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As founder and president of Motere Consulting, Dr. Stephen Long applies an educative, rather than rehabilitative, consulting model resulting in an average of 115% financial performance improvement for his clients with a zero failure rate. Through his work with exceptional leaders, champion athletes, fighter pilots, military special operations personnel, top salespeople, high performers and corporate executives, Dr. Long has helped permanently raise productivity from adequate to outstanding. Applying his strategies and techniques, Dr. Long has helped a variety of companies realize a significant increase in performance through management team execution specifically management succession, turnarounds, performance plateaus and change management practices.

As a primary source, Dr. Long provides a breakthrough social operating system that immediately enhances an organization's productivity and efficiency. Dr. Longs 30 years of experience and expertise has earned him a reputation as one of the world's leading experts in performance psychology. Armed with a legacy of success from a broad array of industries, Dr. Long's expertise in behavior change, psychometrics, and collective belief systems equips client firms with the skills that are neglected by other consulting firms, leaving executives with temporary improvement rather than the long-term success they require. Dr. Long's strategies provide rapid improvements followed by long-term success.

Bob Tipton is a high-energy, innovative, and insightful transformational change architect, leadership facilitator, keynote speaker, and author who is passionate about helping individuals, groups, and entire organizations reach for and achieve exceptional results. He has more than 35 years of experience in assisting organizations of all types in designing and facilitating transformational change through excellence in vision creation, strategy development, process execution, and technological effectiveness.

During this time, he has held various roles including the founder and CEO of an organizational development / strategy firm, SVP of corporate communications and capabilities for a significant professional services company, managing director of a $40+ million branding, identity and marketing organization, CIO of a $1B+ company, CTO of a $1B technology, creative and strategy professional services firm, and other roles where he spent years in the trenches developing and deploying real-world solutions.

Further, Tipton has published 300+ articles, 15 white papers and three books related to organizational transformation and technological excellence, and he is a well-known and popular speaker and workshop facilitator throughout the world. He is in demand for sessions at business conferences, seminars, and other symposiums, and has won best speaker /facilitator awards at numerous events.

Have you ever felt like walking away from everything in your business? In her first business, Leslie Hassler sure did. After struggling to grow back her interior design business after the 2008 recession, Leslie was ready to through in the towel. She was burned out and just sick and tired of being sick and tired. In an ultimatum moment with herself, Leslie decided to get help or get out.

Within 6 months she grew her business 150% and then set about rewriting the rules to business and get back her zest for being an entrepreneur.

Today, Leslie of Your Biz Rules TM, coaches women business owners to bounce back from burn out, reignite growth in their business and their passion for doing what they do.

Leslie's ability to simplify the complex process of building and growing a business, whether it's marketing, sales, systems, or just finding time to do it all you'll make more progress working with Leslie than you ever did on your own.

Jerry Comer has been helping companies build high-performing organizations since the early 1990’s. His early career in engineering, marketing, sales and manufacturing with various organizations led him to realize that many companies struggle with the key elements associated with great performance: leadership, teamwork, clarity of purpose and ability to execute. Building a healthy organization drives teams to higher levels of performance and improved bottom line results.

Through Comer & Associates, founded in 1993, Jerry has worked strategically and tactically with CEOs, COOs, Directors, Managers and Boards of Directors to build healthy and powerful teams aligned with common goals and objectives. Clarity of purpose and accountability have been the cornerstone of his leadership training and coaching programs, leading to an organization that is strategic, aligned and executing well to drive growth and profit.

Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Nicole was a standout swimmer, qualifying for the 1988 Olympic Trials and later graduating from Yale University. She decided to pursue the sport of triathlon, and a lucky seat assignment introduced her to her future husband (future 2-time Ironman World Champion), Tim DeBoom, on a flight to the 1995 ITU World Championships. Nicole started racing professionally in 1999, racking up countless podium finishes. Her triathlon career culminated in a win at the 2004 Ironman Wisconsin, wearing a prototype of the first-ever running skirt a skirt that would launch a revolution in womens fitness clothing just a few months later. Nicole founded Skirt Sports in September 2004 with the mission of helping women find inspiration, confidence and courage through the transformative power of running and fitness. Today, Skirt Sports is a national womens apparel brand offering a full line of products that fit real womens bodies and support their busy running lives. Currently, you can find Nicole chatting with customers at the Skirt Sports Boulder flagship store, helping women change their lives through her non-profit organization Running Start, interviewing visionaries for her popular podcast Run This World and chasing around her 4-year-old girl, Wilder.

