Walter K. Booker, Sr. is the Founder and President of Personal Everest Ventures, Inc., a company dedicated to helping individuals and organizations reach their full potential via personal and professional development, training, mentoring, executive coaching and career and life planning. Additionally, Mr. Booker is also a highly-regarded and much sought-after motivational speaker who has been invited to address and work with groups from clients and companies as diverse as Ameriprise Financial, The Edwin Gould Foundation, the Township of Montclair, NJ and CNBC. Previously, he was the Group Vice President of the New Jersey Market Group of Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. (AMP). During his tenure at Ameriprise, his group became a top performer, finishing in the top quartile of its peer group twelve out of 13 years. Mr. Booker joined Ameriprise Financial in 1995, after spending over a decade in senior management positions in the institutional sales, trading, and research divisions of Salomon Brothers Inc, Bear Stearns & Co., Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., and PaineWebber Incorporated. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his three children.
Mary Brown, Executive Coach and Founder of Guided by Source, specializes in leadership development for women executives and business owners. Her individualized program helps female leaders develop greater effectiveness and efficiency while bringing out the best in themselves and others. Having been a manager in high technology for many years, Mary understands the demands on women leaders, the complex relationships, the many distractions and navigating within a fast-paced environment. During Mary’s +15 year career as a Program and Product manager, her teams were highly recognized for the quality, responsiveness and on-time product deployment. Her unique combination of technical savvy and relational skills made her the perfect choice to present leadership training to entry-mid level managers. Her class was very successful and aided many managers in being more effective while gaining confidence in their roles. She is certified in many modalities including Co-Active Coaching, Situational Leadership, Masterful Training, Emotional Competency Skill Development, Women Leaders for Change, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Advanced Energetic Healing. When Mary is not coaching her clients, you can find her walking on the beach in Santa Cruz with her dogs and husband.