Jackie Nagel, Founder, Synnovatia

Jackie Nagel is Founder and Chief Synnovationist of Synnovatia™, (www.synnovatia.com) a personal and business performance firm that offers a pioneering approach to growing people and business. With nearly three-decades of consulting and coaching expertise, Jackie has united with individuals and companies in the United States, Canada, and Asia to improve productivity, increase profitability and accelerate growth. Her style is direct, energetic, innovative, focused, and encouraging...with just the right mix of robust laughter.

As a business owner since 1978, Ms. Nagel knows first hand the ins and outs of growing a successful enterprise. She's experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. And, most importantly, she has a keen sense of what it takes to succeed in the 21st Century.

In addition to being nominated as Valedictorian from the "The School Of Hard Knocks", Jackie received training at Coach University and Corporate Coach University International; is certified as a Personal Coaching Styles Inventory Trainer and Teleclass Leader and recently received the MDE (Management Development of Entrepreneur) Certification from The Anderson School of Business UCLA.

Ms. Nagel is the published author of "Bite-Size Chunks of Wisdom...Coaching Tips Designed to Accelerate Your Personal, Professional and Business Growth". She also produces a free weekly electronic mail broadcast entitled, "Fast Forward". Her subscriber base covers 43 states and seven countries including Australia, Japan, England, Canada, Norway, Panama, Finland, and Denmark.

She is actively involved in church, community, and civic events and has served on the Board of Directors for several non-profit organizations. Jackie is a co-founder of Women in Networking Generating Success (WINGS), a business and professional women's networking group...and in her spare time, leaps tall buildings. (Okay, maybe not tall buildings, but she completed the 2004 LA Marathon, 2006 Fargo Marathon, 2007 Chicago Marathon, 2008 Disneyworld Goofy Challenge, 2004 and 2006 Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic, and the Amgen California Coast Classic, a 500 mile fund raiser for the Arthritis Foundation.)