Speakers

Kim Walsh Phillips

Kim is the founder of Powerful Professionals, a business coaching and education company. She was recently named #475 in the Inc 5000 and is an MBA-free self-made millionaire.

Named “a must to read by those in business” by Forbes Magazine, she is the best-selling author of multiple books including The Ultimate Guide to Instagram for Business and The No BS Guide To Direct Response Social Media Marketing.

She’s spoken around the world and coached some of the biggest brands and thought leaders, having worked alongside Tony Robbins, Grant Cardone, Kevin O’Leary, Dr. Nido Quebin, Dan Kennedy, Bill Glazer and Gary Vaynerchuk.

She resides just outside of Atlanta, GA with her very tall husband and glitter obsessed girls and is fueled by faith, love, laughter and lots, and lots (and lots) of coffee.

Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, Clockwork, The Pumpkin Plan, and his newest book, Fix This Next. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and regularly travels the globe as an entrepreneurial advocate. He is a recipient of the SBA’s Young Entrepreneur of The Year Award and has devoted his life to the research and delivery of innovative, impactful entrepreneurial strategies to you.

RYAN LEVESQUE
Ryan Levesque is the Inc. 500 CEO of The ASK Method® Company, an entrepreneur, and the #1 national best-selling author of the books Choose and Ask. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Forbes, Entrepreneur, on NBC News and Fox and over 250,000 entrepreneurs subscribe to his email newsletter offering business advice. He has built a highly-profitable $10M+/year business across 23 different niche markets, building an email list of over 4.1M people, using the power of QUIZ FUNNELS…

He is also a co-founder and investor in bucket.io®, a leading quiz funnel software for entrepreneurs used by over 30M people each year. A certified AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO), Ryan lives with his wife, Tylene, and their two boys in Austin, Texas.

Nick Nanton
Ryan Levesque is the Inc. 500 CEO of The ASK Method® Company, an entrepreneur, and the #1 national best-selling author of the books Choose and Ask. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Forbes, Entrepreneur, on NBC News and Fox and over 250,000 entrepreneurs subscribe to his email newsletter offering business advice. He has built a highly-profitable $10M+/year business across 23 different niche markets, building an email list of over 4.1M people, using the power of QUIZ FUNNELS…

Kelly LeMay
Kelly is the Chief Operations Officer of Powerful Professionals, a business coaching and education company that was recently named #475 in the Inc 5000. She has been named a Top 40 Under 40 business professional by Central Penn Business Journal and is a contributor in the best-selling book, The No B.S. Guide to Direct Digital Marketing with Kim Walsh Phillips and Dan Kennedy. Kelly also serves as a Facebook ads strategist and coach and specializes in making tech less scary for business owners and entrepreneurs around the globe.

Kelly lives in Maryland with her three amazingly crazy kids and her barbecuing husband and can usually be found sipping on a coffee, working on her laptop while wearing a princess costume at the request (demand) of her toddler daughter.

Caryn Strean
Caryn is a self-taught tech ninja who loves to work with entrepreneurs by coaching them in tech made easy to get their digital courses launched, sold, and scaled. Talk nerdy to her about CRMs, webinar software, funnels, landing pages, automations, and integrations. If there’s a way to make it work, she’ll figure it out.

Caryn lives outside of Chicago with her husband and two children, but wishes she lived near the ocean. She is an avid reader and runs a book blog for fun. If you need a great book recommendation, be sure to ask (but be prepared for a much longer discussion)!

Nicholas Loise
Nicholas Loise (The Million Dollar Closer) has been a salesperson, sales leader, successful entrepreneur, marketing and sales executive, Presidents Club winner, speaker, author and recently Vice President of Sales, President and Chief Revenue Officer with a company focused on helping small to midsize businesses improve their marketing and sales. He is an author and co-author of many books on sales and marketing, sought after speaker and has created the following educational courses: Sales Mastery, How to Create a High Impact Sales Team and was the co-presenter of the No BS Sales Bootcamps and the Magnetic Marketing Bootcamps focused on helping small to medium size businesses sell and market better and he has been an adjunct professor of marketing at North Park University in Chicago.

Jon Jones

Mike “Ski” Jaczewski
Ski’s company, Toltec Brand Protection, has built an extensive network of professional partners and has managed and investigated case matters in all 50 states and over 75 countries. Since 2001, he has succeeded across a wide array of investigative disciplines and worked case matters alongside many of the largest Fortune 500 firms worldwide. He currently resides in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

Jenny Benzie
Jenny is an accomplished and talented sommelier with a vast array of experience in the wine business. She honed her skills by working at some of the nation’s finest restaurants, including her start at Caneel Bay Resort on St. John, USVI, as well as Wine Director at Michael’s Restaurant in Santa Monica, Café Boulud in Palm Beach and CRU Restaurant on Nantucket. Her credentials are among the top in her field and include Advanced Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers, Certified Wine Educator (CWE) by the Society of Wine Educators and has earned the Diploma of Wine & Spirits (DWS) with the Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET). She is a participating Sommelier in the annual Wine Spectator New York Wine Experience. She has been a consecutive Wine Judge for the American Fine Wine Competition and the Sommelier for the Palm Beach Wine Auction. She has traveled extensively to broaden her knowledge of wines throughout France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Canada and in the wine regions of the United States, including her home state of Virginia. Her time on Nantucket as a wash ashore began by volunteering for the Nantucket Wine Festival. After years of participating with this event followed by several years of seasonal work on island, she had the opportunity to purchase Épernay Wine & Spirits and make Nantucket her new home with her husband Kirk Baker.

Todd Tramonte
Todd’s journey as an entrepreneur started as a high end sno-cone dealer on the hard streets of upper middle class Northwest Houston. In college and later Seminary he invested in real estate and sold houses for anyone who would hire him. He bought a national real estate franchise at 23 and later built an independent brokerage from the ground up based on his observations of a broken industry and business model.

He loves Jesus, his wife, his children and friends. He owns and runs an incredible real estate sales business in the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX area called The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team. He owns and run a deliberately small and highly selective real estate business consulting company called Real Estate Growth Systems. He volunteers extensively with Young Life, a non-denominational Christian outreach ministry to high school kids. He serves men who aim to grow in their faith as a volunteer and member at City Bridge Community Church.

He has written three books with two of them becoming best sellers and is often a guest on podcasts and radio. He also hosts a local Dallas – Fort Worth radio show.