SheVENTURE: Success Strategies for Female Entrepreneurs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780990734406)

Michele Markey is Vice President of Kauffman FastTrac, a global provider of educational programs that equip aspiring and established entrepreneurs with the business skills and insights, tools, resources, and networks to start and grow successful businesses. Kauffman FastTrac was created by the Kauffman Foundation, the largest foundation whose mission is to advance entrepreneurship as a key to growing economies and expanding human welfare. Michele has been a guest contributor for MSNBC, MarketWatch, Bloomberg News, The Wall Street Journal, AARP and many other national and local publications. Michele is an internationally recognized speaker, serving as a featured speaker for the U.S. State Department's Women's Entrepreneurship in the Americas, a program that aims to increase women's economic participation as well as serving as a panelist and speaker at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress. Additionally, she has been a featured expert for the American Management Association and has worked with hundreds of businesses to develop their business growth strategies including American Airlines, University of California Berkeley, The Gap, Sprint and Coca Cola. Michele is also recognized as a thought leader in the areas of female entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship as a next career for people over the age of 50; she has authored several articles and columns on these topics. Michele holds undergraduate degrees in Political Science, Social Studies and Education and a master's degree in Business and also serves on the Chief Learning Officer Intelligence board and the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women. She and her husband, Jim Markey, live in Lee's Summit, Missouri, and have three children Taylor, Alex and Sloane. Michele and Jim also live with their Vizsla, Mackie Markey, the best man in the world... Follow Michele on Twitter at @SheVenture #SVGrit Read her blog at SheVENTURE.com Check out her Facebook at SheVENTURE