Russ Sorrells helps companies grow revenue by teaching the Sales Mastery Program. After college he worked as an engineer for a Fortune 200 company before crossing over to the dark side and getting into sales. Since that transition, 18 years ago, he has helped multiple companies quadruple their sales by utilizing the principles of the Sales Mastery Program. It is possible to Double Revenue with the same resources by doubling the closing rates on current opportunities and he teaches the how to in the Sales Mastery Workshops! Russ also owns multiple businesses across different industries.
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Nick Sarillo is the founder, CEO and “Primary Keeper” of the Purpose and Operational Values of Nick’s Pizza & Pub – the sixth busiest independent pizza company in per-store sales in the United States. Founded with the purpose of providing the community with an unforgettable place where families could relax and have fun, Nick’s Pizza & Pub has margins nearly twice that of the average pizza restaurant and boasts an 80 percent employee retention rate in an industry in which the average turnover is nearly 150 percent. Nick is also author of A Slice of the Pie: How to Build a Big Little Business and offers training to other businesses through Nick’s University on-site and online courses.
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Daniel is an international Keynote Speaker and the co-founder and CEO of Gazelles Growth Institute http://growthinstitute.com, the leading online executive education company for C level executives at fast growing firms. He is also a CEO Coach that is helping a million entrepreneurs grow their companies faster and with less drama. He is an international speaker and has shared stage with thought leaders like Peter Diamandis, Guy Kawasaki, and Verne Harnish, just to name a few. Daniel holds a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from I.T.E.S.M (Monterrey Tech) and M.B.A from Babson College at Wellesley, MA. He lives in Austin TX with his wife and 2 kids.
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Alex Wehrley is the host of Business Rockstars, a former Miss Wisconsin, one of Los Angeles Business Journal's "20 in their Twenties," and the founder of #Empowerista, a multimedia movement to celebrate and empower imperfectly perfect women. Alex is a storyteller at heart. She has told stories as a TV host for shows like the Miss USA telecast, E! News Now, Hollywood Today Live, AMAs Coca Cola Red Carpet Live, and more. Through #Empowerista, Alex features women breaking barriers in her Focus Magazine interview series, mentors up and coming professionals, and connects powerful and purposeful women to each other at her networking events.
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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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Anirudh Narayan is a growth specialist that has helped over 1000 aspiring entrepreneurs and 30 startups in the US, Latin America, Africa and Asia with launching their idea, reaching product market fit and scale. His core specialties lie in user acquisition, funnel optimization, growth hacking and business development. Anirudh currently helps entrepreneurs launch and scale their business through bootcamps, courses, consulting services and products.
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Thor Conklin is a business owner & consultant as well as a content-driven podcaster. 2016 marks his 16th year as an entrepreneur. The first company Thor created was a global risk management consulting firm that served the private equity community. His top 15 clients had a combined revenue of $12.7 billion USD and operated in over 100 countries worldwide. His background, in risk management, served him well when he lost 1/3 of his team, in the World Trade Center attacks, on 9/11. Since that time, he has started, bought and sold several multi-million dollar businesses making him a sought after, cross-industrial resource for entrepreneurs and executives in all stages of business.
Thor has a talent for slicing through the noise of everyday distractions and bringing his audience intellectual commodities like his:“Ultimate Success Map”, a simplistic, easy-to- follow guide for individuals who need to break through to the next level of achievement and get the absolute most, not just from their business, but, from their lives.
Thor is gritty, experienced and accessible as he brings to bear what holds people back from realizing their full potential. Through his latest venture, Peak Performance Nation, he teaches the tools, tips, tricks and strategies necessary to be a Peak Performer. He qualifies the psychology of success in one word: “Execution”! “Nothing you’ve learned matters – unless you can EXECUTE”!
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Ryan Ayres is a business consultant & coach. In the last 20 years he’s had the privilege of working with companies of all sizes from massive organizations like Microsoft, Ford, and Sports Illustrated to hundreds of small businesses. Ryan brings the best of these companies and his c-level caliber experience to his clients.
His business, Focus 53, typically works with C-level executives and business. Simply put, he helps his clients solve the technology and operational challenges around leadership, strategy, and innovation so they can continue to grow and thrive. Ryan is also the host of the Focus 53 podcast.
