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Dr. Jim Etter served 22 years in the United States Marine Corps where he had a tour in Viet Nam, two Purple Hearts and served as a Naval Flight Officer, Top Gun Graduate, Naval War College Graduate and served as the Operations Officer of a Marine Fighter Squadron. After he retired from the US Marine Corps as a Major, Jim went on to found American Military University and American Public University, a leader in online education with over 90,000 active students. Jim acquired the 40 year-old Citizens High School in 2017 and has expanded it from a correspondence school to one of the leading online global high schools offering more than 300 online courses with students throughout the US and over 43 countries. He recently launched the High School FLEX Diploma program which puts the student in charge of tailoring their High School diploma for their after High School success.
Jeffrey is an expert domain brokerage and building sales teams. Jeffrey most recently co-founded Saw.com, an industry-leading boutique brokerage that specializes in buying, selling, and appraising domains. Previously, Jeffrey was the Vice President of Sales at Uniregistry (recently purchased by Godaddy) , one of the industry-leading domain marketplaces, domain registrar, and monetization platform on the net. In his seven years with Uniregistry, Jeffrey and his team quadrupled sales dollar volume, delivered the highest average sale price of any marketplace in the industry, and exponentially increased the number of closed transactions. Jeffrey has contributed to over 350 million dollars in completed transactions while in the industry. His most notable sales include The Guinness World Record-breaking sale of Sex.com for $13,000,000 USD and the highest .Org sale ever, Poker.org for $1,000,000 USD.
Jackie Ducci is a hiring expert, and founder of Ducci & Associates which is talent acquisition agency servicing Fortune 500 clients nationwide. Her firm boasts an astounding 90 percent success rate placing candidates in long-term positions. Jackie’s 15 years in talent acquisition (and consequent front row seat to countless closed-door hiring conversations) lead her to write her first book, Almost Hired.
Jacqueline Snyder is the CEO, Founder and Creative Director of Designer Consulting Co-Op which is dedicated to providing a creative resource to the fashion industry. She specializes in design, product development & production for small & start-up businesses & over the past 11 years of her career, has helped launch & grow over 1,000 brands. She is also the co-host of The Product Boss, a podcast dedicated to product entrepreneurs.
John has helped thousands of entrepreneurs succeed in their business by doing outsourcing differently. He created and runs OnlineJobs.ph, the largest website for finding Filipino virtual workers, with over 1,000,000 Filipino resumes and over 300,000 employers from around the world using it. He works about 17 hours per week, choosing to spend his time with his family rather than working.
Jessie is a transformative career and business coach who uses her psychic abilities to help people turn their dreams into reality. Whether that's connecting with a more aligned 9-5 job, transitioning to a new career, starting a business, or growing an existing one, she can do it all! Her clients come to her feeling stuck but leave knowing they can fly.
Jeff Urban is a leading Sports Marketing executive. He is CEO of Sports Field Partners, a new entry in the synthetic turf space which focuses on eco-friendly, performance based turf fields for all sports properties. Recently serving across multiple consulting engagements, Urban was President and Co-Founder at Whistle Sports, a company that creates, curates and distributes breakthrough entertainment content for young, active males. Urban also served as Senior Vice President, Sports & Event Marketing at Gatorade and held that position for two years.
I create award winning, creative, individual, functional and beautiful spaces for residential and commercial clients. For over 30 years I have used my product and construction knowledge, project management skills and result driven efforts to help clients realize their dream spaces. I have been published in every home magazine in metro dc and have been featured in Washington Post, Washington examiner, USA today, and have been recognized as a top Interior Designer in Northern Virginia Magazine and Virginia Living magazine.
John Allen is a 27 years old graduate of Temple University. John launched his first major company Ivory Ella, an online apparel brand committed to selling good clothes for a good cause, in 2015 which has donated over $2mill dollars to various charities most notably Save The Elephants out of Samburu Kenya. John now runs an apparel manufacture company which is the only certified living wage apparel company in the world that supplies licensed goods to over 600 college and university bookstores across the country.
What happens when you mix a passion for celebrating blackness, slaying the status quo, championing marginalized groups, mild sauce, with a splash of side-eye to pop culture shenanigans? You get Joi’ Has Questions. After spending almost, a decade karate-chopping down microaggressions on the daily in the Media World, she turned her sights to what she feels is truly her purpose in life: to educate Black People about how dope they are and helping others feel empowered to tell their truth. She’s currently the creator and host of the podcast, Joi’ Has Questions, where she motivates people to follow their passions, along with interviewing fellow change agents, tired of being fed b.s. by the powers that be- soooooo I have a question: You, ready?
