Meet Our Team

The Democratize Entrepreneurship for Everyday Americans Plan will be executed by a diverse, inclusive, high-performance team of employees, interns, apprentices, and expert contractors collaborating within a comprehensive Done-For-You-Done-With-You Business Development Infrastructure™ led by the Impact Resources Executive Leadership Team.

The Company: Formed as a Delaware C-Corporation in 2017 and headquartered in Connecticut, Impact Resources, Inc. was built in response to research conducted by Wendy Lipton-Dibner, M.A. Her research revealed significant inequities that were keeping Everyday Americans from achieving entrepreneurial success and identified a viable and logical solution to the problem.

The Impact Resources Mission: To democratize entrepreneurship so anyone who is driven to make a difference in people’s lives can get their ideas to market and own a successful business that honors their unique talents and responsibilities – without disrupting their lives, risking their security, or paying a single penny to make it happen.

Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operations Officer
Wendy Lipton-Dibner, M.A.

Wendy Lipton-Dibner, M.A. is considered the leading authority on business acceleration through impact strategy and ethical influence. A successful serial entrepreneur, 5-time bestselling author and internationally recognized business strategist, Lipton-Dibner has worked with more than a thousand corporate, healthcare, small business, and non-profit organizations and well-over 5 million aspiring and established entrepreneurs, executives, credentialed experts, helping them to expand their vision, scale their ideas, and strategically plan, develop, and deliver marketing, products, and services that yield high revenues as a result of making a measurable difference in consumers’ lives. Forbes® called Lipton-Dibner’s strategies, “The Secret to Success in Business,” and Inc.® labeled her formulaic map as, “Your path to profitable impact.”

Lipton-Dibner Relevant Background: While studying sociology, social psychology, and social research in the PhD program at Duke University, Lipton-Dibner conducted, published and presented research on the relationship of social inequity to socialization, deviance, and delinquency. After completing her Masters’ Degree, she was invited to manage research and evaluation projects for the Center for Organizational Research and Evaluation Studies at Texas Christian University where she taught sociology and managed evaluation studies of corporate, education, and healthcare organizations. For the next three years Lipton-Dibner published research, presented at professional meetings, and presented a major study at the U.S. Senate. During this time, she became increasingly aware of a pervasive problem: the business owners, executives, and clinicians they studied were so focused on generating revenue, they had lost track of creating measurable results for the people they served.

In 1983, Lipton-Dibner left academia to open her first business: a brick-and-mortar, retail and service business designed to prove her hypothesis that businesses could be significantly more profitable if they prioritized impact over profitability. She defined impact as:

The measurable difference we make in people’s lives as the direct result of
contact with us, our team, and our marketing, products, and services.¹

Lipton-Dibner applied the social sciences to develop hundreds of innovative formulas for business development. Many have been copyrighted or classified as “Trade Secrets.” Through changing social and economic conditions, Lipton-Dibner consistently found her formulas significantly increased revenue, team engagement, and consumer loyalty across a wide range of industries including manufacturing and sales, healthcare, financial services, retail, trades, telecommunications, automotive, utilities (gas, electric, and oil), food (manufacturing and service), hospitality, travel, professional and personal services, real estate, farming, technology, thought leadership (books, e-courses, speaking), and e-commerce retail and service.

As President and CEO of Professional Impact, Inc., Lipton-Dibner kept meticulous track of her clients’ results. Executives consistently reported rapid, exponential increases in revenue and high engagement with consumers. While executives also reported high employee engagement, employees often reported hidden dreams to build their own business. When asked what was holding them back, they spoke of commitments, debt, family responsibilities, lack of support, fear, discrimination, and more. Some employees shared confidential reports of having brought innovative ideas to their employers, only to have them discounted.

Determined to help, Lipton-Dibner began conducting live and virtual training events for everyday Americans, sharing hundreds of the proven formulas she’d used to help her corporate, non-profit, and healthcare clients build rapid results. Her research of thousands of attendees (at her events and others) revealed a high incidence of entrepreneurial failure, particularly among marginalized groups. These results were lower than what she’d achieved with organizational clients, so Lipton-Dibner set out to find out why. In her study of ≈5,000 aspiring entrepreneurs she discovered significant social and economic barriers blocking entrepreneurial success.

Driven to execute an effective solution, Lipton-Dibner developed a comprehensive strategic and operational plan to address the hidden barriers she’d discovered. She recruited seasoned professionals to serve with her on her mission to democratize entrepreneurship, and founded Impact Resources, Inc. in 2017.

