DeLores Pressley

Motivational Speaker, Personal Power Expert, and Author

DeLores Pressley is one of the most respected and sought-after experts on success, motivation, confidence and personal power.  She is an international keynote speaker, author, life coach and the Founder of the Born Successful Institute and of DeLores Pressley Worldwide. She helps individuals use personal power to live their ideal life, increase confidence and lead a life of significance. Her story has been touted in Glamour, Washington Post, Black Enterprise, Success, Essence, New York Daily News, Ebony and Marie Claire. She is a frequent media guest and has been interviewed on every major network: (ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX) including America’s top rated shows; OPRAH and Entertainment Tonight.

DeLores has spoken to 107,000 people in over 65 major cities and countries. She is the author of Clean Out the Closet of Your Life and Believe in the Power of You. She has received many awards and recognitions for her work. She produces Speak for Hire, an educational program teaching entrepreneurs, speakers and coaches how to speak and grow their business. The DeLores Pressley Show can be heard on LA Talk Radio http://latalkradio.com/Delores.php Her website is http://www.DeLoresPressley.com

At this conference, DeLores will be delivering a really powerful presentation!

Believe in the Power of You: Leveraging Your Personal Strengths

L DENISE JACKSON

Founder of The Professional Green Network

L. Denise Jackson, founder of the Professional Green Network, published author, speaker, and trainer, was born to leave a legacy of more than hard work and resilience.  The daughter of a Negro League baseball player, succeeding through challenging situations was definitely passed down through the genes.  L. Denise is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned business development professional of more than 15 years through her consulting firm LDJ Solutions, LLC.  While serving as the Regional Director for Women for Success, based out of Hawaii. she published and produced over $10 billion dollars of winning proposals and has set an unprecedented level of quality for documents and proposals alike.  As the economy changed, L. Denise changed with it.

Due to medical illnesses, L. Denise began to see a naturopath physician in 2003 and her life began to change to become healthy from the inside out.  That which could be considered a devastation turned into an opportunity.  Her interest grew and she kept her finger on the pulse and began researching and studying.  In the wake of the nation’s environmental awareness, she knew there was something she could do to give back to her community, leave a legacy, and help train others to help her with the mission at hand.  After many classes, courses, and certifications, L. Denise is a Certified Green Consultant and Sustainability Officer with experience in indoor air quality, mold issues, and ”real” green cleaning products for just about anything.  In 2008, she founded the Professional Green Network.  A place to receive online green and sustainability training.

The mission for the Professional Green Network is to be an affordable source to help you discover, live, and be green in your home and business.  It was created to educate, inform, support, and train those who want to learn about green, become more eco-friendly, and experience various green opportunities that can serve you and your audience economically and with a commitment that respect the environment.

L. Denise received her education from the University of Maryland, University College and American University.  She has affiliations and memberships with American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), American Home Inspectors Training (AHIT) Institute, Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP), The United States Green Building Council, (USGBC), Environmental Solutions Association (ESA), National Association of Certified Home Inspectors (NACHI), The Spencer Institute, Professional Women Network (PWN), Woman International Networking (W.I.N.), and Wine Society Education and Trust, and many others.

The New Jersey native lives in Washington, DC enjoys reading and writing to edify her soul and the life of others, traveling to Hawaii, and spending time with family and close friends.

Edward Foxworth III

The Six Routines of Self-Discovery

Edward Foxworth III has worked as a community service director in some of Charlotte, North Carolina’s poorest neighborhoods and Detroit’s toughest communities. As a Keynote Speaker, he encourages Americans to work harder at self-sufficiency.

His first book is entitled “It’s Just Dominos”. His newest book, “The Six Routines of Self-Discovery,” encourages people to explore within, in an attempt to advance their life.

Mr. Foxworth holds a Master’s in Business Administration and can be reached at efoxworth3@hotmail.com.

