business

AMANDA DALNODAR

Brew City Marketing

Amanda wrote the first draft of Brew City Marketing’s business plan on the plane ride home from her honeymoon. She had always known she’d own her own company someday – and in one short plane ride, she made it happen.

Over the last decade, Amanda has grown Brew City into a thriving digital marketing agency complete with a team of highly-skilled professionals. The agency operates as a remote marketing department for its clients, handling anything from website design to SEO. Amanda’s passion has helped countless Milwaukee-area small businesses grow and achieve success.

When Amanda isn’t working, she’s spending time with her husband and two young children. And even this digital marketing maven makes it a point to unplug every once in a while for yoga and time in nature.

brewcitymarketing.com 9211 W Center Street @brewcitymarketing

BRIANNA GASPER

Elevate MKE, Inc.

Brianna Gasper is the Executive Director of Elevate MKE, a local non-profit that creates, coordinates and executes uplifting events; always including a charitable impact. With a team of 22 outstanding women alongside her, they bring life to everything from run/walks, live music events to dance competitions. Elevate has raised over $350K since its start and in the last 8 years The Power of Purple Dance Competition has raised over $150K for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Their latest event Calm in the Chaos; a women’s wellness event, connects women while giving them a day away from all responsibility to normalize therapy, practice stress reduction techniques and meet local experts while raising money for therapy to support women in need. This has grown to two cities in two states this year, and Brianna has set her goal of expanding to more states to keep normalizing self care and women’s mental health initiatives. She enthusiastically supports women and community all while proudly raising five children of her own.

theelevatecommunity.org info@elevatemke.com @elevate.mke

BRENDA E CORTEZ

BC Books, LLC

“Share your life experiences through written words to inspire others.” This is what Brenda felt called to do after donating her kidney to another mom. Resources for children did not exist to help Brenda’s children understand what she was doing at the time, so after feeling inspiration from her daughter’s college entrance essay seven years after the kidney donation, she wrote her first children’s book to do just that. Brenda has published nine children’s books, with Howl the Owl®️ as her main character, and is a bestselling author with her book, “Because of Organ Donation – A Collection of Inspiring Stories Celebrating the Gift of Life”. Now, as a book coach, Brenda is helping so many others fulfill their dream of writing and publishing a book. She specializes in non-fiction, memoirs, and children’s books. Brenda can coach you through the entire process or even co-write with you.

brendacortez.com brenda@howltheowl.com @authorbrendacortez

CHRISTY SIEGLE

Transitions Coaching, LLC

When you spend the time to realize your strengths, values, and skills, you improve your relationships, maximize your potential, and perform your best. As a leadership coach with Transitions Coaching, LLC, Christy Siegle helps people become the best versions of themselves, personally and professionally. In her previous experience as a talent leader in a Fortune 500 company, Christy learned that work can be fun and fulfilling—when you commit to personal growth and development. Christy believes this is key to finding purpose and achieving exceptional results. Her own journey taught her that development takes courage, and now she helps people push their boundaries to drive their own growth. Developing leaders to their fullest potential is Christy’s calling, and she’s dedicated to helping others lead, work, and live more humanly. As a mom to three boys, she understands the challenges many parents face, and she’s especially passionate about helping working parents achieve sustainable success.

christy@transitionscoachingllc.com 414.915.1036 transitionscoachingllc.com

CHRISTINA STONE

Fusion Recruiters, LLC

As the VP, Recruiting Solutions for Fusion Recruiters, LLC, Christina has the privilege of connecting extraordinary people with equally extraordinary organizations across the country each and every day.

After 15+ years in Corporate Talent Acquisition, she changed gears and joined Fusion. Growing up in a family business she always had the desire to follow in her parents and grandparents’ footsteps to build a business herself one day. What she found by joining the Fusion Recruiters family is not only the ability to help build an award-winning search firm but also the opportunity to continue helping others meet and exceed their professional and financial goals through the development of genuine partnerships and long-lasting relationships. Married to her high school sweetheart and a mom of 2 girls, Christina strives to be a role model for her daughters by showing them they can truly have the best of both worlds – a fulfilling career and a beautiful family.

fusionrecruiters.com 414.870.3873 cstone@fusionrecruiters.com

EMILY GILDERS

Serendipity Labs

Ever since Emily was a little girl, she hated to leave a party! She loves watching a room come to life, seeing people make memories, and making people happy with her hospitality. Emily Gilders is an experienced sales professional, curator of community, and natural connector. Driven by helping provide solutions for people, she takes pride in providing the best hospitality possible when it comes to her clients, Lab members, friends, and family.

