A Native Noo Yawka, I have a BS in Marketing from Pace University and an MBA from the University of Dallas.

As a dyed in the wool generalist, with decades of varied marketing, communications, writing, and training, I bring a wealth of experience to my clients.

After a successful corporate career culminating as VP Marketing & Product Development, I followed my heart and evolved into consulting, wrote a book on small business marketing, began creating and leading workshops, and started a career in higher education becoming an award-winning marketing and communications professor.

I’m a two-time nonprofit board member and a lover of the arts and all things creative. I’ve worked with 100s of small businesses across the nation in industries as diverse as aviation to yoga. And, I was co-owner of a retail store that successfully competed with the likes of Mail Boxes Etc. and the UPS Store and earned a profit in year one.

Shortly after graduate school, I was recruited for a Product Manager position where I launched a first of its kind credit card product that earned an Echo Award nomination. Then, I relocated to Southern California to be the first General Manager position of a global travel startup’s credit card division in Southern California. I was then recruited into another startup as VP for a financial services company. When they were sold, I used the opportunity to return home to the East Coast when I was offered a Director’s position in Connecticut.

It was there that I began my evolution out of corporate and started my first small business marketing agency, became a first-time author and a writer for several publications (and started my own, Mktg Zen), and a small business trainer and speaker, and marketing and communications professor, then….

Three years ago, I sold my condo and my car and moved to Philadelphia where I didn’t know anyone but was craving a whole new life and I’m loving every second of it. (I highly recommend shaking up your life now and again with new experiences.)