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Ignite Burlington 2016 | Speaker Videos

November 21, 2016

Thank you again to everyone who attended Ignite Burlington 2016! What a treat to share the evening with such an inspiring group of speakers and community members.

Adam Hergenrother started Hergenrother Foundation in 2013 to give back to the communities in which he and his team members live, work and play.

Hergenrother Foundation’s mission is to transform lives through strategic giving, so that everyone can live the biggest life possible. Hergenrother Foundation supports housing and youth leadership and mentorship non-profit organizations around the country. By supporting Hergenrother Foundation, you are investing in the future of your community. Hergenrother Foundation is also dedicated to bringing educational and inspirational events to the Greater Burlington area, to heighten awareness for the power that every person, regardless of age, can live a life without limits.

We also want to give a special thanks to our sponsors – Kim Negron of Homebridge Financial Services and Paula Diaco of Write Stories Now. A musical performance from a local trio was also a highlight of the night. A2VT is a group of young men who landed in Vermont after war broke out in their birth countries. They sing, dance, rap and are a whole lot of fun.

The evening kicked off with a great social hour, killer small bites and closed with dessert and coffee catered by Bevo.

Ignite Burlington 2016 was packed with amazing speakers and supported by an incredible audience. We had a videographer on site to capture each talk. These amazing speaker videos are available now: IGNITE BURLINGTON 2016 VIDEOS

We welcome feedback on the event, please direct all correspondence to brita@adamhergenrother.com. Share your thoughts on the event and send along information to nominate yourself or someone you know as an Ignite Burlington speaker in 2017.

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Ignite Speaker Spotlight | Alex Camelio

October 18, 2016

Presentation: $1000 and a Dream

As the head of technology for a new venture capital and incubator company, Alex Camelio focuses on both acquisitions and working to help grow products within the portfolio. Prior to selling his company to Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies, Alex was the Co-Founder and President at Barcode Realty. Within the real estate community, he has been recognized internationally as an expert in technology, marketing, and entrepreneurship and has presented for various national organizations

Alex’s Profile: Facebook

Reserve your Ignite tickets here: IGNITE BURLINGTON 2016

Ignite Burlington info: https://www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events

Ignite Speaker Spotlight | Galen Dow

October 5, 2016

Presentation: The Power of Persistence – Try, Try Again!

Galen Dow is the CEO of AMPED Pipeline Marketing. Galen founded, bootstrapped and successfully exited New Breed Marketing. New Breed Marketing was one of 3 HubSpot platinum partners out of 2,700 HubSpot partners globally.

His background includes VP level sales and marketing roles for several hardware and software companies. He has an engineering degree and MBA from The University of Vermont. He has several new projects going including AMPED Pipeline Marketing which picks up technologically where New Breed Marketing left off and Kaboodle, a new model of creating age appropriate internet experiences for under 12 year old’s.

Galen’s Profile: LinkedIn
Website: www.ampedpipeline.com

Reserve your Ignite tickets here: IGNITE BURLINGTON 2016

Ignite Burlington info: https://www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events

Ignite Speaker Spotlight | Brian Armstrong

October 4, 2016

Presentation: Flowers in the Darkness

Brian Armstrong and his wife Lora Wilson founded Strong Will Real Estate which ranks as one of the top real estate teams in Vermont and for Keller Williams in all of New England. Brian has been in real estate for over 20 years. Brian launched his real estate career as a mortgage loan officer, closing just under 200 loans in his record year. In addition to his role as Principal Broker of KW Vermont and leader of Strong Will Real Estate, Brian owns 24 rental units.

Brian Armstrong is Co-founder and Principal Broker of KW Vermont. As co-founder and former CEO of Vermont’s first and only Keller Williams Realty office, Brian helped assemble a team of close to 75 agents in less than four years. KW Vermont now consistently ranks as one of the top companies in Vermont both for volume and units closed. Prior to co-founding KW Vermont Brian led a 10 office REALOGY franchise where he hired over two-thirds of the company’s agents and half their top producers. Under Brian’s leadership, the company consistently ranked among the top three real estate companies in the state and the top three in the entire central New England Region for Century 21. Brian and his team represent several large national lenders including the Veterans Administration, HUD, and FNMAE. In addition to residential real estate, Brian and his team specialize in distressed and multi-family properties. His team consistently ranks among the top 5% of Realtor’s nationwide.

