2024 Speakers

It’s never been harder building successful teams. With challenges of work-from-anywhere, flex-schedule and generational divides, business leaders bend over backwards searching for solutions that work. They’ve tried everything from food perks and ping pong tables to endless team-building exercises and training—but nothing sticks.
Mike Michalowicz reveals his proven formula to build an unstoppable team for any work environment:

• Innovative and next generational ways to recruit the right talent
• Transform struggling employees into superstars
• Match individual abilities to client and company needs
• Elevate your company to where every employee cares as much as an owner

You want a thriving team that shines and sticks around. One that takes full responsibility for their work and outcomes. A community of employees who love your organization and are invested in its growth. With All In you will discover how to build a team where everyone flourishes–including you.

About the Presenter

Mike Michalowicz was dubbed the “top candidate for Patron Saint of Entrepreneurs” by Simon Sinek. He helps small business owners make their businesses more profitable while growing faster through organic marketing, be more effective through systems and create better teams through leadership. Mike is an American business author, children’s author, entrepreneur, and speaker. He is the author of eight business books published by Penguin Random House, including All In which was released in January of 2024, and two Wall Street Journal Best Sellers. Mike’s book, Profit First has sold over a million copies and continues to reach bestselling lists – because being profitable never goes out of style. His books have been translated into 27 languages. He is also the former host of the “Business Rescue” segment for MSNBC’s Your Business, was previously the small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and hosted the reality television program called Bailout!.

Mike learns through doing. He founded Olmec Systems in 1996 and sold the business in a private equity transaction in 2003. In 2003 he co-founded a computer forensic firm, which was a lead examiner in the Enron scandal. That company was acquired by Robert Half International in 2006. The transaction was valued at $270.million. Mike Michalowicz currently owns seven companies, including a small business investment accelerator called Prosper Group. Michalowicz is co-founder of six additional organizations with exclusive licensing rights to his work.

Max will reveal how to achieve peak performance and well-being by guiding you to unlock your brain’s optimal potential.

About the Presenter:
Max Lugavere is a health and science journalist, filmmaker, and bestselling author. His first book, Genius Foods, a New York Times bestseller, challenged our understanding of diet’s impact on brain health, while his Wall Street Journal bestseller Genius Kitchen married delicious recipes to his recommendations. He hosts The Genius Life podcast, one of the top health and wellness podcasts in the U.S, and commands an audience of over 1.5 million followers across social media. His contributions to programs like The Rachael Ray Show, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, PBS’s Brief but Spectacular, and The Doctors, along with features in VICE, Fast Company, The New York Times, People Magazine, and CNN, and appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience and The Diary of a CEO, have made him a respected and well-known voice in the field. An engaging speaker on topical health and wellness topics, Lugavere regularly leads keynote talks and corporate seminars around the world, including at SXSW, The Biohacking Conference, the Health Optimization Summit, and many others.

Being able to recognize, understand, and manage our own emotions, as well as the emotions of others, leads to improved relationships, better decision-making, and enhanced leadership skills. However, the ultimate benefit of developing this skill is its contribution to increased revenue and income. Glenn will explore this and share practical strategies for application in your life and practice.

About the Presenter:
For almost twenty years Glenn has worked with Atticus in matching clients with coaching programs that help them take better care of their clients, increase their incomes, decrease their stress, and achieve an overall balance in their life. As a Certified Practice Advisor, he has specialized in assisting small and medium sized firms to break those invisible barriers, which so often prevent them from reaching the next level. Glenn is adept at getting professionals to step back and envision new possibilities and creating practical strategies to make them reality. Through the formation of new habits, practice management systems and disciplines in client development, Glenn has assisted firms across the nation to double their revenues and obtain a more balanced life as a result.

