Venture Expert Spotlight Library
Leadership Webinars For Entrepreneurs
Our expert spotlights provide leadership and business development insights from international business experts. Every month we host LIVE, FREE, interview-style webinars on issues of leadership and personal development, marketing, sales, networking and more!
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Topic #1: Leadership Lessons Learned The Hard Way
Featured Guest: Alyson Thiessen, INSPIRE Mortgage Solutions
About our guest:
- 2010 Woman of Excellence Award for Entreprenuership
- 2010 Gold Award Winner "The Express" Readers Choice for Mortgage Brokers in Red Deer
- 2010 Nominated for Best Branding in Canada in the Mortgage Industry -- CMP
Alyson Thiessen of INSPIRE Mortgage Solutions joins Venture Coaching to share her leadership lessons. Alyson won the 2010 Woman of Excellence Award for Entrepreneurship and she was nominated for the 2010 Best Branding in Canada in the Mortgage Industry Award.
Alyson describes herself as being a leader all her life. But this doesn't mean the leadership journey has been easy. Alyson has spent 12 years building a business and a team that is now 10 people strong. And the process has been a roller coaster ride! In fact, 2009/2010 were two of Alyson's toughest years where she faced some of her darkest moments.
Alyson is a genuine and articulate leader who prides herself in "telling it like it is". She is frank and forthcoming about her wins along with her challenges and what keeps her going and growing. And 2011 is poised to be Alyson's best year ever!
Join Venture Coaching and Alyson Thiessen for this informative, open and honest interview about learning leadership lessons the hard way.
Topic #2: Marketing Is A Leadership Opportunity!
If your intention is to grow a business, you need a sustainable means of generating new clients. This goal of sustainable growth inevitably leads to marketing. Unfortunately, marketing (the process) is notoriously difficult to delegate successfully. This is where leadership is crucial.
As the leader of a company you must learn how to provide meaningful direction to the people helping you. Without a clear and documented leadership platform, marketing is almost certain to fail in epic proportions. With a leadership platform guiding you, you dramatically increase your chances of success, your rate of progress and your confidence to stick with a program long enough to see results.
Featured Guest: John Watson, Accrue Performance Marketing
About our guest:
John Watson is the President of Accrue Performance Marketing Inc. and the author of Being Profitable™. John is a marketing consultant who specializes in Internet "inbound" Marketing and Sales Lead Generation for complex sales of products and services.
Accrue Performance Marketing is a strategic marketing consulting firm that plays a unique role with clients. They offer fractional director of marketing and sales services. This means they step into your company, in a fractional capacity, and provide the necessary leadership to roll out an accountable business development program.
Topic #3: Partnering Your Ways To Profits!
Learn the 5 key partnering strategies for building your success and making your business more profitable!
Featured Guest: Paul Miltonberger, Franchise Success Center
About our guest:
Paul Miltonberger is an engaging international speaker and coach. He has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs from more than a dozen countries helping them grow their businesses and consider, and take advantage of, the money making opportunities available to them.
Paul's career began as a corporate trial lawyer. He successfully tried multimillion dollar claims to successful jury verdict, was a partner at major law firms, ran his own office and was also head of corporate litigation at a Fortune 50 company. Paul transitioned from the legal world into the entrepreneurial world in 2006 when he co-founded a franchise consulting business (franchisesuccesscenter.com) that designs a personalized strategy for each client and helps them find and acquire exceptional franchise business opportunities.
Paul is convinced that partnering is the foundational key to truly successful wealth building. In his “Partnering Your Way to Profits” presentation, Paul explains how to retrain your brain to appreciate the power and potential of partnering to ensure that you will never miss out on any great opportunity that crosses your path.
Topic #4: Communicate Effectively To Boost Your Bottom Line!
Featured Guest: Murray Groen, Mortgage Brokers Ottawa
About our guest:
- CMP Magazine - Top 50 Brokers in Canada 2010
- 30 years of combined team experience
- "building the best team, providing the best solutions, with integrity"
Murray Groen proudly owns and operates one of the most successful mortgage brokering businesses in Ottawa, Canada. And he doesn't do it alone. Murray knows his success is due to the success of his team. And he knows his team is successful because of the emphasis they place on communicating effectively with each other and their clients.
Let Murray share what he has learned about communication effectiveness so you can apply his lessons to your business. Through successful team building, Murray's company has been it's most profitable, ever, and Murray has been able to take the most time off, ever!
Topic #5: Growing Your Business Through Strategic Relationships and Giving Back
Featured Guest: Catherine Vu, Proactive IT Management Inc.
About our guest:
- 2010 Avenue Magazine's Top 40 Under 40
- 2009 Deloitte Women of Influence Award
- 2009 Small Business Owner of the Year Finalist
In 1997 Catherine co-created Pro-Active Computer Solutions, taking a risk as a women entrepreneur in a male-dominated sector. In 2003 Catherine broke out on her own transforming the original computer solutions company into Pro-Active IT Management Inc. Catherine prides herself in constantly evolving in her quest for success and improvement.
Catherine and Pro-Active IT are now a recognized force within the Alberta IT community. Working with a foundation of honour, integrity and passion for life, Catherine has made Pro-Active IT into the thriving, customer-centric, computer solutions company it is known as today.
One of Catherine's "Secrets to Success" is her ability to form strategic relationships, while also focusing on giving back to her community.
Topic #6: Escaping Your Money Traps of Scarcity, Superstition and Survival Mode
Featured Guest: Karen Russo, The Money Keys
Too many smart, spiritually connected, talented professionals are blocked by anxieties, resentments, and overwhelm in their money lives. Karen Russo believes these struggles are not necessary— and that the Big Fat Lies about money offer people amazing opportunities for healing!
In this provocative conversation, you’ll discover:
- Why 'money issues' just don't magically disappear for many well intentioned spiritual seekers
- The 3 money traps that keep you anxious, angry and overwhelmed about money
- How to apply 3 universal spiritual principles and practical tools to overcome those challenges immediately so you can access peace of mind, creative freedom and financial order!
“For those of you who don’t know Karen, you can think of Karen Russo as Your Spiritual Guide in Wealth Creation. She is the award-winning author of The Money Keys: Unlocking Peace, Freedom and Real Financial Power, featuring testimonies from her teacher Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith of The Secret, Loral Langemeier, T. Harv Eker, and a foreword by Bob Proctor.
With her unusual blend of experience as an MBA from Columbia University, an accomplished corporate trainer, a top-selling salesperson, and an ordained interfaith minister, Karen shares insights from over 25 years of success in secular and spiritual realms.
