September 2022

Jen McDonough
Jen McDonough Guest Speaker 3 Tips to Get Paid More Using Speaking as a Revenue Stream

August 2022

Kelley Joyce
Guest Speaker

Tune into and Capitalize on the Wisdom of Tarot for Professional and Personal Growth

July 2022

Susanne Mariga
Guest Speaker

Profit First

June 2022

Dana Owens
Guest Speaker

Copywriter and Copy Strategist

May 2022

Jennifer Louden
Guest Speaker

Writing Coach, Best-Selling Author

Resources Power Thesaurus Brainstorming Spark Creative Ideas document

April 2022

Lorraine Schuchart
Guest Speaker

PR Expert, Podcast Host

March 2022

Michele Lamoureux
Guest Speaker

Author, Podcast Host, Coach

Resources from Michele:
Podcasting 101

Headliner for Transcription Services

Matchmaker.fm and
Interview Connections –
find where to be a guest on podcasts

February 2022

Jay Razzouk Guest Speaker Attorney

January 2022

Scott Aaron Guest Speaker LinkedIn Expert [email protected]

December 2021

Joel Fotinos
Guest Speaker

State of Publishing

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JOEL FOTINOS is a publisher, author, and minister.  He lives in New Jersey and works in New York City.

He is the Founder, Vice-President, and Editorial Director of St. Martin’s Essentials, the successful new body/mind/spirit imprint of the St. Martin’s Publishing Group.  Prior to that, Joel was a Vice-President and Publisher of the TarcherPerigee imprint at Penguin Random House for over two decades, and a Marketing Manager at the San Francisco office of HarperCollins.  He also was the Religions & Philosophy buyer for several years at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, CO.

Fotinos has also written many books, including THE PROSPERITY PRINCIPLES and THE THINK & GROW RICH WORKBOOK; his books have been published in 14 languages.  Fotinos has also narrated more than a dozen audiobooks, including the nationally best-selling audio editions for Napoleon Hill’s THINK AND GROW RICH and THE LAW OF SUCCESS, and he is the voice for Penguin Classics’ “Poems By Heart” and  “Bible Verses By Heart” apps.  He consults with businesses and individuals with his Soul Compass work, to help them create success, fulfillment, and purpose.

November 2021

Hayley Foster Guest Speaker

What to Know About Ted Talks

Hayley Foster co-founded and organized TEDxNASA in 2009, the first large-scale TEDx in history – which immediately became the gold standard for the mushrooming TEDx movement we know today. As a content curator and speaker coach, Hayley has developed techniques used by hundreds and hundreds of stand-out speakers for TEDx and other high-stakes events. She holds 5 TEDx licenses, has steered dozens of speaker selection committees, and has personally coached over 500 TEDx presentations. Their impact is clearly shown by view counts that range from 100,000 to nearly 2.5 million, with 7 speakers she has coached videos having been elevated to TED.com to date. Hayley is passionate about empowering influencers to identify and distill down messages that matter to move their careers and organizations forward. Her guidance has included coaching prominent CEOs, entire C-Suites of executives at global conferences, and even teaching PhDs, statisticians and pharmacologists how to talk about what they do to each other and outside work groups. She is the author of “Don’t Tank Your TED Talk! 12 Mistakes Professional Speakers Make” which Distinction guru Scott McKain says, “Should be used as a guide, for all speakers, for all talks. “ Her Short Talk Big Impact keynotes and trainings are presented to corporations, organizations and associations worldwide.

October 2021

Lisa Pachence, MCC​
Guest Speaker

Building a Pipeline
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Lisa Pachence is an Executive Life and Leadership Coach to big-hearted, high-achievers who crave extraordinary lives, incredible impact, and badass well-being. As an Elite Coach for coaches, entrepreneurs, and executives, Lisa brings deep insights, practical tactics, and masterful partnership to enact transformative life and business changes. She is a Master Certified Coach (MCC), ICF Mentor Coach, Speaker, Author in “Success in Any Season,” and founder of LP Coaching and Consulting, which offers designer coaching to clients such as Google execs, start-up founders, and entrepreneurs. In addition to powerful 1v1 coaching, Lisa offers group coaching programs including Down to Business Bootcamp for trained coaches, and The Elite Entrepreneur for services based business owners. She’s been featured on “This is It TV” and “The College Success Professor,” and has contributed to internationally acclaimed podcasts and websites such as The Dreammason Podcast, The HumanCare Podcast, Opulent Events, Noomii, and more. When she isn’t leading a coach-training program, deep-diving with clients, or teaching a workshop, she’s traveling the world with her husband (pre-2020), chasing her two cats, or hosting community connection & vino hours.

Dr. Patrick Williams, MCC​
Guest Speaker

The Distinction Between
Coaching and Therapy

Dr. Patrick Williams Ed.D. MCC, BCCPat is a Master Certified Coach (International Coach Federation) and a Board Certified Coach (Center for Credentialing and Education). He has been a licensed psychologist since 1980, and began executive coaching in 1990 with Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kodak and other companies along the front range of Colorado. Pat joined Coach U in 1996, closed his 16-year therapy practice and six months later and became a full time coach. Pat was a senior trainer with Coach U from 1997-1998. He then started his own coach training school, the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT) which specializes in training those with a human services orientation. ILCT has trained thousands worldwide since 1998. Pat was department chair of the Coaching Psychology program at the International University of Professional Studies, and has taught graduate coaching classes at Colorado State University and Denver University, Fielding University, Loyola University, City University of London and many others. He was also a curriculum consultant for the Coaching Certificate program at Fielding International University.