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Scott Turnbow
In 1978, James MacGregor Burns wrote, “Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.” This statement continues to plague society today, as the realization of leadership rarely rises to its full need.
Scott Turnbow has dedicated his life to understanding leadership and helping people rise to its full need. His life mission is to grow leaders, teaching them how to grow more leaders.
Scott is a native of Tennessee, where he resides with his high school sweetheart (wife) and two handsome sons. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and Auburn University, where he holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration, respectively. He is currently working on his Doctorate in Leadership.
Scott actively builds leaders as a general manager in the power generation sector. Turnbow has more than 24 years of experience in leadership roles throughout the power industry. His background is diverse, as he has also served as an independent consultant and inspirational speaker with the Zig Ziglar corporation and the John Maxwell Team.
“The /nside Edge brings a unique opportunity to connect with likeminded individuals that are interested in becoming better people and better leaders.I am looking forward to helping people transform their thinking from being a manager to be being a leader, while building a balance between the application of management and leadership. I will intertwine both theoretical and practical information relative to emotional intelligence, management, follower-ship, and leadership to guide people through the day to day challenges of building a high performance team.”
Michelle O'Neil
Michelle May O’Neil has 25 years of experience in litigation related to family law matters including divorce, child custody, and complex property division. Described by one lawyer as “a lethal combination of sweet-and-salty,” Michelle exudes genuine compassion for her client’s challenges, yet she can be relentless when pursuing a client’s goals. One judge said of Ms. O’Neil, “She cannot be out-gunned, out-briefed or out-lawyered!”
Michelle became a board-certified family law specialist by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 1997. Although representing clients in litigation before the trial court is an important part of her practice, Michelle also handles appellate matters in the trial court, courts of appeals and Texas Supreme Court.
From 2016-2018, Michelle has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America in U.S. News and World Report for family law and appellate law. The firm has also received honors as one of the Best Law Firms in America for 2017 and 2018. Every year since 2011, Michelle has been named a “Texas SuperLawyer, which is a peer-voted honor given to only 5% of the lawyers in Texas.
Meantime, from 2014 to 2017, Michelle received special recognition from Texas SuperLawyers as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Texas, Top 100 Lawyers in Texas and Top 100 Lawyers in DFW. And D Magazine named Michelle as one of the best lawyers in Dallas from 2016 and 2017 in family law and appellate law. A noted author, Michelle in September 2017, released her third book, What You Need to Know About Divorce in Texas, which is available on Amazon. She is also the author of Basics of Texas Divorce Law and All About Texas Law and Kids.
Michelle welcomes the opportunity to be a part of the /nside Edge. She has helped countless women in Texas “Be their own Blaze” and looks forward to sharing her #hellonheels perspective with members of the /nside Edge community worldwide.
David Keeler
David Keeler is Senior Vice President of Business Development at IHC Specialty Benefits with 35+ years of industry experience, 10 of them as part of the IPA Family, a member company of the IHC Group, and is a certified black belt in Six Sigma. While attending college at night, Mr. Keeler started selling insurance straight out of high school and within a decade took a pivotal role in establishing Cornerstone Marketing, which was bringing in $400 million per year in annualized sales at the time he retired in 2004.
That retirement would be short-lived. His good friend, renowned salesman and motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, would soon invite Mr. Keeler to join him at his organization as his Executive Vice President of Business Development, as well as, sharing the stage with him as a certified speaker and trainer serving individuals and companies across North America Mr. Ziglar’s mentorship prepared Mr. Keeler to help transform IPA Family from a small, privately owned company to a fully owned subsidiary of The IHC Group.
Mr. Keeler values authentic interpersonal connections and views trust and respect as the basis for successful partnerships. Due to his path through the industry, he understands the impact decisions have for those on the frontline and strives to conduct business with this in mind. In his current role with IHC Specialty Benefits, Mr. Keeler continues to seek and form business partnerships that will help all companies involved flourish and better serve consumers.
I joined the /nside Edge team because I have a genuine passion to be a strong source of significance and helping others go and grow from where they are today to where they want to be tomorrow.
Jeff Goldblatt
Jeff Goldblatt finds stories. He tells them straight from the heart. And he makes people care, creating storylines as a 3-time Emmy Award winner with 25 years of on-air, TV news experience, and as the Managing Member of a strategic communications LLC he launched in 2016, Jeff’s Journeys.
Jeff gives a new and dynamic edge to Zig Ziglar International as our Director of Operations by using video and social media to tell the stories of clients to grow engagement and ensure loyalty to brand. This is an exciting addition for ZZI considering the myriad adventures taken by Jeff as a journalist.
