Aldonna is a dynamic speaker. With over 25 years experience of speaking engagements in 49 states and 33 countries, literally millions have heard her compelling speeches. Averaging 45 speeches a year, Aldonna is a highly experienced and sought after professional speaker.
Sixteen telecommunication corporations (SBC, Bell Atlantic, SNET, Pacific Bell, NYNEX, Nortel, Wisconsin Bell, and others) sponsored multi-city road tours for Aldonna Ambler to assist their distributors and customers grow their businesses. During Operation Desert Storm, one-fifth of the US Reserve troops deployed to the Middle East were from North Carolina, many of whom were business owners. Bell South utilized Aldonna to help North Carolina’s suddenly leaderless companies survive and continue to grow until the entrepreneurs could return.
Ambler was named the Lead Instructor for IBM’s prestigious Owners and Presidents Program for their 2,500 business partners worldwide. The three-day course at IBM’s state of the art conference center in Palisades, NY, attracted owners of midsized businesses from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Canada, the United States, Russia, and several other countries.
Ambler has guided the growth of over 150 professional service firms, over 100 technology-driven businesses, and over 100 construction-related product, service, and distribution companies.
She has sparked innovation in product and service development for major corporations by providing insights about the purchasing patterns, needs, and trends of target markets (e.g. Nortel, Stentor, SNET, Ortho Pharmaceutical, Robert Wood Johnson Research, Centrex). She has strengthened the working relationship between manufacturers and distributors (e.g. Nortel International/British Telecom, Nortel/several RBOCs, GAF/distributors). Aldonna has provided powerful keynote addresses and all day seminars for technology-related associations and at technology-related conferences, including the Eastern Communications Forum, West Virginia High Tech Consortium, wBusiness Conference, NJ Technology Council, and INC’s “Growing the Business” Conference.
Aldonna holds a CSP, the Certified Speaking Professional designation, which is the speaking profession’s international measure of professional platform skill. The letters CSP following a speaker’s name indicate a speaking professional with proven experience who understands what is required and knows how to deliver client satisfaction. Less than 10% of the speakers who belong to the International Federation for Professional Speakers hold this professional designation. The membership of the International Federation for Professional Speakers is comprised of professional speaking associations worldwide. CSP is the international standard that these associations agree represent competence in the speaking profession. The Certified Speaking Professional designation is earned through a combination of professional association, professional education, professional performance and professional business management standards.
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ACHIEVING ACCELERATED GROWTH WITH SUSTAINED PROFITABILITY®
The secret is to reverse the phrase. First, a business must be profitable. Unfortunately, profitability is fragile and without resilience built in, a business can free fall from financial health. Aldonna shares the steps on how to build resilience, achieve profitability and sustain it over time for a healthy bottom line.
RE-ENERGIZE YOUR ENTERPRISE
Remember the excitement and pride you felt about your business when it was new? Learn the eight steps to re-energize your enterprise and build the confidence you need to take your business to the next level. Aldonna shows you the ways to 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.
BREAKING THROUGH THE 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 grow their companies to full profit potential. Strategies such as “go around the wall” or “getting a boost from a strong friend” can be translated into options such as seek new channels of distribution or find a strategic alliance partner.
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 signs that things are not going well.
REAL-TIME STRATEGIC THINKING
The notion of a three-to-five year plan with fixed strategies is becoming obsolete. In today’s fast paced business climate, a good strategic plan must change quickly and adapt easily. The new emphasis is a process that is on-going, decentralized, and resilient in terms of its ability to adapt quickly to changing conditions and lessons learned. You will learn visionary tactics to create an evolving strategic plan.
Other Program Titles Include:
- Attracting & Retaining Long-term Corporate Sponsors
- Perseverance and Resilience in Adverse Times
- Capture Your Competitive Advantage
- Planning and Managing Growth
- Translating Vision Into Action
- 4 Entrepreneurial Styles
- Other People’s Money
- Reach For It!!!
