L.Y. Marlow is the award-winning author of Color Me Butterfly, a poignant and endearing true story about four generations of mothers and daughters that suffered and survived 60+ years of domestic violence and abuse: the true story of her grandmother, her mother, herself, and her daughter.

 

Color Me Butterfly has won an unprecedented 8 awards including the most prestigious literary award, the National “Best Books” Award and has attracted the attention of mass media, stellar reviews, book clubs and readers alike.

But the story does not end there. In the fall 2007, Ms. Marlow discovered that her 22 year old daughter was trapped in an abusive relationship--one in which the abuser not only tried to kill her daughter twice, but threatened the life of their baby girl named Promise. When the system failed to protect Ms. Marlow's daughter and granddaughter, she decided to turn her pain into a Promise for Change. She founded Saving Promise, a national grassroots domestic violence non-profit to strengthen domestic violence as a national priority in the same way as Breast Cancer Awareness.

 

In her role as author, domestic violence advocate, and keynote speaker, what has been most inspiring is Ms. Marlow’s story and timely message. Ms. Marlow has appeared on local, regional and national television and radio and has been featured in various magazines. For her untiring work, Ms. Marlow was also awarded an award by one of the highest elected officials—the Governor’s Award.

 

Please visit www.savingpromisecampaign.org or visit www.colormebutterfly.com to learn more about Ms. Marlow, Color Me Butterfly and Saving Promise!

We are pleased to announced part of the proceeds from The Winner's Summit will be donated to Saving Promise.

When looking for a communicator who ignites the atmosphere with inspiration, motivation and contagious enthusiasm, you have but to look directly at Dr. Gail Hayes or Dr. Gail, as others affectionately call her. Her up front, in your face, in your heart style of delivery leaves audiences longing for more and challenged to act on visions and dreams unfulfilled.

Dr. Gail is the founder and CEO of the Handle Your Business Girl Empowerment Network where she helps women to handle their business where they do business, in the work place and as entrepreneurs. She also served as the founder and Director of the European Executive Women’s Forum, the first active European Network of the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE). She hosted the first European conference and appeared in Executive Female, the official publication for the organization.

She is the daughter and wife of US military veterans and lived in the Far East for over four years and in Europe for over ten years. These diverse experiences allow her to relate to diverse audiences. She has spoken to groups internationally, including the US Army and Air Force European and South Korean Command, the City of Durham, the University of North Carolina’s Public Education Television (UNC-TV), and Clemson University.

She is the author of several books including Daughters of the King (Warner), Boss Manager™, and Twelve Ways to Walk in Destiny. She is the creator of Dr. Gail’s Purpose Point™ collection, the Locket & Pocket Socket™ Character Education Puppet Program, the Don’t Give Your Power Away Program, and the Precious! Pretty! Powerful!™ & Mighty! Awesome! Powerful!™ Programs & Book Clubs for Children.

She holds a BS in Criminal Justice, MA in Public Relations, and PhD in Counseling.

Peggy Duncan is an award-winning personal productivity expert: a combination professional organizer, project manager, and computer trainer. That's a powerful set of skills she uses to help busy people save as much as two months a year by showing them how to work smarter.

As an international speaker/trainer, her client list includes media powerhouses, corporate giants, national associations, government agencies, and educational institutions.

She is the founder of The Digital Breakthroughs Institute. They provide hands-on, interactive workshops for small businesses.

Peggy is the current spokesperson for AT&T's line of business telephony products, including the AT&T Cordless Headset, from Advanced American Telephones. She's also written two ebooks: Make Work Easy: Get Organized at Work and Shameless Self-Promotion: Do-It-Yourself SEO and PR. Get Found Online.

Peggy has been cited in various publications, including: SUCCESS, Entrepreneur, O-The Oprah Magazine, Health, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, Smart Money, Fitness, Black Enterprise, Self, Men's Health, MyBusiness, the International Herald Tribune-London, Positive Thinking, PINK, Computerworld.com, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Miami Herald, The Arizona Republic, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more. She's also been featured on national television: CNN, the TODAY show and Black Enterprise Business Report.

Peggy is a guest blogger on the National SCORE Website that supports women business owners. She's also a guest author on stress.about.com, a New York Times company. Her award-winning technology blog, SUITE Minute, covers computer tips, tricks, and strategies that make work easy.

www.peggyduncan.com

Did you know the Tax Laws are designed to benefit the business owner?

Are you aware that insurance is used by the wealthy to create more?

Our guest today will share the strategies that the Wealthy have known for years.

Patrica Veney, CPA, Veney Financial Group

Patricia worked at United States Fidelity &Guarantee (USF&G) for 10 years as a senior accountant, before becoming an entrepreneur. She has her Series 6 & 63 & a licensed health & life insurance agent.

