Cheryl Cran provides practical tools and creative strategies for individuals to
take their current level of success and boldly grow it to the next level. The
companies that Cheryl works with are top performing organizations with a strong
focus on becoming a workplace of choice. The leaders of these organizations
recognize the value of investing in the growth of their employees for overall
company success. Cheryl is a bold growth seeker herself and continually
challenges herself to grow, learn and expand as much as she challenges others
to do the same. When each leader and individual in the company boldly claims
their personal part in future growth the company grows as a result.
Throughout her entire corporate career Cheryl's progress as a young and
successful leader was based on her boldness and ability to take positive
action. Her first leadership role was in her early 20's in the banking
industry. She was highly successful because of her action oriented and results
focused style. However her style was also forceful and controlling because that
was what was modeled by others and she thought that's how a boss behaved, until
one day her manager gave her the gift of honest feedback. He coached her and
provided tools to change her ways or risk her career advancement. The very
areas for improvement in her early management days were the areas that turned
quickly into being a highly successful leader and communicator who walks her
talk. The 15 successful years she spent in the corporate sector included the
calm handling of a series of violent bank robberies which resulted in an
immediate promotion to the second most robbery-prone bank. Cheryl tells this
story to her audiences along with: "Be careful what you are good at." Cheryl
led that branch to increase its overall performance and helped it achieve "one
of the top three" branch status.
She was quickly promoted to management in lending and became the first female
mortgage development area manager. Under her leadership, the mortgage portfolio
doubled within a year. Subsequently she was head-hunted by a mortgage insurance
corporation to lead their insurance division for developers. Within two years,
Cheryl increased market penetration to equal that of the largest single
competitor in the industry. From there Cheryl headed up a brand new mortgage
program and grew the portfolio to ten million in ten months.
Cheryl grew up in an entrepreneurial family and wanted to turn her success for
earning companies great profits into a consulting practice. With determination,
an affinity for risk and massive energy for positive change, Cheryl became the
entrepreneur that she is today, selling her first business at a six-figure
profit.
Leadership, Communication, Management, Business Growth, Performance
Improvement, Women in Society
