Thank you for keeping me focused on my sales and marketing plan for this past year. When I made the decision to take my business to the next level, I had no idea how to do it. Not only did you give me the tools, but the Forum set the stage for reinforcement and accountability. As a result, in one year I reached my 2-year goals and have grown large enough to support the hiring of an assistant! It's been a great year -- thank you!

Doralee Billings
Small Office Solutions

As a result of working with Denise, I am focused on growing my business through high quality partnerships. I continuously forge partnerships with caterers and the like and sometimes just in time to serve my client’s needs!

I have taken my partnerships to a new level as well. I use the Partnership Model: GROW™ and clearly state my goals and needs as well as roles and expectations. I look for partners whose values match mine and specifically those that deliver high quality services and a “Command Performance”! I also make it a practice to crystallize and clarify partnerships in writing.

Thank you Denise. As a result, my business is booming!

Cheryl Pressley
Command Performance

Having a hard time saying “no” to volunteer and other activities – my calendar was booked with little time for family and friends. Denise & I put a balanced Personal/Professional Plan together, which resulted in significantly more quality time for me and for those important to me.

For years of networking, I had presented my company and how my services were different. After learning from Denise the concept and value of Partnerships, I repositioned myself in the marketplace, changing my presentation and networking goals and strategies. I now ask for “Power Partners”. Before I could blink my eyes, I immediately found a “Power Partner” who not only became a personal friend but a professional associate leading to a joint sales call, closed business, and revenues.

Dee Donnelly
Donnelly Signs

After one session with Denise, I could tell she had the tools, know-how, and enthusiasm to help move my business from a creeping caterpillar stage to a beautiful butterfly. I have already broken through one major barrier after working through just one session. Besides that, it's fun!

Chris Costello
Senior Health & Wellness Strategies

My problem? I was looking to meet power partners who could refer me to their clients for my image consulting, wardrobe analysis and personal shopping services.

My action taken? I met Susan of Balanced Spaces, a home and office organizer. I encouraged her to join Denise’s Executive Women’s Partnership Forum. Subsequently she asked me to be a speaker at her monthly professional trade association meeting (National Association of Professional Organizers) where I spoke on “Dressing Professionally in a Casual World”.

My result? Not only have I received qualified referrals from Susan, I am now getting referrals from the organizers in her association to help their clients with image and wardrobe services. Also, Susan gave me an excellent client. She bought the whole package. Image, wardrobe and shopping.

Denise, you have made all the difference!

Amy Schoen
Amy’s Eye for Style

As an independent Mary Kay beauty consultant, I was looking for ways to better service my customers, help in finding potential customers, and ways to differentiate myself from the competition.

The Forum has provided me with skills and tools to better serve and retain my present customers and to build a referral system. The Forum also showed me the power of building effective partnerships within the community to help me grow my business.

However, the most beneficial aspect to the Forum has been that it taught me to define my roles and to align my personal and business goals in order to create a vision for my future. This vision keeps me focused and feeling confident that every day I am moving in the right direction.

It has helped me to realize that “you’ll never leave where you are until you decide where you’d rather be!”

Kathy Esposito
Mary Kay Beauty Consultant

From our very first one-on-one meeting, Denise has provided the means for me to focus on what is most important to me and my business. As an attorney and an independent consultant, I was experiencing immense difficulty focusing on what my goals, priorities and planning should be. Denise enabled me to recognize that my true passion lay not in the practice of law but in wellness consulting.

With Denise’s able guidance, I’ve been successful in identifying and setting specific business goals, as well as a personal mission statement and goals; developing realistic plans to achieve those goals; analyzing and developing workable marketing strategies, including their applicability to network marketing; drafting articles and other media offerings; and developing and working with “power partners,” not only for referrals but also for the exchange of ideas.

I’ve found the concepts of the EWPF to be most enlightening, and more significantly applicable to all types of business situations at all stages of business development. The exchange of ideas during the Forum sessions has been most rewarding. The Forum provides a structured setting where we can bounce concepts and ideas off each other for the mutual benefit of all. This is truly a “win-win” situation that I highly recommend.

