Linda Clemons is the CEO of Sisterpreneur Inc. She is an award-winning record setting sales producer as well as one of the top sales trainers in the world in the resort/timeshare industry where clients have generated over two billion in sales. She is also a Body Language Expert, trained and certified in Analytic Interviewing and Statement Analysis ™, a process used to detect deception.

Her clients and audiences include Southwest Airlines, National Urban League, Nestle, MGM, Major League Baseball, Wells Fargo, Leo Burnett Worldwide, US Customs, FBI, Marriott, Hilton, Wyndham and Starwood. Her client list includes celebrities, executives, politicians and entrepreneurs.

Clemons has opened for, or shared the stage, with such notables as Oprah Winfrey; President Obama; Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; Dr. Condoleezza Rice, and Mary Jo White, SEC Chair.

Mike Crosby is The NPD Group’s B2B technology industry analyst. He has strong, trusted relationships with top distributor, retail, and VAR partners across the industry. As a former Fortune 500 sales and marketing executive, Crosby also has a 28-year track record of building and developing successful businesses, ranging from private equity-owned, mid-sized organizations to multibillion-dollar public companies. Prior to his role at The NPD Group, Crosby held executive management positions with leading technology companies, most recently as Vice President Sales and Business Development with Whistle Labs, a Mars Petcare company and leader in cellular-enabled pet GPS trackers and Bluetooth-enabled activity monitors. Earlier in his career, he held executive management positions with major technology companies including Logitech, Belkin, Fujitsu, AST Research, and CODI Worldwide.

Allen J. Morrison is a Professor of Global Management at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University (ASU). Previously, he served as CEO and Director General of the school.

Before joining Thunderbird, Dr. Morrison was the holder of the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair for Responsible Leadership and director of the Global CEO Center at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. His work at IMD focused on the challenges CEOs face while leading their companies in the global economy. Dr. Morrison has also served as a professor at INSEAD in Singapore, France and North America and as the Associate Dean-Executive Development at the Ivey School of Business in Canada. In addition, he spent time as a visiting professor at the Anderson School at University of California, Los Angeles.

Professor Morrison has authored or co-authored eleven books and over 65 articles and case studies. His research has been published in a range of journals including Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management, and Chief Executive.

Professor Morrison is a popular public speaker and has conducted executive seminars and retreats for a wide range of companies around the world.

After spending 25 years as a Microsoft Dynamics Channel Partner, Linda Rose decided to sell it all and retire. Well….almost. Rose has created, bought and sold four companies during her business career. Her sale of her Microsoft Dynamics Cloud hosting company to a Private Equity firm for 100% cash allowed her to turn in the keys to her office and walk out the door 45 days later and begin a 500-mile backpacking trek on the Pacific Crest Trail.

 She has been responsible for leading companies from zero to a 98% recurring revenue model to increase value by 10X, for growing SaaS revenue more than 40% YOY while maintaining a 97.5% customer retention rate, for helping more than 300 companies move from on premise IT platforms to cloud services, and for creating the first “Click, Try, Buy” SMB ERP solution for Microsoft users. Her book “Get Acquired for Millions: A Roadmap for Technology Service Providers to Maximize Company Value” and her Value Maximizer™ Assessment which helps channel partners increase their current market value has hit #1 in multiple categories on Amazon.

 When Rose is not out exploring trails in the wilderness, kayaking on the open waters, or tending to her gardens, she speaks to and advises owners on how best to plan and build company value, so that one day they too can be acquired for millions.