2011 Faculty
Charlie Gilkey
Charlie Gilkey is the go-to guy for creative change makers and entrepreneurs for figuring out how to get the right things done. His blog, Productive Flourishing (http://www.productiveflourishing.com), is one of the top productivity and business blogs on the web.
Charlie is a mashup of a former military logistics officer, a philosopher, and a business advisor. That background makes a unique synthesis of theory, action, and no-BS counsel that focuses people on what matters and how to take action on it. His work is routinely cited, showcased, and shared in places like Inc.com, BNET, Project Domino, Lifehacker, Copyblogger, Problogger, Zenhabits, and others.
Charlie’s forthcoming book, Beyond Bootstrapping, helps entrepreneurs and small business owners become better executives and build better businesses from the business they’ve already built.
Nancy Juetten
Bye-Bye Boring Bio author, workshop leader, and speaker Nancy Juetten is fiercely committed to helping business owners everywhere quickly get up-to-speed on the best ways to use the power of storytelling and free publicity to share their messages to get seen, heard, celebrated and COMPEN$ATED for their expert status.
Clients rave about the big picture ideas, implementation tips, and step-by-step guidance they welcome at her workshops and during private Build Your Buzz Strategy Sessions. Guiding others to achieve authentic visibility that translates into winning results they can feel in their balance sheets is her passion and commitment.
An award-winning copywriter with ten years of success running her own profitable business, Nancy has been interviewed in connection with her storytelling and publicity expertise by CNN Radio, National Public Radio, the ABC Radio Network and by engaging and talented radio talk show hosts and information gurus from across America and the world. She and her publicity tips/expertise have also been featured in print stories issued by the Associated Press, RainToday, USA Today, Forbes.com, FoxBusiness.com, WomenEntreprenuer.com, and beyond.
Leading the Bye-Bye Boring Bio Action Workshop and working one-on-one with clients to perform Extreme Bio Makeovers and guiding them to build their buzz in the traditional, online, and social media are among the most popular ways clients first engage. Nancy is a DIY publicity blogger and someone who inspires business owners to take control of their storytelling and media opportunities through consistent, winning actions every day.
Fabeku Fatunmise
Fabeku Fatunmise is a business awesomizer, suck exorcist, punk rock alchemist and frequent wearer of red suede shoes. He helps people build businesses that fit like a glove, attract the perfect tribe and make money without selling out.
A twenty-year student of the magic of sound, Fabeku has worked with hundreds of clients to shift the stuff that holds them back so that they can bring more of their awesome to the world.
When he’s not banging drums or spinning The Ramones, Fabeku can be found sipping sweet Darjeeling, writing love letters to Yoda and roaming the interwebs in search of the perfect luchador mask.
Tom Treanor
Tom Treanor
Tom Treanor helps people get out of their “technology comfort zones” in a comfortable way. He provides coaching and consulting in the areas of Blogging, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Social Media, specifically helping solopreneurs and small business owners.
Tom has been involved in Internet business since 1999, has run a start-up search engine, is the author of The SEO Boot Camp, holds a Wharton MBA and is the President of Right Mix Marketing Inc. He lives in Burlingame, California with his wife, two daughters and and their beagle, Unagi (there’s a story behind the name!).
You can learn more about Tom at www.RightMIxMarketing.com/
Michael Neill
Michael Neill is an internationally renowned success coach and the best-selling author of You Can Have What You Want, Feel Happy Now!, the Effortless Success audio program and Supercoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone’s Life. He has spent the past 20 years as a coach, adviser, friend, mentor and creative spark plug to celebrities, CEO’s, royalty, and people who want to get more out of their lives. His books have been translated into 10 languages, and his public talks and seminars have been well received at the United Nations and around the world.
Jennifer Louden
Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who help launch the self-care movement with her first book The Woman’s Comfort Book. She’s the author of five more books on well-being and personal wisdom that have inspired more than a million women in 9 languages. Jen has been a regular columnist for Body & Soul magazine, a radio show host on Martha Stewart’s network, and a spokeswoman for companies like Real Networks and SC Johnson, and sat on Oprah’s couch. She loves creative people who want to change the world to get to it, and that includes herself. She believes self-love + world-love = wholeness for all. Visit Jen at www.jenniferlouden.com
Lissa Boles
Known as the Soul Mapper™, Lissa Boles is a professional optimist and CEO of SoulFullFilled Living, a group of companies dedicated to helping thought leaders and innovative entrepreneurs answer their deepest creative impulses—in business, in church, or on the yoga mat. Lissa goes light years beyond inspiration and motivation to reveal each client’s intended purpose path, breathing life into the sacred desire to create a world-changing legacy, particularly in business.
