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Nikki Brown began her career in 1997 with Champion Nutrition. In 1998, she joined her father  and  brother  to  add  her  expertise  to the successful start-up of Cyto Sport / Muscle Milk.  Here she  was  instrumental  in creating the  infrastructure  of  their  operation  which became a 200,000 square foot headquarters housing business operations, marketing and a  state  of  the  art  manufacturing  facility.

In  2014,  the  family  sold  the  business  to  Hormel  Food  Company,  where  Nikki stayed in her role. In 2016, she joined her father and brother at Flavor Insights, a start-up  specializing  in the functional  food  and  beverage space helping companies  with flavor,  innovation  and  application. Nikki  serves  as  CEO. In  2019,  the entrepreneurial family launched the ALTWELL line of CBD products where she has led the brand and marketing  efforts.  She  is  a  graduate  of  University  of  Southern  California  and  lives  in Alamo  with  her  husband  and  four  children. When  not  running  from  sports  to  dance, they love to travel. ALTWell.com

Liz Elting, Founder and CEO of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, is an entrepreneur, business leader, linguaphile, philanthropist, feminist, and mother. After living, studying, and working in five countries across the globe, Liz started TransPerfect out of an NYU dorm room. During her tenure as Co-CEO, she grew TransPerfect into the world's largest language solutions company, with over $600 million in revenue, 5,000+ employees, 11,000+ clients, and offices in more than 90 cities worldwide. Liz has been recognized as a NOW "Woman of Power & Influence," American Express' and Entrepreneur Magazine's "Woman of the Year," one of Forbes’ "Richest Self-Made Women," and is a recipient of the 2019 Charles Waldo Haskins Award for business and public service from NYU’s Stern School of Business. https://www.lizelting.com

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Author, Speaker and Podcast Host, René Banglesdorf, is the Co-Founder & CEO of Charlie Bravo Aviation, an Austin, Texas-based company that buys, sells and leases corporate aircraft worldwide. She applies her background in business journalism and marketing from several industries to work with government entities, non-profits, corporations (both large and small) and private individuals, closing deals in more than 40 countries ranging from $500K to $30M+.

René is part of an elite group—only 4-6% of high-level aviation positions are held by women worldwide. It’s through this that she not only serves as a spokesperson for women and businesses in aviation, but also speaks as an expert in empowering women in the workplace and works with businesses to retain and promote female leaders through workshops, speaking engagements and press appearances all over the world. renebanglesdorf.com & www.wepushtin.com

Captain Hörnfeldt has more that 10’000 hours on Boeing 737 and daily operates this aircraft out of his base in the South of Spain. Besides being a Captain, he also holds a duties of TRI/TRE and Line Training Captain. And on top of all that he runs the very popular Mentour Aviation App, and tries to find a possibility for all talented youngsters to acquire the necessary funding for Pilot Training. TheAirlinePilotClub.com

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Since his early twenties, Nick Cavuoto has been serving alongside Fortune 500 executives and decision-makers of multi-billion dollar brands like Microsoft, Paychex and Pandora. Today, he turns experts into thought leaders and mentors entrepreneurs on how to leverage their personal brand to dominate the “attention currency” of their audience. His work has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs earn over 1 billion digital impressions online, 350,000+ leads, and $50M+ dollars in revenue. You’ll find his work featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Gary Vaynerchuk’s blog. www.nickcavuoto.com

Janine Shepherd is an inspirational speaker and writer whose books have become classics in the survivor genre. Janine's recently published memoir, DEFIANT: A Broken Body is Not a Broken Person, chronicles her life as champion cross-country skier in training for the 1988 winter Olympics, whose life changed forever when she was hit by a truck during a bicycle training ride in the Blue Mountains of Australia.

The accident left her with permanent disabilities. Doctors said she'd never walk again and never be able to have kids. Not only did Janine learn to walk again, she learned to fly. She's earned her licenses as both a pilot and an aerobatics instructor. Janine went on to have three children. Janine was awarded the Order of Australia, her nation’s highest honor, in recognition of her service to the community and her tireless efforts in raising awareness for spinal cord research, .

She is an ambassador for Spinal Cure Australia and Red Bull’s “Wings for Life” and a contributor to Deepak Chopra’s workshops. Janine was the youngest — and only female — director of Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), and has earned numerous awards within the aviation industry.

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Caitlin Collins is an Organizational Psychologist who serves as a strategic advisor and a betterworks product and platform expert for the largest, most complex enterprise customers. She has spent her career consulting for mid to global Fortune and FTSE 500 companies across various vertical markets developing people-centric strategies for recruitment, development, agile transition and change to help organizations become more nimble, more capable and more productive. With the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to be great at their jobs despite experience, Caitlin has successfully taken a different approach to talent management by unlocking and understanding potential. Her personal mission is to help foster sanguine and fulfilling work environments that will create a contagiously positive impact on lives outside of work. Caitlin holds a Bachelors of Science degree and Masters of Science degree, both in Organizational Psychology with a certification in Training and Development. www.betterworks.com

Beck Power has worked in the online and marketing spaces for the last 8 years. She has frameworks and content about all kinds of things, but is most excited about helping entrepreneurs, coaches, authors and speakers with getting more content out in front of people to help them grow their audience.

Originally from New Zealand, Beck has been nomadic for the last 6 years and recently set up a home base in Toronto Canada. BeckPower.me

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Entrepreneur and CEO of Storyvine, Kyle Shannon and I discuss their new technology, helping business create professional videos in minutes. They have also launched Storyvine NOW, an app that guides individual users via a series of questions and automatically edits and creates a professional-looking video in minutes using a smartphone. The finished video can easily be shared across all channels. Kyle is a trained writer and actor who found a way to apply his skills and passions to projects and companies ranging from Inventing, Patenting and Manufacturing a line of educational Fly Fishing Kits; to starting one of the first online Art & Culture Magazine (Urban Desires;) to co-founding one of the largest interactive marketing firms (AGENCY.COM.)

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