

Pat Soltys/Smoke Rise Agents
Smoke Rise Agents Team Lead Pat Soltys has been in the real estate industry for over 40 years, She is an author with over 300 copyrights, speaker and real estate broker. As team lead with 11 agents, she is a listing broker and innovative resource behind the team’s marketing and production.
Ryan Sauers/President of Sauers Consulting Strategies
Ryan T. Sauers has spent over 25 years leading and/or consulting with marketing, media, and related companies. He is also owner of two Our Town Gwinnett monthly magazines. Sauers is a frequent national speaker and global columnist. He serves as an adjunct university professor teaching leadership courses. Ryan is a Certified Myers Briggs, DiSC, and Emotional Intelligence practitioner. Ryan is working on his Doctoral degree in Leadership. He is author of the best-selling books Everyone is in Sales and Would You Buy from You?
Show Overview
Marketing Matters is a radio show discussing topics as they relate to marketing, communications, sales, leadership and more. Host Ryan Sauers, a best-selling author and national speaker, discusses how these topics play a role in every aspect of our lives. Each episode shares tangible nuggets of information that listeners can easily understand and apply to their everyday life, whether personal or business. The show challenges listeners’ current state of thinking so they can grow to new heights and see new opportunities in business, which is rapidly changing, multi-generational. and noisy in nature.



Atlanta Small Business Network
MSA’s founding principle is to provide exceptional service. Using that guiding light, they now service thousands of customers. 





Gwinnett Ballet Theatre




Gwinnett County government 


Monica Ray, RN, MS, MBA is CEO and President of Danu Performance Solutions, LLC (DPS). DPS provides consulting services focused on optimizing processes and performance outcomes, primarily in the healthcare industry. Ms. Ray has over 30 years’ experience in the healthcare industry in various domains at the staff and leadership level including critical care nursing, quality, patient safety, performance and process improvement, regulatory readiness, risk management, and performance excellence (Baldrige). In addition, she is a Fellow of the Advisory Board Company. Ms. Ray is committed to assisting organizations in optimizing performance and accelerating the journey towards performance excellence through incorporation of evidenced based approaches, high reliability principles and the Baldrige Framework into business practices. She brings real-world experience and expertise to assist each client in understanding their current state and enhance their ability to reach their organizational goals. Ms. Ray has served multiple years on the Board of Examiners for the Baldrige National Quality Award and is an alumni examiner. She has also coordinated the Performance Excellence journey from 2007-2011 at Heartland Health, a 2009 Baldrige National Quality Award (BNQA) recipient healthcare organization. Her 12 years working with the Baldrige Excellence Framework includes experience as a BNQA examiner team member, team leader, site visit team member and co-lead, tech editor, applicant, recipient and coach / consultant affording her an in-depth, 360 degree understanding.

















