Community & Guest List
Tara is Founder and Chairwoman of Impact Profit, which is a nonprofit dedicated to making entrepreneurship more accessible to Black Founders. Tara has been a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for over a decade and founded Impact Profit to use her skillset to do some good in the world. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her Masters in Accounting and MBA from Northeastern University. She's a New Jersey native, but currently resides in Washington, DC.
Co-Owner of Spotlight Revenue and when she's not working on her business she also runs her own podcast called The Warriorz Podcast where she interviews top producing CEOs and finds out what drives their success and what impact they want to make!
Jodi Daniels is a Certified Informational Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) with more than 22 years of experience helping a range of businesses from solopreneurs to multi-national companies in privacy, marketing, strategy, and finance roles. You only have one chance to make a first impression, and when it comes to your customer’s personal information, you don’t want to leave a bad taste in their mouth. In this informative talk, Jodi Daniels will educate the audience on how to protect their customers' data and stay compliant in an ever changing marketplace. With her ability to explain the craziness of technology, the laws that are in place, and how to use privacy as an advantage to build relationships with your customer base, Jodi is able to implement privacy programs and data strategies to maximize customer trust and achieve GDPR, CCPA, and US privacy law compliance.
Veteran news booker and producer Ashley Bernardi created Nardi Media, LLC, in 2015, a culmination of over a decade of booking and producing experience, television broadcasting, satellite media tours, radio tours, media strategy, and logistics. More important than her lengthy list of accolades—which include serving as a top booker for The Early Show on CBS News, the Senior Booker and Producer for energyNOW! on Bloomberg TV, Washington Post Live, and hosting a cooking show—is her passion for publicity. Her experience is steeped in journalism, which means research is a second language and creating connections with audiences is a close third. Ashley Bernardi has helped clients grow from zero exposure to household names on the New York Times Best Sellers list. She enjoys helping book authors, celebrities, non-profit organizations, and national brands increase their exposure, credibility, and potential for new opportunities. Ashley adds, "There’s nothing like having a client with a message that could change hearts, change lives, or change the world—and giving them a microphone.”
“Does that make sense?” is one question she asks to make sure the message of financial improvement is getting through. She is passionate about educating young professional clients, to motivate them to act in improving their current financial situation. She's a military veteran, wife, mom and serves as a deacon at her church. She's also the author of It's Your Turn: Walk in Your Financial Purpose.
Reginald is the Founder of Thriving Life Coaching, their motto is "Every student needs a little TLC!" TLC is an academic readiness and life coaching service for middle school, high school and college students to maximize their full potential. The coaching helps students utilize time management, organization and study skills to do their best work. Ryder has 30 years of experience in working with secondary and postsecondary organizations as well as students from orientation to graduation via Zoom in California, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. He is a professor at Northern Virginia Community College teaching College Student Success and authored a book Passing the Baton A Guide and Memoir of College Success.
Riley is the owner of Blue Skye Media! Blue Skye Media is a real estate photography company located in Northern Virginia servicing realtors from Fredericksburg up to DC! They provide it all, Photos, Video Tours, 3D Tours, and Aerial Footage! What sets them apart is that they also provide YouTube and social media services to help realtors grow their business with video online!
T.W. Shannon is an accomplished leader with diverse experience in business, public service and community engagement. Today he leads one of the most unique banks in the country. As the CEO of Chickasaw Community Bank based in Oklahoma City, he leads a remarkably successful enterprise that is wholly owned by the Chickasaw Nation. Under his leadership, Chickasaw Community Bank completed the year 2020 at a record sixfold projections. Prior to his tenure at the bank, T.W. made history by becoming the youngest Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, as well as being the first Chickasaw and first African American to hold the post.
Treasure Shields Redmond, known as the “#DebtFreeDegree Expert,” is founder of Get The Acceptance Letter Academy. This is a community where she helps busy parents of college bound teens secure top-tier education without massive debt.
Carmen Wilde is a top-rated, Business Breakthrough & Behavioral Specialist who helps entrepreneurs make the SWITCH from sporadic growth to Wilde Success! By age 30, Carmen was an international division head for a billion-dollar organization and a self-made millionaire. She’s a successful multinational entrepreneur, has 20+ years commercial experience and has helped hundreds of business leaders unleash hidden potential and achieve breakthrough results… from doubling growth and building 7-figure businesses in less than a year, to shifting from ‘Setback to Success Track’ and building Magnetic Confidence. She lives on the tropical island of Mauritius, the realization of a teenage dream and testimony to her motto: “You can have anything you want, Just Decide!!”
