Founders, Seekers, and Students
Are you growing, launching a business or going through a career transition?
Perhaps you are ready to make a lateral move or positioning yourself to make the next move.
Perhaps you currently operate a company and look to energize your team using interactive workshops filled with humor, real life scenarios to boost performance and sales.
Get results by applying communication and sales skills--proven strategic and tactical skills--for your inside sales and customer facing brand ambassadors.
I invite you to explore your options but also think about the one skill that will help you in all of the above: Effective Communication Skills.
Imagine practicing your skills at a Speak2Engage bootcamp in a safe environment with peers. Practice and improve with drills and workshops to improve sales, presentation, interviewing, networking (how to navigate and master different environments) skills.
About Michael Kim, MS
With my business experience and awareness of market forces, I will help develop a pathway for achievement with your input. My career took off when I began to focus on building on my strengths.
Having led the merger of my company as an entrepreneur, I appreciate what founders go through and what it takes to survive and thrive. Learn ways to achieve your financial goals by tapping into my broad industry experience.
As a first-generation immigrant, I learned to recognize opportunities and the skills required to succeed--in multiple industries, through different careers.
Launching an enterprise, growing it (despite swings in the economy), nurturing it, and disposition are all different parts of running a business. Having an impartial outsider may help you with candid insights for short and long term results--on your terms, at your pace.
Having taught business classes at Johns Hopkins University for part-time MBA, MS graduate students and consulted for Fortune 500 firms, I get to know my audience and tailor relevant content to their goals and needs.
More About Michael...
Background
An Entrepreneur who launched and grew
businesses in different industries
Skills and Experience:
- INC 500 Awards (Quick Service Retail, Software-LMS) for consistent revenue growth
- Speaker (leadership and career conferences)
- First Franchisee in Maryland for a global brand
- Multi-unit development, operations across three counties (HR, recruitment, training and development, property/facilities management)
- Value creation, P&L management (retail, residential real estate, distressed debt)
- Corporate development (identified complementary brands and negotiated Mid Atlantic development deals)
- Area development (expansion via SBA and traditional debt financing)
- Innovating new product lines and services
- Applying lean methods to manage or launch a project to reduce risk and costs
- Practical know-how like how to select and work with attorneys depending on the need
- Stakeholder management in complex environments
- Tradeshow and conference planning, marketing, operations in the Mid Atlantic market (or national)
- Customer service and sales training to sales, business development teams (B2C, B2B, B2B2C)
- Applied bilingual marketing strategies (Spanish)
- Analyzed markets (supplementals, storage spaces, medical devices pain management, solar development, restoration, senior care)
- Technologist (AI for senior care, retail operations, real estate management)
- Instructor (Johns Hopkins University adjunct faculty for Business Processes & Change Management; I/T Integration courses)
- Speaker at universities and live events
- Tradeshow marketing (CES show, Taiwan Tech Arena)
- Consultant to Heinz, Aramark (Oracle Data Warehousing: Decision Support and Analytics)
- Led company through growth periods and through recession due to relationship building, lean practices, identifying opportunities, training and development
Industries:
- Retail (operations, corporate development)
- Software (online learning/LMS, Oracle)
- Media (print journalism)
- Telecom (analytics for finance, sales)
- Real Estate (development of commercial and residential assets, asset performance)
- Healthcare (medical device design and distribution, senior care, home care, assisted living facility)
Business experience in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, national US sales coverage
Presentation to George Washington University's Summer Startup Accelerator Program, Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Top 8 program in the US)
Why Get Career and Business Advice?
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Your future is your own: you know yourself best. Having an outsider can help you recognize things less obvious by focusing on the future and viable concrete steps.
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Accountability to perform and do better--even if it begins with small steps.
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Find a fit between your skills, personality to the marketplace (job outlook, regional demand).
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Learn how to tap into local market trends using your skills and developing your direct network.
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Looking to launch a new business or franchise? Go over pros and cons with someone who has seen businesses fail--even when operated by very educated and successful people. Learn from them. Most do not like to talk about failures or poor decisions. Manage risk while experiencing growth and change.
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Talking it over with someone helps you appreciate new angles. Student clients also get access to business ideas in emerging trends in proven markets.
