Kai is a full-speed-ahead, risk-taking, big-picture, new-media, new-economy entrepreneur. He thrives on change, and provides exceptional value to organizations that are willing to evolve.

A serial entrepreneur with deep roots in sales, marketing and business development, he has learned the retail, technology, media and wellness industries, worked in direct sales at national and local levels, built reseller and distributor relationships and brought several new product categories to market. An avid online and offline small business networker, he recently developed Free Marketing Made Easy, an Internet Marketing program for traditional businesses owners and early stage entrepreneurs who need to get online, don’t have much money to spend and aren’t sure where to start.

Kai maintains a creative sandbox at www.kairostcheck.com where he blogs about new ideas, business evolution and thought leadership.

Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzLocal.com, a 50 person agency based in Westminster, Colorado, specializing in local lead gen via integrating Facebook advertising with social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising, directory listings, web analytics, and call tracking. Clients include Quiznos, Equifax, Maggianos, Famous Daves, and other national retail and franchised outlets.

Dennis is a 14 year veteran of online marketing via Yahoo! and American Airlines. He has spoken at SMX West, SMX Singapore, SMX Sydney, Affiliate Convention, the American Marketing Association, and other venues. He and his teammates also provide pro bono Google Adwords management to select non-profits, including March of Dimes, Grameen Foundation, International Rescue Committee, and others.

Gillian Muessig

Gillian Muessig is the President & Co-Founder of SEOmoz, the web's most recognized and respected name in search engine optimization tools, resources & community. Having helped to shepherd the company through its inception years, Gillian is the recipient of the 2009 World Brand Leadership Award. Known as SEOmom throughout the industry, Gillian travels the world evangelizing for both the company and the search marketing industry.

SEOmoz, Gillian and her partner, son, and CEO Rand Fishkin, have been featured in publications such as Newsweek, NPR, and the NYTimes. Gillian is known to have her hand on the pulse of the profession and has provided keynotes and sessions for conferences such as IMC,SMX, PubCon, A4UExpo, Affiliate Convention, and TiE in UK, EU, Scandinavia, India, SE Asia, China, Japan, Canada, and throughout the US. Gillian's radio program, This Business of Search airs on Webmaster Radio, beginning January, 2010.

Don Campbell

Don Campbell created Expand2Web to help small business owners build WordPress websites that rank in the top of local search results on Google, Yahoo and Bing, in addition to helping organizations build strategy around effective web presence.

His tech career began with a 30-person start-up company called Interwoven, and became an instrumental part of their growth to 1,000 people and completing an IPO in 2000. He has advised companies such as eBay, Amazon, FedEx, Cisco & Ford on their web content management tools and procedures. As a Group Product Manager responsible for a $5M product line, he also presented internationally at technology conferences like Microsoft TechEd, IBM WebSphere and many others.

Most recently Don presented one of his joint venture startups at the TechCrunch 50 event in front of an audience of over 1,500 people and thousands more on the web. RefMob was one of 50 finalists chosen from 1,200 of this year’s hottest start-ups from around the world.

Best-selling business author, Jaclyn Kostner, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized thought leader on the human side of communicating when people are NOT face-to-face. Her company, Bridge the Distance, delivers online courseware to help people make their webinars engaging, interactive, and fun. The methods and models that she has created for online training, online presentations, and online meetings are relied on by Fortune 100 companies and others all over the world. 

Besides authoring numerous successful books (Virtual Leadership; Knights of the Tele-Round Table; Bionic eTeamwork), Dr. Kostner has also acted as virtual communication expert in articles in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Time, Newsweek.com, FastCompany, Kiplinger, CIO Magazine, and USA Today, among many others.  She has appeared on CNN and CNBC, and numerous business talk-radio programs worldwide.  She has been spokesperson for studies published by Verizon Business, Microsoft, Frost & Sullivan, MCI, and Polycom.

Anti-SPAM zealot, Deb Daufeldt is President and Founder of Second Story Solutions, an interactive marketing agency specializing in permission-based email marketing.  She and her talented team provide on- and off-line marketing strategies and solutions focused on acquiring, retaining, communicating with, and engaging customers through her results-oriented e-marketing approach. 

Working with companies ranging from ground floor startups to the Fortune 500, Deb's proven techniques focus her clients' efforts on building relationships and not just communicating information to their customers and prospects.

Jon Fougner

Jon Fougner leads local Ads Product Marketing at Facebook. His responsibilities at Facebook have ranged from co-launching the Facebook Pages product in 2007, to partnering with independent developers to build branded promotions templates, to keynoting industry conferences.

Prior to Facebook, Jon worked on M&A and financing in the Investment Banking Division, Financial Institutions Group at Goldman Sachs. Previously, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Norway. He took his B.A. in Economics from Yale.

Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzLocal.com, a 50 person agency based in Westminster, Colorado, specializing in local lead gen via integrating Facebook advertising with social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising, directory listings, web analytics, and call tracking. Clients include Quiznos, Equifax, Maggianos, Famous Daves, and other national retail and franchised outlets.

Dennis is a 14 year veteran of online marketing via Yahoo! and American Airlines. He has spoken at SMX West, SMX Singapore, SMX Sydney, Affiliate Convention, the American Marketing Association, and other venues. He and his teammates also provide pro bono Google Adwords management to select non-profits, including March of Dimes, Grameen Foundation, International Rescue Committee, and others.

As a President of EffectiveUI, Anthony has the unique opportunity to listen to how companies like eBay, Adobe, Viacom, Microsoft, GE, Dow Jones, Qwest and Nielsen think about the internet and desktop software, and how innovative thinking can completely change the way they do business.

Anthony has had the opportunity to brainstorm new software for these companies (and others). EffectiveUI finds themselves primarily developing using Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and Apple platforms. In fact, EffectiveUI is the only agency in the world that has been able to establish themselves as a premium services partner for all four.

Alli Libb
Online Event Program Manager - American Marketing Association

In her role, Alli works closely with high-profile clients on a weekly basis to promote and produce educational webcasts. Using her technical expertise combined with her background in event marketing and public relations, she has run over 100 successful webcasts for the AMA’s audience of marketing professionals.

Paul Barron
Publisher & Producer - NetWorld Alliance

Paul Barron, New Media publisher & producer of NetWorld Alliance an online media company.  As a Content Creator, Event Maven, Social Media Mentor, Blogger, Author, Podcaster, and Speaker Paul has been publishing web based & new media content for 17 years.  Paul started one of his industry leading websites as far back as 1994.  A past executive and consultant to leading companies like Microsoft, Starbucks and Panera Bread, Paul is one of the premier thought leaders in the restaurant and retail industry.

Jessica Walker
Process Manager, Healthcare - Gallup

Jessica is Process Manager of Gallup’s Healthcare Practice. In this role, she coordinates with clients and client support teams to ensure the smooth delivery of customer and employee engagement programs as well as employee development programs. She works with Gallup’s partners, principals, and operations teams to ensure they have the information and resources needed to forge new business relationships and enhance existing partnerships. She is also responsible for managing research and development projects for the Healthcare Practice.

Shawn Cardinal
Training Director - ReadyTalk

Shawn is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.

