Success Champions

Mr. Read is a CPA and the Founder and CEO of Get Payroll in Lewisville, TX, where he has provided full service payroll and payroll tax services since 1991. Get Payroll helps small to medium-sized businesses across the U.S. with direct deposits, debit card loads, printed checks, payroll deposits, reports and tax filings, year-end Forms W-2 and employer-employee website portals.

Mr Read is an accomplished senior executive and entrepreneur with more than fifty years of financial leadership experience in a broad range of industries, as well as a licensed CPA. In addition, he is also an US Tax Court Non-Attorney Practitioner which enables him to represent clients in the US Tax Court without being an attorney.

He is the author of three e-books: Starting a New Business: Accounting, Finance, Payroll, and Tax Considerations, Small Business Short Course (Employees Book 1) and The Little Black Book of the Beauty Biz, Volume 1. Mr. Read's newest book "Payroll for Small Business and Startups" will be published by John Wiley & Sons in the summer of 2020.

Mr. Read is an accomplished speaker and has been featured on Fox Business News, Biz TV Texas, New York City Wired, Dallas Innovates and many more.

In addition to his executive career, Mr. Read is a decorated United States Marine Corps sergeant, and a combat veteran of the Vietnam War.

Lori Lyons is the owner and Creative Director of Ignite Marketing. She’s an entrepreneur, author, small business owner and sports fanatic. Everything that Ignite Marketing is about comes from her 35+ years of experience as a small business owner, graphics manager, print sales rep, print production flunkie, and everything in between. Ignite Marketing just really just fell into place - a cumulation of her past and passions. She had been helping small businesses unofficially with their websites, marketing and branding for more years than she could count and finally made it an official business.

Angela W. Stillwell is the founder of Untapped Strengths, where she helps businesses and professionals create deeper connections with their audience that impact their bottom lines and overall success. She is the creator of Vulnerability Warrior, an online program for people going through major transitions and who are seeking higher

levels of personal success. Angela has also created a line of t-shirts and other products called Love Is My True North.

For the last three decades, since completing her MBA, Angela has been working with businesses in sales, marketing, and business development - from startups to large corporations and organizations. As a business advisor, coach, speaker, and workshop leader, she has helped executives shift into new careers, sales teams increase sales, and businesses grow to six and seven figures plus.

She lives in Georgia with her Great Dane, horse, and barn cat, and can frequently be found on the tennis court, on her paddleboard, trying new foods, laughing with friends and family, or traveling.

JANI ROBERTS

Jani Roberts is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Alignment Essentials, a health and wellness company spanning the fitness, self-improvement, and mindfulness spaces. She is the creator of the Warrior® Workout, Moving Meditations™, Inspirational Conversations™ and all of the Alignment Essentials programming content.

Jani has over 40 years of experience in the health and wellness field. She owned and operated a large gym franchise in Florida where she specialized in health and wellness related services, products, and preventative health education, and she now owns a private boutique studio offering personal training, small group fitness classes, and private nutrition and health coaching.

Before launching her own brand, RED Warrior Nation, with her husband Johnny in 2011, Jani was one of the original master trainers for another world-renowned fitness format. During her 11 years with that company, she literally trained hundreds of thousands of instructors around the world, and she was the featured choreographer and performer on numerous training DVDs. Before that, Jani and Johnny, worked as lead performers all over the world. RED Warrior Nation was the precursor company to Alignment Essentials, which Jani co-founded with Sabrina Ursaner in 2018. Jani is a graduate of the American Academy of Nutrition, and is a past presenter at IDEA, SCW, Rimini, IHRSA, CAN FIT PRO, AAAI, Lifetime EMPOWER Events, Fitness Fusion, FILEX, FIBO, Nike, and Adidas. She holds certifications from ACE, AFAA and NASM.

Jani travels extensively as a speaker and presenter sharing her Alignment Essentials wellness tools and helping people find more joy in their lives. In addition to numerous awards she has received over the years, Jani was recently nominated as the Most Inspiring Instructor to be awarded at the 2018 National Fitness Day events, and Moving Meditations™ was nominated for Hottest New Fitness Trend.

SABRINA URSANER:

Sabrina Ursaner is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Alignment Essentials, a health and wellness company spanning the fitness, self-improvement, and mindfulness spaces that provides tools to help people “stay in alignment” and find more joy in their daily lives. Prior to starting Alignment Essentials with Jani Roberts, Sabrina was the CEO of RED Warrior Nation, and she was a lawyer in New York before that. Sabrina studied dance and psychology at Washington University in St. Louis and has danced professionally. She is a graduate of NYU School of Law and the recipient of several awards throughout her legal career. In 2018, Sabrina left the corporate world to focus on Alignment Essentials full-time. She is an Ambassador for National Fitness Day and is co-chair of the Young Lawyers Division of UJA, and she has been teaching fitness and wellness classes in New York City for the last 6 years. Sabrina is featured in all of the Alignment Essentials online streaming workout videos.

Aaron is the Founder and CEO of Raise The Bar, a firm focused on helping companies address the problem of millennial turnover.

