C.J. Hayden, MCC, CPCC, is the author of Get Clients Now!, Get Hired Now!, and The One-Person Marketing Plan Workbook, and a contributing author to Guerrilla Marketing on the Front Lines and Mastering the World of Marketing. C.J. is a business coach, trainer, and speaker who helps people make a better living while building a better world. Her company, Wings for Business, specializes in serving entrepreneurs, self-employed professionals, and social entrepreneurs. C.J. is a former systems and productivity consultant with over 30 years experience in business management. She has been a professional trainer since 1978, a business advisor since 1990, and a coach since 1992.

A popular speaker and workshop leader, C.J. has presented hundreds of programs on marketing, entrepreneurship, and mission-driven business to corporate clients, professional associations, and small businesses. She has taught marketing for John F. Kennedy University, Mills College, the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the Social Enterprise Alliance. Her articles have been published internationally in Home Business, Selling Power, and Sales and Marketing Management, and in numerous regional publications, including California Job Journal and Bay Area BusinessWoman. She contributes regularly to dozens of websites and ezines, including RainToday, SalesDog, Salesopedia, and About.com.

A pioneer in the emerging profession of coaching, C.J. was a founding director of the worldwide Professional & Personal Coaches Association (which later merged with the International Coach Federation) and editor of their newsletter Being in Action. She founded the Coaches Make A Difference Initiative and serves on the advisory board of Choice: The Magazine of Professional Coaching. C.J. holds the credentials Master Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation, and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach from the Coaches Training Institute. She has completed advanced coach training with the Arbinger Institute and is a member of the Arbinger Coaches Network.

As an activist and social entrepreneur, C.J. is the founder of the Send Girls to School Project, and serves on the board of A Good Deed Tea.

C.J. has been featured in Investor’s Business Daily, Information Marketing Journal, Home Office Computing, and Costco Connection, and in numerous books, including Get Slightly Famous, How to Position Yourself as the Obvious Expert, and The Business and Practice of Coaching. She has been widely profiled internationally by newspapers, radio, and TV.

Donna Fenn is the author of two books: Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success (McGraw-Hill, 2009); and Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack (Collins 2005).

A business journalist for more than 25 years, Fenn is a contributing editor at Inc. Magazine and the co-founder of The Mentors Council, an initiative of The Young Entrepreneur Council. She is also an experienced international keynote speaker. She has been a blogger on BNET/CBSi, a columnist on Lifetuner.com, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Working Woman, Parents, Reader’s Digest, and The Washington Monthly, among other publications. She was a correspondent for The Associated Press in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1988 to 1992.

She now lives in Pelham, NY with her husband, Guian Heintzen, and is the proud mom of a Tulane grad and a Cornell junior.

Cheryl has been called a powerhouse in the world of business and personal finance by leading magazines.

Award-winning author, Washington Post best-selling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and motivational speaker, Cheryl is one of America’s leading expert on business and personal finance and CEO of Cheryl Broussard & Co., the largest publishing and training company on women entrepreneurship and wealth-building.

Cheryl has written several bestsellers: Sister CEO; What’s Money Got To Do With It; How To Make Love and Money Work In Your Relationship, Smart Ways To Take Charge of Your Money, Build Wealth, and Achieve Financial Security.  In Addition, she has created Cheryl Broussard’s Mind Your Money: The 7 Keys To Your Financial Freedom System. Her latest two books, Starting Over: Fast Cash & Getting Back On Financial Track; The Jet Set Girl’s Guide To Building A Million-Dollar Online Empire.

Cheryl has written, co-produced and hosted Ebony’s magazine video, Ebony Money Power, Real Estate Wealth Bootcamp, Ms. Money Millionaire ® Financial Bootcamp and The Sister CEO Bootcamp. She is also the former talk show host of Mind Your Money Radio show, sponsored by Bank of America. Cheryl was a major presenter at the Microsoft Business Summit.

Cheryl is a contributing editor to several major magazines.  Cheryl is a former personal financial advisor on CNN and CBS Marketwatch.

Cheryl has lectured widely in the United States and International countries.  She has been featured in major publication in the United States, such as USA Today, Entrepreneur, Upscale, and Essence.

Cheryl, a Registered Financial Advisor professional, directed the Broussard & Douglas, Inc. Investment Advisory Firm from 1989-1997, which managed $75 million in investment funds.

