Consultant and Founder and President of Wiefling Consulting, LLC., and author of the empowering and straight talking book Scrappy Women in Business: Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn't Breaking the Law, Kimberly Wiefling, describes what it means to be a scrappy woman in business. Kimberley shares the stories of several scrappy women and how they overcame obstacles and achieved success. She points out the important lesson that bending the established rules of business isn't breaking the law, and why rule bending is often essential to profitability. Kimberly points out the lessons to be learned from each of the scrappy women's stories, and how their accomplishments can help others move forward in business and in their industry. Both practical and inspirational, Kimberly's advice is timeless and effective for scrappy women everywhere.
Kimberly Wiefling is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, December 30, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Consultant and Founder and President of Wiefling Consulting, LLC.., and author of the empowering and straight talking book Scrappy Women in Business: Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn't Breaking the Law, Kimberly Wiefling, describes what it means to be a scrappy woman in business. You will learn:
* What it means to be a scrappy women in your career or business
* What traits are shared by successful business women
* How to stop feeling like a fraud and achieve your full potential
* How to achieve success through many different paths
Kimberly Wiefling (photo left) Executive Editor of the Scrappy About Series, is a proven expert in enabling people to achieve what seems impossible, but is merely difficult. She is the author of one of the top project management books in the US, Scrappy Project Management – The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces, a book growing in popularity around the world, and recently published in Japanese by Nikkei Business Press. She is the founder of Wiefling Consulting, LLC, a global leadership and business management consulting firm. She currently spends about half of her time working with high-potential leaders in Japanese companies, facilitating leadership, innovation and execution excellence workshops to enable Japanese companies to solve global problems profitably.
A physicist by education, and a successful business leadership and project management consultant for the past 9 years, she began her professional career working for 10 years at HP in product development project management and engineering leadership. She spent 5 years in the wild and wacky world of Silicon Valley startups, including a Xerox Parc spinoff where she was the VP of Program Management. In 2001 she rose from the ashes of the dot-com bust, launched her consulting practice, and never looked back.
In typical Silicon Valley style, Kimberly has helped to start, run and grow a dozen small businesses. Several of the startups that she co-founded are still in business and profitable.
Kimberly’s clients include companies like Cisco Systems, Symantec, Intuit, HP, Agilent Technologies, Mazda, Daiichi Sankyo, Dow Corning Toray, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the University of California, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Siemens, Hitachi, Alcoa, Xerox PARC, NECsoft, NTT DoCoMo, and many more.
Over 5000 people have viewed the hysterical video documenting the final phase of completing her book. She’s obsessed with collaboration, and you can reach her via email at kimberly@wiefling.com
Kimberly is contributing to making the world a better place in a number of ways. She’s the co-founder of the Open Kilowatt Institute (OKI) and the co-chair of the SDForum Engineering Leadership Special Interest Group (EL SIG). She’s supporting micro-finance for entrepreneurs throughout the world via Kiva, and she supports the economic independence of women in various ways around the world because she believes that this is the most effective way raise the quality of life for all people.
My book review of Scrappy Women in Business: Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn't Breaking the Law edited by Kimberly Wiefling.
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Let's talk with consultant and Founder and President of Wiefling Consulting, LLC., and author of the empowering and straight talking book Scrappy Women in Business: Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn't Breaking the Law, Kimberly Wiefling, as she describes what it means to be a scrappy woman in business. Kimberley shares the stories of several scrappy women and how they overcame obstacles and achieved success. She points out the important lesson that bending the established rules of business isn't breaking the law, and why rule bending is often essential to profitability. Kimberly points out the lessons to be learned from each of the scrappy women's stories, and how their accomplishments can help others move forward in business and in their industry. Both practical and inspirational, Kimberly's advice is timeless and effective for scrappy women everywhere on Blog Business Success Radio.
