By his 35th birthday MIKE MICHALOWICZ(pronounced mi-‘kal-o-wits) had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became an angel investor… and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Among other innovative strategies, Mike created the “Profit First Formula”, a way for businesses to ensure profitability from their very next deposit forward. Mike is also the co-founder of Profit First Professionals an ensemble of elite accountants. Mike is now running his third million dollar venture. He is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and MSNBC's Your Business business make-over expert. He is also regular contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine and American Express's "Open Forum" series. Mike was a recurring entrepreneurship expert for CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and has appeared on the CES Roadshow series as well as on NBC, Fox News, ABC News Now, CNBC's On the Money and Pat Croce's Down To Business. Mike is a popular keynote speaker across the globe on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of Surge (being release in May 2016) Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed the “entrepreneur’s cult classic.”

John Garrett is a nationally recognized corporate comedian and emcee who draws on his condition as a recovering Big Four CPA to deliver messages that hit home with corporate audiences. This professional member of the National Speakers Association is on a mission to strengthen teams.