Linda Lopeke is an internationally recognized business strategist, success architect and ubermentor with 24+ years experience supporting 270+over300 corporate, government, and small business clients. Her most recent success story is the creation of SmartStart Virtual Mentoring Programs : success-to-go for people working @ the speed of life. It's the fastest, easiest way to super-size your career success. Find out more about where the best people prepare for an unlimited future at www.smartstartcoach.com and, for an overview of the program, check out the media room.
Known for her unique gifts, proven business ability, never ending passion for excellence, and reputation for creating the highest performing teams, Linda's services are in extreme demand by the Fortune 500's best companies and their brightest executives.
Linda is a leading expert in 6 professional management disciplines and a master teambuilder and strategic planner. At 17, she set the record for being the youngest person in the world, in the history of banking, to lead a major technology implementation.
Recognized by Financial Post at age 29 as one of the nation's top 5 entrepreneurs, she is also a dynamic speaker, an award-winning author, a challenging mentor and an inspiring professor teaching MBA Master Classes to students attending the world's top 50 business schools. Linda and her work have been featured in Harvard Business Review, Harvard Management Update, The Financial Times, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Post, and on ABC, CBS and NBC to name just a few places.
Ms. Lopeke served two successive terms as President of Women in Information Processing (1985/1986) and one term as Director of Public Relations. She received the Crowntek Award for Outstanding Achievement in Information Technology in 1986 and subsequently received multiple awards for her technical writing from the Society for Technical Communication. More recently, a web site designed for GlaxoSmithKline won the Applied Arts Design Award.
Her detailed biography was published in Who’s Who of Canadian Women (1986).