Co-Founder and Chief Performance Officer
Hal Dibner, PhD

Hal Dibner, PhD is a triple-board certified analyst, business psychologist, and internationally recognized authority in human capital maximization. Known for his comprehensive and rapid approach to identifying and breaking through hidden success barriers, Dr. Dibner’s work has been valued by Fortune executives and entrepreneurs in the hundreds of millions of dollars saved and made through his interventions.

As a private practice clinician, environmental medicine expert, and business consultant, Dr. Dibner has helped thousands of men and women worldwide, logging more than 100,000 hours of service since 1973. He serves as a go-to resource for startup and established entrepreneurs, c-suite executives and their teams, educational leaders, and doctors and staff, helping them increase personal and professional effectiveness, and find clarity in decision-making.

Dibner Relevant Background: Driven by a uniquely high level of curiosity, Dr. Dibner has spent a lifetime seeking answers to the questions most people never think to ask. In fact, in over 4 decades, the most frequent question he has heard from clients is, “Why hasn’t anyone ever asked me that question before?” The answer is simple: because Dr. Dibner never stops searching for the truth.

Dr. Dibner is uniquely qualified to build and lead a diverse, inclusive, high-performance team, and to assure they are happy, motivated, fulfilled, and able to perform to their highest potential.

Chief Legal Officer
Ronald N. Vance, JD

Ronald N. Vance, JD specializes in corporate and securities law, and has been in practice since 1981. After receiving his Juris Doctorate in 1980, he was admitted to the California State Bar and was also admitted to the Utah State Bar in 1981. Well regarded in his field, Mr. Vance has built lasting relationships with clients and corporate professionals alike, including funding, accounting, and auditing professionals. His approach to client representation is focused on assisting them through the myriad of legal requirements associated with securities and corporate law compliance.

Mr. Vance is particularly driven to help Everyday Americans succeed in the world of entrepreneurship so they can make a greater difference and plans to devote full-time hours for Impact Resources when we launch the Democratize Entrepreneurship for Everyday Americans Plan in the State of Connecticut.

Vance Relevant Background: Mr. Vance began his career in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he developed expertise in the fields of corporate and securities law. He is licensed in the States of Utah and California. He owned a small boutique law firm focused on startup and smaller reporting companies for years and currently serves as Partner at Pearson Butler, assisting clients in entity selection and compliance, as well as transactional and fund-raising activities.

Director and Chief Financial Officer
JB Henriksen, MBA, CPA

JB Henriksen has served as acting CFO for high-growth companies in the wholesale, retail, technology and medical spaces. A licensed CPA, he teaches for the Utah Association of CPAs, serves as a member of the Board of the Association for Corporate Growth and is active in the MountainWest Capital Network. He is the founder and CEO of Take 2, Inc.

Mr. Henriksen has been an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University for over 20 years and is also an adjunct professor at the University of Utah. An active member of the Salt Lake City Angels and the Utah entrepreneurial community, he is a frequent speaker on finance, accounting and entrepreneurship. Mr. Henriksen has worked with many companies on mergers and acquisitions as well as helping to raise debt and equity capital from various sources, and serves as a founder and owner of Stream Dx.

Henriksen Relevant Background: Mr. Henriksen graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in accounting and later received his MBA from the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. Mr. Henriksen worked tirelessly with CEO Wendy Lipton-Dibner to innovate the robust financial model that drives the unique ability of Impact Resources to build multiple businesses simultaneously while generating revenues to make each Everyday American Company self-sustaining while creating substantial returns for the government.

Past Director and Present Member of the Impact Resources, Inc. Advisory Board
Gaydon “G” Leavitt

G Leavitt is Founder and Chairman at Toolbox OS, Inc. Having helped well-over 2,000 small businesses with their strategy and execution in over 200 industries and markets, he leads various portfolio companies and focuses his time on creating new businesses and seeking out new innovations. As the creator of intellectual properties too numerous to name, Mr. Leavitt combines cutting-edge technology and timeless business strategies that have worked for hundreds of years to create profit. He is dedicated to helping everyday Americans build enterprise value via systems and software.

Leavitt began his career marketing vitamins on the internet and worked in the Ford dealership ecosystem where he was in charge of pioneering the internet department concept that got dealerships to sell cars through the internet. Mr. Leavitt left Ford at the end of 2006 to build a marketing agency that boasted over $1 million in revenue within its first two years of business. Over the next decade, he created various marketing systems, intellectual property, and software – all designed to advance the science of marketing.

