Dr. Lissa RANKIN, Founder and Pink Director of Mojo – Owning Pink
This women’s health visionary, and Incubator Intensive grad, took a huge Pleap (a pink leap of faith) by leaving the medical profession, but soon found that she could quit her job, but not her calling.

Mandee Heller Adler loved education so much she made a career of it. No, she didn’t become a teacher. She helps students realize their secondary education dreams by guiding them through the competitive, time consuming and confusing college application process. Mandee’s 2009 company revenues increased over 200% and she opened three new offices in 2010.

Featured Lady Julie Azuma started Different Roads to Learning when she couldn’t easily find educational tools for her autistic daughter. Initially met with skepticism by people she wanted to partner with who didn’t understand the need for this type of service, Julie persevered. Ten years later, DRL offers 450 items to a customer base of 22,000 and is projected to generate $2.25 million in revenue this year.

After a career of advertising achievements, Myra Janco Daniels came out of retirement and founded the Naples Philharmonic Center Cultural Complex.

Having begun training in Bharatanatyam at the age of four-and-a-half and studied modern dance in New York City, Japan and London, Preeti exemplifies a new kind of artist and entrepreneur who mixes and matches a plethora of international ideas and experiences in all new ways.

Founder and CEO, Global Wonders
www.globalwonders.com

Philanthropist, activist, educator
www.lauraseydel.com

CEO, SkinnySongs
www.skinnysongs.com

Author/Playwright/Professor

Founder, Shakespeare Squared