Lissa is also a wildly in-love wife, step-mom, and honorary grandma who loves both travel and the simple life. She’s been called a book nut, a coffee snob and a chocolate freak, accusations she couldn’t deny if she wanted to. She also answers to Silver Fox (but only when it’s her husband Randy calling).
In another life Lissa hosted the Sunday morning Small Business Big Ideas Show in Toronto, Canada.
Grace Judson
After 25 years in the corporate world, Grace Judson left her executive position without a backward glance to become self-employed. Bringing with her what she’d learned about leadership, teamwork, and the importance of clear, empathic communication, she founded her company, Svaha Concepts, in 2005.
She combines her corporate experience with strong writing skills and an intuitive understanding of her clients and their work to help small business owners and independent professionals discover and develop the unique, authentic voice of their businesses. This authentic brand message is a powerful boost to her clients’ confidence in their work – and to their ability to easily, naturally, and joyfully connect with their best customers.
As her tagline says, “If it’s written – I can help!”
Dawud Miracle
Dawud Miracle. When you have your business online you’re bound to discover a mountain of poor, contradictory and ineffective information that leads you to nothing but confusion and overwhelm. And often, the overwhelm causes you to either not be successful or not get started at all.
Well, I’ve not only made it my mission, but my livelihood of showing how to cut through the stuff that’s making it difficult and overwhelming to have your business online.
Whether it’s website design, building and executing a marketing plan, using an email list, marketing through social media, or teaching you how to use WordPress, I thrive on helping you find what best works for you online. And I stop at nothing to make the web easy and accessible for both you and your business. After all, what’s the point of having a business online if you’re not getting results?
Reach Dawud through: http://dmiracle.com or through Twitter: @dawudmiracle (http://twitter.com/dawudmiracle) and LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/in/dawudmiracle)
Julie Ann Turner
Julie Ann Turner- Founder/CEO of CreatorsGuide.com, the Orbits of Influence® Global Leadership Dialogue Initiative, and the World Sanctuary Project – guides global Thought Leaders and World-Changers to realize their Signature Genius and live to their highest potential. A world authority on the creative process, Julie Ann hosts the global ConsciousSHIFT Radio Show, which features voice and visionaries leading the worldwide co-creative movement, and is an award-winning social innovator, author, speaker, and breakthrough executive coach to leaders, teams and organizations.
Janet Goldstein
Janet Goldstein has a passion for developing ideas and stories that matter, last, and make an impact in the world. She is one of the most respected publishing and strategy consultants in the marketplace with over 25 years’ worth of executive editorial experience at three of the biggest New York City publishing houses and a thriving entrepreneurial practice today. She has been instrumental in realizing millions of copies in book sales and millions of dollars more in bottom line revenue.
Janet has held executive editorial positions at Viking Penguin, Broadway Books, and Harper Collins and has worked with a long list of bestselling authors, including David Allen of Getting Things Done (GTD) fame, Susan Scott of Fierce Inc., novelist Barbara Kingsolver, psychologists Harriet Lerner and Wayne Dyer, Buddhist Lama Surya Das, and former Apple executive Jay Elliot on his new book The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation. A frequent speaker on publishing and entrepreneurship and a go-to “concept doctor,” she is the co-author of It’s Not About the Coffee with Howard Behar (former president of Starbucks), and co-founder of BookBreakthrough.com and the Publishing Reset program. www.janetgoldstein.com
Michele Lisenbury Christensen
Michele Lisenbury Christensen has been profitably self-employed since she was 23… 15 years ago. She’s woven individual leadership and personal power coaching, group classes, and retreats across North America and Europe into her career and since 2005 has pioneered the groundbreaking 12 Elements of Power model for both public and corporate groups.
In 2010, to help people teach effectively, sustainably, and with ethical profitability, Michele and Jen Louden created TeachNow, an in-depth technical and transformational training that includes interviews with more than three dozen revered teachers.
Susan Harrow
Susan Harrow is a world renowned media coach PR & marketing expert & author of Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul (HarperCollins).
Her clients include Fortune 500 CEOs, celebrity chefs, rock stars, reality TV stars, entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, speakers and authors just like you whom she helps to double or triple their businesses with PR.
Master messaging by registering for her sound bite course http://prsecrets.com/soundbites_course.html
Steve Washer
Steven Washer is ‘Headmaster’ of the BrainyVideo Academy. He spent 10 years in corporate and media marketing with videos responsible for sales of US $20 million, with distribution worldwide in a dozen languages.
Steve now helps passionate business owners leverage the power of video to create fans, followers and buyers, and work with the people best suited to their style and value.
