The Ethan Awards

Dawn McIntyre, Professional Spiritual Intuitive, is an expert in leading men and women into higher states of expansion and beauty consciousness.

Dawn is regularly sought out by the media and she has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX as well as being featured in USA Today, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications. She was also a regular guest on BTV in Edmonton, Alberta for two years and has been a guest on over 50 radio shows in the past three years.

Dawn is also the best-selling author of Big Ideas for Your Business (Celebrity Press 2009), Shift Happens (Celebrity Press 2009), Bouncing Back – Thriving Through Changing Times and the forthcoming author of The New10 – Beauty Redefined ….a 40 Day Program to Your Infinite Beauty and Perfection of Being due to be released in June 2010.

Dawn also received The 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the field of Spiritual Growth by The International Association of Business Leaders.

Dawn lives in Calgary, Alberta with her daughter, Kennedy.

Roseann Benson does a wonderful job preparing the first-time puppy owner for what to expect before, during, and after day one of puppy purchase: from finding a breeder to puppy-proofing a house, socializing and potty training, obedience school and how to become an outstanding dog-owning citizen and ambassador for your breed. If you’re not drooling for puppy love by the time you get through this book, you must be a cat person.

For over 30 years, Roger McManus has coached, funded, counseled and published for entrepreneurs. As a serial entrepreneur himself, he has garnered the wisdom of dozens of advisers and gathered years of experiences in his effort to develop a clear picture of the entrepreneurial mindset. As a magazine publisher, speaker, author and consultant, McManus has had the rare opportunity to see inside businesses resulting in the conclusion that many call themselves entrepreneurs, but few truly achieve the levels of freedom that the title should imply. Recognized by the SBA as Media Advocate of the Year and elected to the White House Conference on Small Business, McManus takes the plight and the opportunities of the small business owner to heart in his writing. The Entrepreneurial Insanity series explores how the development of a few systems can deliver the objective of business ownership: freedom for the owner not to work in the business. It is that freedom that gives the business a value.

Jim Garland is an entrepreneur, business owner, author, professional speaker and business consultant. He started his first company Sharp Details, Inc. from the trunk of his car as a boat cleaning service in 1991. Today Sharp Details, Inc provides corporate aircraft cleaning and support services to fortune 100 companies, has 60 employees and produces over $3,500,000 in annual revenue

Mande Dagenais’ career as a choreographer, director, and producer has spanned more than twenty-five years, seventy production shows, and four continents. With more than seventy stage shows to her credit, Dagenais resides in Miami Beach with her husband, Alex, and their two dogs.

Gerry Czarnecki is the co-founder of The National Leadership Institute (NLI), Chairman of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Florida Chapter, President & CEO of O2 Media, and the Chairman, CEO of The Deltennium Group, nationally recognized for offering leadership consulting, career coaching, financial planning and investment management services

Tom Terwilliger began his coaching career twenty-seven years ago as a fitness trainer in New York City and has worked with such prestigious clients as Regis Philbin, Gregory Hines, Cindy Crawford, and Eddy Murphy, and Denver Broncos’ Alfred Williams. As a contributing writer for two of the industries leading magazines and journals IDEA Fitness and IDEA Fitness Management, Terwilliger is considered one of the worlds leading experts in the field of fitness and goal achievement.

Jay B. Myers is the Founder/CEO of Interactive Solutions, Inc. (ISI), a Memphis based firm that specializes in videoconferencing, distance learning, telemedicine and audio-visual sales and support. His first book, Keep Swinging- An Entrepreneur’s Story of Overcoming Adversity and Achieving Small Business Success,will be published in October 2007, and is available through Morgan James Publishing of New York (www.morganjamespublishing.com)

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Bill Glazer is President of Glazer-Kennedy Insider’s Circle, Professional Speaker, Marketing Consultant and Coach, and a much sought after copywriter. After 30 years of ‘in-the-trenches’ work with his own hugely successful businesses he perfected his unusually effective advertising (i.e. Outrageous) combined with Direct Response marketing that routinely receives outstanding responses.
Today clients pay Bill Glazer a minimum of $25,000 plus royalties to write advertising for them and they’ll wait routinely 9-months for a $12,000 day of consulting.
A regular contributor to “McSweeney’s” and host of the popular Moth StorySLAM in New York, Dan Kennedy is the author of the widely acclaimed “Loser Goes First”

