Brandprint Summit
Employee to Entrepreneur
Jamila Bannister
Summit Host and Panelist
Jamila Bannister is Personal Branding Strategist and Coach. She works with corporate dropouts who want to level up and grow their reputation by improving their confidence, leveraging digital content and mastering communication. She focuses on helping people correct limiting beliefs, so they can actually see themselves as authorities. She also helps people use content to position themselves as industry authorities and experts as well as increase their opportunities to build strategic business relationships and drive inbound leads to their online business. She is also a speaker and an author and her book “The Branprint” was the inspiration for this summit
Adrian Havelock
Building your brand as an author and speaker- Panelist
Trinidad & Tobago
Adrian is a Best-Selling Author, Quilly award recipient and is listed in the National Academy of Best-Selling Authors in Hollywood L.A. He is the Caribbean's #1 Master Sales Trainer and a highly sought-after speaker on topics such as sales, motivation and Success.
Arnold Best
Making the "CEO Mindset" Shift as you become a leader
Trinidad & Tobago
Arnold Best is an expert in human behavior, and a trusted advisor to individuals and business owners in North America, Asia, South America, Europe and of course his home, Trinidad and Tobago. Arnold is strategic, forward thinking, and visionary. He grasps the underlying reason for things and can sense how situations will unfold in the future. He sees threads of meaning that many people will miss. Arnold also loves exploring ideas, theories, and abstract possibilities and put it to the test in the real world. He foresees future implications, while adapting logical & objective ways of solving problems.
Brendon Brathwaite
How to leverage public speaking to build your brand and reputation
Trinidad & Tobago
Brendon Brathwaite, an events professional who holds a Masters in Sports Management, a BSC in Tourism Management and is the Managing Director of BUZZconcepts ltd. He has worked with major companies in Trinidad and Tobago and has changed the landscape of how corporate gatherings have been executed. To date his team has produced over 750 events locally and internationally. He has been a lecturer in hospitality and events for the past 16 years. In the new realm of being a motivational speaker he sees himself as a problem solver. His plan is to help others reach their potential.
Camille Attell
Launch it Lean-The quick and easy way to get your offer onto the market
United States
Camille coaches people how to reinvent themselves with a remote business...without going crazy. Her signature Launch-It-Lean™️ method helps business dreamers take fast action and make money while testing their ideas without wasting any money or time. She spent over 20 years in corporate America before becoming a corporate dropout to travel to 44-states in the U.S. in an RV for the last 4-years, as she and her husband Bryce reinvented themselves personally and professionally. With a graduate degree in counseling psychology, certified corporate trainer, and as a digital nomad-entrepreneur, Camille understands exactly what it takes to reinvent yourself in business and in life.
Carla Williams Johnson
How to get booked for radio, TV and press interviews
Trinidad & Tobago
Carla Williams Johnson of Carli Communications assists entrepreneurs and business owners who are interested in building a business in the ‘real world’. She offers sound, unbiased advice focusing on online and offline approaches to boosting visibility and the creation of practical marketing campaigns designed to increase revenue. Carla has been asked to share her knowledge in numerous notable media including Forbes, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Thrive Global, The Trinidad & Tobago Newsday and Caribbean Communications Network Television 6. This year she was named one of the top marketers to follow and was awarded Best Promotion Company at the Media Innovator Awards.
Charlene Pedro
How to thrive as a "suddenly there" entrepreneur: becoming your own boss after being laid off
Trinidad & Tobago
Charlene Pedro believes everyone has a unique gift. Our mission in life is to find and unwrap our gift and share it with the world. She offers personal development training and coaching to help individuals gain clarity, adjust their mindset, identify their “why”, and pursue “that” thing that sets their souls on fire. Charlene is the founder and CEO of Conventus Consultinc, a human resource company based in the Caribbean, and the founder of Conversations Over Coffee with Charlene Pedro, a successful training programme that seeks to inform, engage and inspire CEOs, managers and professionals to make a positive impact.
