👋 Meet the Speakers - Neurodiverse Entrepreneur Summit

Meet Your Host

Claire Paniccia (she/they)
Business Coach for Neurodivergent, Spoonie, and Creative Rebel Online Entrepreneurs
Doing Business Differently: How to make your business work for your brain

Hi! I’m Claire, creator of Brain-Friendly Business and the Neurodiverse Entrepreneur Summit™. I help neurodivergent, spoonie, and creative rebel online entrepreneurs build should-free businesses that work for your brain while still making the money you really want to make.

I’ve got ADHD, autism, general anxiety disorder, and chronic depression, as well as wildly fluctuating and unpredictable energy levels (#spoonielife )

For years, I would beat myself up for not being productive enough, for not getting the thing done on time in the “right” way, for not getting “further along” in my business growth faster…

Eventually I decided that if what I was “supposed to do” wasn’t working, there must be a different way to do things — a way that works for my brain.

Over the 8+ years I’ve been in the online business world, I’ve figured out (and continue to figure out!) how to do this whole entrepreneur thing in a way that actually works for me and my brain and body.

And that’s what I want this summit to help you do too.

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Meet Your Speakers

Tara Reid (she/her)

Business Strategist

📣 Showing Up Without Social Media

Tara Reid has been a multi-passionate online business and marketing strategist since 2007. As a huge introvert, she loves helping other introverted entrepreneurs learn how to build a more sustainable business that fits their personality.

Ruth Poundwhite (she/her)

Business & Self-Belief Coach

📣 Being Seen As Yourself: Managing Visibility Fears & Rejection Sensitivity

Ruth Poundwhite is a visibility, sales & mindset coach supporting heart-led and ambitious business owners. As author of the book Quietly Ambitious, host of the Soulful Sales Show podcast, and through her courses, Ruth has helped over 6,000 online business owners work through their self-doubt and increase their sales and income in a way that honors their energy, values and personality.

Laura Robinson (she/her)

Online Marketing/Copywriting Mentor

📣 Storing Momentum: The System I Use So I Never Have To Create from Scratch

Laura is an online marketing mentor and experienced digital copywriter. Over the last 10 years, she has helped hundreds of business owners create and sell 1-1 services, courses, memberships, and group programs. She’s taught online classes for Female Entrepreneur Association, Enterprise Nation, and Membership Academy. And she’s the author of the Comfy Business Playbook, and the creator of the Comfy Business Newsletter for people who want a business that flexes around their life challenges, priorities, and adventures.

Athena Sayaka (she/they)

Human Design for Neurodiverse Creators

📣 Demystifying Discipline: Creating a Supportive Relationship with Structure

Athena Sayaka is a neuroexpansive mystic and speaker. She helps Neurodiverse Creators develop supportive frameworks to honor their whole being as they navigate the world. In her corner of the internet, you are free to be fully you. We’re talking about that complex, embodied, “your raw power is kind of terrifying” version of you. Athena shares practical tips and powerful questions to cultivate a nourishing relationship to yourself, your mind, and your desires. She’ll show you how you are uniquely built to thrive.

Danielle J Harrison (she/her)

Copywriter & Messaging Strategist

📣 Thriving With Auditory Processing Challenges

Danielle J Harrison is a copywriter and messaging strategist who helps entrepreneurs attract perfect-fit clients without endless calls. With an MA in Psychology and a background as a therapist, she’s learned not only how to write copy that sells, but how to overcome the challenges of running a business with Auditory Processing Disorder. She’s discovered a combination of empathetic messaging, strong boundaries, and the right technology can help you scale while cutting calls in half.

Dama Jue (she/her)

Funnel strategist and Thrivecart expert

📣 The Burnout Reset Base: How Airtable + Other Tech Helped Me Regain Focus with a Scattered, Tired Mind

Dama is a funnel strategist and Thrivecart expert who loves helping biz owners build a profitable and impactful online presence through strategic funnels and all the automation you never knew you needed with high-impact-low-stress trainings and templates. Don’t miss her collection of modern, conversion-optimized Thrivecart templates!

Dani Schnakenberg (she/her)

Business Systems Strategist

📣 Offers That Work (for you AND your clients)

Dani Schnakenberg is a Business Systems Strategist. She helps entrepreneurs who want to ditch overwhelm to create a sustainable, fulfilling business through establishing boundaries and systems that work for them. After 10 years in entrepreneurship, she knows that it doesn’t have to be all about the hustle and grind. It’s the systems and processes that we build that allow us to build sustainable businesses that work for our brains and live adventurous lives all at the same time. When she’s not nerding out over workflows, spreadsheets, and analytics, you can find Dani traveling with her husband and five kids, taking in a baseball game, or building something Minecraft. Get all of Dani’s best tips, tricks, and tutorials at her website!

