"Sheree's insight changed my life"

Terry Savage,Financial Reporter
Chicago Sun Times

Corporate Consulting

Achieving dramatic business growth requires nimble thinking and decisive action. Professional Coach Sheree Franklin guides organizations through the process of using their instincts, imagination and intuition more effectively to navigate today's challenging marketplace. 

Sheree spent close to 20 year as President of her company, Specialties Plus, a promotional products firm.  She started her business as a divorced single mother and initially operated out of the basement of her south side home in Chicago, IL.  Specialties Plus grew to one of the largest minority-owned promotional products companies in Chicago. Clients serviced included:  Waste Management, BP Amoco, Ameritech, AT&T, and Alberto Culver USA, Inc. 

She credits having caught the entrepreneurial "bug" early while working in her family's grocery store business as being the key to her success."I learned early the importance of having a vision for success. This led me to develop learning experiences that would help business people expand their growth outwardly by working at an inner level.The secret of succeeding is to find it from within,"says, Sheree.

Her workshops include:

• Focused Clarity for Achieving Greater Profits
• Visioning:  Personal and Professional Transformation
• Team Building From the Inside Out

Sheree is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and has earned certifications from DePaul University Small Business Program, Dartmouth College Tuck Executive Education MBDA Partnership Program as well as achieved the CAS (Certificated Advertising Speciality) designation in the Promotional Products Association. She is a graduate of both the Integrated Awareness and Avatar Programs.

She is a member of Toastmaster's International and has earned the CC (Competent Communicators) certification.