Sarah Turner BNI® 💥

White Associates Ltd

Business Manager

A Buyer's Choice Home Inspections

A local West Auckland pre-purchase building inspection franchised business. 

Responsibilities 
•	Support with business strategy and financial planning. 
•	Two monthly GST returns. 
•	Preparing the books for our accountant.
•	Support with any issues that might arise. 

Achievements
•	Helped my husband to build a successful pre-purchase building inspection business.
•	Designed and implemented a prospecting system utilising open home buyers.  
•	Successfully marketed our business online and in person to become established. 
•	Networked with businesspeople to establish our brand and credibility locally.  
•	Implemented new software to streamline the booking process.

Business Owner / Director

BNI (Business Network International) New Zealand

A national franchise, part of a global franchise which helps businesspeople gain more revenue through business networking and qualified referrals. 

Responsibilities 
•	Actively contribute to the strategic planning of the organisation by contributing to the targets and goals for the team each year.  This year we hit our growth target early. 
•	Prepare and distribute our national communications including branding updates, campaign releases and training opportunities. 
•	Provide EA support to our two directors, each with their own unique style.  
•	Support the wider team of local directors with advice on policies and procedures. 
•	Assist the directors to recruit, prepare contracts for, train and onboard new team members.
•	Direct the operations assistant, my full-time direct report, with a focus on:
-	Providing supervision and necessary information to facilitate her role.
-	Offering guidance and training to enhance her skill set.
-	Mentoring her for increased responsibilities within the organisation.
•	Manage and maintain our national membership database for over 2800 members. 
•	Update and manage the national blog site through WordPress. 
•	Update and manage the national website and continuously work to improve our SEO ranking.  
•	Provide technical support for our global software system at all levels of the organisation.   
•	Facilitate and MC our national bi-annual leadership team training and monthly team meetings. 
•	Ensure all documentation and materials are up to date and correctly branded. 
•	Schedule, post and update our teams on training registrations, completions, and targets. 
•	Celebrate events, milestones, and achievements actively across our social media channels.  
•	Prepare and distribute weekly education moments for presentation.
•	Prepare and maintain training manuals.
•	Manage stock and organise internal and external suppliers.  
•	Coordinate and oversee nationwide events for our leaders and members.

Operations Manager 

A national franchise for building inspection or pre-purchase inspection and reports in New Zealand. 

Responsibilities 
•	Created franchise advertisements to help sell our first franchises in New Zealand. 
•	Prepared and delivered franchise presentations to potential franchise owners. 
•	Assisted in the sale of franchises to establish the New Zealand national franchise. 
•	Implemented the purchasing systems for all franchise equipment, software, and systems. 
•	Mapped out all the statistical boundaries for each of the New Zealand franchises. 
•	Provided technical inspection training and support to franchisees in house and out in the field. 
•	Trained and supported new franchise owners to prospect efficiently for inspection opportunities. 
•	Assisted new franchise owners to create professional networks within their franchised territories. 

Achievements 
•	Qualified as a building inspector through both AHIT and InterNACHI. 
•	Designed and built the New Zealand specific software template to aligning our inspection protocols to the New Zealand Standard 4306:2005 for Residential Property Inspection.

Operations Manager

Ray White

John Goodrum was one of Ray Whites Elite Salespeople selling in the top 5% of agents internationally. 

Responsibilities 
•	Absolute discretion, loyalty, and dependability as John’s trusted Executive Assistant. 
•	A strategic partner for new initiatives and strategies, someone to bounce ideas off. 
•	Schedule and supervise work for John Goodrum’s part time, casual staff, and contractors. 
•	Recruit and train new staff and contractors.  
•	Write marketing text and organise photographs for all new to market properties.
•	Plan, prepare and book promotional materials, weekly display, and open home advertising.   
•	Prepare contracts and take offers for the sale of residential property. 
•	Process contracts to completion of settlement facilitating a smooth transaction. 
•	Regular correspondence with solicitors, vendors, valuers, and purchasers.  
•	Schedule John’s busy open home schedule (often 8 per day) every week. 
•	Call and organise follow up correspondence to all open home attendees. 
•	Developed a call calling system for the team to help John Goodrum prospect for new listings. 
•	Daily database management using Top Producer 8i and the Ray White CRM system.  
•	Attend property viewings or building inspections as needed.

