More About Sharon Henifin

Strengths:

Dependable, Patient, Enthusiastic, Positive, Goal oriented, Self motivated, Hard working, Flexible, Comfortable with change, Great team leader as well as part of a team.

Skills:

Great oral and written presentation and communication skills. Sales, training, coaching and management skills. Intuitive people skills, problem solving and planning. Wide range of computer skills

Work with Breast Friends

Executive Director and Co-Founder

Program Manager-First I Cry and Volunteer Match

Graphics & E-newsletter

Web Master

Work one-on-one with patients, friends and family

Present educational seminars

Life Coach

Career - Sales, Marketing and Management - Retired

Retired from Dex Yellow Pages in 2006 after 33 years of sales, marketing and management

Sales Force Automation Manager

Classroom Trainer/Floor Support Trainer/ Sales Coach

Qwest Dex:Sales Manager-Yellow Pages & Internet Sales

Qwest Dex-US West Dex-US West Direct-Pacific NW Bell-Yellow Page Advertising Consultant

Inside & Outside Sales, Special Accounts Executive

Education & Training

Marylhurst University-Communication-Training & Development

Professional Trainers Conference participant

Created and delivered Breast Friends “Volunteer Match” training program

Created and delivered “Telephone Etiquette” to internal and external customers

Prepared and trained “Keystone, the key to the future” for sales (9 month special project)

Helped write and facilitate, Power of Two, Print & Internet Advertising

Planned and delivered Critical Issues seminars, Critical Issues II, Critical Issues mgmt & leadership

Participated in sales, motivational and computer training, eg. Initials &advanced sales training, SkillPath

7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, Thriving in an Re-engineered World, Keystone,

Yellow Pages and the Media Mix,

Received Training in: Total Quality Management, Focus on the future, Diversity, Ed Foreman, Brian Tracy, Lou Tice, Bob Mowad, etc.

Awards

Susan G Komen for the Cure/BMW “Local Heros Award” for outstanding work in the breast cancer world.

Russian Oregon Social Services (R.O.S.S.) for significant contribution to their breast health program

Manager-President's Circle of Excellence, #1 Internet Sales teams

Sales- President's and Vice President's Circle of Excellence Awards, set all time highs in directory sales

Top customer service and accuracy awards

Won Merit Awards in Portland Ad Federation competition

Community Involvement

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Breast Friends, breast cancer outreach,

Co-Survivor Co-Chair 2004-2007 Komen Race for the Cure,

Volunteer at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility - cancer support group

Volunteer with Russian Oregon Social Services - providing breast health info through translators.

Organized three Toastmaster clubs, served as President, Vice Pres and advisor.

Meals on Wheels 1999-2001

Race for the Cure, participant, volunteer, and team organizer, 1994-2007

Organized and participated in Tigard Festival of Balloons and Taste of Beaverton, 1996-2000

United Way Co-Chairman 1995-1997

Organized Christmas projects for needy children & families, collecting money, gifts, company match,

Big Sister-Big Brother program, Youth Mentor, Volunteers of America volunteer

Personal:

Married, mother of three, step mother of 4 and grandmother of 3. She and her husband, Vern, live in Tigard, Oregon.