Quoted in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and featured on Speaker and Minority Business Enterprise magazines. Pegine, who goes by her first name, is the only Latina in the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame, alongside stars like Jack Canfield. Through Power Women Worldwide groups, she focuses on uplifting women in leadership, making her one of the Society for Human Resource Management’s 100 Global Thought Leaders on Diversity & Inclusion. Her experience and influence encompasses business and entrepreneurship – as the founder and leader of multi-million-dollar businesses; education – as a speaker, presenter, therapist, and mentor. Pegine has received business recognition from organizations including the Women’s Business Minority National Council, U.S. Department of Defense, and U.S. Small Business Administration, which named her a Women in Business Champion.
Julie Cottineau is the creator of Brand School by BrandTwist, a unique and actionable online branding class for entrepreneurs, small businesses and non-profits. Before starting her own brand school and consultancy, Julie honed her branding chops at a series of high level agency positions including as vice president management supervisor at Grey Global in both the US and France and executive director of consumer branding at Interbrand. She has client-side experience as the vice president of brand at Richard Branson’s Virgin Management Group overseeing branding strategy for new and established Virgin companies in North America. Julie loves to teach and talk about branding and has been an adjunct professor and visiting senior lecturer at Columbia and Cornell Universities as well as a frequent branding commentator on Twitter and in top business media such as Forbes.com, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNN, and American Express Open Forum.
Mindy Gibbins-Klein is a multi-award-winning International Speaker and Executive Coach for thought leaders and authors. She has authored and co-authored 9 books, including 24 Carat BOLD endorsed by Seth Godin and The Thoughtful Leader. An international speaker for 25 years, Mindy has presented to and coached over 50,000 business executives and entrepreneurs in 18 countries. Her content has been syndicated, licensed, and showcased worldwide.
A native New Yorker, Mindy currently lives in London and New York. She founded and runs three international businesses. Her TEDx talk has had over half a million views and showcases Mindy’s insights on living life more thoughtfully.
Mindy has also been an accredited volunteer for Epilepsy Action, the largest epilepsy charity in the UK.