Edward Foxworth will present The Six Routines of Self-Discovery, which is a journey within, a self-analysis of all that we have become and everything that we desire to be. It is a clearer explanation of our environments, acquaintances, experiences and impressions that have shaped us to this point. So as you plan for an extraordinary life, exploring within in an effort to advance your life, The Six Routines of Self-Discovery is a session you don’t want to miss!

Gerald Higgingbotham

The Pathway To Abundance & Prosperity

What Is Abundance & Prosperity

Why Abundance & Prosperity

Who Should Have Abundance & Prosperity

Where Is The Abundance & Prosperity

When To Acquire Abundance & Prosperity

How To Acquire Abundance & Prosperity

Jan  Malloch

The Master of Positive Achievement

An advocate of Positive Psychology, Jan specializes in encouraging people to learn to adopt a much more positive attitude, and to achieve what they desire in life.  She is an inspirational author and speaker, and has written numerous articles on Positive Thinking and Achievement.  Her book, “The Positive Achiever – 11 Essentials to Achieve the Success You Deserve” is her first book.

Jan is a Master Practitioner of NLP, which has given her the necessary skills and tools to help others to make remarkable changes in their business and personal lives.  She creates digital training courses and workshops to promote her “DESIRE” Model of Achievement. Her mission in life is to help people to be positive achievers so that they may forge ahead and achieve true success and happiness in their lives.

Jan lives just outside Edinburgh in Scotland with her husband and 2 children.  Learn more about Jan by visiting her website http://PowerPositiveNow.com

Jennifer Sertl

President of Agility3R

Jennifer Sertl is President of Agility3R, an organizational effectiveness company, whose primary objective is aligning strategy and people to create customer value. Jennifer brings twelve years of management level experience where she has supported significant paradigm shifts in both the telecommunications and health care industries. Her expertise lies in the coordination of executive leadership, shareholder responsibility, and employee engagement.

Her most notable client has been public ally traded Genesee and Wyoming Inc. the fastest going transportation company in the NYSE. Other clients include Optimax Systems Inc., Zotos International, Global Crossings, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Frontier Communications, Landsman Development Company, Tabtronics, and twenty-seven Rochester based small businesses.

In addition, Jennifer has been very involved with economic development by supporting growth strategies of small companies in an international peer-to-peer learning environment.  For five years she ran an operated three C-level think tanks. She runs a business simulation strategy game called Interplay that facilitates awareness and accountability for intangible assets and human capital.

Jennifer’s book Strategy, Leadership and the Soul will be out February 2010. Jennifer is actively involved in her community and serves on several boards and holds two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder.

She lives in Rochester, New York with her husband and three children.

Jim Nemley

“If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”

Jim is into Attitude Adjustment. He feels that it is important to change the mind of the individual in order to affect different results, especially in the case of business owners. For more than 25 years Jim has put entrepreneurs and business owners on the right track to success. As Chief Coach of The Better Business Builders, he believes in motivating, training, educating and getting to those “reticular activators” that shape both behavior and action.

Prior to co-founding The Better Business Builders, Jim served as the Director of Small Business Consulting Services for a regional community development company on Long Island. In that capacity, Jim was responsible for providing business planning and training to new and established businesses on Long Island, New York. He focused on Succession Planning, Market Planning, Cash Flow Planning and Operations Planning. Jim was also responsible for maintaining their loan portfolio. Jim also served as the Commissioner of General Services for the Town of Babylon where he oversaw the planning and completion of two National Blue Ribbon Award winning Urban Renewal Projects.

Jim is a Licensed Professional Business Coach with the Professional Business Coaches Alliance, Inc. He is also a Certified Business Planning Trainer, a Certified Financial Literacy Trainer, Certified Marketing Administrator and Certified Facilitator for the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation’s FastTrac Programs. He is also a Certified Economic Development Professional. Jim served on the faculty of C.W. Post, Long Island University, as a business planning trainer and Co-Coordinator of Corporate Training. He currently serves on the business advisory board of the Katharine Gibbs School. Jim hosts a weekly international radio show called Building Your Extraordinary Business which can be heard every Wednesday on Blogtalk Radio http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Nemley. He’s a motivational speaker and is working in his first book, “From SOHO to So Good – How To Build An Extraordinary Business!”

