska, and it was also during this time that he honed his skills as a motivational and inspirational speaker, youth minister, and mentor. He served as the lead Pastor for the Lima Church before moving back to the U.S. (2003-2005) Renzo and his family moved back to the U.S. in 2005. Upon his arrival back in South Florida, he began to implement all the life experiences and lessons that he had learned from his years as a missionary and church leader in South America, to build a thriving college ministry. This eventually led to him and his family moving to Miami to start up the FlU Campus Ministry, where he spent several years raising up young leaders, directing conferences and retreats. By 2014 Renzo's children had gotten older and it was the right time to start working with families. On January first of 2015, Renzo and his family moved to Denver, Colorado with the vision of serving the Latino community. Since then he has devoted his time to coaching soccer, preaching, teaching, mentoring, and speaking to people about discovering their God-given gifts, developing them, and utilizing them to succeed in whatever they set their mind on. He currently serves as a Program Coordinator and Program Trainer for a non-profit organization that is dedicated to Educating and Mentoring teens to develop healthy relationships and making positive life choices. Renzo and his family reside in Aurora, Colorado.
$251 - $1,500
Keita H. Williams is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Success Bully, an elite accountability practice for high achieving, Type As who are stuck. We offer strategic support (a professional butt-kicking) to create momentum in both their personal and professional lives. Success Bully develops bespoke 90-Day Sprints to develop clarity and habits to achieve big hairy audacious goals. At the end of 2016, Keita dusted off her vision board and woefully looked at the goals that she had set for herself late in 2015. It was an eye-opening experience. Most areas remained unchanged and, in some cases, there was backward momentum. She found that this was also a recurring theme among her circle of influence. What could have been done differently? The answers were crystal clear -- an actionable plan and some good old-fashioned accountability. From there, Success Bully was born. This rapidly growing practice includes three focus areas 1:1 services, workshops/seminars and content including the Success Bully Podcast and the Daily Butt Kicking video series on YouTube that features tips and intimate interviews with founders and business leaders. Keita is a recovering Tech PR hound who has conceptualized and executed communications strategies across consumer tech brands of various sizes and stages. From mobile phones, tablets, laptops, apps and digital entertainment, she has launched and told stories for all manner of gadgetry. Keita is a proud Wildcat who holds a B.S. from Northwestern University in Communication Studies. For more information, check her out on successbully.com, @successbully on Instagram & Twitter and download her weekly Success Bully podcast on Apple Podcasts.
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Rajendra Geda is a prominent software developer with over fifteen years of experience working on a diverse selection of high-level projects in the information technology sector. His impressive professional skill stack includes: Data analytics Creating controls to ensure data precision Project management methods IT support and training Technical research
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www.VegasMagicLive.com - 210-219-5596 - sapolice@aol.com Education: Undergraduate and Advanced Degrees. Military: Air Force veteran Certified Hypnotist Books: "Beside the Launch Pad" Eyewitness to the Space Shuttle Challenger 51L Disaster and " How to Motivate Your Employees Without Being a Mentalist: Boosting Staff Performance and Profit in Sales" on Amazon. 23 years law enforcement experience (ask about his presentations on changing police times) Largest audience to date: 2400 (Austin, Texas - 2012) Standouts: 24 marathons and 6 Ultra marathons (motivational and applied to life).
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International speaker, winning the award for having most personal impact on CEOs, focusing on motivation, neuro-agility the future of leadership, optimizing relationships, communication and soft skills Best-selling author of 4 books: Full Potential Leadership — a Provocative Call to Make a Dramatic Difference and Full Potential Coach - Transforming People’s Potential into Results, Transform Your Life - 10 Steps to Real Results and Your Pocket LifeCoach. She founded Full Potential Group in 1998, one of Europe’s longest-established and most highly-regarded leadership and people development specialists, which works with companies such as AkzoNobel, Diabetes, Fitch Ratings, Harrods, Panasonic, Starbucks and Tesco. Carole is a highly-acclaimed coach, inspirational speaker and best-selling author in the field of people and leadership development. She has made numerous TV and radio appearances and is a regular contributor to business, national and consumer publications.
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Ahmed Ismaiel explored his home of the Bay Area extensively and has taken in the attractions. However, he went to the Windy City recently. In Chicago, Ahmed went up to the Skydeck to see the views. From the Skydeck, Ahmed could see across four different states. He went to Grant Park and saw the Buckingham Fountain at night. Around 7 in the evening people gather to see the fountain display and accompanying lighting at night. The fountain is one of the largest in the world.
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Everyone needs a sabbatical, a break from the day to day grind and stress, unfortunately, not everyone is in a position to take an extended period of absence. Let me show you how you can incorporate the benefits of a sabbatical into your everyday life, giving you that much-needed breath of fresh air.
$1,501 - $5,000
Prof. Dr. Christoph Roser is an expert for lean production and a professor for production management at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe, Germany. He studied automation engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Ulm, Germany and did his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts, researching flexible design methodologies. Afterwards he worked for five years at the Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories in Nagoya, Japan, studying the Toyota Production System and developing bottleneck detection and buffer allocation methods. Following Toyota he joined McKinsey & Company in Munich, Germany, specializing in lean manufacturing and driving numerous projects in all segments of industry. Before becoming a professor he worked for the Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany, first as a lean expert for research and training, then using his expertise as a production logistics manager in the Bosch Thermotechnik Division. In 2013, he was appointed professor for production management at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe to continue his research and teaching on lean manufacturing. Throughout his career Dr. Roser worked on lean projects in almost two hundred different plants, including automotive, machine construction, solar cells, chip manufacturing, gas turbine industry, paper making, logistics, power tools, heating, packaging, food processing, white goods, security technology, finance, and many more. He is an award-winning author of over fifty academic publications. Besides research, teaching, and consulting on lean manufacturing he is very interested into different approaches to manufacturing organization, both historical and current. He blogs about his experiences and research on AllAboutLean.com and just published his first book “Faster, Better, Cheaper” on the history of manufacturing.
$251 - $1,500
Gasper is 49 year aged CEO and founder of multiple companies. He is fitness buff who has made TRAINER brands, a home fitness products for celebrity trainers, movie stars, health professionals and fitness enthusiasts.
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