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Allan Langer is a professional speaker, published author, and an award-winning sales professional with over 2 decades of experience in sales & marketing. He is the Founder/CEO of The 7 Secrets Center of Sales and Marketing, and his book, “The 7 Secrets to Selling More by Selling Less”, is an award winning best-seller on Amazon .

Having sold over $95M USD of product in his career, he has trained 100’s of Sales Consultants, and has offered his expertise in the forms of Motivational talks, Training seminars, keynote speeches, break-out sessions, and 1on1 Coaching. He also aids the sales process from the marketing side, helping clients clarify their messaging to attract more qualified leads. www.allanger.com

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Karen Hinton is the author of PENIS POLITICS. She served as press secretary to Andrew Cuomo when he was federal Housing Secretary and later to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. She began her career as a reporter in Mississippi and Colorado; served as press secretary to Congressman Mike Espy; worked for the Democratic National Committee; and held various positions in communications and public relations. Hinton regularly contributes to the New York Daily News and other publications, focusing on the topics of #MeToo, sexual harassment, and skewering big oil, big banks, and other big bullies. A University of Mississippi graduate, Hinton and her husband divide their time between New Orleans and New York City.

Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men & Power offers an insider’s view of what it’s like to be a woman in the newsroom, the halls of Congress and the highest reaches of American political power through the eyes of Karen Hinton, a colorful and outspoken former journalist, political operative and seasoned media professional.

The book opens with a sexual trauma that affects a close-knit group of girlfriends in rural Mississippi in the 1970s and traces Hinton’s emergence as a journalist and an ambitious press secretary in Washington D.C. and New York.

Hinton writes of the toxic brew of ego, entitlement, power, testosterone and “bro culture” in politics that is especially difficult for women to negotiate. She spells out through compelling storytelling how powerful men in politics often create a public image as a champion of women’s rights and equality. Behind closed doors, they use gender domination to assert their power over women. www.penis-politics.com

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Frank Rose is the author of The Sea We Swim In and The Art of Immersion, a landmark book on tech and narrative. A former contributing editor at Wired and contributing writer at Fortune, he now teaches global business executives as faculty director of Columbia University’s Strategic Storytelling seminar and heads the Digital Dozen awards program at Columbia’s pioneering Digital Storytelling Lab.

www.frankrose.com

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Mark Scott, author of: ReTales: Chronicles from My Career in Retailing When Department Stores Mattered. Shares with our Savvy audience his exciting stories through a time when Macy’s and Bloomingdales and Lord and Taylor were destinations so popular that people flew in from all around the world just to shop and experience it all.

Mark Scott knew right off what he was meant to do in this world. After college, he went to work in the stockroom at Bloomingdale’s and before long, retail was in his blood. He was a voracious learner and a numbers guy. Not surprisingly, he would eventually move up the ladder to become a leader and CEO at one of the top retailers of his time.

Mark lives in Avon, Connecticut with his partner, Marisa Leone. He has two grown children, Colin and Dana. www.markscottauthor.com

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Ray Blakney, CEO and co-founder of Live Lingua. Ray was born in Cebu City, Philippines to an American father and a Filipina mother, Ray grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2001.

Ray started his professional career as a computer geek writing software for a range of companies including Silicon Valley startups, Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. Government and NGO's. In 2006 he decided he wanted a career change, joined the U.S. Peace Corps and was assigned to Mexico where he worked in the largely indigenous area of Chiapas, Mexico. After completing his 2 years of service, he married his Spanish teacher - Laura - and stayed in Mexico to start with her a chain of successful brick and mortar language schools.

In 2008, he launched Live Lingua to compliment the in-person classes offered at the expanding chain of brick and mortar schools. Then in 2010, by which time it had become clear that the online language school would require his full-time attention, he sold the brick and mortar part of the business to focus on growing Live Lingua. www.livelingua.com

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Sumit Gupta is a serial entrepreneur and founder of https://www.deployyourself.com.

Over the last decade, he’s developed a coaching and leadership philosophy that he has used to lead, coach, and train hundreds of people.

Sumit also run the popular Deploy Yourself newsletter.

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Bobby Doss is the President and Owner of United Flight System. Bobby has always been interested in aviation, but for one reason or another didn't take a lesson until he was in his 40's. Bobby took his first lesson on May 3, 2015, at United Flight Systems and has been learning ever since! Growing up in the area he has always seen planes flying overhead.

While pursuing his commercial license he considered buying a plane to lease back to United Flight Systems. That conversation about a leaseback turned into a full acquisition with his partner and fellow UFS student, Matt Shaunty in May 2018. Bobby acquired Matt's portion of the business in September 2020.

Bobby has thoroughly enjoyed learning the business and working long hours in the evenings and weekends to start making improvements to the school and the fleet. When Bobby isn't at the flight school he can often be found on the golf course watching his son or playing with his son or friends. Bobby has been married to his wife Tammie for 25 years and they have two children Emily (20) who is going to University of Texas studying business and Blake (16) who is a student at Klein Cain High School. https://www.unitedflight.com/

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Meet the efficiency-obsessed product manager who teamed up with the attorney who hates meetings.

Josh and Darren are two Australian-native co-founders who started Hugo with a simple question: Why has technology improved so much about work, but done so little to improve meetings?

Fast forward a few epiphanies, and it became clear that meeting notes were about more than jotting things down. With Hugo, we've discovered ways to become deeply aligned, incredibly customer-centric, and 10x more efficient — simply by centralizing meeting notes, sharing them, and integrating them our tech stack.

Darren Chait, co-founder of Hugo, a platform that brings all your meeting notes together in one place and connects them with all the tools you use. www.hugo.team

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Eric Strafel is the founder of the consulting firm SUMMi7, which helps businesses grow profits and scale innovation with mission-driven purpose. He was the President and CEO of Aviall, a global provider of new aviation parts, supply chain management, and other services to the aerospace aftermarket, which was acquired by Boeing. Previously, he held leadership and program management positions at L3 Communications, Honeywell, and Precision Conversions. www.summi7.com

“Ninety percent of employees in any organization work on the front lines. That’s where companies interact with customers, solve the most problems, establish norms, and cultivate culture,” explains Eric Strafel, author of THE FRONTLINE CEO (McGraw Hill, September 2021). “Yet most organizations today cling to old-fashioned systems that keep senior leaders and frontline workers apart.”

In THE FRONTLINE CEO, he presents strategies that empower frontline workers to make decisions and solve problems on their own.

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Jet It CEO Glenn Gonzales has 22 years of habitual success as a businessman, leader, aviation industry expert, and military veteran.
Northeast Regional Sales Manager – Honda Aircraft Company
International Demonstration Captain – Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
Lieutenant Colonel – United States Air Force Reserves
MBA – Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
Master of Aeronautical Sciences – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Bachelor of Science – United States Air Force Academy. www.gojetit.com

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