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Only 2 weeks until our groundbreaking event in Charlotte!
Get ready to collaborate with some of the finest minds in Automotive retail as we partner to deliver outstanding service to our dealerships and all of their people.
We believe there are better solutions, and we are committed to innovating and creating these by looking at the industry with a 360 degree lens.
Register now and join this movement!
#BetterTogether
#WhatIsPossible
#TheAuxilioGroup

1532

One thing I've undeniably learned this year with greater clarity:
❤️ What matters most to me isn't just worth fighting for, it's worth living for.

I am closer than ever to the most harmonious way to integrate my work and personal lives to a level that the enrichment I receive wherever I am is beyond compare.

I continue to attract clients, colleagues and friends who share my core values, who understand the importance of people in the ultimate equation of profit and lost statements, who are ready for results beyond their forecast based on sound strategies and principles.

For this I am eternally grateful.

Because I can do even better work at a larger scale with all of these elements coming together so wonderfully and powerfully.

So as we approach this special time of year, know that I am grateful for each and every one of you whether you're interacting and engaging with me or watching curiously from afar.

I see you out there and am grateful you are part of this conversation that I call my life.

It started with an idea that became a vision and the future is more clear than ever before.

Making a difference for more people and more businesses is possible when everything is working together.

This is one thing I have learned this year.

1531

On Where An Industry Strategist Can Help Your Business I The Foster Strategies Group Edition

Are you settling for less than desired results, or worse, average outcomes and accepting it?

Did you think that the cost and time to improve would be out of reach?

Our proven strategies and solutions are customizable to meet your needs, provide outstanding results and deliver you a 500% ROI for partnering with the ultimate partners, Foster Strategies Group.

Here is a sample of how we help companies across Automotive:

👉 Your Performance: Why settle for what you're getting? We find your full potential and new opportunities, and we drive increased revenue and profitability.

👉 Your People, Teams and Leaders: They deserve your best efforts, you deserve their full potential. We'll unlock both.

👉 Your Clients: We rarely hear that clients feel 'over-served'.

👉 Your Clients' Success: We move their success, not their contract, to the top of your priorities.

👉 Client Retention: See above. We'll handle this, however dire the current situation.

👉 Marketing and Branding: We apply years of industry insights, consumer behavior and competitive data and add increased Strategy to boost your current efforts.

👉 Social Media Strategies: You're reading this, right? ;) We help your team comfortably lift their Social presence, gaining audience and growing your business.

👉 Training and People Development: We effectively deliver messaging with positive outcomes benchmarked in advance. We have trained thousands at locations across North America for over 15 years. And we do so in an environment your attendees will enjoy and remember.

Yes, there is more, but this should get you off to a good start.

Where is your pain? Our industry-leading strategies just might be the solution.

Your ROI for working with us regularly yields 5-10x your investment. And we create repeatable, sustainable systems.

Introductory calls are always complimentary. Bring the team on the call with you for no additional charge!

Foster Strategies Group ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
We Connect the Dots to Drive Exceptional Results in Automotive

1528

#UsedCarWeek in Las Vegas has always proven to be an exceptional conference. This year will only be more interesting as we have seen remarkable changes in the #UsedCar sector from #Data Solutions to #Transport to #Marketing to #FinTech to #Inventory Acquisition to #Rentals to #Mergers , #CX Customer Experience and much more.

I will be sharing greater depth on how alignment through strategic partnerships demonstrates a clear path to greater ROI in my presentation.

Being friendly is nice. But that only scratches the surface of the full potential and profitability of our innovative solutions for Strategic Partnerships. Foster Strategies is uniquely poised to share holistic and realistic strategies and innovative solutions.

After our luncheon, I have the pleasure and privilege of moderating the 2021 Women In Retail Honorees including Jenny Watson, Brenna Stansberry Jamie Fischer Jennifer Reid Monica Howard Elena Ciccotelli Shelly Bennecke Edie Hirtenstein.

You will learn firsthand the latest updates and what's just beyond the headlights from this engaging group of industry professionals.

CarGurus is sponsoring this spectacular lineup.

If you haven't booked your flights and stay at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa, there is still time.

I look forward to the other 140+ speakers and all of the encompassing conversations.

There's never been a better time to attend #UsedCarWeek.

Thank you again to Cherokee Media Group and #AutoRemarketing for this opportunity.

Justine Mirsky-Blank Bill Zadeits

1527

On Faces You Recognize, Professionals in Automotive Making A Difference Daily: Meet the 2021 AutoRemarketing Women In Retail Honorees, brought to you by CarGurus.

