Flight Club

Sarah Sajonas Yasukochi is a brand builder and integrated marketing strategist for purpose-driven entrepreneurs in the health, wellness and green living space who want to elevate their brands, grow sales, and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

Sarah has created brand blueprints and marketing frameworks that have resulted in triple digit increases in client web traffic, social media followers, and sales conversions. Sarah’s clients have become industry leaders, fast growing companies, and 8-figure businesses.

Website: HousecollectiveSD.com
LinkedIn: Sarah Sajonas Yasukochi
Instagram: housecollectivesd
Facebook: House Collective

Stefanie is a leading personal branding photographer in San Diego, creating gorgeous, personality-driven images that allow her clients to shine online – from social media to book jackets to magazine covers! With an educational background in psychology and social work, Stefanie is amazing at making clients feel comfortable and at ease, as she guides them through the photoshoot process for dynamic images that resonate with the target audience. Stefanie has honed her craft in tailoring each session in a way that showcases her clients in their best light, to strengthen their brand and reinforce their brand message.

Website: www.TrueBlueBrandingSD.com Instagram: stefanie_trueblueportrait & artofnature_bystefanie Facebook: True BLUE Portrait & Stefanie Blue Fine Art Photography

Founder and CEO of Fab Fempreneurs, Sara Clark-Williams took the leap from her corporate job as an Organizational Development Consultant in 2008, growing two highly profitable businesses within 5 years. Through her Fab 4 Formula℠, annual Fab Fempreneur Fest℠ conference, and her “roll-up-your-sleeves” coaching style, Sara specializes in leading female entrepreneurs to make more money, make a bigger impact, and have more fun- that place she calls your “Sweet Spot”. When she is not doing business, you will find her hiking local trails, training for half marathons, supporting animal welfare organizations, sipping scotch, or finding the best burgers in San Diego, with her husband Chris.

Website: https://www.FabFempreneurs.com Twitter: @FabFempreneurs Instagram: @saraclarkwilliams

Shermin de Silva is the President & Founder of Trunks & Leaves Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the conservation of Asian elephants and their habitats through science and education.

She is also a founder and trustee of EFECT, Sri Lanka and a member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Her main passion is to find ways for people and wildlife to coexist by understanding and meeting the needs of both.

Shermin obtained her Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania, studying the behavior and ecology of Asian elephants and directs the Udawalawe Elephant Research Project in Sri Lanka, which she initiated in 2005.

Twitter: @Shermin_deSilva Facebook: : Trunks & Leaves Instagram: @TrunksNLeaves

Gina has been selling online courses since 2016 and is a marketing and sales funnel expert.

Within a few months of launching her first course she left her day job to focus full time on her teaching platform.

Gina was inspired to enter the world of “passive income” after listening to several podcasts on the topic and is aiming to continue scaling her business and helping others do the same in the coming year.

Katee Van Horn is a former VP of Engagement & Inclusion for a Fortune 500 company. Now she leads VH Included Consulting & Coaching, where she uses her 20+ years of experience to partner with organizations to strengthen their inclusive cultures. She is an HR strategist and international keynote speaker focused on diversity & inclusion. Her focus is on showing organizations how to build a diverse team where everyone succeeds.

Website: vhincluded.com Twitter: kateebar7 Facebook: @KateeVanHornDiversityInclusion LinkedIn: Katee Van Horn

Melissa Kovacs is a statistician with a Ph.D. in public policy and econometrics and is the founder of FirstEval, LLC, a data analytics and statistical consulting firm. Melissa has provided statistical expertise in the nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors, and within litigation settings. Melissa is fanatical about finding meaning in data and seeing organizations make data-driven decisions that forward their missions.

Website: https://firsteval.com/ Twitter: @firsteval

Erin Carpenter is the host of Franchise Rising, the original podcast for women in franchising.

She’s also the Digital Marketing Director at Evoque Data Center Solutions, a global data center colocation company.

Erin is passionate about staying on the cutting edge of digital marketing technologies, helping businesses fast-track leads to sales.

Website: www.franchiserising.com Twitter: @ehcarpenter and @franchiserising

Brin Frazier is an adjunct instructor at American University’s School of Communication. She is also a visiting researcher at Georgetown University and currently working on a book project about a small group of women in Kansas who, in the late 1940s, spearheaded a precursor case to Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka) and helped to desegregate America’s public schools.

Until April 2019, Brin was the director of executive & strategic communications at Nissan Motor Corporation, where she wrote for Nissan’s top executives and helped to develop and execute the company’s communications strategy. She joined Nissan in 2012 and, until 2016, was based at its global headquarters in Japan. While living in Tokyo, Brin was the speechwriter for Nissan’s Chairman & CEO.

Prior to Nissan, Brin served at the U.S. Department of Justice for three years as chief speechwriter to Attorney General Eric Holder. She began her career at the White House in President Clinton’s Office of Speechwriting. She has served two stints on Capitol Hill, including on the Energy & Commerce Committee as deputy communications director and speechwriter to former Chairman John Dingell. She has written speeches and opinion pieces and provided strategic guidance for a variety of business and non-profit leaders and political candidates.

She is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds a Master’s Degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brinfrazier/

Kristen Newsome is the Founder and Executive Director of My Sister’s Keeper Success Institute (MSKSI), a nonprofit 501 c (3) organization serving Southwest Riverside County, CA. The mission of MSKSI is to help girls in under-represented communities ages 10-17 become bold confident world-changers as they explore careers in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), Entrepreneurship, and develop strategies for personal growth and development.

Kristen helps set young women on the path towards economic empowerment, independence, leadership and self-confidence. She is a leader who inspires action and is grounded in the fight for educational social justice and ensuring every girl who is under-represented in society has an opportunity to learn, prosper and succeed through the power of mentoring.

Website: www.msk-successinstitute.org Facebook: MSKSuccessInstitute Twitter: @msksi_steam Instagram: @msksiinc