The Courage To Lead

Karette Trottman is proud to be the founder of VirtualKarette VA Services and is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build a business empire and create a legacy they are proud of. Along with a growing team of eight, Karette operates two businesses, an Online Business Management service and a Business Mentoring service. Karette launched her first business in 2018 and her second business in 2021...

Laura Brennan Ballet is the Author of “The Science of Empowerment.” Laura is driven by the life force that circulates within all universal connectivity. Her passion, inspirational teachings, and her ability to see how energy is in everything, guides her powerful messaging forward. When you are in connection with Laura, you feel the charge and the movement of energy, in real-time, you become excite...

How would you live if you thought you were going to die? Dan Gershenson of Caliber is Chicago’s highest-rated Fractional Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), guiding 2nd-generation-and-above business owners to more profit, dream clients, and the work they love. Dan specializes in brand strategy, content, SEO, social media, e-marketing, and new business development. He has been in the advertising and mar...

Doug Lessing, as a speaker and longtime partner of multiple tech companies over the past 30 years, has made it his life’s work to evangelize the importance of using business as force for good in a fractured world. As the Founder of his latest venture, Phin, a philanthropic tech platform and certified BCorp, he is an advocate for companies being great by doing good. Phin models the BCorp ethos of u...

Alex Brueckmann is a board director, strategy facilitator, speaker, and author. He works at the intersection of strategy, leadership, performance, and empowerment. Alex's new books, “Secrets of Next-Level Entrepreneurs” and "The Strategy Legacy", have received near-ecstatic advance praise, from entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and leading academics alike. Alex has impacted thousands of business l...

Mark Ledford is a native of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, and a 1984 business graduate of Morehead State University where he had a successful college football career as a receiver during his four years. Mark began working for Mount Sterling National Bank (now Whitaker Bank) in 1984 and retired in 2021 after a 37-year career with the company.  During his first 8 years of banking, Mark was also an assista...

Wendy Paquette is the personal advisor and confidant to the world’s elite creators. She helps them remove the programs holding them back so they can actualize their deepest desires. She does this using a technique she pioneered and refined over the last 10 years called multi-dimensional timeline shifting. As a result, her clients are able to access Self-Actualization and their peace paradigm with...

Frank Ramos is an attorney based in Miami, FL. His practice includes commercial litigation, drug & medical devices, products, employment, eminent domain, insurance, and catastrophic personal injury. Frank is AV rated - a peer-review rating for the highest level of professional excellence - and is listed in Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyer, and Legal Elite. In 2020, Best Lawyers recognized him...

David Spitulnik is a successful executive with over 40 years of experience in both large technology companies and in consulting to and leadership of mid-market, closely held and family-owned businesses across a variety of industries. In addition to serving as a mentor for the PDA Board Governance Certificate Class and previously as Chair of the Private Directors Association’s Private and Family Bu...

Fran Banting is a Self-Leadership and Business Growth Consultant. She works with small business owners and entrepreneurs wanting to grow themselves, their businesses, and their profits by changing just one thing: the way they think. Fran has been studying human behavior, personalities, and the mind, for over 20 years. She has a Master’s Degree in Metaphysics and a Doctorate Degree in Philosophy, s...

Scott White, The Life Is Too Short Guy, is the happiest guy you will ever meet. After spending over a decade in investment banking on Wall Street, he took a chance and became an entrepreneur and business builder. Today Scott is Chairman and CEO of a public real estate company. Scott is always looking for his next challenge and has completed one Ironman triathlon and 15 marathons. Now Scott is on a...

Kevin Stafford is the Director of Marketing and Wearer of Many Hats at Boxer Media, a branding & marketing agency that specializes in serving coaches and consultants in expanding their impact and growing their business. Kevin is also the host of the Conversations with Coaches podcast, where he interviews successful coaches about how they got their start in coaching, the foundations & frameworks of...

