About Me 2008

About Me 2008

Jolene Jang is the founder and owner of the Meeting Maximizer. Her clients and friends call her the Fun Specialist for obvious reasons. Yes, you can be fun and efficient and effective. Who knew?

She takes average, dull meetings and turns them into events, where people are interacting, awake and paying attention. You can bet she has job security. This is her fourteenth year working with and consulting for Fortune 100 companies like Hewlett Packard, State Farm, Microsoft. Media enjoys talking about her service because the unique blend of fun and productivity. Jolene continues to bring teams together and humanizing the work place.

Background

Jolene reigns from Seattle, Washington and enjoys traveling the world. While roaming the globe, she is always searching for fresh solutions and innovative answers. She has the knowledge, experience, education and confidence to conquer the triple demons of insufficient employee motivation, stagnant productivity and disjointed teams. With a unique skill set from event planning, marketing and entertainment, Jolene prevents boring meetings from becoming snoring meetings. She brings employees together as a cohesive unit with a mirror; it's all about them. Converting a multitude of dry information into an entertaining, yet informative presentation, Jolene ensures that employees retains the knowledge. In the news ABC, NBC, KIRO, Sales and Marketing Magazine and Northwest Meetings and Events are just a few of the media outlets keeping tabs on Jolene's fun formula developments and ever-changing techniques. The benefits of are all available to you and your employees! Why not get a jump-start on the trend of the fun and fruitful workplace?

Helping Clients

The Meeting Maximizer provides her clientele with another voice to anchor the corporate message, motivate teams, influence improved productivity and build company loyalty and morale, all the while rewarding the participants. She eliminates the threat of boredom by way of exciting and engaging content, in order to provide attendees with a fresh outlook. Their sense of self-worth and devotion are renewed, resulting in a feeling of complete investment in the success of the corporation.

Contributions

She brings diverse groups together, gets them on the same page and strengthens the team connection through effective communication and mutual understanding. Employees recognize new commonalities and are more sensitive to differences, thus creating bonds and new paths for progress. These refreshing changes result in a more harmonious workforce.

Jolene's early beginnings

Jolene was trained on a ledger at six years old. After all, she had products in the market. Rubber stamped bookmarks, lunch bags and let's not forget homemade pom-poms were her specialties. Every six year old needs an accounting system. In 6^th grade, she began on her first daytimer. The life of a planner began. August 1996 was the month she opened her business doors to adventure.

How did Jolene get her skills?

By always exploring new places, meeting new people and being open-minded.

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Helping Clients

Contributions

Jolene's early beginnings

How did Jolene get her skills?

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