• Keynote Speaker at MLMIA Annual Convention• Direct Selling/Social Retail Consultant – executive consultation services include:1. compensation plan creation or revision, including Distributor training2. training curricula, including text, video, webinar and Distributor training3. operations and executive team support4. sales and marketing plans5. Distributor recruitment / training / retention6. business plans / executive summary7. public speaking services, including live events, conference calls, seminars8. author Terms & Conditions, Policies & Procedures, compliance documents• Direct Selling/Social Retail Company Owner – part-owner and executive team member of two Direct Sales companies, including President of one; author of compensation plans, recruited and trained all sales team; wrote all training, recruiting and marketing materials, seminar content, conference call content, website content; planned and hosted local and regional events, including public speaking functions, was liaison between company and all media contacts; worked with translation companies to create multilingual marketing materials and website content.• Distributor/Sales Trainer and Personal Development Speaker – seminar presenter, international conference call presenter, trainer to tens of thousands of individuals, as upline leader and as corporate team trainer; creator and presenter of hundreds of seminar presentations, training presentations, conference calls; author of 100s of personal development/training/inspirational newsletters read by 40,000+ business owners in dozens of countries.• 20+ years of public speaking and training experience; speaker at hundreds of meetings, including before a standing-room-only crowd at the Los Angeles Sports Arena (in excess of 20,000 attendees).• Direct Selling/Social Retail Distributor, instrumental in growing and training downline organizations with tens of thousands of Distributors in dozens of countries.

The Vidaken Suite of Companies currently includes Vidaken Media, Vidaken Business Academy & Vidaken Business Institute.Vidaken Media (VM) offers a revolutionary business model built on the notion that every person, every business and every organization that wants to create a solid brand and impeccable presence in the marketplace must host a current library of custom-designed videos that brings to life their message, their vision and their mission. This is no longer optional. Even before they ever start to create a video, VM offers every Client free world-class Executive Coaching and Consultation to determine the very best, most appropriate custom design to turn their new video library into a 24/7 business-building machine. Never from a template, never from a ‘me too’ sense of design, every video VM designs and breathes to life proves beyond all doubt that not all videos are created equal!Vidaken Business Academy (VBA) offers world-class Entrepreneur Training, Social Retail & Personal Development experiences designed to show Students a precise proven path to personal and entrepreneurial success based on a unique and revolutionary business model that offers them a never-before-seen compensation structure that allows them to earn while they learn. Far removed from the traditional model of incurring debt or ‘paying to go to school’, VBA Students (if they’re paying attention in class!), actually have the very real opportunity to earn substantial income during their experience with us….thus eliminating any barriers to participation, and quite frankly, proving quite ably that our business model flat out works!Vidaken Business Institute (VBI) builds on the success of VBA and creates multiple diverse opportunities designed to offer each Student the most appropriate, most relevant and most highly profitable avenue into Entrepreneurship, putting into action the education, relationships and confidence they created for themselves within the Academy setting at VBA.

Oversee all phases of sales, operations, marketing and management of SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) consulting firm. Research and design sales and marketing activities. Operations Consultant, software support, extensive telephone sales and sales management responsibilities. Trained thousands of independent sales reps. Recruit and train independent sales force for other businesses. Design and present Sales Seminars, Opportunity Seminars, Training Seminars and Personal Development Seminars for live, teleseminar and webinar presentation. Author of hundreds of newsletters for international distribution (over 25 countries) to tens of thousands of independent sales reps.Business Coach/Life Coach – assist 100s of individuals to create a plan for home-based business start-up and success, including one-on-one coaching to overcome all manner of personal obstacles to success; regularly give personal guidance and encouragement to individuals and groups on all matters of life issues, ranging from personal and marital relationships, disease and illness, career and finances, family dysfunction, recovery from addiction, setting personal targets and plans to accomplish them, etc.

Keynote Speaker at MLMIA Annual ConventionTopic: The New Global Renaissance Demands a "New Common Sense"​ -- A Humanist Perspective on Taking Personal Responsibility (Human Revolution) for the Global Expansion of the Network Marketing Industry----------------------------------------------------------------- The MLMIA is the not-for-profit, worldwide, professional trade association, started in 1985 by industry professionals, for Network Marketing/Direct Sales/Multi-Level Marketing Companies (Corporate), the Independent Contractors (Distributors) who sell a Company's goods and services to the end consumer and the people who supply both the Companies and Distributors with those goods and services, the suppliers/vendors that we call (Support).For 30 years MLMIA has been a major force in defining the ethics, legalities and opportunities in Network Marketing. MLMIA has developed, facilitated and nurtured strong relationships between the industry and outside influences that affect its operations, including regulatory agencies, company management, software developers, educators, the press and the general public. MLMIA is recognized as the leading source of unbiased Network Marketing industry data and information by numerous industry, business and general publications.

I mentor Entrepreneurs and Business Start-ups (over 750 companies to date), from the "idea on a cocktail napkin" stage through "launch and sustained viability". My approach is founded on a humanistic relationship-building approach to all tasks, taking into account the "whole person", as I am convinced personal development/inspiration/motivation underlies everything we do, including our roles as businesspeople.Expertise includes customer definition, market identification, customer research and acquisition, sales and marketing, branding, online and offline marketing, recognizing trends, competitor research and analysis, finance, business plans, developing critical partnerships, personal development for success, personal development coaching for success, etc.In addition to one-on-one mentoring with business owners, I also create and present live group training webinars on all aspects of entrepreneurial pursuits, start-ups, and personal development. Also, I manage the the Mentor / Business Advisor Team.

Honorable Discharge.Awarded Army Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service.Promotion for Top-of-Class EENT School.Accelerated Promotion for Outstanding Performance of EENT Clinical Duties.