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Ryan Lilly is Vice President of Business Creation for the Ocala/Marion County Chamber & Economic Partnership in Ocala, Florida. In this role Ryan serves as a catalyst for the creation, attraction and growth of startup companies both in the Power Plant Business Incubator and throughout Marion County. Prior to joining the CEP, Ryan was Manager of the Entrepreneurship Center of West Central Illinois. There, he assisted incubator and community startups by providing them with technical assistance, programming, and access to capital — all as part of a $1.2 million grant under the U.S. Economic Development Administration. In all, he’s helped over 600 entrepreneurs in 3 states start or grow their businesses! Ryan graduated from Virginia Tech and first began a career in incubation at an on-campus accelerator. Ryan holds a B.S. in Management with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and a minor in Business Leadership. He earned a certificate in Serial Innovation from the University of Illinois BIS program and has trained with the International Economic Development Council and the Rural Policy Research Institute’s Center for Entrepreneurship. In 2015 he received a Certificate in Business Incubation Management from the International Business Innovation Association after having completed training in Boston, New Orleans, and Orlando. Ryan has spoken at local, state, and national conferences on his ideas in entrepreneurship support, incubation, and economic development. Recently, he delivered a TEDxTalk entitled “5 Steps to Get Your Local Economy Back to the Future.” In 2016, Ryan was named “40 Under 40” by Ocala Magazine. His wife of six years is Pamela, a North Carolina native who shares his passion for collecting books. In December of 2016 they welcomed a new daughter named Harmony. They also have a two year-old Boston Terrier named Gracie.
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When faced with a decision to choose a path, I always tend to pick the off beaten track, whether it’s in business life, or my personal life. My social media marketing and social entrepreneurship abilities come from my worldwide experience, traveling and getting to know different businesses, learning new tools and sharing knowledge. I genuinely and deeply care about people I work with and I believe we can always learn something from one another, which I think helps me become a better leader every day. I love bold ideas, and my drive, commitment and fearlessness come from the profound quest to make the world a better place. I try to use my skills to create social impact through the power of social media. I get inspired by people and their stories - they are my reason to get out of bed in the morning. Event Experience Design | Curation | Social Media Algorithms | Marketing | Digital Storytelling | Pitching | Social & Environmental Impact | UN SDGs
$1,501 - $5,000
Are you a CEO, President or Sales Manager who has been looking for truly unique solutions to your financial, sales, production or cash flow issues? Are you an entrepreneur needing to expand your market from unknown to become a “household name”? Susan Allan has helped thousands of individuals and companies reach all these goals. From her 20 years in fashion where she evaluated the market, found the niche, designed all the products, and generated $600+ millions in sales, she will show you how thousands of clients just like you have used the absolutely unique training modules of The Sales Forum to reach your own business goals. Since 1999 Susan has developed Sales Forum coaching and she will show you how to reach your business goals using Goal-reaching© Career Climb© The 6 Part Conversation for Sales© Motivating Teams to Mastery© Generate the forward momentum that is the key to all success.
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Rev. Felicia Helen Parazaider attended the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministry, and was ordained in March 2012. She holds degrees from University of California Berkeley in both Religious Studies and Peace & Conflict Studies. She has completed training programs in Spiritual Psychology, Tree of Life Teachings, and is certified by Pace e Bene Nonviolent Service in nonviolent training. She has ministered extensively to drug addicts and alcoholics, both on the streets of Los Angeles in Skid Row, and as a Hospitals & Institutions (H&I) chairperson of panels going into USC County Hospital. Rev. Felicia also worked at Kaiser Hospital Oakland and Walnut Creek as a chaplain during her Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) training. She is a self described radical sacred activist, traveling to India and the Middle East on peace delegations, walking over 400 miles through the Nevada desert against nuclear proliferation and for peace, as well as being arrested several times for participating in nonviolent civil resistance against drone warfare and nuclear proliferation, and the zero tolerance policy separating migrant families from their children. She is the founder of The Revolution Of Love (ROL), a ministry which focuses on inner work and outer work in the world through the teachings of nonviolence. The ministry met over 200 times in the San Francisco Bay Area for service from 2012-2017. Upon moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles, she relaunched ROL and met weekly for “Saturday Night Live” services in the North Hollywood area. Currently she is on sabbatical, writing her first book while preparing to restart service in January 2020. She is the creator of The Prayer Rope and The Love Challenge, both branches of ROL that are specific ways to begin to transform oneself and this world. Along with her passion for ROL, she sits on the board of the Interfaith Solidarity Network (ISN). Her focus is speaking on nonviolence as a powerful force for change at this historic moment. In 2020, her first book will be released on her story from violence to wholeness. Rev. Felicia’s life is a dedication to love and justice. For more information about ROL, her work, and to book her, go to feliciaparazaider.com
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Darren Fisher started Darren Fisher Consulting in 2010 as CEO and Lead Strategist. He is a best-selling author of, The Confidence Quadrant and is an international motivational speaker. Prior to this, he owned an IT services businesses because he is a bit of a geek. Darren is also an Air Force veteran with accolades for outstanding service, leadership and technical ability. Darren fundamentally believes there’s excellence in everyone, so he’s made it his mission to help others achieve a greater success. Should his handwork yield explosive returns, his dream is to own the Milwaukee Brewers. A self-identified nerd (he attended science camp in 8th grade), Darren is big on getting children involved in STEM-related activities. Darren is an active volunteer in the greater Milwaukee Community. He is currently serving on the board for Gathering on the Green and Milwaukee NARI. He has served as president for the Maple-Dale Indian Hill Education Foundation’s, the president of the Nicolet basketball feeder program, and has coached numerous youth baseball, basketball, football, and softball teams for his children. Darren holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Marquette University and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science Ed from Cardinal Stritch University.