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After 5 years working for a prominent law firm in litigations and corporate transactions, Ben returned to his roots and true calling of entrepreneurship. In 2015, he founded En Masse Counsel whose primary directive is the support of creative entrepreneurship. Creative entrepreneurship is a thriving engine of economic growth because launching creative businesses and ventures transforms how we use or interact with products and services and, at times, even with ourselves. The principle startups like Airbnb, Groupon, and Uber were built on is the “artist business person” - where creativity is emphasized first and technology created in service of the artist. These businesses do not simply make services and products easier to use or less expensive but actually disrupt the fields and markets they enter, initiating epoch-defining metamorphoses that change the way life is lived and impart tremendous cultural impact.
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Rich Litvin runs a leadership consultancy for world leaders, based in Los Angeles and London. The methodology is deep coaching. Bespoke. Not time-based.
Ultra-successful people – people you would assume don’t need a coach – are the ones who call Rich. His clients include Olympic athletes, Presidential candidates, Hollywood film directors, Special Forces operatives and serial entrepreneurs.
Rich is the author of a best-selling book on coaching (The Prosperous Coach) and he runs a program for 40 of the world’s most successful consultants and coaches (4PC).
His big picture is to mobilize $100Million for charity through his connections.
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Lolly Daskal is one of the most sought-after executive leadership coaches in the world. Her extensive cross-cultural expertise spans 14 countries, six languages and hundreds of companies. As founder and CEO of Lead From Within, her proprietary leadership program is engineered to be a catalyst for leaders who want to enhance performance and make a meaningful difference in their companies, their lives, and the world. Based on a mix of modern philosophy, science, and nearly thirty years coaching top executives, Lolly’s perspective on leadership continues to break new ground and produce exceptional results. Of her many awards and accolades, Lolly was designated a Top-50 Leadership and Management Expert by Inc. magazine. Huffington Post honored Lolly with the title of The Most Inspiring Woman in the World.
Her writing has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Inc.com, Fast Company (Ask The Expert), Huffington Post, and Psychology Today, and others. Lolly’s proprietary insights are the subject of her new book, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness.
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Carl Gould is a business growth entrepreneur who advises organizations to get to the next level. He has built three multi-million dollar businesses by age 40. His consulting firm has mentored the launch of over five thousand businesses in 35 countries, and his team of mentor coaches has conducted over 75,000 sessions with entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. He has advised over 100 of the Inc. 500/5000 Fastest-Growing Companies.
A lifelong entrepreneur and business owner, Gould has been at the forefront of the entrepreneurial community globally. He is an award-winning coach and business mentor. He has teamed up with bestselling author Caryn Kopp on their latest book, Biz Dev Done Right: Demystifying The Sales Process and Achieving The Results You Want. He and his team of mentor coaches have overseen the development of thousands of small businesses on six continents, and have conducted over 50,000 coaching sessions with entrepreneurs.
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Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed real estate investor for over 20 years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read Nothing Down by Robert Allen. Mitch, his wife Tommi, and his daughter Shannon have purchased their fair share of local houses. Their company, Independence Day, Inc., has bought and sold over 1,300 properties in and about San Antonio, TX since 1996. This company specializes in buying distressed properties with OPM and selling those properties with Owner Financing.
The Stephen family built wealth by purchasing very affordable homes, selling them for double the cost, and owner financing the sale by creating a note to their buyer. In 1991 the family made plans to keep their wealth and create "forever money" by acquiring self-storage and boat storage facilities primarily around where they live in Canyon Lake, Texas. Started in 1991, with 13 boat storages in front of a state park at the lake, the storage business has grown to over 1,100 storage doors in 16 locations, averaging $92 per door per month.
Mitch is the author of three books in the My Life & 1000 Houses series: Failing Forward to Financial Freedom, 200+ Ways to Find Bargain Properties, and The Art of Owner Financing. Mitch's personal expertise includes raising private money, finding bargain properties, negotiating favorable terms, dealing with renovations and contractors, selling houses, selling notes with little to no discount, and helping others deal with the everyday throes of life in business. He is very familiar with Dodd-Frank, RMLOs, S.A.F.E. Act, Texas Property Code, Truth -in-Lending, R.E.S.P.A. and the legal options available in the owner finance domain.
Mitch offers online education, group coaching, and full-on mentorships as it relates to all the aspects of owner financing.
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Margaux is a strategic growth coach at Inspirit Growth where she also oversees market expansion across industries, regions, and strategic partnerships. She is passionate about innovation and technology that improves the world and has helped build global brands and innovative companies over the last decade including BlackRock, Eventbrite, and Impossible Foods.
