Power Connecting Lessons For Social Entrepreneurs From Judy Robinett

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Judy Robinett, known for years for her titanium rolodex, has recently shared her secrets for power connecting in her new book, How to Be a Power Connector: The 5-50-150 Rule.

Judy Robinett

Social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders need networks as much as or more than other entrepreneurs who often recognize their need for networks to raise capital, build a team, assemble a board of directors and generate sales.

On June 2, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Robinett will join me for a live discussion about her 5-50-150 rule. Tune in then to watch the interview live.

Robinett’s bio:

Judy Robinett is the author of How to Be a Power Connector: The 5-50-150 Rule, released by McGraw-Hill in May, 2014. Robinett is a business thought leader who is known as “the woman with the titanium digital Rolodex.” She has been profiled in Forbes, Venture Beat, Huffington Post, and Bloomberg Businessweek as a sterling example of the new breed of “super connectors” who use their experience and networks to accelerate growth and enhance profitability.

In her more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and corporate leader, Robinett has served as the CEO of both public and private companies and in management positions at Fortune 500 companies. She has been on the advisory boards of Illuminate Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California; Pereg Ventures, a venture capital firm based in New York; Springboard Enterprises based in Washington, DC; and Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) accelerators based in New York City.

She was the managing director of Golden Seeds Angel Network (the third most active angel investment group and one of the largest in the U.S.); the CEO of publicly traded Medical Discoveries; and she served on the faculty of Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Small Businesses program.

She was a member of the Department of Commerce team that defined performance criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence in Healthcare, for which she received an award from President Bill Clinton.

Robinett has given over 300 speeches worldwide for audiences at MIT, BIO-Europe, CalPoly, AT&T, Westinghouse, and the Department of Energy.

She is the coauthor of a chapter in Crowdfunding for Dummies by Sherwood Neiss, Jason W. Best, and Zak Cassady-Dorion (Wiley, 2013).

Robinett lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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