Jim is also an Ordained Minister and is married and has six children.

About The Better Business Builders, LLC.

COACHING, TRAINING, PLANNING The Better Business Builders is your team of Coaches, Trainers and Planners with more than 70 years of combined experience in Business, Banking and Finance. We employ more than 300 tools in the areas of Marketing, Sales, Management and Finance. Proven tools that give our clients measurable results.

The following are the areas that we will concentrate on to move your business to where you want it to be. Each area is critical to the success of your business – whether your goals are to make more money, concentrate on the systemization of your business, or prepare your business for either sale, or the transition to future generations. While you may not face all of these challenges, the vast majority of business owners that we speak with face them on a daily basis. If you do not feel challenged in any of these areas, either you have perfected your systems – or you are ignoring areas of HUGE possible growth. If the former is the case – congratulations!!! If the latter is the case, please do yourself, your family, and your staff the favor of improving in that area. The results can be dramatic.

There are three key areas that business owners scream “HELP ME!!!” on a regular basis: • Profitability • Human Resources • Lack of Free Time These three areas are all specifically addressed when you work with us. We will help you develop systems in each of these areas to ensure that you have: ever-increasing revenues and profits, a motivated and well-trained staff, and more free time to spend with your family and your hobbies – by owning a business that runs without you. Please note: we are not one of those fancy consultants who do a report that ends up on your shelf, or make a speech to get you excited for a couple of days and subsequently leave you stranded. If you choose our most popular program (the coaching program), we will meet with you on a regular basis (either weekly or semi-monthly) for a minimum of 12-18 months to teach you some great business strategies, brainstorm with you, prepare specific strategies to move you forward, hold you accountable, and move you to where you want and need to be. We become a part of your team and your success becomes a part of our life and our passion.

Ritchie Donald

Mr. Ritchie Donald was born in Grenada, West Indies.

He migrated to The United States of America in 1978 and worked in various low paying jobs – trying to lay down a root on American soil.  He remembers laboring as a factory worker, a retail store clerk, a shipping assistant and even as a livery car driver.  He jokes, but thinks it may be true, that it was he and his friend, Neville, who started “dollar cab” service in Brooklyn.

In 1991, after being terminated from his employment as a sales executive, he formed Simply Forms and Computers, Inc.  His office space was a garage room and his desk was a toy pool table. With a business certificate in his hand, his home phone, a kitchen chair, an empty bank account but an abundance of energy and a driven desire to succeed, he ventured out into Corporate America.  The words of his lawyer, “this is the most powerful thing you have just done,” still echo in his ears. Today, as president of the corporation, he can claim that his company has risen from the basement of a house to the international arena – doing business across America, Canada, Jamaica, Trinidad, Aruba, St. Croix, St. Thomas, The Cayman Islands, Grenada and Israel.

His company is a Certified Minority Business with the State and City of New York.

Mr. Donald is a graduate of New York City College of Technology (AA – Accounting), Bernard Baruch College (BBA -Accounting), and Long Island University (MBA-Finance).

His other passions involve investing in real estate and the stock market.

At present, he lives in New York with his wife, Racquel and their daughter, Kassidy.  He is also very proud of his son, Farrel, who is an attorney at law.

He attributes whatever success he achieved to divine blessings, hard work, steadfast dedication and a few “breaks” along the way.

Mr. Donald can be contacted at rtchdonald@yahoo.com

Shandel Pitts

Shandel Pitts is a print designer with over 10 years experience in the industry. After working for Niles Communications Group for a number of years, she was empowered to go back out on her own with her company, Black Cat Design.

There she creates fresh designs: logos, brochures, marketing materials, posters, banners, etc. for various non-profits and for profits organizations through-out New York City.

