Nick Cicero shares his expertise in social media as a Content Marketing Manager and how he's helped companies like Coca Cola, Sony, Barnes & Noble and more to build successful marketing campaigns.

He also offers insights on how to work with ad agencies, large brands, and startups while explaining what to do and what NOT to do with digital strategy, content marketing, and social media efforts. 

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Mary-Alice Miller is the founder and CEO of mosaicHUB, an online community and resource center for small businesses.  Prior to making the leap into entrepreneurship, Mary-Alice was a corporate attorney advising businesses, from startups to public companies, for over 12 years.  She started her career as a corporate attorney at Ropes & Gray where she worked on venture capital financings, leverage buyouts and general company representation.  She then spent several years at Fidelity Investments as Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary where she focused on financings, board governance matters and corporate restructurings, as well as worked closely with the business development team on strategic ventures.  After Fidelity, Mary-Alice worked with the venture capital firm General Catalyst on their seed, venture and growth investments.  

Mary-Alice was named one of Boston Business Journal’s 2012 40 Under 40 and Mass High Tech’s 2013 Women to Watch.  She is a graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School.Mary-Alice Miller is the founder and CEO of mosaicHUB, an online community and resource center for small businesses.  Prior to making the leap into entrepreneurship, Mary-Alice was a corporate attorney advising businesses, from startups to public companies, for over 12 years.  She started her career as a corporate attorney at Ropes & Gray where she worked on venture capital financings, leverage buyouts and general company representation.  She then spent several years at Fidelity Investments as Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary where she focused on financings, board governance matters and corporate restructurings, as well as worked closely with the business development team on strategic ventures.  After Fidelity, Mary-Alice worked with the venture capital firm General Catalyst on their seed, venture and growth investments.  She was named one of Boston Business Journal’s 2012 40 Under 40 and Mass High Tech’s 2013 Women to Watch.  She is a graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School.

Monica came to America by way of Argentina; listen in to learn how her family made their way to Argentina from Laos and how Monica, at the age of 17 and with just $200 in her pocket, moved to NYC to live the dream. Learn about her dedication to her craft and the preserverance that helped her become a successful entrepreneur.  You DON'T want to miss this interview!

Dax holds a BFA in Painting/Drawing from the California College of Arts & Crafts and an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A freelance illustrator for the last dozen years, Dax has also been a Course Director of academic drawing at Ex'pression College for Digital Art and Company Apprentice to Blair Thomas & Co. chamber puppet theater, with whom he performed at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art among other venues. He has been an artist in residence for the Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium, and his cardboard artwork has been commissioned by the Exploratorium and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as well as being featured in The Art of Tinkering (2014). His forays into sequential art go back to 2004, in the form of cantastoria, which are currently performed under the title Villainette. Shifting gears away from live performance, Failing Sky is his first attempt at a graphic novel, and was nominated for an Eisner Award within six months of publication.

Jessica Robinson is a Conscious Courage Activist, working internationally at the intersection of tech entrepreneurship, strategic partnerships and safety & security. Through Conscious Courage Living, Jessica provides life purpose and career coaching designed to help individuals find the courage to create peace within themselves, thereby creating a movement of Ferocious Beings of Courage around the world. As the founder of PurePoint International, a New York-based company dedicated to increasing personal security among all individuals, particularly women, globally, Jessica consults on safety and security matters and is developing technology solutions for personal security concerns. Before founding PurePoint International, Jessica spent eight years in assets protection in corporate America, concentrating on security, internal and external theft investigations and emergency response and in her last position leading and supporting a six-hundred-million-dollar business. She also collaborated in implementing an enterprise-wide strategy based on public/private partnerships and established community initiatives with local, state and federal public safety partners.

Jessica currently serves on the board of World Pulse, an international nonprofit that lifts and unites women’s voices to accelerate their impact on the world, is a Director of Strategic Partnerships with the Emerging Global Leadership Circle with Impact Leadership 21 and serves on the United Nations Women Committee for Public/Private Partnerships. Jessicareceived a B.S. in law enforcement and justice administration with honors from Western Illinois University. She received her master’s in public and international affairs, with a focus on security and intelligence studies from the University of Pittsburgh and earned an East Asian studies certificate. In 2011, Jessica completed a certificate in business excellence from Columbia Business School Executive Education and the Institute for Personal Leadership. Jessica became a Fellow with the Women’s Leadership Institute at the Impact Center in Washington, D.C. in 2011, and a Fellow with Impact Leadership 21 in 2014.

Connect with Jessica at:

 www.The-PurePoint.com and www.ConsciousCourageLiving.com. 

As founder of the GoLab, Steve Golab has developed key business and media relationships in Austin that extend far beyond the city’s limits. He has successfully integrated his relationship-building methodologies into the GoLab network. As a result of Steve’s stewardship, GoLab team members and coworkers not only serve as seamless extensions and proponents of Steve’s vision of a collaborative, co-working community, but as proof that coworking is, in fact, smarter working. Steve has made it possible for the GoLab’s collaborative culture and common technology platform to be bundled and shared with any GoLab partner.

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John is a skilled strategist, executive coach and executive recruiter with a uniquely sophisticated repertoire that’s all his own. He gets his kicks by helping leaders at all levels and teams of all sizes through even the most difficult of transitions. He combines intellectual rigor with a strong understanding of the psychology of great performance to cut through the clutter and get to the heart of strategic talent and development challenges quickly and precisely. He’s a passionate advocate for the philosophy that work should be a great place to spend half your life. He is focused on that mission by helping leaders and teams find their voice, clarify their mission, build on their strengths and get out of their own way.

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Michelle Prince shares her branding experise and specialty in teaching entrepreneurs and small business owners how to tell their personal story.  

Michelle shares what she learned from her mentor Zig Ziglar and how she was able to make her first book a best seller that launched her speaking career.

Mary Pisarkiewicz shares to she uses branding and marketing communications so effectively that she was cited as one of the top ten designers in New York City by Moodboard Magazine and how she has grown her food blog to more than 29,000 followers.

Steven Mazer talks about how to use strategic branding, social media strategy and development, web production, and multimedia to improve your business results.