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David is an ex-Olympic level athlete turned business multimillionaire. He is a Wall Street Journal and Business Week best- selling author of 9 business and financial books, including co-authoring SCALE with Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman.

David is the founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world's premier business coaching company which has worked with over 100,000 business owners, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. Davids clients enjoy an average annual growth rate of 64.2% while at the same time increase their companies Owner Independence by an average of 97.4% per year. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion.

His weekly business owner e-letter is read by 100,000 business owners around the world and his syndicated business articles on Inc.com and Huffingtonpost.com garner over 150,000 readers every year. His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, International Business Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine.

An in-demand keynote speaker, Davids message of how to grow a business by strengthening its core systems, team, and culture has galvanized business audiences around the globe.

He and his wife Heather, and their three young sons live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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John Bryant is the owner of No-Li Brewhouse in Spokane, USA.

He has a twenty-five-year industry track record that began at The Rainer Brewery in Seattle, WA.  John's beer industry positions include National Brand Manager of Henry Weinhard’s, vice president of sales and marketing at Deschutes Brewery, chief operating officer of Odell Brewing, president of Oskar Blues Brewery and owner of No-Li Brewhouse.

John has served on the Association of Brewers Board, Brewers Association of America Board, received the 2011 Colorado Brewers Guild Directors Award, past President of the Inland N.W. Craft Brewers Association and is currently the vice president of the Washington Brewers Guild.

Jay Irwin is an adventurous soul who is determined to inspire people through wilderness experiences. During a 23-year rewarding career in the computer software industry, Jay had the opportunity to lead and inspire companies to enhance their productivity and success through innovative software solutions. He created entrepreneurial initiatives within some of the largest software companies in the world.

After a year-long sabbatical, Jay has successfully rounded the corner on combining his love of adventure with his desire to make a positive difference in other people's lives. He teaches audiences, from inner-city youth to executives, how to bring the gifts learned from wilderness experiences into daily life to create powerful and long-lasting change.

Jay is an avalanche survivor, Ironman finisher, avid skier and backpacker, and a foolhardy mountain biker, but his underlying passion is being a dedicated father. Jay is also a board member of cityWILD, a local nonprofit bringing adventure, and leadership to culturally diverse, inner-city youth.

Craig Ballantyne is called The World's Most Disciplined Man by his friends and coaching clients. He's also the author of The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life, and creator of the world-famous fat-burning workout system, Turbulence Training.

Craig has been a contributor to Men's Health magazine for over 17 years, and he teaches his clients to get more done, make more money, and still get home in time for dinner. Craig discovered his talent for helping stressed-out executives and entrepreneurs achieve extraordinary results in every area of life after overcoming his crippling anxiety attacks in 2006. During his struggles, Craig discovered The 5 Pillars of Success, which you can use to make more money, lose weight, find the love of your life, and overcome any obstacle in your way.

Daina Middleton is an executive leadership coach with over three decades as a business leader and CEO. She pioneered digital marketing at Hewlett-Packard, was the global CEO at Performics, the largest performance marketing company in the world, and ran global business marketing at Twitter. Currently, she serves as a director on the boards of Marin Software and Healthwise. A frequent speaker, she also appears in Forbes, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Adweek, and on CNBC. She lives near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her latest book is Grace Meets Grit: How to Bring Out the Remarkable, Courageous Leader Within.

Mark's passion is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck so they can pursue their freedom. Depending on the unique situation, Marks talent for introducing just the right combination of perspective and process sparks teams to start moving, move faster, or begin moving in the proper direction - with clarity.

As a teacher, coach, and facilitator, Mark spends most of his time directly engaged with entrepreneurial leadership teams as a Certified EOS Implementer helping them implement EOS in their own companies. He's delivered over 400 full-day EOS workshops with companies from around the U.S.

Mark has been an entrepreneur since the age of 28, after catching the bug during B-school at the University of Chicago. At last count, he's started/bought/sold/shut down 11 different companies. One recent venture, as a Founder and CEO, had a very successful exit yielding a 100x cash return in less than 3 yrs. All this activity has led to some recognition, including being named a Tech Titan finalist as an emerging company CEO, and listed as 40 Under Forty by the Business Journal in both Milwaukee and Dallas.

