The Business Power Hour with Deb Krier

Special LinkedIn Series Brian Basilico is an award-winning author of the best-selling book It’s Not About You, It’s About Bacon! Relationship Marketing In A Social Media World! He was honored as one of the Top Marketers to Follow in 2018. Brian is an online marketing strategist who brings over 40 years of marketing experience to his award-winning internet marketing company, B2b Interactive Marketi...

Anthony Donataccio is in the business of amplifying the well-being of others. After having personally experienced burnout, and the health-related issues that came with it, in 2015, he and his wife made the decision to try something different. Within a month, they had packed up their lives and took off overseas to Europe with only the first six months “somewhat” planned. Nearly six years later, and...

Erik Jensen is the Co-Owner of Predictive ROI, a 7-figure marketing agency helping businesses monetize their position of authority.  A business owner since age 14, Erik began his entrepreneurial journey via a national juggling business that took him and his brother around the country. Now the Chief Strategy Officer at Predictive ROI, Erik developed the podcasting strategy that made the agency over...

AirSkirts founder Jim Phelan started his career as a software engineer and CTO. Jim co-founded Stream57, an online webcasting platform, which was sold to West Corp in 2009. Following that successful exit, Jim headed multiple tech startups and served as VP Architecture at West / Intrado corporation. After selling his home in Brooklyn, NY and most of his possessions in 2016, Jim began living and tra...

Italian by birth and cosmopolitan by vocation, Angela Santi is the one-of-a-kind business and lifestyle consultant known as the Dolce Vita Lifestyle and Leadership style Designer. Fiercely protective of her craft – the art that is the science behind the good life, she has pioneered the Four Pillars of Dolce Vita life mastery model. Working privately with a select group of ultra-high performers and...

George Ishee is the founder of Millionaires By George. He has over 35 years of experience in sales and marketing and has worked for Fortune 50 companies and start-ups. He has trained many salespeople, owned his own marketing company for 8 years, and was a nationally rated gymnast in college. He has 3 amazing grown children with 5 young grand kids and is an avid tennis player.

Ron Imbach is the president of the Center for Business Innovation and the Executive Director of the International Association of US Government Contractors. He and his partner, Chip Ellis, lead a talented team that provides coaching, consulting, and training to small businesses who want to thrive with federal contracts. Ron has spent the past 30+ years assisting small businesses, high net worth ind...

Dr. Kasthuri Henry, PhD, is driven by her mission of “Building to Last and Ennobling for Success”. Her ability to first develop the “being” and bring that authentic self to all the “doing” makes her a sought-after member of Forbes Coaches Council. CEO of KasHenry Inc. and founder of Ennobled For Success Institute, her acumen includes Duracell Brand Acquisition for Warren Buffet, business transform...

Having a passion for local small businesses, Ken Cook began the development of Prepared Marketing. With dedication and experience, he has successfully grown his company from a one-man operation to a small agency employing a variety of talented workers that continually contribute to its success. In 2018, The Prepared Group was created, shifting the focus from tactical agency services to a comprehen...

Jesson Bradshaw is the CEO of Energy Ogre, an electricity management company that uses proprietary systems to ensure its customers are always getting the best prices on their energy electricity. Energy Ogre has helped over 100,000 Texans save up to 40% on their electricity bills, over $150M since its founding.

Katie Burkhart is the mastermind behind MatterLogic™, the simple system for running a purpose-driven business and has quickly become one of the go-to experts in the space. She's a serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, minimalist designer, jargon slayer, and sharp communicator. She synthesizes connections that enable humans to make the most of the time they invest in their work.

Susanne Mariga is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Tax Coach (CTC), Profit First Professional, and Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) with over two decades of experience helping clients achieve their financial goals through business and personal tax planning. Susanne is the author of best-selling and Publisher's Weekly Editor's pick, Profit First For Minority Business Ente...

Gregg Greenberg is currently GM of Media at the C-Suite Network and host of C-Suite TV Insights. Prior to joining C-Suite, he was the lead anchor at TheStreet for more than 13 years. In that position he interviewed CEOs, fund managers, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and bestselling authors both live and on tape. At TheStreet he hosted ‘The Real Story’ podcast and wrote the widely read colum...

