Bobby Glen James is an Accountability Leadership keynote speaker, author, and president of Speakup Professional Speakers Studio. When he has extra time, he builds more businesses – He is a confirmed serial entrepreneur. And He hosts the popular Biz4Good show podcast.
Bobby’s ideas and insights come from more than 20 years of experience as a speaker and business owner. He’s personally been involved in over 20 startups, has hosted hundreds of networking events, and has trained thousands of entrepreneurs and business owners in the United States.
Clay Neves is Vice President and CRO at Universal Accounting Center. He has 34 years of Sales Management experience across a variety of businesses and client sales campaigns.
Clay is a former Chamber of Commerce President and expert in relationship sales. He grew the seminar sales channel by 963% over 4 years leading to an INC 500 award for the company. He has helped thousands throughout the US and Canada start and grow their own small businesses.
Clay has focused on empowering small business owners who do not come from a sales background to be as powerful in attracting, converting, and retaining clients as they are in serving them.
Dano Ybarra
Dano Ybarra – As a senior global executive with 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and 10 years in the information publishing industry, Mr. Ybarra has demonstrated his expertise in start-up, turnaround, general management, sales, marketing, M&A activity, and product positioning.
Mr. Ybarra is also a dynamic international speaker and Best-Selling Author of Guiding Your Raft, 17 Lessons in Leadership to Safely Guide Your Business Through Calm and Tumultuous Waters.
Mr. Ybarra has worked as:
Vice President of International at Jive Communications.
Co-founder of FlowPoint, which was the first to market with DSL routers. General Manager of a worldwide business division of Siemens.
Ron Haycock – Bought his first business in 1974 and have owned several others since then. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and took courses from the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute in Forensic Auditor – Mortgage. He has been a Real Estate investor since 1977 and a licensed Mortgage Broker from 1995 to 2005.
He was an IRS Approved Tax Preparer from 1985 to 2013.
Ron has been involved in the formation of and initial management of over 600 small businesses and is currently Sr. Management Accountant with Pratt and LeFevre Corporation, Management Accountants since 2008. He also owns All West Management Services.
Ron Coleman has been involved in marketing and printing since 1974. In the early 1980’s he developed a tech company and began developing software for companies.
Since 1994 his company, Global Marketing & Website Design, has been developing websites, marketing, and printing for clients around the world.
In January 2000, he began holding monthly focus groups to learn what customers want to see in websites and marketing in general. During the past 20 years, he has held over 200 focus groups with over 2,000 participants.
Tiffany Stuart
Tiffany Stuart is the National Sales Director at Pratt and LeFevre Corporation, Management Accountants.
Tiffany also runs Aeonian Ops which is dedicated to providing innovative marketing solutions to small business owners, entrepreneurs, and startups.
Gary Horsman has worked all over the world. He was in charge of marketing for a major United States Semiconductor manufacturer and stationed in Tokyo, Japan.
Gary has taught many classes. These classes have ranged from technology and software to marketing and sales. He has conducted seminars and taught courses and workshops in Asia, Europe, and North American. He has presented at major corporations and has taught classes to seniors in small Vermont communities.
Today, Gary Horsman helps companies market their products and services. He assists companies to define their target markets and how to differentiate themselves in their ideal markets. Gary is a firm believer in Content Marketing.
Tracy Hazzard is a seasoned media expert with over 2600 interviews from articles in Authority Magazine, BuzzFeed, and her Inc. Magazine column; and from her multiple top-ranked videocasts and podcasts like The Binge Factor and Feed Your Brand – one of CIO’s Top 26 Entrepreneur Podcasts.
Tracy brings diverse views from what works and what doesn’t work in marketing, branding and media from thought leaders and industry icons redefining success around the globe.
Tracy’s unique gift to the podcasting, marketing, and branding world is being able to identify that unique binge-able factor – the thing that makes people come back again and again, listen actively, share as raving fans, and buy everything you have to sell.
Boyd Petersen
Boyd Petersen is a best selling author, trainer, speaker & certified marketing coach and has owned several businesses and has been involved with many chambers, both state and national press associations and loves networking with other business owners. He has taught sales and marketing all over the U.S. For 16 years he owned the community newspapers in the Salt Lake valley and has owned a digital marketing agency since 2006.
Boyd is a powerful presenter on social and digital media, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. He currently owns Big Picture Media, a digital and social media agency.