As a President of EffectiveUI, Anthony has the unique opportunity to listen to how companies like eBay, Adobe, Viacom, Microsoft, GE, Dow Jones, Qwest and Nielsen think about the internet and desktop software, and how innovative thinking can completely change the way they do business. Anthony has had the opportunity to brainstorm new software for these companies (and others). EffectiveUI finds themselves primarily developing using Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and Apple platforms. In fact, EffectiveUI is the only agency in the world that has been able to establish themselves as a premium services partner for all four.

Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzLocal.com, a 50 person agency based in Westminster, Colorado, specializing in local lead gen via integrating Facebook advertising with social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising, directory listings, web analytics, and call tracking. Clients include Quiznos, Equifax, Maggianos, Famous Daves, and other national retail and franchised outlets.

Dennis is a 14 year veteran of online marketing via Yahoo! and American Airlines. He has spoken at SMX West, SMX Singapore, SMX Sydney, Affiliate Convention, the American Marketing Association, and other venues. He and his teammates also provide pro bono Google Adwords management to select non-profits, including March of Dimes, Grameen Foundation, International Rescue Committee, and others.

Don Campbell

Don Campbell created Expand2Web to help small business owners build WordPress websites that rank in the top of local search results on Google, Yahoo and Bing, in addition to helping organizations build strategy around effective web presence.

His tech career began with a 30-person start-up company called Interwoven, and became an instrumental part of their growth to 1,000 people and completing an IPO in 2000. He has advised companies such as eBay, Amazon, FedEx, Cisco & Ford on their web content management tools and procedures. As a Group Product Manager responsible for a $5M product line, he also presented internationally at technology conferences like Microsoft TechEd, IBM WebSphere and many others.

Most recently Don presented one of his joint venture startups at the TechCrunch 50 event in front of an audience of over 1,500 people and thousands more on the web. RefMob was one of 50 finalists chosen from 1,200 of this year’s hottest start-ups from around the world.

Prior to founding Leadership LandingTM, Hal was President of Great Place to Work® Institute, the global research and consulting firm best known for creating the gold standard in workplace recognition; the annual FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For.

Hal joined the Institute in 2004 as a consultant, and in 2006 was asked to be President of the company. Hal's success over the years has been attributed to his keen and intuitive understanding of leadership, workplace culture and change. Cited by clients as "Trusted Advisor" and "Master Guide", Hal deeply understands cultural transformation, and knows how to facilitate it, one leader at a time.

Hal's range of practical, hands-on leadership experiences spans managing within multi-national publicly held companies, to being the first hire in boutique consulting firms. Hal has years of experience working with leadership across industries such as healthcare, airline, finance, manufacturing, insurance, retail, hospitality and gaming, technology and construction.

Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzLocal.com, a 50 person agency based in Westminster, Colorado, specializing in local lead gen via integrating Facebook advertising with social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising, directory listings, web analytics, and call tracking. Clients include Quiznos, Equifax, Maggianos, Famous Daves, and other national retail and franchised outlets.

Dennis is a 14 year veteran of online marketing via Yahoo! and American Airlines. He has spoken at SMX West, SMX Singapore, SMX Sydney, Affiliate Convention, the American Marketing Association, and other venues. He and his teammates also provide pro bono Google Adwords management to select non-profits, including March of Dimes, Grameen Foundation, International Rescue Committee, and others.

Gillian Muessig

Gillian Muessig is the President & Co-Founder of SEOmoz, the web's most recognized and respected name in search engine optimization tools, resources & community. Having helped to shepherd the company through its inception years, Gillian is the recipient of the 2009 World Brand Leadership Award. Known as SEOmom throughout the industry, Gillian travels the world evangelizing for both the company and the search marketing industry.

SEOmoz, Gillian and her partner, son, and CEO Rand Fishkin, have been featured in publications such as Newsweek, NPR, and the NYTimes. Gillian is known to have her hand on the pulse of the profession and has provided keynotes and sessions for conferences such as IMC,SMX, PubCon, A4UExpo, Affiliate Convention, and TiE in UK, EU, Scandinavia, India, SE Asia, China, Japan, Canada, and throughout the US. Gillian's radio program, This Business of Search airs on Webmaster Radio, beginning January, 2010.

Prior to founding Leadership LandingTM, Hal was President of Great Place to Work® Institute, the global research and consulting firm best known for creating the gold standard in workplace recognition; the annual FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For.

Hal joined the Institute in 2004 as a consultant, and in 2006 was asked to be President of the company. Hal's success over the years has been attributed to his keen and intuitive understanding of leadership, workplace culture and change. Cited by clients as "Trusted Advisor" and "Master Guide", Hal deeply understands cultural transformation, and knows how to facilitate it, one leader at a time.

Hal's range of practical, hands-on leadership experiences spans managing within multi-national publicly held companies, to being the first hire in boutique consulting firms. Hal has years of experience working with leadership across industries such as healthcare, airline, finance, manufacturing, insurance, retail, hospitality and gaming, technology and construction.

Shawn Cardinal

As the Training Director for ReadyTalk, Shawn Cardinal is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.

His training style is energetic, engaging and delightful. Shawn has a knack for making the most technologically challenged customers feel comfortable and confident when conducting their own events, and is delighted to share his expertise with a new audience.

Mike McKinnon

Mike has worked at ReadyTalk for the past five years. Most recently, Mike manages all of ReadyTalk's demand generation programs. With 12+ years of experience in marketing, PR and market research, he brings a wide breadth of knowledge to his job that he applies nearly everyday in his quest to satiate the sales team with qualified leads. PPC programs, prospect and nurturing campaigns, sales campaigns and tele-prospecting are just some of the programs he manages. Mike came from a software company called 3i, where he managed their international reseller network for 3 years.

Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzLocal.com, a 50 person agency based in Westminster, Colorado, specializing in local lead gen via integrating Facebook advertising with social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising, directory listings, web analytics, and call tracking. Clients include Quiznos, Equifax, Maggianos, Famous Daves, and other national retail and franchised outlets.

Dennis is a 14 year veteran of online marketing via Yahoo! and American Airlines. He has spoken at SMX West, SMX Singapore, SMX Sydney, Affiliate Convention, the American Marketing Association, and other venues. He and his teammates also provide pro bono Google Adwords management to select non-profits, including March of Dimes, Grameen Foundation, International Rescue Committee, and others.

Patty Kreamer, CPO^® (Certified Professional Organizer) is the President of Kreamer Connect, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that works with residential and corporate clients to become more productive and perform better while at the same time simplifying their work and lives.

Patty is an author, consultant, speaker and professional organizer who is seen regularly in the media. She shares her fun and energetic style with the audiences of publications like The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Business Times, and through television shows like LifeQuest, KDKA's Morning Show, and One on One with Lee Adams.

Patty is the Founding Past President of the National Association of Professional Organizers - Pittsburgh chapter and Past President of and The National Speakers Association - Pittsburgh chapter.  Patty was named Women's Business Network's 2007 Woman of the Year as well as one of Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business and one of Pittsburgh’s Fastrackers in 2005.

Shawn Cardinal

As the Training Director for ReadyTalk, Shawn Cardinal is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.

His training style is energetic, engaging and delightful. Shawn has a knack for making the most technologically challenged customers feel comfortable and confident when conducting their own events, and is delighted to share his expertise with a new audience.

