Shelley Amdur Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

Outside sales of Voluntary Employee Legal BenefitLegalShield's consumer legal plans and top-rated ID Shield gives individuals, families, home-based and small businesses access to top rated law firms at VERY affordable membership rates. That is true peace of mind!As the daughter of a lawyer, I am passionate about Equal Justice for ALL people!!

Chicago, Il

2008-2014--Doc Bailey Leather CareOnly authorized distributor in the Midwest. Ensured strategic market exposure in key demographics throughout the Midwestern USA. Liaison with show promoters at motorcycle and horse trade shows. Point of purchase sales of our flagship product: "Doc Bailey's Leather Black" and "Doc Bailey's Leather Tonic." Sales, accounting, managing inventory.1998-2004--Co-Author "Final Chapters" (manuscript unpublished)Co-Author with mother, Evelyn Amdur, MSW. Stories about her hospice patients and how they faced the last months of their lives with "Courage, Heart, and Power".1995-2000--Chicago Public Schools--Educational ConsultantDeveloped and facilitated leadership training to Chicago Public School students in grades 5-8, parents and teachers at Daniel J. Corkery School, Reavis, Johnson and Chopin Elementary Schools--all racially diverse neighborhoods. Initiated the successful Future Leaders of America program at Corkery School, using "project based learning".Most popular project was the annual Easter Egg Candy Hunt. Donations of 400 pounds of candy from Walgreen's and Chicago candy manufacturers were obtained for FLA students to produce the "hunt" to delight Pre-K thru 2nd grade children. Focus for the FLA was on team building and leadership.

Greater Chicago Area

Life coaching practice concerned with individuals' personal, inter-personal, spiritual, and business concerns. Worked with over 3000 people developing life purpose, career objectives, "possibility thinking" and leadership. Offered 100's of workshops on creative use of imagination, intuition, mindfulness, and meditation. Clients report being more empowered, making confident choices, and seizing opportunities.Through mindfulness, clients discover subtle psychological blocks below the surface of consciousness, that impede success. Once misaligned beliefs and past choices are cleared, a flow of power, creativity and freedom result.Women learn to utilize their intuition to position themselves wisely. Men enjoy working with a female coach to unburden suppressed emotions and doubts, so they can think broadly and act strategically.In a world where people are increasingly treated like commodities, human beings long for a committed listener who will guide their progress.

Greater Chicago Area

Managed a marketing agency that promoted natural and organic food products, through in-store product demonstrations at Whole Foods Market, Mariano's, and local specialty stores for over 80 natural food vendors, including national brands like Bobo's Oat Bars, Chocolove, Ciao Bella, Honest Tea, KeVita, Meditalia, Organic Valley, The Chia Company, and Two Moms in the Raw. Demos occurred in groceries located in 12 Midwestern states. Developed marketing campaigns in coordination with vendors, liaison with Whole Foods personnel, training "demo" contractors, budgeting, payroll, and invoicing.Performed 80-100 in-store (point of purchase) demos yearly, myself.

Greater Chicago Area

Quality Improvement Associates utilized Total Quality Management principles developed by W. Edwards Deming for business, and adapted them to the school setting. Facilitated workshops at over 17 Chicago Public School grammar and high schools: for students, parents, and teachers. Topics included training large groups to develop a mission statement for the school, derive school goals that supported the mission, and implementation.Interface with administrators at Chicago Board of Education to comply with MWBE regulations and financial procedures.

Certification, Transformative Communication Using Neuroscience

Conversational Intelligence is a program developed by Judith E. Glaser, PhD, to connect cutting edge Neuroscience with how people converse.

Non-Degree, Trauma Coaching: Anxiety Reduction, Ptsd, Suicide Prevention

Non-Degree, Personal Development/ Transformation

Activities and Societies: est training, Communication Course coach, Landmark Forum, Advance Course, SELP Coach & Head Coach, IFLP, many.

Non-Degree. Internet Marketing

Topics covered include choosing a niche, developing a program, web-site development, teleseminars, development of an e-mail list.

Non-Degree, Personal Development/ Transformation

More Life Weekend, Advantage for Sales program

Post Grad Training, Family Systems Psychology

Year long program, working with the Bowen Systems Theory, genogram, observing how human behavior is linked into other living systems.

Mba, Micro-Economics Of The Non-Profit Sector

Actual graduation date: 1983--took me that long to complete my thesis!

Ba, Psychology, Urban Studies

Activities and Societies: Glee Club--member of the chorus in two original musicals