Website: allburlingtonhomes.com

Contact: barmstrong@kw.com

Reserve your Ignite tickets here: IGNITE BURLINGTON 2016

Ignite Burlington info: https://www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events

Ignite Speaker Spotlight | Rich Nadworny

September 3, 2016

Presentation: It’s the Little Things

Rich Nadworny is principal of Empatico, a design and innovation studio based in Burlington, Vermont. Empatico helps organizations get un-stuck through human-centered design. The process is people centric (think customer obsessed), collaborative and highly creative. Empatico provides both design services and training to organizations.

Rich leads projects for business modeling, customer experience design and workshop training. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to local Vermont non-profits. He is the Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International Understanding. His focus is on President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) teaching Mandela Fellows in the summer and East Africans in Nairobi, Kenya in the winter.

He has built innovative digital marketing solutions for clients for almost 20 years. Previously he was a partner at one of northern New England’s largest ad agencies and ran his own digital strategy and marketing agency, Digalicious. In both places he led award-winning innovative digital work.

He is a frequent commentator on Vermont Public Radio (VPR) an innovation columnist at the Burlington Free Press and an ongoing contributor at the Huffington Post.

He has a B.A. from Dartmouth and a M.S. in New Media from Boston University. He studied design and innovation at the California College of Arts.

Website: www.empatico.us

Reserve your Ignite tickets here: IGNITE BURLINGTON 2016

Ignite Burlington info: https://www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events

Ignite Burlington 2015 | Speaker Spotlight – Eugene Korsunskiy

October 7, 2015

Presentation: Trucks and Creativity

Eugene Korsunskiy is the Senior Coordinator of Design Initiatives at UVM, where he teaches classes on Design Thinking and Designing Your Life. Before coming to UVM, Eugene taught at Stanford, where he received his MFA in Design 2012. His masters project, called SparkTruck, was a delivery-truck-turned-classroom-on-wheels, filled with maker tools and supplies, which he and his friends drove across the country to teach kids about tinkering, design, and creativity.

Website: www.eugenekorsunskiy.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekorsunskiy

Ignite Burlington 2015 will be held on Thursday October 15 at The Film House at Main Street Landing.

Schedule for the evening:

5:30pm – 6:30pm – Registration and cocktail hour

6:30pm – 8:30pm – Ignite Presentations

8:30pm – 9:30pm – Reception and Speaker Meet & Greet

All proceeds from the event will go towards the Hergenrother Foundation.

Reserve your Ignite tickets here.

Ignite Burlington info: https://www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Ignite Burlington 2015 | Speaker Spotlight – Michael Jager

October 2, 2015

Presentation: [Permanent Beta And The Neophyte Club] – A Love Story

For more than twenty-five years, Michael Jager has been creating and collaborating with brands, driven by the idea that design distinction matters most. His groundbreaking work with JDK Design continues with Solidarity of Unbridled Labour, a studio that conceptualizes and realizes ideas that help guide and create culture and positive change within it. Guided by Ezra Pound’s simply but elegantly stated principle, “Make it new,” his collaborative output for a multitude of today’s most recognizable and relevant brands—including Burton Snowboards, Microsoft’s Xbox, Nike, Levi’s, Phish, MTV, Virgin, Lululemon, Yara, Seventh Generation, and Patagonia—is recognized worldwide. Through Solidarity’s own brand-design incubation platform, Michael has helped create unique home, sport, and lifestyle brands, such as Mamava and Maglianero. He is also the cofounder of the Karma Birdhouse, a creative-economy coworking space now home to more than 70 inspiring entrepreneurial entities.

Website: www.solidarityofunbridledlabour.com

Ignite Burlington 2015 will be held on Thursday October 15 at The Film House at Main Street Landing.

Schedule for the evening:

5:30pm – 6:30pm – Registration and cocktail hour

6:30pm – 8:30pm – Ignite Presentations

8:30pm – 9:30pm – Reception and Speaker Meet & Greet

All proceeds from the event will go towards the Hergenrother Foundation.

