The Destined to WIN Award recognizes a business woman for the intentional growth she has realized in a start up business or established business in the past year. She utilizes the education and other resources available through WIN and other networks to make significant and positive changes for herself and her business. The Destined to WIN Award recipient’s business and personal growth encourage other women in business for success.

Destined to Win Award 2012

Sponsored by SmallBizTrends: A small business influencer is a person, app, company or other organization that has made a meaningful and lasting impact on the North American small business market. Impact may mean (i) providing products widely used by significant numbers of small businesses, or (ii) influencing significant numbers of small businesses by being a thought leader, or (iii) providing information or services of note to significant numbers of small businesses. 

Nominee: Small Business Influencers

Small Business Influencer: Honorable Mention

Minnesota Women in Networking

ASTD (Member)

Capella University

Drexel University

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“Live on purpose, work your passion, practice prosperity!” That’s the message coach, speaker, and writer Tai Goodwin delivers to ambitious women who refuse to give up on their dreams and settle for mediocrity. Clients and audiences alike sing Tai’s praises for her ability to insightfully deliver her unique brand of inspiration, instruction and motivation. Possessing an exceptional gift for balancing passion with practical action, Tai gives women exactly what they need to go from stuck to started, helping them create the life and the work they really want.

A former employedpreneur™ (employed entrepreneur), Tai understands the challenges of starting a business while managing a day job. She built a thriving career as an award-winning instructional designer in corporate America working at two Fortune 500 companies before making her own transition from employee to entrepreneur. Certified in human performance improvement, Tai holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in education and has over 15 years of experience as a training and development professional.

Thousands of listeners each month tune into her Launch Talk podcast. Within two years of starting LaunchWhileWorking.com, a blog focused on how to launch a business while working full-time, Tai earned an Honorable Mention as a SmallBizTrends Small Business Influencer. Her articles have been featured on the highly acclaimed Forbes.com, and CAREER Magazine as well as several other popular sites. Watch for her upcoming book: Monday Morning Pep Talks: A Powerful 52 Week Journey To More Purpose, Passion and Prosperity to rocket to the top of the best sellers’ list soon.

12 Steps to launching your business part-time. Stop waiting for the stars to align and pursue your your passion now. You can launch your business while working full-time. Don&rsquo;t think so? Others have done it - Daymond John of FUBU, Sarah Blakely of Spanx, and Lisa Price of Carol&rsquo;s Daughter.

Don&rsquo;t Quit Your Day Job - Launch While Working

Do&rsquo;s and dont&rsquo;s for authors who want to get started with blogging. Originallly presented by Tai Goodwin at the WOW (Women of Words) Writer&rsquo;s Retreat.

Blogging Do&rsquo;s and Don&rsquo;t for Authors

Outlines seven tips that solopreneurs and service-based professionals can use to ensure that social networking will be a profitable addition to their marketing strategy.

 

Seven Secrets to Successful Social Networking

Entrepreneurship

Social Media

Women

Small Business

Social Networking

Company Website

Facebook Fan Page

Twitter

How to Build a Powerful Professional Network

Seven Secrets of Successful Social Networkers

Launch While Working: How to Start a Business without Quitting Your Day Job

Every year thousands of people start a business in the U.S. And many of those new business owners are Employedpreneurs who maintain a full-time job, and launch their business on the side. Tai provides an inside look at what it takes to launch while working and provides participants a blueprint to make it happen.

Participants will be inspired to step out of the shadows and into their own brilliance in this uplifting presentation based on Marianne Williamson’s poem Our Deepest Fear and examples from Tai’s own journey from inner city Philadelphia to a 6-figure corporate career.

Unboxed: Discover, Own and Celebrate Your Brilliance

Used to be that all you needed was a business card and a website. As social media has taken over our lives, it can feel overwhelming to try and stay on top of all the new tools and opportunities to promote your business online. In this story-driven and eye-opening presentation, I share trends, tips, and practical ideas for choosing the right social media platforms to reach existing and new customers.

Who Moved My Website: Marketing at the Speed of Social Media

Life is too short and the work week is too long to stay in a job that doesn’t work. Whether participants feel stuck in a dead end job or trapped in a “good job” – Tai shares 5 ways to take control and create a career they can love– without leaving their current job.

Making Work “Work”: Career Reinvention for Ambitious Professionals

Leonard Young

Owner

Kathleen Watson

Founder

Nathan Eckel

Theresa Carroll

President

Owner and Collaborative Catalyst

Marketing coach, speaker, and blogger Tai Goodwin interviews Alfred Edmond, Jr about challenges facing minority and women entrepreneurs.

Challenges Facing Minority and Women Entrepreneurs

Marketing coach, speaker, and blogger Tai Goodwin shares how to find the best social networking site for business networking.

Launch Talk: Finding the Right Social Networking Site for Your Business

Launch While Working coach, speaker, and blogger Tai Goodwin shares two of the biggest obstacles that employedpreneurs and new entrepreneurs face.

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