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Session Summary: What you don’t know as an entrepreneur will land you on the zombie menu!

Speaker Biography: Philip “Chip” Dodd is the President and CEO of Support Services of Virginia, Inc. headquartered in Virginia Beach.  Since 1994, SSVA has provided person centered supports to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the Coastal Virginia, Eastern Shore, Central and Southside Virginia areas.  Services include residential, foster care, day support, therapeutic / behavioral consultation, training, transportation, payee services and accessible housing.

Since taking over the family business in 2005, Mr. Dodd has tripled the size of the company by both organic growth and acquisition.  At this time, SSVA is proud to have over 275 employees and contractors supporting over 175 persons with disabilities live a “life like yours” in the local community.

SSVA has a unique company culture that is focused on positive practices in all interactions and celebrates the diversity of its team members as well as the customers they support.  To further these objectives, Chip and his business partner Andie Plumley changed the mission statement to reflect both the service to their customers as well as those who join the team.  “Realize success by helping others realize theirs”.  www.SSVAinc.org

Chip grew up in Yorktown Virginia and graduated with a BS in Psychology from Christopher Newport University. When not working, Chip can be found chasing adrenaline by adventure racing, mountain biking, rock climbing, boating, hiking, van camping, scuba diving, and skateboarding.

Session: Summary: Brad will unlock key tools to scaling your business without buckling—especially as it concerns teams and management.

Speaker Biography: Brad is a lifetime entrepreneur and has helped build multiple businesses in domestic and international markets including B2B, B2C, physical products, software, and professional services. His most recent company, Entreholic, provides an affordable, entrepreneurial approach to outsourced digital and traditional marketing services for small to medium businesses. They are also the creators of the annual report: The Top 200 Tools To Fuel Your Business Growth and the weekly Addictive Tools Emails Series (entreholic.com/tools) .  Brad also enjoys teaching on the topic and conducts educational seminars throughout the year.

Brad serves on the board of the Atlanta Chapter of the Global Entrepreneurs’ Organization where he co-chairs the Accelerator Program to help emerging companies achieve one million in annual revenue within three years. He was also a member of the LEAD Atlanta Class of 2013, serves on the High Point Civic Association, and co-founded an annual charity event for breast cancer. He is a native of Atlanta and lives in Sandy Springs with his daughter and wife, an inspirational third grade teacher..

Speaker Biography: George Naddaff, a serial entrepreneur and recognized visionary, is considered by many to be the Guru of Franchising in America. He is frequently featured in leading business publications such as Forbes, Success, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, and in numerous trade publications. A personal favorite is presented in the February 2008 edition of Inc. Magazine entitled, “How I Did It – From Spit’n Shine Boy to Boston Chicken and Beyond.” George began his career in food service when he co-founded International Foods, which operated 19 Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchises in the Greater Boston area and was sold in 1970. In 1988, George founded and until 1993 served as Chairman and CEO of New Boston Chicken, Inc. (“Boston Chicken”), a company that operated and franchised limited service restaurants specializing in rotisserie-roasted chicken. In 1992, he sold the company to a group of Blockbuster Video executives, and shared in its record setting IPO (143% first-day increase) in 1993. The company is now known as Boston Market.

In addition to Boston Chicken, George has been significantly involved with several other successful concepts including the founding of Mulberry Child Care Centers, which had over 90 company-owned childcare centers when it was sold to Kindercare, America’s largest chain. George also founded Living and Learning Schools, which operated more than 50 upscale childcare facilities and was sold to Kindercare in 1980. In addition, he founded VR Business Brokers, the nation’s largest business brokerage franchise with over 350 offices, which was acquired in 1986 by Christies, LLP, London. I

n 1984, as a director and investor in Sylvan Learning Centers, George helped launch their franchising effort which today has over 1,100 units. Throughout George’s career, he still finds time to present annually to the Entrepreneurial Masters Program, and he received an all-time high rating of 9.82 for his 18 consecutive year participation. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary recognition for this service. Today, George is Chairman and CEO of UFood Restaurant Group, a “better for you” publicly-held company that operates and franchises fast-casual restaurants featuring healthy meals in traditional and non-traditional locations with an emphasis on airports, military locations and hospitals nation-wide.

