“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?” George Eliot. I'm Backpocket Strategy because for years clients have wished they could keep my energy, passion and strategy "in my backpocket"! I bring my passion for helping folks who historically haven't had access to a trusted, objective and experienced business advisor to my work every day. Collaborating with Black, LBGTQ, and women business owners has been my focus for the past 15 years. I provide strategic insight about how best to manage your very limited time, energy and money when building and sustaining a profitable business. By helping my clients understand the importance of making well informed financial, legal, hiring/retaining, and mental health decisions they become more confident because they feel more in control and less overwhelmed. My workshops, speeches and CLEs on reducing work chaos, increasing productivity and working less, reducing burnout, and negotiating confidently are high energy, engaging and helpful. I'm your secret weapon to have #inyourbackpocket
Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, running a business. I have 28 years of experiences that I share with clients and audiences to help them be confident and empowered at work and at home. People often tell me they are doubtful and unsure of themselves. Years of insight and perspective gives me the empathy to help people feel more in control and stronger about making a change or overcoming adversity. Life and work can be very difficult (and yes, unfair) and I want to share my experiences and solutions, so you know you aren't alone and you know there is a solution out there.
my social media fan base! I have hundreds of 2 minute Backpocket Strategy YouTube videos shot by two award winning TV producers who volunteered their time to shoot me. I need help with getting those high energy, candid, advice videos out there into the world so more people realize they are not alone!
Go Go Go . Seth Godin. After you do your best work. You really have no choice but to do it again. To do your best work again, as impossible and unfair as that seems. Seth Godin.
Seth Godin because he is living the dream and changing the world. Jimmy Carter because he is the epitome of grace and goodness. Gloria Steinem because she has been elegantly resilient to all of her detractors with the intelligence and empathy to bring change.
Making people laugh and feel super confident in themselves. At work or at home. And the ability to see right to the core of the issue immediately and get focused on resolving the issue so my clients and audiences can take action and feel and be more successful.
I'm never giving up on doing what I do now. I was put on this earth to make busy professionals know they are not alone. Sharing my strategy, humor, experience and empathy, I help entrepreneurs and professionals figure out how to define success for themselves at work and at home and how to make it happen.
Movies and moments with my children.
I would teach them how to see the world through another perspective. Let them know they are not alone in their struggles through story telling. I would teach them to be confident in their unique selves.