Mike McKinnon

Mike has worked at ReadyTalk for the past five years. Most recently, Mike manages all of ReadyTalk's demand generation programs. With 12+ years of experience in marketing, PR and market research, he brings a wide breadth of knowledge to his job that he applies nearly everyday in his quest to satiate the sales team with qualified leads. PPC programs, prospect and nurturing campaigns, sales campaigns and tele-prospecting are just some of the programs he manages. Mike came from a software company called 3i, where he managed their international reseller network for 3 years.

Shawn Cardinal

As the Training Director for ReadyTalk, Shawn Cardinal is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.

His training style is energetic, engaging and delightful. Shawn has a knack for making the most technologically challenged customers feel comfortable and confident when conducting their own events, and is delighted to share his expertise with a new audience.

Mike McKinnon

Mike has worked at ReadyTalk for the past five years. Most recently, Mike manages all of ReadyTalk's demand generation programs. With 12+ years of experience in marketing, PR and market research, he brings a wide breadth of knowledge to his job that he applies nearly everyday in his quest to satiate the sales team with qualified leads. PPC programs, prospect and nurturing campaigns, sales campaigns and tele-prospecting are just some of the programs he manages. Mike came from a software company called 3i, where he managed their international reseller network for 3 years.

Kendra Lee founded KLA Group in 1995.She is a top IT seller, sales advisor and business owner who knows how to shorten time to revenue in innovative ways. She is the author of the best selling book Selling Against the Goal: How Corporate Sales Professionals Generate the Leads They Need

Under Ms. Lee’s direction her organization has assisted sellers in increasing referrals more than 328% in just 7 weeks, penetrating SMB markets in just 6 weeks, driving new client acquisition more than 31% year to year, and increasing annual revenue. Specializing in the IT industry, KLA Group works with manufacturers, distributors, and channel resellers launching new product offerings, penetrating new markets, or experiencing mergers and acquisitions to penetrate new markets, break in and achieve forecasted revenue projections in the SMB market.

Articles about or by Ms. Lee have appeared in numerous publications, and she is a frequent speaker on improving sales performance.

Prior to founding Leadership LandingTM, Hal was President of Great Place to Work® Institute, the global research and consulting firm best known for creating the gold standard in workplace recognition; the annual FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For.

Hal joined the Institute in 2004 as a consultant, and in 2006 was asked to be President of the company. Hal's success over the years has been attributed to his keen and intuitive understanding of leadership, workplace culture and change. Cited by clients as "Trusted Advisor" and "Master Guide", Hal deeply understands cultural transformation, and knows how to facilitate it, one leader at a time.

Hal's range of practical, hands-on leadership experiences spans managing within multi-national publicly held companies, to being the first hire in boutique consulting firms. Hal has years of experience working with leadership across industries such as healthcare, airline, finance, manufacturing, insurance, retail, hospitality and gaming, technology and construction.

Shawn Cardinal

As the Training Director for ReadyTalk, Shawn Cardinal is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.

His training style is energetic, engaging and delightful. Shawn has a knack for making the most technologically challenged customers feel comfortable and confident when conducting their own events, and is delighted to share his expertise with a new audience.

Rachel Stoddart

Rachel Stoddart is a senior member of ReadyTalk’s Events and Training Department. Since joining ReadyTalk in 2006 she has helped develop the ReadyTalk Web Seminar Series and facilitated hundreds of webinars. Her expertise in event management has helped hundreds of customers create successful web seminars of their own.

Rachel is originally from St. Louis, MO and is an avid Cardinals fan. In Colorado she enjoys skiing, cycling, and enjoying the outdoors with her Jack Russell Terrier.

Carol Goldsmith, The Discovery Coach, is considered by clients and peers alike to be one of the most effective change agents in the coaching field. Her acclaimed Return on Experience™ (ROX) model is shifting conventional success wisdom away from role-modeling other people, toward self-modeling our own direct experience. The ROX process is detailed in her forthcoming book, Return on Experience: Turning Past Performance into Future Success.

A popular workshop leader, speaker, and author of five books, Carol holds designations as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation, certified trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and certified practitioner of Ericksonian Hypnosis. She has studied personally with Richard Bandler, the co-founder of NLP, and with celebrity coach Anthony Robbins. Carol lives and works near Washington, D.C.

Andy Goodman is a nationally recognized author, speaker and consultant in the field of public interest communications. Along with Storytelling as Best Practice, he is author of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. He also publishes a monthly journal, Free-Range Thinking, to share best practices in the field.

He has been invited to speak at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton, as well as at major foundation and nonprofit conferences. In 2007, he was selected by Al Gore to train 1,000 people who are currently conducting presentations on global warming throughout the US and around the world. And in 2008, he co-founded The Goodman Center to offer online versions of his workshops. To learn more about his work, please visit:

Michael Benidt and Sheryl Kay have made it their mission to give you the tools you need to conquer information (and mis-information) overload. The goal of their training sessions and consulting services is to help you spend less time online and more time with paying customers (and living your REAL life).

As the only 11ft 8 inch, 310 lb, two-headed speaker we know of, they promise to treat technology with the disrespect it deserves - in order to get you to the good stuff, and leave the rest behind.

Michael and Sheryl are the owners of Golden Compass, Inc. and the creators of the series, "Hidden Treasures of the Internet: Surprising Secrets worth their Weight in Gold." You can learn more about them on their blogs, HiddenBusinessTreasures.com and HiddenSpeakerTreasures.com.

Michelle is a Best Selling Author and is known as “The Referability Expert” in Pittsburgh.  She owns and operates Referral Institute of Western Pennsylvania, specializing in referral marketing programs and referral coaching.

She has a Masters in Adult Education and is a Certified Instructor of Trainers. She has been a guest faculty for Penn State Beaver campus and the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Center for Executive Education.  Michelle is also a six year member of BNI, bringing over $250,000 of referred net profit to the members in her chapter.

As a prolific writer, Michelle is a contributing author to multiple editions of the Training and Development Sourcebook. She also published over 30 articles on networking and referral marketing in multiple publications.  Michelle’s first book, “The 29% Solution: 52 Weekly Networking Success Strategies,” co-authored with Dr. Ivan Misner, has been recognized as one of the top 30 business books of 2008 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries and hit #3 on the Wall Street Journal Best Seller’s list.

Michelle is an avid cyclist, raising money for Multiple Sclerosis and Diabetes.  When she’s not on her bicycle, she’s making home made wine, riding her motorcycle or fishing on a lake.

This hurricane of talent has a background in marketing & advertising with projects spanning a number of areas: from helping a global CPG company reinvent the baby food aisle at supermarkets to sniffing out commercial potential for NASA technologies. She has a bachelor of science degree in Psychology as well as her MBA.

Before joining ?What If!, Lisa was an Account Supervisor at Saatchi & Saatchi overseeing accounts for American Express and Hanes. She’s also spent some time working with Wal-Mart customer teams from P&G, Novartis, Smuckers, Crayola, and others.

Today, Lisa is overjoyed to have fused her fascination with human behavior, her artistic inclination and her branding experience into one, exhilarating package at ?What If!. She is a senior member of the Capabilities team, where her ingenuity is best put to use helping clients become even more brilliant than they ever thought possible.

As vice president, Alex Porter forges seamless relations between Location3 Media and prospective clients. He educates them on the value and power of effective search engine marketing, foresees and resolves all conceivable contentions and establishes mutually beneficial relationships. Alex also manages day-to-day operations, practicing a hands-on approach with existing clients to ensure customer needs are constantly met and exceeded.

