Speakers
This year’s lineup of over 60 speakers, returning vets and newbies alike, are here to deliver an incredible experience for all ShutterFesters!
Shutterfest 2027 Speaker Lineup
Noella Andres
Specialty: Business
Noella Andres began her career as a wedding photographer, falling hard and fast for the art of storytelling, creativity, and building a business on her own terms.
Today, she helps photographers and educators turn their expertise into impactful brands, strategic partnerships, and profitable education platforms. With experience spanning photography, marketing, brand growth, course creation, events, and industry partnerships, Noella brings the strategy, structure, and straight talk creatives need to move their biggest ideas forward.
Known for bridging artistry with smart business strategy, she helps creatives embrace innovation, build genuine authority, and create more freedom in their work and lives.
She is part strategist, part connector, part hype girl, and fully invested in helping talented creatives become impossible to overlook. Growth should feel strategic and sustainable, but also a little magical.
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Noella Andres’s Classes:
Class Description:
You’ve spent years building your photography business, developing your skills, and figuring out what works. Now, you’re ready to turn that experience into something you can teach.
In this class, you will learn how to identify what they want to be known for, develop clear teaching pillars, and turn their expertise into a class that is organized, valuable, and action focused.
We’ll cover how to choose the right topic, structure a presentation, create a clear transformation for your audience, and teach without cramming everything you know into 90 minutes.
We’ll also look at the bigger opportunity behind education. One great class can lead to speaking opportunities, podcasts, workshops, mentorship, courses, brand partnerships, and new revenue streams.
Attendees will leave with a clear “known for” statement, teaching topics, and a framework for turning what they know into what they’re known for.
What to Bring to Class:
Class Description:
When bookings slow down, the immediate reaction is usually, “I need more inquiries.”, “I need to post more”,
You can spend enormous amounts of energy generating leads, worrying about the state of the industry all while unknowingly losing potential clients at multiple points between discovery and booking. A confusing website, weak call to action, slow response, generic inquiry email, overwhelming pricing guide, missing follow-up, disconnected marketing, or lack of nurturing can quietly cost bookings long before a client ever says no.
In this class, we’ll walk through the complete journey a potential client takes with your business and uncover the five most common places where connection, confidence, or momentum can break down.
You’ll learn how to recognize the leaks in your website and messaging, inquiry process, initial response, pricing and sales experience, follow-up, and nurturing, and how simple systems and automation can create a smoother path toward booking.
You’ll leave knowing what to look for in your own client journey, where potential clients may be slipping through the cracks, and which changes to prioritize first.
Before you work harder to generate more inquiries, let’s make sure your business knows what to do with the ones you already have.
What to Bring to Class:
Class Description:
Most photographers don’t have a marketing problem. They have a system problem.
They’re constantly posting, creating new content, chasing the algorithm, running on a constant hamster wheel and wondering where their next inquiry will come from. But what if more of your marketing could happen automatically?
In this hands-on class, photographers will learn how to build a simple marketing ecosystem using tools and content they already have. We’ll look at how email marketing, lead magnets, automated nurture sequences, past-client communication, referrals, and evergreen content can work together to move people from discovering your business to inquiring, booking, and coming back again.
Attendees will map their existing marketing, find the biggest opportunities for automation while keeping the human touch, and build a realistic 90-day plan focused on creating systems instead of constantly creating more content.
The goal isn’t to give you 47 new marketing tasks. It’s to help you build a marketing system that keeps working even when you’re not.