Jennifer Reid Elena Ciccotelli Shelly Bennecke
Jamie Fischer Brenna Stansberry Monica Howard
Jenny Watson Edie Hirtenstein
Representing:
Wolters Kluwer Lyft WhiskerAuto LLC
DriveTime Park Marina Motors CARFAX
Vroom and VINData

Be sure to catch this panel and learn new insights from our 2021 Honorees.

#BetterTogether
#CherokeeMediaGroup
#CarGurus

1526

I want to openly thank the hundreds of you who reached out through every possible communication channel this past week to offer your support and encouragement.

We can use moments of pain to remind us of the love that remains, the friendships yet to come and the future we are committed to create for ourselves and others.

I am recommitting myself to the importance of the mission I'm on to lift others throughout our industry and help all companies better serve each other and our customers.

Loss is often unpreventable and never welcome.

Choosing to carry on with renewed purpose is my only option.

Much love and appreciation to the most kind and generous web of friends and colleagues on LinkedIn.

Remember always, we are #BetterTogether. And maybe today remember this includes you.

From my heart to yours-
Laurie


1525

On The Great Resignation and How It's Affecting Each of Your Companies: Automotive and Automotive Service and Support Industries Edition.

As if we didn't have enough challenges with Employee Retention and Performance throughout Automotive.

Join me next Wednesday, November 10th at 2p ET to hear how we are supporting our clients with our unique data, insights and strategies.

You deserve to attract the best possible candidates and retain the best people you already have on board.

Foster Strategies Group will help.

To submit your request to join, visit https://lnkd.in/drWghYE and go to Webinars & Presentations.

All requests are screened for privacy and protection for all.

#TheGreatResignation #CareerStrategies #TalentAcquisition

1524

On Exciting Opportunities:
You heard us talk about launching a Mentorship and Leadership group especially designed for women across automotive a few weeks ago.

We're not talking about it, we're doing something about it.

Stay tuned tomorrow for a very special announcement and your opportunity to participate.

It's time to drastically increase opportunities for women throughout the automotive business and business at large.

It begins with empowering the women that have already graced us with their presence and then we move on to designing the industry to be more attractive so that more women will even be interested in joining us.

Payroll alone shows us the incredible challenges and opportunities at hand.

It's not how many women you have on board it's what you're paying the women as a whole compared to your entire payroll.

We'll talk about this and so many more things later.

Be clear on this, we admire and appreciate the tremendous men we are privileged to know and work alongside.

But when you look around, you know that the message I'm delivering again today is true.

This program is 'for women' not against men. Because I'm here to lead all people in automotive to greater levels of leadership and impact. I work with men every single day. Every hour of those days as a matter of fact.

But this alone shows me the absence of women in leadership roles.

Right now a void remains in giving women of all persuasions and races and cultures across all the myriad sectors of automotive clear and actionable pactionable paths.

Be courageous today and consider participating, nominating someone to join or sponsoring our genuine efforts to elevate #Automotive at large.

It's time to get strategic and there's no one better than Foster Strategies Group to step up and do so.

Watch for our announcement tomorrow.

Get ready. This is going to be good.

#StrategicSolutions
#InnovationInAutomotive
#HR #TalentDevelopment #CareerCoaching #professionaldevelopment
#NADA #AutomotiveNews #CBTNews
#GeneratingRemarkableOpportunitiesForWomen
#DrivingLeadershipInAutomotive

Hyundai Motor America Nissan Motor Corporation Autotrader US
CDK Roadster CarGurus Dealer Inspire
CarOffer OfferUp DrivenData OfferLogix ACV Auctions Driven Media Group Lithia Motors, Inc. National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) NCM Associates
Laura Schwab Angela Zepeda Angelica Jeffreys Amberly Joseph Liza Borches
Mary Barra Adam Arens
Bill Zadeits Jim Fitzpatrick Jason Stein Mark Alt Tania Eubanks Linda Bartman Andrea Myers Peter L. Fong Steven Apicella Patrick Womack Brian Allan John Possumato, Esq. Veronica Dunford Subi Ghosh Ashlee Church Kerri Wise Michelle Denogean, CMO

1523

This will become more 'normal' in the upcoming years.
Contact us if you want to avoid the pain and replace it with better and more profitable environments.

We always offer an initial complimentary call to those who are ready to start reversing the stale legacy of inequality and traps of cultures that need to evolve.

#BetterTogether will also expand your most challenging Talent Acquisition and Profitability situations.

Foster Strategies Group is uniquely poised to carefully solve Automotive's challenges and turn them into innovative opportunities.

1522

On Our Big Announcement!
Foster Strategies Group is proudly introducing:
⭐⭐⭐ GROW! ⭐⭐⭐
Generating Remarkable Opportunities for Women

GROW! is Automotive's first-ever Group Mentorship and Leadership platform for Women of Automotive and supporting services.

