Laurie Taylor

About the Session

Get Out of Your Way and Grow Your Business

Starting a business is a cake walk compared to the challenges of growing a successful business. And no surprise to people who earn their living by effectively communicating key messages, one of the biggest challenges for CEOs and managers is finding a language of growth that will engage every employee in growing a successful company.

Understanding how to create a "language of growth" inside an organization is the key to sustaining profitability, productivity and performance. Once a leader captures the imagination of his or her employees by giving each person a way to communicate issues, that leader is able to identify issues quicker and get resolution faster.

This presentation will have you looking at business growth with new eyes and provide information you can use the next day in your business. In this interactive session, you will learn about:

• An enterprise development model that addresses growth issues for companies based on the number of employees

• Five concepts that will instantly resonate throughout an organization and start to build a language of growth

• Three obstacles to growth that all companies struggle with and ideas on how to overcome each one

Biography

Laurie Taylor, President, FlashPoint! Ms. Taylor was founder and partner in a marketing communications company in Boulder, Colorado that grew from two employees to more than 100 employees and up to $12 million in sales. As a business growth specialist, she has talked to more than 1,400 CEOs in the past year, helping them understand how growth affects their business.

With her experience and a unique growth model entitled The 7 Stages of Growth, Ms. Taylor works with solo-preneurs and business owners to understand how to successfully navigate their own growth curve.