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Known for her enthusiasm and love for collaborating with people to visually articulate ideas, Heather’s unique point of view and endless imagination is contagious. She is an artist that designs at a very large scale with a design perspective that makes ideas become viable, well designed products and center pieces that turn locations into landmarks. Her work can be seen in offices, restaurants, residences, hotels and public spaces locally and nationally.

Brand Guru. Brand Impresario. Brand Evangelist. She's written the book on branding (twice!) with bestsellers Branding is Sex and Irrational Loyalty. She's the founder and CEO of Sol Marketing, a strategy-led marketing firm obsessed with solving major business and branding problems for clients in every industry. Companies throughout the world use Deb’s Brand Values Pyramid, Ideal Customer Archetype, and “Brand Swagger Questions” to align their teams and articulate their brands to audiences.

Max Wastler is the Vice President of Brand at Aparium Hotel Group, where he oversees the image and experience of the Aparium brand as a whole and each individual brand within the portfolio of hotels and restaurants. Wastler has nearly two decades of branding and marketing experience, having previously consulted on strategy and storytelling for companies such as J. Crew, Madewell, Patagonia, Lands End, and Airstream.

Whether it's storytelling, informational, or entertainment-focused, creating a branded podcast could be another weapon in your client's 2020 arsenal. Yeosh will give you some ideas, tips, and tricks for developing concepts and pitching your podcast ideas to your clients. He'll break down the process developed by his company, Push Button Creative Audio, and share promotional, audio branding, and measurement tools to help you along the way.

GS&P has been Bonnie’s agency home since 1998, where she has led strategy on the California Milk Processor Board (“got milk?”), Comcast, Nest, Adobe and SONIC Drive-In, as well as provocative, effective and award-winning campaigns fighting child sex trafficking, cyberbullying and college-campus rape. Bonnie was named an associate partner in 2014 and a partner and the head of brand strategy in 2016.

Ashley Bright is The Message Fixer. After 18 years of pitching to Fortune 500 companies in the design and marketing industry, he founded Ashley Bright Presents to teach entrepreneurs and business leaders how to avoid messaging and communication mistakes that cost them millions. Microsoft, Honor Health, and the University of Arizona are amongst the many clients who rely on Ashley’s IMPACT Speaking Method to help their leaders conquer fears, avoid costly mistakes and get the money they need to succeed.