ProfitCON 2022
ProfitCon 2022 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City. A discounted hotel rate of $275 for 1 King Bed or 2 Double Beds. We encourage you to book your hotel rooms early using this link.
The Hyatt Regency Jersey City is located within walking distance to the PATH train or ferry into NYC.
2 Exchange Place, Jersey City, NJ 07302
Chris is a serial entrepreneur and author of the bestselling books, “Virtual Freedom”, and more recently, “Rise of the Youpreneur”.
Based in Cambridge, England, Chris owns and operates several businesses, including the VA recruiting hub, VirtualStaffFinder.com and the personal brand education company Youpreneur.com, that combined house over 350 full-time employees around the world. He’s a trusted international business coach, keynote speaker and podcaster.
Nowadays he spends most of his time mentoring successful entrepreneurs, as well as investing in and advising startup companies and publishing new training content at ChrisDucker.com.
Mike is the creator of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit. Today he leads two new multi-million-dollar ventures, as he tests his latest business research for his books. Mike is a popular main stage keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics.
Linda Ugelow (YOU-guh-low) is a speaking confidence coach with a ground-breaking approach to overcoming the fear of speaking. Formerly stricken with public speaking fear herself, she now helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporate leaders to transform their experience of speaking from dread to delight whether they speak online or onstage, in the media or the meeting room.
Linda has presented at the Positive Psychology Conference in France and emcee’d a TEDx event in Hungary. She’s also an accomplished musician and dancer having performed in more than 500 shows around the world. Linda hosted the TV show Women Inspired and is the author of the book, Delight In The Limelight: Overcome Your Fear of Being Seen and Realize Your Dreams.
Ron Saharyan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Profit First Professionals. Ron has over 15 years of experience in managing organizational growth and built multiple companies in the staffing industry prior to launching Profit First Professionals.
PeriSean B. Hall is inspiring, engaging and contagiously energetic. She is deeply passionate about helping people hone their unique value individually, interpersonally, and professionally.
Over the course of her 20+ year career, PeriSean has illumined the following professional platforms: seminar/workshop facilitator, news reporter/producer, multimedia show producer, radio personality, worship leader, and emcee and stage performer. PeriSean is a news anchor, show producer and itinerate Speaker for Service Nation, Inc.; a certified John Maxwell Coach, Teacher, Trainer and Speaker, and author of My Mama Told Me: Motherly Wisdom for Everyday Living, her debut book release.
How many people can say they’ve never worked for anyone else? Selling eggs door-to-door at 14 years old began a lifetime of self-employment. Jeffrey Shaw provides self-employed and small business owners the business and personal development strategies they need to create the business and life of their dreams.
Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey shows business owners how to see business through a different lens and strategies to compose the often-chaotic pieces of life and business into sustainable success.
Jeffrey’s TEDx Lincoln Square talk is featured on TED.com, he’s the host of the top-rated podcast, The Self-Employed Life, author of The Self-Employed Life and LINGO, a keynote speaker, LinkedIn Learning instructor, contributing writer to Entrepreneur magazine, and founder of the Self-Employed Business Institute.
Mike Agugliaro has proved the world wrong, and continues to prove the world wrong every day.
Mike’s story starts like the stories of many people—with struggles in his family and in school. In his teen years, he lived on his own and faced one hardship after another. When pushed to the breaking point, and with more questions than answers, young Mike shifted his mindset: even when others would have given up, he decided to prove the world wrong and create a new story for himself.
That one mindset shift sparked a life of transformation and mastery: Mike started on his journey of martial arts when he was 15 years old, and devoted himself to mastery for over 3 decades that led him to creating his own martial arts system in 2009 called Jinsei Ryu Budo.
Mike applied the same mindset shift in his career: as an electrician, he started his own electrical company in 1994. The first years were challenging but little did he know what it would turn into. He kept pushing, he kept proving the world wrong, and he kept leveling up his mindset until success clicked. In just 10 short years, his once-struggling electrical company grew into a $32 million/year home services empire that was acquired by a private equity firm in 2017.
