Joan Gamble, a retired CVPS executive, began to run two very different businesses out of her home in Rutland in 2012. Wanting, as she says, to “satisfy both parts of my brain,” Gamble is now a strategic change consultant and a fashion stylist. Here she speaks of both enterprises.
What is nature of your business?
In my consulting business, I help organizations and teams thrive through difficult transitions. Through skilled assessment, facilitation and coaching, I help organizations develop a clear motivational vision, focus on their key strategic goals, organize themselves with key action steps and accountability, and achieve high levels of employee engagement.
Quite simply, as an independent CAbi fashion stylist — (Carol Anderson by invitation), a designer women’s clothing collection sold exclusively by a network of independent consultants, or stylists, through in-home trunk shows — I help women of all ages and sizes look and feel beautiful. As a CAbi leader, I inspire a team of self-motivated women achieve their dreams of running their own businesses.
How/why did the company begin? What was the inspiration, the story behind its beginning?
I had been a successful executive at CVPS for 24 years, and I loved my job, my colleagues and the positive culture we built together. When I retired after the merger I wanted to tap into my entrepreneurial drive and develop a new sense of self and purpose, so I started the two businesses. Although different, the businesses complement each other. I get immense satisfaction both using skills I’d honed over the years and stretching myself in a completely different arena.
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