Meet Our Breakout Session Speakers
Our conference attracts women from across the country – and beyond – and each person is looking for answers to their own situations. Our breakout sessions provide the perfect opportunity for you to choose the topics most relevant to your own life. Led by experts in their field, each session will be packed with techniques and how-tos that you can implement into your life, business or career – now.
Choose from Life Compass Track or Entrepreneur Track
Life Compass Track
These sessions focus on relationships, life balance, career growth and living a purposeful life. Led by experts in their field, the interactive format gives you the chance to get the information you need to create a tangible, implementable action steps.
Entrepreneur Track
Getting the right tools to start or develop your business is critical to getting the success in your business you want – and deserve. Sessions focus on marketing, networking, and foundational strategies to grow a sustainable business in a challenging economy.
Christine Jones
When Christine joined Go Daddy in February 2002, she was a one woman legal team in a company of approximately 50 employees. Now in her 11th year at Go Daddy, Christine’s one woman team has grown to nearly 100 employees, with women making up more than half. Christine has mentored countless young women throughout the years, helping them find the right path for schools and jobs where they can “learn and earn,” as well as become community leaders.
She also regularly interacts with several professional and Arizona organizations to make the Internet and her community a better place for women. Christine has specifically taken a dedicated interest in women attorneys, always finding time to work individually with them on assignments and empowering them to achieve and pursue their lifelong dreams.
Patricia Perkins
Pat is a Leadership Expert, Certified Life Coach and inspirational speaker dedicated to mentoring new, emerging and experienced leaders to advance in their business, career and their life.
Since 2005, Pat E. Perkins has focused on helping leaders design S.M.A.R.T goals, take massive action and obtain sustainable results. Pat specializes in providing coaching and mentoring, facilitated retreats, workshops and trainings and inspirational speaking on the following topics: leadership, communication, executive presence, managing stakeholder satisfaction, team building, and work life balance or integration.
As a native of Chicago, Pat understands smart and hard work, and believes “to whom much is given, much is required”. Bringing over 20 years of corporate experience into her coaching engagements, Pat has a proven track record of achieving results and a unique background in Personal, Professional and Business Development including Team Building and Program Management.
Brandi Mitchell
Brandi Mitchell has fast become regarded as the “image maker” and visual brand strategist for experts and entrepreneurs across the country when they want to take their image to the next level, and establish their brands in their fields. As founder and CEO of Brandi Mitchell Companies LLC and Koris Publishing LLC, she has created a dynamic enterprise that is devoted to empowering people by accelerating their business success and platform through visual branding.
She is a one-stop shop for her clients showing them how to present the very best version of themselves as an extension of their businesses, and equips them to maintain their image daily through techniques, resources, and systems which solidify their platform for years to come. After working with Brandi, her clients have been placed in national magazines, been invited to speak before the audiences they desire, and closed deals more efficiently because Brandi shows them how to visually own their space through their image both in person and online.
Dr. Patty Ann Tublin
Dr. Patty Ann is passionate about her goal of showing couples how to achieve the relationship of their dreams. She’s world renowned as a Relationship Expert and provides advice to couples and relationship experts internationally. It has been her life’s work and desire to help individuals take responsibility for the intimacy and happiness they seek in their personal lives and relationships. Her strategies and techniques are one of a kind and she maintains that relationships can and will improve even if it starts with just one partner making an effort.
With 25 years of professional experience and a successful 25 year marriage with her husband, Dr. Patty Ann has a proven track record helping couples increase romance and happiness in their relationship. She draws upon her own personal challenges and life experiences to help others obtain successful relationships full of love, happiness, intimacy, romance and a sense of purpose.
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Natalie MacNeil
Natalie MacNeil is an Emmy Award-winning Media Producer, influential blogger, and thought leader in the sphere of entrepreneurship and personal branding for women. Natalie is best known as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of SheTakesOnTheWorld.net one of the top blogs in the world for career-minded women and women entrepreneurs.