Session Summary: ‘Your Presentation is a Joke’ teaches business presenters the what, why and how of adding humor to increase engagement and likability. Marshall examines exactly why humor is effective, and then teaches his audience how to write and apply jokes to business presentations. This presentation recently won an award from YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) and is the closing speech for the Fortune Magazine Business Summit 2016.

Speaker Biography: Marshall loves comedy, education, and business… but not always in that order. He is a professional international comedian who has owned comedy clubs and festivals around the country. He combines his 20+ years of entrepreneurial success and 14 years of stand up comedy experience to inspire and help businesses apply more comedy and humor to their culture and communications. Currently, Marshall is living in Atlanta and is available for talks, workshops, interviews, and parole hearings.

Speaker Biography: Dulari Amin is the COO and President of Phenomenon, an advertising, marketing and branding agency dealing mainly with consumer brands such as Wilson Sporting Goods, Crate and Barrel and Pinkberry. The company also deals in other industries such as financial services, retail, consumer products, luxury hospitality and automotive. Dulari has experience in business development, client relationship management and strategy.

Speaker Biography: Entrepreneur Toni Ko launched NYX Cosmetics in 1999 after noticing a need in the market for quality beauty products at drugstore prices. At age 25, Toni built her business with $250,000 of seed money out of a 600-square-foot showroom in California with one employee: herself. By 2014, she had built the business into a mass market brand and sold it to L’Oreal for $500 million. Forbes estimates her net worth at $260 million and recently named her to their ranks of America’s richest self-made women.

Speaker Biography: Dr. Mah’s primary focus is in on empowering, nurturing, and sustaining women-owned businesses in San Diego and nationwide, investing in socially relevant new ventures that will allow women to break through barriers in order for the next generation of women entrepreneurs to grow even more, and help accelerate university discoveries through the commercialization pipeline. Prior to her current endeavors, Silvia was Director of the Teams in Engineering Service program at the Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD, and an instructor to over 200 students on social entrepreneurship, project management, & leadership. Dr. Silvia Mah holds a Ph.D. in Marine Molecular Biology from UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography & an M.B.A. from UCSD Rady School of Management, focused on business strategy and marketing. She is originally from Caracas, Venezuela, is an advocate for special needs children focusing on ability with modifications, enjoys traveling with her husband, and delights in beach days with her 3 children.

Speaker Biography: Doug Evans, entrepreneur and former CEO of Organic Avenue, built the initial Juicero Press in his kitchen in 2013. He believes that good health enables the best life ever, and sought out to find a way to empower people to achieve both.

Session Summary: Nicholas discusses his journey with OCD and how he’s learned to overcome it through the power of perspective.

Speaker Biography: Nicholas Addison Thomas is the Senior Director of Editorial and Marketing for the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). When he’s not using S.A.T. words to describe the impact of entrepreneurship, he’s writing book reviews for The Free Lance-Star (his hometown newspaper), delivering poorly timed puns and pursuing photography with all the vigor of a man who thinks he’s just three snaps away from a Pulitzer.

Session Summary: How is it that your life is so “perfectly” put together, and your wardrobe is a disaster? The word “disaster” may sound extreme, but if you think back to those mornings standing in front of your closet (in your underwear) before a big meeting with no clue what to wear, the word disaster suddenly feels appropriate. Or perhaps you experienced a time where you were treated like someone’s assistant or got left out of an important business meeting. You may not want to admit it (but on some level know it) – your appearance was likely to blame.

So get ready to look better, feel better, and to finally end your style struggle. Say goodbye to closet meltdowns and wasted money buying items that do not serve you. Get ready to look like the person you know you are inside.