Michael Arnold has been a work-from-home entrepreneur for OVER 15 YEARS (talk about experience!) and worked with major corporations including Cox Automotive, Verizon Super Pages, and major commercial finance companies. His journey wasn’t a smooth sailing one as he’s also human like all of us, and he made many mistakes along the way. But he lived to share some wisdom from his own experience to help...

Gene Moorhead has owned and managed seven businesses throughout his career - six of which have been successful. He primarily focuses on helping independent businesses grow. A majority of his work experience originated from his time spent at a family business buying losing radio stations and subsequently turning them into profitable businesses. Each new acquisition meant a new market with all the c...

Daniel Hodges, JD, is an activist dedicated to assisting others with disabilities and chronic illnesses reach their full potential. While in law school, Daniel founded Peaces of Me Foundation; a nonprofit organization that promotes universal access and inclusion. Daniel’s perspective has been shaped by his experience as a blind man with chronic pain and other conditions. He has spent a lifetime su...

Jon Ostenson is a consultant, investor, author, and international speaker specializing in the area of non-food franchising. He draws on his experience as both the President of an Inc. 500 franchise system and as a multi-brand franchisee, himself, in serving clients across these capacities. Jon serves as CEO of FranBridge Consulting where he helps clients understand all aspects of non-food franchis...

From his strong roots at Fortune 500 companies and on Wall Street to developing smaller, but powerful brands, Lucas Root has built a strong track record of successes that also includes many speaking engagements, podcasts, publications and his bestselling "Work from Home" course. Whether leading business and projects for his clients or mentoring his clients to become empowering leaders themselves,...

Paul Davis is a gifted intuitive personal advisor, an entrepreneur, a best-selling author and an award-winning business growth consultant and speaker. He is exceptional at identifying what will bring an individual fulfilment, joy and meaning by identifying their true unique life purpose. He has worked with countless business owners, leaders, and celebrities from around the world and across all ind...

Susanne Evens is the Founder and CEO of the St. Louis-based AAA Translation (founded in 1994), the President of St. Louis-Stuttgart Sister Cities (since 2006), and a board member of the World Trade Center St. Louis. Susanne is also a board member of the German-American Heritage Society (since 2007), a member of the St. Louis Mosaic Project Immigrant Entrepreneurship Advisory Board and a member of...

Brian Basilico is the award-winning author of the best-selling book It’s Not About You, It’s About Bacon! Relationship Marketing In A Social Media World! and his latest book, Toilet Paper Math!. He was honored as one of the Top Marketers to Follow in 2018. Brian is an Online Marketing Strategist with over 40 years of marketing experience and the owner of an award-winning internet marketing company...

John Rankin is a qualified Business Systems Analyst, qualifying in 1988 in the UK. He has studied a version of Trait psychoanalysis and an Oriental methodology of how personalities interact. He spent five years studying under a Professor from Beijing University, qualifying in 1998. Realizing that most problems in work are caused by clashes of personalities, John designed and built an online SAAS t...

Jim Downes is a Fractional Chief Financial Officer and forward-looking strategist. He is the founder of Blueprint CFO, a future-focused CFO and accounting services firm based in Orange County, California. By holding clients accountable to their growth goals, Jim and his team provide a competitive advantage over typical CFOs by leveraging data to create a Profitability Roadmap for success.

Nikki Green left the tech world to inspire the next generation to do things differently. She partners with graduating college students to create a 'syllabus for life’ designed to help them pursue their passions rather than just a paycheck. Through her book, I Laugh in the Face of Danger, and her weekly podcast, Stand Up & Stand Out, she coaches the Chameleon Mindset, teaching her audience how to a...

A former award-winning corporate trainer and University Lecturer, Joel Bryant is the author of numerous books. Each of which examines themes of change, growth and greatness. He holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he spent five years teaching in the philosophy department. Click here to download the Kindle edition of The New Being: Pr...