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Bermon has spent the past 20 years with a focus on product strategy, design, and web development across a handful of industries. In his current role at EY Digital, Bermon leads innovation initiatives that help organizations create holistic experiences, digital products, and services, with an eye towards delivering value to customers. Bermon is also responsible for building out and staffing the EY wavespace™ in Charlotte, a physical innovation space equipped with accelerator programs, co-creation activities, and facilitated design thinking sessions that help teams get in the mindset of approaching challenging problems differently, reinforcing the value of diverse thinking, and creating solutions through rapid prototyping. As the innovation and strategy lead at EY digital, Bermon applies his expertise in experience strategy, design thinking, agile and lean methodologies, and interface design and development. He frequently speaks at conferences and facilitates workshops around the world. In his local community, Bermon organizes and hosts numerous free community events, hosts a quarterly mini-conference called FusionConf, and leads the Charlotte IxDA chapter. Before joining EY, Bermon led various cross-discipline teams that crafted holistic product strategies all the way to end-to-end implementation of digital products and services. His claim to fame is having designed the Sass logo. In his free time, he enjoys drinking a tasty frosted mug of root beer while maniacally twisting his mustache.
$1,501 - $5,000
Dr. Melissa Bordogna is the founder of the Epic by Design and creator of the Inner Odyssey Adventure, a personal leadership program for mid-life professionals seeking to pivot. At the most fundamental level, we are all, always, 'in relationship to' something... First to ourselves, then to others and as an extension to our physical and social environments. This being the case, then, starting with our own personal growth and self-awareness makes us better people, better partners and better participants in the workforce as well as members of larger communities. For the last 21 years, no matter what topic she had been teaching or what learning she created for corporates, Melissa unwittingly (at first) interwove the same set of themes within each project—Self-Awareness, Personal Growth & Self-Mastery. Early on, Melissa became obsessed with the interplay between these themes and the quality of people’s lives. So much so that she read everything she could get her hands—philosophy, wisdom traditions, positive psychology, experiential learning—plus earned a doctorate in Human Communication Studies and then incorporated these principles anywhere and everywhere she could—in her life, with her family and even in the more obscure areas of her work. https://www.drmelissabordogna.com/ #personalgrowth #leadershipdevelopment
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Business Leader, Author, Keynote Speaker
Dr. Mansur Hasib aka #DrCybersecurity has established a global personal brand as a digital strategist, business marketing executive, author, and public speaker with more than 30 years of experience in Healthcare, Biotechnology, Education, and Energy. In his new book Bring Inner Greatness Out, he explains how sales and marketing has changed dramatically from an expensive ad driven strategy to an inexpensive but highly effective personal brand driven strategy. He discovered the power of his own personal brand when he won the global 2017 People’s Choice Award in Cybersecurity competing against 19 companies and 3 individuals. He repeated this feat in 2020. Between 2016 and 2019, his personal brand driven marketing strategy at a major public university, tripled the size of the academic program from 1,500 students to 4,800 students globally and went from $30 million annual revenue to $117 million annual revenue. Bring your questions and come to discuss your ideas in his presentation about modern marketing titled: The Power of Tea Dr. Hasib has been quoted, interviewed, and cited in countless media all over the world. His books have been sold in the USA, Canada, Mexico, India, Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, Kuwait, Middle East, Algeria, Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, New Zealand, Germany, Philippines, Singapore, France, Italy, Bangladesh, Cyprus, South Africa, Bahrain, Bahamas, Switzerland, Sweden, Hungary, Pakistan, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Spain, and various other parts of the world. Dr. Hasib enjoys table tennis, comedy, and travel and has been to all 50 states of the USA. Follow him on Twitter @mhasib or LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mansurhasib. To access more content, subscribe for free to his YouTube Channel with over 100 educational videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQaz6Ck4KmujJVABV_J37EQ To contact Dr. Hasib or buy signed copies of his books, visit: https://www.cybersecurityleadership.com.
