Speakers
Mind Your Own Business Conference speakers are not your peers. They’re expert CPAs, consultants, trainers and planners who have extensive experience guiding creative companies to their best decisions—and they’ll help you make smart financial moves, build solid relationships with your clients, plan a company website that really works and more.
In short, they’re the best in their respective fields—and they’re going to help you build a better business.
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Bill Baker
Principal & Founder
BB&Co Strategic Storytelling
Bill Baker is principal and founder of BB&Co Strategic Storytelling, a strategic consultancy that helps organizations craft their brand stories and bring them brilliantly to life. BB&Co clients include global companies such as GE, Relais& Châteaux, Johnson & Johnson, Dubai Holdings, Intrawest Corp, and Coca-Cola.
A recognized expert in the use of strategic storytelling to engage and align brands, businesses and people, Bill speaks and writes frequently on strategic storytelling and related topics. Before delving into the world of strategic storytelling, Bill spent 18 years working in advertising, at multinational agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Grey and DDB.
Learn more on Bill's background and expert insight.
Session:
What's Your Story? Distinguishing Your Firm Through Strategic Storytelling
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David C. Baker
Principal
ReCourses, Inc.
David C. Baker has been consulting the creative field since 1994, having worked with 650+ firms around the world. He’s spoken at every major convention and written for every major publication. His work has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fast Company, Inc., Forbes, CBS Business Network, MarketingProfs and BusinessWeek. He has also written three well-received books.
Session:
David Baker's Live Audit Review
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Jodi Glickman
Jodi Glickman is an expert in training young people how to be great on the job. She is an entrepreneur, author, public speaker, consultant and regular blogger for Harvard Business Review and Fortune.com. She is also a faculty member of the Johnson School’s Leadership Program at Cornell. Her book: Great on the Job, What to Say, How to Say It, The Secrets of Getting Ahead has been described as a veritable master class in workplace success. Jodi has trained some of the best and brightest minds in business and she regularly appears in national media news outlets.
Session:
Attracting, Retaining, Managing & Wowing Gen Y Employees
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Todd Henry
Founder & CEO
Accidental Creative
Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams be prolific, brilliant, and healthy. Todd’s book The Accidental Creative: How To Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice offers strategies for how creative pros can thrive in the marketplace and has been called “one of the best books to date on how to structure your ideas, and manage the creative process and work that comes out of it” by Jack Covert, author of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
Session:
Be a Laser, Not a Lighthouse
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Martin Kamenski
President & Founder
Rockstar CPA
Martin Kamenski is the president and founder of Rockstar CPA, Chicago’s premier creative and entertainment industry accounting firm. With a background in small businesses and nearly a decade of experience running his own practice, Martin has carefully crafted a way to talk about business and taxes with creative individuals.
He sits on the Boards of Directors of Matter Dance Company, the Global Alliance of Artists, and Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Martin is an amateur musician, and remains active in the theater and film industries in Chicago and Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Marquette University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts, and a Master of Science in Accounting.
Session:
The Tax Game: Keeping More of YOUR Money in YOUR Pocket
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Mark O'Brien
President
Newfangled
Mark O'Brien is president of Newfangled, a web development company that has been helping marketing firms plan and build websites for their clients since 1995. Mark speaks regularly on marketing, and his first book, A Website That Works: How Marketing Agencies Can Create Business Generating Websites, will be released in June 2011. Check out Mark's Web Development Business Management Blog at http://www.newfangled.com/mark_o_brien_blog
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Planning the Agency Website That Works
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Julien Smith
Julien Smith is the bestselling author of two books: the first, Trust Agents, (with Chris Brogan) was an instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His most recent, The Flinch, was published on the Domino Project with over 100,000 copies distributed.
Smith’s work focuses on adaptation and change, but not the “think out of the box” clichés that most companies embrace. Instead, his work draws from a deep study of the adaptive ability of the human body, as well as evolution, biomimicry, and an observation of nature. In the web’s increasingly dense and competitive marketplace, Julien’s work on how to stand out, change yourself, and do what is necessary has been embraced by many.
Session:
Rise of the Trust Agent
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Sandy Styer
Practice Lead for Trust Diagnostics ™
Trusted Advisor Associates LLC
Sandy Styer is the Practice Lead for Trust Diagnostics ™ for Trusted Advisor Associates LLC. She has spent the last several years developing tools that help people, teams and organizations overcome their own barriers to building trust.
Sandy has an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has held high-level management positions at Chemical Bank and American Airlines, and has consulted for a range of organizations—from Fortune 500s to internet start-ups.
On another side of her life, she is a collage artist (paper-on-paper) and has works in the permanent collection of the International Museum of collage, Assemblage and Construction.
Learn more on Sandy's background and expert insight.
Session:
Moving from Vendor to Trusted Advisor
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