Business Ninjas by WeLevel

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Ryan McManus of SHARE Mobility, a transportation solution for companies. They fill open jobs and improve employee retention by helping companies provide transportation as a benefit. SHARE Mobility was founded to create a future where transportation is more sustainable and equitable. As the world evolves from motors to mobility, they are committ...

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Jelaire Grillo of Prosperity Home Mortgage, a full service mortgage banker specializing in residential and refinance loans. Prosperity Home Mortgage offers a wide range of mortgage products, including fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, jumbo loans, Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Veterans Affairs (VA) loans, and renovation financing.  ...

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Nathan Norman, Manager of Workforce Development at City of Evanston, as they talk about the importance of workforce development. Workforce issues need to remain a high priority for all authorities in order to ensure that local government achieves its ambitions. Even in uncertain times there is always opportunity. At the City of Evanston, we hav...

Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew with Kevin Fernando, Head of Growth Marketing at Guusto as they talk about creating an amazing workplace culture where people feel appreciated, connected and inspired.  It's been estimated that up to 70% of U.S. workers are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces. The lack of recognition is certainly one reason. In an era of limited time, money,...

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Pierre Gamble of The Honey Baked Ham Company. Cooking healthy meals every day can be hard to do, and shopping for ingredients, planning menus, and making sure you and your family are eating healthy can be an even bigger challenge. Heat-and-eat meals delivered right to your door are gaining in popularity. At The Honey Baked Ham Company, they hav...

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Todd Davis of Gold Star Referral Clubs as they talk about how to help business people and professionals grow their businesses without large advertising outlays. Gold Star Clubs helps corporations, business professionals, and sales teams develop the skills needed to maximize their share referral business. They educate, coach, and implement in co...

Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with Palash Das the owner of Pinnacle Consulting LLC. Pinnacle Consulting LLC  was founded in 2003 with a vision of designing and implementing comprehensive  IT solutions tailored to its customer's needs. Every customer has a dream which is to have a business process built for each of its needs and they envision on making it true, thus their mo...

Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with David Kowalski, Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer at Sonata Bank, as they talk about making banking and financial literacy accessible to fast food workers. From the ground up, they are building Sonata Bank as a digital-first bank, unburdened by legacy operating systems and outdated processes.​ Sonata Bank is a tech-forward financial serv...

Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie together with Jack Mihoover of Atomic Tattoos, as they talk about how they make sure that their artists and employees are equally satisfied as their clients. Atomic Tattoos is a locally owned and operated tattoo and piercing studio managed by tattoo artists for tattoo artists. They are an organization dedicated to providing a supportive, stable, and education...

Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with Bret Neuman, Head of Brand & Content at Arrived, as they talk about how to easily invest in rental homes & vacation rentals. Residential real estate has proven to be the best long-term investment in modern history, providing returns in line with stocks, but with half the volatility. The problem is, the majority of people who want to inv...

Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie with Charlie Gillette, Founder and President at Knowledge Anywhere, and Jacqueline Holmes, their Marketing Lead.  Knowledge Anywhere is an innovative alternative to traditional learning management system. They are training solutions that allow you to quickly and easily organize, manage, assign, and track all of your in-person and online training in one place....

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Column, Annie Hockey, as they discuss the power of a nationally chartered bank in the lightest format possible. Column is a developer infrastructure and the only one built from the ground up to enable developers and builders to create new financial products. They have built their own core, ledger, and data model fo...

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Nancy Brown of Kentucky APEX Accelerator. This APEX Accelerator is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense. As a valuable business development resource, they strive to improve Kentucky, one company at a time. We work with companies that sell to federal, state, and local government agencies. Their primary go...

Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with John Hewitt of Loyalty Brands. Loyalty Brands is a cohesive group of franchise businesses and services designed to work together to help the franchise buyer prosper both quickly and over the longterm.  Loyalty Brands houses a successful group of B2B franchise systems including financial services, accounting and tax services, and business broker...

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Bob Gaydos, Founder & CEO at Pendella as they talk about bringing the financial protection of individual life and disability insurance to all people.  Life insurance has always been a tougher sell than any other kind of insurance. The 1990s saw major carriers, particularly those with big presence in health insurance at that time, bow out of...

Join our resident Business Ninja Andy together with Roe McFarlane, President and CEO of Americas at Inspera. Inspera supports your organization’s entire assessment cycle. Plan, design, deliver and mark assessments seamlessly – onsite or remotely. Inspera is a cloud-based digital assessment platform enabling you to plan, author, deliver and mark assessments in one place. They are flexible, user-fri...

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Keith Mintzer, Managing Partner with TSRM Group, as they talk about how their expertise can help accelerate your company's sales channel, whether you're a start up or a large enterprise. TSRM Group has always believed the idea that there is a better way to deliver sales and marketing services to the channel. They take the best things...

Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew, together with Dr. Laura Brown, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and owner of Forensic Psychology, LLC., and Dr. Jesse Lambert, Psychologist and Consultant, as they talk about how forensic assessment and psychological evaluations are integral parts of the justice system. Forensic Psychology LLC offers psychological evaluations, file reviews, expert testimo...

Join our resident Business Ninja K together with James Bevins, Director of Social at eFuse. Whether you‘re a gamer looking to compete, a brand looking to enter the gaming community, or streamer looking to engage your fans, eFuse is the place for you. Through our proprietary suite of products we have something for everyone to change their life through gaming. They live for competition. One of the m...

Join our resident Business Ninja Max together with Luke Pattison, Director of Business Development at Webhelp, as they talk about creating outstanding experiences for customers – enabled by technology and enriched by people. Every day Webhelp's teams across more than 50 countries bring their skills to the table to create excellent, personal, end-to-end customer journeys for today’s digital wo...

Join our resident Business Ninja Max together with Jeff Johnson, COO of C-4 analytics. Leaders turn to leaders. That’s why many of the most aggressive and successful dealers turn to C-4 Analytics. Their award-winning automotive digital marketing services firm has a demonstrated record of helping dealers win more market share and improve their marketing ROI. Backed by a staff of certified marketing...

Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with Olga Karanikos, VP of Marketing at SalesScreen, as they talk about how Gamification can increase sales and productivity exponentially. SalesScreen is a global sales platform that combines gamification with data visualization to keep modern sales teams motivated and engaged. Its platform integrates with existing CRM and makes work more collabora...

Join our resident Business Andrew together with Andy Rahden, CEO of Shmoop, an education technology company that builds engaging learning experiences to ease the stress of the learning environment. Using learning sciences and user centered design to create award winning personal learning tools for all students, educators and schools. Focused on the whole student, shmoop’s academic rigor includes h...

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with the CEO of The VIA Agency, Leeann Leahy, as they talk about 'Rigorous Magic', an alchemy of strategic smarts and unbound creativity. VIA is a full-service advertising and marketing agency located at the historic Baxter Library in Portland, ME. At VIA, they believe everything begins with a fresh perspective, and that has allowed them...

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with the IT Director of Rollo Insurance, Daniel Horn, as they talk about everything you need to know about insurance. When it comes to your insurance policy, there's a lot you need to know. There's a lot you need to ask your insurance agent. For example- what is the difference between term life insurance vs whole life insurance? What perc...