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Isaac Tolpin is a tech entrepreneur and futurist at heart, on the mission of humanizing the digital learning experience to equip and fuel change in the world.

In the pursuit of making a difference through business, he’s lost, won, and learned a ton with over $105 million in combined revenues from the companies he’s been involved in building. His unique expertise in digital training that comes from:

• Extensive experience working with young adults leading a large direct sales organization enabling me to see first hand the changes and challenges in human behavior around technology and learning Executive experience building and leading 32 area managers and an overall leadership team of 120 across two states.
• Co-founded a 43 employee digital publishing company that produced digital training programs for top-tier influencers used for Corporate employee training and online marketing.
• An influencer in the digital training world, writing articles, many meetings with mainstream publishing companies, universities, large MOOCs, influencers and companies on overcoming the poor engagement challenges of digital training.
• Co-founded the tech company Throwing Boulders in 2001 with Stephen Rhyne, that launched its most important product ConveYour.com in 2016 that’s disrupting the digital training world.

Isaac brings a visionary mindset to my family by creating a legacy raising and educating their seven children with his wife Angie Tolpin of Courageousmom.com. He refuses to waste his life achieving the world’s definition of success that leaves so many feeling empty, but instead deeply cares about making a difference in the world through the projects he’s involved with, those he serves, and the family he leads.

Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE, is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international bestselling author and noted expert on leadership, team building, customer service and change.

Mark Sanborn graduated cum laude from The Ohio State University. In addition to his work as a business educator and author, Mark continues to be an active leadership practitioner, including having served as the president of the National Speakers Association.

Mark holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame. He was honored with the Cavett Award, the highest honor the NSA bestows on its members, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the speaking profession. Mark is also a member of the exclusive Speakers Roundtable, made up of 20 of the top speakers in America. He has created and appeared in 20 videos and numerous audio training programs. His video series Team Building: How to Motivate and Manage People made it to the #2 spot for bestselling educational video series in the U.S.

Mark’s list of over 2400 clients includes Costco, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, FedEx, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, KPMG, Morton’s of Chicago, New York Life, RE/MAX, ServiceMaster, ESPN, GM, IBM, and John Deere.

Skip Prichard is an accomplished CEO who has run global businesses ranging from the startup phase to mature businesses with over $1.5 Billion in revenue. He has spent decades studying leadership psychology and interviewing over 1,000 of the most successful people in the world. His extensive library is packed with personal development books from today to dating back hundreds of years.

You may have read his articles on numerous sites or seen him featured in the news. His views have been featured in print and broadcast media including the BBC, The New York Times, CNN, NPR, The Daily Beast, Harvard Business Review, Information Today, The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly, Columbus CEO Magazine, Columbus Dispatch, The Tennessean.

All of the wisdom gleaned from a successful and wide-ranging leadership career, from decades of studying leadership psychology, and from over 1,000 interviews with the most successful people in life and business is packed into his new book, The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future.

He wants everyone to avoid the most common mistakes that hold people back from becoming successful change agents and leaders.

Caroline Stokes is a serial entrepreneur, human capital change agent, executive coach and podcast host for innovation leaders. She is passionate about helping people be the best they can be...and this starts with being their best and bringing their best and that starts with emotional intelligence.

Caroline spent 20+ years with innovation technology leaders (PlayStation, Virgin, Nokia) critiquing hiring practices, onboarding practices, engagement and leadership systems. She spent an additional five years working at a headhunting firm delivering executive level placements at Microsoft, Bethesda, Ziff Davis and Trinity Mirror. Caroline realized something was missing from the process: a high-touch, compassionate approach that left both the employer and talent closer to their seemingly impossible future.

In 2014, Caroline founded her conculting firm, FORWARD, with a vision to create a constantly evolving human capital solutions company, with an ethical and humanist headhunting process and executive coaching practice, for innovation leaders - so everyone can move forward. In addition, Caroline started The Emotionally Intelligent Recruiter with one goal in mind--to make recruiters thrive in the new AI world! With nearly ten years as an executive headhunter and coach (with clients such as Autodesk, Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Disney and other innovation leaders) Caroline knows the challenges recruiters, candidates and hiring managers face.

Susan Peppercorn, an executive and career coach who enables mid, and senior-level professionals to find their next best career step, promotion, new job, career or entrepreneurial option.

Susan is the author of the new Amazon best-seller, Ditch Your Inner Critic At Work. In Ditch Your Inner Critic At Work, Susan makes the most compelling case yet that career satisfaction―and the full engagement that comes with it―is more important than ever in today’s workplace.

