Advisors & Experts
Advisors
Alicia Marie Fruin
Alicia Marie brings a wide range of experience to coaching. For more than 10 years Alicia has coached managers, presidents and sales people in how to build a business truly worth having!
She has been instrumental in the success of other business coaches through her relentless focus on mastering the basics of coaching and business.
Alicia Marie enjoys dispelling the myths about misunderstanding about coaching. “It is not training and it is not consulting,” she says. “In a coaching relationship the client is the expert.”
Alicia Marie applies almost two decades of business ownership experience, a background in organizational development as well as a wealth of sales and marketing knowledge, to help her clients tackle the business challenges they face.
Alicia Marie is also the author of and wellness coach for the Healthy Solutions Program, a 40-week phone program designed to create balanced, healthy lifestyles. She has had a long-time niche’ in the Real Estate industry as well as Health and Fitness.
Alicia is a mother of four and grandmother of two. She is a Yoga enthusiast as well as a runner. Having spent most of her life in Texas, she currently resides in the Austin metro area. To learn more about her company, People Biz, Inc. visit: www.peoplebizinc.com .
Shell Brodnax
With her vast real world experience, Shell understands what it takes to grow a successful business. Her proven techniques have been used to take mom and pop shops and turn them into multi-million dollar companies. In addition to having served in numerous managerial roles, such as Director of Marketing/National Accounts, she’s versed in what it takes to create and implement marketing strategies that work. Her “work smarter, not harder” approach has been used to help educate others on how to effectively and efficiently grow their business.
Her background in creating and managing departments for large corporations, led to her involvement in the staging industry. Having assisted many home stagers in the field of developing and growing their business she understands the importance a trade organization has for the home staging industry. As a result, she founded the Real Estate Staging Association. With over 1,000 members, stagers across the country now have resources immediately available to them. She developed the Staging Career Center as a means to further assist the industry and help home stagers grow vibrant, profitable businesses.
Shell Brodnax, President/CEO of the Real Estate Staging Association® (RESA®) The trade association for professional home stagers was named as Finalist in the Best Executive – Non-Profit or Government – Up to 100 Employees category in the 6th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. More than 1,100 entries were submitted this year for consideration in 54 categories, including Best Executive, Best Entrepreneur, and Best Community Involvement Program. More information on Shell can be found on her website: http://shellbrodnax.com/ .
Sheri McConnell
Sheri McConnell is fast becoming the voice of Smart Women Entrepreneurs all over the world. Her current company, the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning focuses on teaching various wealth building business models such as information publishing, membership-based companies, and real estate. Her company also teaches its followers and members (which is nearing the 30,000 mark) how to market online, create a magnetic brand, and most importantly do this while maintaining down to earth balance in their lives.
As a consultant, Sheri is considered the only resource in the world specializing in creating thriving membership-based businesses like associations, institutes, alliances, and so on. Sheri has consulted with hundreds of these networks across the Internet and considers herself lucky to have helped birthed so many powerful and successful brands over the last decade. Sheri’s goal of building a company where women truly inspire each other and hold each other accountable in a graceful manner is exactly what has set her company a part. “Money is power” she explains. “Power to create positive change.”
She is also the author of several books, including, The Smart Women’s Book of Powerful Quotations and Smart Women Know Their “Why” – A Guide for Discovering Your Life Purpose While Owning a Business So You Can Create Positive Change in the World (and Making Big Profits!) Pub Date June 2010. You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and find out more about her and all of her companies at Smart Women’s Institute . Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, a “weenie” dog, and three pet hermit crabs.
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