We have some
incredible speakers
lined up for you!
Meet Your Hosts
Nathan Wrigley
WP Builds
Nathan has been working in the WordPress space for nine years. He podcasts over at WP Builds and WP Tavern, and this has enabled him to connect with lots of interesting people in the WordPress community, many of whom are speaking at this summit.
He likes to help other people to get their ideas out there, so that their plugins and themes find their audience.
Anchen le Roux
Simply Digital Design
Anchen is the creative director at Simply Digital Design, a boutique studio that focuses on Summit, Funnel and Website Development on the VIP Intensive Model. She’s been an avid contributor to the WordPress community for the last 7 years. Besides organizing WordCamps, speaking, and contributing to Core, she loves speaking at, hosting and producing Summits. She is the creator of the 30 Day Summit Site Bootcamp and Summit SiteKick all the Page templates, brand assets and step by step videos to create your Summit platform on WordPress.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah Masci
Day Rate Mastery™
Sarah Masci is the CEO and founder Day Rate Mastery®, an online company that teaches creative service providers how to work less, and make more with a streamlined Day Rate or VIP Day business model. Years of running a traditional design business, filled with scope creep, inconsistent timelines and overlapping client projects, eventually resulted in classic burnout– becoming the catalyst that sparked my desire to create a better process. Since its inception in 2019, Day Rate Mastery® has helped thousands of freelancers rediscover joy in their work and the freedom they’d lost along the way.
Paul C
WPTuts
Designer and online educator with a long history in teaching IT, design and digital imaging and 15+ years as a professional web designer. My passion for design and education have been at the forefront of my career and the last 5+ years have allowed me to take this passion online to create WPTuts and develop a growing community of like minded creatives & professionals. A recent focus on creating a more streamlined design approach has opened up a wealth of educational possibilities using prototyping tools like Figma & Lunacy and to combine those with WordPress and its diverse range of tools.
Kristina Romero
WP Care Market
Kristina Romero began as a website developer creating websites for companies that included Coca-Cola Company, Food Network, and Hollywood celebrities. Through her experience running an agency, she developed a passion for helping other website professionals grow their business and better serve their clients. Kristina has trained thousands of web professionals with content across the web including webinars and courses for WP Elevation, WordCamps, GoDaddy Pro, ManageWP and more. Now with her own training program inside WP Care Market, Kristina’s built a community where website professionals can discover quality training to increase their revenue and better their client relationships.
Ari Krzyzek
Chykalophia
CEO and Head of Strategy at Chykalophia (read: see-ka-lo-fia), Ari Krzyzek helps FemTech, DTC, and women-led brands transform their website into a platform that unlocks business opportunities. She co-author of the Top 3 Best Sellers book in web design, Made to Sell: Creating Websites that Convert. She serves as a branding, UX consultant, and professional peer in support of fellow female entrepreneurs through the #1 ranked private business incubator in the world, 1871 Chicago and Chicago’s global healthcare startup incubator, MATTER. She’s the co-host of Halo Femtech Podcast, a podcast that honors disruptive innovators and change-makers advancing women’s health. Furthermore, she helps women in tech and design break into the industry and succeeds in it by mentoring them for personal branding, career advancement, and entrepreneurship through Interaction Design Foundation, and Chicago Innovation.
Shannon Mattern
Web Designer Academy
Shannon Mattern is the founder of the Web Designer Academy where she mentors web designers to create profitable, sustainable web design businesses. Her proven frameworks for packaging, pricing, positioning and selling premium web design services have helped hundreds of designers raise prices, book dream clients and work less. She’s also the host of the Profitable Web Designer Podcast, your go-to resource for marketing, mindset, money, management and mentorship for web designers who want to create businesses that provide freedom, flexibility and financial independence.
Learn more and connect with Shannon:
Josh Hall
Web Designer Pro™
Josh is first and foremost a husband and girl dad (x2) who lives and works from home with his family in Columbus Ohio. Professionally, he’s a web design business coach, podcast host and web agency founder. Josh was a professional web designer who built and scaled his own agency for a decade before selling it in 2020 to focus full time on teaching other aspiring web designers on how to build businesses of their own. Through his online courses, podcast, YouTube channel, he teaches web designers how to build their dream web design business that gives them freedom and life they love.
