Business · Leadership · Mindset
Audra
Fournier
MBA · Professor, FSU Jim Moran Institute for Entrepreneurship
Everyone has the ability to be their best self.
A business and mindset coach who gives professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders actionable strategies they can use on Monday. She also teaches entrepreneurship at Florida State University, so the room gets the academic thinking and the operator who has run the business.
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Scaling your business through strategic systems
Her words: shift your perspective and open new opportunities.
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- Audience
- Business owners, entrepreneurs, executives, leadership teams, chamber and association audiences, students
- Known for
- Scaling through strategic systems, leadership development, personal branding, faster decision making
- Based in
- Tallahassee, Florida
- Virtual
- Yes, including virtual training events
- Delivers
- Keynote, workshop, virtual session
- Customized
- She tailors the presentation to fit your industry and your audience
- Credentials
- MBA, John Maxwell certified speaker, trainer, coach and DISC administrator, professor at FSU's Jim Moran Institute
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What topics does Audra Fournier speak about?
Scaling a business through strategic systems, leadership development for entrepreneurs, the power of personal branding, how to make smarter decisions faster, and the intersection of academia and real world business. She works from a background in business and mindset coaching and in DISC communication.
Who is Audra Fournier best suited to speak for?
Professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders. In practice that means business owners, executives, leadership teams, chamber and association audiences, and students or emerging entrepreneurs.
What types of events does Audra Fournier speak at?
Conferences, workshops, and corporate events. Past examples she lists include the 2024 Preservation on Mainstreet Conference, the 2023 JMI Small Business Conference, the 2022 NWFLAPA Annual Conference, the 2020 NACR Business Summit, the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, and BNI NW Florida.
Does Audra Fournier offer virtual presentations?
Yes. She has delivered virtual training events, and the feedback on those specifically credits her with keeping a virtual room engaged and interactive rather than passive.
Where is Audra Fournier based, and will she travel?
She is based in Tallahassee, Florida. She states that organizations nationwide trust her to deliver results, and she also delivers virtually. Confirm travel and any travel costs with her directly.
What outcomes can Audra Fournier's audience expect?
In her own framing: a shift in perspective that opens new opportunities, leadership skills that drive team success, a reputation turned into opportunity through personal branding, and business know-how turned into instincts a leader can act on quickly.
Will Audra Fournier tailor the talk to our industry?
Yes. She states that she tailors her presentations to fit your industry and your audience rather than delivering a fixed talk.
Is Audra Fournier a professor as well as a speaker?
Yes. Alongside her coaching practice she serves as a professor with Florida State University's Jim Moran Institute for Entrepreneurship, where she teaches the next generation of business leaders. She describes this as letting her merge academic insight with real world experience, and it is one of the topics she speaks on.
What are Audra Fournier's credentials?
An MBA from the University of Tampa and a Bachelor of Science in Business, Hospitality Management, from Florida State University. She is a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer, Coach and DISC Administrator, and a Fowler International Masters Business Coach and Professional Life Coach.
Has Audra Fournier written a book?
No. She has not published a book. Her written work appears on her blog, and she offers digital programs and a DISC personality profile assessment through her own site.
How do I book Audra Fournier?
You can reach her by email at audra@partnersforasolution.com or by phone at 850-591-7438. Her profile is listed in the Charli Jane Speakers Directory.
What she covers
Five topics, cut to fit your industry.
These are the topics Audra names as the ones she loves to cover, in her own words. She states that she tailors the content to your industry and your audience rather than delivering a fixed talk, so treat each one as a starting point for the conversation.
Scaling your business through strategic systems
In her own words: “Shift your perspective and open new opportunities.”
Leadership development for entrepreneurs
In her own words: “Develop leadership skills that drive team success.”
The power of personal branding
In her own words: “Personal branding turns reputation into opportunity.”
How to make smarter decisions faster
In her own words: “Turn your business know-how into trustworthy instincts.”
The intersection of academia and real world business
In her own words: “Preparing for entrepreneurial success.”
What she brings to the room
- Business and mindset coaching. Real world strategies rather than theory.
- Engaging and interactive presentations. Built to inspire and motivate rather than lecture.
- Customized content. She tailors the presentation to fit your industry and your audience.
- A track record. In her words, organizations nationwide trust her to deliver results.
Why Audra
She teaches it, and she has run it.
A professor with Florida State University's Jim Moran Institute for Entrepreneurship who also runs her own coaching practice. The academic thinking and the operator arrive in the same person.
Audra on why she is worth booking, in her own words.
Audra was an exceptional speaker at our virtual training event this year! She made the event fun and interactive by asking our members cool questions throughout. Virtual events can get boring, but Audra's dynamic style kept everyone engaged and thinking. I highly recommend her for any professional development event you need.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Business Bootcamp. The information and materials covered were exactly what I needed to re-group and take a good look at where I wanted my business to change and grow. She asks the right questions to help you as the business owner focus both on yourself and the business. At the end I had a clear plan to make changes in a few areas of my business and for myself, including hiring Audra as my business coach!
Audra guided me to discover and release fears that were holding me back from elevating to the next level. Within 6 months, business doubled and every dynamic of life including quality family time flourished.
Audra has an amazing ability to get to the heart of the matter. Our sessions were always productive and I never felt like she was trying to slow play the process.
Meet Audra
Academic insight, and a business she actually runs.
“The best thing about being a coach is being a part of the success story.”
In her own description, Audra is a listener, a speaker, a motivator, a creative problem solver, and an entrepreneur, and her foremost goal is getting people to the next step and beyond. She is committed to helping people realise they are capable of far more than they thought possible.
Alongside her coaching practice she serves as a professor with Florida State University's Jim Moran Institute for Entrepreneurship, where she guides and equips the next generation of business leaders with the tools, strategies and mindset they need to succeed. Teaching at university level, she says, has let her merge academic insight with real world experience and gives her a perspective she brings back into the practice.
She holds an MBA from the University of Tampa and a Bachelor of Science in Business in Hospitality Management from Florida State University, and her life and business coaching certifications are from Fowler International. She is a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer, Coach and DISC Administrator.
The part of the work she names as the best part is witnessing the success stories. She describes scouring the world for the most effective strategies and bringing them to clients as action steps that are easy enough to follow that the change actually lasts.
She works from Tallahassee, Florida, and states that she works with clients wherever they are.
Could Audra be right for your room?
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Send your event date, who is in the room, and the format you have in mind. Audra replies directly, so you can decide quickly whether the fit is right. Her own site is a second place to get to know her, not a detour.
Email: audra@partnersforasolution.com
Phone: 850-591-7438
Website: audrafournier.com