Jenn LeBlanc, ThinkResults
As CEO and founder of ThinkResults, Jenn works with CEOs, CMOs and change agents to drive results. For two decades, she has been launching companies and delivering leads and revenue growth for companies of all sizes including Microsoft, Intel, PeopleSoft, SAP, Taleo, Nektar Therapeutics and hundreds of life sciences and tech startups. To date, her work has delivered over $1.5B in new revenue to clients. She is the author of the #1 Amazon bestsellers Launching for Revenue: How to Launch Your Product, Service or Company for Maximum Growth and Changing Tides: Powerful Strategies for Female Founders.
Stephen Babcock, Technical.ly
Stephen Babcock is the Assistant Editor for Technical.ly, a news organization connecting technology communities. A graduate of Northeastern University, he is based in Baltimore, where he moved following stints in New Orleans and Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. He also writes the general-interest local newsletter Baltimorning.
Aaron Velky, Ortus Academy
Aaron is the CEO of Ortus Academy, a financial intelligence company that combines professional development with financial wellness to bring powerful culture change to businesses. They’ve worked with thousands of individuals to empower their financial future while supporting their increased production in the workplace.
Ramon, Williamson
Ramon Williamson is an American entrepreneur best known for his work as a life coach, public speaker, Internet business pioneer and co-creator of the Spark Digital Summit. He is widely considered one of the most experienced and effective life coaches in the world and has helped launch several personal growth, publishing, digital marketing, and software companies as a founder, CEO, and investor.
Tommy Felts, Startland News
Tommy is the news director for Startland News, a Kansas City-based nonprofit newsroom entering its sixth year that uses storytelling to elevate the region’s startup community of entrepreneurs, innovators, hustlers, creatives and risk-takers. Under Tommy’s leadership, Startland News has expanded its coverage from a primarily high-tech, high-growth focus to a more wide-ranging and inclusive look at the faces of entrepreneurism, innovation and business. Before joining Startland News in 2017, Tommy worked for 12 years as an award-winning newspaper journalist, designer, editor and publisher. He was named one of Editor & Publisher magazine’s top “25 Under 35” in 2014.
Chloe Elise, Deeper Than Money
Chloe is the CEO and founder of Deeper Than Money, a company dedicated to empowering and educating people about money. Chloe watched as her own life transformed after paying off $36,000 of debt and becoming debt-free at 22 years old. Seeing the lifelong impact that getting her finances together would have, Chloe became a certified financial coach to show others how to experience that same freedom. Chloe went on to save and invest over $400,000 by age 25 and grew DTM to multiple 6-figures within the first year. Having mastered her personal and business finances, Chloe spends her days passionately helping people build real wealth without giving up the things they love.
Gabrielle Howell-Smoot
After leaving her corporate job in graphic design, Gabrielle Howell-Smoot began her career in wellness through teaching yoga. Over the past 6 years her passion for helping others to LIVE WELL has grown into more areas of service. She now guides others through mindfulness, movement, wellness + business!
Shervonne Cherry, Spark Coworking
Shervonne Cherry is the Director of Spark Coworking and an entrepreneurial ecosystem builder. Shervonne heads operations, community development and ecosystem growth for Spark, collaborative workspaces for growing startups and entrepreneurs, with locations in Baltimore, Kansas City and St. Louis.
