Laura Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Prairie Village, KS

Laura Schmidt founded her company, notes to self, llc., in the summer of 2011 to put her belief in the power of positive thinking in action. Her first product, notes to self® socks, are high-quality athletic socks that have positive affirmations woven in as they are made -- phrases like ‘I am confident’ on the toes, and ‘confident’ on the bottom of the.

• Built, trained & continue to support a team of over 300 consultants spanning the US and most recently India. Created training materials & conducted presentations to establish international presence, leveraging.
• Built from scratch an organization producing over $1,000,000 in year to year sales, earning 8 Career Cars, Circle of Achievement (Unit sales of over $300,000) the past 11 years, Double Star Achievement (High personal &.
• Educated hundreds of consultants in product knowledge, sales techniques, recruiting, time management, money management, personality types (DISC model) & customer service. This led to the promotion of 20 women to Sales.
• Featured as the keynote speaker for multiple engagements, including many top Mary Kay events as well as Kauffmann Foundation FastTrac Entrepreneurship classes, educating and motivating other self starters.
• Led three week initiative to expand business into India, planning & executing strategy to continue success in an international arena. Recruited & provided training materials in 5 cities creating a 30 member team.
• Collaborated with a software development company to create & beta test a new system which provides accounting, budgeting, inventory management, and customer management information to consultants.

Developed leads and customers, sold beauty products, taught skin care, and supported customer base. Built (totally from scratch) and maintained a customer base of over 200.

Charged with sales of a diversified product line for industry leader across a significant Kansas City territory. Execute essential job functions such as cold-calling, tele-prospecting, follow up, lead qualification, attaining new business and assisting in the installation of new accounts. Broadened knowledge base and skills sets in building and maintaining.

Led multiple initiatives for placement company including developing leads and calling on engineering and manufacturing companies to obtain job openings that would be filled with highly qualified, technically advanced clientele. Also assisted with interviewing candidates. Trusted to build relationships with top level managers in multiple companies in the.

Interfaced between users and programmers to solve business problems and improve service. Wrote technical specifications for programmers supporting the computer system that routes calls. Facilitated 'inspection' meetings to fine-tune specifications. Served as project manager for a Feature Requirements Specification for a SDN NRA Project, which achieved a.

Outside sales to National Account with over 600+ locations. Provided on-site support for major phone system installations. Supported Voice and Equipment needs and sold products and services in both areas. Trained the entire client headquarters location on the use of the AUDIX voice mail system...a very new concept at that time. Developed outstanding.

Worked with users and programmers to support and improve financial computer system. Served as an interface with Accounting Operations to resolve system issues. Designed system enhancements for the Mechanized Accounts Payable System (MAPS) and wrote specifications in Structured English to hand off to developers for coding. Coordinated testing and.

Trained corporate employees in chemical processes involved in semiconductor manufacturing. Wrote, directed, edited, narrated and produced a training video for 'clean room' employees to improve their understanding of the entire process, and their role in the big picture. Utilized the Information Mapping style to develop training materials for classroom and.

Bs, Pre Med

Ms, Management

Associate Of Science - As, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies