Community & Guest List
Dr. Jon Thompson, Founder and CEO of extraktLAB, is a separation scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He received his Doctor of Chemistry degree in 2001 from the University of Minnesota and has since has worked on everything from secret projects with NASA to helping companies enter the medical cannabis market. His company helps people find success in the business of pharmaceutical grade botanical extraction and refinement. Dr. Jon guides his businesses through ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) policies and believes we all deserve a sustainable future.
My mission is to connect, train, and evolve, with humans around the world by bringing humanity back to social media. After all, that’s all any of this is actually about — genuine human connection. To remind you that this life is yours, we’re all a little messed up and that’s okay, because you aren’t alone. Together we can truly make life happen for you.
Judy Schramm is the CEO of ProResource, a social media agency that helps CEOs create a strong personal presence online and use social media to advance their business goals. The company has a unique methodology for personal branding that focuses on sharing thought leadership, building an audience, and moving people to action, so clients can grow their businesses faster and make a bigger dent in the universe. Judy’s network includes more than 15,000 followers on LinkedIn and 4,000 on Twitter. She blogs, speaks often at industry events, has written an ebook and many articles.
Winston Hofer is a marketing consultant and Founder & CEO at Madroit Marketing. After a failed semi-pro hockey career, and several jobs spent working for someone else, Winston decided that he needed more freedom and bootstrapped his company starting from nothing. The lessons and strategies he’s learned along the way are what have helped him grow his business into the success that it is today, along with relationship building and hiring smart. As an entrepreneur and business owner now since 2012, he has realized his passion which is to help small business owners get more sales & referrals and build & market their businesses. He enjoys taking on new challenges (if only to prove to himself that he can), and making himself better every single day by learning something new.
Natalia began her career in finance in 2012 and worked for several firms before striking out on her own to found Zacharin Consulting. Zacharin Consulting is dedicated to empowering business owners to understand and interpret their financial health to significantly improve the bottom line. Through personal service and expertise, Natalia's goal is to bring her experience and knowledge to clients in a meaningful way. Whether you have been in business 1 year or 50, Zacharin Consulting can improve your cash flow, increase cash-on-hand, and develop plans for growth. Not your typical CFO, Natalia is also the executive director of a non-profit children's scouting organization, a lecturer on ecology and a nature photographer. A single mom and sole provider, Natalia understands the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur and helps other business owners navigate the sometimes murky waters to clarity and entrepreneurial financial freedom.
Lee Eisenstaedt is the founder of Leading With Courage Networking, an all-virtual, B2B networking community for trusted advisors with 10 or more years of experience. He designed LWCN based on his 40+ years of experience as a senior finance and operations executive in the US and Europe, and as a member of countless networking groups. Lee has addressed some of the larger opportunities he feels are being overlooked by most networking groups and has designed a community for who are today and the world we're evolving into.
My name is Cortlon Cofield and I am the Founder and C.E.O of Cofield Advisors. At Cofield Advisors, we help millennial business owners by taking the financial and tax planning burden off their shoulders so they can focus on growing their businesses!
Tom Scarda hosts The Franchise Academy Podcast and is the author of three books: the #1 bestseller Franchise Savvy: 6 Strategies Pros Use to Pick a Top Performing Franchise, The Road to Franchise Freedom and The Magic of Choosing Uncertainty. A self-made small business expert and Certified Franchise Expert, Tom has owned and operated five businesses both franchised and non-franchised. Tom was the #1 franchisee of the year in one franchise concept and failed miserably in another concept. The lessons he learned from failure is what makes him such an expert. Named one of the top 50 business leaders on Long Island, Tom has helped over 1500 people figure out if franchising is for them since 2005. He’s been featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers and is a sought-after radio, Podcast and TV guest.
Lauri is a salesman at heart and currenty the CEO and founder of Messente - a global messaging platform used in millions of micro business transactions every day in Europe, Latin-America, and South-East Asia. Contrary to a typical tech startup, Lauri and his co-founders bootstrapped the company from day one and have taken it to close to 10mEUR annual revenue without ever raising any outside investments.
Gratitude, service and the importance of community is what drives and inspires Caren of cp:yoga. Her vision was to create a welcoming space for all people to explore their physical and mental well-being through the power of movement while intentionally giving back to the community through fundraising and campaign awareness. Over the course of 2021 she and her community raised $8,000, worked with 11 different organization serving 11 different causes. She has grown her community and following from 3 to 90 unique members, all motivated to make different and impact on the community that surrounds them.