Devin Sizemore is a serial entrepreneur that has owned a variety of companies from an online marketing company to a cat café and more. He currently owns Your Referral Partner and teaches professionals how to build high-value networks that generate ongoing connections. He has helped hundreds of businesses and professionals scale their businesses and loves sharing best practices whenever possible! E...

Danielle Levy is a sought-after coach and strategist. Danielle helps six and seven-figure online business owners expand with clarity and efficiency. Danielle is the problem-solver that everyone needs in their back pocket in order to manage a successful business. She has worked at advertising and communication agencies in Boston, with Fortune 500 corporate companies, and digital marketing agencies...

Bob Burg shares how a subtle shift in focus is not only a more uplifting and fulfilling way of conducting business but the most financially profitable way, as well. For 30 years Bob has helped companies, sales leaders, and their teams to more effectively communicate their value, sell at higher prices with less resistance, and grow their businesses based on Endless Referrals. Bob has regularly addr...

Thom Dennis has a MSc in Change Agent Skills & Strategies, expertise as a Certified Facilitator accredited by the CQ® Center, and isHH an NLP Master Practitioner. Tom spent 17 years’ as an officer in the Royal Marines and has worked extensively around the world. Thom brings all his experience together as CEO of Serenity in Leadership and as a speaker, writer, facilitator, change agent, consultant,...

Karen Chaston was a CFO, CPA, and senior manager for more than 25 years. In 2011, her life changed forever. She found herself on a road to a personal, professional, and spiritual journey culminating in becoming a Beyond Loss Life Coach. Karen is co-founder of The Chaston Centre, she is an international speaker and best-selling author. Karen’s first-hand experience assisted The Chaston Centre in cr...

Leonard Scheiner has been helping law firms, attorneys, and professional service business owners for the past decade with a focus on developing their brands, marketing for new clients, and predictably growing revenues and online authority. Leonard’s clients have earned millions of dollars worth of new business as a result of Leonard’s frameworks and tactics. Today, Leonard is the CEO at Geek Haus,...

Angela Heise has spent her whole life dedicated to understanding the ‘why’ behind human behavior, to then be able to help people improve their life and relationships by better understanding themselves and others. Working with individuals and organizations, Angela helps people develop greater strengths in the areas of communication skills; social, cultural and emotional intelligence; creativity and...

Mike Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion-dollar companies and is the author of Fix This Next, Clockwork, Surge, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, The Pumpkin Plan, Get Different, and Profit First. His books have been translated into over 20 different languages. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and regularly travels the globe as an entrepreneu...

Luke Andrews is a real estate entrepreneur who sells, leads and invests. He is a best-selling author who has purchased 40 rental properties before turning 40 and has a passion for changing people’s lives through real estate. You can learn more about Luke, his real estate investment strategies, and training courses on his website: lukeandrews.us. You can also email him directly with any questions:...

How would you live if you thought you were going to die? Jill Hollander is a speaker, certified life and health coach, and writer who inspires those around her to recognize their courage, reframe their challenges and reinvent their lives. Born with a congenital heart defect that required a heart transplant before her high school graduation, she has since had not just one, but six, triumphant respo...

Liz Wolfe is a business coach, author, and speaker who coaches entrepreneurs to get unstuck so that they can launch and grow an abundant business.  Liz got her entrepreneurial start growing up on a sheep farm in Western Pennsylvania with her mother and two sisters. Later she moved to NYC, where she created a successful computer consulting business with her husband, Jon. Eventually, she transitione...

Kevin Palmieri is the founder and co-host of the Next Level University podcast. Early in his life, Kevin found “success”, but after a brush with suicide he realized he wasn´t living a life he truly wanted. He became passionate about self-improvement and decided to make it his purpose in life to impact as many people as possible by becoming a role model podcaster and speaker. Kevin has succeeded in...

To David Subar, “Better Products Faster,” has always been his mission. Coupled with strategic implementation of the lean start-up method, his mission has led to major valuation increases for a quickly growing list of more than 30 technology companies. David’s strategies are becoming the standard for how technology companies scale while continuing to deliver products that impact the lives of their...