Alissa Crabtree is a former educator with 17 years of experience who now empowers small business owners to grow through the power of speaking. As the founder of Crabtree Coaching Collaborative, she helps entrepreneurs craft compelling content, deliver impactful talks, and position themselves as trusted experts without relying on salesy tactics. Blending educational expertise with speaking strategy, Alissa teaches audiences how to educate, engage, and convert from the stage with confidence and clarity.

Avital Miller, former Microsoft ProgramManager andbest-selling author ofHealing HappensandPractice, inspires people to unlock energy, emotional intelligence, and leadership skills to achieve purposeful results, productivity, and harmonious relationships. For over twenty-five years, she has served thousands worldwide as an award-winning keynote speaker, corporate leadership seminar facilitator, and healing breakthrough expert.

Avital haspresented onprominent stages including The Kennedy Center, KTLA, and Global Workplace Wellness Summit.Healing Happenshas received four awards,including fromTopShelf. She was also recognized as Spring 2026 Dean’s Medalist at Arizona State University forhighestacademic excellence.

She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Major in Dance from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BA and MS in Positive Psychology from Arizona State University.Known for beyond-cutting-edge wisdom, authenticity, and infectious joy, Avital bridges science, spirituality, and strategy to elevate lives and organizations.

Cindy J Holbrook, known as The Visibility Wiz, is a bestselling author, speaker, and business strategist who helps coaches, speakers, and online business owners attract more dream clients without becoming someone they’re not.

Through her Attract → Captivate → Convert framework, Cindy J shows entrepreneurs how authentic messaging and aligned visibility create genuine connections that lead to clients and profitability.

Known for weaving memorable stories with practical, actionable strategies, Cindy J brings warmth, humor, and real-world insights to every presentation.

Cindy J is available for virtual summits, podcasts, workshops, interviews, and business events on topics including client attraction, authentic marketing, messaging, visibility, personal branding, and entrepreneurship. She especially enjoys conversations that challenge the idea that entrepreneurs need to be perfect, louder, or everywhere to succeed.

Her philosophy is simple: Alignment + Attraction = Profitability.

Dan Lubic is a Fractional Chief Revenue Officer and President of Revenue Architecture Group, powered by Sales Acceleration. He helps small and mid-sized companies install world-class revenue engines that enable them to scale predictably, profitably, and sustainably.

Before launching his advisory practice, Dan spent more than three decades at FedEx, rising from frontline sales roles to Vice President of Sales and leading large, complex sales organizations across the Americas. Today, he brings that experience to CEOs and business leaders who want to build a scalable revenue organization without the cost and complexity of a large corporate infrastructure.

Dan helps companies put the critical pieces in place, including sales strategy and process, organizational structure, talent, compensation, CRM, KPIs, forecasting, leadership, and accountability, turning inconsistent or founder-dependent sales efforts into disciplined, repeatable revenue engines built for growt

The Voice Behind the Voices You Trust – Erik K. Johnson is a nationally recognized on-air personality, and radio program director, and podcast content expert who helps you grow your authority and influence to grow your business.

For over 30 years, Erik has been helping professionals transform their content into compelling narratives so they become someone worth listening to and build powerful, profitable relationships with their listeners and guests.

Dr. Jairo Borja is the President and CEO of Borja Consulting Group and Borja Capital, where he helps founders, fundraisers, and investors master the art of raising capital for their deals. A seasoned multifamily and hotel real estate investor, Dr. Borja has built and led capital raises across syndicated real estate offerings, giving him firsthand insight into both sides of the table — the operator raising money and the investor deciding where to place it.

He is a 2x Amazon best-selling author, sharing practical, battle-tested strategies on fundraising, deal structuring, and building investor relationships that go the distance. Through Borja Consulting Group, he teaches entrepreneurs and real estate sponsors how to attract capital with confidence, communicate value clearly, and close deals faster.

A sought-after speaker and educator, Dr. Borja is known for his relationships-first philosophy: in his words, "Relationships before transactions — always."

Jen Seidelman is a business coach and trainer with an MBA, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential, and over 25 years experience owning and growing businesses. She helps women business owners who are overwhelmed by building, or burned out by success, create clarity, alignment, and sustainable profits. Because burnout & overwhelm aren't the price of success. They're a signal something needs to change.

Jessper Maquindang is a Leadership & HR Strategist who helps entrepreneurs and executives grow their businesses by building high-performing teams. With deep expertise in leadership, team-building, and HR strategy, Jessper transforms businesses weighed down by turnover, micromanagement, and burnout into businesses that run with a greater sense of purpose.

Through his frameworks, Jessper shows leaders how to attract and retain top talent, foster a culture of accountability and innovation, and implement HR systems that support sustainable scaling and even prepare for exit.

At The Scale Beyond the Founder Summit, Jessper reveals how the right team and HR strategy become the ultimate escape plan, giving leaders the freedom to step back without the business breaking down—and the power to scale, sell, or hand off with confidence.

Dr. John M. O’Brien is a psychologist, executive coach, and speaker based in Portland, Maine. He is the author of Rudeness Rehab: Reclaiming Civility in the Workplace and Your Home Space and host of the Civility Matters podcast. His TEDx talk, “Small Slights, Big Consequences: The Power of Everyday Rudeness,” explores how everyday incivility shapes our workplaces and homes. John helps organizations and individuals build calm, respectful, resilient cultures. Learn more at activatesuccess.org and rudenessrehab.com.

