Elizabeth Lawless

In today's fast-paced, technological and ever changing environment, Creative and Critical Thinking Skills will always win! Knowing your creative leadership style and strengths, learning how to build relationships, managing yourself or your brand and solving problems through storytelling will set you and your business apart from others as well as the noise in the marketplace. Offering proven strategies and case studies, Lawless will share how she and her team took a small local event and made it a story told around the world. Q&A, Book, worksheets and resources included.

Business Owners and Leaders need to build authority in the marketplace. Publishing a book can be a key marketing tool to separate you from your competition or to enhance awareness with your customers which leads to more reach, respect and revenue. This presentation shares the "5 Secrets to Publishing Success" along with when to incorporate publishing into your marketing strategy, how to get started, and which platforms offer the most opportunity to help people get started or unstuck. By sharing the "Art and Business of Publishing," I make the process easier, show you how to have fun on your creative journey, and shorten your learning curve by months, if not, years. I also teach how to reach a larger audience, build online and offline respect, and develop additional revenue streams to enhance your business or career utilizing book publishing and social media. Q&A, Publishing Guide, worksheets, and resources included.

Meet the Historical and Living Legends who helped create communities all across American while defining an enduring Western Lifestyle. YESTERDAY ... After the American Civil War, many individuals were at loose ends and enormous amounts of unclaimed wild cattle roamed the frontier. Black Cowboys and Cowgirls like Nat Love, Stagecoach Mary Fields, Bois Ikard, Johanna July, William “Bill” Pickett, Henrietta Foster Williams, and others built new lives despite difficult challenges. TODAY ... Animals and Individuals still play a role, but it is rodeos, entertainment, and their stars like Cleo Hearn, Coy and Katrina Poitier, Charlie Sampson, J'Lee and others who are keeping the Western Legacy and Lifestyle alive. Our Cowboys of Color Rodeos bring hundreds of thousands of dollars to communities while professional stock shows and rodeos bring in millions. Attendees will learn these untold stories of the settling of the American Wild West. Q&A, Books and handouts included.