Alex played an integral role in the recent launch of Local Search Traffic, a local search marketing solution that manages business profiles on numerous search engines, directories and IYPs, as well as develops and executes geo-targeted pay per click campaigns. By seeking out new business and continually improving current campaigns, he is helping push Local Search Traffic to the forefront of this growing industry.

Alex spends most of his free time hanging out with his wife and son, teaching little Xavier how to be his generation’s top search marketer. Alex also delights in attending sporting events, golfing and enjoying all that Colorado’s picturesque landscape has to offer.

Bob Hanson is the President of Quantum Leap Marketing, and creator of the Must-See Webinar System. He consults with firms of all types on how to get more leads and sales using marketing strategies like webinars, web marketing, and email marketing, and he also produces many webinars using his Must-See Webinars system. Last year his clients including Dale Carnegie Business Group, EMC, Symantec and countless small businesses successfully delivered over 1,500 webinars.

He has generated over 2,250 registrants for a single webinar without spending a dime on marketing, 15,000 webinar registrants in a single year for a small company, and hundreds of thousands in sales from a single webinar recording. His event marketing strategies have generated over $1.45 billion in qualified sales leads for clients.

Bob is also the author of many reports on webinars including 7 Secrets of Winning Webinars and How to Create an On Demand Webinar Program.

Shawn Cardinal

As the Training Director for ReadyTalk, Shawn Cardinal is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.

His training style is energetic, engaging and delightful. Shawn has a knack for making the most technologically challenged customers feel comfortable and confident when conducting their own events, and is delighted to share his expertise with a new audience.

Rachel Stoddart

Rachel Stoddart is a senior member of ReadyTalk’s Events and Training Department. Since joining ReadyTalk in 2006 she has helped develop the ReadyTalk Web Seminar Series and facilitated hundreds of webinars. Her expertise in event management has helped hundreds of customers create successful web seminars of their own.

Rachel is originally from St. Louis, MO and is an avid Cardinals fan. In Colorado she enjoys skiing, cycling, and enjoying the outdoors with her Jack Russell Terrier.

As the Training Director for ReadyTalk, Shawn Cardinal is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.

His training style is energetic, engaging and delightful. Shawn has a knack for making the most technologically challenged customers feel comfortable and confident when conducting their own events, and is delighted to share his expertise with a new audience.

Rachel Stoddart is a senior member of ReadyTalk’s Events and Training Department. Since joining ReadyTalk in 2006 she has helped develop the ReadyTalk Web Seminar Series and facilitated hundreds of webinars. Her expertise in event management has helped hundreds of customers create successful web seminars of their own.

Rachel is originally from St. Louis, MO and is an avid Cardinals fan. In Colorado she enjoys skiing, cycling, and enjoying the outdoors with her Jack Russell Terrier.

Patty Kreamer, CPO^® (Certified Professional Organizer) is the President of Kreamer Connect, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that works with residential and corporate clients to become more productive and perform better while at the same time simplifying their work and lives.

Patty is an author, consultant, speaker and professional organizer who is seen regularly in the media. She shares her fun and energetic style with the audiences of publications like The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Business Times, and through television shows like LifeQuest, KDKA's Morning Show, and One on One with Lee Adams.

Patty is the Founding Past President of the National Association of Professional Organizers - Pittsburgh chapter and Past President of and The National Speakers Association - Pittsburgh chapter.  Patty was named Women's Business Network's 2007 Woman of the Year as well as one of Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business and one of Pittsburgh’s Fastrackers in 2005.

Libby Reder is the co-founder and leader of eBay's employee Green Team. As the Head of Environmental Initiatives at eBay Inc., Libby focuses on improving the environmental performance of eBay’s operations and teaming with eBay's employees and users to encourage more sustainable behavior in the office, on the road, in seller business operations and around buyer product choices. Prior to joining eBay in 2006, Libby spent five years as Professional Staff to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, where she sought and advanced policy solutions in a wide range of issue areas and drove productive, multi-sector dialogue. Libby holds an MBA with a focus on responsible business from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and BA in Government from Dartmouth College.

As the Training Director for ReadyTalk, Shawn Cardinal is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.

His training style is energetic, engaging and delightful. Shawn has a knack for making the most technologically challenged customers feel comfortable and confident when conducting their own events, and is delighted to share his expertise with a new audience.

Rachel Stoddart is a senior member of ReadyTalk’s Events and Training Department. Since joining ReadyTalk in 2006 she has helped develop the ReadyTalk Web Seminar Series and facilitated hundreds of webinars. Her expertise in event management has helped hundreds of customers create successful web seminars of their own.

Rachel is originally from St. Louis, MO and is an avid Cardinals fan. In Colorado she enjoys skiing, cycling, and enjoying the outdoors with her Jack Russell Terrier.

Jeff is the founder of Customer Paradigm. Considered an expert on Internet privacy and web marketing, Jeff evangelizes the customer experience, and helps businesses design sequenced interactions that lead to loyal, delighted customers. Clients include Xcel Energy, Level3 Communications, 3M, Up With People and Adventure Rabbi.

Finkelstein studied Political Science and Psychology at the University of Michigan, holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Technology Management from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has served as an intern at The White House where he drafted executive correspondence, including the 1993 National Medal of Science & Technology message.

John Shegerian

John is the Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International® (ERI). Established in 2002, ERI is an Electronic Waste collector and recycler, specializing in the environmentally safe and socially responsible dismantling of electronic items such as computers, televisions and monitors. ERI is recognized as the Number One Electronic Waste Recycler in the state of California and one of the largest in North America.

Shegerian serves alongside Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a member of the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth and was recently appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to serve on the Governor's Gang Advisory Committee, focused on providing the State's top legislators with guidance pertaining to policies geared toward the reduction of gang and youth violence.

Jim Puckett

Jim Puckett has been an environmental health and justice leader for 23 years. In the past he served as Greenpeace International's Toxics Director and Toxic Trade Campaign Coordinator, while based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Greenpeace Toxic Trade Campaign was instrumental in working to achieve The Basel Ban amendment as well as numerous regional waste trade bans.

In 1997 he left Greenpeace to return to his Seattle, USA home to help found the Basel Action Network (BAN) program, an NGO watchdog on toxic trade. As Executive Director of BAN, he has represented civil society within the Basel Convention since its adoption in 1989.

In 2001 Jim traveled to China to investigate and document for the first time the recycling of imported e-waste. The release of the BAN report and film Exporting Harm in 2002 and a later report and film, The Digital Dump in 2005 based on another visit to Nigeria, revealed the ugly truth about e-waste exportation from rich to poorer countries. BAN has since found itself at the forefront of activism calling for responsible electronic waste management globally.

Rob Simon is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience starting, growing and managing pioneering media companies. He is the founder, president and CEO of BurstMarketing, a social media company and leader in publishing podcasts, widgets and mobile applications for consumers who access their media online and via portable devices including iPods and smart phones such as the iPhone and Blackberry.

Prior to starting Burst, Rob had started three successful newspapers, two cable TV companies, a magazine, and one of the largest full-service marketing, public relations & Internet firms in the Rocky Mountains. He also started the first Russian-American newspaper in Russia, with a quarterly circulation of nearly 50 million. He is a published author and frequent speaker at conferences and webinars.

