Women CEO Insights: Elevating Your Authority & Trust to Consistently Attract High-Value Clients

Your Host: Kami Guildner

Kami Guildner believes women’s voices matter. She is a connector. A storyteller. A business coach for high vibe women entrepreneurs helping them #RaiseUP their Voice, Vision and Visibility for Impact and Business Growth.

Kami helps her clients build businesses they love with more time prosperity and more wealth prosperity. She weaves soulful-inspiration into mindful business strategies, and this Soul+Strategy™ approach to business helps her clients succeed in business and worldly impact.

Her clients scale and grow their businesses, with a more feminine, abundant approach. Her community of entrepreneurs is creating a new paradigm of entrepreneurship, helping each other raise up in a ripple effect of impact. Her clients have gone on to reach extraordinary heights as consultants, coaches and leaders – achieving exponential revenue growth, landing on big stages, starting software companies, launching new professional organizations, transforming corporate cultures and transforming lives. They are influential and they are changemakers.

Kami is the founder of the Extraordinary Women Ignite Conference and host of the award-winning Extraordinary Women Radio™. She is the best selling author of Firedancer: Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose and was named to the 2020 Twenty-Five Most Powerful Women in Business List by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce.

The Panel:

Barbara Brooks

Hyping women over 40, Barbara Brooks flips the script on ageism and redefines life in the middle with her age-positive message. A dynamic speaker, personal branding expert, and media contributor, Barbara sparks bold conversations about the power and value of women in their prime. Named an Influencer in Aging, Top 25 Most Powerful Businesswoman by the Colorado Women's Chamber, and a 2024 Denver Business Journal Leader in Diversity, she’s on a mission to challenge stereotypes and celebrate the contributions of women 40, 50, and 60+.

As the founder of SecondActWomen and speaker, Barbara leads a 21,000-strong community that’s Aging Out Loud, proving that midlife isn’t a slowdown—it’s a glow-up. A proud Colorado State University alumna, she brings humor, heart, and a fresh perspective to her work, inspiring women to embrace the possibilities of life’s second act.

Kelly Ruta

Kelly Sullivan Ruta is a seasoned clinical psychotherapist of two decades who made a leap into the coaching world to help entrepreneurs create an ultimate inner operating system for rapid scaling without rapid breakdown.

Kelly believes entrepreneurs are perfectly positioned to create a massive positive impact on the planet. But she also knows that no strategy, plan, or tactic will ever outperform one’s mindset, limiting beliefs, conditioned programs, or habits. She is obsessed with helping entrepreneurs and their teams do deep inner work to support sustainable growth.

Kelly is a hardcore introvert, Starbucks addict, 9 Quickstart and Enneagram 8. Her soul calls the beach home. When she isn’t working, Kelly is hanging with her ride-or-die besties, has her head in a book or is with her husband and two (mostly grown) sons.

Teri Karjala 

Teri Karjala is a Business Success Therapist, owner of Talking With Teri, and best-selling author of Be The Magic of You: Tools to Transform Your Life with a foreword written by Jack Canfield. She has been featured on National Television as well as a regular guest on various local Colorado TV stations. She is Coach with Forbes and Host of Talking With Teri-TV a lifestyle show featuring various local celebrities and national influencers. Teri is a thought leader in female empowerment and entrepreneurship on a mission to help business owners scale beyond the 6 figures. She has combined her 27 years of counseling background with energy psychology and applied the principles of quantum physics to transform people’s lives by clearing the unconscious blocks that hold us back.