TORONTO, May 29, 2007 — Successful businesswoman Linda Lopeke just launched her new virtual mentoring program for college students called SmartStart. This unique program, delivered via the Internet, accelerates career success up to 3 times faster by teaching the truth about how Fortune 500 companies really work. SmartStart’s cash-for-college challenges also help students with the high cost of higher education – but only when they prove they’ve learned the real-world lessons of working 9-to-5.
The ongoing debate over the value of an MBA exists because newly recruited grads arrive well-schooled in theory yet completely lacking practical knowledge needed to succeed at work. With managers overloaded, departments understaffed, and training budgets slashed to the bone, grads are left to sink or swim, learning lessons the hard way, often making career-killing mistakes. SmartStart changes that. Everybody wins.
A study at Yale showed only 3% of people who work hard achieve success. SmartStart members don’t work harder, they work smarter. The program teaches simple, strategic behaviors guaranteed to put members in that top 3%. Students learn why there’s no such thing as time management – that procrastination can be good for you, and that being successful doesn’t require changing who you are right now. The class motto: There’s no such thing as luck, there’s only preparation meeting opportunity.
"Knowing how to deliver higher value than your competition takes you from being invisible to becoming indispensable," Lopeke says. "With the right mentor and mindset, there’s no limit to how far you can go!" SmartStart members aren’t just better prepared for being more successful at work; they get ahead faster simply by taking their accomplished mentor’s straightforward, often off-the-wall advice.
SmartStart is accepting new students into the 2007 program on a first-come, first-served basis. Memberships starting at $197.00 CAD per year are available at http://www.smartstartcoach.com. Mentee Gomez says, "Applying the Prof’s rules helped me nail a promotion I wanted in just two months’ time!" Her experience is not unusual. A young accountant also took Lopeke’s advice. Result? From a standing-start non-management job, she blasted through 4 management-level promotions in less than 3 years, in a firm where 2 years’ service per grade is the norm.
"I meet people driven to succeed who fear making a wrong move. I can’t think of a better way to honor my own mentors than to share what I’ve learned with others," says Lopeke.
She routinely mesmerizes audiences with the astounding results her students achieve delivering excellence in companies including Xerox, Inco, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett Packard, Nortel, Coca-Cola, Eli-Lilly, Nestle, and Husky, among others. The ongoing positive impact of her unusual coaching methods was featured in the article "From Good to Great" published by Harvard (December 2006). Visit http://www.smartstartcoach.com to learn more.
Contact:
Linda Lopeke Lexicorp, 6207 Kisby Drive, Mississauga, ON L5V1M5
Phone: (647) 298-8743
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Web Sites: http://www.smartstartcoach.com and http://www.lindalopeke.com
