Meet Our Team
Anne Alexander
Business
Growth Architect
 Anne has worked
for over 20 years as owner or employee in
small businesses. She's done everything from shipping,
customer service, production and inventory, to inside and outside
sales, marketing, accounting, project management and
serving as co-chief cook & bottle washer of a small manufacturing
business.
She is passionate about small business and how it can
positively impact not only the owner, but also its
employees, customers and community. Anne advises clients in
all areas of their businesses and especially loves sales and
marketing and helping small businesses uncover the "diamonds
in their backyard" so they can truly thrive, using proven
strategies and the power of leverage.
Anne has enriched her business skills
through training programs offered by Jay Abraham, Michael
Gerber, Brian Tracy and other industry leaders, as well as
reading hundreds of business books. She enhanced
her natural coaching talents in successfully completing the
coach training program at Coach University, with additional
training at the School of Small Business Coaching and the
Graduate School of Coaching.
In 2000 Anne received the
International Business Broker's designation of Certified
Business Intermediary. As a business broker, Anne looked
under the hoods of many businesses and gained additional
insight into what makes a successful business.
In 2007 Anne became a licensed with an international
business consultancy with over 600 consultants worldwide,
which provided additional and ongoing training as well as
access on behalf of her clients to some of the best business
minds on the planet.
Anne and her associates provide authentic (real)
alternatives (choices) to business owners and executives so
they can stop spinning their wheels and move
forward with substantial, profitable business growth,
personal satisfaction and bottom line control.
Read client
testimonials here.
 On
a personal note, Anne was raised in New England, and has
lived in Switzerland, the Midwest, the Southeast, as well as
Colorado. She is an avid hiker in the Smokies, the Rockies and beyond, a
lover of all kinds of art (painting, sculpture, music), an
alternative healing fan, and constant reader. She loves working with clients, playing her piano,
puttering in the yard and
enjoying time with her partner,
two dogs and three cats.
Melody Johnson
Business
Growth Associate
Melody Johnson has over 25 years experience in the health
care field. Melody has managed a variety of medical
practices including family, internal medicine and
orthopedics. Practices have ranged from a staff of 10 to a
staff of 31 in a hospital system. Practice revenues have
ranged from $2,000,000 to over $10,000,000.
Read client testimonials here.
Through her expertise in leadership development, electronic
medical record conversions, data management, human
resources, quality improvement, accounting, personnel
management, contract negotiation and marketing, Melody
helped guide these practices through exceptional growth
rates. She understands the complexity and the challenges of
health care in the 21st century and provides expert guidance
to our clients in this sector.
Melody has
two sons and has been married to Ray Johnson, a highly
talented fine artist, for 13 wonderful years. They live in
South Carolina and find their piece of heaven at the beach.
Susan Gabriel
Core
Issues Consultant
When clients get stuck and need more than Anne's business
consulting and coaching in order to move forward, we call on
Susan Gabriel's expertise. Susan helps business people break
through long standing, core issues that are blocking their
business progress. One of the most insightful and
down-to-earth people you will ever meet, Susan gently,
firmly and effectively helps people successfully overcome
challenges that have slowed or stopped them from achieving
their full potential. In the 1990's
she ran a successful psychotherapy practice and also
founded the non-profit The Women’s Center in Charleston SC, serving as its Executive Director for several years. She
is a huge reader, a movie buff and a nature freak.
Jack
Office
Co-Mascot
Jack is our golden boy. Extremely
social and huggable, he keeps everyone on the bright side of
life.
Emma
Office
Co-Mascot
Emma is the cutest dog on earth and very sweet, except when
she growls at small children (she's a bit of a 'fraidy
cat!). She runs like the wind and would never be caught by
Jack if he didn't cut corners.
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