Paula Constantino
Independent Wellness Consultant
Wellness & Wealth4U LLC

Not knowing how to manage a sales call, or the questions to ask to discover needs, I was not closing the business I should. After working with Denise to develop the most effective questions, and then asking, I secured a sale worth $60K.

Robin Hamilton
ERBC Billing & Collections, Inc.

“When I started working with Denise, I had no concrete goals or inspiring vision for my business. I had very few clients as a result of poor tracking, marketing and organization. I had no idea how to market a very specialized exercise system to fill my classes and share my message and my personal perspective on a subject very important to me.

Through working with Denise, I started by focusing on my concrete goals. These gave me a roadmap of where I was going and some ideas of how to get there. Just from that exercise one of the 5 (goals) was achieved with no effort on my part. I began to truly understand the idea of partnering with my clients because they had the most power to bring me more clients.

As the idea of partnerships began to unfold for me, I started giving up the notion I have always had in my business – that I HAVE to BE everything TO everyone no matter what I actually had to do. I began to sit down with other dance teachers and consult with other trainers in my field and see ways I could expand my business through working with them. My new Power Partners would take care of the marketing and organization.

Through a meeting with the first of these Power Partners, my sense of purpose in the action dance studio was challenged. Because of my work on partnerships and Denise’s constant coaching that you don’t have to provide a service your clients want if you can point them to who can, I was suddenly free of having to do all the work myself. I began getting a clear vision of a one-stop shop in the studio for all the products and services I had in my goals. I imagined a “Dance Spa” where clients could get a massage, acupuncture, natural supplements, dance supplies, all forms of natural exercise, including my own classes – and I didn't’t have to supply all the services – just organize them and get a percentage. This was the truest sense of a Power Partnership that could ever be envisioned in a dance studio – truly a revolutionary idea that could set our small studio apart from any in the world!

Not to allow the absolute euphoria of my inspirational vision to cloud over good business sense, Denise has insisted that she is paid for her services out of my profit margin for our work – it definitely has!

I have found working with Denise to be the best coaching I have ever had, even after years of personal coaches. I know I can bring any challenge to her and she will find a system for me to use to resolve it so that it will be handled efficiently and effectively in the future. Her specific ‘down to business’ style that focuses you on your actual dreams and goals is unmatched anywhere!”

Kiona W. Leah
Wealth & Wellness Technologies
T-Tapp Trainer, Sports Nutritionist
& Body Image Specialist

Denise,
Thank you again. I’ve started using the 33-second power introduction and it’s great! It definitely creates substance and tangible access to what I’m wanting…!
YOU’RE THE BEST!

Jane Reilly
Arbonne International

Your advice regarding how to create an effective sales process, and your GROW Partnership model have provided me with helpful processes and the useful infrastructure to achieve success.

Marnie Keller
Sr. Business Development Specialist

Denise,

You don’t know how much better I felt after attending the meeting (Annapolis EWPF)! Everyone was so supportive and motivating. I had lunch at Border’s (my new favorite place to eat in the mall, by the way). Bought one of the books that was mentioned at the meeting (“Do What Your Are”) and it was great. I felt like I could take on the world, after that day! I even had fun at the meeting that followed and Saturday morning when the meeting continued. I really appreciate everyone’s encouragement. I’ll see you at the next one!

Tricia Baldwin
Reliable Contracting

Jane Ford
K2 Studio

I came into sales with absolutely no experience and a lot of fear. I had been working in the multimedia/video industry for years as a producer but never on the sales side. I was hired for my knowledge of the medium.

In our field, it is more important to be able to answer questions and brainstorm solutions for clients than it is to “sell them”. I couldn't quite merge my knowledge with my new profession.

I first met Denise at a networking function and jumped at the chance to participate in her Executive Women’s Partnership Forum. That very first day, I completely changed my attitude about what I was doing. I had spent the better part of a year in sales and had only made one actual sale. I was discouraged to say the least. Denise helped me refocus my attitude. She asked me questions like:

“What is your passion?” “Why are you doing what you do?” “Where do you see yourself in ten years?”

