The Presenters

WHY YOU DO WHAT YOU DO: Think, Act and
Communicate Differently and Maybe Even Change
the World
Presenter:   Simon Sinek
simonsinek.com
startwithwhy.com

A good example of multicultural fusion, Simon was born in Wimbledon, lived in Johannesburg, Athens, London and Hong Kong before moving to the US. With a Cultural Anthropology degree under his arm, he soon catapulted into the world of advertising in New York City Euro/RSCG, Ogilvy & Mather until he decided to launch his own company, Sinek Partners, in 2002.

Now a sought-after speaker, global entrepreneur and marketing consultant, Simon is known for developing The Golden Circle, a model that addresses what makes the most inspiring people and organizations so successful. He's been invited to talk about The Golden Circle across the US and around the world from small businesses to corporations, Members of Congress to foreign ambassadors, non-profits and the Pentagon to Hollywood. The lot.

Author of START WITH WHY, Simon's teachings are also helping more and more people learn to become more effective, more efficient and more inspiring by discovering how to start everything they say and do with WHY. Simon believes that if we inspire people to do the things that inspire them, one day, we will stand shoulder to shoulder and together, change the world.

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Brand Personality: How to See your Future and
Build a Strong Brand Online
Presenter:   Anita Campbell
smallbiztrends.com

Anita loves small businesses! She is the founder and CEO of Small Business Trends LLC, a media company that manages small business websites reaching over 250,000 small business owners each month. She is also host of her own radio show, "Small Business Trends Radio" and runs a small business news and social media site, BizSugar.com.

Her flagship website, Small Business Trends, is routinely named as the top small business blog and regularly noted as a rich informational resource. It has twice won the Forbes "Best of the Web" distinction for small business blogs and has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and on MSNBC.

Anita and her crew of experts have their finger on the pulse of what is happening with small businesses.

Anita will help you tap into:

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Putting the Real You in Your Business:
1) How to Discover and Love your Personal Brand
and then, 2) Bring it to Market as your Unique
Competitive Advantage.
Presenter:   Kaira Rouda
kairarouda.com

An award-winning entrepreneur, marketer, consultant, speaker and author of 20+ years, Kaira is the bestselling author of Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs, founder of Real You and president and brand creator of Real Living the first national women-focused brand in real estate.

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. Kaira is also a columnist for Reaching Women Daily and MomStyle.

Kaira was recognized in Entrepreneur magazine's Top 50 Fastest-Growing, Women-Led Companies list and won Best Entrepreneur from the Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

In 2001, she changed the face of real estate by building the first company to speak to women - the decision-makers in 91% of home purchases. She is also one of Entrepreneur magazine's "Top 50 Fastest-Growing, Women-Led Companies" and "The Most Promising New National Brand in Real Estate."

Kaira will inspire, delight, provoke, intrigue and also provide insights on how to:

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Creativity: Why Your Right Brain is the More
Provocative Side
Presenter:   Liz Taylor (Oxford, UK)
wow-at-work.com

Founder of Wow-At-Work.com, Liz is an intuitive innovator, serial entrepreneur and creative visionary when it comes to helping individuals recognize the way creativity can enhance the work experience - at precisely the same time - as making business more innovative, competitive and successful.

In a former corporate life, Liz steered a leading UK marketing agency with clients including Kellogg Company, Coco-Cola, Burger King and Nestle and later, sold the business to set up another creative agency. Her focus is now teaching clients how to utilize their intuition, one of the most powerful tools in business.

Liz will inspire you to tap into the power of your creativity and intuition before you even think about launching, re-launching or kickstarting your dream business.

Liz will help you discover:

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The Art of Rethinking Communication:
Daring to be Charismatic, Clear and Authentic to
Turn Around your Business Today
Presenter:   Nick Morgan, Ph.D
publicwords.com

In 1997, Dr. Nick Morgan went out on a limb and founded Public Words, a communications consulting organization, to challenge conventional thinking. One of the country's top communication theorists, coaches and a passionate teacher, Nick is committed to helping people find clarity in their thinking and ideas - and then delivering them with panache.

Nick has been commissioned by Fortune 50 companies to write for CEOs and presidents. He has coached people to give Congressional testimony, to appear on the Today Show, and to take on the investment community. He has worked widely with political and educational leaders. And he has helped design conferences and prepare keynote speeches around the world.

Nick's methods have been published worldwide. His latest book is Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma, published in December 2008 by Jossey-Bass. His acclaimed book on public speaking, Working the Room: How to Move People to Action through Audience-Centered Speaking was published by Harvard in 2003 and reprinted in paperback in 2005 as Give Your Speech, Change the World: How to Move Your Audience to Action.

Nick will challenge you to rethink how you communicate, as well as teach you how to master the art of nonverbal communication.

Nick will teach you:

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The Art of Zing: Why Showing Up in your Business as
Brand Agent/Provocateur Will
Catapult your Brand - Guaranteed
Presenter:   Mary van de Wiel
ZingYourBrand.com
MaryvandeWiel.com

As Founder, Brand Analyst and Creative Storyteller of A New Brand Landscape & Co. and its recently launched subsidiary, ZingYourBrand.com, Van has developed a highly-individualistic methodology called Zing Intelligence. It's all about creating a new, bold and provocative brand that will make you and your business stand out, show up, stake out your territory and impact your bottom line in ways you'd never thought possible. How do you do that? You start by leveraging your irresistible "zing factor", embed it in your brand, and then build your entire business around it.