Today, BurstMarketing’s social media networks reach more than 400,000 unique customers who download annually nearly 1 million episodes of audio and video content. Burst publishes podcasts and social media networks for organizations such as BookExpo America, Qwest Communications, the City of Denver, the Starz Denver Film Festival, and the 2008 Denver Democratic Convention.

Rob graduated from Cornell University in 1976 with a bachelor’s degree in communications & has won several awards for his communications campaigns. He is married with two children.

This hurricane of talent has a background in marketing & advertising with projects spanning a number of areas: from helping a global CPG company reinvent the baby food aisle at supermarkets to sniffing out commercial potential for NASA technologies. She has a bachelor of science degree in Psychology as well as her MBA.

Before joining ?What If!, Lisa was an Account Supervisor at Saatchi & Saatchi overseeing accounts for American Express and Hanes. She's also spent some time working with Wal-Mart customer teams from P&G, Novartis, Smuckers, Crayola, and others.

Today, Lisa is overjoyed to have fused her fascination with human behavior, her artistic inclination and her branding experience into one, exhilarating package at ?What If!. She is a senior member of the Capabilities team, where her ingenuity is best put to use helping clients become even more brilliant than they ever thought possible.

Dr. Jim Black is a founder and CEO of Chronicle Graphics, maker of innovative software that helps project managers run better team meetings and tell better project stories to their stakeholders. He has participated in, or managed complex software projects for over 25 years.

Prior to founding Chronicle Graphics, he held the position of Senior Vice President of Engineering at the Comcast subsidiary GuideWorks, which builds the interactive program guides for digital cable set-top boxes across North America. From 1996 to 2000, Jim presided as Vice-President of R&D for Landmark Graphics, a subsidiary of Halliburton that builds the leading visualization and analysis software for oil and gas exploration and production. He also led a R&D and consulting group for IBM for seven years. This team focused on computing for the oil and gas industry. Early on in his career from 1981 to 1989, Jim worked for Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas.

Jim has a PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University and a BA in physics from Rice University. He lives in Centennial, Colorado.

Amy Lyman, Ph.D. is a co-founder of Great Place to Work® Institute, and currently serves as Director of Corporate Research. In her role, Amy conducts specific research on Best Companies policies and practices linking the quality of workplace conduct with the financial and non-financial benefits achieved by great workplaces.

Amy has assisted organizations with:

• the merging of cultures and insuring the development of trust in the new environment,
• leadership development and succession planning,
• developing an understanding of the importance of trust in management/employee relationships, and
• creating organization-wide communication and training plans.

Prior to founding the Great Place to Work® Institute, Amy taught Organization Development, Systems Theory and Qualitative Research Methods in the Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis. She began her consulting work while a research fellow at the Wharton Center for Applied Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She has authored articles about business management issues and has been a featured speaker at numerous management development workshops and conferences focused on general management, leadership development and strategic planning.

Amy Lyman received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis. She is an active member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Bob Hanson is the President of Quantum Leap Marketing, and creator of the Must-See Webinar System.

He consults with firms of all types on how to get more leads and sales using marketing strategies like webinars, web marketing, and email marketing, and he also produces many webinars using his Must-See Webinars system. Last year his clients including Dale Carnegie Business Group, EMC, Symantec and countless small businesses successfully delivered over 1,500 webinars.

He has generated over 2,250 registrants for a single webinar without spending a dime on marketing, 15,000 webinar registrants in a single year for a small company, hundreds of thousands in sales from a single webinar recording. His event marketing strategies have generated over $1.45 billion in qualified sales leads for clients.

He is the author of many reports on webinars including 7 Secrets of Winning Webinars and How to Create an On Demand Webinar Program.

Studying philosophy and political science as an undergraduate in Vancouver, British Columbia, early on Brian developed an appreciation for a global perspective on energy policy. Upon completion, he went on to Boston College for graduate study in Political Science with a research emphasis in energy policy. His research in energy policy inspired him to pursue a career in green energy & carbon-mitigating design measures.

Currently, Brian acts as the Managing Member of Inerg, LLC, an energy services company engaged in the development of renewable energy sources. He is responsible for campaigns, site acquisition, strategic partner relations, & utility relations.

In his free time, Brian enjoys community service and being outside. He is a member of the Visalia Breakfast Rotary Club, City of Visalia Smart Growth Task Force, Chairs the City of Visalia Environmental Committee, and a board member of the College of the Sequoias Arts and Lectures Committee. In 2006, Brian founded YouthSki, a youth development program that makes skiing free for disadvantaged and at-risk youth. When not engaged with a service project, Brian enjoys rock climbing, snow skiing, and white water kayaking.

Patty Kreamer, CPO® (Certified Professional Organizer) is the President of Kreamer Connect, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that works with residential and corporate clients to become more productive and perform better while at the same time simplifying their work and lives.

Patty is an author, consultant, speaker and professional organizer who is seen regularly in the media. She shares her fun and energetic style with the audiences of publications like The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Business Times, and through television shows like LifeQuest, KDKA's Morning Show, and One on One with Lee Adams.

Patty is the Founding Past President of the National Association of Professional Organizers - Pittsburgh chapter and Past President of and The National Speakers Association - Pittsburgh chapter. Patty was named 2007 Woman of the Year Women's Business Network's as well as one of Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business and one of Pittsburgh's Fastrackers in 2005.

Josh Whitney is the Principle & Founder of Onsight Strategy, a consulting firm that focuses on sustainable corporate practices.

Josh has been actively working within the sustainability sector for the last 8 years with a combined focus on entrepreneurship, real estate and sustainability. Before his move to Colorado, he played a key role in strategic direction and client services as a Project Director with WSP Environment and Energy based in San Francisco. He has worked with and consulted for many of the Fortune 500 leaders, including Merrill Lynch, Genentech, Cisco Systems, Microsoft & Seagate Technology, as well as a number of successful tech start ups including nVidia & Aravo.

He has advised on and developed corporate sustainability, social and governance reports and related marketing and communications material. Additionally, he has project managed numerous sustainable master planning, real estate & asset management and low carbon design projects. A graduate with honors from Skidmore College, Josh has a B.A. in Environmental Studies and International Politics and is currently pursuing his MBA at CU-Boulder.

Gary has successfully led both corporations and individuals through organizational changes for over 30 years. He is a full time professional speaker and consultant. He has enhanced his education with the Management of Managers program at the University of Michigan and the McGrane Self-Esteem Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a part time professor in the communications, ethics, management, and humanities programs for twelve years at the University of Phoenix, Colorado Campus.

His clients include AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Qwest Communications, Sanford Corporation, Frontier Airlines, The State of Colorado, The National Parks and Recreation, The US Federal Reserve, and many others. He has spoken on organizational change since 1993 and is currently speaking on The Change Cycle™.

Dan Kusner is a talented and successful salesman with an incredible track record of products and services sold. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in Math and a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. He was hired by Westinghouse, where he spent more than 30 years in the Commercial Nuclear Business Unit and received the Business Unit's highest award for sales achievement. He in 1996, Dan left Westinghouse to become Vice President of Peak Performance Management, an affiliate of the Sandler Sales Institute. In 2001, he founded his own company, Optimum Business Development, LP. He has been an adjunct professor at Waynesburg College in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area for the last 7 years, teaching courses in Consumer Behavior, Sales Management, Sales and Promotion, and Marketing Management. He has taught and coached countless numbers of people how to double and triple their sales results.