Frequently quoted, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review and U.S. News and World Report are some of the publications that have tapped her for career advice.

A certified positive psychology coach, Susan is a graduate of the Whole Being Institute with a Certificate in Positive Psychology, and was a teaching assistant in the same program under Dr. Tal Ben Shahar. Accredited by the International Coaching Federation, she is a frequently requested speaker and an executive mentor for the Healthcare Business Women's Association (HBA).

Tom Rubens is a business coach, corporate culture and strategy expert, and dedicated entrepreneur. Throughout his 40-year journey, Tom has founded companies (commodity trading and real estate), purchased minor league baseball and basketball franchises and passionately coached countless entrepreneurs and business leaders.

In Lifeness: Harmonize an Entrepreneurial Life, Tom Rubens inspires business leaders to make a radical shift toward the pursuit of harmony. Tom understands all too well how the commitment to entrepreneurship can take over your life and lead you down a path far from the one you’d intending on taking. It was his own workplace dissatisfaction that inspired him to implement fundamental life changes. By harmonizing his life, Tom achieved greater career and personal success, better health, more passion and a renewed and energetic commitment to family and community.

Through stories from Tom’s business and personal life, Lifeness will help align your business culture and personal core values so that you can truly achieve harmonious entrepreneurial success.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders, internationally recognized time management expert, has helped everyone from busy moms to small business owners to corporate clients reorder their lives for success. She knows there are endless apps, books, and useful methods for becoming self-disciplined, organized, and more successful. But these tools alone aren’t enough to provide true freedom from the stress of how to best manage time.

Yet when Elizabeth’s longtime Christian faith intersected with her work, it unlocked the power of Divine Time Management. After a season of unusually high stress, where traditional time management methods fell short, she found a transformative sense of peace by surrendering her plans to God.

Pursuing God’s wisdom in time management, Elizabeth discovered that by trusting Him she could achieve the happy, prosperous, confident life He lovingly planned for her. Now she shares how you can find purpose, joy, and the peace that comes from letting God guide your actions.

Kelly began her coaching career with Strategic Coach in 2004. Kelly recognized on day one at ‘Coach’ that the spouse played an undeniable role in an entrepreneur’s success. After successfully leading thousands of entrepreneurs through the Strategic Coach Program, she advanced her career to session director at Lifebook.

Ultimately, it was her own personal relationship with an entrepreneur that inspired her to create The Entreprenewer™ – a spouse centric coaching program. Through her own personal journey, she learned how easy it was to lose her own personal identity and sense of fulfillment in an entrepreneurial household. 

Today we talk about her debut book, The Power of Play, Praise, and Purpose, which is a snapshot of her findings as she studied the most healthy, successful, and interdependent couples in entrepreneurship. This book addresses the pain points most entrepreneurs face in their marriage or love relationship. The solutions she shares are real, relevant, and enjoyable. On your way to implementing these strategies, you will enjoy increased connection, respect, and enjoyment with your partner as you create a marriage that thrives- even in an entrepreneurial household

Joe Calloway helps great companies get even better. His workshops and interactive keynote presentations help develop leaders, create more effective teams, and improve performance for successful businesses who know that they can, and should, be doing more with the people and resources that they already have.

Joe’s client list reads like an international Who’s Who in business, ranging from companies like Proctor & Gamble and Coca Cola to Cadillac and American Express. Joe also works extensively with small to mid-sized businesses, franchisees, and a range of professional services organizations.

Joe is the author of seven books on business performance, including Becoming A Category of One, Be The Best At What Matters Most, Magnetic: The Art Of Attracting Business and his latest book, Keep it Simple: Unclutter your Mind. Uncomplicate your Life.

Mark J. Podolsky (AKA The Land Geek) is on a mission to help people get out of solo-economic dependency and create passive income. He is widely considered the Country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States.

He has been actively investing in Real Estate and Raw Land since 2001 and has completed over 5,000 unique transactions. Mark’s company, Frontier Equity Properties, LLC, is an A+ rated BBB real estate company. Mark has achieved this level of success largely due to his core business philosophy – “Happy Customers Guaranteed.”

Mark is the host of one of the top rated podcasts in the Investing Category on iTunes aptly titled The Best Passive Income Model and The Art of Passive Income. He is also the host of the Land Geek Podcast- Work Smart. Earn More. Learn How.