Candyce Edelen is a seasoned entrepreneur with road rash earned from co-founding two fintech companies, one of which made the Deloitte Fast 50 list in 2004. In 2007, she launched PropelGrowth, a marketing consultancy where she helps financial and tech firms develop and execute go-to-market strategies. Over 10 years, she helped lead 13 companies to strategic acquisitions and successful exits.

Candyce shares some strategies of prospecting on LinkedIn, when to know if you’re selling or being sold to, when to not be pushy, and much more!

Rina shares some tips on being a successful business coach for your clients, shifting mindset, identifying problems, and much more!

Perhaps it’s her Texas roots, but Jess Pettitt, MBA, M.Ed., CSP, believes that to really thrive in this world, you have to ride two horses—one of giving and one of receiving. For Jess, the giving horse is her passion for service, and the receiving horse is the high she rides entertaining audiences. For almost 10 years, Jess rode one horse by day, serving as an administrator in student affairs for university Diversity and Inclusion programs, and the other by night, performing and hosting three times a week doing stand-up in New York City’s most popular comedy clubs (ask her about George Carlin’s nickname for her or sharing an eggroll birthday cake with Bob Newhart). Eventually, Jess discovered she could ride both horses at the same time in the same career, and a speaker in the DEI space was born. Now, nearly 20 years and half a million audience members later, Jess gallops from coast to coast delivering her “Good Enough Now” message to anyone willing to take the leap toward creating a much more inclusive (read: much more effective) organization.

Jess talks about her latest book, “Almost Good Enough”, implementing DEI in an organization, elements of culture change, and much more!