Nicole started racing professionally in 1999, racking up countless podium finishes. Her triathlon career culminated in a win at the 2004 Ironman Wisconsin, wearing a prototype of the first-ever running skirt a skirt that would launch a revolution in womens fitness clothing just a few months later. Nicole founded Skirt Sports in September 2004 with the mission of helping women find inspiration, confidence and courage through the transformative power of running and fitness. Today, Skirt Sports is a national womens apparel brand offering a full line of products that fit real womens bodies and support their busy running lives. Currently, you can find Nicole chatting with customers at the Skirt Sports Boulder flagship store, helping women change their lives through her non-profit organization Running Start, interviewing visionaries for her popular podcast Run This World and chasing around her 4-year-old girl, Wilder.

Today, Skirt Sports is a national womens apparel brand offering a full line of products that fit real womens bodies and support their busy running lives. Currently, you can find Nicole chatting with customers at the Skirt Sports Boulder flagship store, helping women change their lives through her non-profit organization Running Start, interviewing visionaries for her popular podcast Run This World and chasing around her 4-year-old girl, Wilder.

With a focus on single professionals, many people refer to Devon as the RockStar of Dating and Love. He has made it his mission to empower one million single professionals by the end of 2017.

In ten years Devon has coached over one thousand single professionals around
the country on relationships, emotional intelligence, and lifestyle management,
He has devoted himself to helping men and women master the art of knowing themselves well enough to get what they really want out of dating, relationships, business, and love. 

In his dedication to finding solutions, Devon has created simple tools and action steps for single professionals that allow them to experience real results before and during their journey to finding love. These same tools and action steps can and should be applied to all areas of life including business, sales, and leadership.

Over the past 30 years in both Europe and the United States, Josh has been: Founder and CEO of more than 20 businesses, mostly in the areas of technology and food; an Officer and Executive Committee Member of Young Presidents Organization in the Chicago, Warsaw, Geneva, Prague, and Denver chapters; an Entrepreneur of the Year award winner; and has enjoyed helping a variety of businesses navigate their challenges by working with other entrepreneurs at organizations including: New York University, University of Illinois, University of Chicago, Colorado University, Colorado State University, Thunderbird School of Management, and the Kauffman Institute.

Today Josh participates on the boards of several companies, but mostly enjoys working with his wife of 17 years on Wild Zora, their natural meat snack startup business headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, where they live with their two children who also enjoy the weather and mountain sports on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.

Karl has been a get-your-hands-dirty entrepreneur for 20+ years. He has a BA in Economics from Colorado College and an MBA from CU Boulder. Karl’s background is in running marketing and sales companies. For the past 6 years, he has run The Carruthers Group, a sales growth agency focused on implementing and executing programs for improving all phases of the sales funnel.

In most ways, Robbie was "ruined" by New Orleans, a dying city, that he thought he was saving. It turns out it saved him, leading to the remaking of his brand design studio (Trumpet) into the launchpad for an entrepreneurial ecosystem that's at the center of a refocused, civically reengaged New Orleans. Robbie now runs, designs, and invests in food companies with social and environmental impact such as Good Spread, a nut butter company launched from a non-profit maker of a therapeutic peanut butter that treats and cures kids suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition. Along the way, he co-founded Idea Village, Naked Pizza (a healthy delivery pizza company expanded internationally and sold to Mark Cuban), and maintains a portfolio of food-based companies under Innisfree.

Robbie was an Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year finalist, was named City Business Magazine’s innovator of the year, and won the Louisiana Technology Council’s technology of the year award. He is also a member of Adweek’s creative all-star team.

Pamela S. Gockley is an internationally known speaker, humorist and astute student of business for over 21 years. She is the co-founder of Vigilant Corporation, and creator of The Reputation Factor, Reputatus Learning and the innovator of the Reputation Strategy philosophy "Starts with You, but It's not about You."

Using her own 4D's of Reputation Strategy and transformed her struggling business into a thriving marketing and training business.

Pam is a frequent guest on radio shows, podcasts and writes articles for magazines, newspapers, and blogs. She has revolutionized how to build a revenue generating business in this pull global economy. It has transformed from a business-centric to a customer-centric world.