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Award-winning entrepreneur and Forbes and Business Insider contributing writer Bonnie Marcus, M.Ed., has real conversations for real women in the workplace today. As the President of Women’s Success Coaching, she assists women to navigate the workplace and advance their careers. She is also the author of The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead. With 20+ years of sales and management experience, Bonnie’s background includes CEO and VP of Sales at three national companies. She has held executive positions in both start-up and Fortune 500 companies. Bonnie started her career at an entry-level position and worked up to the top of a national company using her savvy promotion and relational skills. Her passion is to help other women learn to be sensitive to the culture of their organizations, embrace the politics, and actively move their careers forward.

Brigham A. McCown has more than 26 years of executive management, legal, and operational experience at the local, national, and international levels of government. Mr. McCown primarily advises private sector clients in matters pertaining to federal security and safety regulations, government enforcement of regulated industries and risk mitigation, including areas relating to crisis response and complex private sector litigation. Currently, McCown serves as the Chairman of The Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure, Chairman and CEO of Nouveau Inc., and is a Managing Member of Kilgore McCown, PLLC. Prior to 2007, McCown served as a member of the United States Senior Executive Service during both terms of George W. Bush’s presidency. Appointed by Transportation Secretary, Norman Y. Mineta (D-CA), McCown helped shape the nation’s laws, regulations and policies pertaining to transportation safety and security for the surface, maritime, pipeline, rail and aviation industriesDuring his tenure, Mr. McCown served as the first acting administrator and interim CEO of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHSMA). While in this position, McCown was in charge of the federal government’s oversight of more than one million daily shipments of hazardous materials by all modes of transportation, including pipeline. It was also during his time with PHMSA that he was given the task of coordinating the federal government’s response to the largest oil spill on Alaska’s North Slope. He also helped oversee the restoration process of the Gulf Coast’s energy infrastructure following Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. He helped author the PIPES Act of 2006 which improved safety and increased government oversight of the pipeline industry while also providing additional operational flexibility to pipeline operators. Mr. McCown also served as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s first chief counsel. While managing a staff of 55 attorneys, legislative affairs specialists and support staff, Mr. McCown was responsible for ensuring implementation of the nation’s laws and regulations for the motor carrier, motor coach and moving industries. McCown is currently a contributor to Forbes, National Journal, Huffington Post, and Fuel Fix on matters pertaining to transportation, energy and public policy. McCown graduated from Miami University in 1988 with a degree in diplomacy and foreign affairs. He later went on to receive his law degree from Northern Kentucky University in 1997.

Bryce is an active speaker, blogger, and tutor. In his free time, he likes to play board games and watch sci-fi movies.

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An internationally recognized flexible workplace strategy consultant, speaker and author, Cali Williams Yost has pioneered new ways to manage work, life and business in the modern economy for nearly two decades. As CEO and founder of Flex Strategy Group/Work Life Fit— and one of Mashable’s Top 14 Career Experts on Twitter— she’s shown hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals how to partner for award-winning flexible work success. Clients have ranged from Ernst & Young, BDO USA, J.P. Morgan Chase, Novo Nordisk, to the U.S. Navy and the United Nations.

Carla Rogg is founder and President of Care Solutions, Inc., a technology product development company whose learning development suite, ProSolutions Training, offers a proprietary Learning Management System and online training. Carla also inspires growth-minded leaders with her “Power Challenges” — practical tips distilled from her 25+ years’ leadership experience.

Carol Duke is very keen on teaching students new, effective ways of learning. When not freelancing and blogging on education-related matters, Carol enjoys traveling, taking immense pleasure from visiting new countries.

Cathy Francois is the founder of Rezume Forward Career Consulting and career coach at American Public University System. She leverages her diverse experience and interpersonal skills to assist students, professionals, and budding entrepreneurs with achieving their career goals. Rezume Forward provides professional and personalized career consulting in a virtual boutique style setting with services including strategic career planning, resume writing, interview preparation, LinkedIn profile optimization, and more.

Charles is a career mentor, motivational speaker & human resources consultant with over 10 years of experience in HR sector. Charles is a lead expert at Professional Resume Solutions. Apart from career mentoring, he loves photography and football. Find him on Linkedin Twitter, Facebook & Google+.

Charles A. Moore is Fire Chief for Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District in Washoe County, Nevada and has 25 years’ experience as a professional fire Chief, and 34 years in total fire service experience. Chief Moore was challenged with organizing TMFPD in just 3 months’ time which included hiring 60 emergency responders, purchasing equipment, preparing operational policies and training new staff. Charles can be reached at: CMoore@tmfpd.us

Chris Ponder II is a human resources professional who has harnessed his human resources knowledge and experience across the casino, retail, and service industries, where he has challenged people to think outside of the traditional “thought box” and strive for something unique by pushing thoughts and actions to a different scale – the extreme. Stifled by just limiting this extreme thinking and passion to the four corners of the office, Chris created XtremeHR. However, he quickly began to discover the opportunity of a group of people sharing their passion was even better, which lead to the creation of Performance I Create. Knowing the value social media can bring, he continues to be an advocate for trench HR professionals to take a leap with social media and utilize its capabilities to grow both professionally and personally.

Chris Shaffner is the senior vice president of the Water and Community Facilities division at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America by providing loans, leases, export financing, and other financial services in all 50 states. Chris oversees the strategic growth and management of CoBank’s water infrastructure lending, rural healthcare investments, and rural equity funds. Before joining CoBank, Chris held various leadership positions in both public and private organizations, including heading Manhattan borough operations for the New York City Housing Authority.