Think Business With Jon Dwoskin

Ethan is currently the Chairman of the Michigan Opera Theatre’s Board of Directors and Trustees. He also is currently Chairman of the Grants Committee of the William Davidson Foundation, dedicated to advancing the economic, cultural and civic vitality of Southeast Michigan, the State of Israel and the Jewish community. In addition to his work at the Foundation, Davidson serves on numerous boards in the Detroit area, including his role as a Director of the Motown Museum. At the University of Michigan, he earned a BA in English and did graduate work in Middle Eastern History and Islamic Law. He has also studied Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is also a professional singer and songwriter who has recorded 10 albums and toured throughout North America and Europe. Connect with Ethan Davidson Listen on Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ethan-daniel-davidson/107466490?ign-gact=3&ls=1 Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://w

LA-based attorney and accountant Peter Bronstein is the founder of BiznessGrowth -- a one-stop platform for business owners to do everything they need for their business, from startup to growth.  With 25 years of experience, Peter is an expert in creating legal entities and protecting one's rights. In fact, he once represented the founder of nationally-recognized legal resource LegalZoom. He also hosts a radio show called AskBrien, a business resource for business owners.  Connect with Peter Brontein Website: https://biznessgrowth.com/ Twiter: https://www.twitter.com/PeterBronstein Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bizgrowthco LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bizgrowthco/ Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com

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Jessica Willis, Founder & CEO PocketNest . PocketNest provides comprehensive financial planning to genx and millenials in a digital, methodical format. And they do this by licensing their platform to institutions- financial institutions including banks, investment advisors and credit unions and non-financial institutions including employee wellness plans, universities and non for profits serving low to moderate-income individuals. With nearly 20 years of industry experience, Jessica’s co-managed $1B in assets for 200+ people. She’s earned the CFP® and CPWA® designations, an MBA from Loyola University Chicago and undergraduate degree from University of Michigan. Thanks to an overly enthusiastic passion for helping people with their finances, Jessica’s on a mission to demystify and democratize financial planning. Offline, Jessica loves spending time with her three children and husband Tom (her old friend by her side).               Connect with Jessica Willis:         Website: www.pocketnest.com  Twitter: @

Domenic Rinaldi is the Owner and Managing Partner of Sun Acquisitions - a Chicago based mergers and acquisitions firm. He is also a speaker, author and host of the M&A Unplugged Podcast. ‍ Domenic specializes in helping the owners of privately held companies (with enterprise values between $2 and $30 million dollars) scale, acquire and sell businesses. He has been personally involved in over 300 business transactions across a broad range of industries and is considered an expert in his field.   Domenic is passionate about mergers and acquisitions and thrives on helping his clients maximize the value of their transactions.               Connect with Domenic Rinaldi  Website: www.sunacquisitions.com and www.maunplugged.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/SunAcquisitions             Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MAUnplugged/   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexp

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Alex Castro is the CEO of M Corp and has helped clients deliver complex corporate strategies for the last twenty years. He finds new approaches to serving and building companies by identifying their operational vulnerabilities and correcting them, and the Readiness Score he created (ReM Score™) has evolved from hundreds of engagements into a digital platform tool.  Alex is a graduate of Northeastern University, where he was a collegiate rower, and he later went on to coach the University of California-Davis rowing team. He is also an avid mountain biker and has two wonderful daughters who are a constant source of inspiration and joy.         Connect with Alex Castro Website: www.alexcastro.io or www.remscore.com             Twitter: @ioalexcastro             LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-castro-28b1148/   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ Li

Marc de Sousa-Shields is an international sustainable development and investment consultant. He co-founded and was the first Executive Director of the Social Investment Organization (SIO) of Canada. He has been an advisor to the United Nations and was a Member of the US Social Investment Forum International Committee. He wrote Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Emerging Markets for the World Bank-International Finance Corporation and led a USA ID project on Transitions to Private Capital.   Connect with Mark de Sousa-Shields  Website: https://www.thesustainablecentury.net/ Twitter: @csrcounts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marc.desousashieldsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-de-sousa-shields-7b122a1/   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com  

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Dr. Valerio Pascotto is the Director of Faculty at Illustra and together with noted author Tim Gallwey, is the founder of IGEOS®.  Valerio has 32+ years’ experience helping individuals and corporations reach their potential and maximize their productivity. He has conducted seminars and developed programs for industry in the area of change management, group integration, retention, team building, leadership, goal setting, and work effectiveness among others.  Valerio has a Doctoral Degree in Psychology at Pepperdine University, has taught at the graduate and doctoral level and is a member of the Forbes Coach Council. Over the past twenty years, Amit has developed a rich background in leadership development, effectiveness systems, and behavior change. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a Tiny Habits® certified coach. He has led and managed teams as well as coached managers and leaders. He thrives in recognizing and cultivating the potential in others, from improving their ability to handle and manag

