Community & Guest List
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.
Jean Paul Paulynice, a small business strategist, motivational coach and bestselling author. Jean Paul is one of the country’s foremost speakers and writers with three books on leadership skills, purpose identification, and small business growth. He guides business owners on everything from operations, to financing, to marketing. His latest book is From Idea to Reality: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Meaningful Business Growth, which helps entrepreneurs with all elements of running a business.
Jason is the founder of Transizion, a college admissions and mentorship company that provides boot camps and tutoring on college applications, college essays, AP exams, academic subjects, and SAT test prep. Jason is a Brazilian Jiujitsu purple belt and has appeared in the BBC, Washington Post, Forbes, Fast Company, Fox Business, and a host of other great outlets.
Elizabeth is the Owner and Chief Copy Writer for ER Marketing Services. The agency empowers business owners to attract incredible clients, connect with their audience, and establish their industry authority. Elizabeth and her team specialize in designing marketing strategies and writing content for websites, blog posts, social media, and emails or newsletters.
Andre Oentoro is the founder of Breadnbeyond, an award-winning explainer video company, and Milkwhale, an infographic production company that has been trusted by many internet publishers.. He helps business increase conversion rates, close more sales and get positive ROI from explainer videos and other digital marketing strategy.
Chris is the Founder of Lionshare Partners, a trusted financial planning firm. He draws on a decade of multidisciplinary experience to help high net worth individuals and small business owners solves their financial challenges. Prior to founding Lionshare, Chris help managed over 300 million dollars of individual and institutional assets and held senior roles at multiple globally-recognized investment firms.
An entrepreneur, speaker and media personality, Chris has been featured in several news outlets such as CNN, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He is currently a Board Member of the non-profit organization, Strive LA, a mini-campus for Los Angeles inner-city youth. He also serves as a market analyst for the iHeart Radio podcast, “City Watch on the Air.”
An entrepreneur, speaker and media personality, Chris has been featured in several news outlets such as CNN, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He is currently a Board Member of the non-profit organization, Strive LA, a mini-campus for Los Angeles inner-city youth. He also serves as a market analyst for the iHeart Radio podcast, “City Watch on the Air.”
International Women's Club was created by Sonia Aujla, age 26 from the UK who aims to support women globally. Whether this be women who want to start their own business and are not too sure how to go forward with the idea or in terms of creating a new website for them and increasing their social media presence. It could also be for current business owners looking to gain more clients or for those who are in employment and need inspiration and motivation to connect with other like-minded women. Having lost her sister to suicide at the age of 18 and seeing women struggle with the confidence to unleash their potential throughout her life, completely flipped Sonia's world upside down. She wanted to know, what is it exactly hat makes people genuinely happy, successful and creatively fulfilled? Why do some people struggle while others find a way to thrive, often despite the most challenging circumstances?
Lauren Befus is the founder and chief historian of Memory Lane Jane, a national life story writing company that partners with individuals and families to preserve their loved ones’ life stories and legacies in custom heirloom books. Lauren’s company is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she lives with her husband and four kids, but she travels around the country interviewing and working with life story clients.
Marie Gettel-Gilmartin, founder of Fertile Ground Communications, is a writer and marketing communications coach who loves to connect people and resources or solve seemingly impossible problems. She guides clients in discovering what makes them special and helps them share that with the world. She has two podcasts: Finding Fertile Ground features grit and resilience stories from historically excluded populations., and Companies That Care highlights business leaders who are working to create a better world for all. Marie helps clients communicate about pressing issues; creates compelling websites that showcase company culture; implements world-class sustainability and community engagement strategies; ghostwrites for clients to position them as experts in their fields; writes communications that boost employee engagement; coaches leaders and executives on how to strengthen communications and leadership; helps win work by writing compelling, unbeatable proposals and award applications; and coordinates authors and reviewers to produce documents in one voice.
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.