As the Director of Sales for Serendipity Labs, her goals include growing a professional community in Wauwatosa and watching her members flourish with their businesses. In addition to being a Director of Sales at Serendipity Labs, Emily is a Wauwatosa resident, wife, mother to a sassy six year old boy, and rescue dog mom.

serendipitylabs.com @serendipity_labs emily.gilders@serendipitylabs.com

JULIE MENDEN

Julie Menden, LLC.

As a Leadership & Performance Coach, Trainer, and Speaker Julie is passionate about helping rising leaders, entrepreneurs, and small business owners’ step into their leadership, success mindset and confidence to drive results and achieve their potential. Working in Corporate as a Training & Leadership Development professional, Julie became curious how to help emerging leaders go from self-doubt and overwhelm to true leadership confidence and a strong mindset for success. This led her to become a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Index Practitioner, as well as a Positive Intelligence Mental Fitness Coach. Julie launched her coaching business and now coaches leaders and small business owners, delivers workshops & training’s, as well as does Public Speaking. Julie’s mission is to empower ambitious achievers to ditch the self-doubt and limiting thoughts holding them back, to reach their full potential by owning their leadership, mindset, and instilling high performance habits.

juliemenden.com julie@juliemenden.com @juliemenden

KILEY PETERS

Brainchild Studios® & RAYNE IX

Kiley Peters is the Founder and CEO of the international award-winning Brainchild Studios®️, an audience research and content strategy partner for equity-centered brands building smarter businesses. She founded RAYNE IX, an executive coaching and consulting company for small business owners. She also created the Work From Home Playbook, a series of online courses guiding aspiring entrepreneurs through the steps of starting a virtual business.

As a serial entrepreneur and national speaker, with almost 15 years of industry experience, she has worked on digital content strategies for over 100 brands ranging from small businesses to global enterprises. Her primary areas of expertise include small business consultation, digital content strategy, and consumer behavior research and analysis. She is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) and holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees from Marquette University and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

kiley@brainchildstudios.com brainchildstudios.com RAYNEIX.com

KRISTA MORRISSEY

CHOICES Coaching & Consulting

Have you ever met a person and thought, ‘Wow, I want more of that!’ Meet Krista Morrissey, owner of CHOICES Coaching & Consulting and ICF-certified coach. Krista brings energy, laughter, reflection, and inspiration to every engagement. She partners with clients as they transition to who they want to be and where they want to be. The journey on the outside is a powerful result of the story on the inside. Krista guides an inside-out journey of discover thy self, know thy self, grow thy self, lead thy self. When the outside doesn’t work, Krista goes deep to understand the story on the inside, where the nuggets of wisdom and change hide. Krista will ignite the leader within. After decades of domestic and international leadership and organization development experience, Krista draws upon her strength to stand with others through change and transition. Her mission is to help individuals tap their highest potential and bring their gifts and their power to the world.

choicescoachingconsulting.com @kristamorrissey krista@choicescoachingconsulting.com

LINDSAY RENIER

Renier Hotopp Law

As the owner and operator of Renier Hotopp Law, Attorney Lindsay Renier represents women going through divorce or child custody issues. She not only represents her clients as they navigate through challenging legal issues, but she also encourages, emboldens, inspires, and strengthens women as they endure one of the most difficult times of their lives.

Lindsay operates a Boutique Law Firm and works directly and intimately with each of her clients, encouraging them to fight for what they have a legal right to and emboldens them to demand what is needed for a brighter future ahead - for themselves and their children. Lindsay is a fierce litigator and a savvy negotiator. She is happily married to her husband, Kenny, and has a blended family of her own.

TheRHLawOffice.com 262.977.7717 @RenierHotoppLaw

LISA RAEBEL

Rebel Girl Marketing, LLC

Meet the REBEL of Rebel Girl Marketing. As the Founder, Speaker & Chief Storyteller, Lisa uses her 28+ years of experience to help business owners who know they need better sales and marketing strategies yet have no idea where to start. You will often hear her say, “Everything is marketing. From how you answer your phone to your final invoice to a customer… it’s all marketing.” Lisa cuts through the noise and breaks marketing opportunities down to what makes sense for her clients, creating strategies that are simple and relatable to their target audiences. Her passion for helping others can be seen in her volunteer work and speaking events. Lisa’s workshopstyle engagements provide participants with content and strategies they can implement right away. One popular speaking topic is “The Power of Your Pitch,” which helps professionals make great first impressions. There are benefits to a #rebelmindset!

lisa@rebelgirlmarketing.com rebelgirlmarketing.com @lisaraebel

LORA HAINES

JB Training Solutions

Lora Haines is a high-energy, worldclass facilitator, keynote speaker, and instructional design expert. She has over twelve years of experience in learning and development at world-class organizations like Walt Disney and Microsoft. Lora is currently a Director of Learning and Development at JB Training Solutions, a learning and development company that offers dynamic in-person and virtual soft-skill training across all stages of the employee life-cycle. She has designed and developed several of JB Training’s most popular workshops. She is also a certified coach who is passionate about helping professionals reach their highest career aspirations. She is available to facilitate in-person and virtual soft skill workshops at your organization through JB Training Solutions (www. jbtrainingsolutions.com) or can be reached directly (www.lorahaines.com) for one-on-one small business and entrepreneur workshop consulting.

