Influential Woman · Consulting Speaking Training
Marjorie Dudley
Elite Sales Performance Coach I Sales Trainer I Speaker I Team Leader, Southwestern Consulting
Ft Myers, FL
Her Story
About Marjorie
I've been in the consulting, speaking, and training field for 15 years and have owned my own business for 10 years. As a coach, speaker, author, and trainer, I coach high-performing business owners, leaders, and executives on leadership, scaling, and growth and revenue through people, through sales processes, through communication and clarity. I was inspired to get into this field because I had been in sales, and we had hired a kind of coach consultant, and it had a big impact on my life, so I wanted to have that kind of impact on other people. I won Coach of the Year in 2023 with an organization I'm affiliated with. I believe coaching is different than training, different than mentorship, and even different than leadership. Coaching really is the place that we have a vested, trusted partner who will help us work on blind spots and grow in accordance with our vision. I believe everybody should have a coach in some area of their life, whether that's business, or health, or otherwise.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Marjorie
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to a relentless pursuit of trying to be the best version of myself, to overcome obstacles, to never give up, to really work on myself. It's kind of a humble desire to make myself better, knowing that if I make myself better, I'll be able to have a greater impact.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I ever received was: If you do what's easy, life is hard. But if you do what's hard, life is easy.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Coaching is just a weird space, I think, as an industry, because it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. The challenge is just getting people to see how coaching is different than training, different than mentorship, and even different than leadership. Coaching really is the place that we have a vested, trusted partner who will help us work on blind spots and grow in accordance with our vision. The opportunity is helping people see how it's different. I believe everybody should have a coach in some area of their life, you know, whether that's business, or health, or otherwise.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I really value hope from the standpoint of a very specific definition. Charles Snyder says hope is the belief that our future will be better than our present, and we have the ability to make it so. That's the value I most ascribe to - that we all have the ability to make our futures better by continuously learning and growing and improving. I also value humility, integrity, determination, and resilience.
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