Today we’d like to introduce you to Rebecca Gebhardt Brizi.
Hi Rebecca Gebhardt, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
My story is one of finding my passion rather than following it. After starting what was supposed to be my dream job, I quickly grew disillusioned with the bureaucracy and pace of a large corporation and decided to flip my decisions on their head by joining a software startup.
The business was just getting off the ground, and I found myself attracted to the work of managing the pieces of business that others had first created. I could take a product, some basic content, and a good target market list and find out how to connect them, giving us a growing business and new ideas.
Eventually, while keeping ties to and great friendships in that business, I started my own consultancy offering management consulting services to small businesses, just like the one I had come from.
I was fortunate to grow up in an environment that believed we should enjoy life every day, not just after work or at retirement, and I have followed that rule with each business decision I made.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
In some ways, it has been a smooth road. That is not to say things were always easy or that I was always at my happiest. Of course, sometimes I struggled to close a client, or I made a wrong decision, or I upset a good person, or something entirely outside of my control blocked my way.
On the other hand, I expected no less. When these challenges occur, I am rarely taken by surprise but instead consider that this is just what has to happen next, and I keep moving.
This was not always the case, earlier in my career problems could seem insurmountable. But eventually, I learned that they rarely are, I may have to simply look at things in a new way. Part of the value I bring to my clients is precisely this ability to see their business in a logical sequence: if you want X to happen, then first you have to do Y and Z. And I apply this to my own business.
As my business grows, as the world turns, and as life happens, I adapt my business model and I change my working practices for whatever might come next.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
It is lonely at the top, and small business owners make a myriad of decisions, with huge consequences and without the structure and support of a large corporation. I felt this for the first time when we hired our first employee at my previous business. Suddenly I was responsible for the well-being and quality of life of another human being; it was up to me to create an environment where they would thrive, be able to be successful and get paid, and much more.
My work takes the services of Management Consulting to small businesses. I review three core pillars of every successful business – loyal clients, happy employees, and business goals – and build the plan and systems to achieve and maintain these pillars. My clients receive training, improvement plans, and the opportunity to actively work ON their business. The goal is to make running a business: simple.
Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
I love public libraries. I grew up in a multi-lingual home, and reading was a way my parents encouraged me to maintain the various languages. I never leave home without my e-reader and I make sure I read at least a little bit every single day.
It amazes me that we still have these institutions that offer books, information, wisdom, research tools, … access to all this knowledge, and that we can just walk right in and use it all.
I carry my library card with pride, and I can often be found at one of several branches of the Atlanta Fulton Public Library System.
Even when I travel, I enjoy stepping into public libraries around the world. My most recent foreign library was on a trip to my husband’s hometown of Rovereto in northern Italy. The city’s main library has just been renovated, so it was a must stop on our way between a pizza and a gelatino.
Pricing:
- One time consultancy: $550
- Review of one business pillar: $2760
- Full business review: $3500
Contact Info:
- Email: rebecca@rgbrizi.com
- Website: www.rgbrizi.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/rgbrizi
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFhkoqC7DfnFHGRYrxZ1SXg/featured
- Other: https://rgbrizi.com/phrases-for-business-success/