Mark is a "Freedom Forum" member as an EOS Implementer. He was also awarded Rookie of the Year and Chair Excellence distinctions by Vistage International.

Craig Cody is a Certified Tax Coach, Certified Public Accountant, Business
Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years experience
on the Force. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant for the
past 15 years, he is also a Certified Tax Coach. As a Certified Tax Coach,

As a Certified Tax Coach, Craig belongs to a select group of tax practitioners throughout the country who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain, certified. With this organization, Craig has co-authored an Amazon best seller book, Secrets of a Tax-Free Life.

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Christopher Algea is originally from Memphis, TN where he grew up on a small farm while also engaging in business whenever the chance arose. Christopher started working in restaurants at a young age which led him eventually to a restaurant in Boulder that introduced him to quinoa while working and going to school at CU Boulder. One thing led to another, and with the help of great friends, mentors and family, Keen One Foods was born which currently makes quick cooking organic meals that are primarily quinoa based along with running a wholesale import and manufacturing business for ingredient sourcing and food service needs. Christopher serves on the Board of Naturally Boulder and is chair of Morning Mingles and co-chair of membership. He is honored to be able to give back, however, he can to an organization that has really helped nourish Keen One while also meeting life long friends that are invaluable assets to him personally now as well.

Christopher is an outdoor enthusiast and loves traveling, skiing, hiking, fishing, cycling, riding motorcycles, while cooking and fine dining with friends are still favorites too!

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Rick has been in executive leadership roles specifically in the areas of new business development, business-to-business and business-to-consumer advertising, non-profit fundraising and ministry marketing, both as a client and as an agency representative.

In marketing and new business development, Rick has designed successful marketing plans, implemented financially accountable marketing processes, developed dynamic sales teams and focused business development efforts toward advantageous and profitable prospects.

Rick has a passion for career ministry, coaching and supporting those in job transition.

Rick has been integral in strategic planning initiatives and the launch of 5 key programs for non-profit organization within a 6-month period exceeding the fundraising goals of $2 million through donor acquisitions and affinity sponsorship agreements.

As a seasoned executive building new business initiatives, Rick developed a strategic marketing plan and media partnership alliance, increasing profitability by 25% of $75 million for a leading non-profit organization.

Through an aggressive new business and targeted sales initiative, Rick was successful in contract negotiations and agreements with 7 of the top 10 targeted prospective clients leading to $5 million in revenue over a 6-month time frame.

Matthew is the Director of Communications for WhiteWave Foods, a leading consumer packaged food,
and beverage company that manufactures, markets and sells branded plant-based foods and beverages, coffee creamers and beverages, premium dairy products, and organic produce.

As the Director of Communications, Matthew oversees and is directly responsible for the company’s communications programs around crisis and issues management, financial communications, M&A/integration, employee & executive communications and corporate marketing and thought leadership.

Prior to joining WhiteWave, Matthew was the General Manager of Olson PR, an award-winning marketing, and communications agency based out of Chicago, IL. At Olson, Matthew was General Manager of the company’s Western Division which included offices in San Francisco and Denver, and he managed communications campaigns for a wide variety of national and international Fortune 500 companies including SABMiller, AB InBev, Heineken, Carlsberg, Belize Tourism Board, Fitbit, Wrigley, and a variety of others.

One of Matthew’s longest serving clients at Olson was a coalition of the world’s four largest global brewers and brewing industry associations that he helped collaborate on issues of shared importance including excise tax, commercial freedom, reputation and global stakeholder engagement. He also ran the company’s crisis and issues management practice including managing all crisis and issues for the Belize Tourism Board and Fitbit, and he created and executed holistic consumer and business-to-business marketing communications strategies for a wide variety of Olson clients including TiVo, Wrigley, and Cool Planet.

Before joining Olson, Matthew worked at Weber Shandwick Worldwide where he led the issues and crisis management programs for the U.S. Dairy Industry and the U.S. Pork Industry and counseled a variety of major global companies through both large and small-scale crises, including Mars Incorporated, SC Johnson and Son, and Kraft Foods.

Earlier in his career, Matthew spent five years working at various levels of state and federal government including the Wisconsin State Governor, The U.S. Department of Education, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner and the White House. He graduated from George Washington University with B.S. in Political Science.