jbtrainingsolutions.com lorahaines.com lorabhaines@gmail.com

MANDY EMERSON

The Fierce Social Society

Mandy is a social media coach & strategist helping female entrepreneurs grow their business using socials! Before the pandemic, Mandy was performing on cruise ships as a singer. While sailing the world, she discovered her love for video content creation & made makeup tutorials on YouTube. After Mandy lost her job working for a cosmetic company due to the pandemic, she took it as an opportunity to dive head first in to the world of Instagram. It quickly turned in to a full-on coaching business mentoring entrepreneurs on how to leverage the power of socials to gain even more exposure & grow. With the release of Instagram Reels, she gained over 46k followers & exceeded her business goals in just 6 months of coaching. She has now released an Instagram Reels course & will be opening the doors to her new membership in January 2022. Mandy’s mission is to not just empower entrepreneurs with their social presence but also provide them community & encouragement. She realized that entrepreneurship can be lonely but it doesn’t have to be through the power of social media!

themandyemerson.com fiercesocialsociety@gmail.com @themandyemerson

NANCY TOWLE

Licensed Insurance Agent HealthMarkets Insurance Agency

Nancy is proud to be in the KNOW book again to proclaim her love for insurance. Yes, health insurance. Most would think that is crazy but in a lively conversation, Nancy can share the challenges, satisfaction, and rewards that come from helping protect people from devastating medical bills. After a number of different careers, Nancy discovered her perfect niche. She gets to do speaking events and individual appointments, both live and virtual, to share her expertise. Nancy is here to “Clear up the Confusion” about Health Insurance. As a Licensed Insurance Agent with HealthMarkets Insurance Agency, Nancy can offer numerous plans and products with companies in Wisconsin. Ask her about coverage for any age - Medicare is her sweet spot. Don’t hesitate to call to see how she can help you! When she is not helping people navigate coverages, she is probably networking, volunteering or walking her sweet dog Lambeau!

ntowle@HealthMarkets.com, @HealthMarkets.nancy.towle HealthMarkets/ntowle

NEIKO STEWART

Aneu Strategies Group, Inc.

Neiko has more than 25 years’ experience combining ERP Solutions, Cloud Architecture, business processes, system analysis, project management and governance. She delivers value-added expertise to support a company’s digital transformation, strategy roadmaps, and implementations. Neiko continues to evaluate her craft by partnering with Global leaders in technology to provide the best technology solutions to her clients. As the founder and chief strategist officer of Aneu Strategies Group, Inc. (ASG) a woman- and minority owned small business enterprise that provides B2B solutions and B2C As-a Service technology solutions to government entities, nonprofits, and corporate clients. ASG leverages our extensive and successful management, leadership, and professional experience to aid our target market (SMBs) evaluate their current enterprise posture, review their vision, and identify the most appropriate solutions for their current problems. We believe in our ethics, team and expertise. These attributes allow us to provide integrous services to our customers.

aneustrategies.com @company/aneu-strategies-group @aneu.strategies.group_inc

RHONDA NOORDYK, CDFA®

The Women’s Financial Wellness Center

Rhonda Noordyk, Founder & CEO of The Women’s Financial Wellness Center, is Host of the Podcast, Divorce Conversations for Women, a Public Speaker and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, who understands that divorce can be a complicated and a painful journey. This is what drove Rhonda to leave the financial industry in 2014 to pursue her passion of helping women achieve financial justice and financial wellness in their divorce. She refers to her work with women as ‘a different kind of divorce experience, one that leads to empowering moments and living a happy and fulfilled life, post-divorce.’ Fun fact: Rhonda has been a public speaker since the age of 11!

wfwcdivorce.com info@wfwcllc.com New Berlin, WI

VICTORIA HAAS

Affinity Accounting

Victoria is the Principal at Affinity Accounting, located in downtown Milwaukee. They believe the most important aspect of any business is its people, which is why they focus on small business owners in the professional services industry. Their expertise is providing professional accounting, tax, and outsourced CFO services. Leveraging the most current technologies, their people are empowered to work proactively and collaboratively together with their clients. The best part of Victoria’s job is talking to other small business owners about their passion and vision for the future and helping them make that a reality. Victoria attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for Accountancy and has a master’s in taxation. She is a member of the WICPA, AICPA, and TEMPO where she serves on the finance committee. She has 3 young children and serves on the school fund board. Victoria enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and exploring new cuisines.

@company/51619972 @affinitymke info@affinitymke.com