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Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D. is a nationally known writer, consultant, speaker, seminar, and workshop leader, specializing in business and work relationships and professional and personal development. Besides being a sociologist and anthropologist, she is founder and director of Changemakers and Creative Communications & Research, and has had extensive experience in marketing, sales, public relations, promotion, and communications.
She has been involved in direct sales programs for more than 20 years, since 1982. She was a sales group organizer and trainer from 1982 to 1987 and created several direct sales, network marketing, and multi-level marketing organizations for consumer discount programs, travel, food, and health products. Recently, she established the Venture Capital Connection at www.venturecapitalconnection.com to match entrepreneurs seeking capital with venture capitalists interested in funding their type of business. Another business -- the News Media Connection at www.newsmediaconnection.com -- links speakers and anyone with a story to tell to speakers' bureaus and meeting planners.
She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of
California in Berkeley, a JD from the University of
San Francisco Law School, and MAs in Anthropology and
in Mass communications and Organizational, Consumer, and
Audience behavior from California State University, East
Bay. She will be getting an additional MA in Pop
Culture and Lifestyles in 2008. |
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She has published more than
50 books on diverse
subjects, a dozen on business topics. Her books on
marketing include Success in MLM, Network Marketing,
and Personal Selling; Building a Winning Sales
Team;
Success in Multi-Level Marketing; Get Rich
Through Multi-Level Selling; and Strike It Rich
in Personal Selling. Her books on business
relationships and professional development include
Disputes, Disagreements and All-Out
War; A
Survival Guide for Dealing with Bad Bosses; A
Survival Guide for Working with Humans; A Survival Guide
to Managing Employees from Hell; Work With
Me! Resolving Everyday Conflict in Your Organization;
and Resolving Conflict. Her books on professional
and personal development include The Empowered Mind:
How to Harness the Creative Force Within You and
Mind Power: Picture Your Way to Success.