An empowering and proven leader, Carla Moore currently serves as Vice President of Sales Strategy and Education for Home Box Office (HBO) in New York. She began her career with HBO as an entry-level sales trainer 20 years ago and worked her way up, working in multiple departments. Before taking on her current role, Carla was Vice President of Domestic Network Distribution, leading a sales and marketing team that served millions of subscribers. Now Carla and her team are helping to redefine...

Shawn C. Jones, MD is an ear, nose and throat physician and head and neck surgeon who was board certified in Otolaryngology in 1994. He is the senior and founding member of his specialty group, Purchase ENT, in Paducah, KY and is a member of the gratis faculty of the University of Louisville School of Medicine in the Department of Otolaryngology. He is the Author of the book Find The Heart In Art: A Surgeon’s Renaissance Approach to Healing Modern Medical Burnout. Service has always been...

Rob Ristagno is the founder and CEO of Sterling Woods Group and an author and keynote speaker focused on sharing new ways to use data to drive business results.  He combines his expertise in data science with proven sales and marketing strategies to help established middle-market companies quickly generate new revenue by improving the way they gather and utilize data. At the helm of Sterling Woods Group, Ristagno leads his team to provide practical, actionable analysis and strategies that...

Johnny Merritt, an equity partner of Hajjar Peters, LLP, is an attorney with over three decades of experience in complex corporate and real estate matters. For the majority of his career, he has also served as outside general counsel for billion dollar companies involved with interstate commerce. Merritt began his legal career as a litigation attorney, gaining proficiency in attention to detail and effective client communication. He has been a transactional attorney for more than 20 years,...

Jim Guilkey, Ph.D. is an expert in instructional design and has more than 20 years’ experience in leading the design, development, and implementation of web-based training solutions. As a co-founder of S4 NetQuest, Jim has led all client partnering relationships and design of innovative learning solutions for the medical/healthcare industry, financial industry, retail industry, and other top fortune 500 companies.   -Published author and highly sought-after national speaker -Developed FAA...

Sharon Hulce is President/CEO of Employment Resource Group, Inc. (ERG) and a 24 year veteran of Executive Search industry. Sharon is known in her industry as an innovation leader and works tirelessly on not only finding the right talent for her clients; she also works diligently on the empowerment and retention of that talent. Sharon clearly understands the emotional intelligence, competencies, knowledge and social interaction necessary to integrate new hires into a corporate culture for...

Bill is the “Culture King” and is known for building and transforming cultures and improving lives. He is the author of Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scaling and Succeeding in Business as well as other articles, podcasts and his first book, The Mustang Story.  Bill and his co-founders at Mustang Engineering did what six in a million startups do - they grew the business to over $1 billion in revenue and the company continues today. This success was directly a result of a people oriented...

Today’s guest is Joel Louis, founder and CEO of Integrator and Co., a digital marketing agency that helps experts reach more people, scale their business and increase online sales. Joel and his team specialize in funnel strategy, funnel design, funnel repair, and funnel building. In addition to generating millions of dollars and thousands of leads for his clients, Joel is a father of three and is passionate about the intersection of fatherhood and entrepreneurship.

Ande has made it her mission to break down the emotional, behavioral and societal barriers that stand between women and strong financial foundations. Early in her more than 25 year career she rejected traditional planning methods that didn’t account for how emotions factor into financial decision making. Wanting to do things differently, she developed an expertise in behavioral finance. In the years to follow, she saw again and again that conventional wisdom about women and money was...

Steve Palmer is the managing partner and founder of The Indigo Road Hospitality Group which operates twenty-four restaurants in six states. Steve has been recognized by the New York Times, L.A. Times, NPR, Southern Living, Food & Wine and Forbes Small Business Giants for his growing presence in the hospitality industry, as well as his charitable and community efforts. In 2016, Palmer co-founded Ben’s Friends, the food-and-beverage industry support group offering hope, fellowship and a...

Jeff Rogers founded Stewardship Legacy Coaching, LLC with a desire to help high-net-worth people create a legacy that will inspire a thriving family for generations to come. In addition to being a co-author of unPrepared: Heirs at Risk: 14 Elements for Successful Wealth Transfer, Jeff is also the ForbesBooks featured author of Create a Thriving Family Legacy: How to Share your Wisdom and Wealth with Your Children and Grandchildren. His extensive experience in combining effective wealth...

Specialty apparel retailing pioneer Bob Fisch has spent over 30 years as a CEO. Most notably, Bob transformed retailer rue21 into an industry powerhouse, boasting 11 consecutive years of growth in sales and profitability by energizing and inspiring his team at unprecedented levels. A master motivator, Bob has developed management and leadership techniques that have led him to his transformational mutual mentoring approach. His generation splicing framework helps different generations in the...

