Influence School

Dorian Medina is a fitness professional who graduated from California State University at Sacramento. He has established his career as a CrossFit coach over the past five years alongside contributing articles to the Box Pro Mag blog. Eventually, he left his Crossfit career and started BLK BOX Mobile Fitness to professionally train people at the comfort of their own home. His one-on-one coaching service aims to provide guidance to people who may feel lost and overwhelmed at gyms and fitness centers. His passion is in helping people live a healthier lifestyle without any excuses.

Connect with Dorian Medina at instagram.com/blkboxmobilefitness/

Recently appointed Chief Executive Officer of BioscienceLA, Dave Whelan continues to make a huge impact in the world of health and technology. His expertise covers many fields including genomics, health, wellness, business, and technology. At the beginning of his career, he served as an executive recruiter building management teams for tech companies. He played an integral role in the establishment of New York Genome Center, a nonprofit research institution that focuses on genomic research for better understanding of genetic diseases. This experience led him to work with BioscienceLA, an initiative formed by Los Angeles County, whose mission is to raise the bar for life sciences and health innovation in Los Angeles.

Connect with Dave Whelan at biosciencela.org

Cecilio Mills is at the top of the game when it comes to project management. Stumbling on his career by accident, he began with pursuing professional baseball before he switched gears to being a teacher. And eventually, running the Special Olympics for Northern California, where he found his expertise in project management. Over the next 10 years, he established Creative Adaptive Thinking, an online learning platform with the aim to help companies streamline operations and increase efficiency by providing consultations as well as specially trained and certified Project Management Professionals.

Connect with Cecilio at ceciliomills.com

Dutch digital nomad Roy Selbach lives a colorful life traveling around the world and living in various countries. After studying hard to acquire not only a bachelor's degree but also two master's degrees, he has climbed his way up the corporate ladder from being a graphic designer to a marketing consultant. With years of experience behind him, he decided to switch things up and work for himself. Thus creating his two companies EOI Digital and DotYeti, which caters to the ever-growing needs of businesses for digital marketing and graphic design services.

Connect with Roy Selbach at royselbach.com

With over 20 years of experience, Kim Daly is one of America's top franchise consultants, keynote speaker, and coach. She has traveled the country educating and inspiring other people to move forward in their careers in franchising.Her passion is in helping people explore their opportunities and achieve their dreams of business ownership.

Connect with Kim Daly at thedalycoach.com

Author of "You're Making Other People Rich", Ryan Sterling is a renowned figure in the world of finance. He completed his studies with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Carleton College, and a Masters of Business Administration degree with a specialization in Investment Management from Vanderbilt University. With his background and years of experience in wealth management, he founded Future You Wealth, an organization whose goal is to help people live their dream life without having to worry about their financial security. 

Connect with Ryan at futureyouwealth.com

As the Founder and CEO of Scott Sullivan & Associates Scott brings 30 years of professional sales and marketing experience in the energy sector, both domestic and international.

Having worked with global renewable energy companies on both utility and commercial projects, Scott’s experience makes him recognized as an industry expert. In the energy sector, Scott has worked on the demand side, the supply side, and energy efficiency projects, helping companies reduce their carbon footprint while saving money.

Scott was in California on the front lines of deregulation with both the gas and electricity industries. His last 20 years have been spent in the renewable energy sector working with PV panel manufacturers, power electronic manufacturers (inverters) including fuel cell manufacturers, and renewable project developers.

He has the ability to extract the value proposition from a complex multi-faceted deal, boil it down to simple concepts that are easy to understand, and pass that information on to the client. Scott’s ability to find connections between both people and companies has earned him the reputation of a true networker and the respect of his colleagues.

In over 10 years of coaching in the fitness industry he has worked with organizations such as the Oakland Raiders, Life Fitness and EXOS Human Performance. Later he ventured into corporate fitness and worked with tech companies such as Intuit, Paypal and ebay on their health and wellness programs.

He co-founded Hyper Strength and Conditioning with his wife to create a haven for all nerds to level up their stats and turn into their own superheroes one workout at a time.

He also created the Nerdout & Workout Podcast where he has extended his nerdout and workout reach globally.

He's a huge Disney fan and binge watches FRIENDS when he creates strength programs.

Connect with Austin here.

Catherine Cantey is a tenacious connector and recovering banker. She is a leadership coach helping high potential managers turn into senior leaders. And her sales program, for business to business selling, is creating exceeding results. Catherine is a wife and mom, and cares about closing the broadband gaps in rural communities.

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Kaitlyn Study is the founder and CEO of South Street & Co. She helps small to medium-sized, service based businesses grow through web design, SEO, social media marketing and coaching.

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