Business owners and leadership teams are repeatedly tested in their commitment, resilience and capacity to innovate and reinvent. What are the secrets to succeeding time after time? Through a combination of speaking, consulting, executive coaching, authorship and growth financing, Aldonna Ambler advises entrepreneurs and top business managers to achieve accelerated growth with sustained profitability ^SM.

Bringing more than 30 years of consulting experience to her presentations, Aldonna is a compelling and content-driven speaker with a thorough understanding of growing pains. Known as "The Growth Strategist," Aldonna has been the recipient of numerous awards for entrepreneurship and economic development including Office Depot's 2001 Businesswoman of the Year award and the National Association of Women Business Owners' 2000 "Woman Business Owner of the Year."

A media expert on growth strategies, her advice has been published in over 85 articles and two books, Bound to Make $ense and Celebrate Selling the Consultative-Relationship Way.

• Achieving Accelerated Growth with Sustained Profitabilty® - Profitability is fragile and without resilience built in, a business can free fall from financial health. Using real-life situations and solutions based on nearly 30 years of experience as an award-winning entrepreneur and coach to growth-oriented companies, Aldonna shares the steps to PROFITABILITY and helps you learn how to SUSTAIN it. Energy builds as Aldonna shifts into GROWTH STRATEGIES and when she reaches the final segment ACCELERATE, you will recognize what is needed to pick up the speed and ACHIEVE ACCELERATED GROWTH WITH SUSTAINED PROFITABILITY®.
  
  
• Other People's Money: "Take other people with you who want you to succeed" - In her role as a venture capitalist, Aldonna has reviewed hundreds of business plans from growing companies who are seeking financing for their businesses in non-traditional ways. You will explore 10+ creative forms of financing your business with OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. Learn why equity deals are so important today, how sponsorships work and where to find "angel" capital.
  
  
• Breaking Through Classic Barriers to Growth - No, it's not your imagination. There really are walls that keep some companies from growing unless they adopt specific strategies. Aldonna approaches the classic barriers to growth in a lively, interactive style and encourages the audience to find their way beyond the wall and grow their companies to full profit potential. Strategies such as "get a boost from a strong friend" or "go around the wall" can be translated into options such as strategic alliances or seeking new channels of distribution.
  
  
• Re-Energize Your Enterprise - Learn the eight steps to RE-ENERGIZE YOUR ENTERPRISE and build the confidence you need to take your business to the next level. Aldonna shares the ways to rejuvenate some of the excitement you felt about your business when it was new; find time to innovate when your employees are buried in work; get your marketing, management, and financial strategies working together; involve others in the growth of your business; find money hidden in your company and update your approaches so you're not left behind.
  
  
• New Ways to Grow: Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances and Virtual Corporations - "If your goals are easily achieved by yourself, there is a good chance that your goals may be too small". Growth opportunities come in a variety of forms but a great deal of energy and resources can be wasted if an entrepreneur does not pause long enough to recognize what dynamics are already in place. Aldonna helps you to understand the different growth strategies; when to apply them; how to recognize opportunities within your current market; identify prospective partners and negotiate "THE SIX STEP DEAL".
  
  
• Solving the Succession Puzzle - Strategic planning goals can only be achieved if an effective plan for identifying and developing leadership succession is in place. No longer just a matter of finding the right person for the job, succession planning is an on-going process needed to secure the future of your business. Aldonna brings the succession topic to life and helps you to: learn techniques to diagnose your situation, identify priorities to guide succession decisions, learn the steps to use in succession, and to spot the early warning signs that things are not going well.