Chloé Nwangwu (she/her)

Brand Scientist and Director of Nobiworks

📣 How to Talk About Your Thing As the World Changes

N. Chloé Nwangwu, the brand scientist, is a speaker, behavioral strategist, and brand visibility expert. A former international conflict mediator, she is now the founder of NobiWorks, a brand visibility consultancy where she partners with underrecognized brands, leveraging science to ensure they are impossible to ignore. Her clients have included a number of boutique firms, the High Ambition Coalition, and the first refugee delegation to the UN.

Hannah Dixon (she/they)

Virtual Assistant Business Coach & Recruiter

📣 How to Find and Hire Virtual Assistants Ethically & Intelligently

Hannah Dixon is a Business Coach, Recruiter, and the creator of The Virtual Excellence Academy, a leading program and global community that has honed the skills and confidence of over 30,000 virtual assistants. Committed to ethical hiring practices, she also provides VIP recruitment services. Hannah views freelancing and self-leadership as potent tools for social change, empowering anyone, anywhere, to unlock potential and create life-changing opportunities. She collaborates with NGOs and governments to ensure her training reaches those who need it most. As a 16-year digital nomad, she speaks internationally, demonstrating progressive business and lifestyle approaches, and powerfully compelling audiences to action.

Mike Ganino (he/him)

Speaking + Storytelling Coach

📣 Public Speaking Superpowers of the Neurodivergent Mind

Mike Ganino’s clients call him the Keynote Director but his website SEO expert made him use “public speaking and storytelling coach.” Whatever you decide to call him, he helps speakers, entrepreneurs, coaches, and authors deliver dynamic and engaging speeches, webinars, podcasts, and interviews. He’s a former TEDx Cambridge Executive Producer, and has helped brands like Disney, Netflix, American Heart Association, and Adobe tell their stories.

Jenny Eden Berk, MSEd (she/her)

Eating Psychology Coach / Culinary Nutritionist

📣 Cooking & Meal-Planning for Distractible People

Jenny Eden Berk, MSEd is an Eating Psychology coach, Culinary Nutritionist and #1 best selling author of the book, The Body Image Blueprint. She helps sensitive and soulful women release chronic stress, restore body confidence, eat consciously and heal their relationship with food.

Latrice Prater (she/her)

Systems Strategist

📣 How to Failproof Your Business For Your ADHD Brain Using Tech

Latrice Prater, Neurodivergent CEO of The Digital Solutions Team, skillfully balances her role as a devoted wife and mother with her professional duties. Her agency empowers female entrepreneurs with advanced technical solutions, leveraging her expertise as a Systems Strategist and certified Director of Operations. Passionate about personal and professional growth, Latrice fosters a community aligned with her values and mentors neurodivergent women service providers. Since starting as a solopreneur in February 2020, she has grown her business to achieve significant milestones. Latrice also shares insights on her blog, “Black Girl CEO Problems,” and co-hosts the podcast “Unconventional CEOs,” expanding her influence within the entrepreneurial world.

Lindsay Johnson (they/them/cowboy)

Entrepreneurship Teacher

📣 How to Sell without Selling

Lindsay Johnson, aka The Radical Connector, is a bipolar baddie with a nerdy obsession with all things entrepreneurship. They developed their own consent-based marketing & sales system at 23 and have been teaching entrepreneurs how to entrepreneur for over 20 years. Lindsay’s superpower is quickly absorbing marketing & sales trends and breaking them down into simple, step-by-step strategies perfect for neurodivergent entrepreneurs who get stuck in overwhelm and overthinking. Catch Lindsay live on YouTube every month for open office hours, binge episodes of their Work Less Play More podcast, or simply pop over to Insta and say Hi!

Nikki McKnight (she/her)

Operations & Systems Strategist

📣 Beyond Busy-ness: A Paradigm Shift For More Effective Delegation

Nikki McKnight is the operations and systems strategist behind the success of founders driven to build businesses beyond themselves. With over 15 years of experience in operations and logistics, Nikki has honed her craft in optimizing operations, enhancing communication, and nurturing high-performing teams across diverse business landscapes. Driven by a fascination for the magic behind the scenes of film and TV, Nikki sees herself as the director of the unseen processes. She believes that true admiration for success lies not just in the spotlight but in understanding the backstage mechanics that make it possible.

Sarah Steckler (she/her)

Productivity Strategist

📣 List Making 101: The Power of Pre-Made Decisions

Sarah Steckler teaches online entrepreneurs how to organize their mind, create sustainable & mindful productivity, and turn their ideas into published planners & journals they can sell around the world! She’s also the host of the Mindful Productivity Podcast and author of the Daily Productivity & Brain Dump Book.