His client list include Bill Baren, Sean D’Souza and the inimitable Molly Gordon.
Through programs like The Audience Builder’s Blueprint, The Video Marketer’s Way and SellOnSite, Steve has worked with scores of business owners, from coaches and therapists to marketers and computer programmers, to help them create captivating personas and magnetic messages by mastering the tool of video.
Hiro Boga
Hiro Boga is a writer, mentor & and intuitive strategist whose work gives evolutionary entrepreneurs the tools to alchemize intention into action — and unfold the miracle of their business.
Over the course of her 30+ year career, Hiro has led hundreds of workshops and helped thousands of clients reclaim creative power & sovereignty at work, at home, and at play — with tangible effects that resonate in their hearts, minds, and bank accounts.
Her signature courses, retreats & mentoring programs have been called “masterful,” “miraculous,” “visual and energetic” and rich with “illuminating, grounded and specific intuitive insights.”
As a story-shaper, workshop leader & business mentor, Hiro blends transformative spiritual practices with pragmatic entrepreneurial principles, allowing clients to proactively reshape their inner ecology & outer reality — and to unfold the miracle of their business.
Connect with Hiro online at HiroBoga.com & on Twitter @HiroBog
Amethyst Wyldfyre
Amethyst Wyldfyre– The Speakers Shaman and Divine Destiny Mastery Mentor is an EMPOWERED Messenger! A Multidimensional Visionary Speaker, Author, Teacher and Artist, she specializes in serving visionary leaders and conscious entrepreneurs who want to feel Safe, Powerful and Ready to LEAP fearlessly into their highest level of service and who want to profit handsomely from following their Spiritual path.
Amethyst is an Initiated Shamaness in the Inka Tradition, a Crystalline Ascension Crystal Healer, a naturally ordained Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Therapist, and a published author of several books.
A successful and award winning entrepreneur since her mid-20′s, prior to her journey into the realm of energy and metaphysics Amethyst was active in Real Estate Development and Community Management Consulting and worked as a consultant with the US Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and several Fortune 500 builder/developers. Active in her community, Amethyst has served in many volunteer leadership positions and been a supporter of the arts for many years. She presently serves as the Treasurer for the L’il Iguana Children’s Safety Foundation.
Bill Baren
Bill Baren is a top business coach and has dedicated himself to helping business owners who want make a difference in getting new clients and growing their businesses. He is the founder of Bill Baren Coaching and has produced many sold-out live and on-line programs – Client Mastery Blueprint, The Big Shift Experience, the Ultimate Entrepreneur Toolkit and Master of Enrollment. His focus on client enrollment stems from a desire to help service-based business owners have more clients say YES! to their services, anytime, anywhere.
Bill is Past President of SF Coaches and the 2008 Excellence in Coaching Award winner in San Francisco. He was featured on the Fine Living Networks’ “What’s Your Time Worth” TV Show.
Molly Gordon
Molly Gordon is a business sage and trickster for the spiritually and psychologically savvy. Since 1993, she’s shown thousands of accidental entrepreneurs—“Renaissance” professionals who love their work, but don’t love the business part—how to grow businesses that fit just right.
Molly is passionate about ending under-earning among Accidental Entrepreneurs, and she founded the Self Employment Telesummit to pave the way for healers, artists, and other creative professionals to create meaningful wealth.
Molly’s style is straightforward, sassy, and smart. She is noted for her refreshing, practical perspectives on life and business, which you can get from her free weekly e-zine, Authentic Promotion.
A resident of Kitsap County in Washington State for 35 years, Molly and her husband, Miles, currently live in Suquamish, Washington, with Bolivia the wonder cat and three hens: Viola Swamp, Sophie, and Feathergrain They are blessed with two astonishingly talented grandchildren, who live in nearby Seattle. Molly gardens, reads, cycles, and tools around Puget Sound on a bright yellow paddleboard.
Mark Silver
Mark Silver is the founder of Heart of Business, and a successful business teacher and healer, who brings an active connection with the Divine to his work.
Heart of Business has helped thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners to integrate the nitty gritty of business with the heart-opening truths of spirit in a way that actually helps the business be profitable and make a difference in the world.
Mark has run a magazine, worked as a paramedic, operated a distribution business, been an activist, and worked in the non-profit arena. He has failed horribly in business, and he has succeeded beautifully, each in turn.
Trained at the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism in Organizational and Business Healing, he is a Sufi healer and teacher. His vision is that in the process of your business becoming profitable and sustainable, your heart will deepen in knowing its own truth.
Mark lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Holly, their twin sons Sam and David, two cats Rafi and Kira, and as much rain as you care to soak up.
