Dave Gerber, President and Founder of Synergy Development and Training, LLC is a change catalyst, motivating people to become the best version of themselves. Dave inspires his audiences to transform the way they engage with the world around them, build stronger relationships and organizations. His dynamic, humorous style and remarkable depth and breadth of content has earned him the reputation of “best speaker ever” by many of his audiences. His talent for simplifying complex ideas into elegant solutions, is a gift that leaves participants with actionable learning that they can implement immediately as he helps us “Prepare for Robots!”

Jill Coleman launched her personal brand at JillFit.com in 2010,and was a co-founder of Metabolic Effect, Inc.. Her 16-year journey in the health and fitness industry began when she got her very first job at a gym just for the free membership at age 15!

Flaviu is a Romanian entrepreneur, angel investor, and life hacker with a passion for fixing the healthcare system.

Miki was named 2018 Fast Company’s “Most Creative People”. 2017 “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Technology Summit, and was one of INC Magazine’s “Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs of 2016.”

She is the co-founder of THINX, a high-tech, period-proof underwear brand and led the company as CEO to a valuation of over $150 Million and to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2017, all while helping tens of millions of women period better.

What if you were friends with a bunch badass business leaders and entrepreneurs and could ask them about their successes, challenges, and most valuable advice? That’s exactly what Business for Unicorns delivers. Join business coach and entrepreneur Michael Keeler as...

Adriana is the Founder and CEO of Girls in Tech, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization devoted to empowering, educating and engaging women in the tech industry across 60 chapters in 36 countries.

John started Flipside Performance by offering free park workouts in 2013. He bootstrapped the company to $2mm+ in revenue in less than 5 years. Now John teaches business owners how to get more clients by improving their sales and marketing processes. There are 200+ success stories & counting.

Patricia was born in Caracas, Venezuela to a Venezuelan-Slovenian family. In 2003, she received a B.S. in industrial engineering from the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas. She also studied photography at the Roberto Mata School of Photography in Caracas. In 2008, Patricia moved to New York to study at the International Center of Photography, where she was awarded with a Directors’ Fellowship and graduated in June 2010. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Andrea Meislin Gallery and A.I.R. Gallery in New York. Her photographs have been published in ICP’s Shift 2010, Tal Cual (Venezuelan newspaper) and Town and Country (magazine) in the Philippines.

In 2011, she founded PhotoUno Photography School in Midtown Manhattan where she currently teaches. Patricia lives and works in New York with her husband Francisco and her dog named Pitta.

When Cary Borish opened the first Marathon in 1984, their goal was simple: to provide the neighborhood with the highest quality fresh food at an excellent value. The seeds they planted in their 10-seat burger joint in Northeast Philadelphia have grown into what Marathon is today.

Arin Sullivan is the Director of Programs and Client Services, overseeing Education, Business Development, and the Support Center. The Programs & Client Services department endeavors to expand the knowledge of the arts and cultural sector and deepen the impact of the high-quality data and resources provided by the Cultural Data Project. An actor and stage manager at heart, prior to joining the CDP in 2008, Arin was the managing director at Hedgerow Theatre, theater manager for Drexel University’s Mandell Theater, and producer for Geva Comedy Improv at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York. Arin is also an adjunct faculty member with Drexel’s Theatre program. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, where she graduated cum laude, and she holds a Master of Science degree from Drexel University’s Arts Administration program.

A serial entrepreneur for over fifteen years, Joe Snyder is the CEO of the publicly traded, revolutionary blockchain company, Lannister Holdings.

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Lannister Holdings is generating scaled revenues and growth by developing, owning, and delivering proprietary technology to the financial sector.

Rachelle is an accomplished Executive Coach and Facilitator who has built a stellar client reputation by getting results. As e talk about in the podcast Rachelle recently started her own leadership consulting agency called Equalibrium with her long-time friend and business partner Katie Byrme.

A little more about Rachelle – She is a qualified counsellor, and certified in a variety of Emotional Intelligence and personality assessment tools. Rachelle is a proud graduate from Reed College (Oregon) and Warwick University (UK). She also spoke at the 2017 TEDx Broadway Conference on the challenges in receiving feedback.

