Business Leadership and Community: Perspectives on Developing Your Business Community

Jason Miller is a business powerhouse. He owns several successful businesses he has built, scaled, and grown. He is also the CEO of the Strategic Advisor Board, a fast-growing business strategy and consulting firm.

James Foo Torres is a renowned Public Relations Strategist, a host of a top 1.5% of podcasts in the world, a bestselling author and an international bestselling author. He is best known as Foo, Founder and CEO of Imperium Authority. Following his service in the Air Force, Foo launch his company with the mission of amplifying the positive impact of exceptional leaders.

Shelby Jo Long believes in the power of self. A strong principled belief in your skills, an open mind in search of new perspectives and a supportive community can help entrepreneurs achieve the vision for their business and their life. A business brand developed around your genius is the path to create fulfilling relationships and lifestyle. With fifteen years as a professor of Communication Studies and collegiate debate coach, Shelby is passionate about teaching, critical thinking and communication. In addition to multiple administrative positions in academia, she has helped countless students rehearse their communication skills to prepare for their future career in the classroom and in the world of collegiate debate. Shelby's business utilizes her communication expertise to help genius entrepreneurs clarify their brand message and story so they can better connect with clients, she also helps clients create high ticket programs out of their content to reach larger audiences and deepen relationships with clients. She helps clients create a speaking, coaching or consulting business out of their own expertise.Shelby's business is connected in two other business partnerships. She is Senior Vice President of the Strategic Advisor Board, which helps small businesses grow and scale their business. She is also CEO of an independent publishing company Rogue Publishing, where authors can have access to services needed to publish their book. Shelby understands the potential of partnerships to elevate the influence of small business. In her time outside of her work, Shelby is with her husband Tony, daughter Ava, and son Emmett and close friends either playing outdoors or traveling to visit her immediate family in Montana and Idaho. Discover the possibilities of your genius. To connect, visit shelbyjolongcoaching.com. Shelby Jo Long believes in the power of self. A strong principled belief in your skills, an open mind in search of new perspectives, and a supportive community can help entrepreneurs achieve the vision for their business and their life. A business brand developed around your genius is the path to create fulfilling relationships and lifestyle.

Otis W. McGregor III, CPM LTC, Special Forces, US Army, Retired Otis retired from the US Army in 2009 as a Special Forces (Green Beret) Lieutenant Colonel following 25 years of service. Since retirement, Otis has been the Business Development Director and Manager for several companies. He started his own company in 2009, LTO Enterprises, LLC, which provides business performance coaching, business development support and leadership training to clients. Otis is currently Head Coach of the Colorado Springs Grizzlies High School Rugby Club and the Colorado All-State Varsity Rugby Team. He is professional certified business performance coach and certified project director and trainer through The Institute of Project Management. While in the Army, Otis had a broad range of experience from being a private driving tanks older than himself; to an engineer in Alaska, running heavy equipment in the most extreme conditions; to leading Green Berets on complex and dangerous missions around the world. Otis also had the unique experience to be part of new units and command organizations, working to create these new units into cohesive effective organizations. This experience ranged from artic conditions in Alaska to counter-terrorism units in Iraq and Afghanistan, to NATO Special Operations Headquarters. Being part of these organizations from the ground up, has given Otis an immense amount of experience in creating successful organizations. In the business world, Otis has used those same skills and experience to build successful teams, business units and companies. Otis has lead capture efforts and proposal development for large and small firms. These efforts have ranged from small task orders to large multiple entity Joint Venture efforts. In addition to his business development efforts Otis has run multi-million dollar programs for the government spread across the US and overseas. Otis' passion lies with helping people succeed. This passion has driven Otis through years of coaching rugby and now drives his business coaching career. Otis works hard to give back to the community that gave him so much by volunteering his time to help veterans transition from service and begin their own business and coaching rugby. BS-Engineering Technology, Texas A&M University; MA-International Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School; Certified Professional Coach, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC); Certified Project Director and Certified Project Trainer, Institute of Project Management (IPM); USA Rugby Level 300 Coach. 

Joel Phillips is an accomplished entrepreneur who serves as CEO of Proshark and founder/director of Strategic Advisory Board. Through both roles, Joel welcomes opportunities to help others launch and develop their own businesses, drawing on experience with digital marketing, software/app development, data, analytics, and cyber security. He’s known for building and inspiring teams using a competitive and cooperative foundation to foster new ideas and imaginative solutions. Listening and asking “why” are at the core of his character as are integrity and perseverance.

With diverse professional experience that spans several industries, Joel is a member of MENSA, as well as Microsoft and CISCO certified. Before starting his own company, he served as Senior Project Manager for 4G Development where he managed over 30 commercial construction projects from entitlement to completion. He previously launched and ran his own web-based subscription platform offering distressed assets, valuation, lending, and other associated services to the public. His resume also includes work with Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, eAssist Global Solutions, American Loans, Inc., and ELNT, Inc.

When he’s not working, Joel enjoys family, flying (he’s a licensed pilot), sailing, playing/mixing music, golf, and biking.

Chris O’Byrne started JETLAUNCH, a self-publishing company, several years ago to right a wrong he saw in self-publishing services. Just because authors want to self-publish does not mean they need to settle for amateur design or inflated prices. Professional book design (cover, ebook, and print) should cost a fair price.

Authors have had three choices for publishing their books:

Traditional (legacy) publisher

Vanity press

Do-it-yourself

Traditional publishing houses have shifted dramatically in the past few years. Now they cater to generic books focused on a wide audience. The quality of the books they produce has also declined, often precipitously. The time it takes to get a book published is still measured in years instead of weeks, and royalties are still in the >10% range.

Vanity presses are still alive and well. More authors than ever fall prey to their pushy and manipulative marketing techniques. The result: the author pays thousands of dollars for a poorly designed book for which they still receive only a fraction of the royalties.

DIY publishing gives the author complete control, but it has its downside. Most authors are not professional designers, and when they attempt to design their own books, they look terrible. The author can also act as a general contractor and find freelancers that will design all of the separate pieces, but that is always a shot-in-the-dark process, and freelancers can be flakey.

What is the solution?

A self-publishing company that provides fantastic book design at a fair price and who doesn’t take one cent of the author’s royalties. That company is JETLAUNCH.net.

We want to be your self-publishing partner, providing all of the design and technical details of self-publishing services so you can focus on what you do best—writing.

Chris O’Byrne—Founder of JETLAUNCH

A former chemical engineer and high school teacher, Chris O’Byrne built JETLAUNCH.net into the premier book and booklet company for entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, and consultants.

Jason Miller is a business powerhouse. He owns several successful businesses he has built, scaled, and grown. He is also the CEO of the Strategic Advisor Board, a fast-growing business strategy and consulting firm.