Globinar Book Author Monthly Stories, Tips and Techniques

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Globinar Book Author Stories, Tips and Techniques

We're speaking with book authors who are members of Global Chamber® on their stories, inspirations, tips and techniques!

This year's book author globinars are monthly, on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, usually at 8am PT, though this one is in the afternoon US time, and next day morning in Asia.

Wednesday, November 15th, 3pm PT, 4pm MT/AZ, 6pm ET  

Thursday, November 16th in Asia-Pacific (7am Tokyo, 10am Sydney)

• Barbara Peters
• Erica Hervol
• Bill Fotsch

Author Moderator: Christelle Damiens

 We encourage our authors to offer a book review of a Global Chamber author’s works.

Biographies

Barbara Peters, Poisoned Pen Bookstore Owner and Event Coordinator

Barbara Peters was born in Evanston, raised in Winnetka, Illinois,spent way too much time in graduate school, and founded The Poisoned Pen in 1989. With her husband Robert Rosenwald, she gambled on Poisoned Pen Press in 1997 where she is Editor in chief. Barbara has won the Raven and Quill Awards from the Mystery Writers of America (and been nominated for an Edgar for Best Biographical Work) and is a Bouchercon Fan Guest of Honor and Lifetime Achievement honoree as well as a lifetime honoree from Malice Domestic. 

Erica Hervol

Erica Hervol is the owner of an international real estate/investment strategy consulting business of 19+ years, based on the West Coast-US. In addition to the diversity of real estate practices, what makes this career most enjoyable to her is the connection to and collaboration with colleagues around the world, from which Erica feels she is always learning and growing. Erica's collective experience with business ownership, negotiation, project and program management, human resources management, team leadership and branch management has been complementary to her partnership with global professionals in many different industries. She proudly holds the distinguished Certified International Property Specialist designation, as well as being a Master Certified Negotiation Expert and a business coach/mentor. Personally, favorite experiences include cherished time with her family, travel whenever possible, cooking experimentation with international recipes, and a love of writing. Erica has written different pieces not yet published and is currently working on another writing project she plans to complete in 2023. Erica states: "The beauty of nature awes and grounds her, meeting new people from all over the world tremendously inspires her, and living a full, holistic life invigorates her."

Bill Fotsch, Founder and Head Coach

The “Economic Engagement Guru,” Bill Fotsch has helped more than 400 companies improve business results, employee engagement and increase customer retention over the past 30 years. His research in collaboration with his alma mater, Harvard Business School, demonstrates the power of economic engagement to drive results: A Key Strategy to Double Profitable Growth Bill is now complementing his team’s consulting and research by buying companies, applying the same concepts and furthering employee ownership.

Not only has Bill worked with industry leaders such as Capital One, BHP-Billiton, Zambian Consolidated Copper Mine, Roadway Express, Carlson Travel, and Southwest Airlines, but he has also coached hundreds of small to medium-sized, privately owned businesses. He spent over three decades refining the process of helping companies improve their financial results and the lives of their employees by partnering with employees to serve customers profitably.

Bill’s mission is to change the world, using business as the force for good it was always meant to be. “Get everyone involved in the business, with the goal of dramatically increasing value for shareholders, employees, and customers” is Bill’s mantra. Bill collaborates with his clients and companies he invests in to provide support for all five of the key drivers of economic engagement, that is: customer engagement, economic understanding, transparency, economic compensation and employee participation in a holistic way that provides a sustainable company’s performance culture and consequently industry leading performance.

Author or co-author of articles published by Harvard Business Review, including More Than a Paycheck, and over 90 Forbes articles, including Engage Your Employees – In Making Money” and over 30 Inc articles including: How Overcoming Adversity Drives Growth and Engagement Why many well-intended employee engagement initiatives are counter-productive Bill’s book, Partners on the Payroll, is filled with successful case examples.

In the last few years, Bill has begun investing in private companies, applying the same principles he has championed with his coaching clients.

Bill has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.

Moderator

Christelle Damiens is the Managing Director of Exportia, which provides an outsourced European Sales & Marketing team to Australian B2B manufacturing and technology companies. Christelle Damiens founded Exportia in 2006, shortly after Christelle migrated from France to Australia. She started her career at IBM Paris looking after large corporate customers, but she decided to turn her back to a corporate career to go back to her passion for international business and to focus particularly on small businesses. Based on her 20 years of sales experience internationally in a high tech environment, She found that small and medium sized businesses always face the same challenges.

They often lack the time, financial and human resources to take the step. Following years working closely with more than hundred innovative small to medium sized companies, she now has a track record of taking businesses to their first million Euros in sales and beyond. On this journey, she has developed a 4-Step-framework and a set of tools tailored to the needs of technology companies that enable them to successfully scale in the European Market.

She is also an award-winning author and a business speaker. Her first book Ready, Tech, Go! The definitive guide to exporting Australian technology to Europe was released in 2016, and was an Amazon Best seller in the Global Marketing category.

Her second book “The four steps to generate your first million euros in sales’  won the Australian Business Book Award 2020 in the Communications and Sales category and was a finalist in the Entrepreneurship & Small Business Category, as well as an Amazon best seller. www.exportia.com.au

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