Commercial / For Profit Business

Jane Pollak is one of the Northeast’s foremost coaches of entrepreneurial women and a living example of how to turn a passion into a thriving business.

A successful entrepreneur, public speaker, author, and business coach, Jane launched her professional career in an unlikely field – egg decoration. Her odyssey took her from remote craft fairs and customer rejections to the White House and appearances on NBC’s Today Show.

Having transformed her art into a thriving, profitable business, Jane now guides other remarkable women entrepreneurs in their own journey toward uncommon success.

Ever-current with today’s business challenges, she re-released her book Soul Proprietor: 101 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur (originally published in 2001 by Crossing Press) in 2010, with updated strategies for pursuing your dreams during an economic downturn, leveraging new technology to authentically promote your business, and other timely topics.

Jocelyn Lucas Rosenberg is creative director/partner at Chelsea Media Group. For 20 years, she was as an advertising and marketing strategist and creative. This experience honed her ability to recognize the unique perspective of each client and fostered her ability to nurture innovation and integration. She is deft at finding the essence of a story and helping others use this as the basis for their own communications. She is a dynamic speaker and a very good listener, with the ability to bring large groups together and focus them on a common goal. Jocelyn creates highly engaging and effective workshops, learning sessions, and experiential trainings. Having worked with companies, from airlines to healthcare, nonprofits to Fortune 500 businesses, she is truly industry agnostic. Her ability to see a clear path for change is the essence of the strategy and breakthrough thinking that CMG brings to clients.
 

Bill Anderson, managing partner at Chelsea Media Group, has more than 30 years of senior management experience, leading media companies and advising early and growth-stage companies in the new media space. He led The Atlantic Monthly as president and publisher among other distinguished publications. He has helped such publishers as Time Inc., Hachette and Hearst develop ROI strategies to ensure profitable relationships with customers across the various print and new media communication channels by leveraging and managing content and highlighting brand strength. As founder of Powers Solutions, he developed proprietary web-based event management solutions to reduce organizational costs and optimize sponsor revenue for events. He cofounded the Nonprofit Sponsorship Network to bring revenue from luxury goods and financial advertisers to arts and cultural nonprofits in the form of email driven ad sponsorships. Bill brings a background rich in experience from working with a broad cross section of organizations to help them meet their strategic marketing, communications and revenue goals.

Known as “Ms. Marketing” by her colleagues and clients, Alyssa Dver, is the founder and chief executive of the world-wide consulting company, Mint Green Marketing. She provides affordable, expert marketing help to multinational companies and small businesses around the world. She has been profiled by Business Week and American Express OPEN for her business success.

Endorsed by the American Marketing Association and others, Dver’s marketing books, No Time Marketing and Software Product Management Essentials, are considered industry standards. Dver writes for publications such as Entrepreneur, Business Week, Forbes, and Software Magazine. She has been interviewed by The Boston Globe, NPR and Newsday and is a media go-to person for marketing

An acclaimed keynote speaker, Dver has spoken to prestigious organizations including the World Diversity Summit at the United Nations, The Women's Congress, New England Business EXPO, and The Commonwealth Institute. Considered among the best corporate trainers, she teaches worldwide at public and private companies.

Dver is a graduate of the Wharton School and AIPMM certified product manager.

Jeanne Brutman is an independent fee-based financial planner for small to medium-sized businesses and savvy individuals. She conducts rigorous research and carefully monitors changes in the tax code and insurance law that affect financial planning. She then tracks financial products as they evolve to determine how clients can best take advantage of them.

Through her many years of personal and professional experience, Jeanne has acquired the skills necessary to help individuals and small companies make breakthroughs in the areas that are most confusing:

• discretionary benefits
• retirement plans and planning
• workers compensation
• estate analysis and tax strategies
• retirement asset management
• business continuation and succession planning
• long-term investing strategies
• life, disability, long-term care, and group health insurance policies

Jeanne works with a team of a dozen highly trained professionals in related fields for her clients’ convenience. She has four designations in her field LUTCF CFBS, CFS and CLTC and holds several licenses in her profession. She speaks extensively in industry and academia, including Baruch College, Pace College, New York University, The American College for Financial Planners and she has spoken at The Learning Annex, as well as for various industry associations. Jeanne has given more than 50 seminars that were approved for Continuing Education Credits in New York and New Jersey for CPAs and attorneys. Jeanne has also been a member of MDRT for many years, an organization that represents the top 1% of the financial services industry. She also teaches continuing education courses for her industry and is an instructor for the LUTCF designation,

Giving back to her community is a passion. Jeanne has served on the board of her professional association as the Educational Chair (NYCAIFA) and was on the board of the nationally recognized nonprofit organization Savvy Ladies for five years. She is quoted in media and she has appeared by reference in Real Estate Weekly, Financial Planning Magazine, The Green, Golf beyond the Links Magazine, Registered Rep, CNBC online, Smartmoney.com, CFO Magazine and Oprah Winfrey’s website, as well as many other publications and websiites. Jeanne also runs a weekly teleseminar on financial planning every Wednesday evening at 8 Pm ET. To register, go to her website www.askjeannebrutman.com.

Jason founded Nonprofit Solutions Network in 1998 to help nonprofits boost productivity, lower costs, and improve their overall operation through the use of technology. Other IT firms that provide affordable services do this by providing a “one size fits all” approach. Nonprofit Solutions and its sister company that serves small businesses provide technology solutions customized to meet the unique needs and financials challenges of nonprofits and small business. 

Jason founded Nonprofit Solutions Network in 1998 to help nonprofits boost productivity, lower costs, and improve their overall operation through the use of technology. Other IT firms that provide affordable services do this by providing a “one size fits all” approach. Nonprofit Solutions and its sister company that serves small businesses provide technology solutions customized to meet the unique needs and financials challenges of nonprofits and small business. 

Clovia Hamilton founded Lemongrass Consulting, Inc. with 20 years of experience in government.  Lemongrass provides professional strategic planning services related to organizational assessments, business process improvements, intellectual property strategy, community outreach, and government contracting strategy.  

Clovia has a multi-disciplinary background in law, engineering, planning, and management, which enables the firm to offer clients a broad range of services that optimize their return on investment and their end results.  

In addition to consulting, Clovia teaches government contracting at Georgia Tech’s Procurement Assistance Center and helps manage small business programs for local governments in Georgia.

Michelle Dunn is an award-winning author, self-syndicated columnist, and has worked in the credit and debt collection industry for more than 25 years. She has been named one of the Top 5 Women in Collections two years in a row as well as one of the Top 50 most influential collection professionals by her peers. Look for her newest book by Wiley Publishing titled, "The Guide to Getting Paid: Weed Out Bad Paying Customers, Collect on Past Due Balances, and Avoid Bad Debt,” available now everywhere. Visit Michelle online Credit-and-Collections.com

Tara is the founder of Marketing Artfully, a 12-year-old company that creates cutting-edge marketing strategies for small businesses. Tara’s primary responsibilities are speaking with small business owners, conducting workshop trainings, and consulting with clients. With a B.A. in Psychology and 10+ years of “in-the-trenches” marketing experience, Tara’s background prepared her for helping small business owners grow their market share and profitability with “real life” marketing ideas and lead-generating tips.