Jaime Brenkus
Founder/America’s Premier Weight Loss Coach and Fitness Trainer
Jaime has dedicated his life to providing time-oriented approaches to enhancing one's lifestyle through proper nutrition and fitness. For the past 22 years, Jaime has trained with thousands of clients on a personal level, and has helped millions of people with his famous, nationally acclaimed 8 Minute Abs Workout Series. Jaime designed supermodel Kathy Ireland's videos as well as featured on radio, TV, and publications. Jaime was awarded a Fitness Advocate for the President's Challenge. Brenkus maintains certification as a Health and Fitness Instructor from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

Lydia Skiljan
National Trainer/SlimCoach
Lydia is a Certified Personal Trainer and has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from John Carroll University. She has over 20 years experience as a health and wellness advocate. Lydia was instrumental in developing and implementing behavior modification sessions for nationally known, diet system, Nutrisystem®. At Jenny Craig®, Skiljan taught clients to achieve a more balanced lifestyle and assisted in teaching a healthy relationship with food. She currently teaches Health, Wellness and Fitness courses at Lakeland Community College.

Kimberly A. Tessmer
RD, LD, Consulting Dietitian

Kim has been a Registered Dietitian since 1992 and is also an Ohio Licensed Dietitian. Kim specializes and offers services in a variety of areas including weight management, wellness nutrition, authoring, menu development, recipe analysis, and consulting.

She has previously served as the Corporate Dietitian for three national weight loss companies, and as the dietitian for a medical weight management clinic.

To date Kim has authored four books including The Everythingâ Nutrition Book, Gluten Free For A Healthy Life, The Everythingâ Pregnancy Nutrition Book and Tell Me What to Eat if I Have Celiac Disease as well as a contributing author of Conquering Childhood Obesity for Dummies®. Kim has written numerous articles for various health/nutrition web sites and magazines as well as professional continuing education courses. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the ADA Practice Group, Nutrition Entrepreneurs. www.Nutrifocus.net

Robert A. Needham, JD
Franchise Management and Development
Dr. Needham has over 20 years experience as an international franchise and business consultant, franchisor and franchisee.

Dr. Needham has author numerous books on business and personal development including his best selling Solving The Puzzle Of Owning A Franchise and Wealth 3.0 – Saving America One Small Business At A Time. Dr. Needham has appeared on over 400 radio and TV show speaking on franchising and business. Dr. Needham publishes white papers to the industry on a wide variety of topics.

Dr. Needham is president of SPECTRUM Advanced Markets, Inc. and its division called Franchise Management Group (FMG) and is president of FranchiseInc! an international franchise consulting firm (franchisor) with franchisee offices nationwide.