Legacy Leadership

Donna Valdes is a top female trainer and strategist in the network marketing industry. With over 25 years of experience leading multi-million-dollar sales teams and coaching entrepreneurs, she is known for blending proven leadership systems with cutting-edge AI tools to help businesses grow faster and smarter.

Donna is the creator of the AI for Network Marketing Success Accelerator and a featured speaker on marketing, sales, and automation. As a former Fortune 1000 executive, she now empowers women to build purpose-driven businesses with confidence, clarity, and cash flow. Her work bridges high-performance strategy and heart-centered leadership, making her one of today’s most innovative voices in network marketing and direct sales.

John Haremza is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and mentor with over 37 years of experience in the network marketing industry. Widely respected as a leader in the space, he is known for helping everyday people build confidence, develop leadership skills, and become successful business owners. Over the course of his career, he has generated more than $1 billion in cumulative team sales and earned over $30 million in personal commissions.

John’s journey began from humble roots as a maintenance worker in a potato chip factory. A chance meeting unexpectedly introduced him to network marketing, setting him on a path that would transform his life. Through consistency, vision, and a commitment to growth, he rose to become one of the industry’s most recognized figures.

Today, John shares his message of influence, leadership, and personal development through speaking, mentoring, and his book The Power of Influence. He emphasizes that success is not reserved for a select few, but is available to anyone willing to learn, take action, and lead themselves and others with purpose.

Peter Mingils is the President and CEO of PM Marketing and a recognized leader in the network marketing industry. Best known for founding NetworkLeads.com, he has built a reputation as a lead generation expert and sales trainer. His approach combines time-tested business principles with modern audio and visual technologies to help entrepreneurs grow effectively.

With experience as a vendor, distributor, corporate owner, trainer, and consultant, Peter has contributed across all levels of the industry. He has served in leadership roles with several professional organizations, including the Direct Sales Women’s Association, the Distributor’s Rights Association, and the Association of Network Marketing Professionals.

Peter is also the creator of multiple platforms, including Building Fortunes Radio, and continues to support the growth and positive image of the home-based business industry through education, marketing systems, and innovative media.

Yolanda Ellerbe Brown is an Empowerment Coach, Entrepreneur, Podcast Host, Author, Inspirational Speaker, and Corporate Executive who helps professionals and executives rewrite their life and career stories with clarity and confidence. She brings extensive experience in sales and leadership training, public speaking, and strategic development, with a proven ability to assess organizational needs and deliver effective solutions.

An organized and purpose-driven leader, Yolanda has a strong record of achieving challenging corporate goals while building and leading high-performing teams. Her professional excellence has been recognized through numerous honors, including two-time Sales Excellence Winner, Marketing Award Winner, Most Valuable Player, Star Award Winner, and President’s Award recipient.

Together with her husband, Raymond, Yolanda owns a wellness and personal development business committed to helping people feel better, do better, and ultimately live better and dream bigger. They lead a high-performing team of professional relationship marketers known as The Majestic Eagles, which holds one of the highest retention rates in their organization. Their industry honors include Top Sales Achievements, Leadership Awards, Circle of Honor and Inner Circle recognition, Clutch Award Winner, and Trainers of the Year. They were also selected among industry leaders to ring the NASDAQ bell in New York during Fit Week.

Yolanda is a co-author of The Approach in Marketing, a contributing author to The Coaching Gurus: International Edition and When Black Women Lead, and the author of Your Defining AHA Moments. Yolanda enjoys spending time with her husband and family. She also enjoys theatre, suspense, mystery movies, reading, walking, and volunteering. She is passionate about
empowering men, women, and young people to find and speak their truth through leadership, service, and personal growth.

Yolanda is available to speak at seminars, corporate events, retreats and other speaking engagements including a range of life-changing, common sense, sales training topics, and stories from her book – Your Defining AHA Moments.

Laura Lipinski has been in the network marketing profession since 2004, expanding across multiple European countries and languages. She serves as a Master Distributor and has developed multiple five-figure earners through clear, structured systems designed to produce independent leaders and therefore duplication. She is co-author of Leadership Unlocked and a member of the ICON Mastermind.

What makes Laura’s story unique is that she built her business without the support of an upline. Over more than 22 years, she has rebuilt her business through multiple company transitions and closures. Each time, instead of stepping back, she stepped up — strengthening her systems, sharpening her skills, and deepening her leadership capacity. Every rebuild pushed her to become a better leader and forced her to create stronger foundations. Sharing that journey is one of her favorite things, hoping that her experience can help others.