As the Training Director for ReadyTalk, Shawn Cardinal is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.

John is the Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International® (ERI). Established in 2002, ERI is an Electronic Waste collector and recycler, specializing in the environmentally safe and socially responsible dismantling of electronic items such as computers, televisions and monitors. ERI is recognized as the Number One Electronic Waste Recycler in the state of California and one of the largest in North America.

Shegerian serves alongside Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a member of the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth and was recently appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to serve on the Governor's Gang Advisory Committee, focused on providing the State's top legislators with guidance pertaining to policies geared toward the reduction of gang and youth violence.

Patty Kreamer, CPO® (Certified Professional Organizer) is the President of Kreamer Connect, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that works with residential and corporate clients to become more productive and perform better while at the same time simplifying their work and lives.

Patty is an author, consultant, speaker and professional organizer who is seen regularly in the media. She shares her fun and energetic style with the audiences of publications like The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Business Times, and through television shows like LifeQuest, KDKA's Morning Show, and One on One with Lee Adams.

Patty is the Founding Past President of the National Association of Professional Organizers - Pittsburgh chapter and Past President of and The National Speakers Association - Pittsburgh chapter. Patty was named 2007 Woman of the Year Women's Business Network's as well as one of Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business and one of Pittsburgh's Fastrackers in 2005.

Catherine Osler

Catherine Osler is a highly successful entrepreneur. As a leader in the corporate communications field for over 20 years, she was the founder, President and CEO responsible for the growth and success of two leading edge communications firms—Titian Communications Inc. (international award-winning communications company) and Parallel Strategies Inc. (one of Western Canada's largest regional marketing and corporate communications firms with 100 employees in British Columbia and Alberta and gross annual revenues of $25 million). Today, Catherine is an executive coach, facilitator and management consultant with a practice focused on leadership development of both individuals and their management teams.. She is a partner in Syncresse Partners Inc., a practice devoted to the development of professional women.

A recipient of numerous awards, Ms. Osler holds an honours degree from Queen's University and a MA from Simon Fraser University.

Susan Burgess

Susan Burgess has 27 years experience in consulting, training, curriculum development, business development, coaching, and teaching. She began her career as an educator and went on to work for ten years in marketing and advertising in the Pacific Northwest. Susan returned to graduate school for a master's degree in psychology specializing in clinical psychology and organizational behavior. She had a private therapy practice and is a licensed psychotherapist. She works with executive teams to better communicate and implement strategy. Her clients included Hewlett Packard, the Boeing Airplane Company, Capital One, and the State of New York's Department of Labor Management.

Several years ago she developed a workshop for women leaders, The Women's Edge. She has since co-founded Syncresse Partners, Inc. This company is dedicated to the professional development of women focusing on leadership, communication, collaboration and innovation, organizational life, and life integration.

Kendra Lee founded KLA Group in 1995. She is a top IT seller, sales advisor and business owner who knows how to shorten time to revenue in innovative ways. She is the author of the best selling book Selling Against the Goal: How Corporate Sales Professionals Generate the Leads They Need.

Under Ms. Lee's direction her organization has assisted sellers in increasing referrals more than 328% in just 7 weeks, penetrating SMB markets in just 6 weeks, driving new client acquisition more than 31% year to year, and increasing annual revenue. Specializing in the IT industry, KLA Group works with manufacturers, distributors, and channel resellers launching new product offerings, penetrating new markets, or experiencing mergers and acquisitions to penetrate new markets, break in and achieve forecasted revenue projections in the SMB market.

Articles about or by Ms. Lee have appeared in numerous publications, and she is a frequent speaker on improving sales performance.

Jennifer Thomas is a successful and well-known Voice Coach in the Denver Metropolitan Area. She maintains a private clientele catering to professional voice-users in all professions, such as business executives, lawyers, actors, voice-over artists, teachers, ministers, storytellers, and presenters. In addition, Ms. Thomas teaches Voice classes at the Denver Center Theatre Academy.

Ms. Thomas presents her work to corporations and businesses to further their understanding of using the voice to communicate effectively. She has worked with Teletech, First Data, JD Edwards, Charles Schwab, Pell Rudman, Tribune Broadcasting and many others.

Ms. Thomas has a Master's degree in Voice Performance from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. She also has a Master of Fine Arts in Vocal Coaching and Training for the Theatre from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, Colorado.

Hal Adler is the President of the Great Place to Work® Institute. In this role, Hal provides leadership and strategic direction for the Institute. He brings a creative, dynamic approach to his work with expertise in instructional design, leadership training and consulting.

Hal came to the Institute in 2004 with a background in consulting, training and leadership development, and has distinguished himself in service to clients, through his public speaking and in the customized design and delivery of workshops and training programs. He is a regular keynote speaker and presenter at professional association conferences such as SHRM, ASTD and the Human Capital Institute. Hal continues to work with clients on matters such as building and sustaining trust, management training and development, executive coaching and change management.

Prior to joining the Institute, Hal was the founder of the Training Arts Institute, and his professional career also includes leadership positions with the Center for Talent Retention, a management training and development firm, and Manpower, a global HR Consulting and staffing business.

After 3 decades of specialization in lead acquisition and sales development, Dave Williams has become a recognized leader in web seminar marketing. He has a passion for helping his clients combine innovative marketing concepts with new media applications to create better communication, generate more sales leads and increase corporate revenue.

Dave is President of Conference Village and is the chief architect of the "Webinars That Work" coaching system. Educated at the Universities of Guelph and Western Ontario, he earned the Master of Arts degree in Psychology, has completed doctoral work in the field of Organizational Behaviour and is a past faculty member of the Wilfrid Laurier University School of Business.

Dave is the author of numerous research papers and journal articles, broadcasts the "Webinar Wisdom" podcast, frequently lectures to university and professional groups and has been both a columnist and member of various editorial advisory boards.

Erica Olsen is the founder and Vice President of M3 Planning, Inc, a strategic planning firm that works with growth-oriented organizations to develop and execute their strategies. She holds a BA in Communications and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird. Her clients include Miller Heiman, EDAWN, Hallelujah Acres, Austin Radiological Association, Northern Nevada Business Weekly, Washoe County and University of Phoenix. M3 Planning is the fourth business Erica has helped found.

Under her guidance, M3 launched a web-based strategic planning system called MyStrategicPlan.com. MyStrategicPlan is just one of several online strategic planning systems developed by M3 Planning. Erica has developed and reviewed hundreds of strategic plans for organizations across the country.

Most recently, she authored Strategic Planning For Dummies as part of the For Dummies series. She has also co-authored Strategic Planning Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Growth and Profitability, and contributes regular columns to local, regional and national business publications.

As an international consultant with KLA Group, Ms. Beerman assists clients in assessing, defining and achieving their desired behavior change across their customer-facing organizations. With over twenty years experience working in both entrepreneurial as well as Fortune 500 IT companies, Ms. Beerman has extensive experience working with sales, customer service and operations organizations to assess, develop, and expand the skills of their people.

Ms. Beerman's learning programs combine real-time subject matter, dynamic activities and relevant takeaways using clients' own product and solution offerings, customer challenges and corporate objectives. As a consultant, trainer and facilitator, Ms. Beerman encourages clients to recognize and apply defined skills necessary to meet immediate company goals. Strengths in teambuilding, marketing, supply chain management, value added product selling, and solution selling are combined to increase clients' personal performance and companies' sales results.

