Mike Cleland: Charted Path, LLC Mike has over 15 years experience in the IT staffing industry. Throughout his career, regardless of his role Mike continually developed and implemented new approaches to his organization to increase productivity and competitiveness. In the early nineties, Mike led key initiatives to improve recruiting performance. These improvements included skill set …

Jack Bergstrand is the CEO of Brand Velocity, former CIO of The Coca-Cola Company and author of Reinvent Your Enterprise, which was recently endorsed by The Drucker Institute. With more than 25 years experience in project management, Bergstrand wrote _Reinvent Your Enterprise_ based on his experiences at Coca-Cola and to expand on the “knowledge work” …

Skip Freeman has successfully completed more than 300 executive search assignments in just seven years. Specializing in the placement of sales, engineering, manufacturing and R&D professionals in industry, he has developed powerful techniques that help companies hire the best and help the best get hired. Skip, a distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy, …

Monica O’Brien is a Marketing Consultant specializing in marketing strategy and consumer insights at the juncture of new media and traditional marketing. Her Story Monica spent 5 years analyzing data and drawing conclusions from her findings as an IT professional at various companies. She worked as an analyst, a quality engineer, and a software engineer …

Dave Sutton is a leading authority on how to plug 21st-century strategic marketing techniques and enabling technology into businesses to drive performance. Dave co-authored Enterprise Marketing Management: The New Science of Marketing. This ground-breaking book puts ROI at the center of everything Marketing does by enabling companies to create sustained, profitable, organic growth. Industry analysts …

Frank E. Hurtte Jr., founder of River Heights Consulting, brings 28 years of distribution industry experience and a lifetime in sales. Frank grew up in a family owned business where he was selling car and truck tires wholesale before he turned 14. During his career, Frank has gone through nearly every aspect of the wholesale …

Terry Barber is an inspirational speaker, corporate trainer, and consultant on becoming an inspiring brand. For the last twenty years he has spoken to over 500,000 people and consulted with some of the most recognized nonprofit brands in the world including Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, AARP Foundation, National Parkinson Foundation, and the ALS …

Ilona Dolinska-Reiser, an immigrant from Poland, arrived in the United States in 1985 with a suitcase of clothes and $10 in her pocket. Over the next 23 years, Ilona not only acquired a Master of Science Degree in Finance from Georgia State University and Chartered Financial Analyst designation, but also acquired a life she always …

Peter Bowerman is the author of The Well-Fed Writer (2000), TWFW: Back For Seconds (2005), The Well-Fed Self-Publisher (2007) and the 2009 edition of The Well-Fed Writer – which combined and heavily updated the content of BOTH original WFW titles. The WFW books are how-to “standards” in the lucrative field of commercial freelancing – writing …

Tim Link, President and CEO of Link’s Wagging Tales, Inc., is an author, writer, speaker, animal communicator and Reiki energy healer for animals. He is also the past president of the Humane Society of Forsyth County (Georgia). Tim has been featured in numerous newspaper, television and radio shows including the Associated Press, “FOX & Friends”, …