2009 Celebrating our Contributors

Friday, August 7, 2009 Linda Storey

Thursday, August 6, 2009 Susan Meharg

Thursday, August 6, 2009 D.E. Boone

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Cindy Ventrice
Cindy Ventrice is the author of Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works, a best-selling book on how to create a motivating work environment using meaningful recognition. She has also written Recognition Strategies That Work and The Secret to Recognition Programs That Work. A consultant for over 20 years, she has trained managers working in over 20 countries. Her work with organizations includes everything from workshops to improving recognition programs to assisting organizations in developing a recognition culture. Cindy frequently speaks at conferences on topics that range from Whose Going to Make My Day? to Small Budget, Big Payback: Employee Recognition For Challenging Times. Her style is irreverent, energizing, and insightful. Cindy is considered a leading expert on the topic of employee motivation and recognition. She has been quoted by The New York Times, Harvard Business Update, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and Entrepreneur. You can learn more at www.maketheirday.com

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Denise Griffitts

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Mary Lou DiNicolas

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Constance Hoffman

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Susan Bonner

Monday, August 3, 2009 Tai Goodwin
As The Career Makeover Coach, Tai Goodwin is on a mission to help ambitious women reinvent their professional lives by creating a career they can love and live with. Holding as a core belief that we are all called to divine purpose and gifted with a unique passion, Tai uses a results driven, spiritually grounded approach to help clients create career paths to support the lifestyle they desire. Whether it’s helping people go from embittered to empowered professionals or making the transition from employee to entrepreneur, Tai is committed to helping clients tap into their own potential for brilliance.
Tai has been empowering others through teaching and coaching for over 14 years. A gifted and insightful communicator, Tai holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Drexel University and a Master of Science in Education from Capella University. She has completed ASTD’s (American Society for Training and Development) Coaching Certificate program and is pursuing professional coaching certification through the International Coach Academy.
Originally from Philadelphia, Tai currently lives in Delaware with her daughter, where she currently serves as the Professional Development Examiner for the Wilmington area. Her blog (www.careermakeovercoach.com) was recently listed in CareerRocketeer’s list of 100+ Must Read Blogs for All Professionals.

Friday, July 31, 2009 Michelle Larter

Friday, July 31, 2009 Denise Griffitts

Friday, July 31, 2009 Peggy Nolan
Peggy Nolan (also known as Tool Box Girl) is the mother of two daughters and the bonus mother of four children. Peggy is a published author and the founder and creator of two blogs, The Step Moms Tool Box and Serendipity Smiles. She is also the founder of The Mothers Day Dare Project. As a self-care advocate, certified yoga instructor and breast cancer survivor, Peggy is passionate about helping others help themselves. She is a frequent contributing writer to The StepMom Magazine. Peggys mission is to heal families and save the world one mom, one step mom at a time.
Peggy is currently writing and editing her first book The Hope Chest: Inspiring Stories, Essays, and Poems by Stepmoms for Stepmoms and she is accepting submissions until August 31, 2009 (see her blog for details.)Learn more about Peggy at thestepmomstoolbox.com

Friday, July 31, 2009 Meredith Gossland

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Pam Neely
Pamela Neely is president of NeelyThere Corporation (dba The Growth Coach), a Chicago-based professional coaching company specializing in a proven coaching process that helps small business owners, franchisees, managers and self-employed professionals leverage their time, talents and resources.

NeelyThere Corporation (The Growth Coach) provides an objective perspective that helps businesses review, adjust and elevate their performance through a comprehensive scope of services. Learn more at: www.neelythere.com

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Nathan Egan
Nathan Egan
is the Founder & Managing Partner of Freesource Agency, a social media consulting firm and creator of the first interactive directory for free web-based resources, Freesourcing.org. Prior to starting Freesource Agency, Nathan worked at LinkedIn and has wonderful insight into the world of social media networking. Nathan earned his MBA with a focus on business technology optimization from Villanova University and his Bachelor of Science from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. The Freesource Agency is the company that introduced freesourcingto the world. A consulting and sales training company led by seasoned technologist and entrepreneur, Nathan Egan, the Freesource Agency helps organizations leverage free, web-based Social Media + Web 2.0 platforms. They design and deliver customized on-site and virtual workshops that specifically address each client’s unique sales model and target markets.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Sandy Dixon
Sandy Dixon has an eye for what works and what doesn’t work in a room.
But this Evergreen businesswoman isn’t fooled into thinking that
spending money on design services is top-of-mind for most people in
this tough economy.Sandy is a former Realtorand sales, marketing and training executive. She teaches people how to start, market and grow their own real estate staging and interior redesign businesses, also offering redesign/staging workshops for both existing business owners and those looking to start a new career. Visit her website at www.interiorarrangements.com for information on her PR and marketing products as well as her training and mentoring programs.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Clarky Davis

Clarky Davis, The Debt Diva is a leading credit and debt management expert at CareOne, with more than 10 years of personal and professional experience in debt management. Based on her own journey overcoming debt and learning to live within her means, The Debt Diva’s savvy spending strategies teach consumers how to be frugal and fabulous. She approaches this topic in an engaging and entertaining way that is accessible to all consumers in her downloadable guides. The Debt Diva’s Frugal and Fabulous Lifestyle Guides cover topics from basic money management and budgeting how to’sto frugal fitness options and caring for your pet on a budget. As The Debt Diva, Davis has appeared on Fox Business, Fox and Friends, and Nightline and has partnered with the bargain retailer TJ Maxx. Davis blogs regularly about consumer debt statistics and trends, financial solutions and savings tips for consumers adhering to the Four Rphilosophy for money management?