Adam Coffey has spent the past 18 years as President and CEO of 3 national service companies, each in different industries. Adam’s first company, Masterplan, was a medical device service company, owned by Three Cities Research (NYC) and Camden Partners (Baltimore) that was subsequently sold after his departure to Berkshire Partners (Boston) in 2007 and later became a division of Aramark (NYSE:ARMK) in 2011.    Adam’s second company, WASH Multifamily Laundry, a commercial laundry service company, started as a family-owned business that during Coffey’s tenure was subsequently sold in 2008 to Code Hennessy & Simmons (Chicago) and was then sold again in 2015 to EQT Partners (Stockholm). Adam is currently building his third company, CoolSys, a commercial refrigeration and HVAC service company for the Audax Group (Boston). Known for building strong employee-centered cultures, and for executing a buy and build strategy, Coffey is highly sought after by private equity and is considered an expert in running commer

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Connie Pheiff is an internationally recognized mentor, speaker, and author. She is the former CEO of the Girl Scouts’ Penn’s Woods Council. She is also the chair of the Pheiff Group and founder of the Total Leadership Masterclass. Connie has been highlighted in national publications showcasing her business acumen and drive to help thought leaders achieve excellence while developing impactful leadership and high-performance habits.  Connect with Connie Pheiff:  Website: www.womenwhodare.com Twitter: @conniepheiff and @WWDCouncil Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com

Brenda Meller is a self-proclaimed “ambassador” of LinkedIn, national speaker, and the Chief Engagement Officer at Meller Marketing, which provides marketing and social media support for individuals and businesses, specializing in LinkedIn. She has been leveraging social media to propel her personal and professional efforts for over ten years, and now blends this experience with her marketing expertise to help clients achieve their goals.  You can find Brenda Meller and Meller Marketing online on all the major social media channels (see below). Someday soon, she will complete her next goal of writing a book on LinkedIn.  Other Important Facts: Brenda loves coffee, chocolate, and pie. In her downtime, she enjoys jigsaw puzzles.  Connect with Brenda Meller Website: www.mellermarketing.com Twitter: @brendameller Facebook: www.facebook.com/mellermarketing Instagram: www.instagram.com/mellermarketing LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendameller/ Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twi

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Julie and Mark Fisher are the co-founders of Echo 70, an Employee Advocacy Consulting firm. Julie has been educating people in one way, shape or form for the past 27 years. Her evolution in education began as a high school teacher on the South Side of Chicago and continued in Metro Detroit.She later worked as Executive Director of the nonprofit organization, BBFA (Building Better Families for Action), which focused on parent education about risky kid & teen behavior. It was during her tenure there that issues around parenting digital natives became a concern, so she created and led educational programs for both parents and students that gave them answers to real-life questions about tech and social media use. This led to her to start The Social U, where they created technology to deliver detailed social media report cards that used IBM’s Watson to “grade” every post in a user’s history and get a personalized Social GPA. Echo 70 allows Mark to combine his experience as a business owner, lawyer, salesman an

For more than 20 years, Michelle Tenner Cantor has been a driver of thought leadership and strategic direction relative to organizational and talent development, including eight years of change management consulting with Fortune 500 companies, such as ComEd, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.A., Ford Motor Company and Dow Chemical Co.  As Founder and President of Volar Consulting, LLC in metropolitan Detroit, Cantor has a demonstrated track record of designing and implementing successful Diversity and Inclusion programs, which integrate strategic planning, leadership coaching, and organizational culture development. She is the founder of Conscious Leadership℠, an interactive training experience that gets to the heart of understanding the power of unconscious biases and how we can both individually and collectively create a more inclusive and productive work environment.  Connect with Michelle Cantor  Website: volarconsulting.com Twitter: @volarconsulting LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mtcantor Connect with Jon D

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As senior vice president and national director of community affairs for Comerica Bank, Monica Martinez manages Comerica Bank’s external community initiatives and partnerships, Comerica’s market segmentation initiatives and CRA volunteerism, including the bank’s financial education brigade. Martinez also oversees all aspects of the bank’s national Hispanic Business Development.    Connect with Monica Martinez Twitter: https://twitter.com/monicalmartines LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicalmartinezusa/ Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com

JJ Reifler is the VP and Principal at Korotkin Insurance Group. Korotkin Insurance's mission is to protect its customers' assets. Since 1913, they have provided their customers with all lines of commercial, personal, and life, health and disability coverages. They pledge to continue to accord our customers with our attention in a timely, cost-effective and efficient manner in every aspect of customer contact. Each individual in their organization bears the responsibility to carry out their mission with the highest ethical standard so that they become the benchmark by which other service providers in this industry are measured. Connect with J.J. Reifler  Website: http://www.getkig.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-j-reifler-65021a11/ Twitter: @getKIG Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getkig/ Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ LinkedIn: https