Bob Hanson is the President of Quantum Leap Marketing, and creator of the Must-See Webinar System.

He consults with firms of all types on how to get more leads and sales using marketing strategies like webinars, web marketing, and email marketing, and he also produces many webinars using his Must-See Webinars system. Last year his clients including Dale Carnegie Business Group, EMC, Symantec and countless small businesses successfully delivered over 1,500 webinars.

He has generated over 2,250 registrants for a single webinar without spending a dime on marketing, 15,000 webinar registrants in a single year for a small company, hundreds of thousands in sales from a single webinar recording. His event marketing strategies have generated over $1.45 billion in qualified sales leads for clients.

He is the author of many reports on webinars including 7 Secrets of Winning Webinars and How to Create an On Demand Webinar Program.

Colleen Stanley is President of SalesLeadership, Inc. She is a monthly columnist for the Business Journals across the United States, co-author of 'Motivational Selling' and author of 'Growing Great Sales Teams: Lessons from the Cornfield.' Colleen was the featured speaker on sales for the 2006 New York Times Small Business Summit.

Prior to starting SalesLeadership, Colleen was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Varsity Spirit Corporation. During her 10 years at Varsity, sales increased from $8M to $90M. Varsity was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 200 fastest growing companies in the United States in 1994 and 1995.

Clients include: Corporate Express, Vail Resorts, 3M, Siemens Corporation, Land Title Guarantee, Alps Mutual Fund, and Alpine Bank.

Michael Benidt and Sheryl Kay are the owners of Golden Compass, Inc. and the creators of the series, “Hidden Treasures of the Internet: Surprising Secrets Worth their Weight in Gold.”

As an executive for companies like B. Dalton, Waldenbooks and Barnes & Noble, Michael Benidt wasted most of his business career reading novels on airplanes. After finding it almost impossible to learn the first thing about computers, he decided that he was just the right person to teach the topic, creating Golden Compass in late 1999. He managed to convince top training companies like Pryor/CareerTrack and MicroCenter Education to hire him, but has concentrated exclusively on Golden Compass the last few years.

Sheryl Kay has a master’s degree in education, but she’s never let that stop her from connecting with audiences with a simple, clear and caring message. She also started her own computer training company, SK Enterprises, which specializes in teaching computer skills to people particularly challenged by technology including those in nursing homes, adult day care facilities and even Alzheimer’s homes. But her biggest achievement is that she has occasionally even taught her children a technical thing or two.

Their truly unique presentations reach people of all ability levels, from the technically adept to the completely hopeless. They still believe that technology was invented to serve people—not the other way around.

Some of their recent clients include the International Association of Administrative Professionals, the Colorado Society of Association Executives, the Women’s Vision Foundation, Meeting Planners International, the Florida Health Care Association and the Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development.

Mickey is the CEO and founder of Conversant and the senior designer of its programs. He has worked with 400 organizations in 30 countries on issues of coordination and communication. Mickey has trained consultants, educators, and negotiators who have in turn trained another 200,000 people around the world.

He also founded a hospitality industry organization, owning 8 and operating 16 restaurants, and has been a principal in an advertising and marketing firm, a hospitality industry consulting firm, and a specialty construction company. Mickey has worked with people from such organizations as Hewlett-Packard, The Coca-Cola Company, Honeywell, Maersk, Medtronic, Dolce International, Level (3) Communications, Ball Aerospace & Technologies, McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals, Apple, IBM, Monsanto, Motorola, Tektronix, AMI Hospitals, the National Association of Science Educators, The Rause Corporation, Cunard-Ellerman Shipping Lines (England), the U.S. Air Force, the USDA, the University of Alabama, University of Texas School of Business, University of St. Mary’s Center for Development in Ministry, East Carolina University, North Carolina Association of Educators, the City of Boulder, the City of Houston, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and many others. He is the co-author of The Communication Catalyst with Dr. Richard Rianoshek.

Colleen Stanley is President of SalesLeadership, Inc. She is a monthly columnist for the Business Journals across the United States, co-author of Motivational Selling and author of Growing Great Sales Teams: Lessons from the Cornfield. Colleen was the featured speaker on sales for the 2006 New York Times Small Business Summit.

Prior to starting SalesLeadership, Colleen was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Varsity Spirit Corporation. During her 10 years at Varsity, sales increased from $8M to $90M. Varsity was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 200 fastest growing companies in the United States in 1994 and 1995. Clients include: Corporate Express, Vail Resorts, 3M, Siemens Corporation, Land Title Guarantee, Alps Mutual Fund, and Alpine Bank.

Colleen Stanley is one of the best sales trainers that I’ve had the pleasure of working with. I grew up in Minnesota and know the “lessons from the cornfield” work in building great sales teams.

Ken Larson, Former President
Corporate Express—Colorado Division

Scott Hickey has been a business consultant for over 20 years, helping businesses of all sizes realize growth through the right mix of innovative online solutions. Scott is CEO of Full Partner, which develops and sells integrated online sales and marketing tools and services.

Shannon Hickey is an expert at the practical steps required to turn online business solutions into a machine for running a successful company day to day. Shannon is General Manager of Full Partner, working with clients to design and implement successful online sales and marketing solutions.

Ted Wright is the founder of Fizz, a full service word of mouth agency focused on the beverage and video game markets. Ted is a charter member of WOMMA (Word of Mouth Marketing Association), and active commentator on word of mouth and beverage marketing for a variety of publications and television networks. During the last six years Ted and his team have enjoyed creating successful word of mouth campaigns for such clients as Pabst Blue Ribbon, Tiger Beer, Zuidam Gin, VeeV Spirits, Aguila and a variety of Pernod Ricard brands. Fizz's 2007 expansion into video games netted projects with Rock Star Games and Sony while allowing its beverage clients greater involvement with their target markets.

When not at work, Ted serves on the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business alumni association and enjoys creating puppet shows for his five year old son Abbott.

Mr. Forkner has assisted companies in understanding the trusted advisor selling process at all organization levels. A highly successful sales, marketing, operations management and business development consultant, Errol has an extensive technical background, but learned early on that his knowledge of how to apply technology to solve business problems was his life's mission.

Currently the executive consultant at Prism Business Development, Mr. Forkner has held positions ranging from sales support and management to VP of WW Sales & Marketing, Business Development/Operations Management and Worldwide Sales Operations positions with companies such as Xerox, Advance Computer Communications and StorageTek.

Erika Brown is an established and well-known leader in the world of "social intelligence" and social capital. A consultant and corporate trainer, Erika developed a highly successful relationship-building training curriculum that she shares with businessmen and women in for- and not-for-profit organizations. Erika also runs relationship-building roundtables exclusively for businesswomen and the quarterly STELLABRATION, a community gathering for all.

A cancer survivor, Erika dedicates her time to improving the lives of people living with life-threatening diseases. She is on the board of Project Angel Heart, and also works closely with YES, a grassroots organization dedicated to providing cancer patients with experience and insights on treatment possibilities for those with liver involvement.

