Dawn Fotopulos
Award-Winning Financial Business Author
NY, USProfessor Dawn Fotopulos is the Hidden Profit Prophet. She is the award-winning author of "Accounting for the Numberphobic; A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners," (AMACOM Books), winner of Best Business Book in Economics from Small Business Trends in 2015.
Ms. Fotopulos has successfully launched over eighty different businesses and product lines in the financial services, consumer products, real estate development, high technology and nonprofit sectors. As the founder of Hidden Profit Prophet.com, she has also saved more than 300 small businesses from closing their doors.
As a successful turnaround expert, entrepreneur, management consultant, and college professor, Dawn Fotopulos's background has allowed her to work in the trenches with a wide range of businesses at various stages of growth. She understands why so many of America's businesses are NOT profitable. She also knows how to help them see the future and the action steps needed in order to get there.
Professor Fotopulos served as a Vice President in the Consumer Bank at Citibank and ran the Marketing Group for Corporate Card Products, the fastest growing and most profitable product line in the institution at the time of her tenure. She currently serves as Distinguished Associate Professor of Business at The King's College in New York City.
With wit, humor, and tons of stories taken from her rich first-hand experiences, Dawn Fotopulos will improve your profits by 50% and your cash flow 100% if you follow her prescription. Salesmen, marketing staff, human resource professionals, IT professionals, and customer service professionals gain a full understanding of how their efforts drive the success of the business. Even CPAs and ProAdvisors gain a new understanding of how to engage their numberphobic customers, improve client satisfaction and increase the revenues of their practices as a direct result of applying Dawn's Accounting for the Numberphobic concepts.
With Fortune 500 executive experience, a business degree from Cornell University, an MBA with distinction from New York University's Stern School of Business, and accolades from the Kauffman Foundation's Growth and New Venture Programs, Dawn Fotopulos brings a depth and breadth of practical, in-the-trenches wisdom and experience that leave listeners walking away with immediate, usable action steps that will change the face of business "as usual." Using humor and stimulating stories to keep audience members engaged, Dawn Fotopulos coaxes skeptics on what they can do with the resources they already have in order to unlock the hidden profits in their businesses.
Professor Dawn Fotopulos is the Hidden Profit Prophet. She is the award-winning author of "Accounting for the Numberphobic; A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners," (AMACOM Books), winner of Best Business Book in Economics from Small Business Trends in 2015.
Ms. Fotopulos has successfully launched over eighty different businesses and product lines in the financial services, consumer products, real estate development, high technology and nonprofit sectors. As the founder of Hidden Profit Prophet.com, she has also saved more than 300 small businesses from closing their doors.
As a successful turnaround expert, entrepreneur, management consultant, and college professor, Dawn Fotopulos's background has allowed her to work in the trenches with a wide range of businesses at various stages of growth. She understands why so many of America's businesses are NOT profitable. She also knows how to help them see the future and the action steps needed in order to get there.
Professor Fotopulos served as a Vice President in the Consumer Bank at Citibank and ran the Marketing Group for Corporate Card Products, the fastest growing and most profitable product line in the institution at the time of her tenure. She currently serves as Distinguished Associate Professor of Business at The King's College in New York City.
With wit, humor, and tons of stories taken from her rich first-hand experiences, Dawn Fotopulos will improve your profits by 50% and your cash flow 100% if you follow her prescription. Salesmen, marketing staff, human resource professionals, IT professionals, and customer service professionals gain a full understanding of how their efforts drive the success of the business. Even CPAs and ProAdvisors gain a new understanding of how to engage their numberphobic customers, improve client satisfaction and increase the revenues of their practices as a direct result of applying Dawn's Accounting for the Numberphobic concepts.
