Networking Ahead de Kathy McAfee

Networking Ahead

Kathy McAfee

Networking Ahead by Kathy McAfee is the best guide for building more mutually beneficial relationships to create more opportunities for personal, professional and business growth. Written with a playful automotive theme, this 3^rd edition is packed with real life examples, stories, and actionable instructions helping the reader shift into a higher gear of business growth and career development through networking. This is a 'must read' by anybody seeking to advance their career, cultivate higher level prospects and connections, turn a small business into a fast growing success, create a pipeline of fans and supporters, and even land a better job. Networking Ahead provides useful ideas and proven strategies to help you:

Identify which relationships should get more of your attention
Create a systematic approach to your networking follow-up
Perfect your pitch to attract the right kind of new connections
Ask for facilitated introductions so you never have to make a cold call again
Overcome roadblocks that get in your way from networking success
Network with people of influence, money and power to accelerate business
Use social media to expand your professional networking
Network anywhere, anytime with anyone for greater mutual success

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Kathy McAfee is an executive presentation coach and professional speaker, and is known as America's Marketing Motivator. Her mission is to help corporate leaders and business professionals to more effectively use their talent, energy, and influence to create positive changes in the world. She is the author of two books, Stop Global Boring, and Networking Ahead (3rd Edition). She is also the recipient of the prestigious Best Blog of the Year, as awarded by The Women in Business and The Professions World Awards (2014). In her role as executive presentation coach, she helps clients increase their confidence, credibility, and influence by reducing their PowerPoint clutter to better engage their audiences and move them to action. A certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Kathy shows her clients how to clear their limiting beliefs and use more effective strategies to realize their full leadership potential. Over 30 years, Kathy has succeeded in numerous corporate leadership positions. She's brought marketing success to organizations like Levi Strauss & Co., Maybelline, Southcorp Wines of Australia and ADVO. On a three year assignment in England, Kathy led European marketing initiatives for an international vision care company. In 2005, Kathy gave flight to her entrepreneurial dreams and launched Kmc Brand Innovation, LLC, a talent development company offering communication training, executive and business coaching, and keynote speaking services to her motivated clients. Kathy is a graduate of Stanford University in Economics. She is a member of the National Speakers Association, a past board member for the YWCA of the Hartford Region, and an active member of Soroptimist International of the Americas. A resilient woman, Kathy is also an ovarian cancer survivor, and holds a second degree black belt in the martial art of Tae Kwon Do. Kathy and her husband Byron currently live in South Carolina.