Lydia Kitts
Data + Delight
𝗘𝘅-𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗱𝘆: Lydia Kitts works with design geeks and go-getters to hone their strategic design skills. Using the magic of her Data + Delight method — she shows us how to develop a data-based approach to persuasive, trust-building site design that blows clients and their customers away. This workshop is for you if you want to learn how to use your post-launch website trainings and tutorials to build trust, keep your services front of mind, and support your clients as they use their new website {and hopefully grow their business too}. She’s run a design business for over ten years, leaving academia in 2021 to focus on design and design education. She continues to teach data-driven, human-centered design; website strategy; digital ecosystems; and shows folx how to implement design theories like Hick’s Law, the Framing Effect, and the Unified Theory of Experience Design. Don’t know what those things are? That’s okay – she’s here to teach you.
Emily Hunkler
GoWP
Emily is the Chief Operating Officer for GoWP, a company that helps agencies grow and become more profitable through our outsourced hiring and managed services. She lives in Athens, Ohio with her husband, Marc, and their two young daughters, Ivette and Lydia. In her spare time, she keeps active in nature with trail running, biking, and hiking with the family.
Jamie Marsland
PootlePress
I’m passionate about the next stage of the web and how it’s changing the world (mostly for the better). I have spent all my working life building businesses on the web and have held both technical and commercial board level positions. Prior to founding Pootlepress I was Managing Director of Pavilion Interactive Ltd and Chief Technical Officer of Documedia PLC. Pootlepress was born 10 years ago. It’s a been a fantastic and fun journey so far. We’ve trained over 5000 people on WordPress in the past 10 years, and our plugins are used by thousands of customers worldwide. I also now run WordPress courses for The Guardian as part of their Digital Masterclass series.
Emma Kate
Be The Boss of WordPress & WP Mavens
Emma is a graphic designer turned web designer who’s now a go-to WordPress educator and geeky girl next door for designers keen to master the wonderful world of web. Through her game-changing eCourses and WP Mavens (her monthly membership for female WP designers), Emma helps designers unwrap the mysteries, methods and magic of web design so they can build beautiful and brag-worthy WordPress websites… for their own design business and for their clients too! … Y’know, in language we can actually understand, without worrying about techie coding, web dev jargon, mansplaining and overwhelm. ‘Cause building WordPress websites needn’t be crazily complicated. Emma saves designers from the stress and melodrama of figuring out web dev by themselves, so they can confidently build beautifully-designed WordPress websites.
Chantal Edouard-Betsy
Hey Chantal
Hey, I’m Chantal. I’m a WordPress lovin’, Beaver Builder huggin chick with a taste for good wine, and painless tech. My passion is online business … yours and mine! And yes, I’m also an award-winning serial entrepreneur, super mom and website designer and developer. A little over six years ago, I refined my dated, stressful web design business so that I could create amazing, high converting websites in the shortest time frame possible. I’m obsessed with excellent service while building a sustainable business with diverse income streams and recurring income models. I now work with successful entrepreneurs who want to increase their revenue and elevate their businesses with the click of a button.
Beth Livingston
The WP Project Manager’s Academy
Beth built her first WordPress website in 2009 for a side business, was immediately smitten, and soon began building websites for other small businesses. In 2016, after a long history as an IT Business Analyst, Instructional Designer, and Project Manager, she left the corporate world to form her WordPress agency (WP Roadmaps). Soon after, while attending WordCamps and seeing how folks were struggling with project management, she decided to share her knowledge to help others by forming the WP Project Manager’s Academy. She now enjoys providing real-life project management skills training to all types of WordPress practitioners (designers, developers, consultants, project managers, and agencies). In addition to continuing to run her agency and serving as the Academy Director, Beth also administers the WordPress Project Management Facebook group, and serves as an event organizer for the Triad WordPress Meetup Group. Beth considers teaching her one true joy and has presented project management-related talks at various WordCamps across the US, international WordPress meetups, at Venture Cafe Winston-Salem, and has taught project management classes at Guilford Technical Community College’s Small Business Center in Greensboro NC. In her spare time, what there is of it, Beth also enjoys visiting live music venues and occasionally acting and singing in local theater productions.
Fränk Klein
WP Development Courses
Fränk is a self-taught engineer, with a passion for teaching others. With no formal education in programming, he knows first hand about the struggles of learning WordPress development. After getting his first experience building sites in a small agency, Fränk joined Automattic. Here he was a member of the WordPress.com Theme Team, and later WordPress VIP. Currently he is a Principal Engineer at Enterprise WordPress agency Human Made. Through his company WP Development Courses, he teaches freelancers and agencies all the skills they need to be successful in the age of Full-Site Editing.