Glenn is a Colonel in the Florida Army National Guard where he assists officers in organizational strategies, systems improvement, personal life management and career development. He has been highly decorated for his leadership and personnel management after multiple active duty deployments both stateside and overseas. He has written, developed and taught various curricula for organizational change and continues to do writing in the area of innovative leadership and team development. Prior to working with Atticus, Glenn spent 12 years as Senior Pastor for three multi-staffed churches in metropolitan areas in Florida. In addition, he achieved the rank of San Dan and is an accomplished traditional Martial Arts Instructor providing a foundation for personal discipline and balance in life.

Glenn graduated Summa Cum Laude from Asbury University near Lexington, Kentucky with a degree in Psychology and Sociology. Following college Glenn received his Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary and is certified in several personality assessment tools and organizational assessments for staff training and development. Glenn also earned a Master of Strategic Studies as a distinguished graduate of the United States Army War College. He is a frequent advisor to government agencies in both leadership capacity and staff development.

Capacity drives revenue. Capacity means, in simple terms, having a solid team that serve as profit centers within your business. Who or what is getting in the way of embracing and empowering your team to do so? And what is it costing you? Why is this such a problem? We’ll dive into this challenge, provide a formula for diagnosing the problem, and steps attorneys can take to solve it.

About the Presenter:
Valerie is the Chief Executive Officer of Atticus, LLC. Prior to joining Atticus, Valerie served as the Chief Executive Officer of ElderCounsel, LLC.

Valerie graduated from Washburn Law School in 1997. After law school, Valerie practiced law in Manhattan, KS, and later Miami and Ft. Lauderdale where she was the owner of Peterson Law Office, P.A., and later Fisher & Peterson, P.C., a firm specializing in the areas of elder law and estate planning. Valerie sold her practice to join ElderCounsel in 2008.

Valerie speaks nationally on topics ranging from elder law and Veterans benefits to practice building and business management.  Valerie has taught for numerous national organizations, including the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), various state bar associations, WealthCounsel, Krause Financial Services and Strafford Webinars.

Valerie also teaches for a prominent law school. Since 2012, Valerie has served as an adjunct professor for Stetson Law School where she teaches the Veteran’s Benefits Course to Elder Law LL.M. students.

Valerie resides in Evergreen, Colorado with her husband, Jonathan Mintz, and two cats, Maisey and Ben. Both she and her husband love the outdoors and are avid cyclists. Valerie also has a personal blog that is focused on nutrition and cycling: http://www.ketoadaptedcyclist.com/.

The most important marketing strategy is to find a way your audience clearly understands who your company is, what you do, and why you are passionate about it so you gain their trust. Robert will provide insight on strategies you can use to capitalize on your ‘owned media.’

About the Presenter:
For more than 15 years, Robert has helped business leaders balance the art and science of marketing to tell their story more effectively. Robert is the author of four best-selling books on modern marketing and content strategy. He is also the co-host of the popular marketing podcast This Old Marketing, which is downloaded more than a half-a-million times every year in 150 countries. Over the last twelve years, Robert has served as a Fractional Marketing Leader for startups and media companies, and advised more than 500 companies, including 15 of the Fortune 100

In this Game Changer session, Jennifer Felten will go over the 5 pillars of a successful business. In 1 word each, she will describe the 5 skills most people do not develop that, if nurtured, will result in a successful business and life.

About the Presenter:
Jennifer Felten is the principal owner and attorney of RELAW, APC. Having worked in real estate since 1993 and earned her Juris Doctorate with honors in 2006, she uses her extensive knowledge of real estate to creatively and effectively meet her clients’ needs.

Starting out in customer service at a title company, she worked her way into the escrow side of the business, where she worked as an escrow officer, manager and trainer. Ms. Felten’s commitment to the field of real estate includes obtaining her Certificate of Achievement from the California Escrow Association as well as the professional designations of both Certified Escrow Officer and Certified Bulk Sale Specialist. She has been an active member of the Ventura County Escrow Association since 1997, serving as President in 1999 and again this year in 2024.