Awards:

• Outstanding Business and Professional Woman by Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc. April 2011
• Phenomenal Woman of The Year Award, Frasernet June 2011
• 2011 Women of Color Achievement Award, 100 Black Men of the Bay Area and the Women’s Presidents’ Organization, sponsored by American Express Open, June 2011

Lisa Petrilli is Chief Executive Officer of C-Level Strategies, Inc., Chief Operating and Marketing Officer for the global To Be a Woman platform, and Chief Relationship Officer for CEO Connection. She is passionate about cultivating visionary leadership.

Lisa is also the author of, “The Introvert’s Guide to Success in Business and Leadership,” an Amazon Best-Selling eBook and “Hot New Release” on its launch day. The eBook is featured at Huffington Post and is available at www.TheIntrovertsGuide.net.

As an executive at Baxter Healthcare, Lisa moved up the corporate ladder to ultimately run a $750 million medication delivery business and a team of marketers while negotiating global licensing, commercialization and co-marketing contracts with pharmaceutical companies.

When faced with a PR challenge by Greenpeace, she led a team that created a solution so unique and environmentally friendly that she presented it on behalf of Baxter to a United Nations Environmental Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

She spent a year as an Executive Leadership Trainer at the Baxter Institute training corporate-wide executives on leadership principles and strategies, as well as how to create and communicate a vision for their organization.  She is passionate about bold ideas that are steeped in challenges.

She began collaborating with C-level executives early in her career when she was consulting directly for C-suite officers at some of the country’s most prestigious hospitals on behalf of Baxter Healthcare.

Since that time, Lisa has gained considerable experience working with C-level executives on business growth strategies, creating business visions, leading teams, running million-dollar businesses, providing executive leadership training and implementing Herculean initiatives.

She helps C-suite executives and emerging leaders create strong visions for their companies and for themselves, and then bring these visions to fruition with clear strategies focused on leadership, marketing, business development and social media that align directly with the vision.

Her perspective on Visionary Leadership was the focus of an interview she did on Becoming a Visionary Leader with Intel for their Small Business Blog.

Lisa has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Marketing, International Business & Organizational Behavior and a Bachelor’s Degree from Indiana University’s Honor’s College and Kelley School of Business with a minor in Political Science.

She blogs about leadership at her own Visionary Leadership Blog, for the Lead Change Group, and her blog posts are syndicated at Lead Digital, Business to Consumer, and Alltop.

Lisa is also Co-Founder and Co-Leader of Leadership Chat, www.LeadershipChat.net, a Twitter chat held every Tuesday evening that is attended by leaders from around the globe.

Online, Lisa is:

• Author of the Visionary Leadership Blog at www.LisaPetrilli.com
• Credited in The New York Times and The Globe and Mail
• Co-Founder and Co-Host of Leadership Chat which occurs every Tuesday evening at 8:00 pm Eastern Time globally on Twitter – With recent chats reaching 1.7 million people and creating 37+ million online impressions
• One of Twitter’s Small-Business Big Shots as mentioned in the Wall Street Journal
• One of the Top 50 Women of Twitter for 2011 by Webbiquity
• One of the Top 35 Connectors on Twitter
• One of the 40 Most Approachable Social Media A-Listers on Twitter
• Creator and former Executive Editor of the Marketing Executives Networking Group’s 18-blogger MENG Blend Blog
• Consultant, Contributing Blogger and Key Advisor to the Content Marketing Institute at ContentMarketingInstitute.com
• Contributing Author to Leadership Digital at LeadershipDigital.com
• Contributing Blogger and Member of the Lead Change Group at LeadChangeGroup.com
• MarketingProfs author and webinar speaker at MarketingProfs.com
• Guest Blogger for a number of leadership and marketing blogs

Monica Cornetti is the owner of EntrepreNow!, a business training and consulting firm. She has more than 20 years experience in the corporate, non-profit, and academic sectors with an expertise in bringing excellence to organizations through leadership and training.

A Senior Small Business Development Specialist, Monica is a highly sought after speaker and trainer. Her emphasis is always on fun and learning as she delivers high-energy, high-content training, along with a plan for application in the real world Monica is one of only 13 professionals with an MS Degree in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship. She is a published author, a top-notch speaker, a professional consultant and an accomplished leader known for being one of the best entrepreneurial training experts in the business.