With experience in every phase of company growth from bootstrapped start-up to mature enterprise, Margaux has a wealth of experience driving product, marketing, and sales results. Her passion is empowering others to identify and live their life purpose, which, in the case of most entrepreneurs is their business. She has also helped over 50 men and women navigate through career crossroads, opportunities, and transitions, acting as a mentor, guide, and connector to companies and roles.
Prior to joining Inspirit Growth, Margaux was a Manager at West where she developed the go-to-market strategy for Impossible Foods, a Bay Area startup transforming the global food system. West partners with inventive young companies to design new markets, products, and services that change the way we live. In her sales and marketing role, Margaux worked cross functionally with the executive, product, and culinary teams to define the target audience, product experience and launch strategy for Impossible Foods.
Margaux grew up in Philadelphia and graduated with honors from Cornell University where she was an All-American lacrosse player and two-year team captain. Outside of Inspirit Growth, Margaux is the co-founder of CRAVE Productions which creates unique events and experiences that bring people together to raise awareness and money for nonprofits. She also founded the Cornell Women’s Lacrosse Alumni network, establishing a more formal career network for current and former alumni to share professional advice and business opportunities.
Margaux enjoys traveling, cooking, live music, yoga, soccer, and golf. She also loves puns, chocolate, and has rollerbladed in an inline skating marathon.
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Andrew. Sherman is a Partner and Chair of the Corporate Department in the Washington, D.C. office of Seyfarth Shaw with over 900 lawyers worldwide.
He is the author of 26 books on business growth, capital formation and the leveraging of intellectual property, including his twenty-second (22nd) book, Harvesting Intangible Assets, Uncover Hidden Revenue in Your Company’s Intellectual Property, (AMACOM) which was published in October of 2011. His latest book The Crisis of Disengagement was published in early 2017. Other recent titles include the best-selling Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z. The third edition was published by AMACOM in 2010. He is also the author of the 2nd edition of the Due Diligence Strategies and Tactics, which was published in the Spring of 2010. His twenty-third book Essays on Governance was published June of 2012, and in 2013, he was named by NACD as one of the Top 100 Leaders in Governance. In 2014, he was included in the global IAM 300, recognizing the world’s thought leaders in managing intangible assets.
He has appeared as a guest and a commentator on all of the major television networks as well as CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” CNN’s “Day Watch,” CNN’s “For Entrepreneurs Only,” USA Network’s “First Business,” and Bloomberg’s “Small Business Weekly.” He has appeared on numerous regional and local television broadcasts as well as national and local radio interviews for National Public Radio (NPR), Business News Network (BNN), Bloomberg Radio, AP Radio Network, Voice of America, Talk America Radio Network and the USA Radio Network, as a resource on capital formation, entrepreneurship and technology development.
He has served as a top-rated Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programs at the University of Maryland for 26 years and at Georgetown University for 17 years in both the business school and the law school where he teaches courses on business growth strategy.
He has served as General Counsel to the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (YEO) since 1987. In 2003, Fortune magazine named him one of the Top Ten Minds in Entrepreneurship and in February of 2006, Inc. magazine named him one of the all-time champions and supporters of entrepreneurship and business growth.
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Jay Goltz received an accounting degree from Northern Illinois University in 1978. He came to realize that he didn’t really enjoy accounting, and contrary to conventional wisdom of the time, he decided to start his own business upon graduation. This was before entrepreneurship was celebrated and glorified, so he was regularly asked, "You’re going to waste your degree?" by his classmates. He didn’t think so. Jay had put himself through school by working in a picture frame shop, and later by selling frames to artists. He believed that he could offer much better quality, design and service than what was currently available, so he started Artists Frame Service in a loft on Clybourn Ave. in Chicago. At the time, it was an abandoned factory district on the edge of Lincoln Park, and it was about two blocks around the corner from his father’s dime store where he had been weaned on taking care of customers since he was seven years old. This experience would prove to be his "secret of success" as he entered an industry filled with hobbyists and artists. His business took off, doubling in size for the first few years. By the fifth year, his business crossed the million-dollar threshold, making it the largest frame shop in the country; about twenty times the average. It continued to grow at a rapid pace.
