Flight Club

Rebecca Massoud is an award-winning marketing & presentation coach, speaker, and creator of Speak, Shine, Sell(tm) and Soulful Speaking(tm). Women entrepreneurs hire Rebecca to multiply their income and impact through speaking, because many women hold back their voice, stay invisible and aren’t making the money they want in their business. So Rebecca teaches them how to create a client-attracting signature talk that sells AND serves.

Website: rebeccamassoud.com

Fernanda is a business executive with over 20 years of experience in management consulting, venture investing and business operations. She spent the last 10 years working in the genomics space as Chief Business Development Officer of Human Longevity, President of SGI-DNA and Senior Vice-President at Synthetic Genomics. She recently founded Match Your Need, a local social impact technology start-up. Fernanda Coelho is a member of the San Diego French-American School board of trustees. She is also a partner at San Diego Social Venture Partners. Fernanda is originally from Brazil and moved to the United States in 2003. She is a proud mom of two daughters. Fernanda received her BS in Chemical Engineering from Escola de Engenharia Maua in Brazil and her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in California.

Website: matchyourneed.com Twitter: @matchyourneed

Teresa Wilkinson is founder and owner of TTG Environmental & Associates, an environmental consulting practice. She started her business over five years ago and has successfully delivered environmental planning services to various clients in the San Diego region including City of San Diego, SANDAG, and Caltrans. She has over 30 years experience in the environmental planning field. She is a graduate of USC in Urban and Regional Planning and holds a Masters Degree from San Diego State in Latin American Studies Program. Teresa and her husband served as Peace Corps volunteers in Honduras. She is married and has two children, Taylor and Sophia.

Website: www.ttgenvironmental.com

Donna Maria is the founder and CEO of the Indie Business Network. Launched in 2000, IBN is the leading for-profit trade organization serving the unique needs of Makers and Handmade Entrepreneurs nationwide and in Canada. In addition to affordable product liability insurance, which helps IBN members increase sales in retail stores and trade shows, IBN offers entrepreneurial and leadership training tailored directly to the needs of artisan business owners. IBN features a front-facing blog and in-person events, like the annual Indie Cruise Retreat and Maker Mastermind Incubators, which provide the training, resources, and guidance you need to build a profitable and sustainable Maker business.

Website: http://www.indiebusinessnetwork.com

Twitter: @indiebusiness

Chiara has been in operations over 10 years and has been fortunate to be able to work with multiple start-ups, thus the opportunity to wear many hats, learn all aspects of the business and quickly adapt into different roles.

She has experienced first hand the challenges that startups and small business face on a daily basis, as well as the highs and lows. After being laid-off from her last startup, she decided to take control of her career and started Ops Optimized.

Website: www.opsoptimized.com

Tracie Arlington has her black belt in Tae Kwon Do and has been teaching self-defense courses since 1998 to women, teens and children. Her children’s class has been taught to hundreds of thousands of children, teens and women since 2003. Tracie is also a nationally certified instructor for the Women’s Self-Defense Institute. She has appeared on Dr. Phil and the Doctor’s TV as an expert on children’s self defense.

Website: PlayItSafeDefense.net Twitter: @PlayItSafeSD

Donna Kozik shows entrepreneurs, service professionals, coaches and other business owners how to get a book done fast and easy.

She calls a book your "big business card" as it introduces you as a credible expert to the world. Donna is an award-winning author, Amazon bestseller and a recent USA Today bestseller thanks to the book "Write & Grow Rich." When not helping aspiring authors to get their book done, Donna enjoys playing pool, watching the Hallmark Movie Channel and loving her cats.

Website: www.FreeBookPlanner.com Twitter: @donnakozik

After spending a career working for large, global corporations in both sales and marketing, Kendra is now pursuing an entrepreneurial path to share her knowledge with companies who are focused on selling products online. In March 2018, Kendra founded Innovate Marketing, a Digital Marketing and eCommerce Consulting firm focused on helping companies develop and execute a retail strategy for their eCommerce or Omni-Channel business. Kendra has spent over 20 years working for some of the largest consumer packaged goods companies (Spectrum Brands, Mars, Heinz). She has worked in all channels of trade selling to traditional retailers like PetSmart, Petco, Safeway, Whole Foods, and has over 11 years of experience in the eCommerce channel. Kendra has been working with Amazon since they first started selling goods and has worked with all the major eCommerce and Omni-Channel retailers including Walmart, Home Depot, and Jet.com. In 2017, she was recognized in the Top 200 Who’s Who in eCommerce from Shopper Marketing Magazine Path to Purchase Institute.

Website: www.innovatemarketing.com Instagram: @Kendra.Williams.IM Facebook: KendraWilliamsIM LinkedIn: KendraKWilliams

Florence Navarro has worked around the world for everything from small non-profits to multi-national organizations. Since 2007 she has supported social impact entrepreneurs to launch and grow their companies. Throughout her career she has been recognized for recruiting talent, bolstering and building teams. Her extensive global network and her genuine passion to match people’s talents with organizations’ purpose led her to start her own company to help growing businesses build the team they need to reach the next level of success.

Website: www.kichocheo.com

Twitter: @NavarroFlorence

Chris is the founder of Empowered Achievers, a career coaching and development company focused on helping driven professional women craft careers that they love.

Originally coming from the corporate advertising industry where she worked on clients like Google, YouTube, and Expedia, she traded in the agency life for the world of talent development and culture. She transformed her own career into something she loved, and is passionate about getting rid of the “Sunday Scaries” for each one of her clients, too.

Chris works with individuals and companies alike, through both her custom coaching program as well as corporate trainings. She is a thought-leader, with articles in Thrive Global and features on sites such as Business News Daily and HelloGiggles.

Website: http://beempoweredachievers.com/

Twitter: @mschriscastillo