Tamara Littleton is the CEO and Founder of UK-based The Social Element and Polpeo. An instrumental player in the launch of the BBC’s digital offering, Tamara recognized the potential of social media engagement for brands, and then launched The Social Element in 2002, before the explosion of social media. She started with a £10,000 ($17,300 CDN) […]
Javed Khan’s company, EMpression: A Marketing Services Company, works with highly motivated entrepreneurs and organizations, with an aim to help them “breathe innovative ideas and long-term vision into their business marketing plans.” With two decades of experience in marketing, brand and communications, Khan has worked with many top level financial services firms, including Trimark Investments […]
Colin Sprake is an author, speaker, and business coach. A highly sought after keynote speaker and trainer, Colin teaches that success is attainable in both family and business without sacrificing one for the other. A serial entrepreneur with decades of experience building multiple million dollar businesses globally, in various industries and economies, Colin founded Make […]
Is the rise of artificial intelligence profoundly changing what it means to work? AI is all around us, and its applications run from the mundane to the fantastic. But many are questioning the growing symbiosis between machines and humans. As machines begin to manage more of our professional lives, are we at risk of losing […]
Opening a shop is easy but keeping it open is hard. If you’re an entrepreneur you can relate to my situation. I was about to lose all hope. My second venture failed massively. Sometimes, failure gives us a new perspective. And that is what got me going on my third venture. I sat down in […]
CJ Johnson is the CEO and co-founder, with Ambar Januel, of LA-based Januel+Johnson (J+J). He helps brands get “kick-ass with awareness.” After successful ventures in consulting and marketing/publicity for several on-demand mobile apps and startups, he went on to pursue his entrepreneurial passion by creating J+J. He has overseen creative campaigns and consultations for more than […]
Recently featured in Forbes, Tsufit is the author of award-winning book Step Into the Spotlight!: A Guide to Getting Noticed. Tsufit is a former lawyer who has been described by the Toronto Star as “a starburst of energy― bright bubbly and upbeat” and by Publisher’s Weekly as a “coaching dynamo”. Her book has been endorsed […]
Camilita Nuttall is an award winning corporate sales and business growth specialist, business mentor, entrepreneur and investor. She has keynoted in some two dozen countries. Nuttall launched two successful businesses in network marketing, and sold millions of dollars in global coffee sales with Organo. Mentioned in Forbes, BBC News, and quoted in Think & Grow […]
Joe Mimran, best known for launching the Club Monaco and Joe Fresh brands, has been a judge for three seasons on the CBC reality television series Dragons’ Den. After working in his family-run dressmaking business, Mimran and brother Saul hired designer Alfred Sung in 1981, and launched a line of apparel, fragrances, eyewear, homeware and […]
Top ten answers on the board – here’s the question: what’s Gene Simmons most famous for? Indeed, there’d be ten answers on the board, depending on who you ask: forming the rock band KISS, two reality TV shows (Gene Simmons Family Jewels; Celebrity Apprentice), a film actor, an author of seven books, being a merchandizing […]
Michael Hyatt co-built two incredibly successful tech firms, sold them, and became a self-made millionaire in the process. Up until recently, Hyatt was founder and Executive Chairman of BlueCat, one of the largest private software companies in Canada, until its sale for $400 million to US private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners LLC. About a thousand large corporate […]
Ken Klein is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Tintri, a leader in enterprise cloud. A software industry veteran with over 25 years of experience, he was previously Chairman, CEO, and President of Wind River where he was responsible for the management of 1,900 employees and nearly $400 million in revenue. Before that, Ken served […]
Stephen Kelly became Chief Executive Officer of Sage, the UK-based accounting software giant, in November 2014. He has over 30 years of leadership experience in the technology sector, having led successful businesses in California, New York and Europe. Kelly served as Chief Executive Officer of two high growth US and UK public companies: NASDAQ listed […]
Samantha Stone, author of Unleash Possible, is a revenue catalyst who helps unleash the possible in organizations that have complex selling processes. She’s a fast-growth, B2B marketing junkie, speaker, consultant and persona coach who has also managed to find time to raise four boys with her husband, David. Throughout her career she has launched go-to-market […]
There are some 206 thousand books on “leadership” listed on Amazon, according to Ed Kless, and he says half of them are “wrong.” “Leadership is broken and needs to be healed because it is focused on the wrong thing,” he insisted. Kless, the Senior Director of Partner Development and Strategy of the Verasage Institute in […]
Jason Meugniot was at ground zero in Silicon Beach as ecommerce first emerged. Today, as owner and CEO of Guidance, he’ll celebrate 24 years at the helm of the North American leader of omni-channel commerce solutions. He is the driving force behind Guidance’s corporate strategy, an unequaled track record in the industry. In 2017, he […]
Justin Hartzman is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of needls. In 2005, Hartzman and his co-founders created We Sell Your Site. Having identified the gap in the middle market, boutique M&A space, WSYS became the de facto agency to sell, acquire, or sell funding for web businesses in the $1million to $50 million price […]
Pekka Koskinen is a well-known fixture in Finland’s tech ecosystem. He founded Leadfeeder, the company where he currently serves as CEO, to be a robust web analytics tool for sales intelligence, and the web app has been growing rapidly since its launch in 2012. In the process, Koskinen’s thoughts on using web traffic data to […]
Alex Solomon, 44, is the co-president of Net@Work, which for two decades, has helped clients of all sizes across an array of industries understand and implement technology solutions that improve business processes, and helps them grow. Net@Work has grown into one of North America’s largest consultants and integrators of IT and business management software. Thus far, […]
Becoming an entrepreneur is difficult. Every step of the way comes with significant road blocks and another avenue for failure. Devising a business plan is grueling and securing funding is even more demanding. It’s no surprise that nine out of ten startups fail. That’s an intimidating failure rate that turns away many potential entrepreneurs. If […]
