Hugh Ballou is The Transformational Leadership Strategist and Corporate Culture Architect working with visionary CEOs, entrepreneurs, pastors, and nonprofit leaders and their teams to develop a purpose-driven high performance collaborative culture.

With 40 years as musical conductor, Ballou uses the leadership skills utilized daily by the conductor in teaching relevant leadership skills and showing leaders in business, church, or nonprofit organizations the power of creating a high performance culture that responds to the nuances of the leader as a skilled orchestra responds to the musical director. 

Russell Dennis helps nonprofits find more money and attract more support to their causes through targeted research and planning with frameworks designed to measure resources on hand and acquire the most important ones first.

His unique blend of experience allows him to show nonprofits how to work smarter not harder, work on the most important things, and break everything down into short, easy-to-complete steps.

He simplifies the most complicated concepts into tools that are easy for nonprofits to understand and use that move them forward.

Dr. Thyonne Gordon is an accomplished social profit management expert, writer and producer. Her work with 501c3 organizations has created growth-oriented businesses, strong board governance, productive teams and sustainable fundraising strategies using her proven technique of the S.T.O.R.Y.  Accelerator™.  Dr. Gordon has empowered hundreds of organizations nationwide. 

With a passion for youth development, she worked with South Central youth organization A Place Called Home implementing a music collaboration with Berklee College of Music in Boston and the first of it’s kind, David and Linda Shaheen Scholarship, encouraging unlikely youth to consider higher education. 

Dr. David Gruder, Ph. D, DCEP, is an 11-award-winning clinical, organizational, and enterprise success psychologist with a background in master planning (50-100 year plans).

An entrepreneur since 1980, he co-founded Willingness Works in 1988; became founding president in 1998 of a still-thriving international nonprofit, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology; and is currently President of Integrity Culture Systems™. Radio & TV Interview Reports named Dr. Gruder "America's Integrity Expert" in 2008, and he has received a leadership award and a culture creation award.

Danna is a Business Growth Strategist and CEO of MarketAtomy, LLC. Her passion is working with small first stage entrepreneurs to ensure that they start out on the right foot and stay on the path to financial freedom. Known as the Business Birthing Specialist, Danna understands the intricacies involved in starting and running a successful business. Her efforts extend beyond the initial strategic planning process on into the implementation and monitoring phase. As an intricate component ingrained into her client’s business structure, she works diligently to keep her client’s accountable and on track to fulfilling their success goals.

David Dunworth is a certified Magnetic Marketing Advisor serving Nonprofits and Clinicians through attraction marketing and automation to grow capacity and sustainability to fulfill their mission.
Nonprofits he’s worked with in the past are Michigan Cancer Foundation, Leukemia Society of America, Michigan Bach Festival, Detroit International Wine Auction benefiting the Institute of Music and Dance, and many others.

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