Norm Brodsky is a senior contributing editor for Inc., a veteran entrepreneur who has had 3 separate companies chosen for Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500 list. In 2007, he sold CitiStorage for $110 million (detailed in Inc. Magazine... link). In 2017, he sold another company for $160 million. For the past four decades, Norm's greatest success has been mentoring thousands of entrepreneurs and instructing millions through  his columns in Inc. Magazine and his book, Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Toolkit for Entrepreneurs. In 2019 Norm's alma mater, Rider University, renamed their accredited business and accounting college The Norm Brodsky College of Business in honor of Norm's decades of mentoring students there.

With more than 25 years of experience, CJ knows a lot about business and people. Not following a traditional path, CJ has worked in a variety of capacities, from managing a sales team for a large international company to Director of Operations and HR for a facilities management firm.

In 2006, along with two other talented entrepreneurs, CJ launched the professional contract placement firm Oberon. After selling Oberon CJ went looking for her next entrepreneurial venture and was introduced to Gino Wickman’s book, TRACTION. Seeing the benefits of companies Implementing EOS, CJ had found her next obsession.

Since 2010 helping entrepreneurs and their leadership teams
have become CJ’s passion. She has helped over 110 companies
clarify, simplify and achieve their vision. An award-winning entrepreneur with a dynamic background, CJ is also a sought-
after speaker. She speaks throughout the United States to spread the word of EOS and to help companies and leadership teams get better at three things: VISION, TRACTION, and HEALTH. CJ is also the Global Community Leader at EOS Worldwide.

Founding editor-in-chief, Inc. Magazine (20 years). Innovator of the seminal Inc. 500 ranking, focusing public attention on young, emerging-growth companies for the first time (led to the creation of Euro 500, AllWorld’s growth-company rankings in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, and partnership with Michael Porter of Harvard B-School to create the Inner City 100).  Inventor of Clark University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program. Long-time national leader in social sector directorships and fellowships at City Year, Kaufmann Foundation, Community Wealth Ventures, Initiatives for a Competitive Inner City [ICIC].

Vanessa Merit Nornberg is the owner of Metal Mafia, a jewelry manufacturer and distributor which has twice been named to the Inc 5000 list of America’s fastest growing privately-owned companies.  Vanessa’s calling has always been selling—and she believes that every move an entrepreneur makes, from starting-up to exiting, should be about making the sale. She is the author of the weekly In the Trenches, column on Inc.com, and her writing has also been featured on the Huffington Post, Forbes.com, and others. Vanessa believes that entrepreneurship is the last avenue of class mobility, and thus, regularly speaks with high school students across the country.

Lewis Schiff is the Chairman of the Board of Experts for Birthing of Giants' Fellowship Program and Executive Director of Moonshots & Moneymakers: The Oxford Innovation Conference for American Entrepreneurs. He founded Inc. Magazine's Business Owners Council where he interviewed some of the most accomplished entrepreneurs in the world. He has authored or co-authored several books on success, including The First Habit: The One Technique That Can Change Your Life andBusiness Brilliant: Surprising Lesson from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons. Over the past two decades, he built and sold two media businesses to publicly-traded companies, iVillage and TheStreet.com.

Chairman of Newport Board Group, a national partnership of CEOs who advise emerging middle market companies. Doug serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at Florida State University. He is Advisory Board Chairman for the Business Dynamics Research Consortium, a national research institute funded by the NASDAQ Foundation and the University of Wisconsin - Extension. Doug is the author of No Man's Land, a leading text about growth companies that has been translated into many languages and won four National Best Business book awards. As CEO of Tatum LLC, Doug built a national professional service firm that was sold to Spherion (now SFN Group) in 2010.