She’s a natural-born motivator, optimist and entertainer. Her presentations are inspirational, funny, and focused on helping her participants achieve results.
With loads of spunk and charm, her skills as a speaker have earned her Perfect 10 reviews from participants across the country.
Committed to excellence, Monica has dedicated her life to helping others reach and fulfill their dreams.

Kaira is an award-winning entrepreneur, marketer, speaker and author. She is the bestselling  author of REAL YOU INCORPORATED: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs (Wiley), founder of numerous companies including Real You, and brand creator of Real Living Real Estate, the nation’s first women-focused real estate brand. In late 2009, and with the help of a tweet, Kaira helped orchestrate the sale of Real Living to Brookfield Residential Property Services, a Toronto-based firm with approximately USD $90 billion of assets under management. Kaira remains brand strategist and consultant for the company. Her first novel, HERE, HOME, HOPE(Greenleaf Book Group) was published in May of 2011, and won a 2011 Indie Excellence Award for fiction.

As an authority and sought-after speaker on entrepreneurship, branding, marketing to women, and work-life balance, Kaira has been a speaker at conferences across the country. She has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine, FOX Business, ABC, NBC, WomenEntrepreneur.com, ABC Radio Network as well as hundreds of newspapers, television and radio shows coast to coast. She is a favorite interviewee and contributor to online women’s communities, and radio shows, and was named to Forbes’ list of the top 30 Women to follow on Twitter.  Until writing her first book, Kaira had been the “Connections” columnist for The Columbus Dispatch for more than 10 years. She continues to write her own blog, on her website www.kairarouda.comand a free, weekly tip with a subscriber base of several thousand women. Earlier in her career, Kaira was a contributing editor to Columbus Monthly magazine and a freelancer for national and regional magazines including Midwest Living. Her first national magazine byline appeared in Bride magazine, shortly after her honeymoon.

Named 2008 Best Entrepreneur from the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, Kaira was recognized in Entrepreneur magazine’s inaugural Top 50 fastest-growing, women-led companies list. She’s also been listed in the top 10 real estate newsmakers of the year and one of the Top 50 most influential women in real estate by the industry’s trends report. Formerly Vice President of Marketing for an Inc. 100 firm and franchisor, as well as for her career in advertising agencies and media firms, she’s received multiple ADDY, Webby, Telly, Communicator, Prism, WebAward and W3 awards. She also to Twittergrader’s Most Powerful Women on Twitter.

Active in her community, she created Central Ohio’s first homeless shelter for families, served two terms on the board of the Mid-Ohio FoodBank, the YWCA, March of Dimes, The Wexner Center for the Arts and is an underwriter of The Women’s Fund. She has received numerous awards for her civic service including the Ohio Sertoma Service to Mankind Award, Kiwanis Humanitarian Award, AWRT Women in Communication Award, Northwest Rotary Woman of the Year and the Columbus Board of Realtors Citizen of the Year. Kaira also volunteers countless hours to her kids’ schools.

Kaira is or has been a member of NAWBO, the International Women’s Forum, the Women President’s Organization, eWomen Networking, the Women’s Council of Realtors, American Marketing Association, the Google Real Estate Advisory Board, and is a WebAward Judge for the Web Marketing Association. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University with a BA in English, and has taken numerous graduate level writing courses. She studied with The Writers Studio in New York and has attended writer’s conferences including Antioch Writers Workshop and the Maui Writer’s Conference.

A mother of four, Kaira and her husband, Harley, have been married for 21 years. After residing in Upper Arlington, Ohio, for all of their married lives, the couple and their kids headed west, and now live in Southern California.

Andrea Waltz is the co-author of “Go for No! – The Ultimate Strategy for Failing Your Way to Success!” 

Entertaining and fast-paced, Go for No!® motivates readers to overcome self-imposed limitations and to literally fail their way to success! It teaches that the ultimate strategy for achieving sales success (and outrageous levels of success in life) is not to merely “tolerate” failure and rejection but to intentionally seek it out.When it comes to improving results, learning to overcome fear of failure, rejection, and being motivated to achieve peak levels of performance and sales success, Go for No!® is the book that can do all that… if you’re willing to let it!

Includes FREE access code for “No Quotient” Assessment.