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Meet Your Speakers
Cathy Davis, and her husband, Jack, work in partnership as Davis Creative, specializing in creating unique brand identities for their clients — from solo-preneurs working from their spare bedrooms to Fortune 100 companies operating out of corner boardrooms. Cathy spent most of her career marketing to high-net-worth accounts for Bank of America Trust and TIAA-Cref Asset Management. Jack spent his career with a global PR firm (Fleishman-Hillard) working on such accounts as AT&T, Gatorade and Emerson. Individually, they each have over 25 years of experience working for Fortune 100 and Fortune 'Top 10' companies. Together, they now provide their clients with strategic design concepts — from custom logos, to business marketing materials, to web-based graphics. Additional info and their portfolio can be found at: http://www.daviscreative.com/
An award-winning connector and communicator, Patti DeNucci has studied, practiced, and taught the art and science of intentional networking and attracting strategic referrals for more than 25 years. Her new book, The Intentional Networker: Attracting Powerful Relationships, Referrals, and Results in Business was released in September 2011. The book offers stories, techniques, and tips gleaned from Patti’s experiences as an entrepreneur, connector, and communicator. Its nine strategically-ordered chapters provide a holistic view of what it takes to be a more focused, efficient, discerning, and successful networker. After nearly 7 years as a marketing communications executive, strategist, and copywriter and 12 years as a freelance writer and consultant, Patti launched DeNucci & Co. LLC in 2001. This boutique referral firm helps businesses and organizations connect strategically to the top notch freelancers, consultants, experts, and resources they need to handle their projects and solve their challenges. Patti still manages the company, which continues to add to her experiences and reputation as business matchmaker and connector. Patti has been quoted, interviewed, profiled, and published in numerous media, including: Fox, Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine, Working Mother, Austin Woman Magazine, Austin Business Journal, Austin American Statesman, and others. Patti serves on the founding Board of the newly formed National Speakers Association (NSA) chapter in Austin, Texas. She is founder of Freelance Austin, a networking and professional development organization for business-minded freelancers, consultants and solopreneurs.
Pam Ivey has been taking the virtual world by storm since 2001. She has filled various roles and taken on countless ventures, all with one end goal in mind: to increase awareness of the possibility of thriving online among entrepreneurs and would-be business owners in North America and around the world. Pam is principal of The Online Business Navigator, a coaching, mentoring, training and consulting firm that partners with small business owners, helping them leverage and maximize technology and people to build a 6+-figure online business that’s easy, profitable and fun to run! She is the owner of the Canadian VA Network, the VA Training Academy, and co-founder of REVA Institute and Coaches, Authors, Speakers, Professional Assistants Association (CASPAA). She is co-author of The Business of Being Virtual, and was a nominee for the 2010 and 2011 RBC Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.
Jan B. King is a publisher-turned-coach and one of the founders and the Editorial Director of eWomenPublishingNetwork, devoted to transforming women who are experts with important contributions in their fields into successfully published authors. She began her career with Merritt Publishing, a then 30-year-old publishing company, in 1983. When the company’s founder retired in 1990, she became President and CEO. Ms. King transformed this small niche publisher into an employee-owned business as well as a recognized brand for financial information to professionals and consumers. She doubled revenues during the first half of her eight-year tenure, finally leading the company through an employee-buyout and its eventual sale to a leading computer based training company in 1998. In 1997, Merritt Publishing was named the 44th largest woman owned/run business in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Ms. King was also a member of Vistage (a membership organization for CEOs) for six years and then a trained chair, and co-founded a women’s CEO group. She is the author of three books. Her book Business Plans to Game Plans is praised by academics and business people alike and is in its 3rd edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2004). Her second book Smart Women Publish was published in 2005 and the 2nd edition of Authorsmarts was published in 2010. Ms. King is a long-time member of the Author’s Guild. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California with a BA in History and Economics. In 2002, she received the award for “Outstanding Performance as a Small Business Woman’s Advocate” from the SBA/California Small Business Development Centers.
Joie Seldon possesses a unique set of skills, training, and life experience that she brings to her groundbreaking work as an emotion educator, presenter, and therapeutic counselor. She has also been a highly respected acting teacher in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty-five years. As a performer/director of the L.A. improvisational theatre company Synergy Trust, she taught improvisation in the company’s open workshops as well as at schools and universities throughout California, and to psychiatric patients at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Janica is the owner of Adminismith, which she founded in 2007. She became an entrepreneur after 25 years as an administrative assistant in a variety of businesses. She has provided bookkeeping services to a variety of non-profit organizations, small businesses, and individuals. She also has over 10 years in a variety of direct sales companies both being responsible for training and coaching and having held management positions in two companies. She currently works with professional speakers to manage their calendars and speaking engagements, coordinating their travel and presentation details to allow them to focus on delivering messages to their audiences. She also works with authors through the process of writing, publishing and marketing their books, and has a particular affinity for working with “non-techies” to teach them the basics of using social media for getting the word out about their business. She enjoys taking care of details and providing the framework that allows creative people to flourish.
Special Early Bird Investment Only $97 For the Whole Day of Activities!
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Cathy Davis
Patti DeNucci
Joie Seldon
Janica Smith
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