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Described as Canada's Proactive Living Consultant, Yvonne shares how we can teach people to Just Show Up for themselves and others so they are empowered and resilient when grief and life's challenges arrive. Grief being, whatever makes your heart ache, Divorce, Diagnosis, Traumatic events, Job loss, end of life and now global pandemic. Yvonne is the Founder of Love Your Life to Death and the #IJustShowedUp movement. Using heart and humour she shares her message globally helping people of all ages learn to take care of themselves. She is an award winning author and a celebrated TEDx Speaker. Yvonne has her own #RealLifeTalks television series and #IJustShowedUp radio program. Additional information and resources can be found at www.loveyourlifetodeath.com At age 50, she took a leap of faith, left her nursing career and blazed a new trail to help create a culture of change. Yvonne shares her message—with heart and humour— using intelligence, empathy and genuine uplifting spirit, to combine a powerful mix of personal insights and lessons. to demonstrates how we can live well, and transform our world into a happier place.
$5,001 - $10,000
Jimmie C. Gardner was born on July, 1st, 1966, in Dawson, GA, to Jimmie Lee Gardner, a home builder, and Gladys Gardner, who worked for Coats & Clark and later as a school bus driver. Jimmie continued to play baseball at Tampa Bay Vocational Technical High School, and maintained a 3.0 or higher grade point average, while performing as a stand out player on the baseball team. He was drafted by the Chicago Cubs just after high school graduation and played with them in the minor leagues for 4 seasons. While playing in the minor leagues, he enrolled in college to study business management, and he worked part time at various locations around the Tampa Bay. In 1989, while still working towards his business degree, Jimmie was arrested and charged with two separate counts of robbery and sexual assault; as well as burglary and assault-during-the-commission-of-a-felony. He did not commit the crimes and always maintained his innocence, however, he was put on trial in January 1990. Jimmie was found guilty a month later in February 1990, and was sentenced to 110 years in prison. At Gardner's 1990 criminal trial, the West Virginia State Trooper and Chief Serologist for the Division of Public Safety was the expert witness, and he knowingly presented false testimony which resulted in Gardner's guilty verdict. Jimmie Gardner's case is one of over 140 cases from the late 1970’s through the 1980’s, in which the state of West Virginia relied on falsified forensic evidence testimony by the Chief Serologist in order to convict. The state of was aware of his lack of qualifications as a serologist and DNA expert as early as 1985, and yet he was allowed to testify in Jimmie’s 1990 trial. It was not until April 1st, 2016, nearly 3 decades after the Chief Serologist was exposed—when Jimmie C. Gardner was finally released. Since his release, Jimmie C Gardner has become an advocate for other wrongfully imprisoned men and women who have felt the sting of this countries systemic and racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system. He also advocates for prison reform and inmate rights all over the country. He is an active motivational speaker, engaged by high schools, colleges and universities, including the Georgetown School of Law, churches, community, as well as civic organizations throughout the country. He has also spoken in prisons such as Lee County State Prison and Autry State Prison in Georgia, in his effort to expose ongoing injustices and bring about prison reform for inmates. Jimmie offers prisoners hope through specific insight and encouragement as only he can share given all that he has endured. Jimmie C. Gardner's constitutional fortitude is a living testimate to individuals striving to overcome in any walk of life, be it inmate or civilian. His story is triumphant, compelling and he is a living example of steadfastness, perseverance and strength.
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Nakita M. Pope is the Chief Chick and Principal Brand Strategist of Branding Chicks, a boutique branding agency in Atlanta, GA, with clients all over the United States. Branding Chicks specializes in brand strategy, development, consulting, and management for femme-owned businesses and femme-focused brands. She helps clients narrow their focus, gives their brands a voice, slingshot their confidence, and clarifies their message to resonate directly with their audiences. She also helps businesses large and small to brand or re-brand to attract and grow customer bases for new products and professional services through custom, creative, relevant brand-promoting strategies. Over the past 25 years, she has worked as a brand strategist, graphic designer, creative director, and brand manager, giving her experiences that inform how she works with her clients. Her passion for brand strategy also extends to her advertising strategy, branding, and design professorship at The Creative Circus for 13 years. In 2019 she also took on an additional role as their Diversity & Inclusion Advisor and, a year later, the Design Department Senior Advisor role. In 2020 she was named one of Graphic Design USA Magazine’s People to Watch. Nakita graduated from Hampton University in Hampton, VA, where she obtained a B.A. in Graphic Design. She then went on to a graduate design program at The Portfolio Center (now Miami Ad School) in Atlanta, GA. She is involved in several professional and non-profit organizations. She is a core team member of African-American Graphic Designers (AAGD), a member of the African-American Marketers Association (AAMA), and a board member of Good Thinking Atlanta. In 2022 she was named one of African-American Marketing Association’s Black Marketers on the Rise. In 2020 she was named one of Graphic Design USA Magazine’s People to Watch. In 2021, she was honored as an AIGA Atlanta Fellow for making significant contributions to raising the standards of excellence in design within their local, regional, and national design community. Along with her work and passion projects, she now gets to share her knowledge and experiences with diverse audiences on the international speaking stage for organizations like WPP Global, BBDO Atlanta, Phoenix Design Week, The One Club, Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Georgia Tech College of Business. As always, her goal is to wield her crayons for good.
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