Dale Marie Golden is a former motivational speaker who has appeared on Oprah and Phil Donahue. She has received numerous leadership awards, the latest being Congressional Recognition from Barbara Lee for her work at Covenant House in Oakland, CA. She has been featured in Working Women Magazine, East Bay Business Times, The Oakland Tribune and other publications. An extraordinary salesperson who exceeded her goal every year while at Wells Fargo Bank, she now heads up the Piedmont office of Alta Alliance Bank, a new community bank based in Oakland. Dale Marie is serving as the Vice President and Private Banker of this de novo bank.

Elinor Stutz, CEO of Smooth Sale and Author, specializes in sales skill training for entrepreneurs, corporate salespeople and network marketers. Her style is genuine and her materials original. All her venues are based upon her own real-world experience with a client roster of Sony, U.S. Geological Survey, Visa, among others.

The uniqueness of Smooth Sale is clients benefit from the strong combination of top producing corporate selling techniques, marketing strategies and entrepreneurial business building skills. Everything taught is 100% guaranteed to be field tested.

Ann M. Evanston, M.A., has over 15 years training, program development and management experience. With an extensive background in developing leaders from first level to executive, she has developed programs and presented seminars to diverse populations and workforces. Ann's speaking career began in seventh grade where she participated in Toastmasters and competed in Oratory. She has always dreamed of being a speaker and trainer!

Ann has spoken in front of audiences ranging from as small as ten to as large as five thousand. Ann had the honor of speaking in front of 10,000 people when she was the MC for the Push for Excellence Program at the Tacoma Dome in 1985.Although all of our speakers possess the ability to cover a wide range of topics, Ann's passion is developing people to be the best they can be. Her desire to create highly productive positive people has lead her to study and present in closely interconnected areas

Valeri Bocage is the founder of Powerful Women International. Valeri been assisting people live their dreams for over 15 years. She has inspired hundreds of people to fulfill on their dreams, such as write their first book, start a business, expand an existing business, change careers, become speakers, etc.

After losing everything in hurricane Katrina, Valeri moved to San Francisco to be a staff member with Landmark Education, a well-known worldwide transformational company because of her work and belief in transforming lives for others. She is most passionate about empowering women and children. She has worked with entire families, including men.