Speaker Biography: After receiving a BFA in Fashion Design from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, Lauren worked in business development at AOL. Missing the creativity she had developed in school, she soon found a way to merge the corporate online marketplace with her first love of fashion by launching an innovative virtual styling blog in 2005, where she garnered a highly devoted readership. The success of her blog opened many doors including a job as Director of Content and Community at Thisnext.com. In spite of all of her online success, Lauren wanted nothing more than to break away from her desk job to style “real” people.

Lauren’s career in styling began  at School of Style when she completed the program in 2009. Following her completion of School of Style’s courses, Lauren went on to apprentice under some of Hollywood’s top stylists, and was trained and certified by Stacy London from TLC’s What Not to Wear.

Lauren is a highly sought after personal stylist in Los Angeles. Her massive roster of clients include some of Hollywood’s most successful businesswomen from companies like FOX, CBS, HBO, Lifetime, Warner Brothers, and Nickelodeon. Some of Lauren’s clients have also graced the red carpet at the Emmys, the MTV Music Video Awards, and the Golden Globes

Session Summary: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness … these words embody the American dream. The entrepreneurial dream. But what exactly is this “happiness” that we pursue? And why are we constantly in pursuit of it? How can we actually grab it and hold on to it? Ethan King is going to give us the answers to those questions through a framework he developed called The SIMPLE Path to Prosperity®.

Speaker Biography: Once a struggling artist, Ethan King turned his life around after a close brush with death in an armed robbery. He blended his talent and entrepreneurial dreams into a thriving personalized apparel business, Zeus’ Closet. Like a tattoo shop for clothes, Zeus’ Closet helps members of special interest groups wear their passion on their fashion via specialized embroidery and digital printing. An EO Accelerator graduate and EO Member since 2014, Ethan also serves on the board of the EO Atlanta Chapter.

Session Summary: Chris will introduce a fresh approach to property investment portfolios–to build wealth and work less.

Speaker Biography: Chris Gray is a compelling speaker and presenter who provides a fresh approach to investing. He teaches investors and homeowners to maximise their situation by leveraging their time, income and equity. He presents strategies that are easy to understand yet incredibly powerful and life changing for home buyers and investors.

Chris’s vast experience in the property market, as well as being a qualified accountant, buyers’ agent  and mortgage broker, shines through in his presentations. He has been a mentor to his Empire clients for many years, personally teaching them how to build an income from their investment property, and has converted this extensive knowledge into well-crafted presentations for his audiences.

Speaker Biography: Mr. Michael Mothner, also known as Mike, is the Co-founder of ScanDigital, Inc. Mr. Mothner founded Wpromote, Inc. in 1999 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Mothner is a respected member of the online marketing community. He is one of four annual invitees to the Google Client Forum, is a Yahoo! Ambassador, a member of ThinkLA, a regular speaker at industry events and a regularly quoted source in the search engine marketing industry. Mr. Mothner was featured as “30 CEOs under 30 To Watch” in 2007 by Inc. magazine, and in 2008, he was the recipient of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Entretech Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit. Mr. Mothner studied economics and computer science at Dartmouth College.

Speaker Biography: Mark knows the intensity, focus and commitment it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and CEO. He started his first company at the age of 19. He has successfully built two firms and sold them.

Today, Mark coaches 26 of the world’s top entrepreneurs and CEOs that want to increase profitability and accelerate growth.

Mark Moses is a top-rated speaker who has spoken to over 7,500 CEOs, business leaders and executives from over 80 countries.

Session Summary: In this session, Andy is profiled, and  his success as a Forbes 40 under 40 honoree is highlighted.

Speaker Biography: Andy started DJing at 13 and headlined in LA, Chicago, and Boston. He then started and sold two internet companies in college, turned around a manufacturer, and internationally scaled a consulting firm. Now, he is the founding partner of LotusGroup Advisors, one of the nation’s hottest wealth management firms, and serves as Board Chairman for Minds Matter and Auctioneers for top non-profits.

