The Business Power Hour with Deb Krier

Located in Chicago, Bluedog Design is a business consulting firm focused on building company purpose, integrated strategy and innovation. Michelle Hayward is CEO of Bluedog Design where she has created an award-winning culture that is attracting top talent from across the county. She joins us to share her thoughts on why CEOs and business owners need to rethink who their company's stakeholders are...

Shannon Adkins is the CEO of Future State, a human-centered, purpose-driven management consulting company. Her firm practices what they preach, and their own journey of transformation is both inspirational and educational.  Shannon is here to share with us what they’ve learned and how they help others on their journeys of growth, learning and change.

Mark Ritter is the CEO of MBFS and an expert in credit unions and business lending. In 2002, Mark started Members 1st Federal Credit Union's business lending program as "one person and a desk" with no policies. products, staff, systems, or business members. That program grew to be one of the top ten in the nation in the number of loans and balances outstanding for federal credit unions. After ten...

David Fergusson is a corporate finance leader specializing in global mergers and acquisitions. He engages regularly with business, media, political, and academic leaders on the factors influencing corporate growth. He is a pioneer and international award winner for cross-border investment between the United States and China. Chairman of the finance industry's leading think tank, he is recognized a...

Gary Rogers has spent a lifetime learning, teaching, coaching and directing people all over the world on how to overcome the greatest single fear that most people face….public speaking.  Gary spent 35 years in the television production/motion picture industry.  He started his own television production company in the early 1980’s, producing TV commercials, Infomercials and corporate videos for many...

Katja Rusanen, M.A., is a spiritual counselor, speaker, and #1 bestselling author. She is dedicated to helping her clients break free from abundance blocks and visibility fears so they can share their message, grow their business, and create the impact they truly desire. Katja's pragmatic approach, combined with her spiritual awareness, helps her clients get results fast.

Mark Hinderliter is a 35-year veteran of business working in multiple industries including retail, service, manufacturing, construction and oil and gas.  He is an Executive Coach and business owner. Mark is a franchisee of Leadership Management International, a 50-year old global company specializing in leadership and personal development.  Mark holds a PhD in Organization and Management and is a...

Liana Allison has focused the last 20 years of her life on understanding her emotional nature, to stop it being a hindrance and has now turned it into a superpower of Leadership and self-awareness. She has come from an outback sheep and cattle station in Australia, where she learned to shut down her true nature, to being an International award winning Empathic Leadership coach and mentor. From her...

At 8 years old Lauren was told she had ‘word blindness’ and would never be able to read or write properly, yet she went on to become a five-time bestselling author and International Award Winning Neurobranding expert, using her dyslexia disability as her greatest asset - helping business owners understand how the brain sees brands, so they can stand out and attract their ideal clients.

Rob and Kennedy are the most unlikely entrepreneurs you'll ever meet. Sporting hairstyles that look like comic-book characters and backgrounds in psychology, hypnosis, and show-business – it's hard to believe they're serial entrepreneurs with an uncanny knack for building businesses with riotous email marketing.  

One of the most in-demand business marketing and customer experience speakers in the world today, David Avrin, CSP has shared his content-rich, entertaining, hard-hitting and memorable presentations to enthusiastic audiences across North America and in 25 countries around the world.  David Avrin has spoken for hundreds of audiences,  had one-on-one conversations with over 4,000 company CEOs regard...

Andy Paul is the host of his own top-rated podcast, educating and inspiring sales professionals to take their expertise to the next level. Host of Accelerate! with Andy Paul, business owner and sales professional extraordinaire Andy Paul brings knowledge and insight to today’s show. Andy is #8 on LinkedIn’s list of the Top 50 global sales experts, where over 166,000 professionals follow his daily...

Cindy J. Holbrook, aka The Visibility Wiz, is uniquely gifted at guiding entrepreneurs to thrive as they go up the ladder from being the best-kept secret to trusted and in-demand online authority. Clients benefit from her empowering systems and strategies that enable them to honor their own integrity and attract their ideal clients while building a fun and profitable online business.

