Ann Tardy, Founder, Chief Catalyst

Prior to launching LifeMoxie!, Ann was an attorney for 14 years practicing corporate securities law at two of Silicon Valley’s largest law firms. Subsequently, she managed the legal departments of a start-up that fell to the dotcom bust and a start-up that squeaked by to IPO, before launching her own law firm representing entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes.

During her tenure as in-house counsel, Ann also served for five years as the co-Director of the Entrepreneurial Education program at a girls’ middle school, training 12-year-olds how to start and run businesses.

Ann earned an accounting degree from the University of Illinois, a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, a CPA from the State of Illinois, and licenses to practice law in Illinois and California.

Ann was honored as an Outstanding Business Woman of the Year by the American Business Women’s Association and honored with the Vanguard Award from The McGraw-Hill Companies for her commitment.

Her first book is LifeMoxie! Ambition on a Mission - 9 Strategies for Taking Life by the Horns. She is a featured author in Best of the Best published by Insight Publishing in 2008.

April Stensgard, Career Transitions Expert

Director of LifeMoxie! Community

As a career coach, speaker, and trainer April has honed her expertise to focus on individuals who are and want to live their best lives and infuse it with moxie. She has developed The LifeMoxie! Community and The LifeMoxie! Coaches Certification Program as an expansion of LifeMoxie!’s services. April is committed to developing individuals on a personal and professional level helping them to “Focus their Ambition to Achieve Their Mission.” She has a BA in speech communications and public relations from Northwestern College and has been a professional speaker for the past ten years. April is also a graduate from Coaches Training Institute, CAPT and Hallmarks of Excellence in Leadership. She is also qualified to administer several professional development assessments such as Myers-Briggs. 

Cindy Dumbell , Director of Operations

Cindy started her working career fresh out of high school as a corporate travel agent for American Express. She learned a lot along the way and met great people. Looking for a new challenge, Cindy attended Devry University part time to earn her Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, while working full time at Xerox, as a sales support  associate. She eventually became a sales executive at Xerox, and after almost eight years, Cindy craved a more balanced and flexible lifestyle. Her life was rich with two kids, a mortgage, a hard working husband and a love for running and triathlons. Cindy joined the LifeMoxie Team as the Director of Operations to keep her own moxie alive and pass it on!

Cindy's philosophy in life: keep educating yourself; all the strength you need is within you, you just have to find it and always put a smile on your face, even when you are complaining, because then it doesn’t seem that bad. 

Mona R. Stevens, Speaker, Trainer, Author

Mona is an expert in the areas of, leadership, team-work, and coaching. An award-winning coach, Mona has a track record of building, coaching, and managing top-level teams at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, at the University of Utah, and as a USA National Softball Team Coach. Mona was honored as the 1997 National Softball Coach of the Year by the United States Olympic Committee.

After earning a Bachelor of Science in Exercise & Sports Science with an emphasis in Coaching, Mona taught biological science for 5 years and was named Teacher of the Year before leaving education. In addition, Mona served as the President of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA), for 5,000 members. During her tenure, she spearheaded the Head Coaches Council to establish guidelines and protocol for legislative issues presented to the NCAA.

As a sought-after speaker for high-profile events and associations worldwide, Mona recently worked as a color commentator for ESPN and Triple Crown Sports. Mona has written various books and articles dealing with training and coaching the athlete. Her next book “The SO WHAT Factor” offers systems and techniques used to succeed in a competitive and stress-filled environments.

For soul-filling adventure, Mona is the lead singer, rhythm guitar and harmonica player for an all female rockin blues band.