Session Summary: Ivan, the Global Chairman of EO, shares what it means to be a committed member and how volunteering his time and talents tremendously impacts not only his EO membership experience but also his business and personal life.

Speaker Biography: A longtime EO member, Ivan Ting joined EO Hong Kong in 1999 and has been in the same Forum ever since. With a passion for leadership, Ivan joined his chapter board in 2001 and went on to serve as Chapter President in FY2006/2007. Since then, Ivan has held numerous leadership positions in EO, including Area Director (North East Asia)—where he focused on regional integration—Co-Chair of EO GLC: Hong Kong and Hospitality Chair, all while engaging EO Hong Kong to go beyond local and make a bigger mark in the global EO community. In addition to these roles, Ivan co-founded EO China South and served as China 300 Chair (FY2011/2012)), Strategic Alliances Committee Chair (FY2013/2014) and Director on the Global Board since 2014.

Ivan holds a bachelor’s degree in international politics and economics. He is a director of Kader Industrial Company Limited a family business specialising in the manufacturing of model railroads and toys. Ivan also currently serves as chairman of the Hong Kong Exporters’ Association, a director of the Hong Kong Plastic Manufacturers’ Association and a council member of the Hong Kong Toys Council.

Speaker Biography: Mick Sloan has been EO’s Leadership Coordinator since June 2015.  He is beyond grateful to have had the chance to travel to several new places and meet and learn from a host of incredible people as part of his work from EO. Mick graduated from College of William and Mary in 2015, majoring in Government, and lives in Arlington, VA.

Speaker Biography: Formerly of Small Shop, Erika Brechtel is an award-winning and published creative director specialized in developing unique identities for clients in the fashion, interior design, food and wine, health, beauty, travel, art and lifestyle industries, from L.A. to NYC to Tokyo, London, Milan and Sydney since 2002.

With a magna cum laude degree in Art History from UCLA and another with honors in Interior Design from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM), Erika strives to develop a comprehensive visual language for each of her clients through collaborative brand strategy, identity and digital design, campaign art direction and photography styling.

Erika has enjoyed brand collaborations as well as editorial features in print and online publications such as The Huffington Post, Refinery29, The Orange County Register, LUXE Magazine, Brides, US Weekly, Adore Home, Style Me Pretty Living, Apartment Therapy, The Everygirl and Glitter Guide. In addition to leading a team to publish highly-curated, original content here in design, home, fashion, beauty, fitness, food, travel and art, Erika is a member of SELF Magazine’s SELF Made Blogger Collective, a contributing travel editor for Ocean Magazine, and a past columnist for the popular interior design blog La Dolce Vita.

Attributed to Erika’s upbringing in Hawaii, the ‘spirit of Aloha’ is a fundamental part of her life. A community servant at her core, Erika holds a long record of volunteer work for organizations such as the UCLA Watts Tutorial Program, L.A. Works, NYC’s Lower East Side Girls Club, Project SOAR in Marrakech, and recently on the Board of Directors of the Junior League of Orange County, California (JLOCC).

Speaker Biography: Scott Duffy is an entrepreneur, speaker and brand ambassador. He began his career working for best-selling author and speaker, Tony Robbins, and went on to work for several big media brands like CBS Sportsline, NBC Internet, and FOXSports.com. Next, he founded Smart Charter, an online booking tool for private aviation, which was acquired by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.

Today, Scott’s mission is to help people live their dreams through entrepreneurship. He has spoken at the NYSE and provided commentary in numerous media outlets including CNBC, FOX News, and CBS Radio. He is Co-host of Business & Burgers, Presented by Microsoft, Host of Inc. Startup Accelerator, Special Project Editor of Launch @ Inc.com and Best-selling Author of Launch!, a roadmap for building great companies. Scott currently lives in Southern California with his wife and two children.

Session Summary: Jack will share wisdom and key strategy with business leaders and entrepreneurs alike on how to inspire an awesome sales team.

