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Karlyn Ankrom is a Virginia-based social media strategist and content creation expert who helps small businesses secure visibility and dollars from ideal customers and clients.
She’s the creator of Fan Firestarter Framework, a framework dedicated to the social media success of small businesses turning lookie-loos into lifelong raving (and paying) fans. Leveraging 10 years of experience in the social media space and a degree in journalism, she uses the Framework in setting up her small business clients for social media success from restaurants to dental practices, and lawyers and online boutique owners.
You can find her serving up no-nonsense talk and heaps of creativity at ohsnapsocial.com and tap dancing her way through her week teaching dance in the evenings at her hometown studio. She lives in Fairfax, VA with her hubby.
Kristi is the CEO of Culture Works, a San-Diego based company focused on aligning purpose, people, and process to maximize success through dynamic company culture operations.
Kathryne Carter is the owner of Grace And Virtue Events, a wedding and event planning company based in Silver Spring, MD. She planned her mother and stepfather’s wedding in 2009 - which was her first wedding. Her business name is based on a scripture given to her by her mother. Kathryne is passionate about the event planning process, being creative, working with couples & small businesses and developing business relationships with other vendors. She is a board member of the Association of Wedding Professionals of Greater Washington, DC. She has been featured on the Hue I Do Wedding Podcast and her styled shoots have been featured in the online blogs United With Love and Storyboard Wedding.
KERRY WEKELO, MBA, is the Chief Operating Officer at Actualize Consulting, a financial services firm. Her book and program, Culture Infusion: 9 Principles for Creating and Maintaining a Thriving Organizational Culture and latest book Gratitude Infusion, are the impetus behind Actualize Consulting being named Top Company Culture by Entrepreneur Magazine, a Top Workplace by The Washington Post, FORTUNE Best Small & Medium Workplaces™, and Best and Brightest ELITE National Winner in Communication and Shared Vision category. In her leadership, Kerry blends her experiences as a consultant, executive coach, award-winning author, mindfulness expert, and entrepreneur. Kerry has been featured on ABC, NBC, NPR, The New York Times, Thrive Global, SHRM, Inc., and Forbes.
Kapri Robinson is DC's 2017 Cocktail Queen and has been a part of the beverage community in DC for almost a decade now. While spending her time being a bartender at Reliable Tavern she founded Chocolate City's Best, a platform to connect people of color to opportunities in the hospitality industry for their own career growth. Kapri has gone on to win cocktail competitions and has been acknowledged on multiple platforms. Kapri has been welcomed onto Good Morning Washington as well as featured in a two-page article in the Washington Post Express. Kapri has also been welcomed onto many podcast magazines, such as Edible DC, about her dedication to growing Chocolate City's Best and educating herself and her community
Kendra Y. Hill is a native San Antonian who has lived all over the world, from Washington DC to Cali to Mexico and Toronto. Her professional background includes the U.S. House of Representatives, UNCF, Google and the San Antonio Spurs. An entrepreneur for over a decade, Kendra has a unique approach that can help any business large or small. Her specialties include organizational leadership, digital media, brand development, HR and talent acquisition, system automation, team-building, strategic management diversity, equity and inclusion, and faith-based entrepreneurship.
Kelsey Formost is a copywriting expert and mental health advocate who helps female entrepreneurs use copywriting tools to be heard, feel valued, and make money. She is the CEO of Magic Words Copywriting and creator of the Youtube show "Find Your Magic"; the series about mental health for women in business.
Kristen Harcourt is an Executive Coach and Professional Speaker. For more than a decade, she has helped executives and emerging leaders in hundreds of organizations worldwide achieve extraordinary and sustainable results through increased self-awareness, emotional intelligence and mindfulness. A big believer in compassion, authenticity and conscious leadership, Kristen’s mission to help leaders transform from the inside out, creating a meaningful career and purpose-driven life where they reach their full potential.
Karl Ronn spent nearly 30 years with Procter & Gamble, winding up as vice president of R&D and general manager of new business/healthcare, where he was responsible for developing P&G’s capability to deliver disruptive innovations. Karl developed new markets for household-name cleaning products like Febreze, Swiffer and Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, as well as personal care products like Old Spice and Secret. Since leaving P&G in 2010, Karl has founded multiple startups and consulted with Fortune 500 companies wanting to create billion-dollar growth engines. Karl has also sat on the advisory board for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for the last 15 years. He leverages his expertise in consumer marketing, demand creation and behavioral change, most recently to establish best practices in preventing chronic illnesses like diabetes.
Kim Marie spent 30 years in the banking industry and culminated her career in mergers and acquisitions where she drove the M&A of over 30 banks. Kim Maire became a LeTip member during the last two years of her banking career and she loved LeTip so much that she decided to join the company and became the Regional Director of Arizona. She was promoted to the LeTip National Training Director in 2003. In 2004, she was promoted to Executive Vice President and became the President of LeTip in 2005. In February 2008, Kim Marie purchased LeTip and became the CEO/Owner.