I went home and thought about what I like to do and why. I realized I like to problem solve. I like to talk to people and hear what they do and think of ways I can help them. All I had to do was change my perspective from trying to ‘sell’ our services to trying to ‘solve’ their problems!

That was five months ago. Today, we are signing a contract that will last two years and bring in a quarter of our annual revenue. Next week we are signing a contract with the US Government that will open up endless possibilities!

Denise has coached me to ask the right questions, identify my prospects, and to keep the “ball in play” even when it seems like I’ve dropped it – and to forge on.

I’ve been sowing these seeds for months now and my garden is starting to grow.
Where do I see myself in ten years? Fulfilled.

Liz Thibodeau
Account Manager
Take-One Digital Media Works

I have found the following to be the most beneficial aspects of the time I have spent with Denise Trifiletti, Dynamic Destiny Partnerships:

Denise provided me with tools for planning and goal setting. I had never written down and articulated my goals on paper. I find this aspect to be extremely beneficial because I now have vision and direction in both my career and personal life.

Denise helped me prioritize my most important activities, which yield the highest return on my investment. She has made me realize that servicing my existing clients should be my number one concern. I have had some difficulty seeing that my existing accounts are my number one priority, rather than only prospecting for new business. Denise has also provided me with the tools for developing a client survey, which allows me to get feedback on my efforts.

Denise helped me develop my skills for being a professional consultant, rather than just selling AFLAC. I now envision myself becoming a well-rounded sales professional who can add value to all my accounts through effective partnerships with other professionals.

Sarah Lewis
AFLAC Sales Representative

I had an existing contract, which was not generating profit. I needed to double the rates and thought I would lose the contract. I reached out to Cynthia, a Forum member, and Denise, for ideas. They helped me detail the project so as to educate the buyer (regarding the fair market value of each aspect of the project), price it accordingly, and package with the unique advantage of a single source solution. I not only got the contract, but I doubled the size and revenues!

Doralee Billings
Small Office Solutions
Certified Quickbooks Pro Advisor

Denise,

I know we’ll grow together…for a long, long time…exponentially, and nothing less!
You are a fantastic coach!

Gail Ruppe
The Capitol Newspaper

Your advice was a tremendous assistance to me. At least one of the session’s participants and several leads for future work came as a direct result of our discussion. I am not comfortable with the sales process and had moved away from opening up discussions, to trying too hard to sell services. Our discussion reminded me to focus on asking questions and identifying needs.

Owner, Management Consulting Services Company

Thank you for all your help, support and encouragement! This helps me immensely! I spent some time on GOALS the last couple of days. I stayed focused on my sales and referrals and did well. I am making it a daily goal and habit. I am already staying more focused day to day – thanks!

Cathy Francesca
Coventry Carelink

Dear potential coaching client,

Denise through her "Power of Partnerships" model coaches others how to form “all win” partnerships in order to optimize sales and profit performance.

I sincerely recommend Denise as someone who can make a major difference in your personal and company performance.
Sincerely,

Mal Bass
Managing Director
Executive Round Table

Denise Trifiletti is a superb role model for women in business. She has the knowledge and creativity that it takes to establish a successful business. Her comments about my business plan were integral to the final outcome. Our work on goal setting and strategic planning was invaluable. Her emotional support and encouragement was great.

Thank you, Denise, and I look forward to our continued work together.

Sincerely,
Wendy Cooper, MSW

Denise,

My conversations with you have helped me focus on what I want, so I definitely have realized value! Thank you very much.

Jean Stafford
Executive Coaching for Women, Inc.

I don’t believe I am alone in saying you did an outstanding job this morning for the “Business Solution” discussion. The topic was very lively and important to all of us. I would say all of us took a great deal away from it.

