Kate Williams, MA
Projects & Development Director

Heart of Business

Websites:

• http://www.heartofbusinss.com

The infrastructure queen, evolving with the business, that's me-systems creator, project coordinator, editor, random administrator, postal wizard, communicator extraordinaire, and pseudo-techie-type support person. I wound up here after leaning into some of Mark's teachings as a business owner myself-WordTurners, freelance editing, writing, and coaching. Prior to that, I was a director at the National College of Natural Medicine-a community and lifestyle I have been involved with for over 25 years. Past lives have included being a naturopathic clinic co-owner, art framer, massage therapist, nursery worker, waitress . . . you get the picture-I'm not an easy niche fit.

I've found a home here for my collaboratively creative entrepreneurial spirit. As for education, it includes volumes of life experience, personal growth adventures, several self-employment journeys poised atop an MA in English and a BS in Natural History and Creative Writing (read: nature lover with a science twist).

Facilitate, write, edit, manage projects, develop and implement systems and structures, and strategize ways to grow a small business beyond solopreneurship.

Professional community. Conversation about ways to grow businesses beyond one or two people without losing the businesses heart, integrity, and effectiveness. Want to grow all if it at Heart of Business

Portland State University

MA, English, 1999 - 2002

Rhetoric and Composition, Women's Literature, and Romantic Period Portfolio: Defiant Women and Venturesome Men: Critical Inquiries into Literary Gender Boundaries. GPA 3.98

Activities and Societies: Writing center tutor, Upward Bound tutor.

Edit University of California, Davis

BS, Natural History & Creative Writing, 1981 - 1984

Wrote my own major with emphasis on wildlife biology, environmental studies, philosophy, literature, and creative writing.

Activities and Societies: Raptor center volunteer, library assistant, entomology research assistant.

Years and years of writing, editing, teaching, project management, careful and authentic communication. Have created and run three businesses and directed a medical school bookstore. PC & Mac literate. Fluent in many systems and structures required to operate a successful online business.