Melissa Love
The Design Space Co
Melissa is a website designer and brand specialist for small, creative businesses. She is the founder of WordPress theme company, The Design Space, which makes excellent design affordable, and she’s a WordPress nerd who has taught thousands pf entrepreneurs how to build their own beautiful websites. Through her online membership, The Marketing Fix, she and her team coach members through building ethical sales funnels. She lives in Cornwall, UK, with her family, where she spends her spare time surfing.
Mor Cohen
Brands By Sage
Mor is the founder of Brands By sage, a branding and web designer, a course creator, and an expert in creating brands that convert. Known for her approach to human-centered and conversion-focused design, her mission is to bring innovative, modern, pixel-perfect, yet very affordable complete design solutions and courses to freelancers and agencies, so that creating designed-to-convert brands and websites is as effortless and budget-friendly as possible. She offers marketing funnel templates, semi-custom brands, and branding courses. Lives with her family in the gorgeous Pacific Northwest, enjoys the outdoors, and sushi.
Colleen Gratzer
Creative Boost and Gratzer Graphics LLC
Colleen Gratzer is an award-winning designer with 25 years of experience in branding, publication design, and web design and development. An accessibility specialist since 2016, she has provided InDesign accessibility training to the U.S. Department of the Interior, at several CreativePro events, appeared on several podcasts and given presentations about accessibility. Through Creative Boost, she offers accessibility courses to designers and developers and hosts the Design Domination podcast. Her consulting business, Gratzer Graphics, provides design and accessibility services to nonprofits, creative firms and developers. She is a member of the IAAP, the International Association of Accessibility Professionals.
Jacqui Money
Virtual Duo
Jacqui Money is a South African entrepreneur & tiny house enthusiast who specializes in helping introverted service providers and coaches scale their online business without hiring a huge team if they don’t want to. She has a BA in Business Administration and a post-graduate honors degree in Psychology. When she’s not working her magic on clients systems’ and automation’s you will find her spending time with her fur and feather kids or planting her food forest.
Scott Kingsley Clark
Pagely / GoDaddy
Scott is a Senior Software Engineer with Pagely/GoDaddy building hosting architecture for WordPress, the Lead Developer of the Pods Framework, the Owner/Developer of the premium Pods Pro add-ons, and musician who plays Tenor Guitar + Baritone Ukulele + Drums. Scott contributes to the open source community through efforts in WordPress core and other teams.
Kathy Zant
Kadence WP
Kathy is the Director of Marketing for KadenceWP and has been working with WordPress for over a decade. She has both technical and marketing experience and has worked with a number of brands in the WordPress space. She has helped numerous organizations empower their businesses with WordPress. She’s helped organize both WordCamp Phoenix and WCUS. She currently lives outside of Denton, TX where she can often be found walking dogs or hanging out in horse barns.
Philip Levine
South Florida Web Advisors, Inc.
I have been developing and maintaining websites since 1997. Most of my server management experience is with Unix/Linux. I focus primarily on WordPress websites. I currently manage over 400 WordPress sites either directly or for agencies I work with.
Rachel Winchester
Visual Webmaster, LLC
Rachel Winchester, or Win, graduated from Swarthmore College in 2017 with a bachelors in art history. After creating multiple arts-related websites, she started attending WordPress meetups while teaching herself many digital marketing skills. In 2021, She signed up for a UX Design bootcamp and began building WordPress websites for clients. Most recently she completed a contract with DigitalCube where she worked on their WordPress products, client websites, and other initiatives for DC’s users and their communities. Now, she is an independent product designer and startup founder who occasionally dabbles in internet art and other creative projects.
Adam Lowe
Peak Performance Digital
Adam Lowe runs Peak Performance Digital, a small web consulting agency in Washington, DC, that specializes in providing website strategy along with custom, resilient, accessible, and maintainable WordPress solutions for his clients and agency partners. Adam brings 20+ years of experience in business strategy, management consulting, digital media, and project management to the table. He balances the desire for leading-edge tools and techniques with a practical approach that considers long-term stability and maintainability.
Laura Kåmark
Laura Kåmark
Web designer for female business owners who love their work but NOT their website. Laura Kåmark is a strategic web designer and tech expert who creates stunning, money-making websites for female entrepreneurs. With her signature VIP Website Experience, she’ll take your DIY website and turn it into one that looks good AND sells. Leave the automations to her as she creates an intentional customer journey that converts your website visitors into paying clients.
