Author: Jerome Knyszewski

Pia Beck is the CEO of Curate Well Co., which provides “coaching and community” to entrepreneurs who want to make an impact in their industry. If you’re an entrepreneur who wants to scale your business without neglecting the integrity of your work, and losing your connection to your community, you’ll be a good match for Pia and Curate Well. For Pia Beck, Curate Well puts “process behind [your purpose].”  She understands that businesses need the ability to share their stories and their message with people; it’s her company’s job to put the “right intuitive systems in place” to amplify those…

For more than a decade, Tej Brahmbhatt has worked as a corporate banker. Now, he wishes to share his knowledge and expertise to people who wish to break through in this hyper-competitive marketplace, particularly under the digital economy. He is managing partner of Watchtower Capital, as well as the resident business/client/sales development expert at his website, TejTakeaways. He is also available for speaking engagements. Tej Brahmbhatt says that banking is “the vehicle for living [my] passion: the art of building relationships.” Through his experiences, making mistakes and going through struggles, he discovered that banking depends heavily on building relationships with…

Gianna Miceli is a disruptor, author, and women’s health advocate. She began her journey of advocating for women when she began to feel the effects of menopause after turning 42. She started putting on weight and feeling so tired she could barely go to work in the morning. After doing everything possible, from joining gyms to dieting, she found that nothing worked. She went to the doctors and spent $18,000 but it also didn’t work. It was only until another woman told Gianna Miceli about how her “metabolic processes” went “out of sorts” that she began her research into her…

Thor Wood crafted the business plan for SnapShyft ten business days after a hangover. In that period, he realized that he could fill a need that the food and hospitality industries has been having for a while, which is of consistent quality staffing. With SnapShyft, he helps the businesses in these sectors maintain a full roster of personnel, on-demand, and which has been fully screened by experienced industry professionals. With SnapShyft, Thor Wood has developed a “labor marketplace,” taking full advantage of the new market developments brought on by the gig economy. This marketplace “connects understaffed hospitality and food and…

Lee Anne Crockett started her career in business early. In high school, she began getting involved in sales, working her first job at the local mall for Wilson’s Leather. At first she had wanted to work at the food court, and she found working at Wilson’s to be different, because she had to learn to talk to customers and deal with them to get them the product they want. However, pretty soon, she grew used to pitching different clothing items to customers, and she fell in love with the people connection you only receive in sales. Now, Lee Anne Crockett…

Sammy Courtright co-founded Ten Spot, a platform for workforce engagement that enables companies to connect with distributed teams. The company believes that enjoying the moment with colleagues, no matter where they are, will glue the workforce together and allow them to be more productive and engaged in cooperation. At Ten Spot, Sammy Courtright and her team collaborates with her clients through every step of engaging the workforce. They help develop “new hire onboarding tools and automated icebreakers to peer pairing and virtual social events.”  The team also uses powerful analytics tools to track and assess employee “engagement and behaviors,” so…

Laurel Mintz founded the marketing agency Elevate My Brand, which she also runs as the CEO. Her unique background has prepared her to handle challenging tasks that deliver consistent success to her agency. Earlier in her career, Laurel Mintz has worked with several prestigious brands such as Le Bec Fin, Public House Restaurant Group, Bassett Furniture, and Julie Hewitt Cosmetics. While working with these brands, she came up with and executed her personal and innovative consulting work. Since then, her ambition has evolved to becoming a bigger player in the marketing industry. A decade later, Laurel Mintz has “created an…

After spending almost 20 years working for the US federal government as a Marine Infantry officer and FBI Special Agent, during which time he served six combat tours in Afghanistan, along with several deployments in other countries, Killian Hemmy stepped into the role of CEO at ATSG Corporation. In his first year as CEO of ATSG Corporation, Killian Hemmy has grown its revenue by 31% from the previous year, which he then grew by 52% in the following year. From a small contracting firm in Washington, DC, he grew ATSG into a global corporation that earns more than $20 million…

Shyam K Iyer founded SKI Charities in 2010 with his family’s experiences in mind. His philosophy of providing clear opportunities for women to have productive careers was inspired by how the women in his family had to overcome the cultural norms of their native land in order to get an education and build successful careers. Inspired by their “strength, spirit, and endurance,” Shyam Iyer became motivated to “encourage females in developing countries” to strive to achieve more in life, and to live independently. This vision of allowing women to work hard for themselves animates the initiatives of SKI Charities. Since…

Susan Fennema helps businesses kill the chaos and kick the clutter so that they can return to running as efficiently as they can be. She takes her job so seriously that she calls herself the Chaos Eradicating Officer at Beyond the Chaos, a company she founded that empowers businesses to do exactly that. If you’re a small business owner and you’re feeling overwhelmed from running your business, you might need Susan Fennema and her chaos-eradicating skills. Beyond the Chaos will help your business get back on track “through process development, organization, and structuring business operations and projects.” Her tasks go…