Karen Aroian
Karen is an independent fiction and nonfiction writing coach, book editor and ghostwriter. She is a trusted content editor for businesses.
Kerri Qunell
An accomplished marketing and communications leader, Kerri currently serves as Director of Marketing and Communications at The Texas Tribune, where she leads brand strategy and promotion for the organization’s journalism, products, and flagship events. With a career spanning leadership roles at nonprofits, media, tech, and education, she also empowers professionals as a freelance branding consultant.
Laura Bond Williams
Following a 25-year in public relations, Laura created a significant career change by forming a Pilates and fitness business, Mat Pilates ATX, as an extension of her coaching/consulting practice for executives in transition. As both a teacher and a coach, Laura support clients to navigate challenges related to their personal and professional goals and well-being.
LuAnn Glowacz
LuAnn is a freelance writer and editor. She loves helping colleagues who are leaping into freelancing/entrepreneurship and building an agency of one, particularly those grappling with choosing a specialty (she worked many years in PR before focusing exclusively on writing and editing), juggling work and family, finding and maintaining clients, and reaching profitability.
Mary Anne Connolly
Mary Anne is a former journalist (network news producer and regional magazine editor), frequent PR pro and now media consultant for clients ranging from tech thought leaders to innovative startups to fillmmakers and authors to state and city agencies to global nonprofits. Passionate about promoting media literacy, caregiving, neurodiversity and the creative arts, she strongly believes in finding fulfilling, mission-driven work that utilizes our greatest gifts, empowers individuals, provides financial independence and supports the greatest good. As our world rapidly transforms and adapts to chaos and change, she believes we must as well.
Maura Thomas
Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. Her proprietary Empowered Productivity™ System has been embraced by the likes of NASA, Dyson, and Google. She is a TEDx Speaker, founder of Regain Your Time, author of six books, and was named a Top Leadership Speaker in Inc. Magazine.