Theresa L. Seagraves

VP & Co-Founder at CatchFire Funding

Theresa has more than 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur. Within her first three years, she established herself as an expert consultant in measuring the effectiveness of both training and development metrics. She rapidly grew her consulting firm to handle large-scale, multi-year contracts with Fortune 500 companies. An experienced career coach, Theresa has also coached individuals on career choices, interviewing and sound communication skills.

Theresa’s consulting expertise centers on helping others identify, talk and write about why their efforts are valuable. She has taught others to communicate their value by using the language of “bottom line” results.

Theresa’s entrepreneurial career began rather unexpectedly.

During her 18-year career with a top Fortune 25 company, Theresa was tasked with managing the training of a start-up sales team in North America. This team went from almost no tangible sales experience to being named the “Best in the World” by leading high-tech industry analysts—after just two short years. The team’s sales manager always cited their disciplined training program as the single most important factor of their success. A few months after being personally recognized for this effort by her company’s CEO, and with no warning, Theresa was caught up in a massive downsizing operation. Thrown into the world of entrepreneurship, Theresa began her own consulting firm and never looked back.

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