Marni Wandner is an executive coach, performance coach, wellness coach and strategic consultant. She has spent 20 years in the music and entertainment industry - from touring performer to artist manager to agency founder to marketing executive. She knows what it’s like to lead, and perform, under pressure. She has scaled companies (and sold one), guided musicians through complex careers, created a ton of really cool campaigns with really amazing people and companies…and hit and recovered from burnout.

Ariel Hyatt is one of the music industry's most well-known and respected publicists. She is the owner of Cyber PR, a New York-based public relations firm, which specializes in helping propel indie musicians to fame and fortune. She is the author of Music Success in 9 Weeks, Cyber PR For Musicians, the crowdfunded Crowdstart, among other books. When she speaks, the whole industry listens!

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The Smartest People In The Room® is a series of one-on-one conversations between music industry executives and personalities hosted by Tom Truitt, Managing Director of the Music & Live Entertainment practice. These hour long conversations draw an audience of hundreds and feature every type of global music industry executive, including agents, managers, attorneys, business managers, promoters, publishers, working musicians, songwriters. The audience is global, with strong concentration in music business centers like New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Austin and more.