Throughout her career, Alyssa Rapp has not been afraid to ask, Now what? From training as a competitive gymnast to advising startups and running companies, she has always been used to working her tail off and looking ahead. By the time she added parenthood to the list, she quickly discovered the need to “hack” the system – find ways to work more efficiently, productively, and achieving at least episodic balance. Alyssa fell in love with her first entrepreneurial idea while studying at...

Rocco A. Carriero is the author of Three Cords Approach to Life and Wealth Management for Business Owners. Rocco is an established wealth management advisor with nearly two decades of experience. He is passionate about creating financial plans that help his clients achieve their individual, professional, and familial aspirations, taking the necessary time to discover each client’s unique needs rather than defaulting to the garden-variety wealth management options. Rocco also shares financial...

Andreas Wilderer was born and raised in Germany, where he also met his wife, Mirka—today CEO of DeNora WT. His business coaching company GLOBULARiTY uses a strengths-based philosophy to help Leaders navigate change through Adaptability (AQ).  As an entrepreneur and business leader, Andreas has also spent time in the home, raising his children and supporting his executive wife in her business aspirations. His new book, Lean On: The Five Pillars of Support for Women in Leadership, releases...

Nancy Eberhardt is an Executive and Gazelles-certified Coach and strategic communications consultant for entrepreneurs, corporations, professional practices, nonprofits and B- Corps.  She is author of Uncommon Candor, A Leader's Guide to Straight Talk, just released by ForbesBooks. A former regional bank president, Nancy led several successful mergers and $1 billion in customer relationships. Nancy taught Business Communications and Ethics for Jack Welch’s Executive MBA program and has been a...

Tim Bornholdt is an entrepreneur, software developer, podcaster, and the founder of The Jed Mahonis Group. There, Tim specializes in helping businesses to strategize, design, develop, and deploy custom iOS and Android mobile application systems that optimize a business's processes and improve their bottom line. Tim takes pride in not only building powerful mobile apps, but building powerful long-lasting relationships with his clients as he helps them scale, grow, and automate their...

Brett Beveridge is a serial entrepreneur who thrives on building businesses from the ground up and prides himself on being at the forefront of technology. Since founding The Revenue Optimization Companies (T-ROC), the Founder/CEO has helped propel the parent company of six brands to become a leader in the wireless, electronics, software and retail industries, assisting many big-box retailers and Fortune 500 companies such as Apple, Sprint, AT&T, Walmart, Comcast, and many more. Beveridge...

Lizanne Falsetto epitomizes today’s woman. She is a celebrated CEO & founder of thinkThin® ( the lifestyle brand she sold in late 2015), health and wellness visionary, retail trend spotter, sought-after business media commentator, and advisor to the next-generation of entrepreneurs. While a successful fashion model in the 1990s, she hungered for a protein-rich, high-energy on-the-go snack, that was low in sugar and gluten-free. thinkThin® was founded to address this market opportunity....

Armed with only $3,000, gut-wrenching fear, and absolutely no real estate experience... Mark bought his first few parcels of raw land in 2001. Today Mark is the owner of Frontier Properties, a very reputable and successful land investing company, and has been buying and selling land full time since 2001. By focusing on working smart, not hard, he has completed over 5,000 land deals with an average ROI of over 300% on cash flips, and over 1,000% on the deals he sells with financing terms....

Since 2010 Jacob ran his own Leadership and training organization, Yeda LLC, which gives seminars and courses to entrepreneurs and business owners. Currently, most of his work is consulting and training for organizations that are looking to implement best of class leadership and management practices. In 2011 Jacob was featured in a weekly newspaper in a yearlong column of leadership and management. This eventually turned into a book writing project, which is now complete. “The Prosperous...

Imtiaz Patel is a management consultant who has a proven track record of driving significant growth and profit improvement. He has extensive experience in a variety of industries, including retail, consumer goods, media, cybersecurity and financial services. As a consultant, he has led engagements for some of the best-known brands in the US and Europe and as an operator, he has conceived and launched businesses that have generated hundreds of millions in revenue.   Prior to launching his...

Heather Dominick is a woman who is impressively successful, and highly spiritual. A former high school drama teacher who collaborated with none other than Bette Midler. A graduate of NYU where she received her first coach training. Heather is the winner of the 2015 Best of Manhattan Coaching Award and creator of the 2014 Stevie Award winning virtual event A Course In Business Miracles®: 21-Day Discovery Series that attracted close to 6,000 official registrants from all around the world...

Raméz A. Baassiri is first a student of the world and considers himself a global citizen.   Through his experience working for over the past 2 decades in his multigenerational Family buisness AHB Group Investments , on his local board of his YPO chapter ;  as well as serving on several other privately and publicly traded companies. He has gathered some unique insights on interruptions in business and shares those insights in his groundbreaking / amazon best selling Forbes Books release...