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Kapri Robinson is DC's 2017 Cocktail Queen and has been a part of the beverage community in DC for almost a decade now. While spending her time being a bartender at Reliable Tavern she founded Chocolate City's Best, a platform to connect people of color to opportunities in the hospitality industry for their own career growth. Kapri has gone on to win cocktail competitions and has been acknowledged on multiple platforms. Kapri has been welcomed onto Good Morning Washington as well as featured in a two-page article in the Washington Post Express. Kapri has also been welcomed onto many podcast magazines, such as Edible DC, about her dedication to growing Chocolate City's Best and educating herself and her community
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.
Marcia Moran has written over fifty business plans and helped entrepreneurs strategize over how to differentiate their companies in changing environments. Her twenty-plus years of experience helping other entrepreneurs caused her to found her own firm, Performance Architect, in 2012 and co-founded Positive Business DC that same year. After suffering a major stroke in 2014, Marcia applied her skills in planning and strategy as she strived to become whole. Over time she learned to walk again, but Marcia struggled with aphasia, a language disorder. She joined Toastmasters International hoping to regain her speaking abilities, and it helped some, but in August 2017 she discovered a technological breakthrough that minimized her speaking disability. Let's hear from Marcia what coming back from the stroke was like.
Heather Farris is a Pinterest Marketing Strategist with a full-service Pinterest Agency dedicated to helping online entrepreneurs scale their businesses with organic and paid marketing. Her true passion is helping business owners like you craft a custom strategy to get your amazing content in front of your audience on Pinterest. She is always sifting through trends, data and pins to learn more about the audiences she is serving. She's a multi-passionate full-time traveler with her husband and two little girls. Aside from traveling full-time with her family she loves learning how to use her camera in manual mode and finding off the beaten path restaurants to eat at.
When Fast Company interviewed her, they dubbed her “the CEO whisperer”. She points out most people use only 1 of our 7 different human intelligence systems. Thanks to her method (based not just in philosophy, but in science) this is a new territory that doesn't take years to find—instead, it can be discovered in minutes. While her focus is on elite C-suite executives and entrepreneurs, all you have to be to work with her is someone who wants to do something good with your life-for yourself and others.
MICHAEL BLANK (Ashburn, Virginia) is an Entrepreneur, Investor, Author (“Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing”), Coach, and leading authority on apartment investing in the United States. As the CEO of Nighthawk Equity, Best-selling Author, Host of the Apartment Building Investing Podcast, Columnist and Real Estate Investor, Blank’s passionate about helping people become financially free in 3-5 years by investing in apartment building deals with a special focus on raising money. Through Blank’s investment company, Nighthawk Equity, he controls over $27M million in performing multifamily assets all over the United States and has raised over $6M. In addition to his own investing activities, he’s helped students purchase over 2,300 units valued at $86M through his unique “Deal Desk” and training programs. Blank’s been interviewed by top real estate podcasts, including Bigger Pockets, Joe Fairless (Best Ever Show), Get Rich Education, Cashflow Ninja and many more. “The Michael Blank” blog has also been listed in the Top 25 Real Estate Investing Blogs of 2018 by Leap Property Management, and he is a Contributor to FlipNerd. http://themichaelblank.com
Little Falls Mediation, located in Arlington, Virginia, offers divorce and family mediation services. Our mission is to provide a caring, empathetic environment where clients feel comfortable, safe, and empowered in discussing and resolving conflict. Ellice Halpern is a graduate of Cornell University and Georgetown University Law Center and is licensed to practice law in the state of Maryland.
Brian Rollo is the leading expert on using the habits of influential leadership to build high performing organizational cultures, unleash the potential of employees, and reduce executive stress. Brian has used his powerful frameworks and processes to help hundreds of managers become influential leaders. He is also the acclaimed author of The 10 Habits of Influential Leadership
Amira Irfan is a business lawyer, six-figure blogger, and coach who teaches you how to make money blogging while protecting your online business legally. She started her blog with her full-time job as a lawyer and took it from 0 to $60,000 a month in less than 2 years, and now she teaches you how to do the same! She has had the honor of helping over 10,000 entrepreneurs with her affordable legal templates and services in the last 10 years.
Monique Russell is the communications expert you want on your team. She teaches women leaders and teams how to turn likes into loves in their business and life. Originally from the beautiful islands of The Bahamas and Nigeria, she's an author, professional speaker, executive coach, and sushi lover.
