Deborah Schwartz Griffin/The Creative Connector
Deborah Schwartz Griffin is a proven strategic business development and consultative sales leader with more than 25 years of experience generating revenue and fueling growth for companies and organizations. Known as The Creative Connector™, Deborah brings a wide range of skills to the table, including the ability to build trusted relationships and alliances, identify clients’ needs and develop quantifiable results.
Deborah engages with and serves clients as a consultant and coach through the business she founded in 2001, DSG & Associates LLC. Within each engagement, she works with the client organization as its vice president of strategic business development. In this role, she takes a holistic approach with clients — uncovering their pain points and priorities, as well as the impact those factors have on their business, and helping them develop a plan that drives business revenue and growth and generates a return on investment for all. With that approach, Deborah helps her clients continue to build and enhance their organization’s brand, and access a new network of strategic connections and alliances that furthers their strategic business goals and helps them reach the tipping point in their business success.
Her subject-matter expertise includes the following industries and business sectors: restaurants and franchises; foodservice equipment and supplies; hospitality; business advisory accounting, with a focus on finance and operations; trade associations; nonprofits; event production; print, graphic design and social media; and broadcast sales, television news and production.
About ePresence
ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged. Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.