Paul Ogier
OSH.co.za
Paul Ogier, Technical Director of OSH.co.za, has been working in website design and development for more than 20 years. In the last 5 years, they have specialised in helping website agencies to get their email deliverability and security up to speed.
From individual designers to international agencies, they have worked with 100s of companies sorting out SPF, DKIM and DMARC for their agencies and clients. Fixing email deliverability issues for newsletters, transactional emails and emails from Google Workspace and Office 365.
Nicola Tweed
NT Web Design & Development
Nicola has been obsessed with the online world since the age of eleven when she maxed out her parents dial-up allowance. She has been designing and developing WordPress websites for female entrepreneurs from New York to Melbourne and Bali for the last 10 years. Now, she’s obsessed with showing new business owners just how easy it is to start an online business and the immense joy and freedom the online world gives you! Nicola has her own thriving YouTube channel with various WordPress and Kadence WP tutorial videos to help you create your very own WordPress website. She also has here own range of Kadence WP starter templates available for purchase on her website.
David McCan
WebTNG
I am an anthropologist turned software developer. I studied dispute handling in New Zealand between the Maori and the British Crown / New Zealand government. While writing my university dissertation I worked in a public library. The Internet was just taking hold and I helped put in the first public access Internet computers and created their first website. This got me started. I began in IT doing tech support, then moved into network and database administration. I ended up working as an IT manager and developer for a large photography company for a number of years. Anthropologist, public libraries, IT manager and developer, these are perspectives that I bring to my work with WordPress.
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Termageddon, LLC
Donata Stroink-Skillrud is an attorney licensed in Illinois and a Certified Information Privacy Professional. She is also the President and Legal Engineer of Termageddon, LLC, a SaaS that has generated tens of thousands of website policies and successfully kept them up to date with changing legislation. Donata is the Chair of the American Bar Association’s ePrivacy Committee, a member of the ABA’s Science and Technology Council and a member of the ABA’s Cybersecurity Legal Task Force. Donata is also the Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Committee.
Haley Brown
haleybrown.co
A self confessed WordPress nerd and design master, Haley has been working in her own biz for nearly a decade designing and building WordPress sites specialising in eCommerce and online course websites. Now she’s helping other designers create a booming biz of their dreams without the hustle. When she is not at her desk nerding out on some new tech, you can find her hanging out her hubby and little man or watching some ridiculously terrible reality TV trash. (We all have our guilty pleasures).
Paul Lacey
Paul Lacey Digital
Paul is an experienced web designer who has worked for brands such Pentagram, Getronics, GeneratePress & Church of England. As well as consulting and designing with a select few niche agencies, Paul also works freelance for the well known WordPress brand Beaver Builder.
Elsewhere Paul is co-creator of the Digital Master Dojo Podcast. Paul was also previously co-host of the award winning WP Builds podcast, and also was briefly Managing Editor of The WP Minute where he published the most read and listened to article / podcast entitled Blocks, Boards & Fishing Reels – How Gutenberg has Divided WordPress.
Paul has an abundance mindset and is dedicated to sharing knowledge, expertise and good practice in and around design and UX. In particular optimising for conversions, performance and mobile experience are his particular areas of focus.
Munir Kamal
Gutenberg Hub
Hi, my name is Munir Kamal and I am a professional with a diverse background in business and technology. In addition to running GutenbergHub.com, I also have built several WordPress plugins, including EditorPlus, EditorsKit, and Block Slider. My focus is on helping SMBs achieve their goals through innovative solutions.
Jessie (Bee) Jenkins
Jessie Bee Creative
Jessie is an artist first, with a Bachelor’s degree in Art. But she minored in communications so she could use her art skills in business. She’s a designer who focuses on creative solutions for small businesses, non-profits, and ministries (although not limited to those). She began designing for commercial print in 1995 and moved into political consulting soon after where she continued to use her skills in communications and project management. She quickly adapted with the digital age and began building websites to offer cohesive marketing across all mediums for her clients.
In 2012, she wanted to slow down a bit, and began to focus on ministry. She dropped her political clients and began managing a cross-cultural team from four countries to design and develop websites that contain over 10,000 biblical resources and training tools for Spanish speakers. This is where she began exploring ways to simplify the WordPress dashboard so team members with very little technical knowledge would be able to add content to the massive resource library without touching the design. She continues to do freelance work for non-profits, churches, and small business who come to her for her simplified processes and solid websites.
She is passionate about instilling confidence in her clients so they can take control of their website content without worrying about breaking their websites.