Cher Jones
How to transition your personal brand from the 9-5 employee to digital entrepreneur
Canada
Cher Jones is a Corporate Social Media Trainer & Personal Branding Coach with the love of technology hardwired into her personality. As the founder of Socially Active Training, she leverages over 20 years of PR, marketing and broadcasting experience to help professionals, leaders and B2B entrepreneurs develop a credible and strategic online presence while teaching them how to use social media at work for business. Her passion, knowledge and expertise have many referring to her as one of North America's leading experts in online personal branding for professionals. She has worked internationally with a wide variety of organizations including Rogers, Hong Kong Police, PokerStars, BlackBerry, Industrial Alliance, The City of Toronto, MPI, The UK Trade and Investment, The Ontario Ministry of Education and CBC to name a few. Cher is also the host of a weekly LinkedIn livestream called #JustAskCher LIVE where she offers tips and advice to help you develop a powerful and professional brand online!
Crystal Dipsingh Bachoo
How to figure out your niche and target market
Trinidad & Tobago
Crystal is a Brand Builder & Business Strategist and the Founder & Managing Director of Parallax Brand Consulting - an agency that holds the hands of small & family owned businesses through the process of creating everlasting brands. With 19years of experience building Local, Regional & International brands, she develops & executes customized Branding, Marketing & Business strategies, both online and offline. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Marketing and is a member of the American Marketing Association.
Daniel Francis
Building your brand as an author and speaker- Panelist
Trinidad & Tobago
A millennial helping other millennials. Daniel Francis is a first-time author and entrepreneur from Trinidad & Tobago. Over the past 3 years, he has served as a Personal Development Coach under ReBIT Limited. Daniel’s work targets Millennials and helps them tap into their full potential. He has facilitated workshops, consultations, and programs for hundreds of young people utilizing skills developed under Leadership Management International. Under his direction, young people learn practical skills like time management, goal setting and staying consistent. Daniel’s extensive work with young people inspired him to write a book that would guide millennials into becoming the best version of themselves
Dawn Marie Nesbitt
How to Use Blogging as a Content Marketing Strategy to Sell your Service
U.K.
Dawn-Marie is a Digital Marketer and Blogger having grown only online businesses for the past 3 years. She helps small business owners get more leads and sales into their business using digital marketing strategies. Using the internet to grow a successful business and having been mentored and coached by some of the world's most intelligent and top online marketers, like Jubril Agoro and Sheryl Jefferson, she is ready to make a global impact by sharing her knowledge and helping small business owners transform their business and lives using digital marketing.
Eden Fried
Pricing Your Products and Services as an expert
United States
Eden Fried ditched her plan to go to law school and started an online business instead. Fast forward a few years, and she's mastered the art of selling digital products online and now teaches other women how to turn their passions into products they can sell online, too. She's the host of the Rebel Boss Ladies podcast, the founder of Rebel Boss University (a membership community for product creators), and the founder and host of the Rebel Boss Summit, a twice annual virtual summit for current or aspiring digital product creators.
Golda Lee Bruce
Building your brand as an author and speaker- Panelist
Trinidad & Tobago
Golda Lee Bruce wants to leave the world better than she found it. She believes in the power of stories to motivate people and transform lives. As a journalist and news anchor for over a decade, Golda told the stories of the people of the Caribbean. She continues this work as a Development Storyteller
Ian Reid
How to work with a designer to develop your branding assets
Trinidad & Tobago
Ian Reid is a Graphic Designer by trade who specilaises in supporting businesses with their digital design and branding needs so they can hit the ground running with their online businesses. He's spent 15 years as the Associate Creative Director at MCann Trinidad & Tobago, one of the premiere advertising agencies in the Caribbean region. Now, Ian works with entrepreneurs mainly to develop their visual branding portfolios with a secondary focus on web development and digital advertising.
Jarrod Best Mitchell
Building a powerhouse network with LinkedIn
Trinidad & Tobago
Jarrod is recognized as of one the top content creators and social sellers on LinkedIn in the Caribbean. With over 300K views on his content in 2020, Jarrod has used the world’s largest B2B platform to help entrepreneurs and companies grow their business and position them as the ‘go to’ for their respective industries. Since making the pivot to sole entrepreneurship in LinkedIn and Sales Training, Jarrod has completed training and provided consultations for numerous organisations. His client list spans industries such as: Insurance, Real Estate, Telecoms, IT and Technology, Energy Sector, Distribution, SaaS and Retail.