Robin Smiley, Event Manager

Robin has had as many careers as she has shoes, and she has a big closet.  After she tried teaching kindergarten for a year she decided she needed something with a little more excitement and ran away to join the circus where she was a trapeze artist in the Bahamas.  After two years she hung up her leotard and managed a small restaurant in Newport Beach while she figured out when, or if, real life might begin.  Real life came and took her to UC Berkeley's School of Law, Boalt Hall, where she received a JD and went on to practice corporate law with Fenwick and West.  The lure of leaving the real life and riding the dot com wave was too much and she left to become Head of Business Development and US Operations for GorillaPark. She left GorillaPark to start her own event planning business and then moved to run the Headlands Institute Conference Center. Three years went by in a blink of the eye and Robin decided she needed a new challenge, so she started business school at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and recently received her MBA.  She has embraced the new challenges of making LifeMoxie! events fabulous and fulfilling!

Joe Pirola, Chief Technical Officer

Joe has been mastering web development for 25 years. His team is responsible for the development, deployment, and administration of LifeMoxie's revolutionary desktop application mentoring program.

Joe specializes in the following software platforms: PHP, MySQL, Javascript & CSS for internet development and Visual Foxpro for desktop development.

Trish Fullerton, Chief Graphic Designer

Late in the 20th century Trish Williams, touched by the madness of true love, threw caution to the winds, said goodbye to friends and family and uprooted her life in the Texas Hill Country as an industrialist and winegrower with her parents, to join forces with the love of her life (Dennis Fullerton) and to live happily ever after in Mountain View, CA.  Having earned her degree in Art from The University of Texas at Austin in the early '70s, and working several years as an advertising art director in the top advertising agencies in Dallas, she fell back on those creative talents to reinvent herself out here on the edge of the continent. She hired Ann Tardy to help her set up her freelance graphic design business. "I didn't know how to run my own business. Ann transformed me from clueless into confident: someone that I would want to do business with!" Then Ann hired Trish to help her with her own graphic projects. Trish is delighted to be on the LifeMoxie! team to help with their mission of inspiring and empowering others to turn their dreams into reality.

Ann Kent, Advisory Board

Ann Kent has been helping companies grow for over 20 years. Through a variety of senior management and leadership positions including sales, operations and strategic planning, Ann has been able to have a direct impact on the growth of dozens of companies and hundreds of business units. It is what she loves to do --- and she happens to be very good at it! Ann has lead start-ups to market and grown existing companies. She has defined and implemented strategic initiatives and lead multi-million dollar business units. She has helped acquire companies and has driven a more organic growth strategy. And she has done all of this while maintaining her strong moral compass – and making sure there is still joy in the workplace. As she says, “ work is too large a part of most of our lives to not be having fun!” Ann is currently the President of KENT Consulting Group. Based in California, KENT was launched in 2002 with a mission to address a broad range of needs in growing a business. It’s a good fit! Ann can be contacted at: ann@kentconsultinggroup.com

Robert Rosiello, Advisory Board

Rob has been with Life Moxie! since its inception.  Rob has over 18 years of sales management and business development experience in the high tech industry in both startups and large corporations. He has extensive leadership experience and has developed and implemented strategic sales initiatives; his consistent track record of sales growth, and customer satisfaction/retention is evidenced by his success in growing revenues from $0 to in-excess of $180MM in annual revenues. Rob has been responsible for new market entry strategies and business development throughout his career and has been responsible for sales in excess of $1 billion over the course of his career.  He pioneered a number of market entries for NYNEX (now Verizon), Cabletron’s Service Provider Business Unit (subsequently spun out as Riverstone Networks), and Alcatel.  Rob currently manages a strategic client group for Motorola. In 2002, Rob launched an independent consulting organization and worked on strategic programs for a number of startups.

Janet Bran, Information Specialist and Web Designer

Janet Bran, our web developer, founded her company, Beautiful Web Sites. Her philosophy is, "design web sites that are appealing to your customers and make them want to know more about you." Janet is a Technical Communicator and content advisor who has developed information architecture and content for many corporate internal web sites, developed small business web sites, written product manuals, and more. She is also a graduate of Mills College in Oakland. Giving back to the non-profit community is part of her almost daily routine, as Janet has donated her time and talents to the San Francisco and Bay Area for several years including UCSF Cancer Resource Center, Sunset Youth Services, Society For Technical Communication, Oakland School District, and most favorably, her neighbor's beloved, elderly dog.