With 23+ years across Automotive, we are uniquely poised to take on one of #Automotive's most stubborn challenges:
👉Attracting, Developing, Promoting and Retaining half of the population: Women!👈

Our groundbreaking GROW! program will offer women throughout all positions and companies serving Automotive with our 👏 Structured and Impactful Mentorship and Leadership program designed for and by Women.👏

⭐⭐⭐GROW! will hold monthly live group meetings on video and also have weekly updates for all participants plus additional opportunities to connect and collaborate.

Due to our group size, we will also offer increased access to networking, media, special events, conferences and more for our members.

👉What you can expect:
⭐Outstanding, timely content created to open up new opportunities for all participants regardless of age, time in business, current role or desired career path.

Important, relevant topics and conversations you will instantly benefit from, including:

👏 Changing the Narrative: Going from a mindset of being in a 'Male Dominated Industry' to the power of 'I'm in an Industry that Has Historically Been Predominately Male'
👏Exploring Your 'Why's' and 'Why Not's'
👏 Safety, Community, Support and Opportunity in Numbers Through Strategic Networking
👏 Identify Ingrained 'Limiting Beliefs' and the Language Keeping You There
👏 Leveling Up Your Communication in All of Your Conversations and Actions. One-to-One, Meetings, Email, Text, Social and More
👏 Starting From Exactly Where You Are, And Learn Exactly Why You're Where You Are Currently
👏 Choosing to Be A Collaborator: The Hidden Trap of Queen Bees
👏 Treating + Investing in Your Career Like a Business
and more!

GROW! is designed to overcome and conquer any prevailing myths or realities and give all participants solid blueprints for success.

We are already receiving requests for sponsorship and welcome them all. OEMs, Suppliers, Dealers and Dealer Groups. You will all benefit for what we are providing the industry at long last.

👉Apply now directly to https://lnkd.in/eRDK9MT to be included in our inaugural launch in January 2022.

We are thrilled to be able to offer this exceptional opportunity for women everywhere.

Our #BetterTogether operating system is here to uncover and unlock the full potential of talented and committed women throughout the Automotive Industry globally.

Thank you all for your incredible interest, enthusiasm and support as we launch this revolutionary program.

⭐⭐⭐ GROW! ⭐⭐⭐
Generating Remarkable Opportunities for Women

Stand up for yourself, raise your hand up high and apply today!

For press or media, contact us directly at https://lnkd.in/drWghYE

1521

On Your Overwhelming Response to GROW!
💡We knew we were doing the right thing
💡We knew the challenges + opportunities firsthand
💡We knew we had a plan, a strategy and an audience
💡We knew that something needed to change

😰We knew that the stream of messages and calls coming in were telling us we were nowhere close to solving these systemic, deeply embedded industry concerns.

🕔We knew it was time

Time for #FSG to step up, step out and take a bold stand and an unprecedented approach to make an impact.

We knew there could be some who didn't see a problem.😱

We knew that MOST, including the OEMs, customers and our current employees reported that many challenges still remain.

We knew that talking or griping about it had the same result:
❌ Nothing. Useless.

💡We knew there must be a positive, strategic industry movement, from within, extending outward.

💡We knew the words and the message and the heart of all we were about to do must bring real, actionable value.

⭐We knew that even the name must ring true.

Every word must solidify our mission:
👏Generating: This requires Intention, Focus, Ability and Action!
👏Remarkable: Not 'ok' but Remarkable, Better Paying, More Influential, Lasting, Career Growth Opportunities for women globally.
👏 Opportunities: Not talk, but REAL, exciting, future-minded, paths and open doors created by design and collaboration.
👏for Women: Yes, for Women. The data proves we share a measurable legacy of absence of Women in key roles, Leadership, Influence and Decision-Making.

And here you have
GROW!
Generating Remarkable Opportunities for Women.

If you have any doubt as to why we are taking this opportunity to elevate and empower women, consider these thoughts.

👉Ask yourself why we ever needed #CSI from the #OEMs.
👉Ask yourself why, in our industry, Customers are still desperately unhappy with their experience from almost any segment of our industry.
👉Ask yourself why there is a void in women at the table in even the most progressive-seeming suppliers in Data, Finance, SaaS, et al. Auto Dealerships are not alone on this.
👉 Ask yourself why there is such disparity in payroll dollars distributed and earned by Women and Men.
💥Our own studies show that it's not merely a low % of Women on board, at merely 20-25%.
💥Our research that discovered the origin: Payroll is barely 8-12% for Women in Auto Retail against 88-92% for Men.

