Diane Darling – Author, Founder and CEO

As principal consultant for Effective Networking, Inc., Diane Darling founded the company on the premise that everyone can learn to network, they just need to find their own style.

She has received rave reviews for her seminars and speeches and is increasingly sought after as an expert resource on the subject of networking. Read more.

Andreas Widmer, Co-founder of the S.E.V.E.N Fund

Andreas Widmer is the co-founder of the S.E.V.E.N Fund, a non-profit run by entrepreneurs whose goal is to dramatically increase the rate of innovation and diffusion of enterprise-based solutions to poverty.

Widmer is an author who recently contributed two chapters to the book In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty. He regularly writes on issues of entrepreneurship, economic development and spirituality. Read more.

Richard Banfield, CEO, Fresh Tilled Soil

Richard wears the strategic hat around the office and has never met a whiteboard he didn’t like. Richard has delivered high-level business strategy, global marketing campaigns and materials to clients in the US, UK, Europe and Africa. Read more.

Scott Smiley

Scotty Smiley, a Ranger and combat-diver qualified infantryman, was the Army’s first active-duty, blind officer.   The Army Times named Scotty its Soldier of the Year in 2007 and in 2008 he won an ESPY as the world’s Best Outdoor Athlete. Read more.

Tiffany Smiley

Tiffany Elliott Smiley grew up in Pasco, Washington as a star on the soccer field and the basketball court. She played college soccer at Columbia Basin College and won a state, small college championship. In 2003, she married her high school sweetheart, Scotty Smiley. Just fifteen months later, she received the heartbreaking news that her husband had been badly injured in Iraq. Read more.

Doug Crandall

Doug Crandall served in the Army for thirteen years, including the last five at West Point where he was an award-winning leadership teacher and later the Executive Officer to the Dean.  Read more.

Performer Bio

At 13, Armerding joined his father’s bluegrass band, Northern Lights, on fiddle. He soon turned his attention to songwriting, and recorded his first CD, Caged Bird, while earning a degree in English Literature at Wheaton College (IL). Read more.