A Speaker Who Understands The Small Business Audience

Giving entrepreneurs the strategies they need and the motivation to keep going

Jennifer is a marketing advisor who launched her business following a career in professional golf. When pro golfers compete in a tournament, they don’t just show up on the first day and play. They’ve studied the course and built a strategy for their strengths to use in competition. The same applies to business. Use this unique insight to be more competitive, find more opportunities and build the business you know is there.

Keynotes & Main Talks

Think Like a Pro: Use a pro golf strategy to drive your marketing and business results

Golf and business are great partners, whether you’re building client relationships, supporting a charity or hosting a social event. There’s one more place where the two merge: strategy.

When pro golfers compete in a tournament, they don’t just show up on the first day and play. They’ve studied the course and built a strategy for their unique strengths to use during competition. The same applies to marketing and growing your business. Learn the competitive strategies pro golfers use and how they can work for you.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Stop guessing at what marketing tactics to use
  • Save money by knowing what marketing is worth your investment
  • Save time with a framework you can build on year after year
  • Get the business results you want

You’ll also find this session can be easily applied to other areas of your business. When you do things in a strategic way, you can achieve at a higher level.

Note: This keynote can also be focused for a non-business audience (charities, nonprofits, community organizations, municipalities, etc.)

Drive Recruiting Results with Marketing:  Use pro golf strategies to build a recruiting plan that sets you apart from the competition

Attracting candidates is a competitive and time-consuming task. It can be frustrating when you’re not getting the results you want, and it can prevent your organization from operating at its full potential. Conveying what you need in an employee is important, and so is presenting your opportunity in a way that makes candidates pay attention.

Recruiting is about marketing your job opportunity to a future employee. It’s about discovering your best assets and presenting them in a way that makes you competitive with other employers looking to attract the same candidates. The good news is that it can be done.

You’ll learn to:

  • Present your job opportunity in a way that is attractive to potential candidates
  • Be more effective in recruiting with a strategy that can be used over and over again
  • Create job ads that are interesting to job seekers
  • Compete effectively with your own assets

People look for different things in a career. Put your efforts towards attracting the candidates who want what you offer.

Competing For Yourself: From golf pro to entrepreneur and whatever comes next

When Jennifer turned pro in golf, she joined a group of 2,500 pros in Canada, of which, only 100 were women. Throughout her golf career, she competed on the women’s national tour, secured her dream job and then sacrificed it all to work for a new golf course development that would eventually not succeed. Jennifer went on to earn her Class A status with the Canadian PGA, which meant she could work for any golf facility as their head golf professional. Instead, she went to work for herself.

She launched Forward Thinking, a marketing consulting agency, with a $15,000 loan. Over the course of 18 years, she built a business that checked all the boxes: profitable, fulfilling and impactful. One day, she realized there was more she could do, and she built a strategy to risk the stable environment she had worked so hard to build, to try something different.

This is a personal story of:

  • Doing the unpopular thing
  • Leveraging your lived experience to pursue new opportunities
  • Embracing the responsibility to build the life you want
  • Finding a purpose that motivates you every single day

What makes this story unique is that Jennifer speaks from a position of achievement in sport and in entrepreneurship, and also as someone currently in the trenches changing the course of her working life. It’s a journey of learning to compete for yourself, even when you don’t know what outcomes will follow.

Workshops

Book Jennifer for a workshop where attendees walk away with actionable tactics they can apply immediately in their businesses.

Knowing Your Assets: How to use what you have and onboard what you need to succeed in marketing, recruiting or other areas of growing your business or organization

Choosing the right club in golf is a strong factor in determining the outcome of your game. The same happens in business; the right marketing asset, at the right time, is a major factor in business success. Based on the Think Like a Pro keynote, attendees in this workshop create an asset inventory of assets they already have, assets they can maximize and assets they need for current and future growth.

Participants leave this workshop with:

  • A list of assets to drive marketing results
  • New ways of thinking about marketing tactics that save time and money
  • More confidence and less stress around marketing decision-making
  • A valuable business-building tool they can implement immediately

Instead of guessing at what marketing tactics to use, make better decisions based on the assets you already have and the marketing options that will further your strengths. Choose what works best for your business and save time and money doing it!

Note: This workshop works for small business owners, non-business organizations (charities, nonprofits, etc.) and recruiting.

Elevating The Job Ad: Use marketing strategies to create a job ad that conveys what you need and attracts who you want

To solve a recruiting problem for employers in her region, Jennifer created an online job board that allowed local job opportunities to be accessible anywhere in the world. With strategically designed sections required for job postings, Jennifer led employers to provide certain key information that marketed the job more effectively, while still conveying the information employers needed.

Having assisted with more than 10,000 job postings, and consulting with employers directly to build a recruiting strategy, Jennifer shares valuable insights in this workshop, including:

  • Key details that need to be in your job ad
  • How to highlight your strengths to compete with similar opportunities
  • Ways to evaluate opportunities when promoting your job openings
  • How a potential applicant navigates your job ad
  • Where to adjust other aspects of recruiting to drive better results

A job ad is often the first impression someone has of what it might be like to work for your organization, and first impressions are important. Participants complete this workshop with everything they need to compose a job ad that represents the organization authentically while also appealing to a potential employee.

Creating a Self-Awareness Strategy: Use the life you’ve lived to build the life you want

Whether you want to change careers, start a business or make another important change in your life, it’s easier to do when you have a strategy to support your decision. Strategies build confidence and reduce stress, which makes decision-making easier to accomplish.

Jennifer shares examples of her experience in becoming more self-aware of her strengths and challenges, and where they both played a role in building her strategy. This is a workshop about how to consider your lived experiences and think about them in a way that moves you in the direction of where you want to go.

For example:

  • Using every piece of life experience to your benefit
  • Discovering strengths by increasing self-awareness
  • Turning perceived weaknesses into areas that contribute to your strategy
  • Knowing the resources that could benefit you and how to find them
  • Being equally honest with your excitement and your concerns

Making a big change can seem risky at the outset, but when you have a strategy backing you up, you move into the position of making an educated decision. Whether you decide to make the big change you’re thinking about or not, the self-awareness you gain will benefit every aspect of your life.

Book the Speaker and the Author

Provide attendees with more marketing impact

Add value to your event by sending attendees home with the easiest and most implementable read in marketing they will ever own. This book gets to the point on some common topics that business owners struggle with whether they are rookies or veterans. Book signings can also accompany your event.