Community & Guest List
Passionate about helping people and businesses achieve their dreams of success, Troy has worked with hundreds of businesses to deliver value to their customers. With a background in Finance and Marketing, Troy dedicated the last few years to developing the website division of a marketing company in the Washington DC Area. His successes led him to focus in on those skills with Red Clay Creative. Troy believes that hard work, communication and integrity are integral to any relationship and strives to help businesses with those core values at his foundation.
Monique Melton is a relationship coach, published author, and international speaker. The heart of her work is to support married couples in building happy and healthy marriages. She travels the world speaking at conferences and events on topics related to personal growth, marriage, and relationships. She’s been published in magazines, featured in blogs and podcasts and has touched the lives of people all over the world. She is a natural big-bold dreamer and a deeply rooted woman of faith. She is a proud Navy wife to her high-school sweetheart and she is a loving mother to two little ones.
Fabiola Fleuranvil is CEO of Blueprint Creative Group, a strategic communications agency with a B2B practice area that helps companies map brand building to sales through demand generation, Account Based Marketing, and pipeline acceleration campaigns. Blueprint Creative Group is a consultancy specializing in strategic communications counsel to complex issues during times of opportunity, change, and crisis. We help our clients do it the Tesla and Red Bull way…shift away from an advertising-first position and instead innovate to advance the business and brand. For small businesses and B2B, this means pipeline acceleration to map brand building to sales and this is done by creating demand generation and Account Based Marketing campaigns that are suitable for any size of business.
Donald L. Bedney, III, president of PSP Metrics, firmly believes that well-directed human capital should be harnessed to achieve extraordinary performance. With a mission of driving change through people, he aims to help 1,000,000,000 companies worldwide develop and engage their employees to resist mediocrity and aim instead at institutional excellence. He brings this commitment to superior performance to each of his clients and more than fifteen years of experience translating organizational needs into successful business strategies.
Jeffrey Hayzlett is a primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, and business podcast host of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. Hayzlett is a well-traveled public speaker, former Fortune 100 CMO, and author of three best-selling business books: Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless, Running the Gauntlet and The Mirror Test. Hayzlett is one of the most compelling figures in business today and an inductee into the National Speakers Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame.
Ellen Yin is the founder of Cubicle to CEO, an online membership helping coaches & service providers make their first $10K month. The name reflects her own journey of profitably bootstrapping her business from a $300 project to 7 figures in revenue in just 3 years, as a first generation Asian American entrepreneur. Through her online marketing programs & services, Ellen has mentored over 10,000 entrepreneurs. She has been featured in Forbes and on the TODAY show with Hoda & Jenna, in addition to publications like Yahoo! Finance, MSN, Databird Business Journal, Thrive Global, HerMoney, and BlogHer. Ellen is also the host of the award-winning Cubicle to CEO Podcast, a weekly business show that has been downloaded in over 100 countries worldwide.
Javier was born and raised in Mexico City and he started his career in the corporate world working for large multinationals. He then moved to the USA to get his MBA from UT Austin and decided to permanently move to Canada in 2005. Javier has built a stable and happy life in Toronto until he turned 50. He then decided it was time to reinvent himself and fulfill a life-long dream of becoming an entrepreneur. In 2015 Javier partnered up with a Mental Health expert and they both founded The House of Purpose to help employees put their emotions to work.
Matt Weik, the owner of Weik Fitness, LLC, is a well-respected fitness expert/author/podcaster with a global following. His work has been featured in nearly 100 fitness magazines, 2,000+ websites, as well as having numerous books and audiobooks that are published. Matt Weik graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Kinesiology. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist, personal trainer, and sports nutritionist. Matt is also a member of the supplement expert panel.
Dr. Nicole LePera trained in Psychology at Cornell University and The New School for Social Research in New York City. She practices as a holistic psychologist and is founder of the Mindful Healing Center in Philadelphia. Recently she brought her work online to spread the message of holistic mental wellness.
Katherine McGraw Patterson, known as KP, is a brand and business strategist who works with small businesses and entrepreneurs to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. A fourth-generation entrepreneur, KP started her first business in Hong Kong in 1999. Since then, she's helped businesses here in the US, Canada, and across the world build actionable strategies that results in revenue growth, increased clarity and focus, and greater satisfaction in their operations. KP is the founder of WEBO Network, a professional development and networking group for women entrepreneurs and business owners and is the author of a new book on networking, "Lunching with Lions: Strategist for the Networking-Averse" that helps professionals in all industries identify the right groups and connections to achieve their professional and business goals.
