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Nataliya Kalava is a finance professional with approximately ten years of professional experience in financial services industry including: business valuation, public accounting, and financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Nataliya is the founder and owner of Araliya Valuation Consulting, AVC - a business valuation consulting firm. Nataliya performs valuation analyses for both individuals and corporate entities including for M&A, gift and estate tax planning purposes, financial reporting, transaction support and litigation. Prior to AVC, Nataliya worked at Equinix Inc., Humana Inc., BDO LLP, Sigma Valuation Consulting Inc. and PwC. Nataliya earned a Master of Science Degree in Finance from the University of Tampa and a Bachelor of Science in International Business and Management.
Naomi James is a mental performance consultant who runs Naomi James Performance Consulting. As a former athlete, Naomi went through her own hurdles that lead her to study sport and performance psychology. The mental skills she implements are life skills are are applicable across contexts for business people, performers, athletes and high-achievers alike.
the goal will be jumping to a studio level ideally making a motion capture film in New Zealand financed by the studios."
where he helped grow the Society for Entrepreneurship and New Ventures (ENVE) into one of the most respected student-led organizations on campus."
Nick Shelton is a speaker and coach for introverted career professionals as well as a best-selling author of the book An Introvert’s Guide To World Domination. He has been fine-tuning the craft of effective, high-level social strategy and networking for twenty years. Coupled with extensive research and sixteen years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Nick has successfully built a strong, international network of friends, colleagues, and associates. Now he teaches others how to do the same by navigating social events and situations with ease with the goal of upgrading their lives and lifestyles.
Nancy Fox is the founder of The Business Fox, a career and business acceleration coaching & training company and the founder of Leap Forward Women's Initiatives, empowering high-caliber professional and executive women in the new world of work. She is a former senior executive who has coached and trained Fortune 500 companies and leaders across the country, is a national keynote speaker on networking and peak performance and the author of the acclaimed book on business networking, Network Like A Fox: A Targeted Approach To Building Successful Business Relationships In Person & Online.
Natalie Madeira Cofield is the Founder and CEO of Walker’s Legacy, a digital platform for professional entrepreneurial multicultural women. Cofield founded Walker’s Legacy in 2009, with the mission to enhance leadership, create networking, learning opportunities, and bring exposure to emerging trends in business for aspiring professional women of color. Walker’s Legacy celebrated its 10-Year Anniversary this year of empowering women of color in business.
Dr. Nicole Rochester is a physician, former caregiver to her late father, and the CEO of Your GPS Doc, LLC. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University, attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and completed her residency training in Washington, DC. After practicing medicine for almost 20 years, she left a rewarding career in clinical and academic medicine to follow what she believes is her life's calling.
Nancy Sajjadi is the Founder of Life Quality by Design, LLC a business-to-business venture that helps organizations address issues of employee absenteeism, disengagement and rising health care costs. She is a Certified Corporate Wellness Specialist who works with leaders to help employees at all levels identify barriers to their personal well-being and inspires them to a higher level of commitment to sustain changes to improve their quality of life by applying an engineering approach known as "quality by design". She is a well-being enthusiast who has used her Master's degree in Genetic Engineering and extensive experience with a multitude of organizations and teams at all levels, to develop transformative programs and services that foster shared responsibility for achieving greater work-life alignment and encouraging its mutual benefits for the employees and the organizations that employ them.
CEO and Co-founder of GTMPlus (gtm-plus.com) - a software development company that provides IT outsourcing, team extension, customer, and technical support services for businesses that want to work with broad-minded people who understand customer problems and provide excellent solutions. Public speaker, Co-Founder of Startup School University Edition, the get-things-done person with a passion for diversity and leveraging technology to make life digitally better.
