Small Business Coach/Adviser Terri L. Maurer

Like you and other entrepreneurs, small business owners and leaders, business management and administration guru, advisor and executive coach Terri Maurer has pondered the many titles confusing the business coaching conversation.   Business Consultant, Advisor, Coach, Executive.  Terri prefers to be called a small business coach/adviser.

Coach, Mentor, and Expert are just some of the more common titles bouncing around the business world.  So many titles with so little clarity.   What does each one do?  That is the most important question a small business owner needs answered as they search for help getting their company on track for growth and success. Can this coach help with MY problem?

Terri spent over twenty years working in the interior design profession in a number of different business models, amassing real life, front line business experience. She recognized a need for advancing business knowledge and skill levels for small businesses struggling with profitability and growth.  Utilizing some of her before design skills of public speaking, writing and training, Maurer Consulting Group was born.

Adopting a logical, analytical process to address client challenges and obstacles blocking their way to success, she took her no-nonsense, ‘Why not now?” jargon-free messages to entrepreneurs as passionate about their businesses as they are about what they offer their own clients.  Unlike other executive coaches and business advisors, Terri delivers her expertise in simple, basic terms anyone can understand.  Her coaching conversations and recommendations are filled with real life stories and examples.  To have value, coaching is all about two-way conversations.  Think of her as your favorite friend for coffee (or wine) and conversation. No Biz Babble here!

Maurer was active in some form of business most of her life.  At a young age, she learned sales and communication skills with customers in a number of her early entrepreneurships.  Manufacturing customized products and pricing skills came with weaving and selling pot holders to family, friends and neighbors.  Sales skills were honed selling magazines, chocolate bars and cards for school fundraisers  Knowledge of setting up a business, determining products, manufacturing and sales came her way in high school as she settled into two years of Junior Achievement and a course in retail sales.  By the time high school graduation came around, Maurer was ready to enter the business world with an above average business skill set.

As an author, publisher, speaker and trainer, she has reached out and shared business expertise with small business owners in the design and furnishings industries for nearly two decades.  Terri co-authored ‘Interior Design in Practice:  Case Studies of Successful Business Models’, a book containing everything a small business operator needs to know about running a successful firm from startup to exit planning for retirement.

Maurer creates and presents Small Business Success Seminars and keynote speeches at industry conferences, annual and sales meetings across the US and Canada.  Writing skills, plus extensive knowledge about small business operations, resulted in invitations to write business articles for trade magazines, guest blog posts and as a business podcast guest.  Author, editor and publisher of MCG’s ‘Designing Strategies’ Blog and newsletters are other outlets for Terri’s writing skills and sharing hot business management and growth strategies.

In addition to design and business education and in-the-trenches learning the ins and outs of different business models, Terri spent many years in leadership positions of the American Society of Interior Designers.  Serving on local chapter committees, moving on to committee chair, board of directors and chapter officer positions was just the beginning.  Moving into the eye of the national organization as a chapter president, her skills were recognized nationally and she moved her way up within the national ranks to the level of National President.  What she doesn’t know about leadership and its importance in successful business environments could fit in a thimble.

Let's talk! Contact Terri today.