Happy Entrepreneur Spring 2015 | Page 44

bio: Teresa de Grosbois is an International speaker, trainer and best-selling author. She has been featured on television across Canada, including CBC, Global, CTV and City TV. She is passionate about teaching others to play bigger and to generate wealth by creating more powerful relationships with others, both locally and internationally. Teresa is an expert on growing influence and generating word of mouth. Teresa teaches how to grow your profit or personal success by getting authentic and intentional about how you connect with people. In a world where paid advertising is rapidly becoming ineffective, Teresa teaches how to create and succeed with influence and word of mouth. As the founder and chair of the Evolutionary Business Council, Teresa leads an international, invitation-only council of speakers and influencers who are focused on teaching principles of success. Teresa’s extensive background in business includes leadership roles in several organizations as well as having sat on the committee which authors one of the most widely adopted international management system standards in the world (The ISO 9001 quality management systems 44 standard). In a powerful combination of her expertise in both business and relationship skills, a second focus for Teresa is helping organizations eliminate the pain of transitioning to a quality management system. Put in the context of a management system structure, these sessions are designed to give staff a learn-by-doing understanding of why a quality management sets them up to “win” Teresa is a big thinker and a big doer. An avid outdoor enthusiast, she has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with her two daughters to raise money for schools in Africa. Teresa believes it is possible to eradicate poverty by changing the way people think. She arranges speaking tours into developing countries to teach business and empowerment skills to University students and small business owners. As a hobby, Teresa writes empowerment children’s books to raise money for schools in developing countries. As living proof of her ability to generate powerful relationships, she has taken all three of her children’s books to bestseller status on Amazon in only 8 months using only word of mouth marketing techniques.