Speaker Biography: Jack Daly is a professional sales coach, speaker and expert in corporate culture, inspiring audiences to take action in customer loyalty and personal motivation. Jack’s biography is a testament as to how he delivers explosive sales keynotes, sales workshops and corporate culture workshops.

Jack brings 30+ years of field-proven experience from a starting base with CPA firm Arthur Andersen to the CEO level of several national companies. Jack is a proven CEO/Entrepreneur, having built six companies into national firms, two of which he subsequently sold to the Wall Street firms of Solomon Brothers and First Boston.

Session Summary: Connor will explain to viewers his version of “ROI” (Return On Interaction) and how it will impact the future of marketing and storytelling.

Speaker Biography:
“Youth marketing and branding expert…”- Forbes
“Business Phenom and Tycoon…”- Inc.
“The definition of what it means to be a young hustler…”- BBC
“#1 High School Entrepreneur to watch in 2016…”- StartUpGrind

Connor helps personal brands and companies position themselves to better connect with GenZ in order to create lifelong brand loyal consumers. Connor works alongside a North American Gen Y & Z consultancy, Intercept Group, who supports brands like Microsoft, 3M, 7-Eleven, Unilever, Toyota, L’Oreal. Together, we help brands connect with Gen Y & Z consumers. He also writes for Forbes, Entrepreneur, Elite Daily and Huffington Post.

A highly sought after speaker, Blakley has spoken at schools, conferences, and companies on various topics including youth marketing/branding, entrepreneurship, and social media.

Speaker Biography: Daisy Jing is a 27-year-old entrepreneur, a YouTube vlogger, and a beauty addict by nature. Daisy has a multi-million dollar business that she grew from scratch, several years ago. She has a team of 14 women based all over the world. Her office is in Los Angeles, but she considers herself a ‘digital nomad’ and travels around the world. Daisy wants to inspire women to pursue their dreams.

Session Summary: During this session, Richard will disclose a normal habit of leaders that fragments and scatters teams rather than brings them together.

Speaker Biography: Richard kicked off his career as a rock ‘n’ roll roadie, operating lights for bands such as Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. From there, he started the strategy powerhouse MsngLnk and co-founded HumanWrit.es, a social entrepreneurship venture operating out of Cape Town. He is a highly regarded speaker and has spoken in Panama, Guatemala, Ecuador, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Vancouver and Seattle to name just a few places. When not addressing audiences all over the world, he has guest lectured at the Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB) and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). Richard frequently writes columns for various magazines including Longevity and Destiny Man.

Session Summary: Dean will share his rollercoaster highs and lows  as an entrepreneur. He will talk about going from zero to a million and what he has learned thus far.

Speaker Biography: I am the founder and CEO of Experience Headphones, a company focused on bridging the divide between fashion and technology. We accomplish this by selling high quality audio with a high fashion finish, helping to open the market to an entirely new segment of consumer; primarily women. I was born in Calgary, Alberta and completed an undergrad degree in Sociology, in Entrepreneurship, and in Marketing. My first business was started when I was 4. A man came to our door selling pictures for $10 a piece, I told my Mom that I could do that too and drew over 50 different pictures that I then went out and sold door-to-door. It was a great lesson in market forces as I opened my sale price at $10, and soon realized that the market price for my product was more realistically 5 cents. Since that day I have started numerous businesses from window washing to a full scale publication. Most failed miserably, but I just keep going. The road to success… right?

Dr. Heidi Hanna is a New York Times best selling author and co-founder of the Institute for Integrative Neuroscience. Her current research takes a deep dive into the minds of successful executives and entrepreneurs to determine optimal brain patterns for sustainable peak performance. She has been featured at the Fortune Magazine’s Most Successful Women in Business Summit, ESPN Leadership Summit, and the Million Dollar Round Table. For the past 4 years, Dr. Hanna has been honored to be part of the teaching faculty at EO’s Leadership Academy.