🎯Pay dictates Power. Every time.

💡We knew it was time and it's clear thousands of you share the sentiment.

Once you leverage our FSG Strategies, you too can profit by
🌟Attracting
🌟Developing
🌟Retaining
🌟Promoting
More women, their talent and voices throughout your organization.

👩🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏻👩🏾‍🤝‍👩🏼You hoped for this, you weren't confident it could ever happen, you didn't know how to make it happen, but we've got you all covered.

Applications are pouring in!

GROW! is here to elevate the industry, one woman, one company at a time.

We knew it was time. ❤

1520

On Celebrating and Supporting Springdale General Contracting + Design

I'm not just proud of Andrea Seymour and Brian Seymour because they're my family. Check out their work and their list of enthusiastically supportive clients. Look at the finished projects, one after another.
Remember my stunning bathroom? Yes, that was them! I do think they should have submitted it- or maybe I will!

For this moment, please click here and vote for them for the NARI People's Choice Award today!!!

To vote for this project, click here: http://wshe.es/45GkgPu8
Springdale General Contracting + Design for the WIN!!!

Every vote matters! Thank you for your support!

Miquel Purser

1519

GROW! And the words behind this powerful acronym.

Generating Remarkable Opportunities for Women!

Watch and listen as we share the methodology behind the word grow and how we are setting out to transform and elevate our automotive industry.

Every business in and around automotive is not reaching their full potential when they are not unleashing the performance available when they create better paths to leadership and influence for women.

This is no time to be passive and say you don't know how to do it. This is a time to act and lean on us to take your organization forward.

Yes we are on the brink of driving massive nd long overdue factory resets to the automotive industry.

Are you with us?

Are you ready to join in and support this powerful initiative?

If not, why not?!

We're not here to take anything away from anyone. We're here to add and create the ultimate #BetterTogether mentality and outcomes.

To apply now or inquire how you can bring our workshops, seminars or presentations to your organization, contact us at https://lnkd.in/drWghYE

1518

Today's Clubhouse with Michelle Denogean, CMO is in perfect alignment with our groundbreaking new program, GROW!

I'll be joining in this important conversation and I encourage my followers to do so also.

Michelle is a talented and seasoned industry professional who actively and thoughtfully brings her passion for empowering women in the industry every day.

We want everyone to have opportunities to grow and live life and their careers to the fullest.

For my friends near me on the East Coast this is at noon today. 9 PT, 10 MT, 11CT.

I hope to hear you there!
#BetterTogether

1516

On How Foster Strategies Group is Strategically Solving Industry Challenges and Creates Profitable, Rewarding Solutions.

We provide confident, hands-on help with our solution throughout Automotive and beyond including:

Dealerships- FinTech- SaaS- Big Data- Online Retail- Finance- Fixed Ops- Agencies- Start Ups

Reach out here or directly to our website to learn how quickly our strategies provide you an outstanding ROI and offer you confidence and peace of mind.

⭐⭐⭐Strategic Marketing + Branding

⭐⭐⭐Strategic Growth + Performance

⭐⭐⭐Strategic Keynote Presentations + Speaking Engagements

⭐⭐⭐Strategic Executive Coaching + Leadership Training

⭐⭐⭐Strategic Career Services

⭐⭐⭐Strategic Industry Initiatives, Now Including:
GROW! Generating Remarkable Opportunities for Women

Foster STRATEGIES Group. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Strategy' is our middle name.

https://lnkd.in/drWghYE

1515

On What Winning Looks Like From Now Through the New Year:
Commit to staying focused and keeping your team on point.

This is the time of year when far too many people take their eyes off the ball and are easily distracted. The holidays wind up being a 6+ week productivity and creativity vacuum for many companies.

So it's a very 'fair advantage' for those of us who know this and strategically design their activities to double-down from mid-November through the first week of our New Year.

Great messages today Joe Overby and Bill Zadeits. I'm ready to participate, contribute and learn from the vast array of talent at #UsedCarWeek!

It's the back half of our 4th quarter- let's go!!!

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It's Friday, November 12th and we're closing out week 45 of 2021. Congratulations for making it this far in a rambunctious, unpredictable year.

We have 7 weeks to go. What is your plan to make these last 50-ish days powerful?

We're not just closing strong, we are poised to launch 2022 even stronger.

We'd love to hear your plans, wins and thoughts for the 2nd half of Q4. We are excited to announce the launch of our new project!

#BetterTogether #Grow #Automotive #CareerGrowth #WomenInLeadership #CareerBooster #Networking #Marketing #StrategicThinking #PerformanceImprovement #agencygrowth #WinWinWin #mergersacquisitions

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