Mr. Leavitt played fractional CMO in various industries, serving well-over 1000 businesses and created a two-day workshop with an extensive book designed to transform Everyday Americans into marketing minds. He is best-known in the technology ecosphere for having 5x’d net profits by automating his marketing company through technology, birthing his arrival into the world of SaaS and private equity.

Past Director and Present Member of the Impact Resources, Inc. Advisory Board
Antonia Hernández, JD

Nationally regarded for her expertise in immigration, civil rights and philanthropy, Antonia Hernández has spent more than four decades advocating for social justice and improving the lives of underserved communities in Los Angeles County and beyond.

From 2004 through 2022, Ms. Hernández served as President and Chief Executive Officer of California Community Foundation, one of Southern California’s largest and most active philanthropic organizations, which has served Angelenos for over a century. The Foundation partners with more than 1,600 individual, family, and corporate donors and holds assets of more than $1.7 billion. During her tenure, California Community Foundation has granted nearly $2 billion, with a focus on health, housing, education, immigration programs.

Previously, Ms. Hernández was president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), a national nonprofit litigation and advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of the nation’s Latinos through the legal system, community education and research and policy initiatives.

Ms. Hernández began her legal career as a staff attorney with the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice and worked as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary before joining MALDEF in 1981 as regional counsel in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Hernández is a member of the board of directors of the Automobile Club of Southern California, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association, Grameen America, and Urban Institute. She currently serves on advisory boards and committees including the Commission on Presidential Debates, Healthy California for All Commission, and UCLA Board of Advisors among others. Hernández is a frequent public speaker and has been awarded several honorary degrees and awards.

Ms. Hernández is a member of the State Bar of California, United States Supreme Court, District of Columbia Bar, American Bar Association and the Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute.

Ms. Hernández earned her B.A. in History at UCLA in 1970 and J.D. at the UCLA School of Law in 1974.

Member of the Impact Resources Advisory Team
Jason Webb, JD

Jason Webb is an intellectual property attorney and registered patent attorney. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics and Computational Modeling from Brigham Young University where he assisted in experimental laser physics and cancer research. He received his law degree from the S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah where he trained as an extern for the Honorable Judges Stephen L. Roth of the Third District Court of Utah and J. Thomas Greene of the District of Utah in Federal District Court.

Mr. Webb has deep experience in patent, trademark, copyright, and licensing law. His background in physics, chemistry, and computer science provides a background for him to come up to speed on almost any technology. He has successfully negotiated licensing agreements and settlement agreements for his clients with Fortune 500 companies. His client’s products and services are sold nationally and internationally on the internet, through HSN and QVC, and in big box stores, including The Home Depot and Toys’R’US.

Mr. Web has experience as an expert intellectual property witness in federal court, has been featured on numerous radio shows and podcasts, and has been quoted worldwide in nationally syndicated publications. He has owned several successful businesses and knows the entrepreneurial and non-profit worlds from the inside. He regularly speaks and is on panels nationally at business and entrepreneurial conferences, as well as gaming and gamification conferences. Jason also teaches continuing legal education to attorneys in Utah and around the U.S.

Mr. Webb is also the author of the bestselling book, “Protect Your Intellectual Property with “Your Amazing Itty Bitty^®: How to Do Your Own IP Audit”.

Past Director, Chief Operating Officer, and member of the Impact Resources, Inc. Advisory Board (2017-2022):
Don Pierce, MBA

Over the course of his career, Don Pierce served in the C-Suite, on Boards of Directors, and as consultant to turn-around and startup organizations. As the Past CEO of Triarc Restaurant Group (Arby’s, TJ Cinnamons), Past President of KFC International (PepsiCo), and Past President and COO of Denny’s, Inc., Mr. Pierce has taken the lead in bringing small companies public, motivating senior executives, and creating global success.

Mr. Pierce’s greatest asset is his ability to strategically operationalize an idea from the ground up, through an aggressive growth plan. In addition to serving as past COO for Impact Resources, Inc., his past success included mergers and acquisitions, repositioning small niche customers into national chains, and serving on the board of a NASDAQ company. He has grown small startups into Master Limited Partnerships on the NYSE, and brought a strong background in developing global businesses, working with joint venture partners, and taking companies public on the US and Nikkei Exchanges. He jointly led a successful sale of a $250MM high yield bond issue, has served with VC representatives, investment banking firms, and shareholders, and has been president of two different $2B businesses that were struggling with no clear growth strategy.

Sadly, Mr. Pierce passed away in 2022, but his tremendous contributions and loyal friendship helped make Impact Resources what it is today. He will always be a strong and valued member of our team, and a dear friend held closely to our hearts.