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Kerry Christopher has two decades of communications experience working for global automotive companies, including General Motors, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Volkswagen, and Hyundai. He is currently director of internal communications for General Motors in Detroit, Michigan. In this position, he leads a team of communications professionals focused on improving business results through two-way communications between leaders and employees.

Kerry has spent most of his career working for GM and has left for new opportunities and rejoined the company on three different occasions. While working for GM over the years, he managed media relations in Washington, D.C. during the company's bankruptcy crisis, oversaw PR for Cadillac, led communications for manufacturing, labor relations, HR, and supported multiple senior VPs and CEOs.

Additional experiences include director of internal communications for Goodyear Tire & Rubber, product communications for Volkswagen and communications manager for Hyundai where he was responsible for launching the Korean company's first U.S. assembly plant in Montgomery, Alabama.

Kerry is a 2016 graduate of the communications master's program at Kent State University. He earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Akron in 1993, where he also served as the music director and on-air talent for WZIP-FM radio and was a music columnist for entertainment weekly Scene magazine in Cleveland, Ohio.

Kerry currently lives in Rochester, Michigan, with his wife and their seven children. He enjoys playing guitar and spending time outdoors with his kids and their golden retriever, Baylee.

Jesse Freitas creates leads through a variety of channels and content. He is into all things marketing with a focus on Digital Marketing driving e-commerce growth. He is constantly adapting to new technologies, updates, and channels day to day. Jesse is a content creator, whether it be blog writing, social media, video direction, building landing pages or SnapChat story building. He loves brand management and takes pride in the StickerGiant personality he helps manage and control. He also manages and oversees all Paid Search and Digital Advertising.

Jesse created #NationalStickerDay, which is on January 13th annually, and came up with the whacky idea of Saul the #LargestStickerBall who is now a Guinness World Record. This Public Relations campaign brought a lot of notoriety to StickerGiant including mentions in ABC News across 14 major US Cities, an appearance on 9NEWS KUSA in studio, a joke on Late Night with Seth Myers and the pending launch of the record in the Guinness World Records Book this Fall 2018. It was a crazy idea... that worked.

Prior to joining the Economic Council Jessica Erickson was the Senior Industry Development Manager for the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade focusing on retention, expansion, and recruitment of businesses specializing in Advanced Manufacturing, Infrastructure Engineering, Electronics, Financial Services, and Technology & Information.

Jessica received a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix. She is also a graduate of the Oklahoma University Economic Development Institute and is a Certified Economic Developer (CEcD)

Sheryl is currently CEO of REBBL super herb beverages and loving every minute of it. She is also an author of Killing It which was launched in Dec. 2016. She is an advisor to the Harvest Summit, an annual gathering of innovators in Sonoma County.

In 2007, Sheryl co-founded Plum, Inc. (formally the Nest Collective) a healthy food company. As CEO from 2007-2011, Sheryl led Plum to become an industry leader and game-changing company with national distribution. After growing to $100MM in revenue in only four years, Plum was successfully sold in May 2013.

Prior to Plum, Inc., Sheryl spent 10 years at Clif Bar & Company, 3 of them as CEO. Sheryl spearheaded the launch of Luna Bar, led the growth of Clif Bar and Company from $100MM to $200MM in revenue, with strong profitability, and drove the company toward operationalizing a deep commitment to sustainability.

Following Plum, Sheryl was the Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford University supporting students to design and scale new ventures that have a positive impact on the world.
Sheryl was a faculty member teaching entrepreneurship at Sonoma State University. Sheryl served on numerous several for-profit and non-profit boards of directors/advisors including ThinkThin natural nutritional bars, SugarBowl Bakery, Rip Van Wafels, nutritious snack waffles, Zukes natural pet treats, Think Thin Nutrition Bars, and the American Sustainable Business Council. Zukes and Think Thin both had successful sales.

Shane Stott is the CEO of Walker Tape Co and the co-founder of Zen Float Co. He is also a Best -Selling Author of the Float Tank Cure and is currently at work on a new book of meditations.

Shane is an inventor and creator at heart and has revolutionized both of his industries. He brings his personal passion into all he does. 

Shane has been featured on ABC, MSN, The New York Times and Yahoo and a Red Carpet experience for E Entertainment, He feels very fortunate in the exposure and positive feedback his companies have received. Shane strives every day to “pay-forward” what his mentors have shared with him, all the while growing and expanding his brand, companies, and future endeavors. 