Rachelle has consulted for over 50 companies, including: Human Rights Watch, Sony Music Entertainment, NBC Universal, and so many more. Hope over to businessforunicorns.com for all the details of Rachelle’s incredible accomplishments.

Kevin Larrabee graduated from Keene State College with a BS in Health Science in August 2008. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Kevin has had a passion for fitness and nutrition ever since winning his battle with the bulge at the age of 15. After discovering the effects of diet and exercise, Kevin lost 30 pounds in three months. Ever since then he has been striving to learn as much as he can about fitness and nutrition.

He recently opened his first training studio, Allied Strength, in Gloucester, MA.

Kevin created The FitCast Podcast after looking for a decent fitness and nutrition podcast and coming up empty. He has recorded more than 450 episodes and interviewed some of the best and brightest in the industry. The FitCast was named Best Fitness Podcast by Men’s Health Magazine in 2015.

Radha Agrawal is a community force. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Daybreaker, an early morning dance movement in 22 cities around the world with a community of over 350,000 members who connect through dance, yoga, music and mischief.

Her upcoming book “BELONG: Find Your People Create Community and Live a More Connected Life” published by Workman comes out next fall (September 2018) and open sources all that she learned about community building with methods and exercises she designed so that anyone could create the blueprint for their dream community. Learn more about Radha at radhaagrawal.com.

Chris is the owner of Lift the Bar Education for Personal Trainers which offers high quality education for health & fitness pros delivered by the brightest in the industry. He is also the proud owner of Lift the Bar Gym, a training studio in England.

Joanna is currently the Vice President of Marketing at WeWork, a seven year old real estate-meets-technology-meets-community start-up, originally founded as a shared office space provider – now on a mission to transform the way we work, live and play. Before WeWork, Joanna spent over 10 years in the fashion world at brands like J.Crew, Lilly Pulitzer and Vera Wang, working across retail and digital marketing. Joanna also did a brief stint on Wall Street, working on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs right out of college. She did her undergraduate degree in French and Political Science at Georgetown University, and has a Masters in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design.

Join business coach and entrepreneur Michael Keeler as he speaks with inspiring leaders and entrepreneurs who believe that a business can make money while improving the lives of their employees and customers.

Mona is the CEO of Motivate design, UX expert, professor, speaker and author.

“I work to make technology approachable. At first, I got to think about keeping shuttles in space and medical equipment operating smoothly. It was groundbreaking and heavy, and I thrived. It gave me a distinct POV: there is no problem too big to solve for, and no design too small to make a big impact.”

In 2009, Mona started Motivate Design, a UX/UI research and design agency. They are based in NYC and their clients Fortune 500 companies from all over the world. Our UX staffing agency UX Hires (2010) was born soon after to support a need Mona saw in the community. Motivate has been on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list three years in a row.

Mona’s latest project is a new proprietary method of customer investigation, Insider Insights. It uses the best practices of investigators to get to the truth about what customer’s think about your company. We talk about this exciting new project in the podcast – it’s brilliant.

Steven M. Ledbetter, aka “Coach Stevo” on Twitter, is an expert in the science of human behavior change and has been helping people who know what to do, but can’t make themselves do it since 2008. He is the CEO of the behavior change consulting company Habitry which he co-founded in 2014. Originally from rural Georgia, he moved to San Francisco in 2005. He collects mid-century modern furniture, never carries more than 6kg of luggage, and is a third generation Eagle Scout.

Susan Blackwell is on a mission to free people’s self-expression. As a performer, writer, speaker and educator, she champions this cause around the world, on Broadway, off-Broadway, in classrooms and writing, and on TV, film, sound recordings and the Internet. As the founder of Susan Blackwell & Co, she partners with like-minded, compassionate artists and thought leaders to deliver inspiring entertainment and educational offerings aimed at freeing people’s creative self-expression. As an educator, she has empowered thousands of people to identify and slay the vampires that stop them from being free.

Erik Gensler is the President of Capacity Interactive, a digital marketing consulting firm for the cultural sector, whose clients include the country’s leading arts institutions. In 2010 Erik founded Digital Marketing Boot Camp for the Arts, the only conference 100% focused on digital marketing for arts and cultural organizations. Erik hosts a podcast series about arts administration called CI to Eye. He is most proud of CI placing #25 on Crain’s Best Places to Work in NYC in 2016 and 2017.