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You
Love Our Stuff! You're Making More
Money & Taking More Time Off...
So
Who The Heck Are We?
 Anne
Alexander, President of Authentic Alternatives Business
Breakthroughs Coaching, is a business coach who works with small
business owners and independent professionals as their strategic partner
to create more time, more money and more peace. With over 20 years
experience in small business, Anne partners with her clients to do well
for themselves, while also making a positive difference in their
communities. Anne lives in Asheville NC with her partner, 2 dogs and 3
cats. She enjoys hiking, reading, hanging out at the Indigenous
Teahouse, and playing piano. She is determined to get out more on her
bicycle and play more tennis.
Stats:
Birthday 3/30/59
Home Town: West Hartford, CT
Current Residence: Asheville, NC, since 1995
Marital Status: partnered
Interests: hiking, biking, tennis, animals, quantum physics,
spirituality, learning new business and personal growth technologies,
literature, art (art is bread), Rat-A-Tat –Cat, alternative health
Recent books: The Field by Lynn McTaggert, Prodigal Summer by Barbara
Kingsolver, The Power of Full Engagement by Loehr & Schwartz, Loving
What Is, by Byron Katie. I love Fast Company magazine and Metropolis
magazine (I must have been an architect in a former life).
Accomplishments:
- B.A. cum laude in Social Change & Development from University of
Wisconsin, 3.97 GPA.
- M.B.A. (Master of Being Alive) from the school of hard knocks.
- Coach U graduate (the oldest and largest coaching school in the
world)
- Continuing education at Graduate School of Coaching and the
Small Business School of Coaching.
- Founding member of the International Association of Coaches
- Self-study training programs of Jay Abraham, Michael Gerber,
Brian Tracy, Tom Hopkins, Bob Proctor and other marketing and
business leaders.
- Team Associate for the Platinum Rule Behavioral Styles
Assessment
- Member: 1% For The Planet – businesses donating 1% of their
sales to the natural environment
- Toastmasters International training
- Board of Directors, Fletcher Area Business Association
- Youth Program volunteer, Unitarian Universalist Church of
Asheville (a few years ago – sex ed program for junior high school
kids – wow!)
Anne is a life-long entrepreneur, starting at age 8 when she
founded A.I.C. & M., Inc. a conglomerate that provided candy, shoe
shining, advertising services, lawn services and foot massage to family
members. She hasn’t stopped since with her own entrepreneurial ventures,
as well as working for several successful small businesses.
Prior to running her coaching company, Anne has worked at various
times in sales (inside and outside), accounting, operations, customer
service, project management and as an owner in sectors including the
construction industry, food manufacturing, tile manufacturing,
non-profit housing, and in a manufacturer’s rep. company supplying
custom engineered metal & plastic parts to Fortune 1000 companies. She
also was a Certified Business Intermediary, helping business owners sell
their businesses, where she was privileged to see and learn from the
good, the bad and the ugly of dozens of companies.
As a coach, Anne has a unique blend of toughness and tenderness,
in the words of one of her clients. She is both deeply compassionate and
highly practical.
While Anne’s special passion is working with solo entrepreneur
women in the areas of communication, marketing, and time management, she
has enjoyed working with men and women from a variety of fields
including financial services, architecture, accounting, manufacturing,
agricultural products, consulting, the arts, insurance, law, health care
services, business-to-business services, psychotherapy, banking,
landscaping, real estate, arts management, medical practice management
and more. The details of a particular business vary, yet Anne believes
we must master the same fundamentals to succeed.
A favorite quote: "We must walk consciously part way toward our
goal
and then leap in the dark to our success." - Henry David Thoreau
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