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Margie Aliprandi
Margie’s career has always revolved around teaching, entertaining, helping or inspiring others. With a degree in Music Education from the University of Utah, where she graduated Cum Laude, Margie taught at the Jr. High and High school level before launching her own business. She is a former Miss Teenage and Mrs. Utah.
Using her musical and acting skills, she performed with the Utah Opera Company, toured Asia and the South Pacific on a USO Tour to entertain the US troops, and has worked in the film and advertising industries. She has been in national television commercials for companies such as Ford and Toyota, featured in industry films, infomercials, mini series and has done studio voice work.
Margie is part owner and marketing director of a company that produces interactive affirmation software called Mind Makeover.
Margie serves on the Cancer Prevention Coalition Board of Directors and, since 1999, has overseen their outreach programs in thirteen countries.
Leesa Barnes
Award winning blogger and podcasting expert, Leesa Barnes, is author of the critically acclaimed book, Podcasting for Profit: A Proven 7 Step Process to Help Individuals and Businesses Can Generate Income
Through Audio & Video Podcasting. Leesa helps individuals and businesses boost sales, find new clients and make a six figure income using a podcast.
Her podcast and blog has helped her achieve many professional and financial goals. In 2006, Leesa was the only coach named by Canada’s Word of Mouth Expert as one of the Top 50 Media & Marketing Bloggers in Canada. She is listed #1 in Google for the keyword podcasting expert ahead of an award winning podcasting event and other new media consultants. Visit http://www.leesabarnes.com to learn more about Leesa and to download 2 chapters from her book.
Jane Deuber
Jane Deuber is a best-selling author, international speaker and sought after business consultant to big thinking entrepreneurs around the world. As the Founder of her consulting firm, Profit Partners, and through her role as Co-Founder of the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance, Jane has helped thousands of women turn their passions into profits as they build businesses that make a difference.
Jane’s 20 years in direct selling has taken her from being a first time distributor to company executive and now a respected industry consultant. She was the lead writer for two best-selling books entitled Build It Big and More Build it Big, which hit #1 on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and have since been translated into six languages. That experience of working with 200 top earning direct selling leaders gave Jane insights and proven strategies that she is here to share with you today.
Today Jane resides in beautiful Pebble Beach, CA where she is living out her dream of helping women pursue the life they love through the power of entrepreneurship. She is a wife, a mom and now grandma to two and soon to be three wonderful grandchildren.
Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi is one of the rare individuals who discovered the essential formula for making his way to the top -- a powerful and balanced combination of marketing acumen and networking savvy. Both Forbes and Inc. magazines have designated him one of the world's most "connected" individuals.
As Founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he provides market leaders with advanced strategic consulting and training services to increase company sales and enhance personal careers. Ferrazzi Greenlight strategically leverages the insight of its executives, whose careers span the highest echelons of corporate America, along with principles from Ferrazzi's best-selling book, Never Eat Alone. Never Eat Alone has been recognized as one of the best business books of 2005, 2006, and 2007 (three year’s in a row since its publication in 2005).
Widely recognized as a thought-leader among his peers, Ferrazzi is a frequent contributor to CNN and CNBC. He has authored numerous articles for leading business and consumer publications, including Forbes, Inc, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and Reader’s Digest. An early leader in the quality movement, Ferrazzi was the youngest examiner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He has been named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, one of the top "40 Under 40" business leaders by Crain's Business, one of the most distinguished young Californians by the Jaycees, and one of the most creative Americans in Richard Wurman's "Who's Really Who". Ferrazzi's extraordinary rise to prominence, which includes a stint as the youngest Chief Marketing Officer in the Fortune 500, has even inspired a Stanford Business School case study.
As CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he draws upon a rich professional history to help guide organizations and business leaders worldwide. Ferrazzi was previously Chief Marketing Officer at Starwood Hotels, he oversaw marketing activities for global brands including Sheraton, Westin, The Luxury Collection, St. Regis, and W Hotels. Ferrazzi also served as Chief Marketing Officer for Deloitte Consulting, a leading global management consulting firm, where he developed and managed the industry's first globally integrated marketing organization. His creative marketing strategy drove the ascent of Deloitte's "Consulting" brand recognition from the lowest in the industry to a primary position and spurred the highest featured growth rate in the industry.
