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Sharon Rich runs a business growth consulting and leadership coaching firm called Think Business Growth, where she works with business owners and leaders as their Fractional Chief Accountability Officer. This means that Sharon serves on the leadership team and is responsible for driving clarity in strategy and planning, creating aligned team and leadership behaviors, and supports the team in identifying and removing obstacles and otherwise being 100% accountable for creating their desired outcomes.

As a professional speaker, Sharon teaches business leaders how to leverage the hidden game being played in their organizations without their knowledge.

In fact, Sharon wrote the book Your Hidden Game about ten invisible agreements that prevent businesses from achieving their goals — and demonstrates through examples how simply getting what is hidden out on the table where it can be renegotiated, predictably, dramatically and sustainably improves business performance.

As a result of Sharon’s work, her clients see measurable improvement in leadership, teamwork, execution, and especially, business results.

Esben Friis-Jensen is the Co-Founder of Chief Growth Officer at Userflow, a no-code builder for in-app onboarding and surveys, allowing SaaS businesses to be more product-led. Prior to Userflow, Esben Co-Founded Cobalt, which today is a 200+ employee company. At Cobalt, Esben was a part of a product-led growth initiative and the piqued his interest to go all in and join a company in the space.

Dr. Georges is a passionate life and career coach, resume writer, award-winning author, motivational speaker, organizational trainer, and university lecturer who helps clients and students RESCRIPT dis-empowering self-talk, maximize their strengths, get unstuck, and take empowered action to achieve their life and career goals and dreams. She provides positive psychology-based life and career coaching and resume writing to clients across the nation, leads local community wellness groups, and delivers workshops and speaking engagements for corporations, educational institutions, non-profits, healthcare organizations, professional associations, and beyond.

Colleen is also a Rutgers University Lecturer in counseling and women’s leadership/social justice and a member of the Rutgers Speaker’s Bureau. In her TEDx Talk, “Re-Scripting the Stories We Tell Ourselves,” she talks about the impact our internal dialogue has on our relationship with ourselves and the world around us.

She received a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Rutgers University, is a Nationally Certified Psychologist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Comprehensive Positive Psychology Coach, and holds over a dozen certifications in life/career coaching and positive psychology.

Dr. Georges is author of the 8-time award-winning, international best-selling book, RESCRIPT the Story You're Telling Yourself, which received a Reader’s Favorite 5-star review, was featured on New 12 Long Island’s Elizabeth & Elisa Morning Show, and recognized in Aspire Magazine’s Top 10 Inspiring Books List. Colleen is also a co-author of 10 best-selling self-growth books and a Huffington Post contributor. Her expertise has been featured in various media outlets including News12, RVNTV, Live Happy, Inspire Me Today, Mashable, Rewire Me, The Job Network, Care.com, New Jersey Family Magazine, and The Trenton Times.

Learn More about Dr. Colleen Georges at:
www.RESCRIPTBook.com
www.ColleenGeorges.com

Lina is a two-time Olympian in beach volleyball, entrepreneur, real estate investor, executive coach, mentor to elite athletes, co-founder of a college football award, and a mother of three. Her life is full of transformations, which didn’t happen by accident.

From growing up in communist Bulgaria, to pioneering a way to study in the US, qualifying and playing in the Olympics, becoming an entrepreneur and executive coach, Lina's learned what it takes to close the gap between where we are and where we want to be. Now, she presents the CLOSE principles to ambitious professionals and organizations looking to grow exponentially. CLOSE is a 5-step system teaching the principles of breakthrough transformation.

Her new Airbnb online experience is here: https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1780962 - inspiring teams to cultivate an Olympic mindset and get results! Engaging storytelling, combined with team-building activities, make this a memorable and engaging experience.

Lina also serves as a Mentor for the United States Olympic Committee's Athlete Career & Education program, The George Washington School of Business Sports Philanthropy Program, and Ellevate Global Professional Women's Network among others.

Anu Shukla is a serial entrepreneur who founded and exited several software companies Including Fintech loyalty currency company RewardsPay, Mobile adtech and monetization player  Tapjoy, Ecommerce personalization company MyBuys  and early marketing automation pioneer Rubric. Inc. she has successfully exited 2 startups with $600MM enterprise value . She serves as the CEO of RewardsPay and is the Co Founder and Executive Chair of Botco.ai , an emerging player in the application of AI/NLP to enterprise marketing automation use cases. She has over 25 years of experience and is an active angel investor personally supporting and investing in women and minority lead enterprises. She serves on several non profit boards and has experience in SaaS, Adtech and Martech product companies. She is a graduate from  St. Stephen’s College (BA) and Youngstown State University,  where she received an MBA and a Doctorate (Honorary).

Louis Spagnuolo is a serial entrepreneur and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Don't Look Media LLC, a highly recognized privately held Internet Monetization Company.  During his career Louis Spagnuolo has worked with Professional Athletes, Entertainers, National Business Leaders, Heads of State and countless genuinely fantastic people, while sharing in the financial dreams of all his clients to the tune of over $884 Million Dollars in deal participations.  Louis Spagnuolo has been recognized in over 278 major media publications such as Forbes Magazine, The South Florida Business Journal, The Palm Beach Post, The Sun-Sentinel, South Florida Business Leader Magazine, Fox Business News, BankRate.com, South Florida Opulence and The Associated Press. Louis Spagnuolo is a nationally sought after expert in Internet Monetization, with an emphasis on asset acquisitions that can be leveraged to generate liquidity events.  Louis Spagnuolo is a graduate of the University of Miami, where he earned a degree in Finance and previously held a recognized tenure at both The Royal Bank of Canada as well as two Venture Capital companies before becoming an Internet Entrepreneur.

Jeff Sweetman is Founder and CEO of Franchise Makeovers LLC. Jeff is a seasoned executive in the franchising industry with over three decades of operational and leadership experience across different types of franchising concepts. Steve now helps fast-growing franchises and franchises seeking to reach their new phase of growth.

Fabricio F. Costa has a Bachelor’s in Science, a Ph.D. in Genomics, a Post-Doctoral Degree in Molecular Genetics from Harvard University and an MBA from Startup Health Academy in the USA. He has contributed extensively to academic research with more than ninety peer-reviewed articles and three patents worldwide. In addition, Fabricio has more than 20 years of experience in top academic labs and companies such as Harvard University, University of Chicago, Startup Health Academy, Singularity University, Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (Ventures, Higher Education and Startups), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and others. Fabricio is also a serial entrepreneur (co-founded and founded four startups; two were successfully sold). Finally, Fabricio is a data science and technology leader known for successfully identifying and developing revenue producing opportunities in the technology, life sciences and drug development markets.

Connect with Fabricio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabriciofcosta/

Neil Newcomb, CEO of Franchising for Kelly's Roast Beef joins us. 

More info: KellysRoastBeef.com

Connect with Neil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-newcomb-5171688/

Interview with Xeniapp CEO Sachin Narode and COO Rachel Obenshain.

Visit Their Company: Xeniapp.com

Connect with Sachin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachinnarode/

Connect with Rachel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-spector-obenshain-5692a8/