DID YOU KNOW...
George played football for the University of Northern Colorado?

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​George Carroll

George Carroll, the former collegiate football player who was severely injured on the field, shares his dramatic story of overcoming hardship, depression and suicidal thoughts. George is a Master NLP Practitioner, Business Strategist for Tony Robbins. His motivational and light-hearted approach inspires others to adapt to life's inevitable roadblocks with optimism, mental flexibility and emotional agility. George will leave you feeling energized, inspired and ready to handle challenges, at work and at home.
TOPIC: The Psychology of Top Performers
  • Learn the 3-part model to building empowering habits
  • Discover the Power of Modeling so you can shorten the growth curve
  • Learn the power of the Triad so you can change your state instantly, developed by Tony Robbins
  • Embrace the 5-part accountability model that increases goal achievement by 76%
  • Experience the power of a Peak State so you can optimize your psychology
DID YOU KNOW... 
Quinn ​earned a blackbelt in Tae-Kwon-Do?

Quinn Denny
ioPSYte The People Wizard®

Quinn Denny is a work psychologist with 12 years’ owner experience spanning two service businesses. The president of ioPSYte®, a fast growth work psychology firm, Quinn partners with individuals, leaders, and teams to increase work satisfaction and work performance using research-driven performance management systems, training, and consulting. As a Colorado native, Castle Rock has been home for Quinn, wife Erin, and their two sons since 2004. Quinn’s vocational passion is to serve and transform workplaces across the U.S., especially those workplaces where individuals, leaders, and teams feel hopeless and brokenhearted in their work.
TOPIC: Does the way you hire employees ensure a Return on Investment?
Are you wasting money, time, and mental effort in the way that you hire employees?
 
Have you heard or said these debunked statements?
 
  • I have a gut feeling.
  • I just know.
  • I can read people.
  • It’s just this generation.
  • We can’t find good people.
 
If employees are leaving your organization regularly, or you are inviting them to leave regularly, it means right hiring structures and behaviors are not in place to ensure a return on investment. Whether aware, we each follow a hiring method. Most hiring methods are ineffective and expensive. During this session you will gain the moxie required to create, refine, and transform your hiring method. Attend, get help, adapt, experience results
DID YOU KNOW...
Acey used to bake incredible cupcakes with beer as the secret ingredient?

Acey Holmes
BoredLess

Acey Holmes is a southerner by birth pulled to Colorado by the mountains. She spent much of her professional life helping children of all abilities communicate (mostly through play!). With a cliche pandemic pivot away from pediatrics to adults, she now focuses on bringing play to adults through consulting and facilitation all based in the neuroscience of play. Her fun and fully interactive workshops cover topics such as “The Power of Play at Work”, “The Neuroscience of Play”, and “Personal Play Identities”. She facilitates Failure Awards for organizations and provides strategic conference scheduling play breaks to improve attendee and presenter experience. Her education and experience as an educator and speech-language pathologist make her a unique expert on communication and brain development with special application for organizational development and team dynamics. When she’s not convincing adults to play, you can find her on a bike, skis, or in hiking boots on the side of a mountain somewhere!
TOPIC: Using the Neuroscience of Play to Overcome Obstacles in Business
Is stress getting you down? Has your team lost its spark? As adults, we are taught that "play" is only the work of children. But here's the headliner... research and neuroscience tell us that adults benefit significantly from play as well, especially at work. When play is incorporated into professional work environments, leaders and employees alike see significant benefits: improved communication, collaboration, creativity, and cohesion. Your and your team's abilities to tackle challenges head-on in 2023 will greatly benefit from making sure play is an integral part of your culture; you can count on experiencing personal and team-based growth in mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. During this fun and interactive workshop, you will learn how to incorporate elements of play into your work settings to help yourself and your business thrive in the face of adversity.
DID YOU KNOW... 
Audrey creates destination based scavenger hunts for friends, family and clients?