Ms. Felten has worked on litigation from the pleading phase through trial, has drafted all forms of pleadings and law and motion and has worked successfully to resolve numerous matters including real estate litigation, loss mitigation, breach of contract and fiduciary duty cases, title insurance matters, bad faith matters, probate and insurance defense. As a transactional attorney Ms. Felten handles numerous matters for her real estate clients including real estate licensing, incorporation and business entity management and control, and mergers and acquisitions. These services include outside general counsel work for escrow companies, title companies, real estate brokerages, real estate technology companies, and other real estate related companies.
Her education also reflects her interest in real estate. While obtaining her bachelor’s degree at UCLA, she took the eleven courses required to obtain her California Real Estate Broker’s License prior to attending law school and obtaining her law degree.

Ms. Felten has had the honor of being asked to speak and write for many wonderful trade organizations over the years including the California Escrow Association, the Escrow Institute of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the American Land Title Association, the Real Estate Fraud Advisory Team, Ventura County Board of Realtors and Forbes Council.

In her personal life, Jennifer is a wife, mother and grandmother, who enjoys adventuring with her family.

There are many sayings about climbing the ladder of success…make sure it’s leaning on the right building…it’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb, than at the top of one you don’t, etc. In this Game Changer session, Colleen will paint a picture of her favorite expression “whichever ladder you climb, don’t forget to bring your loved ones up with you…otherwise it’ll be pretty lonely at the top.” She will then share some of the work that she and her husband, Craig Goldenfarb did to build their great life, because she is a testament to ‘you can have it all’ – A Great, thriving practice and a Great and amazing life…but it takes work.

About the Presenter:
Colleen is a semi-retired journalist and former on-air news anchor who has worked for affiliates of NBC, CBS, and ABC, as well as New York Times-owned print affiliates. She has an undergraduate degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Cronkite School at Arizona State University, and a master’s degree in mass communications from University of Florida. But she’ll tell you none of that is important. 26 years of marriage and 23+ years as a parent to two wonderful daughters have changed her world view on the meaning of life…or at least what’s most important in our lives. Hint: it’s a commodity infinitely more valuable than money or success.

Colleen is married to Craig Goldenfarb, an Atticus member, lawyer, entrepreneur, and self-described work-a-holic. She brings her experience as the “rope team” of such a successful partner to share some cautionary tales from the Homefront and some insight into regaining genuine connection with the people most important to us.

When she’s not busy being the CEO of her household, Colleen can be found writing, reading science fiction and horror novels, traveling, nerding out over Doctor Who, and teaching crows how to bring her shiny trinkets.

You’ve been told a lie your entire tenure as a law firm owner, and it’s this: You can and should build your firm to sell it later. The truth is that you’re more likely to die at your desk than successfully sell your firm. Neither outcome is ideal. What if there was a third way? What if you could build your firm so you never had to sell it, and maybe loved owning it so much, you never wanted to sell it? This Game Changer session will explore how and why to build The Perpetual Law Firm.

About the Presenter:
A message from Victor: 

My mom taught me something important…something that would frame and guide how I went through life. She said, “There are three types of people in the world: those that let things happen, those that watch things happen, and those that make things happen.” And it was clear that she wanted me to be someone that made things happen.

I took that lesson and charted one of the most unique ways to serve people in retirement – a true “one-stop shop” that can handle every from taxes to trusts and from investments to income…all under one roof, working with one team. After about ten years into being a lawyer, I realized that the right way to serve my client families was to give them all of the resources, counselling, leadership, and support. Give them everything I could give them, and everything they needed, where all they had to do was dial one phone number – and, where they could walk away from every meeting knowing that the best in life was yet to come.

You see, I believe that the true outcome of our work isn’t in the details of any document. No, the true outcome was in knowing that the next 10-20-30 years after working together were going to be the best years of your life.

And that’s what I believe: I believe that you deserve to have the last part of your journey be the best part of your journey. And spend every day knowing that today is great, but tomorrow is going to be even better.

As for my Great Life? Well, it’s a goal that I share with my wife – my best partner – which is: I want my three sons – Aidan, Lucas, and Dylan – to tell me, sometime in their life – we have been their best coaches, mentors, and leaders. If I get that…I’ll have lived my best life.