Session Summary: Daniel will address his entrepreneurial journey leading up to EO’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA)  in Thailand. Daniel placed first in Canada and third globally.

Speaker Biography: Daniel is a passionate adventurer and changemaker. Daniel is the Founder and CEO at ShareShed where he is creating a world of unlimited access to adventure with a website and app for people to rent outdoor equipment off of locals. He’s raised over $1,000,000 from top investors include the seed investor in Uber.

Daniel was the winner of Canada’s EO GSEA and placed 3rd globally. Daniel also spoke on stage in front of 20,000 youth at We Day, directed a film series on the collaborative economy, received a monthly grant from the Austrian government to conduct research on the European sharing economy, and traveled to over 30 countries. Daniel has been named Top 30 Under 30 and an came first place at Ashoka Canada change maker challenge.

In his spare time you can find Daniel stand up paddle boarding with the ShareShed Meetup Group and exploring the local mountains.

Jamie Douraghy is an entrepreneur and founder of several companies from staffing to graphic novels to marketing. Currently with Lifeworkintegration, he has facilitated workshops in the US, China, Africa and Brazil for EO chapters, Vistage groups, YPO led companies and their leadership teams. Jamie has been an EO member leader for 12 years. Having served as Chapter President, Regional Director, and Chair for EO’s Global Growth Team. In May 2015 Jamie was honored to receive the EO Volunteer of the Year award.

Winnie Hart – Founder of TwinEngine, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author of the book, Stand Out – Mastering The 8 Fundamentals of Standing Out in Business, and Creator of The One-Page Marketing Plan – brings 25+ years of marketing experience, 125+
industry awards and a passion for leveraging her twin talents to help companies translate traditional marketing channels into forward-thinking solutions. She has built a reputation as an inspired leader, speaker and savvy interpreter of business brand and personality. At TwinEngine, with her identical twin sister Lorrie Brignac Lee, she collaborates with the largest public and privately held corporations in the region, helping them define their distinct advantages and what makes them stand out. Winnie believes that every business has a distinct advantage that, when discovered, provides just the inspiration and momentum a business needs to make a huge leap forward in performance and profitability.

Session Summary: In this session, Christina will share how to dramatically increase one’s influence by tapping into the complexities of human behaviors and relationships. She’ll tell us how to hack listening and influence to help increase results.

Speaker Biography: Christina Harbridge is the Founder and Mischief Executive Officer of Allegory Inc., a San Francisco-based behavioral change company focused on helping individuals–such as politicians, CEOS, TED speakers–and corporate teams dramatically increase their influence and leadership effectiveness. Human behavior is based on our physiology and an individual’s operating system, thus Christina has come up with ways to hack listening and influence.

Early in her career, Christina Harbridge founded a debt collection company based on one key and unusual principle: The Human Relationship is the True Currency. Her collectors focused on creating an empathetic relationship with debtors rather than on demands for payment. This unusual approach resulted in three times the industry average in successful results for her collectors, and even an occasional wedding invitation. For four years in a row, her company made the Top 100 Fastest-Growing Businesses in the Bay Area list. How people feel about themselves around an influencer dictates commitment vs. compliance, yet many influencers hiccup on that piece due to physiology and emotion.

As Christina grew this company, her curiosity about human dynamics led her to: become a test subject for NASA, a welder of large public art pieces, a founding board member/trainer for Emerge America and a facilitator for those who were parenting in high-risk situations. All this weirdness has resulted in some models that demystify human behavior. Or something.

Session Summary: Jack will share his wisdom on his unique open-book management; a method based on the concept of democracy, the spirit of sports and the reality of numbers.

Speaker Biography: Jack Stack is Founder, President and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation. Jack has been called the “smartest strategist in America” by Inc. Magazine and one of the “top 10 minds in small business” by Fortune Magazine. A pioneer of the leadership model known as open-book management, Stack is the author of two books on the subject, The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome. His expertise in using the open-book model has helped SRC Holdings Corporation start, acquire, and own over 60 businesses and created thousands of jobs since 1983. Along the way, SRC’s stock value has increased 360,000%.

