Community & Guest List
Jen is an internationally recognized author, speaker, leadership expert and brand architect who works with executives and professional athletes on how to push boundaries, build effective teams, optimize performance and "move the ball" to reach higher levels of success in business and in life. Jennifer's background includes seven degrees, Fortune 100 executive leadership experience, and military officer leadership as an Army lawyer. She is also the host of the Move the Ball podcast, a podcast that focus on conversations with professional athletes, Fortune 500 C-suite leaders, and entrepreneurs on connecting the competitive athlete mentality to leadership for business, career, and personal success.
I grew up in a small village outside the capital of India, where we had no running water, or electricity and didn't even have toilets - that's a story for another day but this was the beginning of my life. I moved to the US at age 12 and after college, I took up a job in the sciences that would make my parents happy. After some years of collecting courage, I quit my corporate job to pursue my passion - of which I had no idea! So I went out to find it and through many jobs and businesses I did. That's when GLYD was conceived.
Ali Brown is one of the world's most recognized entrepreneur coaches. Over the last 15 years, Ali Brown has advised and helped nurture the businesses of many of the 7 and 8 figure online thought leaders you see thriving today. Ali has been dubbed the 'Entrepreneurial Guru for Women' by Business News Daily and has taken her company to the Inc. 500 list rankings. Ali is an angel investor, a top-podcast host of Glambition Radio and mom of twins!
Kristin is an activist and conscious investor. She is founder and CEO of Nia Global Solutions, Director of Nia Community Investments and co-founder of Impact Hub Oakland. Always Interested in innovative solutions for leveraging resources in alignment with values, Kristin works as a financial change agent and portfolio manager. She enjoys her work empowering people along their money journeys. Her book highlighting women and diversity in impact investing, Voices From the Field, is forthcoming.
Zack Peter isn't your average green-juice drinking millennial. As a writer, he has published a total of four books, with work featured on Yahoo!, Men’s Health, Bustle, People, and more. In between collagen-martinis, you can catch his signature wit and gift-of-gab as host and producer of the hit weekly podcasts, #NoFilter with Zack Peter and #Adulting: Life Hacks to Get Your Sh*t Together. He currently serves as the Executive Director for Jenny McCarthy’s autism foundation, Generation Rescue, and can be regularly seen on POPSUGAR and Maria Menounos’s AfterBuzz TV network.
Michael H. Drobnis is the CEO of OptfinITy, LLC, , a technology solutions firm which has received numerous industry awards including a ranking of the top 250 small technology businesses worldwide. Mr. Drobnis has over 22 years of technology experience across many different industries and disciplines, including but not limited to records management, disaster recovery and business continuance planning, system security, web design and development, project management, technology and infrastructure design. As an accomplished technology executive and project manager, his vision and expertise have helped hundred's of organizations work smarter and more efficiently through the use and development of proper technology solutions and collaboration tools. Mr. Drobnis received his MBA with a concentration in technology from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University in Massachusetts. He has served on the Fairfax County Information Technology Policy Advisory Committee, the ITT Technical Institute Curriculum Advisory Board, as the President and on the board of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and on the board of the Central Fairfax Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Drobnis is an alumni of Leadership Fairfax and The FBI Citizens Academy and is the proud father of 3 girls in West Springfield.
As Founder and CEO of Red Banyan, Evan brings 20 years of high-level experience in public relations, crisis management, marketing, online media, international relations and public affairs. Throughout his career, he has provided strategic communications counsel to top business leaders, government officials and presidential candidates, and private individuals. Red Banyan provides PR consulting and crisis management and media training. The firm also uses strategic public relations to help clients effectively define their brands, develop powerful messaging around their products and services, garner press attention and achieve important business goals. Evan and Red Banyan serve clients throughout the U.S. and internationally from offices in Florida, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta.
Andy Brenits is the Principal of Phoenix-based Brenits Creative, a branding, marketing, and creative strategy firm that helps growing businesses and business owners working (mostly) by themselves compete with name brands by creating a consistent way to look, communicate, and act.
He's a creative professional with 25+ years of experience running creative businesses specializing in branding, marketing, and design. Before founding Brenits Creative, Andy led in-house creative teams at Fortune 500 brands such as Banana Republic, The Gap, National Football League, KPMG, and Arizona Public Service.
An experienced mentor and teacher, Andy has taught undergraduate and graduate classes at Pratt Institute, Rowan University, The Art Institute of Phoenix, Sessions.edu, Columbia University, Grand Canyon University, and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He earned his Master’s Degree in Design Management from Pratt Institute and has a BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts.
He's a creative professional with 25+ years of experience running creative businesses specializing in branding, marketing, and design. Before founding Brenits Creative, Andy led in-house creative teams at Fortune 500 brands such as Banana Republic, The Gap, National Football League, KPMG, and Arizona Public Service.
An experienced mentor and teacher, Andy has taught undergraduate and graduate classes at Pratt Institute, Rowan University, The Art Institute of Phoenix, Sessions.edu, Columbia University, Grand Canyon University, and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He earned his Master’s Degree in Design Management from Pratt Institute and has a BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts.
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.
Randi Levin is a trusted nationally recognized transitional life strategist and reinvention expert, keynote and thought leader. She supports founders, entrepreneurs and those in life-cycle transitions in redefining and realigning success and legacy as power tools for choice, change, and self-leadership in real time. Randi spent the better part of two decades in corporate, a long gig as a SAHM, and reinvented herself later in life as a successful entrepreneur and sought after coach. In year 7 of her business, Randi supports her clients and audiences in making bold no-nonsense decisions that shift perspectives and lead them and their goals forward. She believes that you begin from wherever you are! Randi has been featured or quoted in CEO BlogNation, Forbes, Thrive Global, Fairygodboss, The Ladders, Yahoo Lifestyle, Best Life, Parenting, Women's World, Reader's Digest, Business Insider, The Wall Street Journal, MSN and Amex OpenForum.