Audrey Howes
Story27

Audrey Howes is the Founder of Story27, a Certified StoryBrand Guide and a graduate of Seth Godin’s exclusive altMBA program. For almost 20 years she’s worked with clients in countless industries to help them clarify the message of their organization then use the power of story to create growth. Audrey lives and breathes story and experiences. She comes alive when planning an event or bringing a brand story to life. When she’s not guiding clients to better stories you’ll find her on the sidelines at a soccer game, enjoying a local latte, reading a good book or with her family at their cabin near Steamboat.
TOPIC: Using the Power of Story to Win Business
Story is essential to the human experience, but most businesses fail to use it in the right way. With economic uncertainty in the air, telling a clear, compelling story in your business is more important than ever. When brands own and tell their story in the way their audience is tuned to hear growth follows. Audrey will teach you a simple and effective framework you can use to infuse story into your organization. As a group we will put the framework to use and learn repeatable practices designed to revolutionize storytelling in your business. You will walk away understanding the essential elements of story and have the framework needed to inspire growth.
DID YOU KNOW...
Murray and his wife are fluent in Spanish?

Murray Johns
GROW MY BUSINESS COACHING SERVICES

Murray Johns comes from a 20+ year career in small business. In early 2021, he sold his successful 7-figure commercial signage business and pivoted his career into a strategic business coaching practice. Murray experienced the highs and lows of business ownership, and he witnessed the stressful impact it had on his family relationships. Now Murray works closely with business owners to help them "create order out of chaos" with simple frameworks that provide significantly increased profits and greater time-freedom for the people and priorities that matter most.
TOPIC: How to Grow Your Business in the Face of Recession
2022 has been tough for many businesses, and the indicators for 2023 look challenging. With businesses in distress, the pressure and weight felt by business leaders can become overwhelming and even crushing. But it doesn’t have to be that way! There are 6 primary areas where businesses typically struggle, and this presentation will introduce you to simple frameworks you can implement to significantly strengthen your business so it can thrive and grow even in a down economy. And if remaining profitable next year still feels like a concern... come learn the two small changes you can make to double your profits in 2023!
DID YOU KNOW... 
Tonoa was accepted into NYPD Police Academy, but decided to earn degrees in Criminal Justice and Restorative Practice instead?

Tonoa Manuel
SIYG Consulting Firm LLC

Tonoa Manuel is the founder, curator and Lead Strategist at SIYG Consulting Firm who has worked with organizations around the US and the UK. She took her 10+ years of experience in Project Management & Risk Mitigation in both the private and non-profit sector, along with her lifelong learnings and built the foundation of SIYG. Tonoa and her team design workshops for organizations geared towards professional development, sharpening of social and emotional skills and assists organizations in understanding their strategic framework and operations. Over the years Tonoa has worked with organizations such as the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, AYA Foundation, MBSK Colorado, Mentor Colorado, Black Business Initiative, Crowley Foundation, and CU Boulder to name a few. Some of SIYGs work has been showcased at TEDXMileHigh and the National Mentoring Summit in Washington, DC. Tonoa was recently pre-selected for her Doctoral Degree in Global Leadership and is looking forward to beginning that journey in fall of 2023, after completing a certification from the Global Design Thinking Academy in Amsterdam in June of 2023.
TOPIC: Recession Innovation - Reframing How We Lead
Tonoa will create a space for us to talk about organizational trauma, connect to difficulties that affect teams during life changing events like recessions and pandemics, while diving into the importance of creating a culture of alignment, purpose, and strategy. She will guide us to create tactical processes and scenarios that we can take back into our organizations and lead. Leading with vulnerability during tough and uncertain times is crucial to keeping a team grounded and leadership connected. 
DID YOU KNOW... 
Bailey spends much of her free time horseback riding?