Fast forward to today. Jay’s business has expanded to include Chicago Art Source, selling art to businesses and individuals, Jayson Home, a home store with a national reputation and thriving web presence, and Bella Moulding, a picture frame importing and distribution business. He now owns two buildings and a parking lot just one block South from his original location on Clybourn Ave., which has since evolved into one of the hottest retail streets in the city. The city of Chicago has named Clybourn "Honorary Jay Goltz Way," in recognition that he was the first new business that started the vibrant shopping district. In 2010, Jay purchased an 85,000 sq. ft. warehouse/factory building near Chicago Ave. and Sacramento to both warehouse furniture and manufacture for his multi-million dollar framing business and furniture store. He has 110 employees in all, and is proud to say that their average tenure is ten years; many have been with him for over twenty.
Jay’s story is unusual in that he has never had a job, and his businesses span all categories of business; retailing, manufacturing, direct sales, online, and distribution. In 1998 he wrote a book named "The Street Smart Entrepreneur,” 133 hard learned lessons, and in 2008 was included in the book "Small Giants," Companies that decided to be great instead of big. That same year he was featured on the front cover of Inc. Magazine and went on to be the lead small business blogger for the New York Times for five years, and starting in 2017, Forbes small business blog. Jay has won numerous small business awards and is a popular business speaker who is known for his practical and insightful advice. He has been married for 38 years and has three grown sons, one of who is in the business, now named the Goltz Group. The other two are in what Jay calls his "accidental business," real estate. Jay believes that the secret of true success in business is to understand that it is not the income that matters, but the outcome.
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Craig Cody is a Certified Tax Coach, Certified Public Accountant, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years of experience on the force. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant for the past 15 years, he is also a Certified Tax Coach. As a Certified Tax Coach, Craig belongs to a select group of tax practitioners throughout the country who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain, certified. With this organization, Craig has co-authored an Amazon bestseller book, Secrets of a Tax-Free Life.
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When it comes to putting great people in touch with other great people, Lou Diamond is the master. He has over a quarter century of experience in sales, relationship management, business development and executive coaching. Lou’s authenticity, energy, and enthusiasm, along with his unwavering passion and desire for helping people achieve their dreams, is unmatched.
If you’re trying to find the right way to make the connections essential to building your team to achieve your business or personal goals, Lou Diamond is the man to help you make the connections to make it happen.
Lou is a Coach, Consultant, Master Connector, Best-Selling Author, Speaker & Motivator. Lou, who’s been a top producer at every firm he’s ever worked, has led teams at Accenture, Deloitte, Omnicom, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America to achieve record revenues year after year. He is the Founder & CEO of THRIVE, a leading consulting and coaching company focused on making the most incredible leaders and top performers even more amazing.
Lou is certified as a Co-Active Coach by the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), a Cornell University graduate, passionate sports fan, avid golfer, loving husband and extremely proud parent.
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Earl Bell is an author, consultant, and success coach/trainer for business owners and leaders. His expertise comes from the world of business, where Earl was CFO of a $17 billion Registered Investment Advisory firm and the world of youth sports where he coached 22 baseball and softball teams over 10 years. Earl is the author of Winning in Baseball and Business and Transforming Little League Principles into Major League Profits for Your Company.
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Failure, struggle, and setbacks are not only an inevitable part of life but a necessary step on the path to success. Jim Harshaw has learned many life lessons on the wrestling mat. He has been a Division I All-American and winner of three ACC Championships for the University of Virginia, he trained at the Olympic Training Center and competed overseas for Team USA. Through that, he has experienced significant triumph and devastating defeat. He relates those powerful lessons learned from failure and struggle to empower his audiences to overcome their own challenges and achieve success despite their inevitable failures.
Jim is a speaker, executive coach, and host of the Success Through Failure podcast. You can find his TED Talk on failure and learn more about his work by looking below for ways to contact Jim.
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Suzanne Doyle-Ingram is the best-selling author of 7 books and has written or co-written a total of 13 books. She coaches and trains new and experienced authors on how to write and publish a book and to use that book as leverage to increase their visibility, open doors for speaking engagements, grow their brand and business, and much more. Suzanne encourages her clients to reach for their dreams and she loves supporting and motivating people to go after what they want and to never stop believing they can make it happen. She is a true believer in giving back, volunteering at her local food bank and contributing to several charities. Suzanne lives in Gibsons, BC, Canada with her husband James and their three kids ages 9, 12, and 14.
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