Douglas Eze, CEO of Largo Financial Services

Douglas has more than 15 yrs experience. He started Largo Financial Services Inc. in 2000.

Largo Financial currently has offices in Florida, Maryland and Virginia, with over 80 active Financial Consultants on his team. The company earned the ranking of “No. #1 Division” of American Classic Agency (their affiliate partner) with gross average annual life insurance sales of $6 million in 2009.

Largo Financial is a proud sponsor of The Winner's Summit Conference and Expo.

Bryan Green, Founder and Developer of TrakLogg

Bryan has built a solid foundation as an entrepreneur. He has more than 20 yrs various industries from Real Estate to IT. Prior to becoming an business owner he held senior level management positions with companies like Pacific Bell and Worldcom. Bryan is also Sr. Vice President of Shock Theory Interactive, a web development company founded in 2000 has resulted in major success of the company.

Traklogg is a proud sponsor of The Winner's Summit Conference and Expo.

SHEILA BROOKS is an Emmy-award winning journalist, entrepreneur, and dedicated advocate for minority and women’s issues and small businesses. Ms. Brooks is founder, president and CEO of SRB Communications, LLC, a full-service media and communications agency and post-production facility in Washington, DC., of which they are celebrating 20 years in business.

Ms. Brooks is an Entrepreneur in Residence in John H. Johnson School of Communications at Howard University.

Ms. Brooks built a distinguished television career as a news director, reporter, anchor, and documentary producer at CBS, NBC, PBS and Fox owned-and operated and affiliate TV stations across the country. Her more than 32 years in the television and communications industry has garnered several awards, including 38 national Telly Awards, a national Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television; induction into the NATAS Silver Circle, the Emmy Award Hall of Fame by the National Capital/Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; two local Emmy Awards, and four local Emmy Nominations.

A sought-after speaker, Ms. Brooks testifies before the United States Congress and presents at various business and journalism conferences, schools and universities nationwide.

Her entrepreneurial honors include the 2009 Black Rose Entrepreneur Award from New York State Black Women Enterprises; 2008 Top 100 MBE Award, a regional award from the State of Maryland’s Governor’s Office to recognize enterprising women and minority entrepreneurs,just to name a few.

She is a philanthropist and serves willing on several boards. Ms. Brooks is working on her PHD at Howard University. She is also an alumna of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business & Darmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business.

www.srbcommunications.com

What's Your Strategy? That is the question our phenomenal guest Cornelia Shipley will ask.

In 2006, Cornelia partnered with several colleagues to create 3C Consulting LLC, a Human Capital Management Firm specializing in Executive Coaching and Strategic Planning. With the desire to make a significant difference in the lives of others, she expanded the scope of her work to help entrepreneurs and individuals leverage strategic planning principles to create the balance and abundance they desire in every area of their lives. She reaches thousands of professionals each year during her workshops, coaching, consulting and speaking engagements with organizations across business, industry, and academia including General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Edward Jones, University of Michigan, and Duke University among others.

Often asked by clients how she created the balance and abundance she has in her life, Cornelia created Spend Your Day Your Way, a workshop designed to help you strategically plan for your life and work. In 2010 she launched Your Desire By Design a coaching program enabling you to have a life beyond balanced. In addition to these strategic planning opportunities Cornelia continues her work with executives and entrepreneurs to lead their businesses in the 21st century.

Ericka Young is the president of Tailor-Made Budgets. After 7 years of working in the semiconductor industry as an engineer, Ericka decided to help others gain control over their money through personal financial coaching. Her love for numbers and data crunching translated easily into analyzing financial information. Ericka knows how to help you navigate the financial waters because she did it herself. She and her husband, Chris, dug their way out of nearly $100,000 in debt. Now, through her monthly e-newsletter, personal coaching sessions, workshops, and speaking engagements, Ericka is helping many people significantly improve their finances, families… and most impor-tantly their futures. Ericka is a certified financial counselor by Dave Ramsey's Lampo Group and is now helping her clients give their dreams a place to flourish everyday.

Tailor-Made Budgets has been featured in several local newspapers including the Arizona Republic, the East Valley Tribune, the Gilbert Republic, and the Arizona Infor-mant. A highlight of the media buzz was a FOX10 news spot at primetime in August 2007! Ericka is now teaching classes at Chandler/Gilbert Community College and increasing her speaking engagements. In addition to this growth Ericka pursued mentor-ship by a nationally recognized financial coach by the name of Glinda Bridgforth.

