Sam joined the military to pay his way through school at the University of Texas, where he studied Finance and Public Policy. He’s worked with and led crack teams on some of the most difficult and sensitive financial and organizational problems facing the nation at places like the Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Defense,…

Debra Eckerling is a goal strategist on a mission to change goal culture in and out of the workplace. A speaker, corporate consultant, and workshop leader, she offers personal and professional planning, event strategy, and team-building for executives, entrepreneurs, consultants, and companies. The founder of the D*E*B METHOD® for goal-setting simplified and award-winning author of…

Peter Wight has always wanted to make a difference in the world. But when January 6, 2021 happened, he knew he had to help people organize and make a difference in politics. Out of this came Our Public Assembly. Peter has a MPA from Clark University and is about 1/2 to a Ph.D. in Government…

Mark W. Schaefer is a globally-recognized author, keynote speaker, futurist, and business consultant who blogs at {grow} — one of the top five marketing blogs of the world. He teaches graduate marketing classes at Rutgers University and has written nine best-selling books. Mark’s new book Belonging to the Brand: Why Community is the Last Great…

Nick Bhavsar, founder of Bhavsar Consulting Group, strives to help your business grow through implementing tried and tested best practices across key marketing disciplines including product marketing, demand generation, marketing operations and brand. Prior to starting his consulting business, Nick was VP of Marketing at Levelset (acquired by Procore), where he helped construction stakeholders get…

Dennis Geelen, is the Founder and Chief Difference Maker at his solo consulting company, Zero In, that he founded in 2018. Through Zero In, Dennis helps companies ‘solve indifference’ by implementing strategies to build a brand customers love and culture where people are passionate to work. Author of the best-selling book ‘The Zero In Formula’,…

Leslie has been in startups and B2B SaaS for over a decade. She was the VP of Member Success and the first executive hire for Pavilion (formerly Revenue Collective), a global membership community focused on go-to-market executives. She built the playbook that created amazing evangelists out of current members and was instrumental in growing the…

Aaron is the CTO and Cofounder of Scribe (scribehow.com), a platform used by over 250,000 knowledge workers to automatically generate step-by-step guides for business processes. Prior to Scribe, he founded a number of technology companies and sold Onward — an automation SaaS platform — to Google in 2018. Aaron studied neuroscience and psychology at Yale…

Claire Paniccia (she/they) is a content marketing strategist and coach who is on a mission to prove that you can build a successful business even if you do things differently than the “gurus” say, in their work with neurodiverse and spoonie online entrepreneurs at her company Conquer Your Content. With her own ADHD, anxiety, and…

Jonas is an AI entrepreneur who has been world recognized – Among other awards, he is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 Award for pioneering Technologists and LinkedIn’s NextWave Award for rising entrepreneurs. Jonas holds several patents in the domains of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, some of which were issues…