Community & Guest List
With more than 25 years experience in nonprofit and corporate communications, Karen Bate, Founder and CEO of KB Concepts P.R., rebrands companies and nonprofits; positions organizations to achieve their objectives; garners key media placements; and harnesses digital marketing and social media tools to tell her clients’ stories and inspire others to support them. Great Ideas for Good Causes is not just her company tagline; it is the guiding philosophy of her work.
Keshav Pingali is CEO and co-founder of Katana Graph, a high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, which extracts actionable insights from massive unstructured datasets. Keshav holds the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS.
Kyle is fairly new to the marketing focus, with no formal marketing education and only 2 years of experience in the profession. Despite this, he's been able to find a great deal of success by leveraging his past experience in multimedia production, and the skills from his previous role as a communications specialist. Originally filling both a marketing and sales role in his company, Kyle has been recently appointed as the head marketing coordinator at Tradogram, an online software-as-a-service startup seeking to provide a streamlined purchasing and procurement management tool for businesses of all sizes.
Kate is CEO of Women 2.0, a global brand that focuses on gender and diversity in the tech industry through programs, products and media.
Keith Leon S. is a multiple international bestselling author, co-owner of a successful book publishing company, and he’s an international speaker who’s spoken at events that included Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, Neale Donald Walsch, Barbara De Angelis, John Gray, Brian Tracy, and Marianne Williamson. He’s appeared on many TV & Radio shows, including The Jenny McCarthy Show, and his work has been covered by INC Magazine and Huffington Post just to name a few. Keith recently completed a book, media, and LIVE event tour in the U.S. with his book called, Walking With My Angels: A True Story. Keith has two passions in life, one is to connect you to your inner guidance system, which he calls angels, and the second is to help you get your mission and your message out to the world, with YOUR VERY OWN BOOK, which Keith calls, The World’s Greatest Business Card! Welcome to the show...Keith Leon S.
Kari Warberg Block, an unlikely disruptor, challenged an industry that by its very nature is toxic. As the Founder & CEO of EarthKind, Kari discovered that 98% of pest control solutions sold were poison & kill methods – so she set out to invent a better solution: plant-based pest control powered by nature. Kari was the first to develop, manufacture, and commercialize poison-free rodent and insect repellents for farm and home use, with a mission to build a purpose led company to create change through business. Once a mom on food stamps Kari started EarthKind with nothing more than a package of garden seeds and a vision, and has built it into $20 million company. Kari was selected as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneurial Winning Women,” and has gone from being a part of her local homemakers club to advising the SBA, Congress and the White House on policy that impacts women in business. She has been featured in CNBC, the New York Times, Huffington Post and Forbes.
Kasra is the CEO and Co-founder of Mintor, a platform connecting entrepreneurs, matching them based on experiences, needs, and personality, to build sustainable relationships. Kasra shares his experiences of networking in his upcoming book, "Askholes: How to Give First and Network Later to Create Lifelong, Valuable Relationships". Additionally, Kasra is the Baton Rouge Chapter Director of Startup Grind. He excels in the areas operations, customer success, and strategy development and execution.
Kristen Coffield, Culinary Coach and Kitchen Interventionist. Empower individuals to take control of their wellness with tools to help them navigate the complicated and overwhelming landscape of health and diet information. The Culinary Cure starts with what’s at the end of the fork to help people change their health destiny.
Kristina runs two companies, SoCu - a digital marketing agency, and LOHM, a natural skincare line. She is also a professor at both NYU and the University of Florida.
Kyler Johnson is not your typical Nebraskan. He’s an advertising and journalism student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the host of a comedy fiction podcast called “Nobody Asked,”, and iced coffee addict.