As a result of this divine connection, Ericka is now one of her associates and coaches clients all over the country. Ericka now enjoys a more balanced and fulfilling life with her husband Chris and their two daughters, Faith and Olivia.

A sought after speaker, certified life coach, award winning author and consultant, Darnyelle A. Jervey is the founder of Incredible One Enterprises, LLC a full service empowerment firm that specializes in helping women to define and unleash the Incredible within for life and business success through keynotes, coaching, seminars and workshops. Darnyelle is known for her enthusiasm, contagious energy and passionate delivery and becomes the catalyst for transformational change and goal achievement in the lives of her coaching clients, audiences and workshop participants because she doesn't just inspire, she also imparts success skills, tools, strategies and effective solutions.

For more than a decade, Ms. Jervey has been capturing attention and keeping it as soon as she opens her mouth. Through intentional success in Corporate America where in three years she successfully progressed from an analyst to a VP to her recent success as a Top Pink Cadillac Executive Sales Director in Mary Kay Cosmetics, Ms. Jervey has mastered the power of motivation and empowerment.

Incredible One Enterprises, LLC., consist of Incredible Factor® Coaching, Passionista® Power Networking Events, The Incredible One Success Circle, An Incredible Moment with Darnyelle (Blog Talk Radio Show) and The Incredible Factor Empowerment Network Coaching Club®.

Ms. Jervey is the author of 4 books on personal and professional development: The Incredible You, Dream the Incredible the Journal, Speak The Incredible and Maximizing the Incredible You.

She has received numerous awards and certifications and has been featured in several major publications and on networks.

Robin Wilson is a nationally recognized eco-friendly and healthy home interior designer focused

on the ‘foundation to the furniture.’ Industry insiders describe her style as ‘classic with a modern

touch’ with a focus on sustainable, reusable, recyclable and non-toxic options. She founded her

firm in 2000.

Robin Wilson Home focus is residential & commercial interior

design, consulting, licensing and an online retailer called The Nest Store.

Most recently, she completed a project for the private residence of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which

had to be rebuilt due to a black mold infestation. Her first book, “Kennedy Green House” arrives

in bookstores in April 2010. Her work has also been featured in notable projects including the

Good Housekeeping LEED-certified brownstone (2008), the Esquire "Ultimate Bachelor

Apartment" terrace (2007), the Peninsula Hotel Spa salon (2007), and renovation and furniture

acquisition in President Bill Clinton's Harlem office(since 2004).

Robin Wilson is the first woman to license her name to eco-friendly kitchen cabinetry – which is

manufactured by Holiday Kitchens.

She has been featured in O magazine, Kitchen Bath Business News,The Wall Street Journal, among others - plus broadcast appearances on PBS, ABC, NBC, CNN,CBS, TV-One and HGTV,and more. Ms. Wilson has been recognized:

2009: Panelist at "Dynamic Women in Business" conference - Harvard Business School

2008: Recipient of a "Make Mine a Million $ Business" award – AMEX & Count Me In

2007: Small Business "Innovator of the Year" - Black Enterprise Magazine

2007: Listed #46 in the "50 Most Powerful Women in New York" - New York Post.

She has served on the boards of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and YWCA. She

holds an MS from New York University and a BA from the University of Texas in Austin. Her firm

is a member of the US Green Building Council.

She’s RIVETING, REAL and RELEVANT!

Powerhouse speaker, motivator and author,

JENNIFER KEITT, reaches over 1,000,000

people weekly with one simple truth: “You can be

successful in life every day!” Leaders,

professionals, entrepreneurs—women and men—

globally have been touched with Jennifer’s ability to inspire and encourage them to live confident,

powerful lives. She has earned honors for her

contributions as the founder and host of the

nationally syndicated Today’s Black Woman Radio

Show.

A graduate of the University of Alabama at

Birmingham in Broadcast Journalism, Jennifer’s

life mission to “empower, educate, equip and

encourage” has become a way of life in her roles

as wife and mother of four. After turning her

love for feature reporting into a radio show that

would make a difference, Jennifer and her

husband Tony (both media veterans) launched

T.J. Communications Inc. a media consulting and

communications company.

T.J. produces and distributes radio programming,

consults radio stations and coaches professionals in the area of personal and professional success,

speaking, presenting and communicating.

While media is her forte, Jennifer is closer to realizing a life-long dream of making a lasting

change in the lives of women and men through her non-profit organization: TBW Corporation.

She envisions building a one-of-a-kind “life-institute”—a state of the art, retreat-like facility— for women to come to for practical, relevant courses, classes, workshops, conferences, retreats

and most importantly the critical help and support that they desire, aiding in their life

transformation.

Jennifer lives with her husband and their four children in Atlanta.