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She has wisdom
and knowledge.
She is not afraid to challenge the status quo.
She asks leaders the hard questions that others often hesitate to
ask.
She's persuasive, responsible, and extremely result-oriented.
Above all, she's a true professional
These
are a few ways in which Bette's long-term repeat clients have described
this self-made entrepreneur.
In 1982, Bette
combined her award-winning television and newspaper journalism experience
with her quest to help executives in company's large and small by
providing consulting and training services through her management
consulting company, The Price Group. In 1994 she was recognized
for her success by being selected as one of only 100 CEOs and business
leaders nationwide who were featured in Pathways to Success:
Today's Business Leaders Tell How To Excel in Work, Career, and
Leadership Roles (Barrett Koehler). Two years later she wrote
her first book, Rejecting Rejection, sharing her own childhood
adversities in an effort to encourage others move beyond their adversities
to fulfill their dreams.
In 1987 Bette
joined the National Speakers Association, adding professional speaking
to her consulting and training. Several years later she was asked
to share her insights with business professionals in Kuala Lumpur
and Penang, Malaysia; Singapore; and Jakarta, Indonesia. Today she
is a nationally recognized expert who delivers business keynotes
on leadership and business development issues.
As an affiliated
partner of TTI Performance Systems in Scottsdale, Arizona, Bette
has earned the designations of Certified Professional Behavioral
Analyst and Certified Professional Values Analyst, which enables
her to measure why and how individuals perform in the workplace.
Drawing upon her extensive use of these development tools, Bette,
and colleague George Ritcheske, administered the Values profile
to CEOs and Presidents of nationwide companies to research what
motivates some leaders, more than others, to genuinely value people
as well as profits. The results of this research is published in
the popular book: True Leaders: How Exceptional CEOs and Presidents
Make A Difference by Building People and Profit. (Dearborn Trade
Press, December 2001). Visit the True Leaders website - Click
here.
Bette's personal
leadership roles include being a two-time president of the National
Speakers Association/North Texas (NSA/NT), Chair of the Editorial
Advisory Board and the Consultants Professional Expertise Group
of the National Speakers Association (NSA) , and a member of the
NSA Chapter Leadership Council. For her professionalism in speaking
she is one of only six recipients of the Joseph J. Charbonneau Award
and in 1993, and 2002 was awarded the NSA President Award for outstanding
service. She is also an active member of the Institute of Management
Consultants, and has earned it's prestigeous designation as a Certified
Management Consultant.
With all Bette's
professional accomplishments, the roles she takes the greatest pride
in are those of mother to Lani and Blake and grandmother to Brittany,
Lauren, Austin and Alexis. "They are the loves of my life and
they keep me vital and young," Price says.
Bette is married
to the true love of her life, John Warren Price, a former television
news anchor, turned national management consultant. They live in
the Dallas suburb of Addison, Texas, where a mere 9,600 people live
and where more than 17,000 restaurant seats are only moments away
from their home-all too many in which Bette says they have occupied.
The most
unusual thing about Bette: Bette may be one of the few people
you will ever know who had a twin engine aero commander crash into
her house and live to tell about it. That's right. The ill-fated
cargo craft took off from Love Field Airport near downtown Dallas
at approximately 3 a.m. on a warm, July morning. After only 15 minutes
in the air it crashed through the homes of Bette and her neighbor.
The miracle--no one was killed. It did displace Bette and her family
for nearly a year, but today, back in her rebuilt home, when stressful
things happen to her, she takes a breath and says, "Well, it's
not an airplane."
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