Ari’s story starts in 2006 when some unexpected news derailed his booming real estate career: Crohn’s Disease: A highly-debilitating digestive ailment, Crohn's barred Ari from leading a normal life. He lost weight, energy, and the ability to work with regularity — in fact, there were times he could only work for sixty minutes a day.

With a blossoming business to run, Ari knew an hour per day was unacceptable. Against the advice of doctors and loved ones, Ari embarked upon an extraordinarily painful journey to cure what medical textbooks consider an incurable disease.

Through excruciating amounts of trial and error, Ari not only regained control of his life but beat this seemingly unbeatable disease — and is now symptom-free.
Less Doing, More Living and Leverage Virtual Assistants are the result of Ari’s amazing journey back to health, happiness, and well-being.

Ari currently lives in New York City, where he spends every ounce of free time with his loving wife, Anna, and four fantastic kids — Benjamin, Lucas, Sébastien, and little Chloe.

An award-winning global thought leader with experience in strategy, public policy, turnarounds and crisis management, Michele Wucker founded Gray Rhino & Company in 2015 to help leaders, organizations, and communities to identify and strategize responses to risks that are neglected despite -and all too often because of- their size. The business draws on the concepts introduced in her third book, THE GRAY RHINO: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore.

THE GRAY RHINO was published in 2016 to praise from business, policy, and thought leaders around the world, and has been translated into Hungarian, Korean, Chinese, and Norwegian. Her previous leadership positions include Vice President for Studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; President of the World Policy Institute, which she re-launched in 2007 in a dramatic turnaround; and Latin America Bureau Chief at International Financing Review. She also has taught masters students at Columbia University's School for International and Public Affairs. Michele has been recognized as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a Guggenheim Fellow, among other honors, and delivered speeches in 15 countries on five continents.

Lori Canova has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the "I Have a Dream" Foundation of Boulder County since 1997. Under her leadership, the organization has grown from two Dreamer cohorts to 17, serving over 1,000 students and their families in four communities (Boulder, Lafayette, Longmont and Carbon Valley) within two of the largest school districts in Colorado (Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley.)

Lori helped start the local Mentors Matter group which focuses on recruitment of mentors, especially mentors of color. She also helped launch a county-wide collaborative school supply drive, Crayons to Calculators and is a co-founder and co-chair of a collective impact initiative called Dream Big focusing on closing the achievement and opportunity gap in Boulder County. Prior to joining "I Have A Dream, Lori was the Program Director for Big Brothers of Metro Denver; a Program Director for the Mental Health Association of Colorado; the Director of SB94 Juvenile Diversion Program for Jefferson Center for Mental Health; and an Adolescent Counselor for Human Services, Inc.

Lori has a Master of Social Work from the University of Denver and completed her undergraduate work in Social Work at Colorado State University. Lori served on the board of directors for Foothills United Way from 2005-2007 and was chair of the board for Volunteers in Prevention from 1993-1995. In 2010, Lori received the Woman of the Year award from the Boulder Professional Women Group. In 2015, Lori received the Partnership Award from Boulder Housing Partners and was awarded the Women Who Light the Community Award from the Boulder Chamber of Commerce.

Jeffrey Hayzlett is a primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, and business podcast host of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on CBS on-demand radio network Play.It. He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman of C-Suite Network, home of the world's most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. Hayzlett is a well-traveled public speaker, the author of three bestselling business books, The Mirror Test, Running the Gauntlet and Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless. Hayzlett is one of the most compelling figures in business today and a member of the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame.

Jeffrey is a leading business expert, cited in Forbes, SUCCESS, Mashable, Marketing Week and Chief Executive, among many others. He shares his executive insight and commentary on television networks like Bloomberg, MSNBC, Fox Business, and C-Suite TV. Hayzlett is a former Bloomberg contributing editor and primetime host and has appeared as a guest celebrity judge on NBCs Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump for three seasons. He is a turnaround architect of the highest order, a maverick marketer and C-Suite executive who delivers scalable campaigns, embraces traditional modes of customer engagement, and possesses a remarkable cachet of mentorship, corporate governance, and brand building.

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In a sea of boring and outdated business advice, John is changing the conversation on how small business owners approach taxes, profit and the path to growth. As the CEO of Financial Gravity, he’s helped hundreds of entrepreneurs to find legal, moral and ethical ways to lower their tax, raise profit and create wealth. The result? His clients can finally start living their American Dream – a key reason they started their business in the first place.