Hi! My name is Tish Times, and I'm the founder and CEO of HireTimes Career & Coaching Group. I've worked for over seventeen years in the employment industry, both as an employee and a business owner. My main areas of service are empowering job seekers and Human Resource consulting. For job seekers, I help them optimize their job search and capitalize on their strengths, which makes them more attractive to potential employers. My HR Consulting helps diverse companies increase employee engagement, create a harmonious work environment, and ensure compliance with federal employment laws. As a staff coach, I concentrate on human resources issues and management development to create forward thinking workplaces. If you need help jumpstarting your job search, transitioning to a new career, or hiring new team members, let's talk!

Therapist, Educator, author and Life Coach Diane Lang has dedicated her career to helping people turn their lives around and is now on a mission to help them develop a sustainable positive attitude that can actually turn one into an optimist, literally. A therapist and educator of Positive Psychology, she has seen that it can provide a strong foundation for finding great happiness and is gratified that it is becoming a mainstream method of treatment.

Daisy is an award-winning Certified Career Management Coach and author of No Canadian Experience, Eh?, a first-of-its kind resource that addresses the job search challenges faced by Internationally Educated Professionals moving to Canada. As founder of The Wright Career Solution, she provides full-cycle career transition coaching to professionals from around the globe. Her stint with the United Nations, NY gave her a chance to understand and work with people from diverse cultures. A 2011 Zonta Women of Achievement Nominee and receipt of a 2011 Alumni of Distinction Award from Conestoga College has added to her accomplishments.

Maria DiBari is a domestic violence and homicide prevention expert and President and Executive Director of Tri-County Crisis Center, Inc in NYS. Her work in homicide prevention has earned her the national Women of Peace Award from the Women’s Peacepower Foundation, Inc. Maria is nationally recognized for her outstanding ability to bring peace to victims of domestic violence on a national scale and her determination to teach future generations about the power of non-violence.

In 2009, Eileen Schlesier decided to cross an item off her life-list and become her own boss. Eileen is truly inspired by the strong females who have influenced her life, which is why she has decided to work with women-owned small businesses. A professional who values a work-life balance, she is passionate about coaching other female small business owners to self-employment success. Along the way she adopted a nickname to help clients pronounce her last name- which stuck. (Schlesier, pronounce like SleeveShirt).

As a career advisor with an entrepreneurial mindset, I have spent nearly a decade helping hundreds of professionals in advertising, marketing, design, multimedia and other industries in developing career plans, branding tools, personal marketing & job search strategies, freelance ventures and small businesses that ultimately allow them to make a living doing the work they are passionate about. I specialize in working with mid and senior-level professionals across different areas of career transition: job search strategy, resume preparation, personal branding, and transition away from traditional employment and into starting a small business or freelance venture.

Adrienne Graham is the Founder & CEO of Empower Me! Corporation. She is a strategist that helps people grow their career, business or network in any economy. She is the voice behind Views from the Top Radio Show, and the creative visionary behind Empower Me! Institute and Empower Me! Magazine. Her writing and shows focus on Career Management, Networking Strategies, Entrepreneurial Success and Small Business Management. You can also find her causing a ruckus on Forbes.com.

Franne is a wife of 40+years married to the same man, retired registered nurse, mother of 3 (one with special needs), grandmother of 2 and a Realtor. She embarked on her real estate career when her 1st child went off to college and has spent the past 21 years honing her craft while helping families and individuals move across the street or across the world. She says, “I have the best job with the best clients.” She has been an advocate for her son since the day he was born and is proud to say he works full time, drives and spends his spare walking on the beach or traveling. She is a New Yorker by birth but lives in Charleston, South Carolina by choice.

Strategic HR Management Consultant; Career, Executive and Leadership Coach who specializes in helping her clients put people at the heart of their organizational and business decisions and find their true passion in work. Also teach leadership at the College level and am very, very involved in organizations focused on helping women and children and communities succeed and grow.

Mary E. Davis is the author of the THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MOM: Managing for Success in Your Home and Your Business. With over two decades of experience as a successful entrepreneur, Mary wrote this book to guide and teach women the life-balance skills necessary to become successful in both entrepreneurship and motherhood. Her book includes expert information about starting, branding, managing, promoting and growing a business, while successfully juggling the dual identity and responsibilities of ‘Mom.’ Packed with valuable business information and guidance, her book also includes humor and personal stories, making it easy for readers to relate to her.

Stephanie Lichtman is the owner of 3 masters Coaching, LLC She is a Life Coach and Career Counselor Stephanie also coaches Public Speaking. Stephanie Lichtman has an MBA from Fordham University and a Masters in Public Administration from New York University. Her career as a Financial Advisor was at Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. She was a Hospital Administrator in New York City at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

Inna Kassatkina is co-founder and president of the professional translation and interpreting firm Global Language Solutions. Her excellent management and strategic planning skills help drive the success of GLS. As the president of GLS, she implements aggressive and innovative strategies to grow the company's revenue. Prior to co-founding GLS in 1994, Ms. Kassatkina worked for an international firm with strong interests in Russia and offered linguistic consulting to companies doing business in Eastern Europe. Ms. Kassatkina attended Moscow State University and graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine with a bachelor's degree in linguistics.

Charlene E. Green is the author of two internationally published novels, One Man’s Treasure, and its sequel, And They’ll Come Home; she is also an editor/literary consultant, a spoken-word artist, and a motivational writer and speaker. Charlene has also self-published five books: From Me to You…Through Mine Eyes: Visual Expressions (poetry), Vicariously Speaking (poetry), You Are What You Say You Are: Claiming Your Life’s Mission & Living Your Dream (self-help), Wisdom Nuggets (self-help), and You and Your Editor (informational).

I am a job developer by day and a blogging maniac by night. On this journey of life, I’ve met great mentors and teachers who have taught me the power of celebrating life! Now I’m here …..packaging that life changing info into my blog. The Purple Life's mission is to empower and inspire a desire to live a life full of passion. Living the purple life is being the best you, you can be! I am a strong believer in consistently working on “self”. Self development is so under-rated and there’s nothing wrong with feeding your mind and soul to create the life that you desire!

I founded my speakers bureau 35 years ago and have worked with both well known and unknown speakers. I also do presentations workshops and coach individual speakers on presentations and promotional materials.