What Our Clients Say About Us...

Rebecca and I were executive peers of a scaling technology company. The company was a pre-EBITDA corporation, deeply steeped in the R&D and business development phase, and needing to transform into a service-oriented operationally mature business. There were considerable organizational gaps in functional area business expertise and leadership / management maturity. The company was growing 150% annually and Rebecca was in charge of human resources development.

She assembled a competent and dedicated team under her to manage the day-to-day HR operations, focused her leadership on resourcing and developing a high-performance management team, and established appropriate controls and rigor in process maturity. Whether in a mentoring role with subordinates, or coaching more senior members of management and their teams, Rebecca established a reputation as an authentic operational partner. She was effective in both facilitating management's success and challenging management to address and resolve the more difficult business transformation issues. Her expertise and guidance in navigating the chaos of such a high-energy and fast moving organization was invaluable to me. Her leadership was a critical component in building the business into a successful and scalable commercial operation. I continue to value her as a key business advisor. I highly recommend her as an executive coach and team development consultant to any organization and its leaders, but particularly where change is accelerating and competitive dynamics require a tough minded, seasoned leadership approach to execute effectively.

During a corporate reorganization, my role expanded to include oversight of a business unit that was not within my core area of expertise. As a senior executive, on the fast track for the C-suite, success in this new role was not only critical to the organization but also important for moving my career to the next step. The new team I would be leading was comprised of "A" players who were also anxious about the transition and whose ongoing performance was critical to the success of several key initiatives. Venture Savvy helped me expand my leadership abilities and establish a successful and rewarding partnership with the new team. Venture Savvy's coach/consultant, Rebecca Bottorff, was an experienced executive who understood our business and was able to quickly become a genuine business partner. The combination of high-impact coaching for each individual as well as team development centered around planning and performance of a specific business goal was highly effective. I won't say it was easy. Tough issues around trust, credibility, priorities and management styles surfaced as we worked through the process but Rebecca helped us to navigate and resolve these obstacles. Our team became more capable and effective as a result. Although this particular project successfully concluded, I continue to work with my Venture Savvy executive coach and consider her to be an invaluable partner for achieving my business goals and for fine tuning my leadership skills.

I have owned and operated a company for more than 20 years. Last year I expanded my operations into a new market. Although I was working twelve hour days, seven days a week, and had a staff of seven employees, I felt as if I was falling further behind every day and became increasingly frustrated with declining sales and the performance of my team. My Venture Savvy consultant, Rebecca Bottorff, helped me sort through the chaos and more effectively manage the business. The intensive executive coaching and skilled strategic planning facilitation helped me find ways to move forward again.

Rebecca helped me to break my business down into its basic components and analyze the performance of each aspect of the business as well evaluate as the effectiveness of the personnel and other resources dedicated to each function. I was able to make critical strategic decisions, maximize the strengths of my team, improve team performance and significantly increase my revenues. Within sixty days of making several breakthrough changes, my revenues started climbing and I had my highest sales on record in a month that is typically slow.

I retain Rebecca as a key advisor to my business because she is a true partner in helping me achieve real results and has valuable insight and expertise to share.

After leading several technology teams at a wireless technology company, I recently started exploring opportunities that would better utilize my experience and give me additional development to round out my career.

Before starting, I had the great benefit of walking through a strategy with Rebecca Bottorff, President of Venture Savvy. Rebecca helped me with organizing and scoping my search. First she made sure she had an in-depth understanding of what my specific goals were and then worked with me to prepare for the journey. Based upon my needs, Rebecca connected me to key resources, helped me expand my professional network and kept me focused on my objectives. During this process Rebecca always challenged me to thoroughly think through the pros and cons of each situation. More importantly, she brought new ideas and possibilities I had not considered.

The result: a new career offer was presented to me and I will be starting a great position very shortly. Rebecca coached me every step of the way and her special talent to see the big picture and elevate my individual assets was amazing.

Based on this experience and my confidence in Rebecca's techniques, I have recommended three of my professional colleagues to Venture Savvy to get their careers on the fast track. I will continue to seek the advice of Venture Savvy and will utilize their services in my new senior leadership position.

I was recently promoted into a leadership position in Human Resources and engaged Rebecca as an executive coach and mentor. I was excited about this new opportunity, but also anxious because I hadn't managed people before and the organization I served was fast-paced and experiencing several operational and management challenges. There had been a great deal of turmoil and change in the organization in the months prior to my promotion and I was looking for ways to stabilize the situation.

Rebecca helped me to shift my perspective from managing to leading and from doing to influencing. She helped me develop an awareness of my style, my strengths, and how I was spending my time. This enabled me to learn to trust my instincts, manage myself, improve my interactions with others and sort through the business priorities. I increasingly became more comfortable managing people and improved my abilities to motivate my team, influence and lead positive change throughout the organization and hold people accountable for meeting expectations. I appreciate Rebecca's insight, her dedication to my goals, her unfailing support and her ability to hold me accountable and challenge me when it was in my best interest to do so.

Rebecca has been my coach for the last ten months. She has been very helpful to me in a very difficult period of my life, both personally and professionally. She has been the consummate professional. Her career guidance has been focused and planned. This has served to help me with office interrelationships, dealing with conflicting work demands, and inspiring me with her confidence in my abilities. She has indeed, been invaluable to me.