Max Shapiro | Youngest NBA Scout in History, How Tech is Disrupting the Labor Force
Max Shapiro is the Founder of PeopleConnect Staffing, which helps early stage tech companies to find quality talent. Max is also the founder of Pitch Force, a weekly event in San Francisco and Silicon Valley that gives startup founders and CEOs a platform to network with panels of venture capitalists and angel investors. Max also has the distinction of being the youngest talent scout in the history of the NBA and chief scout for the Phoenix Suns.
Jo Riley | From the FBI, to Celebrity CEO Rise & Fall, and Eliminating Bias in Recruiting
Jo Riley is an entrepreneur and investor, and Co-Founder and CEO of Censia, which helps organizations and companies to recruit talent more efficiently. She was also the CEO and Co-Founder of 1-Page, a SAAS solution provider which was also in the talent acquisition sector.
David Meerman Scott | Turning Fans into Customers, John Mayer, and Lessons from the Grateful Dead
David Meerman Scott is an internationally acclaimed business strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies and public speaker. David is also the Wall Street Journal best selling author of 10 previous books, including the New Rules of Marketing and PR, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, and more.
Jeff Dudan | How to Turn a Hurricane into an Opportunity and Scaling Up to 200 Franchisees
Jeff Dudan is the Franchise Executive for Dudan Partners, and the Founder and former CEO of AdvantaClean. Originally started as a painting business, AdvantaClean became a cleanup company in the wake of a devastating hurricane in South Florida. Jeff is also an author and member of YPO.
Dave Will | Building, Scaling And Exiting a Learning Platform Software Company
Dave Will is the Co-Founder and CEO of PropFuel, a cloud-based SAS software platform what is designed to get a company’s team focused on the growth of an organization or business. Dave is also the host of the EO 360° Podcast, a podcast by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization that explores entrepreneurship. Dave also started, scaled, and sold Peach New Media, a learning platform software company.
Charlie Gilkey | How to Start Finishing More Projects
Charlie Gilkey is the Founder of Productive Flourishing, a consulting company based in Portland, Oregon, which helps creatives, entrepreneurs, and leaders to start finishing projects. Charlie is also a speaker and the author of Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done. The goal for Charlie and his company is to help people and businesses focus on what matters so that they can finish what they started.
Anthony Vidergauz | Immigrant Turns $5,000 into $300M/year Business – with Former CEO of California Closets
Anthony Vidergauz is CEO of The Paradise Group, which advises franchises in their operations, leadership development, and mentoring. He is also the former Owner and CEO of California Closets, a company he turned around from a failing business to one that had over $300 million in revenue franchise-wide.
Sean Magennis | President & COO of YPO
Sean Magennis is the President and COO of YPO, which is a global community of more than 27,000 CEOs, presidents, executives, entrepreneurs who come from a rich assortment of industries from 138 countries.
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