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Keynote Speakers

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Nicole Denise Brand Intelligence Strategist & CEO, CoAgency

Nicole Denise Phillip is a Brand Intelligence Strategist and founder of CoAgency, where she helps coaches, consultants, and online service experts turn clarity into consistent conversion. Through her Intelligence Pillars framework — Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Capital Intelligence, and Well-Being Intelligence — ...

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Jason William Johnson Entrepreneur, AI Educator & Economic Development Leader

Dr. Jason William Johnson is the AI Translator for the Nerds, the Leaders, and the Culture. He blends research, business strategy, and cultural fluency to help organizations, institutions, and Main Street businesses thrive in the age of AI. With a PhD in Organizational Leadership, a Master's in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and...

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Jason Wilson Program Manager, Lenovo

Jason Wilson is a Program Manager at Lenovo, where he leads initiatives focused on AI PC adoption, Windows 11 transformation, and strategic partner execution—working closely with Microsoft and global ecosystem partners. With 15+ years of experience spanning sales, partner management, SaaS, and technology enablem...

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Workshop Speakers

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Braxton Fleming CEO, Stealth Bros & Co. and Shark Tank Success Story

Braxton T. Fleming is the founder and CEO of Stealth Bros & Co., a pioneering brand that designs discreet medical storage solutions for individuals managing ongoing medical needs. His company gained national recognit...

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Juan Salinas CEO, Perfect Life Nutrition & Shark Tank Success Story

Dr. Juan Salinas is the founder and CEO of Perfect Life Nutrition Inc, the manufacturer of P-nuff Crunch Snacks, a Navy Bean and Peanut-based protein puff snack. A native of Honduras and now a resident of New Jersey, he ...

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Laura Anaya brings more than a decade of experience in workforce development, employer engagement, and program leadership to NSITE. In her role, she leads employer services, growing pipelines of job and internship/appren...

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Maurice Crittendon is a workforce and talent acquisition professional with over 15 years of experience in recruiting, workforce development, and accessible program operations. A blind professional, he brings both lived i...

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Ozlem Aydin Internal Revenue Service

Ozlem Aydin began her IRS career more than 20 years ago as a Revenue Officer and spent a decade in Services Enforcement, including serving as a Supervisory Revenue Officer. She later transitioned to the Human Capital Off...

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Jackie Bsharah Novus Global

Dr. Jackie Bsharah is an executive coach at Novus Global, working with leaders to close the gap between who they are today and the results they are committed to creating. She partners with senior executives and entrepren...

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Mike Park Novus Global

Mike Park is a Partner and executive coach at Novus Global, where he coaches C-suite executives, senior leadership teams, and professional athletes competing at the highest levels of performance. With over 20 years of l...

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Emanuel Castañeda EasyDeploy AI

Emanuel Castañeda is the Founder and CEO of EasyDeploy AI, a machine learning platform built to give small and mid-sized businesses access to the same predictive tools that have quietly powered Fortune 500 decisions for...

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Nicaela Chinnaswamy Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program

As the Director of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, Nicaela manages the team at ICIC and the program nationally to recruit over 7,000 diverse and under-resourced small business owners from around the country every ...

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Emaan Nadeem Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program

Emaan Nadeem serves as the Outreach and Recruitment Coordinator for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program at ICIC. In her role, Emaan leads strategic engagement initiatives to identify and recruit high-potent...

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Nicole Denise Brand Intelligence Strategist & CEO, CoAgency

Nicole Denise Phillip is a Brand Intelligence Strategist and founder of CoAgency, where she helps coaches, consultants, and online service experts turn clarity into consistent conversion. Through her Intelligence Pill...

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Tushneem Dharmagadda is the CEO of HubEngage, a unified workforce experience platform that helps organizations connect, inform, engage, and manage employees through a single, easy-to-use digital hub. He works closely ...

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Dave Garcia is a seasoned operator who has spent nearly two decades building and transforming businesses at the intersection of strategy, product, and experience. As former CEO of New Stand, he led the company through a ...

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Mark Newhouse is a transformation leader who has spent his career helping organizations invent, build, and scale what’s next. As a founder and former President and COO of sparks & honey, he has led major innovation...

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Jian Yang is a strategic finance leader known for turning complexity into clarity and momentum. With over 20 years of experience as a CFO, operator, and advisor, he has helped scale high-growth companies through critical...

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Kenneth Goldberg MCG Managed Resources

Kenneth is the President and Owner of MCG Managed Resources, a white glove Managed Services provider located in New York City. He has led the firm for 25 years, partnering with many accounting, apparel, distribution and ...

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Greyson Shambaugh MCG Managed Resources

Greyson Shambaugh is a Technical Account Manager who partners with organizations to operationalize their security programs, maximize the value of the Huntress platform, and drive measurable outcomes. He brings a diverse ...