James E. Brennan, CFP
Goal Focus
"Fee Only Financial Guidance"

I came to the Forum as a professional administrative contractor. Although I read and thought I knew much about sales, when Denise took me 'under her wing' she helped me shift from ‘price’ to ‘benefits’ and from ‘fog’ to ‘focus’. She has also encouraged me expanded my service offerings through "Power Partners" and create more value in the marketplace. Her GROW model also keeps me focused on "win-win" outcomes.
I highly recommend her programs.

Cynthia Hunter-Shupe
Project Assistant Service

I was interviewing for a job and working with Denise I realized that this too was a potential partnership! And,
per her suggestion, I used her GROW Partnership model as an agenda for the interview and ASKed indepth questions. The result was that I learned much more about the potential job and could better determine whether it would be a good fit for me and long term employment partnership opportunity.

Kim Etheridge
Mousetrix, Inc.

Denise and the Executive Women’s Partnership Forum have made a significant impact on my business. By taking advantage of their resources and services I have closed more accounts. They address simple business needs such as developing a business plan, and assisting with its implementation. They have also helped me with marketing strategies, and being accountable. They have opened doors for me with new contacts and new friendships. Way to go!”

Robin Hamilton
ERBC Billing and Collections, Inc.

What they are saying about Denise:

“Your session was very helpful; I received more direction on how to approach the sales process.”

“Now that I position myself as a “value-added” resource and differentiate myself, more doors are opening!”

“So, you’re the one everybody is telling me I have to go see!”

“She is passionate about her subject and is so interactive!”

“Denise is clear and understandable.”

“She is an excellent speaker, interesting, knowledgeable, and has a great, professional appearance!”

“Denise is upbeat, and has good presentation and look!”

“She is friendly and knowledgeable.”

“Denise has a very good delivery.”

“She is highly effective and elicits group participation!

Quotes below are from a survey on the quality of a recent keynote address at the DC Chapter of Women in Communications:

“Great message; high energy and passion helps set the tone and engage the group!”

“Very personable, fun speaker. Addressed more than one field, which is great!”

“Great voice, articulate, great program event.”

“Very clear and succinct!”

“Very enthusiastic at her subject. Able to articulate elusive principles.”

“Animated, excited, passionate!”

“Great presence; nice, easy-going manner. Articulate!”

“Wonderful and clear ideas to understand when approaching partnerships!”

“Very relevant; useful approach to life and work.”

“Good tips for setting goals, achievements.”

“Good overview. Concept is usable!”

“Very unusual focus on goal-setting, joint ventures!”

“Good handout content.”

“Helpful and simple guides to apply the principles in our personal and professional lives today.”

Making an Impact Here at Home and Around the World…..

“This is just a short note to thank you personally for your informed participation in the panel “Transforming the Workforce.” My personal observation was that many of the panel members saw your joint cooperative venture as offering a meaningful partnership role for this transformation. We are in your debt for your significant contribution.”

William H. Martin
Center Director
The Center for Business/Religion/Professionals
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

“I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for your participation at our recent meetings with the Deutsche Bundespost delegation. In addition, I’d like to thank you for your level of expertise demonstrated in addressing the subject matter. It was evident that you are a true expert in your field, very professional, knowledgeable, and amiable. It’s refreshing to realize that the concept of partnership toward a common goal was truly demonstrated through your efforts expended at this meeting.”

E.J. Verwholt
Geschaftsfuhrer – AT&T
Frankfurt, Germany

“I just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks for so many things. Your willingness to share yourself and your expertise with our small group at MLE-Harvard helped to make my experience a great one. You gave each of us an opportunity to look at our jobs and our responsibilities from a new perspective and that was really good for me.”

Suzie, student
Management of Lifelong Education
Harvard University

“Thank you for participating in the ASPA Symposium. The feedback I have already received has been very positive. The similarities between the private and public sectors in the human resources development areas are quite apparent. Your presentation was right on target.”

Richard S. Hansen, Vice President
Thomas A. Edison State College

“I found your presentation to be most interesting and I am delighted to have made your acquaintance as one of the professionals in the field of Human Resources Development.”

Administrative Director
State of New Jersey
Department of State