She Takes on the World has received international attention as one of Forbes’ Ten Best Career Sites for Women and ForbesWoman Top 100 Websites. It is also the 2010 winner of Blog of the Year at the Stevie Awards, dubbed “the Oscar’s of business awards.”
Kathy Wilson
Get Ready to Change! (Really, this time…)
How many times have you said you wanted to change something about yourself, your work, or your life? Change seems to be the buzz word everywhere. But how do you actually bring about lasting personal and professional change? How do you stay motivated to achieve your goals? How do you tap into the power to create the life of your dreams?
Kathy Wilson, a former star collegiate and professional basketball player and coach, is an experienced organizational training facilitator and a leading authority on powerful behavioral change and communication strategies. Balancing the lessons she learned on the court with her knowledge in the areas of leadership coaching and organizational management, Kathy brings a unique perspective on how to create positive change in your personal and professional life. In a day and age when everyone is trying to “make things happen” and “make some changes”, Kathy can give you the tools and strategies to understand just how to do it.
Jessica Eaves Mathews
Jessica Eaves Mathews is America’s Advocate for Women in Business™, business lawyer, published author, speaker, busy CEO and leading authority on helping women entrepreneurs step into their power and create a brilliant business without fear and without undue risk to their assets or hard work.
Jessica is a seasoned business lawyer, advisor and advocate for business owners and entrepreneurs. She is also a multi-passionate entrepreneur herself, having launched a number of successful ventures of her own throughout the past 16 years.
Tonya R. Taylor
Tonya R. Taylor, founder of SavvyBizBuilder.com, empowers business owners with savvy ways to use their website to build a BIG ONLINE PRESENCE that doesn’t suck.
Tonya is known as the “Savvy Online Business Builder” for solo entrepreneurs and small business owners who need more time to focus on running their six figure business and want fast, proven results ensuring potential customers can find them online. She believes without traffic, what’s the point of having a website to begin with!
Tonya created a niche website that quickly became a popular destination for cupcake lovers around the world. Tonya’s goal was to drive cupcake enthusiast traffic to the cupcake website and especially reach out to cupcake bakers to invite them to add their business to the growing international cupcake bakery directory.
Amy Barnes: 2010 RADICAL Woman Award Winner
Amy Barnes is a dynamic motivational speaker, and the Fitness and Marketing Director of Vixen Fitness, a health and wellness company that assists clients in creating and living healthier lifestyles based on their individual health and wellness needs. Fitness professional and mother of two, Amy understands firsthand the challenges of balancing healthy habits with the demands of a busy life, and the struggle to find the time and motivation to get and stay in shape.
Ms. Barnes has a powerful and provocative life story and has become a nation-wide inspiration after being featured on the cover of Oxygen Magazine and the NBC Today Show. Fitness and healthy living was not always a part of Amy’s life. Just four years ago, she weighed in at a mere 490lbs and 52%BMI. As a victim of domestic abuse and at one time living in a shelter, Amy knew that it was time for her to change her life permanently in order to save her life. Raising two very active boys, she knew that they needed her, and they needed her healthy. With sheer perseverance and determination, Amy implemented some revolutionary life changes that enabled her to take control of her life, break the victim cycle, and lose 340lbs without fad diets, surgery or diet pills.
Beth Caldwell: 2011 RADICAL Woman Award Winner
Beth Caldwell owns her own public relations firm in Pittsburgh, PA where she specializes in working with small business owners and women entrepreneurs. She is a “40 under 40” Winner, having been recognized by Pittsburgh Magazine as one of the city of Pittsburghʼs most influential young business leaders.
She has won numerous community and business awards, and is the author of two books “I Wish Iʼd Known That!, Secrets to Success in Business From Women Who’ve Been There” (Inspired Publishing, 2009) and “Inspired Entrepreneurs, A Collection of Female Triumphs in Business and Life”.
