2016.12.31: Elevating Your Personal Brand

NYC native, currently based in South Florida, LeNora Jaye grew up in a household where she was exposed to everything from Jazz, Bebop, Gospel, Motown, Opera, Cabaret and even Broadway showtunes. As a featured vocalist for the funk-rock band Rhythm Republik, she began performing at a host of venerable NYC venues including B.B. King's, House of Blues, The Blue Note NYC, S.O.B's, Tramps, The Wetlands, CBGB's, Ashford & Simpson's Sugar Bar and many others. A series of session jobs followed, including performances at the St. Lucia Jazzfest as a vocalist for saxophonist Robert Zi Taylor, appearing as a featured artist on the 2011 KZCT OZCAT Radio 89.5 FM's CARNIVAL Freedom I-JAMS Jazz Cruise, and in 2012 as a contract-performer aboard the CELEBRITY Eclipse cruise vessel. LeNora has proven to be an in-demand artist on the soul & jazz scene and was recently voted BEST NEW ARTIST 2011 by SoulTracks.com for their Annual Reader’s Choice Music Awards after the release of her critically-acclaimed debut cd THE STORY. In 2016 LeNora once again made her mark on the music scene with her TransPhatt Records EP release FORCE OF LIFE. LeNora is currently performing as “Ella” for the South Florida Sammy Davis Jr. & Ella Fitzgerald tribute show and is also currently a weekly featured performer at Georgie’s Alibi-Wilton Manors. LeNora is also one of the lead vocalists with the renown South Florida Motown/Supremes musical tribute group The Ladies of Soul and through South Florida Legends Incorporated she is all 3 of the new 3-act Icons of SOUL tribute show featuring the lengendary music of Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle & Chaka Khan.

Intro: Coach Michael Taylor is an irrepressible optimist with a passion for the impossible who has committed his life to empowering men and women to live extraordinary lives. He is President & CEO of Creation Publishing Group LLC, he is the author of 7 books, a radio & TV host, a loving husband who has been blissfully married for 17 years and he is a dedicated father of three grown children. When he isn't writing or speaking you'll find him at the movie theater enjoying a great movie or sitting at home listening to old school 70's and 80's soul music.

Lennox Scott, Chairman and CEO of John L Scott Real Estate,shares how “Walking in the Solution” and “Living Life as a Contribution” has powered his company to $14.4B in annual sales. 

Hard work and determination, the work ethics instilled in him by his grandfather who hired him to paint signs when he was ten, helped Lennox Scott grow the company from a small mom and pop business to 1,400 broker associates in 2007. Yet, those old-fashioned work ethics were not enough to sustain the company when put to the test by the Great Recession in 2007. When the housing market collapsed that year, Lennox was looking at the disheartening possibility of having to make huge cuts to his staff or even close his doors. Serendipitously, he then met a woman who introduced him to a progressive, innovative perspective she calls “Walking in the Solution” that ultimately turned his business and his life around. (That woman, Deanna Scott, is now his wife.) Annually, John L. Scott now engages over 3,000 broker associates in 110 offices across four states, closes more than 37,000 transactions totaling $14.4B in sales volume, and is now listed as the 12thlargest Real Estate Power Broker in the US. Most impressively, in 2017 the company’s foundation helped contribute over $15M to children’s hospitals and healthcare in the Pacific Northwest.