Laurie Foster ✨

Foster Strategies Group

Foster Strategies Group was founded to offer unique, innovative and impactful Performance Strategies and Solutions for greater opportunities across Automotive. We believe People are the key to unlocking your full Performance and Profitability targets, we  are prepared to provide Dealerships, Vendors and OEMs both expense controls and unparalleled levels of profitability and success.

President and Founding Partner

FORVIS

Executive Director

AutoNation

Retail Operations Development Manager

Change Management: Responsible for training, designing and implementation of this insightful and new company culture throughout all layers of the company.
Instruction and Design: Delivering classroom workshops, shaping new material, designing impactful webinars on a weekly basis. 
Insightful Relationship Building:  Privileged to be responsible for our Central Market and grow relationships with our entire Sales, Sales Management and General Management teams.
Communication: Offering clear messaging, insightful assistance and reliability
Sales: Driving incremental sales and revenue by encouraging and overseeing new sales methodology.
Travel:  Absolute genius at pulling off heavy travel schedule and all of the intricacies therein! 
Local Influence: Establishing trust and follow through via store meetings and one-on-one interaction when possible.

Regional Influence/Interaction: Close partnership with our Regional teams to ensure we are delivering the highest results within their markets as they are directly impacted by our efforts.  

National Responsibilities and Influence: Provide any and all training services and messaging wherever the company needs it, whenever needed.  
Current with all company needs and consistently delivering impactful work.

Field Operation Manager- AutoNation Express

Variable Operations Development Manager

AutoNation, Inc. 

Regional Operations Development Manager

Cars.com

As a  Dealer Training Manager at Cars.com  I am able to offer training, consulting and industry leading expertise to our Dealer Clients and Manufacturers (OEMs)

Expertise includes: Group Training for Executive, Management and Sales- Consulting- Lead Process Systems-
Finance-Management Effectiveness- Measurements and Metrics- Dealership Profitability- CRM (multiple platforms)- FIxed Operations Solutions-Reputation Management-
Mobile Effectiveness- Chat- Social Media Management


My personal goal is to make each of our sessions immediately beneficial for all attendees. We work with clients and audiences in every spectrum and take pride in servicing each with a message appropriate for their abilities and needs.

In addition, I work to engage the audience throuh group learning and interaction as it benefits our learning.  A hallmark is the incorporation of live "how-to's" durin my sessions so everyone can see first-hand how to implement and do so with ease and effectiveness.

My passion to help each person within this environment in their growth is only outmatched by my commitment to continuous personal and professional growth myself.

The workshops and group trainings we offer encompass an exciting array of professionals in the Automotive Industry who are committed to personal and professional growth. It is a pleasure to work alongside so many dedicated individuals from our vast network of dealerships and from within the organization at Cars.com.

I hope to see you soon!  Keep moving forward!!!

Dealer Training Manager

Inforum

Inforum is a powerful and influential consortium of women in business in Greater Grand Rapids, With over 700 influential women as members, the teamwork, networking and culture of forward-thinking individuals is a strong model for women and men in business everywhere. 
I have met and worked with several talented people from Inforum and am endlessly impressed. The level of talent and professionalism and mentoring is unsurpassed in all of Michigan.

Member

Berger Chevrolet

Incorporate Best Practices and established metrics for Customer Engagement.

Increased Sales while holding Marketing budgets in line.

Developed targeted marketing to increase contacts and opportunities.

Director of Internet Sales and Business Development Center

MetroWest Subaru

Sales Management, Sales Training, Inventory Control, Customer Retention

General Sales Manager

Grossinger, Inc.

Internet Director

As President and Founding Partner of Foster Strategies Group, I leverage my 25 years of experience and expertise in the automotive industry to offer unique, innovative, and impactful performance strategies and solutions for dealerships, vendors, and OEMs. 

CONFERENCE and EVENT  Strategies 
As a guest speaker at many various events and conferences, I have developed blueprints and processes for success we now offer to our clients.

My mission is to help businesses in the automotive industry and beyond improve their people, process, performance, and profitability through strategic and highly focused consulting and coaching. I listen first and craft strategies designed to make an impact to you and your teams. I deliver solutions that are profitable, sustainable, and tailored to your specific needs and goals. I am proud of my 'Power of Partnerships and Performance' initiative, which is a revolutionary approach to fostering collaboration and synergy among all stakeholders in the automotive retail sector.

LinkedIn changed their algorithm to favor men's content-and suppress the words, ideas and accomplishments of women. 

I had a feeling. And then I looked at all of my data. Watched it vanishing- even as a I measured DoD, MoM, YoY..  And now we know it's a fact.

I noticed this about a year ago, and it's only become worse.
LinkedIn has been intentionally suppressing women with its algorithm.

Shame on you, LinkedIn.

I've worked for years to build a network and a following to suddenly watch it disappear right before my eyes.

I've known my analytics inside and out for years-tracking everything like the student of this platform I have been from the start- and watched them dissolve.

I've contacted LinkedIn multiple times and was just told that they've checked my account. And they don't see anything amiss, I said, look at the numbers, look at your numbers, look up my content... Nothing to see here ma'am. But the only info I knew for certain were my metrics-how could I know what was taking place universally?

And then we find out... They are absolutely suppressing women's content. Favoring the content of men over women is suppression-preference-and unfair.

I'm going to post this now every day for the next month. if you are seeing this and you are a female content creator or professional, add your name here and I will be sure to follow you and I will encourage others to do the same as long as you're a legitimate business/professional that is.

Bias is real. We weren't looking for trouble, we had to find it after begging for answers to problems we could see with our own eyes.

They rebuilt the LinkedIn algorithm based on bias. 
And I'm paying full price for this???

Laurie Foster

Leadership Strategy, Organizational Performance, and Scalable Growth | Speaker | Founder, FORWARD Executive Leadership + Foster Strategies Group

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