Sarano Kelley, Founder of The Game and Author of The Game: Win Your Life in 90 Days grew up in a gang-infested neighborhood of New York. At 16 years old Kelley was accepted and began his studies at Vassar College. By the time he reached the age of 23, he was already earning $400,000 in commissions as a Wall Street Stockbroker working in the office of the largest producer in the history of the industry. It was at the height of his professional success when a family tragedy occurred and Kelley lost some of his beloved family members in a sudden fire.
The somber experience was the driving force behind Kelley’s journey of new beginnings where he discovered how to produce results, while achieving a life mounted on the principles of balance and purpose. Kelley’s experience as a Motivational Speaker and Life Coach has allowed him to train more than 250,000 people. For several years now, Kelley has been rated as the number one speaker at the Securities Industry Association at the Wharton School of Business. Kelley has appeared on television shows like Good Morning America while having two television shows produced about the incredible results produced by his work.
After a decade of working with financial advisors and institutions on practice management, Penny launched Thrivos Consulting with a vision of building a firm that would transcend the traditional norms of industry consulting. Founded on the belief that in order to thrive one must successfully navigate change, Thrivos offers services designed to support professionals and institutions as they learn to turn industry challenges into opportunities.
Phillips has worked with countless advisory teams and broker dealers on issues ranging from managing profitability compression to integration of next generation talent to succession planning. She previously ran a quarterly business-building workshop series for financial advisors. She has authored multiple practice management programs and is a featured keynote speaker at conferences and events across the industry.
Prior to founding Thrivos, Phillips was a Vice President of Strategic Consulting for a leading wealth management technology firm and ran practice management for Eagle Strategies, a wealth management subsidiary of New York Life. She has dual degrees in Corporate Financial and Economics from the Macaulay Honors College and London School of Economics and has completed a certification in financial advisor coaching.
Eszylfie Taylor is the founder and president of Taylor Insurance and Financial Services and serves as a financial advisor He attended Concordia University on a basketball scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management. Prior to founding his own company, he was a standout financial advisor at New York Life, making Chairman’s Council and finishing his career there as the highest producing advisor in the history of the African American market.
Early in his career, Taylor had a breakthrough that centered around how to improve his market and focus on solving problems, not selling products. Naturally, he built upon this and used his successes and failures as teaching tools that would contribute to the start of The Taylor Method, a sales process for financial advisors.
Taylor has been a Million Dollar Round Table Top of the Table producer since 2011, which places him in the top 1% of advisors worldwide. In 2015, he was the recipient of NAIFA’s Advisor Today Top 4 Under Forty award.
Taylor continues to contribute to his community. Since 2003, his nonprofit, Future Stars, has been hosting a basketball camp for underserved youth in the community, instilling in them the tools he uses to achieve success.