Jeff was one of the most travelled correspondents during his 9 years with the Fox News Channel from 1999-2008. He took stories and used them to build trust, deepen understanding and nurture relationships, whether it be in the Midwest or in war zones in the Middle East.
The stories he most remembers often came from his willingness to fly right into danger just when everyone else was flying out. Hurricane Katrina. Afghanistan. Iraq. The 2001 Anthrax Attacks.
The DC Sniper Shootings. He learned if you don’t take risks, you miss the stories that matter most–like how people struggled to clean up New Orleans, or New York City rising from the ashes with resilience after 9/11, or how violence rocked the Middle East as missiles flew overhead in Israel, all of which he saw and reported first hand.
Jeff has consulted Fortune 500 C-suite executives in the health care and aerospace/defense industries on public speaking, stronger communication and presentation and conversation strategy. ZZI intends to tap into Jeff’s wide range of skills and his expertise as a communicator and a story teller to help clients diversify and grow their scope of business. There are two things he loves about the stories he has told over the years: they often give a voice to the voiceless and every once in awhile, one of these stories has made a real difference.
Edwin Britt
Whether it be Madison Avenue or Madison, Wisconsin, Edwin Britt has criss crossed the country as the top performer for every sales organization he has represented during a highly decorated career. He has made sales presentations to a virtual Who’s Who of America’s leading brands including Coca Cola, Miller Brewing, The Walt Disney Company, Tommy Hilfiger and NAPA Auto Parts. He has represented product lines for Michael Jordan, NASCAR and the National Football League, appeared on national TV on QVC and HSN, and trained C-Suite executives at Fortune 500 firms.
As the President of Sales of Zig Ziglar International, Edwin returns to the roots of a brand which transformed his career three decades ago, when he heard Zig Ziglar for the first time. 30 years later, Edwin may be one of the most loyal and recognized students of Mr. Zig Ziglar.
Edwin credits Mr. Ziglar with creating a critical path of clearance in his life which took Edwin on a journey for a higher calling. The year was 2002, and Edwin travelled to Charlotte, North Carolina to hear Mr. Ziglar during Mr. Ziglar’s “Get Motivated” series. At that event, Edwin heard Mr. Ziglar tell the audience that “significance” -as opposed to “financial success”- represented the pinnacle of life.
Edwin was so moved by Mr. Ziglar’s words, that he pulled over on his drive home that night, and with tears streaming down his face, scribbled a “Self-Help Card” on an index card for his oldest daughter, Savannah. That night he put the card under her pillow. “I, Savannah, was born to win,” Edwin wrote for his daughter. “God and my family love me. I was fearfully and wonderfully made. I am special, valuable and always respectful. Today, I will do my best with an attitude of gratitude.” Edwin considers those 36 words, which were influenced by Mr. Ziglar, to be one of the most enduring and influential statements of his life.
Years later, Edwin actually got the opportunity to personally tell Mr. Ziglar the story about the creation of his “Self-Help Card,” and Mr. Ziglar subsequently recognized Edwin at a “Born to Win” event in Dallas, Texas as a “young man” who taught him an important, life lesson.
These days, when he is not with the ZZI team sharing Mr. Ziglar’s renowned T.R.U.S.T. Process in a “Sell By Design”course, Edwin can be found in the front of the room as one of the most sought after speakers of the Ziglar organization. Edwin has been a premier motivational and sales speaker since 2004, using his 30 years of selling expertise as a foundation to pass along lessons about living significantly. Edwin is a dedicated family man, who lives in Coastal North Carolina with his wife of 23 years. He is the proud father of 3 daughters, all of whom still carry his “Self-Help Card.”
Crystal Berger
Crystal I. Berger author of “Be Extraordinary: Claiming a Life of Purpose, Passion and Prosperity” is an inspirational speaker and producer for FOX News in New York. Crystal hosts “Extraordinary”, an inspirational podcast on FOX News Radio distributed to more than 1,000 FOX affiliates nationwide. She writes for FOX News Opinions and is a contributor for Black Enterprise Magazine.
She also serves as a fill-in host for Joy In Our Town on the Trinity Broadcasting Network–a global network reaching more than 100 million homes internationally. Crystal can be seen regularly on the Dr. Oz Show and headlining speaking engagements for Zig Ziglar International. In 2013, Crystal was named one of 40 corporate representatives for News Corps’ Diversity Initiative. That same year, she was awarded the NAACP–Baltimore Chapter–Freedom Fighter Award for her work in journalism and n the community.
Crystal is a proud member of the Association of Women in Sports Media, the National Association of Professional Women, the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Crystal is a former a high school English teacher, and the co-founder of a non-profit organization in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Region. In her free time, Crystal enjoys being a Social Media Ambassador for the United Nations Foundation and takes pride in knowing that her work has inspired many to be agents of social change.