In a former corporate life, as CEO and Chief Creative Officer of an award-winning branding and communication design agency (1991-2005) with offices in New York and Sydney, Australia, Van consulted on global branding and marketing campaigns, design culture and advertising for Fortune 500 clients in China, US, Australia and Europe.

Best known for her global marketing expertise in brand communication, storytelling and image development, Van's creative insights, peripheral vision and passion are exactly what she's going to be sharing to help entrepreneurs have more fun with their brand so they can attract more clients particularly in this economy.

Van will help you kickstart your creative juices, tap into your Zing, live outloud and you'll also find out:

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Risky Business: How to Avoid Legal Problems as a
Brand Agent/Provocateur
Presenter:   Nina L. Kaufman, Esq. NYC
askthebusinesslawyer.com

As founder of AskTheBusinessLawyer.com, Nina launched her legal practice in 1996 with a clear vision in mind. She wanted to save NYC entrepreneurs and small businesses time, money, and aggravation - and she'd do that by providing the legal foundation they needed for their companies to succeed and prosper.

Over a decade later, Nina's level of care and commitment to providing the legal edge to entrepreneurs is legendary. What's more, with her highly-individualistic and creative skills honed from the stand-up comedy stage, Nina is regularly sought after as a professional speaker on legal issues for small business. Featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes,.com, The New York Enterprise Report, SmallBusinessComputing.com, The New York Law Journal and the American Bar Association Journal, Nina is also a regular columnist for Entrepreneur where she authors the Business Law Advisor column and Making It Legal blog.

Nina will certainly inspire you to stake out your legal territory, stay on course, get it right and keep it legal.

Nina will help you discover:

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Going with the Flow: The No-Nonsense Guide
to Using Numerology and the Power of Numbers to
Make a Splash in Your Business
Presenter:   Melani Ward
MelaniWard.com

Melani's gift is in sharing quick and simple ways entrepreneurs can have more fun in their business, tap into their irresistibility factor so they attract clients to them like magnets and create big time results from authentic and powerful marketing strategies that are in line with who they are and the energies that are inherent within them. Melani shows her clients how to design a business and a life that doesn´t require them to give up freedom and fun for money.

Melani passionately believes we all have something we can't help but BE and when we commit to who we are and our mission 100%, without excuses or stories, we can make a fabulous living and be financially free to have the freestyle life we want and make a huge difference in the lives of those we touch at the same time.

She is the creator of the program, "GUTZ", the co-creator of the home-study program "Juice Your Biz" and author of the blog The Art of Finding Your Flow: An Experiment in Entrepreneurship, the Mind-Body Connection and Living a Freestyle Life. She is currently working on a book due out this fall.

Melani will teach you:

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Skyrocket your Influence and your Profits:
A Quick-Start Guide to Crafting your Valuable
Signature Speech for Speaking in Public
Presenter:   Dianne Legro
SpeakingSuccessInternational.com

As Founder of a dynamic nationwide training and development organization based in Southern California and the East Coast, Dianne Legro is a renowned coach, consultant and thought leader in the speaking arena. Dianne is currently lecturing around the country on how social media has created a wealth of new opportunities for business owners to begin speaking to their core audiences and double, even triple their profits.

She began coaching professionally after winning a Rockefeller Scholarship and a fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival, where she emerged as a unique singing and speaking professional. She became a master coach and trainer of executive communications bringing business professionals the secrets of inspiration and creativity from the big stage.

In a former life, Dianne was principal leader at Creative Leaps International, keynoting, teaching master classes and lecturing in the art of reaching and impacting audiences.

If you're dreaming of success as a speaker, Dianne will teach you how:

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This Girl is Living Proof: A Behind-The-Scenes
look at a day in the life of a true
Brand Agent/Provocateur
Presenter:   Kim de Young
metromom.com

Kim deYoung is living proof of the Quintessential Brand Agent/Provocateur in business, particularly in today's economy.

Better known as the "Get It Done Girl", Kim is a top implementer, mom of three, serial entrepreneur, connector of great women and go-giver. Within one short year, she tackled some monumental tasks: redesigning and expanding her business www.metromom.com to become the go-to resource for mom entrepreneurs, addressing critical issues around mom entrepreneurs as business owners/mothers and much, much more, not to mention launching an Online Success Telesummit, various info-products and a whole new line of "Get It Done" coaching programs.

In a former corporate life in fashion marketing, merchandising and the high-octane world of retail in New York City, Kim discovered that success depends on associating with other entrepreneurial women who have top-notch ideas, a broader, more creative perspective and a dynamic lifestyle. Energized by that thinking, Kim took the plunge, launched Metromom.com 16 months ago and hatched The Metromom Entrepreneurs Association so she could offer mom entrepreneurs the chance to belong to a supportive community and receive the connection and training they craved.

Kim will show, by example, how to truly take on the role of Brand Agent/Provocateur to reinvent your brand, think differently, act proactively and make it ALL happen. You'll find out:

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