Jack has served as a world judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Institute and as an advisor for this group since 1998. Jack designed the first ever United Way Entrepreneurial Fund to encourage innovation within the non-profit community. He has also served as a contributor for Inc. Magazine and The New York Times and has addressed thousands of audiences on the topic of open-book management. Jack is the father of five children and grandfather of six

Becky A. Davis, also known as the Leadership Growth Accelerator™ for her ability to help individuals use courageous leadership to transform the workplace. She helps clients create a strength-based culture. She works with individuals and organizations as a consultant, coach and trainer. Some of her programs are Lead-In, Change by Design, Critical Communication and Listening Skills, From A Dysfunctional Team to A High Performance Team, and Diverse Thinking Styles to name a few. .

Becky is a Certified Executive Coach of The Leadership Circle, and provides a 360 Leadership Profile Assessment. She is also certified by Gallup for the Entrepreneur Talent Profile Assessment and a Facilitator of the Discover Your Entrepreneur Talent Workshop, and continues to work with the best and brightest aspiring and veteran entrepreneurs around the world.

Prior to her success as an entrepreneur, in her last corporate position, Becky was Regional Vice President, responsible for Operations for 213 locations and over $65 million in sales at Sears Optical, a division of Luxottica Retail the largest optical company in the world. She has 20+ years in retail management where she advised and mentored Regional Vice Presidents, Training & Development, Human Resources, Regional Directors and coached employees at all levels.

She has been featured in a number of media outlets for her contributions to women and entrepreneurs including The Network Journal, Essence, Black Enterprise, ABC, FOX and TV One. She has been recognized in Hope for Women Magazine as one of 25 Women Who Inspire, a Women of Excellence Award, 100 Phenomenal Women of Atlanta, and Woman of Influence along with Actress Jasmine Guy, Journalist Soledad O’Brian and Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin. Becky is the author of five books that includes leadership, business, and self-help books.

Session Summary: Dr. Zelman empowers viewers to increase their own capacity for leadership.

Speaker Biography: David Zelman, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Transitions Institute, Inc. and author of Amazon #1 bestseller, If I Can, You Can – Transformation Made Easy. Drawing upon more than 30 years of clinical and consulting experience, David Zelman specializes in consulting to organizations and coaching individuals, executives and entrepreneurs on communication, strategy development and maximizing productivity and growth. Dr. Zelman’s approach is designed to enhance an organization’s ability to break with traditional methods by creating environments in which individuals and groups can safely and powerfully develop leadership and other organization skills that inspire and move people to action.

Session Summary: John and Anna share their experience of being committed to their marriage and entrepreneurship.

Speaker Biography: EO Member John Cinquina is an award-winning international brand strategist, entrepreneur, author and creative. Among his business investments, he and his wife Anna are launching a new tech startup in 2017 to disrupt and innovate the beauty industry.

Anna and John’s newly created films ‘Thought Leaders’ and ‘Anna & The Startup’ reveal behind the scenes insights from the some of the brightest entrepreneurial minds across the USA.

Session Summary: As an entrepreneur, your health is vital to your success. If you’re neglecting your body by eating unhealthy, you can be sure that it will have a negative impact in your productivity levels. Join Christie as she talks about how food and nutrition can affect your day-to-day performance, focus, memory retention, clarity of mind, and energy, and what you can do improve in all of these areas by eating healthy.

Speaker Biography: Christie Fischer is a Certified Nutritionist having studied Nutritional Medicine in Australia, alongside Coaching and Counselling for 6yrs in total, creating a genuine level of compassion for enriching the lives of those she comes into contact with.

Her passion for educating business owners on the importance of what they eat and how this impacts their health, energy levels and thus their business has had her travelling the globe to find out what people are actually eating.

