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As a Certified Professional Coach, Poppy and you work together to market and showcase "the best
of you." Poppy believes Marketing Mindfulness,™ is the cornerstone of any purposeful work. With over 19 years in marketing and 10 years as an Art Therapist, Poppy combines the fundamentals of Marketing with the Mindfulness that must accompany any success.
For those who are committed to working in a meaningful career, Poppy helps them by drawing upon her expertise as
a Registered Art Therapist, her education and training in the principles of Positive Psychology, her role as a Ringling College of Art and Design Psychology of Marketing Professor, and her successes in guiding
adults and young professionals to implement desired positive outcomes in
their lives.
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Since 1991, Poppy has been a lifelong President's Club Member of Sandler Training: a Marketing, Sales and Leadership Program that was voted #1 in the world for the last four years by Entrepreneur Magazine. This unique psychology-based program led Poppy to pursue a Master of Science Degree in Art Therapy.
In the boardroom or classroom, Poppy's Marketing Palette™ System draws upon psychology, mindfulness, marketing, and the creative art process to showcase the best of you, and help you to market your dream job.
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Almost 20 years ago, studies by Kabat-Zinn suggested that mindfulness
brought attention to one’s moment-to-moment experience. Around
this same time in 1990, I gave my attention to marketing, and enrolled
in a fresh, and intensive moment-by-moment, psychologically-based,
international marketing and sales educational program that was like none
other that I had ever experienced.
While I have engaged in countless marketing and sales trainings and
educational programs for the past twenty years, this particular business
model has been the bedrock of my professional life. Rated #1 in
business, marketing, and sales training by Entrepreneur magazine in
2008, and for the past 5 years in a row, Sandler Training System, of
which I am a lifelong President’s Club member, continues to be one of
the best kept global secrets.
The Sandler System dispels the negative associations that many people
have regarding sales, and instead, guides its members to:
1) be real
2) laser-focus on the other person while
simultaneously attentive to one’s own thoughts
3) throw away any scripted material
4) observe and listen
5) Show up and be present. That’s it.
Showing up and being present paved the way for me to segue away from the
corporate world after more than a dozen years and continue lifelong
learning in the arts and sciences; I arrived at the portal of art
therapy. As an individual with a fine art education, and a
teaching background, I found significant promise in the field that
enabled me to merge my studio art background with my passion for
psychology.
After moving from Milwaukee, WI to the Gulf Coast of Florida over 5
years ago, I continue to find great rewards in my Psychology of
Marketing classroom and Psychology of the Arts classroom at Ringling
College of Art and Design. I teach the undergraduate art and
design students the psychological underpinnings of our emotional
hardwiring. We spend a fair amount of time attending to one of their
greatest skills: their own innate observational skills that sharpen all
of their intra and interpersonal relations and ready them for the
marketplace, be it Pixar, Apple, Dreamworks, Hallmark, or Disney.
Several years ago, the introduction of Positive Psychology turned my
head just enough and I began studying the emerging field of coaching.
Almost immediately, I recognized the convergence of the years of
education, credentialing, and expertise into a field which would draw
upon and combine all of those rich resources. I was trained under
an ICF approved and accredited Certified Coaching Program (CTA) and am a
Certified Coach who helps people showcase the best of themselves into
the marketplace.
Here are six principles:
1) Being present as an artist and attending at the
easel is one of the most essential elements in the creative art process.
2) Being present as a marketing and sales director and
attending to the client is one of the most essential elements in any
co-creative relationship.
3) Being present as an art therapist and attending to
the client is one of the most essential elements in any co-creative
relationship.
4) Being present as a Ringling College of Art and
Design Professor and attending to my students is one of the most
essential elements in any co—creative relationship.
5) Being present as a marketing coach and attending to
the client is one of the most essential elements in any co-creative
relationship.
6) Being present on the cushion and attending to the
breath is one of the most essential elements in my creative
relationship.
At first blush, I wonder if I have transitioned from the easel to the
marketplace to the cushion; however, I believe I continue to “attend”
and engage in all three venues. And I noticed something funny on
the way to the cushion: I’ve discovered 19 years later, the creative
synergy of mindfulness and marketing.
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