The Business Power Hour with Deb Krier

Michael Zipursky is the CEO of Consulting Success® where they specialize in helping entrepreneurial consultants grow profitable, scalable and strategic consulting businesses. He has advised organizations like Financial Times, Dow Jones, RBC, and helped Panasonic launch new products into global markets, but more importantly, he’s helped over 500 consultants from around the world in over 75 industri...

When relationships are critical to your business, your reputation is one of the most important assets you manage. In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Bill Coletti - a highly experienced and sought-after reputation management strategist and speaker. Get ready for a deep dive session into the world of corporate crisis management.

Cliff Farrah is President, CEO and Chairman of the Board at The Beacon Group, and a pioneer in the field of growth strategy consulting. Cliff founded Beacon in 2001, immediately after the tragedy of September 11th with the goal to help his clients recover, regroup and heal through business and economic growth. A 30 year veteran of the management consulting industry, Cliff has grown Beacon to becom...

“Dr. Gary” McGrath has been labeled a unicorn in leadership development. His passion for leadership started when he was an Eagle in the Boy Scouts. After graduating with a dual degree in Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering he entered the US Army where he commanded a unit of 120 soldiers at the age of 25. He went on to work at several fortune 500 companies and start-up technology companies. He...

Lisa L. Levy is the Founder and CEO of Lcubed Consulting, a business that helps organizations elevate through strategic goal achievement. She and her team teach the Adaptive Transformation™ framework to savvy business leaders who want to build agility into their operating model to continuously Adapt and Thrive! She is the #1 bestselling author of Future Proofing Cubed. Lisa is frequent guest exper...

As owner and managing partner of Sun Acquisitions, Domenic RInaldi helps clients buy and sell businesses across a variety of industries. Since 2005 he’s been personally involved in over 300 transactions for businesses with enterprise values of $2 million to $50 million. Recognizing many business owners didn’t understand the full requirements of successful exit, acquisition and scaling processes, h...

Chrisa brings over a decade of management and executive level leadership to the Handel Group®. Throughout her career, she has worked on building brands and creating business driving initiatives that have positively impacted sales, profit, and employee retention for large and small companies. As Chief Strategy Officer for Handel Group, Chrisa works closely with leaders from all divisions to ensure...

Jonathan Tuttle is the Founding Director of the digital marketing agency, Revenue Ascend, which was selected as one of Chicago’s most inspiring stories by Chicago Voyage Magazine. They are trusted by small businesses to celebrity brands using their powerful lead generation and conversion systems, omnipresence and intent-based branding, marketing automation and follow up, dynamic call tracking, det...

David Somerfleck is a newly-retired digital marketing executive with over 20 years' experience working for marketing and advertising agencies where he served as project manager, helping guide multi-million dollar brands toward increased profitability. David also was a Certified Small Business Mentor off and on for 10 years through the U.S. Small Business Administration where he advised hundreds of...

The truth is most businesses fail. They don't fail because the entrepreneur isn't working hard enough and they don't fail because they've got bad products or services. Most businesses fail simply because they can't get enough customers. Our guest, Kris Reid, coming to us all the way from Saigon, Vietnam, developed a simple system to get your message in front of your ideal customer to predictably g...

Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has received numerous accolades, including being named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Northern California and one of InStyle's 2019 Badass 50. Previously, Kara was VP of Shopping Partnerships at America Online. She hosts the podcast The Kara Goldin Show. Her...

David Wood quit his career as a Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies, to create the world's largest coaching business. He now coaches rock star entrepreneurs to double their revenue faster, overcome Shiny Object Syndrome, and be a more extraordinary entrepreneur and human. David built the world's largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and coaching thousands of ho...

Pat Honiotes is an internationally known business coach, mentor, teacher, trainer and author who enjoys seeing her clients and their businesses thrive. In private practice since 1980, Pat's passion is to support clients in becoming the “nucleus of their own life.” Pat holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology. She has taught and mentored students that run the gamut from preschool, to specia...

Jeroen Corthout is the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast growing startup companies. Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to follow up the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of their leads manually and built Salesflare, which pulls...

David Sandercott has been helping people for over ten years as a coach in business, meditation, mindset, healing, weight loss and more. David is the expert in helping people find the peace and happiness they seek, while creating the business they have always wanted.

Beth Gibbs, MA, is a certified yoga therapist. She is ‘free-tired’ and pursuing her passions of writing, teaching yoga, and leading workshops on personal growth and healthy aging. Her published writing includes newsletters, short stories, and magazine articles on the benefits of yoga, meditation and self-awareness. She uses her energy and sense of humor to inspire, inform, and entertain. Currently...

Natasha Davis is a Branding Strategist and Corporate Trainer. As a certified expert in email and social media marketing, branding, speaker and trainer, she thrives on fixing problems and eliminating frustrations for companies and their executives. Over the past 13 years, Natasha has worked with several companies, government agencies and small business owners to assist them in enhancing their brand...

Tim Fitzpatrick is an entrepreneur/business owner with expertise in marketing and business growth. He has 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience with a passion for developing and growing businesses. That passion served him well in operating and managing a wholesale distribution company he co-owned for nine years. The company grew an average of 60% a year before being acquired in 2005. Since then,...

Kymberli Speight is an author, speaker, executive coach, and professional speaker/trainer. Currently, she serves as the president-elect for NSA-Austin and teaches executive transition courses for the USAF. Kymberli is an Air Force Academy graduate. She has jumped out of planes, soloed in a plane, and purchased 36 F-15E fighter jets--a $954 million buy--when she was a contracting officer in the Air...

Marie Ruggles, RD, CN, CDE is the author of Optimize Your Immune System: Create Health and Resilience with a Kitchen Pharmacy. She started her career in research at Columbia University where she earned a degree in nutrition and public health. Marie drills down the research into simple actions steps to help busy entrepreneurs stay healthy and age gracefully. She scours the market for the best food,...

Stephen Somers is the co-founder of Marketplace SuperHeroes, an online education and services company that helps people all over the world learn how to sell their own products globally on Amazon from complete scratch. Together with his business partner, Robert, Stephen has won 5 Two-Comma Club awards for Marketplace SuperHeroes, which is now an 8 figure business, and the guys have also helped almo...

Darrell Amy  is on a mission to help generous companies grow revenue faster. With 27 years of B2B marketing and sales experience ranging from mid-sized local companies to enterprise organizations, Darrell has diverse experience across the sales and marketing landscape. He has trained thousands of salespeople in solution selling, created digital marketing strategies for hundreds of companies, and c...

Coach A.M. Williams is a Results Coach who specializes in helping experts transform their expertise into high leveraged offers. He is the owner of A.M. Williams Coaching Co., LLC and has personally coached and trained numerous executives, lawyers, doctors, recording artists, and other coaches and consultants over the past 10 years from a bed-bound state. Having been diagnosed with incomplete parap...

With 10+ years in sales and leadership, Wesleyne Greer understands the challenges of being at the top of her game. Having managed multi-million-dollar teams, Wesleyne marries her love for sales and her passion for coaching at Transformed Sales. She has a strong track record for driving revenue through sales, marketing, and ongoing customer support. This has earned her numerous accolades, including...

Wayne Mullins is the founder and CEO of Ugly Mug Marketing. Over the past 20 years, he has scaled multiple companies and helped hundreds of entrepreneurs do the same with their companies. Ugly Mug Marketing has won the praises of some of the leading influencers in the business world, such as, Chris Voss (New York Times Best Selling Author of Never Split the Difference), Neil Patel (Founder of Quic...