Aaron is an ICF Associate Certified Coach, a Thrive Global contributor, an 1871 mentor, the Co-Director of Startup Grind Chicago and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He has educated, coached, and consulted over 7,000 business leaders, helping them to define goals, create action plans, and achieve sustained success.

Aaron is on a mission to transform the manager role by empowering each manager with the tools, skills, and training to be leaders of people who unlock the potential of their team.

Oginga Carr is a Certified High Performance Coach, author, national seminar leader, organizational structure expert and consultant. He brings 20 years of experience in Sales, Management, and Human Resources. His passion is in the dynamic of change; dealing with it, working through it, and preparing for it. He is a serial entrepreneur and has served as a magazine publisher, radio show host, TV show host, Executive Director of a non-profit foundation and many other capacities. Oginga focuses on productivity through structure and human capital development. He has trained tens of thousands of HR Professionals in 49 states. Check out his new book, "Your LIMITLESS Life".

After earning multiple academic degrees, owning her own business, and marrying Prince Charming, Marie-Elizabeth Mali discovered that her dream life was not, in fact, her dream. She left to discover what her dream really was. She now travels the world photographing sharks and whales, writing poetry, and living with the love of her life, a man 14 years her junior who also approaches relationship as a path of self-discovery. In her 50’s, she feels more alive than ever before.

As a Midlife Transformation Specialist, she guides women over 40 to give themselves permission to want what they want, set boundaries, and have skillful conversations, so they can create a life free from past inner limitations that celebrates the truth of who they are.

Known to many as Mr. Persuasion, Jeff Tippett wrote the book on persuasive communications.

Speaking to international audiences through keynotes and seminars, Jeff helps attendees increase their effectiveness, gives them powerful tools to reach their goals, and empowers attendees to positively impact and grow their organizations or businesses.

His second book, slated for a February 2019 release, is titled: Unleashing Your Superpower: Why Persuasive Communication Is The Only Force You Will Ever Need. His bold statement is that we all live or die based on our ability to persuade.

In 2014, Jeff founded Targeted Persuasion, an award-winning public affairs + communications firm. He has worked with renowned brands like Airbnb, The National Restaurant Association, The League of Women Voters, The League of Conservation Voters, plus others. Other industry experts have validated Jeff’s work with numerous awards including the prestigious The American Advertising Award.

The heart and soul of Jeff’s presentations are the emotional story he tells of adopting his youngest daughter from Haiti while the country’s government was collapsing. Through this near death experience of navigating civil unrest and institutional bureaucracy in a third world nation, Jeff learned valuable lessons on how to persuade others without ever manipulating. Jeff unpacks these secrets of the superpower of persuasion in every presentation.

Andy Bounds helps people communicate better.

Awarded the title Britain’s Sales Trainer of the Year, and described by AstraZeneca’s Global Communication Director as “a genius, whose advice can’t be ignored”, Andy’s insights stem from the fact his Mother is blind. This has given him a lifetime’s experience of communicating from someone else’s point of view… so critical when seeking to persuade others.

Andy’s three books are all international best-sellers. In fact, one was only kept off Amazon's #1 spot by Harry Potter!

Andy has spoken in 35+ countries, to audiences of all sizes. He has delivered keynotes at the Professional Speakers Association conference, as well as for blue-chip companies, Governments, professional bodies and business experts.

His core belief is “it’s not what you say that counts. It’s what people do differently after you’ve said it”.

https://www.andybounds.com/home/bio.aspx

Rachel Greenbaum is the Krav Maga Alliance (International Krav Maga Licensing Co.) Manager, and Director of StrikeFit®, KMA’s Heavy Bag Kickboxing Program, which allows her to combine her love of travel, language, teaching, and fitness. She has now earned her Instructor Black Belt in Krav Maga, (Israeli self-defense), the loving nickname of “Meanbaum” from her students and instructor candidates, and a certification to teach Lagree Fitness (Pilates on crack), along the journey. Rachel has completed multiple firearms and tactical courses including "Foreign Weapons". She is also Force Certified, which qualifies her to teach Krav Maga to Military and Law Enforcement. She is passionate about never missing her annual volunteer week with C.A.M.O. - Challenge Aspen Military Opportunities, (an adaptive cross-country Wounded Warrior ski program) in Colorado.

Rachel dabbles some in Hollywood too, having trained actresses like Aubrey Plaza and Natasha Lyonne for roles, consulting on Krav Maga on set, and has even done a little acting, fight choreography and stunt work herself. She was also scouted and hired as the only female and only fight coach for a Media Promotional Event for the most recent Tomb Raider movie release. Rachel has recently co-founded and taken on the role of spokeswoman for a soon to launch, free-standing heavy bag fitness tech company. She is now competing in The Maxim Magazine Cover Girl 2019 competition where she has dominated 1st place in her group, and currently outlasted 17500 women that have already been cut. Rachel is truly hoping to come out the Grand Prize winner on November 21st, to be a strong female role-model represented on that cover, and officially *strike* a pose with her newest given nickname, “Baumshell”. Rachel intends to both donate some of the prize money to C.A.M.O., and invest in her fitness start up so she can continue to motivate, inspire, and give back.