His mindset leveled up again as his focus shifted to serving the home service industry. He built CEO Warrior, the largest training and coaching organization in the world for home service businesses. He grew that company into an industry-transforming success story that helps thousands of service companies collectively generate more than half a billion dollars in additional revenue. Globally, CEO Warrior serves clients in 6 countries. In 2020, at the height of the COVID pandemic (and even when others said it couldn’t be done) he proved the world wrong yet again and brought aboard a large private equity firm to help grow the organization to another level. Now as a board member, Mike is continuing to guide CEO Warrior into a global empire.
Today, Mike runs a business investment firm that invests in high-performing entrepreneurs that want to grow to an exit. He also runs FuDog Group, a peak performance training company that helps people enhance their personal lives, and he’s on a mission to impact 1,000,000 people in 100 countries in 10 years or less.
Mike and his beautiful wife, Jennifer, live at the Jersey Shore. When Mike is not helping others, or spending time at the beach with his wife looking for sea glass, he is practicing martial arts in his dojo. Mike is the author of more than 17 books, and a sought-after speaker who has shared the stage with inspirational experts like Brian Tracy, Larry Winget, Jay Abraham, Mike Michalowicz, Lou Ferrigno, and so many others.
Years ago, most people would have looked at young Mike’s life and assumed that his story would end like so many others. But Mike shifted his mindset to a new level, pushed himself beyond what others thought was possible, wrote a new story of transformation and mastery… and today Mike continues to prove the world wrong and help others write a new story for themselves.
Gena worked hard to get all the credentials and experience that powered her long consulting career. But then she had an epiphany; leaders might not need a consultant like her if only they would talk directly to employees. But many leaders simply would not do it!
Gena has been advising business leaders, including some in the Fortune 500, for over 20 years. She has consulted with leaders at innovative companies, including Hitachi, Mastercard, Tech Data, Johnson Controls, Quicken Loans, NYULangone, Scotiabank, Sitel, and Raymond James Financial.
In her speaking and business, Gena aims to bring leaders closer to employees’ day-to-day experiences to help them create the inclusive cultures those employees deserve, especially in this disrupted work world. Her book, “Leading Inclusion” is about these issues.
Gena holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and is an International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC).
Leaders are always looking for a new perspective. So let Gena help you spark some “ah-ha” moments at your next event. Attendees will leave Gena’s session asking themselves, “am I doing all I can to enhance the day-to-day experience of my employees?”
As a small business expert, Barry Moltz gets owners growing again by unlocking their long-forgotten potential. With decades of entrepreneurial experience in his own business ventures as well as consulting countless other entrepreneurs, Barry has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward. As a small business expert, Barry applies simple, strategic steps to facilitate change.
After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. His first book, “You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business” describes the ups and downs and emotional trials of running a business. It is in its fifth reprint and has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean and Thai.
His second book, “Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success”, shows what it takes to come back and develop true business confidence. It has been translated into Korean and German. His third book, “BAM! Delivering Customer Service in a Self-Service World” shows how customer service is the new marketing. People now buy experiences and relationships, not products. His fourth book, Small Town Rules: How Small Business and Big Brands can Profit in a Connected Economy shows how when every customer can talk to every other customer, it’s like living in a small town: Your reputation is everything! His fifth book, “How to Get Unstuck: 25 Ways to Get Your Business Growing Again” focuses on how to get small business owners making more profits in their company. Barry’s sixth book “Small Business Hacks: 100 Shortcuts to Your Success” with Rieva Lesonsky gives small business owners the key resources to be successful.
Barry’s 7th book, “ChangeMasters: How to Actually Make the Changes You Already Know You Need to Make” is available in April 2022. 1000 free copies are available.
Barry is a nationally recognized speaker on small business who has given hundreds of presentations to audiences ranging in size from 20 to 20,000. As a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, he has also taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has appeared on many TV and radio programs such as CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, MSNBC’s Your Business and NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show. He hosts his own weekly radio program for 12 years, The Small Business Radio Show on AM820, and writes regularly for the American Express Open Forum and other periodicals.