Reserve your Ignite tickets here.

Ignite Burlington info: https://www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Ignite Burlington 2015 | Speaker Spotlight – Governor Jim Douglas

September 22, 2015

Presentation: Can Vermont be Saved?

Governor Douglas served the people of Vermont for more than 35 years. He was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives after graduating from Middlebury College in 1972. He became Assistant Majority Leader in his second term and Majority Leader in his third term at the age of 25. He was Executive Assistant to Governor Richard Snelling in 1979 and 1980.

The former Governor was elected Secretary of State in 1980, a post he would hold for 12 years. He was elected State Treasurer in 1994, where he served the people of Vermont for eight years. Under his leadership Vermont’s bond rating came to be the best in New England and one of the highest in the nation.

Douglas successfully sought the office of Governor in 2002 and was re-elected in 2004, 2006 and 2008. During his tenure, he focused on strengthening the state’s economy, reducing the cost of living in Vermont and protecting the state’s natural environment. He advanced groundbreaking health reforms that have made Vermont a model among the states in health care. He worked to strengthen the relationship between Vermont and Quebec and the other Canadian provinces.

While serving as Governor, Douglas was chosen for leadership positions by his colleagues, serving as the president of the Council of State Governments, chairman (twice) of the New England Governors’ Conference and chairman of the Coalition of Northeastern Governors. He also served as the chairman of the National Governors Association. In February 2010 President Obama appointed him co-chair of the Council of Governors.

Governor Douglas is now an Executive in Residence at Middlebury College. He serves on the boards of several local companies and on the Governors Advisory Council of the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington. He continues as Town Moderator for Middlebury, a post he has held for a quarter-century. The former governor and his wife, Dorothy, have two sons and two grandsons.

Email: jdouglas@middlebury.edu

Reserve your Ignite tickets here.
Ignite Burlington info: www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events

Fall’s MUST Attend Event – 4th Annual Ignite Burlington Hosted by Hergenrother Foundation Features Vermontrepreneurs

July 29, 2015

Fall’s MUST Attend Event – 4th Annual Ignite Burlington Hosted by Hergenrother Foundation Features Vermontrepreneurs

Tickets Now on Sale

COLCHESTER, VERMONT (July 27, 2015) – Adam Hergenrother and Hergenrother Foundation are hosting the 4th Annual Ignite Burlington on Thursday October 15, 2015 at The Film House at Main Street Landing.

Ignite is an exciting, unconventional event, designed to inspire, educate, and entertain the greater Burlington community. Ignite events are held in over 100 cities worldwide and are similar to TED’s ”Ideas Worth Spreading.” Ignite events bring people together in an inspiring, mastermind-like forum, where speakers share their passion projects and inspirational success stories for compelling five minutes, respecting Ignite’s acclaimed mantra, ”Enlighten Us, But Make It Quick.” Click here for more information: www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events.

Registration and networking from 5:30pm-6:30pm. Light appetizers and a cash bar will be available. Presentations begin promptly at 6:30pm.

Tickets are extremely limited and are on sale now for a limited time for only $15.00. For more information and to purchase tickets visit https://goo.gl/jNWYZZ

We will announce the full speaker line-up (featuring local entrepreneurs, and business and non-profit leaders) in early September!

Our Ignite Burlington Speaker Alumni are:

