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I was born an entrepreneur. I started my first company, Kim’s Khocolate, at age 11. My hobby of candy making turned into a business when I handmade 18,000 candy bars for my high school fundraiser. Guy Kawasaki “discovered” me at 18, when he read about me using an Apple IIC (yes, I’m that old) to run my business. He invited me to make Khocolate for Apple, and the rest is history. I went on to work with The Rolling Stones, AT&T, Range Rover, Bausch & Lomb, and Fortune 500 companies around the world. My entrepreneurial antics were featured in “People,” “USA Today,” “Newsweek,” and “Barron’s.” My second company, an e-commerce play that sold over 50,000 skus in the dinnerware category, taught me how to win at online marketing and helped me to further develop my management skills, as I grew my company to a staff of 50. Since my early days as a teenage entrepreneur to my more recent days as an “older” entrepreneur, I’ve always been passionate about teaching and being a leader. Twenty-five years of in-person speaking and training for groups such as the ASBDC, YPO, and NFIB, came full circle as I discovered e-learning and how I could help companies teach and train online. As “The URL dr,” I’ve been helping clients develop online courses, animation, video, LMS systems, and e-commerce platforms to sell courses, for more than 14 years. Whether I’m creating custom solutions or offering one of the 800+ titles in our KnowledgeBank© e-learning library, I focus on engaging learners and providing content that is entertaining and never boring! Along with e-learning, my other passion is dogs and dog bite prevention. I founded Dogsurance© which offers online occupational dog bite prevention training for companies with employees that come into contact with dogs, as a way to reduce employee dog bites and help lower the risk of expensive law suits. The same training for children, is offered under the Good Dog in a Box© brand, and has been used around the world by educators, shelters, veterinarians, professional dog trainers, and parents for more than six years. Always teaching. Always learning. Forever growing. Forever young at heart. Consistently making my two young adult children roll their eyes. LET’S CONNECT: If you’re responsible for teaching or training, I’d love to show you how to make programs that learners are excited to take. If you want to sell courses, I have your prescription for online success. Or if you just feel like reaching out, that’s ok too. Feel free to email me at [email protected] or send me a LinkedIn message and let’s chat.