Prior to co-founding Applied Trust, Trent R. Hein co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer for XOR Inc. from 1991 to 2001. XOR, an outsourced network solutions provider, was named to the Inc. 500 list twice during Hein's tenure, and the company grew to annual revenues in excess of $50 million with more than 550 employees. In addition, Hein is co-author of the best-selling Unix System Administration Handbook and Linux Administration Handbook. Unix System Administration Handbook has been translated into at least twelve languages and is recognized around the world as the "bible" of Unix system administration. Hein has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the USENIX Association for his work with the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), and he was the third engineer hired at Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI; see Linux launch). He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, which in 2004 awarded him the Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Alumni Award. Hein is a 10-year Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE-10), #1941. He is also Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) #54481, with an Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP) and Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) designation. Hein is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, and has served in various roles including President of the Board for the 2004-2005 term.

Ned McClain is an expert in IT infrastructure and application security, helping organizations of all sizes find balanced IT solutions. He was formerly director of Infrastructure Engineering at a large consulting firm. In this role, McClain was responsible for the security of more than 200 client environments involving a wide variety of infrastructure from wide-area networks to local wireless deployments for companies such as ConAgra, Empire Blue Cross, and Whole Foods Market. McClain is also a contributing author to the Unix System Administration Handbook and the Linux Administration Handbook. McClain often lectures about various system administration and security topics at technical conferences such as USENIX in the United States and APRICOT in Asia. He has a degree in Computer Science from Cornell University's College of Engineering and is CISSP #39389.

Adam Gray, Chief Technology Officer, founder, and member of the board of Directors of Novacoast, Inc. has over thirteen years experience as a senior network engineer and is an expert in virtualization technology. Mr. Gray and his team have implemented systems running both VMWare and XEN for many companies including the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and Tropitone to name a couple. Recently Mr. Gray finished implementing a XEN cluster spanning several blades and thirty plus virtual machines with both full virtualization and para virtualization technologies in use. Mr. Gray has worked on projects to virtualize and cluster applications utilizing web technologies, SAP, asterisk systems, and several other enterprise applications.

Patty Kreamer, CPO® (Certified Professional Organizer) is the President of Kreamer Connect, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that works with residential and corporate clients to become more productive and perform better while at the same time simplifying their work and lives.

Author: Patty's first book But I Might Need It Someday helps individuals understand the habits that keep them from organizing their work and lives. Then it shows them how to overcome their natural tendencies and conquer clutter in all its forms once and for all. Her second book The Power of Simplicity will compel you to think before you make choices. This insightful gem will change the way you live your life!

National Speaker Patty creates custom programs for regional and national corporate and association audiences on topics ranging from organizing workspaces to enhancing productivity to creating simplicity in chaotic lives.

Consultant: Patty, a Certified Professional Organizer, works with corporate managers to help them identify gaps in productivity, streamline paper and processes, and help groups of people work better together.

Organizer: Patty helps people say good bye to clutter in their homes and offices. She also helps make moving a breeze for people across the country. Patty is seen regularly in the media as she shares her fun and energetic style with the audiences of publications like The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Business Times, and through television shows like LifeQuest, KDKA's Morning Show, and One on One with Lee Adams.

Patty is the Founding Past President of the National Association of Professional Organizers - Pittsburgh chapter and Past President of and The National Speakers Association - Pittsburgh chapter. Patty was named Women's Business Network's 2007 Woman of the Year as well as one of Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business and one of Pittsburgh's Fastrackers in 2005.

Patty leads the way in spreading the word about how we can be more productive, perform better and simplify our lives.

Townsend Wardlaw is the Founder and CEO of Three Value Logic Sales Institute. He brings a strong track record of sales leadership with Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Lucent, and Avaya.

Townsend has initiated and managed channel relationships with application partners as well as consulting and services organizations including Qwest, Accenture, AT&T Solutions, EDS, Andersen Consulting, and Siebel Systems.

Chris Onan has extensive venture capital experience and enjoys working with entrepreneurial management teams to help sharpen their product definition and their marketing and financial strategies. Chris represents Appian on the board of directors of Tendril and Auctionpay and is a board observer of Thought Equity Motion.

Previously, Chris spent five years as an associate with Wolf Ventures and Roser Ventures, where he had the privilege of working with companies such as: Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola), NextAction Corporation, and Peregrine Semiconductor. Prior to locating to Colorado, he worked as an associate with LEK Consulting, an international strategy consulting boutique.

Chris speaks frequently on entrepreneurial finance at both Denver University's Daniels College of Business and the Leeds College of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He also serves on the board of directors of the Colorado Venture Capital Association. In addition, Chris works actively with the When I Grow Up Foundation and is Northwestern University's alumni admissions council leader for Colorado.

Originally from Minnesota, Chris received a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Erica Olsen is the founder and Vice President of M3 Planning, Inc, a strategic planning firm that works with growth-oriented organizations to develop and execute their strategies. Erica holds a BA in Communications and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird. Her clients include Miller Heiman, EDAWN, Hallelujah Acres, Austin Radiological Association, Northern Nevada Business Weekly, Washoe County and University of Phoenix. On her way to becoming a serial entrepreneur, M3 Planning is the fourth business she has helped found. Under her guidance, M3 launched a web-based strategic planning system called MyStrategicPlan.com. With her online strategic planning system, any organization, regardless of size and budget, can build a plan in a matter of weeks (or even days). MyStrategicPlan is just one of several online strategic planning systems developed by Erica’s company M3 Planning. Through M3 Planning’s online client base and onsite strategic planning facilitation work, Erica has developed and reviewed hundreds of strategic plans for organizations across the country. Most recently, she authored Strategic Planning For Dummies as part of the For Dummies series. In addition to Strategic Planning For Dummies, she has co-authored Strategic Planning Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Growth and Profitability and contributes regular columns to local, regional and national business publications.

She’s frequently tapped to lecture at the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Phoenix in Reno on management and planning topics. She hosts workshops and has spoken at conferences nationwide.

Rob Simon is the founder and president of BurstMarketing, a podcast publishing company that creates, distributes and promotes audio and video podcasts that burst across the new distribution network of portable media devices, from iPods to laptops to cell phones. Rob is a published author and a frequent speaker on new media.

A communication consultant, author and trainer based in Los Angeles, Andy Goodman specializes in helping nonprofits, foundations, government agencies and educational institutions reach more people more effectively. As a nationally-recognized public speaker, Andy regularly delivers presentations including, "The Four Connecting Points," "Storytelling as Best Practice," "Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes", and "Dramatically Better Meetings". He publishes a monthly newsletter, Free-Range Thinking, that profiles best practices in public interest communications and is author of the books Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. Andy was recently selected by Al Gore to train 1,000 volunteers who will deliver presentations on global warming around the U.S. in 2007.

R. Christine Hershey is the founder and catalyst for Hershey|Cause, guiding its overall strategic and creative vision. Passionate about "Communications for Good", she consults regularly with CEOs and senior executives throughout the country, advising on positioning, identity and strategy. Her experience in both the corporate and philanthropic sectors includes such Fortune 500 companies as Disney, Wells Fargo, and AT&T (Cingular) as well as the World Health Organization, the Institute of Medicine and The Nature Conservancy.

As an author and expert, Chris' work has appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The New York Times and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. As a publisher of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes, Chris has helped educate the philanthropic sector regarding best practices. Her first book, the Communications Toolkit, published in 2005, has been distributed in all 50 states, 24 countries and across six continents.