Fifty-five leaders entered the 2026 Brand Builder Competition. The Top 10 finalists pitched their personal brands live to four judges who build brands for a living.
Every Speaker Slam® panel is built from people who have done the work: speakers, coaches, publishers, and business leaders who donate their time, their feedback, and their prizes. These are the judges who scored the Brand Builder Competition on May 9, 2026.
See who they chose in the results.
Andrea Reindl
Founder, Legacy Creative · Brand Strategist for Authors
Keka DasGupta
Founder, Art of Lifeing · Award-Winning Brand Strategist
Marty Dickinson
CEO, Here Next Year · Founder, Speakers Speak LIVE
Shawn Quintero
Scale Strategist · Personal Brand Advisor
Shawn Quintero is a founder, operator, and scale strategist dedicated to helping visionary leaders build lives and legacies that last. What began as personal ambition evolved into a deeper mission: helping coaches, creators, and founders escape the “golden handcuffs” of personality-driven success and build scalable, systemized ecosystems rooted in ownership, leverage, and long-term value. Shawn's work centers on transforming intuitive brilliance into repeatable frameworks, replacing hustle with infrastructure, and building durable foundations designed to grow without constant personal strain. He has generated millions in revenue across coaching programs, masterminds, retreats, and scalable offers—not by chasing trends, but by engineering ecosystems.