Michael Newman
Michael Ray Newman believes there is god-given greatness and the seeds of success in every one of us. It is a guiding philosophy, Michael, as the CEO of Zig Ziglar International (ZZI) didn’t always embrace. Michael credits his awakening to the unparalleled inspiration of Mr. Zig Ziglar, who in his lifetime, influenced more than a quarter of a billion people worldwide.
Michael has no shame admitting that as a kid, he dreamed of a rich and hopeful future but lived a reality marked by hopelessness. At a young age, he battled dyslexia which went undiagnosed until Michael was in his 30s. In fact, one teacher called him “dumb as a box of rocks” in front of Michael’s entire class. He eventually failed out of junior college and in his early 20s learned he would soon become a father.Michael then had to make the hardest sales pitch of his life and certainly the most significant. He had to convince the mother of his child to marry him and start their journey together nearly penniless.
Twenty-five years later, Michael and his wife have raised three amazing children. Along the way, Michael has created several multi-million dollar businesses, crediting much of his success to serendipity from decades earlier. When Michael was in his 20s, he tried to make a living selling knives door-to-door. One day, he walked into a garage sale with eight dollars in his pocket intending to buy baby clothes for his unborn daughter. Instead, he walked out with a box of cassettes. He made that purchase thinking “Zig Ziglar” was a rock band. Instead, when he put the first tape into his truck, his life was transformed by a man who rocked his world with profound and lasting wisdom.
On those tapes, Michael heard Mr. Ziglar tell him, “Failure is an event; not a person,” and, “You can have everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want.” Mr. Ziglar’s words resonated with Michael, and from that point forward, he has committed his life to helping others, whether it be motivating large crowds as a keynote speaker, or inspiring employees with high energy and higher expectations.
Michael has no shame admitting that as a kid, he dreamed of a rich and hopeful future but lived a reality marked by hopelessness. At a young age, he battled dyslexia which went undiagnosed until Michael was in his 30s. In fact, one teacher called him “dumb as a box of rocks” in front of Michael’s entire class. He eventually failed out of junior college and in his early 20s learned he would soon become a father.Michael then had to make the hardest sales pitch of his life and certainly the most significant. He had to convince the mother of his child to marry him and start their journey together nearly penniless.
Twenty-five years later, Michael and his wife have raised three amazing children. Along the way, Michael has created several multi-million dollar businesses, crediting much of his success to serendipity from decades earlier. When Michael was in his 20s, he tried to make a living selling knives door-to-door. One day, he walked into a garage sale with eight dollars in his pocket intending to buy baby clothes for his unborn daughter. Instead, he walked out with a box of cassettes. He made that purchase thinking “Zig Ziglar” was a rock band. Instead, when he put the first tape into his truck, his life was transformed by a man who rocked his world with profound and lasting wisdom.
On those tapes, Michael heard Mr. Ziglar tell him, “Failure is an event; not a person,” and, “You can have everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want.” Mr. Ziglar’s words resonated with Michael, and from that point forward, he has committed his life to helping others, whether it be motivating large crowds as a keynote speaker, or inspiring employees with high energy and higher expectations.
Julie Ann Lucky
Julie Ann Lucky is a leadership coach, network marketing executive, and lifelong student of personal growth. Her passion is in leadership with a specific emphasis on coaching entrepreneurs from all walks of life to reach their full potential in their personal life and in business.
Julie is a founding partner with Monat Global, an anti-aging hair care company based in Miami. Her team sales now produces more than 1.5 million dollars in revenue in just 2.5 years in business with a network of 26,000 distributors and customers. Julie attributes the rapid growth of her team to the foundational principle of Zig Ziglar which states, “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
Julie has served on the leadership council with Monat Global in both March and July of 2016. In 2016 and 2017 she was a speaker at the Monations United International Convention. She has facilitated mastermind groups on personal growth with entrepreneurs, as well as conducted Bible studies in the marketplace. From 2012-2014, she was a Director for a local tutoring service for homeschoolers called Classical Conversations. She is a certified coach with The John Maxwell Team and has studied sales coaching with the Direct Sales World Alliance. She holds a BS degree in elementary education in which she taught 6th grade in 1997-1999. Her mission in life is to inspire others to reach their full potential and live a life of significance.
Julie believes strongly in the mission of the ZZI team, and she is a student of their coaching and mentoring. She has attended ZZI workshops, public events and participated in a ZZI virtual course.
When she was asked to serve on the Board of Directors of the N’Side Edge, Julie stepped forward without hesitation. Coaching others to live significantly is Julie’s guiding principle in her life, and she says the ZZI Team shares the foundational philosophy. Julie says she looks forward to helping spread the word to the masses that life is richer when you pay it forward with no strings attached and no expectations