- NIL Compliance and Opportunities
- Personal branding Entrepreneurship
- Financial Literacy
- Mental Health and Wellness
Keynote Speaker
This keynote will teach you how to authentically align your Name, Image, and Likeness with opportunities to leverage and monetize your core values.
General Counsel
A trusted confidant and personal advisor on a wide range of business, legal, risk management, and ethical considerations
Workshop/Training
NIL Planning and Engagement
for Student-Athletes
Topics covered include understanding NIL regulations, developing policies and procedures, and fostering collaboration with student-athletes and external stakeholders.
Program Objective:
The program aims to educate athletic departments and student-athletes on navigating NIL opportunities and remain compliant.
Perfect For:
- Athletic Departments
- Student Athletes
- International Student-Athletes
workshop/training
Program Outcomes:
- Enhanced understanding of NIL rules and compliance standards among athletic department staff and student-athletes.
- Development of tailored trainings to support student-athletes in maximizing NIL opportunities while maintaining compliance.
- Increased awareness of successful strategies and potential pitfalls in NIL engagement through analysis of case studies and best practices.
- Improved ability to mitigate risks and ensure throughout the NIL planning and engagement process.
- Empowerment of student-athletes with the knowledge, skills, and resources to effectively navigate the NIL landscape, manage their and capitalize on their athletic achievements.
- Greater NIL knowledge to help protect student-athletes, facilitate greater NIL compliance, and improve communication between student-athletes, athletic departments, and external NIL stakeholders.
Your Name, Image, and Likeness Are Your Business, 7 Steps to the Bag with NIL
Everything You Need to Know to Start Getting Money with NIL, Even if You Aren't a Superstar Athlete
“Your Name, Image, and Likeness Are Your Business,” author Ryan A. Rogers, Esq., provides 7 keys to help student athletes and content creators capitalize on their Name, Image, and Likeness in the NIL era. Inspired by Jay-Z’s iconic feature verse, from the song Diamonds From Sierra Leone “I’m not a ‘businessman,’ I’m a ‘business,’ man,” this book is an introduction to the business of NIL.
Rogers provides seven keys to help turn your NIL into a thriving personal brand business. NIL is not just about making money by becoming another athlete content creator or influencer. NIL is a new paradigm where personal and professional lines blur, authenticity reigns, and your unique brand story becomes your most valuable asset.
With over two decades of combined business and legal expertise, Rogers gives you the keys you need to help generate income, unlock opportunities for success, and build a thriving Personal Brand Business Enterprise that can create wealth, all from your Name, Image, and Likeness.
Keynote/workshop/training
The "DBA Way" (TM), Personal Branding Blueprint For Content Creators
The “DBA Way” (TM), which stands for “Doing Business As”, emphasizes the importance of Personal brand entrepreneurship based on consistently, showing up for yourself, both on and off the playing field, in ways authentically aligned with your brand’s core identity and values. The “DBA Way”(TM) focuses on crafting and living a genuine identity by incorporating continuous personal development, education, and personal passions. The “DBA Way” (TM) provides a theoretical approach to ME, LLC framework, which stands for Media Entrepreneurship Leveraging Leadership and Content urges influencers to personify their brand in every aspect of their lives to better connect with supporters. The “DBA Way” (TM) highlights the need for thoughtful, consistent approach to personal brand development through content creation and engagement across media platforms, and other strategies for growth such as networking and direct communication. The “DBA Way”(TM) underscores the importance of personal brand management in everyday life.
Program Outcome:
The “DBA Way” (TM) is a signature program designed to transform the personal branding journey into practical strategies for authenticity, consistency, brand management, and audience connection.
Perfect For:
- Student Athletes
- Influencers
- Solopreneurs
- Social Media Content Creators
The “DBA Way” (TM), Personal Branding Blueprint takes you from the very first steps of brand creation to brand development, including plenty of professional insights and hot tips to keep in mind.”
- How to understand yourself to better create a brand
- The kinds of content strategies you should aim for
- Ideas to create a network
- Ways to incorporate your brand into your everyday life to improve credibility
- Successful brand examples
“Im not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”
What You Can Expect
Gain insights from an experienced small business attorney, entrepreneur, and business advisor/strategist/consultant with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Business and Management. Leveraging strategic planning and organizational capabilities, I help student-athletes identify NIL rights and opportunities to leverage Name, Image, and Likeness to establish lasting personal brand enterprises.
With nearly two decades of combined business advisory, entrepreneurship, consulting, finance, and immigration law experience, participants will receive accurate and up-to-date information on NIL compliance and experienced professional insight to help maximize NIL business opportunities.
Provide strategies to help maximize positive NIL opportunities and foster greater collaboration and communication between athletic departments, student-athletes, and external stakeholders.
The Podcast
MELLC PODCAST
MELLC stands for Media Entrepreneurship Leveraging Leadership and Content. Join us each week as we bring in industry news, experts, athletes, and innovative creators who share their insights, experiences, and best practices with branding, media rights, entrepreneurship, and financial and mental health and wellness.
I'm Ryan A. Rogers, founder of MELLC, Media Entrepreneurship Leveraging Leadership and Content. Our mission is to empower individuals and institutions by increasing access to knowledge resources that help develop intellectual property, increase self-agency, and generate income. Our vision is to close education and wealth gaps, end generational poverty, and promote a more equitable society for all.
Seasoned Attorney, Entrepreneur, and Educator with a passion for Social and Community Activism
As Founder and Managing Member of USA Visa Consulting Services, LLC, I have over a decade of experience assisting individual foreign nationals, businesses, and organizations in securing U.S. business-based visas and expanding international enterprise into U.S. markets.
A retired Stock Broker and Financial Advisor, my educational background includes a Juris Doctor (JD) from the University of Baltimore School of Law; Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Merrick School of Business; extensive coursework in global diversity, strategic management, and international law from institutions such as Universidad Peruana De Ciencias Aplicadas in Lima, Peru, and the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. I also hold a B.A. in History with a minor in Secondary Education from Hampton University.
Professional and Personal Life
My deep commitment to youth development and entrepreneurship includes a deep history of volunteerism and community activism. Since I can remember, I’ve had a heart for working with at-risk youth and other under-served populations from low-income communities, which includes former Americorps and U.S. Peace Corps service. In 2021, I founded IC Royalty, Inc., a 501(c) (3) non-profit dedicated to providing entrepreneurship training, financial literacy, and intellectual asset development to under-resourced schools and communities across the U.S. In addition, I am also a certified NIL Marketing Specialist, Life Coach, Fatherhood Programs Facilitator, and a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
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