Bailey Massey
Speech Therapy CO LLC

Bailey Massey is the owner and director of Speech Therapy CO and brings over 15 years of experience in communication and speech training, accent modification and dialect coaching. Bailey holds a B.S. in Speech and Hearing Science and a Master's in Communication Disorders in Speech Language Pathology. She is also a member or CORSPAN, an international organization of Speech-Language Pathologists who specialize in communication assessment and training for businesses and professionals. Bailey’s education coupled with hands-on coaching experience across industries allows her to deliver an individualized approach. She works alongside her clients to achieve their goals related to speech and communication clarity, vocal projection, public speaking, presentation skills, cross-cultural communication, and non-verbal communication.
TOPIC: Creating a Recession-Beating Communication Plan
In times of reduced spending and investment, businesses that are trusted by their customers, investors and employees come out on top. Learn research-based communication strategies for internally-facing and externally-facing scenarios that are applicable to networking, meetings, conferences, and client presentations and that will weather all economic conditions. 
DID YOU KNOW...
Josh is a Renaissance trained instrumentalist?

Josh McGirk
JLM THERAPEUTICS MASSAGE AND YOGA THERAPIES LLC

Josh McGirk is a massage therapist and internationally renowned yoga teacher/trainer who specializes in anatomy and education.His workshops are interactive and full of practical information that is easy to immediately implement. Josh believes learning should be light and simple, which can bring about great healing both physically and mentally. His workshops follow a simple tenet, “the better we move, the better we feel and the better we think.”
TOPIC: Humor + a Tennis Ball to Deal with the Burn of Added Stress
For those times when the stress of work starts to burn and get you down, join Josh to learn how to do a full body self massage with a tennis ball in less time than it takes to send an email! Can you picture this... you're sitting at your desk with that familiar knot in your neck muscle... you're ready to throttle someone who's on the other end of your computer or phone... and what you really need is a way to relieve some of the tension. You glance across the desk and spot it under the monitor... your sparkU tennis ball! That's all you need! Josh is excited to demonstrate some of the quickest ways to use a tennis ball for a complete, full body massage or even specific deep tissue work in areas where you're feeling the greatest muscle tightness. After Josh's sparkU presentation, you'll walk away with a full body massage routine available at your fingertips
DID YOU KNOW... 
Scott wrestled in both high school and college?

Scott Nelson
Transworld Business Advisors

Scott works for Transworld Business Advisors where he comes alongside business owners to help them part with their business well. Transworld is the market leader in helping business owners sell and buy their small businesses. If the time isn't right to, Transworld provides consulting services to help prepare the business to engage in steps necessary prepare the business for a successful sale. Scott has owned a own small business and has a special connection with those he serves. Before joining Transworld, Scott worked in the financial services industry culminating with a 16 year stint with Eaton Vance as an outside sales person
TOPIC: Getting the Most When Selling Your Business
Regardless of whether or not a business owner wants to sell soon or sometime on the future, now is the time to start thinking about an effective exit strategy. Scott will share the trademarks of a successful business and show what really happens when a business owner decides to sell. He will share why planning now is paramount to a successful exit and share the secrets M&A advisors don’t tell business owners. You will walk away with a clear plan to set your business  up for a successful exit when the time is right for you.
DID YOU KNOW... 
Vanessa was born in a small town in South Africa?

Vanessa Raymond
Victory in Biz

Vanessa is a seasoned international speaker, author, confidence and success coach as well as the owner of multiple businesses. She performed on stages around the world for 2 decades and running her own beauty business Vanessa before pursuing a career in the fitness and wellness industry to help people improve their quality of life by becoming healthier. Using her combined experience from the performance and fitness worlds, Vanessa created her self-image and confidence coaching master trainer program - The Victory Factor. Vanessa now helps entrepreneurs, speakers and leaders to improve their confidence, create meaningful relationships and a powerful business image so they can be successful personally, professionally and financially.
TOPIC: Mindset + Body Language for Personal and Professional Success
Vanessa believes that the way we show up in our business and the world is one of the largest factors that determine the outcome of everything we do. During this session, she will demonstrate how to use your body to change your mindset and how to use nonverbal communication to build rapport. You will leave with an easy 2 minute visualization you can use on a daily basis to step into your power posture and the beginnings of positive posture and body language habits. Improve your confidence, create meaningful relationships, and develop a powerful business image so you can be successful personally, professionally and financially in the face of challenges!