Meet our speakers

Jeremiah D. Desmarais is one of the world’s leading voices on marketing strategy in the financial and insurance industries. A 23X time award-winning entrepreneur, consultant and philanthropist, he’s empowered over 100,000 financial professionals in 51countries grow their businesses. A TED speaker, he's an international keynote with a unique ability to combine humor, stories and real world case studies that capture audiences “while delivering real world steps you can use NOW.” Jeremiah has shared the stage with luminaries like Tony Robbins, Robert Kiosaki and is the author of the #1 Best Seller SHIFT and host of the Advisorist Podcast which ranked in top #50 business podcasts on iTunes within 10 days of launching. An avid philanthropist, he’s travelled the world giving back to indigenous communities.

Mark has over 45 years of entrepreneurial success, 25 years of research, and over 10 years of field-testing longevity concepts. He has helped thousands of people around the world discover how to:

• Stop acting too old, too soon.
• Make rapid, permanent, positive changes.
• Feel great every day of their life, for the rest of their life… no matter how long they live.
• Have wonderful, fully engaged, purposeful relationships with everyone they care about.
• Never worry about money again.
• Help successful Financial Advisors make more money.
• Have lots more time and fun and do it larger and longer than they ever thought possible.
• And much more!

Here are a few other things you may find interesting about Mark:

• He is the founder of The Vital Longevity Institute and creator of both the Vital Lifelong Alignment program and the Complete Wealth Planning System.
• He is also the founder of ObjectiView, which is a fee-based system for optimizing life insurance performance using proprietary life expectancy data. Fix the life insurance messes.
• He is an internationally renowned speaker and author who delivers platform level presentations as well as workshops for smaller groups.

Brenda was an accidental banker. Her career started when she went to work at Bank of America part-time to earn money while in college. When some of her colleagues were moved into the oh-so-glamorous personal banker role, she wanted that job. A reminder to be careful what you wish for.

Her career led her to leadership as a sales manager with a regional bank, operations manager for an investment firm, and then back to private client banking where insurance premium finance was just becoming mainstream. For more than 20 years, Benda has been helping clients achieve their financial goals. Her deep knowledge and experience in the specialized lending space uniquely qualifies her to guide you through what can be a complicated process.

Brenda is part of Inclined because she can focus on one thing – relationships. The work is work...it’s the interactions with advisors and their clients that she loves. She enjoys connecting people to each other and to new opportunities. 

With nearly 20 years of experience, Court and his team pride themselves on “Beginning with the End in mind.” They have found it to be much more effective to begin every client’s planning with the end in mind, and work backwards from there. In 2005, Court had two friends pass away unexpectedly. Both friends passed away leaving behind their spouse and young children. With a young family of his own, the experience created a sense of urgency for Court to get his own affairs in order. He wanted to make sure that he could provide well for his family whether he was here or not here. He reached out to a friend who specialized in holistic planning. In working on his own plan, Court found a passion and love for Legacy planning. As he developed and grew his own planning firm, he found that many people were being under-served in so many areas of their planning. He and his partners put a lot of time and resources into the creation of what they refer to as the Legacy Planning Process, which ensures that every client is properly educated and directed in all areas of an ideal plan. He and his team are on a mission to help as many families as possible. In his mind, it brings great purpose and gratification to help people gain peace of mind and greater confidence by establishing their ideal plan for their family.

In his free time, Court loves to be with his wife and children. They love to travel, especially to warm destinations. He enjoys playing, watching, and coaching all types of sports. He has a love for football and is an avid fan of the Nebraska Cornhuskers.