Mary Powell, President & CEO of Green Mountain Power
Ryan Esbjerg, Founder of Flex Your Face
Danielle Livellara, Money & Business Coach at Livellara International LLC
Mike Smith, Private & Public Sector Consultant
Colin Ryan, Motivational Speaker & Comedian at ColinRyanSpeaks.com
Patrick Standen, President & Founder of Northeast Disabled Athletic Association
Taraleigh Weathers, The Music Scene’s Life Coach
Kris Gruen, Owner of Kris Gruen Music & Director of WGDR Goddard College Community Radio
Ann Zucardy, CEO of AZ Communications
Tom Murphy, Co-Founder & Presenter of Sweethearts & Heroes
David Hill, Realtor & Owner of Hill Team Associates at Keller Williams Realty
Aaron Fastman, Owner of 1-800-GOT-JUNK in Vermont
Ela Wojtowicz, Yoga Teacher & Disability Activist
Kevin Pearce, Former Professional Snowboard & Founder of Love Your Brain
Nathalie Kelley, Writer & Inspirational Speaker
Hannah Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Vermont America 2013, Recovery Advocate & Inspirational Speaker
Janet Smith, Transcendental Meditation Teacher
Will Raap, Founder of Gardener’s Supply
Rusty DeWees, Entertainer
Melinda Moulton, CEO/Redeveloper/Co-Founder of Main Street Landing
Alex Camelio, Co-Founder & President at Barcode Publicity
Monique Citro, Communication Specialist/Medical Sustainability Guru at University of Vermont Medical Center & Professional Cellist
Bobby Bailey, Athlete & Director of Sport at 1K2GO Sports & Campaign Coordinator at Dealer.com
Kimberly DuBrul, Associate Power Coach at Your Year of Transformation
Myra Flynn, Singer/Songwriter
Rob Conboy, CEO at BETTER
Jessica Bridge, Co-Owner of Element Real Estate
Rick Cochran, President & CEO of Mobile Medical International Corporation
Meredith Breiland, Marketing Associate at Concept2
Arshad Hasan, Executive Director of Progress Now
David Parker, Former VP of Strategy Develoment at Dealer.com, Current VP of International Market Development at Dealtertrack Technologies

Hergenrother Foundation’s mission is to empower today’s youth to become tomorrow’s confident and dynamic leaders by providing the necessary resources, programs, and events for youth to learn, grow, thrive, and develop into outstanding members of their communities. By supporting Hergenrother Foundation, you are investing in the future of your community. Our youth leadership programs and camps will teach youth to dream big, act with purpose and passion, and serve others first. Hergenrother Foundation is also dedicated to bringing educational and inspirational events to the Greater Burlington area, to heighten awareness for the power that every person, regardless of age, can live a life without limits. For more information, visit www.hergenrotherfoundation.org.

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Ignite Burlington 2014 | Speaker Spotlight – Mike Smith

October 2, 2014

Presentation: How Navy SEAL Training Turned My Life Around

Until just recently, Mike Smith was the Vermont State President of FairPoint Communications. Mike led the company’s successful regulatory reform efforts in Vermont, which enabled the company to compete on a more level playing field and respond to the needs of the customers. He provided focused leadership to the Vermont operations, from the company’s reorganization to the nearly $80 million in broadband build out across the state that has connected 90 percent of FairPoint’s Vermont markets with high-speed internet. Mike also led the company’s national corporate communications efforts.

“Mike’s efforts have been instrumental in transforming FairPoint into a leading communications provider in Vermont,” said CEO Paul Sunu. “He has helped the company adapt and excel with his determination, leadership, and commitment to being the best.”

Mike’s career spans more than 30 years with experience in executive leadership positions in both the public and private sector.

He began his career serving honorably in the U.S. Navy, first with Underwater Demolition Team 21 and then as a member of SEAL Team Two.

Mike was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives and served on the House Natural Resources Committee from 1977-1978. He was the town manager of Hardwick and then spent five years in Boston working for the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) and ultimately as a partner of the MMA Consulting Group in Boston.

As the general manager of the Public Employer Risk Management Association (PERMA), he assisted in the revitalization of an insurance company for local governments in New York.

Mike was appointed deputy state treasurer for the State of Vermont under Treasurer James H. Douglas, serving from 1995-1999.

In 1999, he was named Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Yankee Captive Management, a captive insurance management firm, and a partner at the insurance firm of Hackett, Valine and MacDonald in South Burlington, Vermont. Governor James H. Douglas appointed him Secretary of Administration in 2003. In 2005, Mike was appointed Secretary of Human Services and then reappointed Secretary of Administration by Governor Douglas in 2006.

He is a native Vermonter, born in Rutland. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont in Burlington, from which he earned a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science.

Mike recently served as a member of the Vermont Pension Investment Committee and the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce. He is a current board member of the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation, The Flynn Center for Performing Arts, and Spectrum Youth & Family Services.

He lives in Westford Vermont with his wife, Mary. They have two grown daughters.

Email: michael-smith@msn.com

Reserve your Ignite tickets here.
Ignite Burlington info: www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events