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Steve Gordon Million Dollar Author

Steve Gordon is the founder of Million Dollar Author, where he and his team help ambitious entrepreneurs get more credibility, land more clients, and create “category of one” positioning using a bestselling book in 9...

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Jennifer Hammers PressRelease.com

Jennifer Hammers is the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ACCESS Newswire (pressrelease.com), where she leads revenue strategy, brand growth, and go-to-market execution. With deep expertise in B2B market...

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Joseph Hastreiter EWH University for Small Business

Joseph Hastreiter is the owner of EWH University, helping business owners build more profitable and successful businesses. After training thousands of entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders, he provides tools, train...

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Natalie Hirsch knows small business from the inside out. Before joining Amazon, she founded and ran two small businesses where she wore every hat from sales and marketing to operations and accounting. She was also employ...

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Linda Hollander Sponsor Concierge

Linda Hollander has been featured by Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazines as the leading expert on corporate sponsorship. She is the author of the book, Corporate Sponsorship in 3 Easy Steps: Get Funding from Sponsors, Even i...

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Riley Hoogendoorn Hoagy Marketing

Riley Hoogendoorn founded Hoagy Marketing after a long journey of working with large and small companies to grow their revenues to new heights through powerful digital marketing tactics, such as search engine optimizatio...

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Hanzala Inayat TDCcommerce.com

With over 20 years of experience in eCommerce and business technology, I have helped build and scale digital commerce operations from the ground up. As the CTO of Medicaleshop.com, I experienced firsthand the challenges ...

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Marie Incontrera Bestseller in a Weekend

Marie Incontrera is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of multiple ventures, including Bestseller in a Weekend®, Incontrera Consulting, and the Growth Speak Agency. She helps thought leaders, founders, and executives amplify...

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Jason William Johnson Entrepreneur, AI Educator & Economic Development Leader

Dr. Jason William Johnson is the AI Translator for the Nerds, the Leaders, and the Culture. He blends research, business strategy, and cultural fluency to help organizations, institutions, and Main Street businesses thri...

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Raja Marimuthu OneData Software Solutions

Raja Marimuthu is a veteran entrepreneur and technologist with over 25 years of experience across IT, Cloud, and Data Architecture. As the Founder and CEO of OneData Software Solutions and OneCare Health, Raja sits at th...

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Samantha Moonsammy Lucky Book Publishing

Samantha is the ultimate community builder and has spent over 20 years in the communications industry lifting people higher and sharing their stories. She works with authors through Lucky Book Publishing’s signature VI...

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Wade Mosier Textellent

Wade Mosier is the Head of Sales at Textellent, where he leads the company’s sales and go-to-market strategy focused on helping businesses improve customer engagement through modern messaging and automation. With an MB...

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Voted as The SBA Minority Small Business Champion of the Year, by The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), City of Houston, “Champion of Diversity” and recipient of the “Certificate of Special Congressional Re...

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John Pohl 14th Floor Solutions

John Pohl has devoted the second half of his highly successful career to helping B2B companies significantly enhance their sales and profit growth and increase their new product success rates. His unique approach to driv...

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Working with the team at Red Argyle, we help Salesforce stakeholders maximize the potential of the platform with a focus on innovative thinking, AI powered solutions, and great teamwork. 28 years of working in Tech. A...

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Christopher Salem Sustainable Success Coaching & Consulting

Chris Salem is a seasoned business acceleration and value proposition strategist known for helping leaders and organizations create compelling messages that resonate deeply with their target audiences. As a professional ...

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As a Senior Acrobat Evangelist at Adobe, Joe Santiago is on a mission to help you master your digital workflow in a way that's both practical and fun. He operates on a simple principle: technology should enhance the way ...

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Allie Schwartz Schwartz Strategies

Allie Schwartz knows LinkedIn and Amazon from the inside out — because she's been in the trenches, sleeves rolled up, building advertising programs that actually work. Over nearly a decade at LinkedIn and four years...

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Andreia Susano Unified Infotech

Andreia Susano is Director of Client Solutions at Unified Infotech, where she leads strategic client engagements and drives the delivery of high-impact digital solutions. With over a decade of experience across fintech, ...

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Ritu Arora Thakur Smart Tech Inc

Ritu Thakur is a seasoned business and technology consultant with over 20 years of experience spanning multiple industries. In 2007, she founded Smart Tech Inc., a firm dedicated to helping small and medium-sized busines...

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Diana Zelvin THRIVE NOW Business Coaching

Diana Zelvin is a business coach, psychotherapist, and speaker who helps ambitious business owners and leaders break through the patterns holding them back and shatter plateaus, by combining real business strategy with o...

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