Rachel Braun Scherl
MBA
NJ, USRachel Braun Scherl is the picture of Female Leadership in Business. She has successfully launched and turned around companies in difficult markets and led them to success. She is known for her work as a growth strategy consultant, marketing expert and public speaker. Rachel is a trusted authority on business growth and entrepreneurship. In her successful 20+year career, Rachel has grown leading brands and businesses (her own and clients), focusing on insights, positioning/branding, market dominance, and development of strong customer bases for numerous startups. As Co-owner and Principal of SPARK Solutions for Growth, a strategic growth consultancy, Rachel has been responsible for bringing on and leading consulting engagements with international clients, including multiple divisions of Johnson & Johnson, Allergan, Pfizer and Bayer among others.
Rachel was Co-Founder and President of Semprae Laboratories, Inc., a venture-backed company focused on developing and marketing products and solutions for women's sexual health products for several years. The company was sold to Inovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company.
Rachel earned her BA from Duke University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and her MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Rachel is an ongoing Speaker for both Duke and Stanford's innovation programs, women's initiatives and related educational programs. In 2015, Rachel was recognized as one of Best Fifty Women in Business by NJBiz. She is a 2015 recipient of SmartCEO's BRAVA Awards, honoring top female CEO who are leaders of their companies and their communities.
Rachel Braun Scherl is the picture of Female Leadership in Business. She has successfully launched and turned around companies in difficult markets and led them to success. She is known for her work as a growth strategy consultant, marketing expert and public speaker. Rachel is a trusted authority on business growth and entrepreneurship. In her successful 20+year career, Rachel has grown leading brands and businesses (her own and clients), focusing on insights, positioning/branding, market dominance, and development of strong customer bases for numerous startups. As Co-owner and Principal of SPARK Solutions for Growth, a strategic growth consultancy, Rachel has been responsible for bringing on and leading consulting engagements with international clients, including multiple divisions of Johnson & Johnson, Allergan, Pfizer and Bayer among others.
Rachel was Co-Founder and President of Semprae Laboratories, Inc., a venture-backed company focused on developing and marketing products and solutions for women's sexual health products for several years. The company was sold to Inovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company.
Rachel earned her BA from Duke University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and her MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Rachel is an ongoing Speaker for both Duke and Stanford's innovation programs, women's initiatives and related educational programs. In 2015, Rachel was recognized as one of Best Fifty Women in Business by NJBiz. She is a 2015 recipient of SmartCEO's BRAVA Awards, honoring top female CEO who are leaders of their companies and their communities.
No Time Outs, No Substitutions
Entrepreneurship: Ready, Set, Grow!
When embarking on starting a business or growing a business, it is critical to ask yourself a number of questions that really require thought and attention - as much focus and analysis as identifying the business itself. Rachel will raise important questions in the areas of identifying partners, product/business categories, target customers, business model and financing. In an interactive format, Rachel will provide insights on key strategic questions.
Creating Your Own Leadership Voice
Business leaders need to spend concerted effort figuring out how they want to communicate their vision and demonstrate their leadership approach. Rachel provides some specific tools to help leaders think about how to develop their own vision, their own voice and how to find it, build it and embrace it. Through humor and observations, Rachel will share proven tools to build, challenge, and expand one's approach to business. Rachel will focus on real life examples - from her own life...
Women as Business Leaders
As a female entrepreneur, you will face some unique challenges from funders, strategic partners, and boards. Building your leadership profile, you need to take this into account. Being a successful female leader is winning. Winning is easier if you understand the realities of the situations you are likely to encounter. This seminar will enable the audience to answer many key questions on how to grow their brands and businesses, based on Rachel's 25 years running...
