Donna Fisher | August 26, 2009
My segment of the upcoming Women Who Rock Event is on “The Real Deal about Being Your Own Boss” so I’ve been thinking back to my 20 years of being my own boss and the years prior to that when I worked in the corporate world.
Right out of college I worked for Beech Mountain ski [...]
Donna Fisher | April 8, 2009
Everyone has a vast and powerful network. And yet without action, your network is like a field of grain that never gets harvested. Your network consists of a wealth of information, ideas and contacts that can be of tremendous value to yourself and others. To harvest your network requires taking appropriate action to access the [...]
Donna Fisher | April 7, 2009
It’s easy to go out and meet a lot of people and call that “networking”. And yet networking is about a whole lot more than just meeting people. Networking is about connecting with people.
The connection makes the difference. You can meet a lot of people but if you have not connected then there’s a [...]
Donna Fisher | March 18, 2009
If you’ve been in sales for a while, you know what it’s like to try to figure out how to get past the administrative assistant to get to the decision maker. At least that’s what it used to be like. There were all kinds of techniques on how to “get past the gatekeeper” to get [...]
Donna Fisher | September 9, 2008
Why are we so critical of each other?
At the end of a heart wrenching show, Oprah said “Why are mother’s, in particular, so critical of other mothers when everyone’s just trying to do the best they can? We should network and use the network to empower ourselves and lift each other up instead of the [...]
Networking is such an opportunity to create a powerful support system for good. As humans we have a natural basic need to connect, to feel a sense of belonging, to have a safe place to be ourselves, a place to contribute and to be part of something bigger than ourselves.
Donna Fisher believes in the power of people to connect and communicate to create new possibilities. She is a Certified Speaking Professional, author, drummer, Nia White Belt and business owner.
