Jeffrey Gitomer is a professional speaker, international sales trainer, and co-host of the radiant Sell or Die podcast. He is also the author of 13 best-selling books, including New York Times bestsellers The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, The Little Black Book of Connections, and The Little Gold Book of YES! All of his books have been number one best sellers on Amazon.com. Jeffrey is the CEO of The Gitomer Learning Academy, offering sales training for individuals and sales teams.
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Stephen is currently the CEO of Fownders which provides business startups with an entrepreneurial ecosystem to take their ideas and business models from seed to scale. Stephen is also the head track and field coach at Newark Academy which is a nationally ranked independent school in Livingston, NJ.
Stephen was the President of 42 Holdings which specializes in brand ownership of companies within the home services industry. 42 Holdings was the largest franchise owners of of College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving with locations in NJ, TN, OH and Fl.
Stephen has been featured on Fox News, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, AMC, BRAVO, NJ Star Ledger, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, NJ Biz Magazine, Luxury Life Magazine, NJ Monthly Magazine and many more.
Stephen has been honored as Man of the Year for Habitat for Humanity, The IFA (International Franchise Association) Franchisee of the Year, and Franchisee of the Year by College Hunks for three straight years. Stephen serves on the Board of Directors for the PACE School for Girls, The Valarie House, Job Creators Network and sits on the Academy Review Board for U.S. Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ).
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Gina Bianchini is the Founder & CEO of Mighty Networks and an expert on network effects businesses. Mighty Networks is a rapidly growing SaaS platform for creating your own network effects brands and businesses –– replacing a blog or website with a niche social network. A Mighty Network employs proprietary algorithms and smart technology to instantly organize members by their location, by the topics they choose, and by the categories they define, generating orders of magnitude more engagement for our customers and their members.
Before Mighty Networks, Gina and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen launched Ning, a pioneering global platform for creating niche social networks. Under her leadership, Ning grew to 90 million people in 300,000 active social networks across subcultures, professional networks, entertainment, politics, and education.
In addition to Mighty Networks, Gina serves on the board of directors of Scripps Networks (NASDAQ: SNI), an $11 billion dollar public company which owns HGTV, The Food Network, and The Travel Channel. She also co-founded LeanIn.Org with Sheryl Sandberg, an organization dedicated to women leaning into their ambitions, where she launched Lean In Circles worldwide.
Gina and Mighty Networks have been featured in Fast Company, Wired, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. She has appeared on Charlie Rose, CNBC, and CNN. She grew up in Cupertino, California, graduated with honors from Stanford University, started her career in the nascent High Technology Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and received her M.B.A from Stanford Business School.
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Drew Neisser is founder and CEO of Renegade, the award-winning marketing agency that has been helping CMOs find innovative ways to cut through since 1996. Described by Inc as one of the “sharpest minds” in marketing, Drew is a recognized authority on cutting-edge techniques having won innumerable awards for creativity and campaign effectiveness. Having interviewed over 200 Chief Marketing Officers in the last few years and with the launch of his podcast Renegade Thinkers Unite and book The CMO’s Periodic Table: A Renegade’s Guide to Marketing, he has earned the nickname “the CMO whisperer.”
Ranked among “50 Thought Leaders over 50” by Brand Quarterly for 3 years in a row, Drew has been a featured marketing expert on ABC News, CNBC, CBS Radio, iHeartRadio and the Tony Robbins podcast series among many others. He is a frequent keynote speaker and emcee at top marketing conferences including this year’s Marketo Marketing Nation Summit and is counted among a small group of IBM Futurists.
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Bruce Eckfeldt is a consultant, coach, author, and speaker on organizational development and performance management. Originally an architect, he was a pioneer in the use of computer-aided design and 3D modeling. He transitioned to software design and development converting his spatial problem-solving skills to informational architecture and user experience design.
Seeing the need for a more fast-paced and innovative approach to technology development, Bruce was an early adopter of Extreme Programming (an early Agile/Lean software methodology). He advanced the field as an early contributor to the Agile Conference and as the founder of Cyrus Innovation in 2003, one of the first Agile/Lean development consulting firms.
After more than a decade of developing products and coaching companies adopting Agile/Lean practices, such as Extreme Programming, Scrum, Kanban, and other Lean methodologies, Bruce sold Cyrus in 2014 to focus on broader organizational development initiatives.
Today, Bruce works with startups and high-growth companies to develop business and operational strategy, talent planning, and performance coaching. His expertise includes growing leadership teams, planning and developing middle management, accelerating high-performance individuals, and coaching teams to higher performance.
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