Accomplishments

• Certified Business Technical Advisor
• Advisor and business builder for owners of businesses from A-Z, accounting firms to private zoos
• Author of three business books – Easy to Be Green, Networker’s Guide to Success, Thinking Big, Staying Small
• Business writer for local, national, and international publications on sales, marketing,
  business and financial management topics, networking, and compliance
• Adjunct Professor, MBA business program
• Advisor to financial institutions and state agencies on small business development and funding
• Led international trade missions for small businesses
• Built a million-dollar business from a one-person business to 200 employees
• Bought and sold businesses, created and advised on partnerships and alliances
• Guided small business owners successfully through state grant processes (results: over a million in grant funding)
• Testified before the Small Business Administration
• Member, Governor’s Business Leaders Network
• Delegate, Texas, White House & Congressional Summits on Small Business
• Founder, Women’s Chamber of Commerce
• Founder, Hatchery for Growing Businesses (based on increase in sales)
• Business investor
• Founder, Texas’ largest private small business development center
• Woman Business Owner of the Year
• Honored by the Small Business Administration and Texas Senate as Texas Small Business Advocate
• Speaker and Mentor, SXSW, Product Camp, and many professional local, state, and national trade associations

Founder, award-winning BSC Success Forum & BOSS-Talks, monthly online events