Tony Winyard

Rob Braiman has a reputation as a "Serial Entrepreneur" and for the past 15 years has been working directly with business owners to improve strategic planning, operations, growth, and profitability. He founded Cogent Analytics after spending over 10 years as a senior business analyst helping to improve and build main street businesses across the country. The company has now been ranked for 2 consecutive years on the Inc 500/Inc 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the country and # 5 in the state of NC. Rob has engaged with over 1700 businesses across the United States and the mission of Cogent Analytics is to bring tools of better management, organization, and profitability to privately held, small to mid-sized businesses; and to deliver their services with integrity and transparency. In this episode we discuss: Always putting the interests of the client first Rob's value system and what he asks the employees of Cogent to embrace Profitability / Small Busine...

Trish is a public speaking coach, mentor and author and helping to empower introverts. She loves helping people find their message and share it with others and she makes it easier for people to do so whether that be using the spoken word or the written word. Some of the topics discussed: An advocate for people who have dealt with suicide Advocate for breast cancer Author and contributing author to 15 books Mentoring What people struggle with most when writing a book Why she loves the words: "Repurpose and leverage” “When you believe in yourself, wow the journey really takes off" By not sharing your message you’re being selfish!   2018  Winner BPW Northlakes Bright Training & Employment Partners Inspirational Woman Award 2018 & 2016 Small Business Champion Awards – Finalist Education & Training Category 2016 Women World Award Gold Winner – Woman of the Year- Mentor or Coach 2016 Women World Award Bronze Winner – Female Entrepreneur of the Year 201...

Dr Jacqui Taylor is a Cyberpreneur, a Top 10 Global IoT innovator, a Smart Cities Tsar, a UK Science Diplomat, Professor, Aerospace Engineer... She has an Honorary Doctorate of Science and a top 10 global Internet of Things innovator she doesn’t just predict the future she engineers it using cutting edge web science research. In this episode, she talks about clarifying and demystifying the future for you and spotlighting the megatrends inspiring you to align your organisation to profit from the Internet of Things. We explore many different areas in this episode including: Working as a strategic advisor to governments inc the UK, China Advising central banks and organisations such as Unicef How her company Flying Binary positively impacted over 90 countries Being involved in the project of building the internet of things - which changes our society and the way we live in the world Story of discussion with Sir Tim Berners-Lee creator of the internet Jacqui is a Smart City Tzar ...

Mike Jesowshek is a modern and innovative CPA/accountant taking a new-age approach to accounting, tax savings, and growing your business. Mike has been an entrepreneur most of his career.  He has CFO and co-founded several companies with experience in all business stages and has the aim of helping businesses that have seen and lived the same experiences he had encountered.  He has been in the shoes of many small business owners out there and his end goal is to help them in one area that most business owners are not familiar with, accounting and taxes. Some of the topics discussed in this episode: Helped a client save far more on their taxes than they thought possible Created videos to help clients through all aspects of the financials   Some of the commonly misunderstood issues with accountants addressed: Tax savings are only for the rich Bookkeeping isn’t necessary All workers can be independent contractors If someones says they do “deduct this on taxes”, th...