Kathy is a nationally-recognized women’s career and business success coach with over 25 years of experience in marketing, business development, and product management. She has dedicated her life (and her company Ellia Communications) to helping women achieve breakthrough in their lives and businesses. She is also the author of Breakdown Breakthrough: The Professional Women’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power and Purpose.

In her work, Kathy serves as a business success catalyst and many of her clients are authors and writers.   She draws on her expertise as a seasoned consultant, writer, and national speaker, to help authors turn their ideas into successful endeavors that generate profits and rewards, including new business opportunities, ideal clients and larger community.

Kathy is a former corporate marketing executive, trained psychotherapist, seasoned career coach, and sought-after writer and speaker on women’s issues.  She is a popular blogger on women’s career topics and trends, and as a top media source, she has appeared in more than 100 leading newspapers and magazines and on national radio and television.  Her current national research study focuses on Women Succeeding Abundantly, and her second book in development – My 52 Mistakes — explores how to shift from hating your mistakes to fully embracing them, and learning from all the insights and wisdom they have to offer. Her Breakthrough Vision Marketing services provide top-level marketing support for women entrepreneurs, writers, consultants and practitioners.

Virginia has been working with performers and authors in live events for over 20 years and has crossed the nation bringing spirited, thought provoking and exceptionally produced events to audiences from New York City to Seattle. She is a seasoned producer, managing director and booking agent, and has worked to promote bestsellers, including Deepak Chopra’s The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Harriet Lerner’s The Dance of Anger, Ellen Bass’ The Courage to Heal, and Overcoming Overeating by Jane Hirschman’s & Carol Munter.

Additionally, for the release of Al Gore’s, An Inconvenient Truth, she collaborated with Wired Magazine for a book release event in New York City: A Wired Town Hall Event on the Climate Crisis. She also produced the award winning NPR radio program Mountain Stage at NYC’s Town Hall and Brown vs. Board of Education’s 50^th Anniversary at Columbia University which featured speakers President William Clinton and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

“Barry’s insights into entrepreneurship—the challenges, successes, and pitfalls—kept our audience enthralled. This is one funny guy who has a lot of interesting stuff to say and who offers a truly unique viewpoint on the world of entrepreneurship.”

Dinah Adkins, President and CEO, National Business Incubator Association

Barry Moltz has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation.

His first book, You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and  Growing Your Business describes the ups and downs and emotional trials of running a business. His second book, Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success, shows what it takes to comeback and develop true business confidence. His third book, BAM! Delivering Customer Service in a Self-Service World shows how customer service is the new marketing.

Barry hosts “Business Insanity Talk Radio” weekly and writes “It’s A Small Business World” Blog for Chicago Now/ Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on many TV and radio programs such as The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and The Tavis Smiley Show.

Four of Barry’s Most Popular Keynotes:

Bounce! How to Strive and Thrive Out of This Recession

Economic cycles come and go. We have been here before and survived. Cheer the good times with parties, awards and trophies. Mourn the bad times but then let go. Barry demonstrates that developing the resiliency to “bounce” through these cycles of good and bad times determines who ultimately will
succeed. Using real life business examples, he shows that with true business confidence, what actions we can take to face our fears, let go of shame and failures, be better risk-takers, and define our own brand of success.

BAM! Delivering Customer Service in A Social Media and Self Service World
Communicating via social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have turned the world of customer service upside down. It used to be that a dissatisfied customer would tell 7 people. Now, they can instantly tell 10,000. With these new tools, effective customer service has become the new focus for marketing any business. BAM ! is a no nonsense approach that teaches companies how they can deliver effective customer service in this self-service world. The speech first debunks the 20 common myths of customer service – from “The customer is always right ” to “We need to over promise and under deliver”– myths that too many companies use automatically to run their customer service practices.

Audiences will learn to:

• How to Bust 20 Myths of Customer Service that Hold You Back.
• A Formula to Determine the Economic Value Each Customer Contributes.
• A Two-Way Customizable Customer Service Manifesto.
• Action Plans for CEOs, Line Managers, and Customer Service Reps.
• How to Get Your Best Customers to Stay and Fire the Harmful Ones.

You Need to Be A Little Crazy To Start and Run Your Own Business
The best way to debunk myths about start-up business is to tell the truth: You have to be crazy to start a business. Entrepreneurs live at the complex intersection of business, financial health, physical well-being, spiritual wholeness, and family life. Tidbits of insight will vaporize isolation, encourage self reflection, and refresh the spirit of anyone running their own business.

Praise for Barry Moltz:

“Barry spoke to a very diverse group of entrepreneurs. His intellectual humor was wellreceived and his interest in local entrepreneurial development was stimulating.”

Maria G. Hampton, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

“Thank you, Barry Moltz, for getting past the you-can-turn-it-around cheerleading and the failure-is-your-teacher balms that are supposed to somehow ease our pain when we hit bottom in spite of our best efforts. Thank you for taking a hard, honest, and often humorous look at failure for
what it really is.”

Scott Allen, About.com

“Bounce will transform fears into confidence and define your own brand of success. Brilliant.”

Dr. Joe Vitale, author, The Attractor Factor

“Your energy is contagious.”

Stephanie Weaver, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Recent Speaking Engagements:

• American Chamber of Commerce Executives
• Association of Small Business Development Centers
• Angel Capital Association
• Angel Capital Education Foundation
• Atlanta Hawks
• Capital One
• Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization
• Darden Business School
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Federal Reserve Bank
• Finance Leaders Association
• General Electric
• Harvard Business School
• Illinois Institute for Entrepreneurship
• Education
• INC Magazine
• International Council on Small
• Business
• Lead America
• MIT
• National Association of Community
• Colleges for Entrepreneurship
• National Association of Seed and Venture Funds
• National Business Incubator Association
• National City Bank
• National Foundation for Teaching Education
• Northwestern University
• Office Max
• The Invention Show
• Thunderbird University
• University of Tasmania
• US Chamber of Commerce
• US Department of Agriculture
• US Small Business Administration
• Wake Forest University
• Wells Fargo Bank
• Young Entrepreneurs Organization