Allison Maslan has been an entrepreneur for the past 25 years, with a vibrant and powerful array of successful businesses to her credit. She is an author, life and career coach, homeopath, and international speaker. Allison is the originator and President of The Blast Off! Life Coaching Program. Through her years of working with clients on a one-on-one basis, she has come to understand how and why human beings create their own personal limits in every aspect of their lives. She developed the Blast Off! Program to help people learn to identify and release their self-liiting roadblocks and to share a solution- and strategy-oriented roadmap for creating ore prosperous, richer, and freer lives

Rick Horrow is the leading expert in the business of sports. As CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures, he has been the architect of 103 deals worth more than $13 billion in sports, performing arts, and other urban infrastructure projects. Horrow is also Sports Business Analyst for CNN, the FOX family of media properties, including FOXSports.com, FOX Sports Radio, and the FOX Business Channel, BBC, and BusinessWeek.com. He also has an upcoming weekly half-hour tv program on Versus, “The Sports Take With the Sport’s Professor.”

Karla Swatek has served as Marketing Director for Horrow Sports Ventures since 2003. Swatek served as Publicity Director of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, and Pfeiffer and Company, San Diego before establishing her own company, Swatek and Davidson Associates, a San Diego, CA-based business marketing firm, in 1999. She has also served as Planned Television Arts’ affiliate West Coast Publicity Director in addition to handling independent projects

Preston Jones is the President of Keeping Kids Safe, child safety expert, #1 bestselling author, consultant, speaker and trainer. Married 16 years. Two daughters. Thirty-four year practitioner of martial arts, 5th degree black belt. Owner, Cutting Edge Martial Arts. Former police officer, Camdenton, Mo. Former security consultant and trainer. Former program developer, teacher & trainer for Southwest College, San Francisco, CA.

Joyce Jackson is the Vice President Keeping Kids Safe, child safety expert, #1 bestselling author, consultant, speaker and trainer. Married mom of two adopted boys. Former licensed and practicing architect. Owned own 17 person design and consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area until launching Keeping Kids Safe full time. Martial arts black belt, marathon runner, fitness buff

Michael McQueen is a Sydney-based social researcher, professional speaker and bestselling author. In 2004 he founded a training consultancy called The Nexgen Group. Since then, he and his Michael McQueen is a Sydney-based social researcher, professional speaker and bestselling author. In 2004 he founded a training consultancy called The Nexgen Group. Since then, he and his team have presented to and worked with over 85,000 senior students on topics such as career planning, interview skills and financial literacy. Michael is a sought-after internationally as conference keynote speaker and is a leading authority on youth trends and strategies for engaging with Generation

Dan S. Kennedy is a multi-millionaire serial entrepreneur; direct marketing consultant, strategic advisor and direct-response copywriter; and author of 14 business books including the popular “No B.S.” series (www.NoBSBooks.com). Chip Kessler is an entrepreneur and consultant specializing in health care industries, and is married to a cousin of Dr. John Brinkley

Conrad Hall is an international copywriter, author, and speaker. Friends, Followers and Customer Evangelists is his fifth book, and the first to be released in print version.
As the author and founder of The Marketing Spotlight (Hall’s Blog), Conrad has expanded his writing to include contributing to Technorati, Blog Critics, Social Media Examiner, and Community Marketing Blog. For each site, Conrad writes about the effective use of social media, how to measure results, and how good content serves to strengthen your business and become an added revenue stream.
Originally from Toronto, he now lives in Illinois with his wife (Yvette), 3 children, a dog (Silas) and a cat (Goliath)

Dan Bickley is an award-winning journalist and radio talk show host in Arizona. He is a veteran sports columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper and azcentral.com. He spent the first 11 years of his career in Chicago, mostly as a sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is the author of “No Bull: The Unauthorized Biography of Dennis Rodman.”

Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D. are best known for their work in the study and understanding of differences in relationships. “The Heart of Marketing” validates the power of heart-to-heart connections that leads to emotional authenticity and marketing believability, taking sales beyond mere commercial transactions into long-term customer relationships