

Michael Ehrler/Ehrler Coaching and Consulting
Michael Ehrler started his first business at 16. He has been developing people and businesses for over 40 years including 25 years in corporate America and over 15 years through his own coaching and consulting business. He is a national award-winning coach, speaker, author, University Adjunct Professor and Dale Carnegie Instructor. His clients have received national and regional growth and business awards. Michael combines his 40 years of business, speaking, teaching and coaching experience in a straightforward manner that focuses on his clients’ success. The value that he brings to his clients includes:
- Analyzing businesses on sales, marketing, leadership and people management and providing assessments on how to move the business forward to meet stated goals
- Sales training and coaching
- Business coaching to focus business owners on effectively running, operating and growing their business
- Outsourced hiring consultant to provide candidate review, interviewing and assessment to hire the right candidate
Michael coaches, trains and develops business owners and nonprofit leaders and their key people how to grow their business and become more profitable by inspiring, educating and coaching leaders to reach their potential. He brings out the best in his clients through:
- Workshops on sales; small business marketing; leadership; people management and how to hire and train the right people; and how to prepare your business for sale
- One-0n-one business coaching
- Facilitation of hiring the right employees and assisting with firing the wrong employees
Mark Galvin/ePresence
ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged. Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.



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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.








Catherine Lautenbacher is the Program Director for
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