Tess Kossow is following her entrepreneurial dream with her editorial passion which allows her to be closer to husband, Dan, their son, Ferris, and loyal pup, Mr Big. With approximately one in eight couples experiencing infertility, the topic of IVF is more and more relevant in today's society. Children, as much as adults, deserve the knowledge of understanding this dedicated process of reproducti...

As a CEO for two decades, Ian Altman started, sold, and grew his business-services and technology companies from zero to over one billion dollars in value. Ian has since spent years researching how customers make decisions. His modern approach to sales & marketing is known for helping organizations around the world achieve explosive growth. A leading authority on accelerating business growth, Ian...

Chrys Tan is the founder of Chrys Media, a messenger marketing agency for online business, and host of the Hack Your Online Business podcast. Chrys has been helping online coaches, consultants, service providers to engage their audience, nurture their leads, and sell using messenger marketing. Originally from Singapore, she is currently living in Mexico City while running her agency online.

Steve Gordon is a bestselling author, the founder of The Unstoppable CEO, and the host of The Unstoppable CEO Podcast and has written over 400 articles on marketing for service businesses. Through his firm, he helps service business entrepreneurs create leveraged marketing systems so they can spend less time on business development, and more time on what matters most. When he was just 28, Steve be...

Dan Boles is an entrepreneur and financial planner with a teacher's heart. He's passionate about educating and serving others to help them create wealth, and financial independence. His professional background includes 10.5 years of ministry work, 8.5 of which were served as the Executive Director of a Non-Profit Ministry to the University Campus, and nearly 10 years in Banking, Financial Services...

Danielle Roberts is a Forbes Finance Council member and co-founder of Boomer Benefits, a licensed insurance agency that helps baby boomers navigate Medicare in 47 states. She and her brother have grown their agency from a tiny two-person company to an award-winning, national top producer with a nearly 8-figure annual revenue and over 170,000 social media followers. Danielle is a past president of...

Karen Brown is CEO of Velocity Leadership Consulting, an executive leadership coaching firm specializing in elevating leadership performance and impact using behavioral neuroscience techniques. Karen realized her own performance potential and discovered the scientific keys to greater personal and professional success by achieving a life-long dream of competing in the Ironman World Championships (a...

Deberah Bringelson is a non-conformist Empowerment Expert and Business Growth Authority.  From her work in the California Senate to her work with Richard Branson, Larry Ellison, and other business luminaries, she has found that massive success lives on the edges in innovation and creativity.  Best known for turning Richard Branson from a hard "no way!" to closing the deal with him "that never shou...

Trish Saemann is notoriously straight-forward who is quick to laugh and put others at ease. She is also a no-nonsense, digital marketing expert intent on successfully collaborating with female business owners to help them launch into the entrepreneurial landscape. A recent graduate of the internationally recognized Goldman Sachs 10ksb program, Trish can dive into the details of her client's busine...

Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate On Your Terms. A real estate investor with over 27 years experience in the field, Chris is the founder of Smart Real Estate Coach and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island with his wife Kim, and their family. Chris operates the family business with his son Nick, his daughter Kayla, his son-in-law,...

Ryan Cote is the Director of Digital Services and Partner at Ballantine, a third-generation family-owned direct mail and digital marketing company based out of Fairfield, NJ. With Ballantine since 2003, a family-owned business started in 1966 by his great-uncle, Ryan now manages the growing digital marketing division. From lead generation to marketing strategy for small businesses, Ryan and his co...

In 2013, two women found themselves disagreeing with the status quo in publishing—particularly as it impacted the romance genre. M.J. Rose is a New York Timesbest-selling author, advertising professional, and one of the founding members and former co-chair of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Liz Berry is ITW’s Executive Director, an editor, a self-proclaimed romance fan girl, and wife to #1 i...