Ferrazzi actively supports numerous civic, charitable and educational organizations. He serves on the Yale University Board of Alumni Governors and the Board of Trustees of the Kiski School in Pennsylvania and is also a Fellow of the Berkeley College at Yale. Additionally, Ferrazzi founded Big Task Weekend, an executive roundtable that brings together some of the nation’s top leaders to focus on improving the health and wellness of Americans. Ferrazzi’s interests also include studying the relationship between leadership success and spirituality. He received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Learn more about Keith Ferrazzi at www.keithferrazzi.com. Learn more about his company, Ferrazzi Greenlight at www.ferrazzigreenlight.com.
Sandy Grason
Sandy Grason is the author of the bestselling book, JOURNALUTION, she is inspiring people all over the world to transform their lives through the practice of journaling. She defines the word Journalution as the act of revealing your inner wisdom through writing.
Sandy has addressed audiences for the National Association of Women Writers, Motorola, State Farm on board Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. She is one of the newest members of The Omega Institute's esteemed faculty, teaching at the Rhinebeck & Costa Rica retreat centers.
Sandy has received glowing endorsements from celebrity-authors such as Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Mark Victor Hansen, John Gray - and Louise Hay.
Sandy has been featured in The Chicago Tribune, The Palm Beach Post, Body + Soul Magazine, Woman's Day, Balance Magazine and Ocean Drive Magazine.
Sandy works to empower women, nurture and inspire young people and help others discover their passion and purpose so that they may be fulfilled, abundant, purposeful, spiritually conscious human beings who give their gifts and talents back to the world. Sandy is a supporter of GAP Girls (Girls Advocacy Project) at the Miami Detention Center and a portion of all profits that Sandy receives from speaking engagements is donated to this organization.
Sandy lives in South Florida, with her husband and two daughters.
Visit her online at www.sandygrason.com
Jillian Middleton Jillian spent 15 years as a Network Marketing professional. She worked two complimentary businesses and earned national awards in both for performance and leadership as she worked her way to the top of both leadership pay plans. Jillian’s success was highlighted in corporate sales and training tapes in both Network Marketing companies.
For the last seven years she has focused entirely on coaching and training business builders in the Network Marketing Industry.
Today Jillian is an international speaker, trainer, coach and the CEO of Savvy Sponsoring Strategies an organization she founded to share her business building insights with others so they can build profitable, sustainable and sane network marketing businesses.
Hundreds credit her six month “Savvy Sponsoring” flagship program as not only the foundation of their success but also for bringing joy back into building their business and balance into their lives.
http://www.savvysponsoring.com/
Michael Oliver
Michael Oliver is the founder of Natural Selling, the only sales training program designed to really eliminate rejection and objections. He is also the author of the international best selling book "How To Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety Or Losing Your Friends!"
To learn more about how to get higher conversion ratios from helping more people achieve their vision, contact him at info@NaturalSelling.com or go to his website for his free Ecourse "7 Steps to Natural Selling".
Michael Port / Elizabeth Marshall
Michael Port is the bestselling author of Book Yourself Solid and Beyond Booked Solid.
He has been called a "marketing guru" by the Wall Street Journal and is one of the best professional speakers around.
To learn more about Michael, please visit www.MichaelPort.com.
Elizabeth Marshall is Director of Sales for Michael Port Companies. While working at the nationally recognized sales firm, she was awarded Research Recruiter of the Month five times.
Also, she is the founder of AuthorTeleseminars.com, which hosts interviews with top business authors such as Seth Godin, Keith Ferrazzi, Tim Ferriss and others.
To learn more about Elizabeth, please visit www.MarketingMarshall.com.
Sarah Robinson
Sarah Robinson, is the CEO of Hot Pink Success Coaching, Visionary behind the Hot Pink Revolution and the Founder of the 1st Annual Profit, Purpose and Beyond. Sarah dedicates her professional life to helping women create a richly satisfying work life by sharing all that she has learned and by being a champion for their dreams.
She is motivated by working with those who are willing to learn the necessary skills to transform their own lives. Sarah provides a variety of coaching programs including the Get Your Year in Gear as well as one-on-one individual coaching.
Visit her at www.hotpinksuccess.com
Scott Stratten
Scott Stratten is the President of Un-Marketing.com, a company that has one thing in mind: to build your list. They are responsible for some of the biggest viral online movies of all-time, bringing in over 60 million visitors over the past 4 years. His own list surpassed 250,000 subscribers within 8 months, without advertising, PPC or search engine traffic.