Maria Simone (www.mariasimone.com) is a dynamic speaker, trainer, author, coach and champion of inventors and entrepreneurs. She has helped hundreds of people over the year’s access the resources they need to create their own success in a conscious business as well as a multiple income lifestyle. Maria’s visionary talents support clients with clarifying “next steps”, business planning, capital & resource acquisition, building powerful support teams, monetizing talents, product development, and customer acquisition through unique marketing programs.

Maria has had a successful career in the healthcare industry, starting out as Pharmacist working in the Intensive Care Unit one of the largest trauma hospitals in New York City in 1986, then moving into home healthcare administration and sales by 1990. She has consulted for some of the top pharmaceutical firms in the country (Johnson & Johnson, MD Harris Labs) and has negotiated multi-million dollar healthcare provider contracts. In 1994 she co-authored Pharmacy Statutes which were adopted by the state of Arizona and addressed important patient quality care issues.

By 1998 she contemplated making some radical career changes. “Many people would ignore the ‘inner voice’ and just keep working away unhappily until they could retire or, more likely, until some major physical trauma stopped them in their tracks. I wasn’t going down that path” Maria says.

Her challenge to herself was to leave the healthcare industry, retire her professional degrees, and completely re-invent herself using all the talents and skills that brought her the most joy and applying them to new industries.

She learned how to continually surround herself with the right people, how to fund any project she was working on, and how to skillfully leverage and capitalize on her ideas and talents. In August of 1999, Maria retired from her industry and stepped into new income streams she had quickly created.

Larry Leigon, corporate trainer and executive coach, has been a successful entrepreneur, author and corporate trainer for over 25 years. He has delivered seminars and trainings in over 16 countries and has created successful startups four times in his career.

Mr. Leigon is President of Leigon & Associates, located in San Rafael, California. Leigon & Associates implemented the exclusive contract for change management training and consulting to Hewlett Packard Company globally for 6 years, including during the largest merger in industry history when HP merged with Compaq. In that capacity the network delivered approximately 165 trainings per year in 9 written languages and more than 16 spoken languages in over 20 countries including China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Mexico and most of Europe.

As former President and Co-Founder of Ariel Vineyards Mr. Leigon's company averaged growth of over 50% per year during an 8 year period, including rapid growth years of over 200%. The products he developed have been served at the last three Nobel Prize dinners. He and his work have been the subject of thousands of articles, TV and radio reports including the New York Times (business section), Wall Street Journal, Newsweek Magazine, Der Spiegel (Germany), Class Magazine (Italy) and French National Television.