About
Andrea Reynolds
"I teach
what I, myself, have already accomplished."
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It was at
Kent
State University, 4 decades ago, that I
discovered I had a knack for Communication, Advertising,
Marketing and Promotion...CAMP. (You'll find that I have a
propensity for acronyms.) Initially I had attended a
Liberal Arts college in Ohio (Hiram College), then
transferred to Kent to major in Home Economics (now
called Family
and Consumer Science). But after 4 years of
university I realized that not only had I been studying
with only smart women, but now my career would be mostly
with women. As a still-single woman I decided I wanted to
be around smart men, too. So I chose not to graduate with
my class, 1971, but stay on and take business classes for
another year. More below.
Some press coverage I
obtained for myself as a marketing
consultant.
Time Magazine
.............. Financial Post .......... Toronto Star
My marketing
management professor, Dr. Mulvihill, announced at the
beginning of his class that he hadn't given any A's to his
students in 10 years. I decided that as the
only
woman in the class of 100 men - I loved those odds -
that I would get an A. I had to work doubly hard to meet
the challenge and I did it. I earned
the A by really knowing the material. If he asked the question
and nobody else knew the answer, I did. I enjoyed reading
the material and still love reading a business book over
any other kind of book. Who knew that a girl who once
wanted to design clothes would one day be sought out for
her marketing advice by Fortune and Financial Post 100
companies and have clients in several countries? More
below.
Toronto
Sun................... Sales & Marketing Management
For every client who
retains me I make that kind of effort. I want to
win...but win for my client. I work hard - smart,
really - to make my client visible for the right reasons,
turn the challenge into a victory, and turn a crisis into
the best possible outcome for all, no matter what and how
long it takes.
In high school I was a quiet, unpopular, and mediocre
student. Looking back it was probably because I wasn't very
interested in the subjects I was required to take. I never
raised my hand, never knew the answer, and became flustered
if I was called on. Back then, I blushed very visibly. But
when I had to take two Speech and Communications classes in
college in order to graduate, I discovered
I had a
gift for public speaking and could make audiences
laugh... intentionally. Years later multi-national
corporations like Coca-Cola hired me to work
privately with their CEOs to help them master the
art of presentation skills. Not bad for someone who was
once terrified to speak, even at the dinner table.
Bio
Andrea Reynolds
was - and
still is - a pioneer in the field of advice
empire-building. She has mentored and
promoted hundreds of consultants, experts, best-selling
authors, practitioners, spokespeople, and specialists
since 1979. She has been retained by clients as far away as London,
Cairo, Dublin, Sydney and Singapore; and by Fortune 100
and Financial Post 100 companies.
Andrea's objective has
been to increase her clients' credibility, visibility, and
level of prestige, so that target markets seek them out and
they need never knock on doors. To maintain her own
visibility she often becomes her own client. Andrea markets
her expertise by using the same methods she teaches to her
clients.
She has hosted talk radio
and appeared as a guest expert on countless radio shows
including CBC's Morningside with Peter Gzowski, and "Basic
Black" with Arthur Black. She has appeared on "Frost Over
Canada" hosted by British interviewer Sir David Frost and
appeared multiple times on "Breakfast Television",
"Shirley", the Dini Petty Show, and 4 programs on the Life
Network.
She has authored numerous
books, manuals, reports, and booklets and published 5
newsletters, written for national magazines and newspapers,
led seminars, and addressed many professional and business
associations. An outspoken critic, Andrea has been quoted
in many periodicals: Time, USA
Today. Globe and Mail, National Post, The Korea Times, The
Financial Post, Canadian Business, Canadian Living,
and
Sales and
Marketing Management. She has critiqued
candidates for Canadian Prime Minister and Premier of
Ontario for Canadian Press wire service,
The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun and The Globe
and Mail. Her first book received
a tongue-in-cheek Connie Award from Canadian
Business Magazine "for outstanding
contribution to Canadian Capitalism."