Executive Assistant to John Goodrum (Elite Member)

Avondale College  Auckland

At Avondale College from January 2003 to June 2005, I worked as a Science and Chemistry teacher. My responsibilities included delivering engaging instruction to students of varying proficiency levels, active participation in extracurricular activities, meticulous lesson planning, and providing pastoral care to foster a supportive learning environment. I excelled in teaching low-ability and ESOL students, consistently achieving high pass rates. Additionally, my contributions to the pastoral care of young adults led to an early appointment as Associate Dean with an associated salary increase.

Science and Chemistry Teacher, Third Form Associate Dean

Responsibilities 
•	Teacher of Science, year 9 to year 11. 
•	Teacher of Chemistry year 12 and 13. 
•	Pastoral care and management of year 9 students. 
•	Teacher in charge of girl’s chess. 
•	Ran the Australian National Chemistry Quiz. 

Achievements 
•	Excelled in the teaching of low ability and ESOL students as represented by average pass results over cross section of students within the departments. 
•	Active participant in the pastoral care of young adults in the college environment. Invited early on in career to pursue a role as an associate dean resulting in higher salary level.

Weekend and relief administrator/receptionist while at university

I am an outgoing, self-motivated, and bubbly individual who likes to take initiative. I am both strategic and analytic in my approach with an added passion for people and the ability to work alongside others injecting enthusiasm and bringing both positive energy and leadership to the team.  

I thrive in a busy environment where I can adapt quickly and be flexible as needed. I love to be the go-to person assisting the team with operational and technical details in a calm, professional and supportive way, enjoying the satisfaction gained from achieving our shared targets and goals.

I am highly organised, know how to prioritise, delegate, make decisions and problem solve. My high level of attention to detail allows me to carry out tasks thoroughly with accuracy whilst still being flexible to changing circumstances and demonstrating absolute trustworthiness and discretion.

Franchise Owner 🔍

Sales & Marketing, 
Prospecting for Inspections for Duane Turner - Inspector, Waitakere & Surrounding areas.

Inversiones y Servicios de Granulados SAC - Insergra

Fabricación y comercialización de arenas sanitarias para mascotas

Partner and CEO

RIN - Red Internacional de Negocios

Business Broker

Vistage Perú

Miembro

Factur@ctiva del Perú

Founder, CEO and Managing Director

CapitalTEC

Director

TAM Consulting - IT Services

- Planning, Implementing and Monitoring the IT Strategic Plan
- Designing and  Implementing the company’s IT Commercial Strategy 
- Planning  and Managing of IT Projects 
- Designing and Checking the IT Solutions Architect 
- Negotiating Contracts with Clients
- Approving Human Resources Hiring

BNI Perú

BNI® Business Network International

RELAIS - CCL

The Latin American Network of Software Industry (RELAIS) is a regional organization sponsored by IDB-FOMIN (Multilateral Investment Fund) that is currently coordinated by four leading institutions from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, and whose principal objective is to increase the competitiveness of the software industry in Latin America and the Caribbean (ALC) promoting quality in software development and acquisition.

TAM Consulting was chosen within the first 20 software development MYPEs in Peru to be advised by a team of expert consultants in the development of a software quality methodology based on the Brazilian methodological framework of software quality MPS.BR.

RELAIS Program Participant

PMI LIMA PERU CHAPTER

Ponencia: “Gestión de las Expectativas del Cliente en relación a los Resultados de un Proyecto de TI”.

International Speaker - Congreso Latinoamericano Cono Sur 2010. Lima Branch, PMI.

Empresario | Emprendedor | CEO | Director | Business Broker | Networker

Master of Science in Information Technology Management, with 25 years of experience in the areas of consulting, project management and development of corporate systems for the Financial Sector and Capital Markets (Banking, Microfinance, Investment Funds, Stock Brokerage Houses). Speaker at International Congress on Project Management. Highly entrepreneurial, interrelation capacity, teamwork and under pressure, at all levels of the organization. Creativity to solve problems, motivated and seft taught.

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