For over 20 years Scott A Johnson has been a noteworthy leader and advocate for small businesses, being called a modern-day financial Robinhood, legal bank robber, and outlaw.
He started his first business at the age of 22 and currently is the owner, CEO, or on the board of directors of six separate businesses.
His main drive and passion is the financial success of solopreneurs and small businesses by eliminating financial blood loss caused by larger organizations, such as merchant services, credit card companies, and government taxation.
Gary is the President of Rocklin Sales Strategies, a firm dedicated to helping small to mid-sized companies rapidly grow and scale.
Gary has nearly 30 years of sales leadership experience; twenty years with Fortune 100 corporations and a decade helping small to medium-sized companies exceed sales growth and objectives.
His blend of working with large corporations, business start-ups, and mid-sized companies gives him a unique perspective to transform sales organizations and drive revenue growth.
James Carroll
Jim Carroll has been a daredevil all his life. He skydives, dives and swims with sharks, loves to stay on the edge and has owned and sold several businesses.
Jim is a serial entrepreneur and always has a side hustle going, just in case.
Jim recently (15+ years) has been working with SEO and website building. He loves to stay up to the minute with what Google is doing and is known as an expert in the SEO field. He presents often as a trainer to help people understand SEO, websites and landing pages.
Jim is very involved in the community , has two dogs and loves having bears and other critters come hang out at his house.
Lindi Parker is the owner and president of Virtual Accounting Solutions Inc.
She has managed many businesses in many different industries throughout her life and has done accounting work throughout the past 20 years. In 2008 she put myself through college as a single mom and got a degree in business management and accounting. She worked for a large accounting firm for 3.5 years. She learned that her passion was helping business owners throughout the year “before the tax returns” to help them plan and make better business decisions before the end of the year (When it is too late). She left the accounting firm in 2013 and started her own practice to provide professional accounting services up to the point of the tax return.
Lindi developed a passion to teach and coach business owners not only how crucial and important accounting is to their business, but also to have the right systems in place to collect good data! This will ensure clean and accurate financials so business owners can make better business decisions which will decrease taxes, increase profits & maximize cash flow in their business!
What if you could determine who in your audience is your best client in 180 seconds?
Juliet Clark is a dynamic and sought -after speaker and podcaster who has spent the last twenty years helping authors, coaches, speakers, and small businesses all over the world build expert platforms.
Corporate companies, start ups, and author/ speaker incubators world- wide have benefited from Juliet’s unique and massively effective method of mastering lead generation and qualification for expert status.
Juliet created a platform- building tool that assesses audience obstacles, generates leads, and qualifies leads for businesses. This simple technology can be used on social media, from the stage, and at workshops to build email lists and create conversations that build long- term relationships with potential clients. Her podcast, Promote, Profit, Publish, helps entrepreneurs understand how to use great tools in the coaching and small business spaces.
Ron Mayo
Ron Mayo was born in California but has lived in Utah since he was about 4 years old. Ron has been married to his wife Chelsea for 27 years and has 6 children, 4 girls first then 2 boys that came at the end.
During the summer of 1986 Ron worked on a dairy farm in Idaho so between physical labor on the dairy farm and taking care of a bunch of wild and crazy kids he definitely learned how to work hard.
Ron’ got his Real Estate License in 1999. Recently Ron got certified as a Real Estate Continuing Education Instructor.
Ron is passionate about helping Non-Profit Organizations raise funds to help the people they serve. Currently Ron is the President of Pratt and LeFevre Corporation and helps business owners set up their structures to get the best tax advantages and legal protection for their assets.
Roger Knecht
As a strategic business development leader Roger help's business owners establish short & long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies to increase sales, improve profits and build the value of the business. Roger enjoys working with business owners to increase the financial value of the company using proven strategies, processes and procedures to: * Engage & Manifest – Becoming the leader the business needs * Understand Accounting - Timely information to intelligently run the business * Increase Sales - Follow a proven sales process * Improve Profit - Nine Principles for Profitability putting Profit First * Build the Value of the Business - 8 Key Drivers in Business
Andrew Willis
Andrew – often the oldest man in the room – is Director of the Kaysville Small Business Development Center at Davis Technical College and co-owner of Boop Baby, a natural parenting and baby boutique in West Valley City. AW has traveled across the country doing competitive assessments for large companies as well as counseling small businesses in how to stand out from the direct and indirect competition.