Jena Bagley
Email 101: Creating a loyal customer base using email marketing
United States
As the Advocate Manager for AWeber, a leading email service provider and the very first autoresponder, Jena works closely with content creators, podcasters, social media strategists & enthusiasts, coaches, entrepreneurs and more. Through email marketing you can connect with your audience and drive them back to your podcast, blog, website or social platforms over and over again, keeping you top of mind. Not sure where to begin? Jena talks strategy about how to quickly launch your email marketing and how simple it is to do through AWeber’s email solution. Having worked in several different industries over her career including restaurant, bridal, real estate, recruiting, direct sales and now Software as a service, Jena has acquired a wealth of knowledge about sales, marketing and what it means to build a relationship with your target audience.
Jhalisa John
How to build you brand using Instagram stories
Trinidad & Tobago
Jhalisa John teaches people how to use social media for business. As an Instagram stories expert, her focus is helping brands create compelling content on social media to tell their stories, attract the right audience, and build profitable relationships through IG stories. She is also the owner of an online fashion boutique for women called St. Hadar exchange. However of all the hats she wears, she enjoys being a mum the most.
John Ruman
How to acheive work life Balance as a digital entrpreneur
Trinidad & Tobago
John loves helping people create a vision for their future. When he moved to Trinidad from New York in 2015, he came with more than 15 year of financial services experience, and over a decade of experience in educational consultancy. John’s international business and executive coaching company works with individuals from all walks of life, offering life coaching services which help them take actionable steps towards achieving their inner greatness. With a Master Rank, fourth degree black belt in Taekwondo, and two 70.3 Ironman triathlons listed among his achievements, you can tell John is serious about living life to the fullest. His energy is contagious, and his passion for serving others is empowering.
K. Nicole Bent
Building brand reach with podcasting
United States
Keisha "Nicole" Bent is an IT Project Manager by day and a Podcaster and Entrepreneur by night. She is the host and producer of The Oh Hell No Podcast where she shares stories of Passion, Purpose and Struggle. She started this podcast three and a half years ago while trying to figure out what her purpose and passions were. K. Nicole interviews everyday people who are leaving their mark on the world by doing what they love and serving others in the most unique ways. Last year she launched a new podcast called "Side Talk" where she delves into everyday life topics and In 2018 K. Nicole started Hot Gyal Lashes by Bent Beauty, which is a strip lash and makeup line which she is patiently working on growing.
Kate Pearl Goddard
Creating your tribe with YouTube
U.K.
Kate Pearl Goddard is an entrepreneur, mentor, and speaker. Combining 5 years of performing arts experience including but by no means limited to featuring on both national radio & TV and 10 years, experience in technology, sales & marketing, I help entrepreneurs explode their income and authority by leveraging YouTube and video. The real result of working with me is that business owners and entrepreneurs can be visible where their ideal clients and raving fans are already looking for them and they feel super confident in their authority, they raise their profile, posture, credibility and crucially, their bottom line.
Kristofer Granger
How to use your brand story to position yourself and attract your audience
Trinidad & Tobago
Kristofer Granger is an award-winning marketer who, in the last decade has designed and managed some of the Caribbean's most impactful marketing campaigns. He's led the digital marketing arms of the region's largest advertising agencies, directing the online advertising for mammoth distributor brands like Carib, Stag, Angostura, Domino's, Antigua Commercial Bank, and others. He also headed marketing teams for CreativeTT and TTT Ltd. At the Lok Jack GSB, Kristofer has designed Executive Education courses in Digital and Social Media Strategy, Blogging, Content Strategy, Branding, and Advertising. He has impacted scores of graduates who've taken his methods and teachings into organizations like The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, First Citizens, Republic Bank, The Hero's Foundation, and countless entrepreneurial ventures and startups. Currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden, Kristofer spends his time consulting on all things marketing while lecturing at the Arthur Lok Jack GSB, through its online learning platforms. As a Consultant, Kris is great at managing any kind of Marketing Communications project.