With Fortune 500 executive experience, a business degree from Cornell University, an MBA with distinction from New York University's Stern School of Business, and accolades from the Kauffman Foundation's Growth and New Venture Programs, Dawn Fotopulos brings a depth and breadth of practical, in-the-trenches wisdom and experience that leave listeners walking away with immediate, usable action steps that will change the face of business "as usual." Using humor and stimulating stories to keep audience members engaged, Dawn Fotopulos coaxes skeptics on what they can do with the resources they already have in order to unlock the hidden profits in their businesses.
How to Kill the Company in Four Short Weeks
There are millions of books that point the way to managing well, but few in business are listening. When Dawn Fotopulos challenges your employees to view how to guarantee failure in business, a "Screwtape Letters" approach to management, it forces their brains off of autopilot, makes audience members laugh and gets them to look squarely at reality in the mirror.
This presentation has received standing ovations in North America and Eastern Europe. Both for profit and nonprofit...
Leadership for Introverts
This presentation smashes common Western assumptions that leaders are extroverts, ego-driven and "out front."
This reaches managers at all levels of the organization to identify their Level 5 potentials and the unconventional people hidden in their organization, that if developed, could turbo-charge the future of the business.
Audiences will hear stories of...
Customer Service- The Killer App
Based on Harvard Business School case studies and research, this talk gives managers and senior executives OMG revelations about how their Customer Service units are the single most important operating unit in their entire company.
Dawn shows audience members, by the numbers, how retention, repeat purchases and referrals will exponentially grow revenues and bottom line.
Using examples from Dell Computer, Service Master and Progressive Insurance...
Financial Literacy for Numberphobes
"My accountant deals with numbers..." "I'd rather spend the weekend with my mother-in-law!"
Few entrepreneurs like the numbers, but they ARE the global positioning satellite for running a business. Dawn takes accounting and makes it fun. Her goal: to double business survival rates. This program has been presented to accolades at the Levin Institute in New York City and Entrepreneur's Organization.
Independent sales people in real estate, travel, insurance and...
Sales Budget Boogie
This talk is about strategy and is pitched to C-P level executives as well as field sales staff. It will take the audience through a bottoms up approach to sales budget development to get corporate and field staff on the same page.
Sales goals will become a shared vision and not just a tops down exercise in futility.
My experience as a line manager of a $130...
Cash is Not King - It's Emperor!
Few businesses do this well. Dawn's award-winning book, "Accounting for the Numberphobic; A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners," AMACOM Books (Best Business Book of 2015 Small Business Trends) is the guiding text for this talk that has saved hundreds of businesses from bankruptcy.
How Disneyland Trains Street Sweepers: Creating an Unbeatable Customer Experience
This includes answering questions, providing directions, making suggestions for the best photo op, the best ice cream and planning ahead to watch to end of day...
Expectations vs. Reality: Creating the Ultimate Visitor Experience
"I've always wanted to...." Visit a part of the world, climb a mountain, go zip lining through the rainforest, see how the best wine in the world is made, visit the Pacific Coast, rugged and unspoiled. When someone has a dream they have expectations in their mind as to what the reality will be like. Most expectations are built on dreams not reality. Most expectations are never met.
But what if we could understand our visitors so well, that the reality is far better than...
Are You A Host or an Ambassador? Give Your Visitors a "BLAST"
Hosts are busy people. There's a lot to do when a visitor arrives either to slumber, tour, explore or dine. What if there's a new way of being when they arrive? What if the real hospitality comes from the "how" you do what you do instead of "what"? This talk will inspire travel and tourism professionals to think of themselves in a completely different way and to treat their visitors like honored guests, not just revenue streams.
Ambassadors are standard bearers; they are...
Way-finding: The Ultimate Guide for Repeat Visitors
All tourists are moving away from something and toward something else- "bucket lists" "dream vacations" and "a day in the life" are all about aspirations before we leave this planet.
All humans need a way to beam out of their everyday lives to reach for something extraordinary, beautiful, inspiring, refreshing and memorable. The travel and tourism industry is the only industry that has the capability of making dreams accessible to everyone, even people on a budget or those who...