Kim Groshek is an award-winning speaker, author, podcast host, and mentor. She helps entrepreneurs turn too many ideas into one clear offer, attract clients, create opportunities, and build a business with more fun and freedom.

It is Lee’s passion and mission to assist heart-centered business owners to thrive continuously so that they can make the difference they want, and the world so needs! She is a business alchemist and is an expert at not only finding “hidden” gold in businesses, she transforms the “lead” (not working areas) of a business into actual gold you can hold! Lee combines her intuitive “magic” with practical application and strategy. If you want to learn more on how to unleash the magical by managing the practical, you can contact Lee at Lee@BusinesBlissAademy.com, or join her Facebook Group “Alchemize Your Business”:
www.facebook.com/groups/alchemizeyourbusiness/.

Lisa Dunn is a Leadership Coach and Culture Transformation Architect, and the founder of HumanityLink. Before consulting independently, she built and led the global L&D organization at Siemens Healthineers and led the Leadership Academy at HARMAN International. She holds a master's degree in clinical counseling, is a Korn Ferry 360 Leadership Architect, and is a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner.

Lisa works with founders and executives who built something real and are ready to lead it instead of carrying it. She speaks on the identity shift founders must make before delegation works, how to build teams that can run without their founder, and what it takes to move from doing the work to leading the people who do it. She's looking for stages where that transition is the story attendees are living.

Marlen Kakkori, known as The Podcast Whisperer, is a Podcast Guesting Revenue Strategist, founder of Marlen Marketing, and contributing author of the Amazon-bestselling anthology Today’s Inspired Leader: Stories of Community and Legacy, Volume VI.

For six years, she has helped nonfiction authors, coaches, consultants, and founder-led businesses turn podcast interviews into authority, strategic relationships, qualified leads, and revenue.

After supporting more than 50 clients and securing over 300 interviews, Marlen created the Podcast Interview Leverage Method™—a before, during, and after system that closes the gap between appearing on podcasts and generating measurable business results.

She is also the founder of Podcast Conversion Lab, a free Skool community where experts learn to select aligned shows, communicate memorable ideas, build relationships with hosts, and turn podcast appearances into clients, partnerships, referrals, and long-term business opportunities.

Nola Heale is the founder of Protea Consulting and creator of the Complexity Threshold - a framework for understanding why growing businesses start to feel chaotic even when everything looks fine on paper. Every growing organization hits the same invisible wall. It's not a leadership, money, or people problem, it's a coordination problem. As business grows, what it needs to coordinate (decisions, information, work, and accountability) grows faster than its capacity to actually coordinate it. That gap is why founders become the bottleneck holding everything together by sheer effort, no matter how hard they work or how good their people are.

Nola helps founders and CEOs find the two or three specific gaps quietly draining their profit, cash, and freedom, and fix those instead of rebuilding the whole business. She's worked with family business leaders and founder-led companies alike to move from "running just to stand still" to actually leading.

Patrick Seaton works at the intersection of sales process, neuroscience, and the practical use of AI in business development. He has spent decades helping founders and independent professionals build repeatable sales frameworks that work with any prospect, not just the ones who arrive through referrals.

His particular focus: what happens when founders add AI to their sales process and it still does not move the numbers. Most AI tools are built for the person sending the message, not the person receiving it. Patrick's work helps founders understand what they are actually buying, select tools that serve the conversation rather than just the content, and build a sales process that will keep working as their business grows.

He created AskAlex, a neuroscience-based thought partner that maps a prospect's buying journey, identifies the right message for each stage, and checks whether it will land before it goes out.

Most business owners think they have a revenue problem. Roxie Jorgenson knows they have a trust problem — and the most expensive leaks are the ones you can't see. With 35 years in entrepreneurship, she helps people find where trust is draining away — with clients, their network, their team, even within themselves — and fix it for good. Right now, something normal in your business is costing you. Roxie helps you find it.

Stephanie McAuliffe is the Founder and CEO of The Way of the Diamond Warrior, a Soul Alchemist, speaker, and international best-selling author. Following a 27-year career on Wall Street managing massive international programs, she now guides purpose-driven women entrepreneurs, coaches, creators, strategists, and conscious leaders to build profitable businesses that reflect their soul. Through the alchemy of the practical and the mystical, Stephanie helps people recognize the invisible patterns keeping them stuck and move forward differently. Her work brings business strategy and soul work together, empowering women to create greater impact, income, and inner peace without sacrificing themselves in the process.

Val Vick is a Retreat Revenue Architect who helps coaches and consultants create profitable retreat experiences without carrying all the financial pressure alone. Through her Collaborative Retreat Revenue Model, supported by nearly 20 years of group travel design experience, she helps business owners reduce risk, increase profit potential, and create transformational experiences through strategic partnerships.

After serving corporate clients as a chemical engineer, designing group travel, and supporting coaches and consultants as a copywriter and content marketer, Val recognized a powerful intersection of her life’s work: building client communities through in-person retreats. Val is a 3-time international best-selling author and founder of the Living Begins at 50 community.