Lindsey Aleson
Digital Entrepreneurship 101: Tools to Get Your Started (Digital Toolkit)
United States
Lindsey Aleson is a web and graphic designer and tech strategist that helps female entrepreneurs simplify their design and tech needs and banish the overwhelm! She believes that design and tech shouldn't be scary and loves helping others through her services and courses. She is an enneagram 1, INFJ, cat lover, Disney fanatic, avid tea drinker and of course lover of all things tech and design.
Liz Wilcox
Building your confidence in the online space as you build your brand
United States
Liz is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in email marketing. She helps freelancers and professionals alike package up their magic and turn it into emails that convert. In a previous life, Liz was an education major that never actually got a teaching job! Instead, she found her way to the online space and fell in love with doing her own thing. Today, Liz teaches people how to build online relationships and make sales through email marketing. When Liz isn’t in sales mode, she likes to run (yes, for fun), and hang at her local beach in Tampa, FL.
Mary-Sue Dahill
Creating systems that increase your efficiency and profits
United States
Mary Sue Dahill is an overwhelm detective, work smarter coach, and automation expert. She is a master of creating order out of chaos and hasn’t met a hot mess that she can’t handle. Mary Sue has over 20 years of technology management experience that she brings to Work Smarter Digital and every client relationship. Mary Sue believes in the power of thinking smart, using the right tools, and going after your goals. Mary Sue is passionate about empowering entrepreneurs to efficiently build and scale their business so they can make a bigger impact on the world. Her company offers the Work Smarter CRM an all-in-one solution that reduces complexity, streamlines systems, and scales your impact.
Meg Brunson
How to Prospect for Clients online
United States
Meg is a mommy blogger turned Facebook employee who left the 9-5 for a life of freedom and flexibility. She’s currently RV’ing across the US with her family, while empowering other families to live their dreams, by pursuing their passions together. Her clients are building influence online - leveraging the power of Facebook and Instagram marketing to enjoy predictable leads, traffic, and positive ROI - all while spending more time together as a family. Meg is a professional speaker, children’s book author, host of the FamilyPreneur™ podcast and CEO of EIEIO Marketing.
Melinda Belle
Managing your finances and budgeting as a virtual business owner
Barbados
Melinda Belle, author, teacher & financial consultant, from an early age had a particular interest in money. Businesses are often birthed out of the business owner’s personal experience and it is with her mistakes, knowledge and experience she desires to see others make sound decisions with their money. Melinda sees her role as that of an architect and is committed to the shaping of financial landscapes of men, women, boys, girls, businesses and nations; teaching families and individuals to manage their money and to create wealth. Melinda is the Founder and Managing Director of Astrape Finance Inc. in Barbados, with a mission of being the leading, financial education company providing resources on personal and business financial management in the Caribbean.
Melody Johnson
Hiring and managing remote teams
United States
Melody Johnson is the owner and founder of The Course Consultant, an online course agency, that helps small business owners develop online learning solutions. She is the host of The Course Consultant Show. She operates a virtual team that helps small business owners scale with sustainable systems like courses and digital training.
Pelpina Trip
Filming and editing videos with your smart phone
Netherlands
Pelpina helps you become visible with the camera on your phone. She's a smartphone video coach, trainer, author and keynote speaker and coaches companies/professionals to create professional videos with their phones. Simple, fun, and highly effective!
Rachael Spiewak
Leveraging Facebook groups to grow your tribe
United States
Rachael helps entrepreneurs and freelancers create their social media tribes through Facebook Groups. By leveraging Facebook Groups to build their tribes, they increase their brand positioning, gain clarity around their business and offers, and cultivate an audience of loyal fans. It's an incredibly efficient and fun way to build a thriving business.
Renee Serrant-Layne
Developing & Launching a Profitable Digital Product
Barbados
Meet Renée Serrant-Layne, a launch strategist, marketing systems expert, and avid track and field fan. Renée helps busy entrepreneurs make their next launch better than their last by helping them launch their group programmes, courses or masterminds without feeling stressed or overwhelmed. Renee is able to break down the launch process into easy to follow steps, manage all the launch related people and activities so that they can focus on their zone of genius. Renée has proven, through her work with clients that expanding your business doesn’t mean that you have to lose that personal touch or spend hours of your life doing mundane activities that steal your joy. I handle the details so that you can focus on doing what really lights you up.