Talayah Stovall

Author, Speaker and Life Purpose Coach

Talayah G. Stovall, President of TGrace, is an author, speaker and life purpose coach. She is committed to helping people improve their personal power and maximize their potential in order to achieve their individual and professional goals. She uses the spoken and written word to inspire people to utilize their own God-given abilities to reenergize their lives. She uses assessment and coaching tools to assist people in finding the career that is the best fit for their gifts, aptitudes, personality and interests. Talayah speaks and conducts workshops on the subjects of personal empowerment, relationships (both romantic and professional), presentation skills and small business marketing.

After obtaining an undergraduate degree in Business Administration with a Management concentration from Chicago State University, and a Master of Business Administration degree in Marketing from the University of Michigan, she spent 16 years in the banking industry.

While she found her corporate career to be fulfilling, her lifelong passion for writing and speaking has led her to complete her first book, Crossing the Threshold: Opening Your Door to Successful Relationships.  She also has an eBook: 150 Important Questions You Should Ask Before You Say “I Do.” She is currently working on her second book, Light Bulb Moments: Seeing God in Every Day Circumstances.

Talayah wears other hats as well. She is an adjunct instructor at Columbia College, where she teaches Public Speaking and is a freelance magazine columnist. She is a member of Toastmasters International (CTM) and a lifetime member of the National Black MBA Association. Talayah is on the Board of the Chicago Youth Centers – Rebecca Crown Center, and a member of the Trustee Board of the Vernon Park Church of God. She was in the 2004 class of Leadership Illinois and was a teen mentor for the Junior League of Chicago’s Next Step Program.

Talayah has been recognized in the 2007 – 2008 Emerald Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals, has twice appeared in Ebony Magazine and has twice been recognized in “Outstanding Young Women of America.” She is a native and current resident of Chicago, Illinois.

Theo Mills

Rev.Dr Theo.Archi.Mills is the president of the Restoration Outreach Ministries – a non-profit Christian organization in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Rev. Mills was born and raised in Ghana, West Africa. As a child, he told his family and friends about how he wanted a world where there is neither darkness nor night. His passion was to see everyone happy. No hunger, litigation, fights, sickness, poverty or death. He also wished to see everyone at peace with each other.

Between the ages of 8 and 9, his mother and great grand aunt who raised him, explained to him that, one day those who are in Christ Jesus will live in the world he has desired to see.

In 1983 the Lord called him into the ministry with the message of Restoration and Reconciliation. During the preparative stages of his ministry, he served in different capacities under various ministries. He was very instrumental in the raising and training of many praise teams and choirs. He organized school of worship, worship conferences and seminars.

In 1985, Rev. Mills attended the Full Gospel Bible College Tema-Ghana. In 1998 he furthered his ministerial studies at Malachi Institute of Caleb International where he read human dynamics, theology, management and communication.

In June 2000 God brought him to the United States for the next level of his ministry. Between 2000 and 2007, through an encounter with God, men (both godly and ungodly) and situations (both good and bad), his ministry has tremendously changed, which also gave birth to the Restoration Outreach Ministries.

Rev. Mills is currently the senior Pastor of Restoration Family Chapel (the church wing of the ministry).Dr Mills also runs the DISCOVER to RECOVER seminars through Mills Ministry (the teaching wing of the ministry).Discover to Recover is designed for leadership development and empowerment. Managers, Pastors Business Executives, Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs have benefited from his lectures. Amongst them are Mr. Jay Walia, CEO of Accounting Solution, a reputable and leading Accounting firm in Worcester , MA and Directors and Managers of Word of Life Outreach Inc. of Cape Fear Wilmington, NC just to name a few.

He is also the Executive Director of the Destiny Centre Int. Project (a charity wing of the ministry) which is presently undertaking almost a million dollar project in Africa.  Destiny Builders Inc., an organization committed to talent enhancement is also under the Presidency of Dr Mills.