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| Rahna Barthelmess |
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For over 20 years, Rahna Barthelmess has passionately built some of the world’s beloved brands and shared her expertise and branding programs with over 2000 people in a variety of industries.
From her work in a top NYC advertising agency to the international conference rooms of a leading toy company, she has turned branding into business for a variety of leading brands, most notably LEGO®, Toys, Miracle-Gro® Plant Food, and Texaco® Gasolines.
As Chief Marketing Strategist and President of Beacon Marketing Group, Rahna understands how to translate classic marketing ideas into practical “how-to’s” that
audiences can immediately apply to their own business lives. Rahna pulls from real-life experiences—lessons learned from some of the marketing greats over the past two decades. During these sessions, audiences will discover that marketing is fun; her conversational style and her infectious enthusiasm for branding inspires audiences to action. |
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| Margo Davis-Hollander |
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Margo is an ontological life-coach who brings a wealth of skills, knowledge, sensitivity and energy to individuals, groups and organizations seeking positive change. She also offers life-enhancing workshops on challenging issues ranging from chronic illness and communication for couples, to major life transitions and other compelling topics. She has also developed Radical Self Care ™, an approach to life and work that supports individuals to become proactive and intentional leaders in both personal and professional domains. Viewing herself as a soul midwife, Margo works with clients to open doors to life’s richness, depth and sense of greater purpose and possibility.
An educator, counselor, facilitator and artist for more than 20 years, Margo holds a BA in counseling and art from Burlington College in Vermont and has completed post-graduate work through the Ontological Life Coaching Program.
With her professional and life partner, Lawrence Davis-Hollander, they have formed a practice called Dynamic Change that is bringing forth a bold new form of coaching. |
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| Yota Schneider |
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Yota Schneider, a professional life coach, works with small business owners, executives, consultants and practitioners to help them clarify their niche, expand their client base and develop the strategies that will boost their confidence and profitability while building a business and career that fully expresses their convictions and purpose.
Yota is a graduate of Coach U's Coach Training Program, a certified Seasons of Change Coach, and a licensed facilitator for Purpose Clarity and Niche Clarity. Her coaching services include one-on-one sessions, workshops, and teleclasses.
During her eleven years in the cosmetic industry, Yota became the leading account executive for the Estee Lauder Corporation, Clinique division, in Connecticut and was responsible for sales management, marketing plan implementation and development. She supervised a sales staff of 120 with a focus on sales, customer service and business management. Yota has delivered workshops and presentations on a variety of topics for many companies and organizations including Ameriprise Financial; Masonicare; the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Mid-Hudson Personnel Association. |
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| Liz Trendowski |
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Liz Trendowski, a dynamic award winning speaker and educator began her career in the hospitality industry while working her way through college as a bartender, then manager of restaurants and hotels. She successfully opened thirteen bartending schools and created the national alcohol server-training program S.M.A.R.T. (Servers & Managers Alcohol Responsibility Training). Liz held the position of the only female CEO of a liquor wholesaling company, a role that landed her on the cover of an industry magazine. Upon the sale of her companies she began two distinctly different careers, one as a professional speaker and the other as a liquor liability expert working with Robson Forensic. Currently Liz’s speaking engagements are winning awards around the region and attorneys across the country seek her expert testimony in liquor liability lawsuits.
Ms. Trendowski also wrote, “From Butterflies To Speaking Highs” Six Steps To Go From Nerves You Feel to Nerves Of Steel published in 2007.
Liz is presently competing for the prestigious World Championship of Public Speaking award. With over twenty years of experience working with various corporations and industries, her practical, no-nonsense approach to mastering business communication brings immediate positive results |
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