Saelese Haynes Romany
Protecting Your Digital Business and intellectual property
Trinidad & Tobago
Saelese is a serial entrepreneur and Motivational Speaker. She enjoys helping fellow entrepreneurs build strong, compliant and successful businesses, which meshes well with her background as Attorney-at-Law practising primarily in the fields of Corporate and Commercial Law. She has a dynamic approach to the provision of legal services in that she believes that business owners should take a proactive approach to minimising legal and other risks in their enterprises. It is her life’s goal is to find a perfect synergy between the professional and creative sides to her personality. She is happiest when making lists of her goals and crossing things off her many, many lists. She is a strong advocate for the need for increased female empowerment in society and encourages those around her to use their voices to shake things up.
Sandee Sevilla
Canva 101- creating DIY graphics and content for your business
Philipines
Sandee is a Virtual Assistant, Graphic Designer and a Canva Certified Creative. Based in the Philippines, She enjoys providing custom design solutions to female coaches, course creators, VAs, Online Business Managers and entrepreneurs.
Sonja Pollanais
Building your brand as an author and speaker- Panelist
Trinidad & Tobagos
Sonja Pollanais has built a reputation as a speaker with her highly motivational speeches. Sonja is the Managing Director of Closet Red, a boutique that caters to fashion needs of curvy women. Her flagship event “To me with Love “is an all inclusive weekend of love and laughter, a safe space to be unapologetically you, a place of love and support, a re-energising of the spirit and a downright great time! She’s an HR professional by training and a licensed body positivity facilitator certified by the Body Positivity Institute of California
Tamara Mc Kayle
Creating brand authority with your own web show
Jamaica
Tamara McKayle is a tenacious and accomplished millennial who has worked in the Media and Communications field for 10 years. She is currently a Freelance TV Presenter and a Communication Specialist. Prior to this, McKayle was the Executive Producer/News Anchor for CEEN Caribbean News. McKayle also presented for the popular ‘Sportsmax Zone’ Cable show. Other jobs include TV Producer/Presenter with the state-owned Jamaica Information Service (JIS); TV Presenter and Associate Producer for the CVM at Sunrise Morning show; TV Producer and Presenter for ‘The Achievers’ and more. McKayle also produces and hosts ‘The Trailblazers with Tamara McKayle’ currently on YouTube.
Tamara Mon Louis
Sales Funnels 101- How funnels work to bring in lead and sales
United States
Tamara Mon Louis is a renowned digital marketing strategist and business developer. She has helped grow multi-million dollar businesses in the hospitality, travel, healthcare and education sector for over 15 years. She’s developed digital marketing strategies to grow brands such as Hilton Worldwide and St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Tamara leveraged that experience and founded Monivan Digital Marketing Solutions, a digital marketing agency where she serves as the Executive Director of Digital Strategy. Tamara is passionate about helping businesses to grow into mega-business through the use of proven digital marketing strategies. Monivan Digital is fast establishing a record of outstanding commitment in helping clients to identify new opportunities, build an online presence, foster engagement and build loyalty with their customers.
Tiffany Trotter
How to Leverage Your Website to Build Your Mailing List
United States
Tiffany Trotter is a mom, children's book author, and founder of BraveSelfStarter, a community dedicated to empowering self-starters, innovators, creators, and entrepreneurs as they navigate careers, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. Through her experience as a mom, a newcomer to the U.S., and more than ten years of experience in digital marketing, she has developed a passion for sharing knowledge. Throughout her career, she has worked with big four companies like Deloitte to enhance their employer brand through in-depth interviews, featured stories, and articles promoting diversity and inclusion.
Winston Henderson
How to create lead magnets your audience will love
Jamaica
Winston is a Content and Digital Marketing Strategist with over 10 years of experience in Marketing and Sales. He's worked for and worked with B2B and B2C brands, in the tech, retail, life coaching and marketing industries, and currently specializes in helping SMB's build their brand authority online to achieve revenue growth