Christie is a true health & wellbeing champion with an exemplary ability to guide others towards a more positive version of themselves, while illuminating the simplicity and speed at which our body heals and is affected by simple things like drinking water and eating veggies.

Passionate about working with entrepreneurs who are changing the world, she aims to see them looking after their health first, so that they can change the world.

Session Summary: Brock will share his best kept secrets on how to take ownership of your own life. He’ll share how to take charge of daily habits, speak on fulfillment, and tell us how to remember on a regular basis, why you do what you do.

Speaker Biography: Brock Bowen is the Wizard Entrepreneur. He is a man who cares deeply about people, loves and admires those closest to him and is humbled and grateful for the opportunity to connect, empower and create magic and miracles for conscious entrepreneurs who are struggling with time, energy and money. He is on a mission to help people design and live the lifestyle of their dreams so they can give their best to the people they love and make a positive contribution to the world. He has a Bachelor of Commerce, Human Resources & Industrial Relations from the University of Western Sydney. He loves mountain biking, nature walks, swimming, meditation, snuggles, travel, resorts and dancing around the house with his partner, Christie.

While in high-school I started Golden Gear – creating high-end, luxury boxing equipment. I successfully grew Golden Gear to six figure revenue, international distribution and created custom fight equipment for some really cool people. In 2015, I led Golden Gear to a successful acquisition.

While in college I helped co-found Diamond MMA – the worlds most protective athletic cup. I helped grow sales to high six-figure revenue without sponsoring a single athlete. Today we outfit the majority of the UFC fighters and the business is still growing strong.

As a result of my entrepreneurial efforts, I have been featured in Inc Magazine, Success Magazine, represented the USA in an international business competition, and collectively won over $50k from business competitions.

After a short stint with one of the hottest tech startups in NYC, Troops, I was let go!
But what a pleasant surprise that was! Back to the entrepreneurial journey that I know best.

Session Summary: Sarah Bartholomeusz created her business, You Legal, to transform the family lives of lawyers. Sarah will will talk about how and why she created the You Legal platform.

Speaker Biography: Sarah is the founder and CEO of You Legal, a new category of law firm that aims to provide clients with easy and transparent access to legal talent in a more flexible, cost effective and efficient manner.

Session Summary: Brian will share how to live  a life of significance and be extraordinary. Brian will share the importance of leveraging entrepreneurship to address many of the world’s problems.

Speaker Biography: As CEO and owner of PURE Solutions North America, Brian Brault has successfully led his team through intensive growth while launching an entirely new industry.

Building strong teams and fast growing companies is not new to Brian. He successfully led another company, Advanced Facilities Services International, Inc. for 28 years, earning it a spot on Inc. Magazine’s “500 Fastest Growing Companies” list in 2003. AFS employed over 300 employees. Prior to selling AFS in 2014, it had been ranked as one of the top private companies in Western, New York for eight years straight. Brian’s proudest award is when this company was named one of the best companies to work for in WNY.

PURE Solutions is a ten year old company that Makes Lives Better for people by converting living spaces to healthier, allergy friendly environments. The company’s primary market focus is on hotels and was the 2008 recipient of Cornell University’s Innovator of the Hospitality Industry award.

Brian is extremely active in the entrepreneurial world. He currently sits on the EO Global Board of Directors and will be the EO Global Chairman for the FY 2017-18. He also serves as a co-chair and facilitator of the Entrepreneurial Masters program offered through MIT’s Enterprise Forum and EO. In 2012, Brian created the Key Executive Program to facilitate executive level education for entrepreneurs and their leadership teams. He has played a number of Global Leadership roles in EO including Global Forum Chair, Chaired the Global Learning sub-committee on executive education and served as the Global Learning Committee Chair.

In addition to leading his companies, Brian is an executive coach and forum trainer and retreat facilitator for the past nine years.

A graduate of the University of Buffalo’s School of Business, Brault is very active on community boards and very active in his church. He has three children between the ages of 22 and 27, two grandchildren and has been happily married for over 28 years to his wife Jean.