Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Muse To Creative Minds

Consultant, business manager, entrepreneur, and technologist with highly honed collaborative and creative skills.

Creator of numerous business models and organizations to promote the development and cross-pollination of knowledge, Ms. St. James is an experienced leader and business manager skilled at recognizing business opportunities and building alliances between constituencies that result in successful and mutually rewarding partnerships. She utilizes her skills as a marketer, promoter and administrator to develop and deploy unique products that satisfy niche markets and create new business opportunities. She is often referred to as a muse to creative minds.

Designer of the Sports Utility Towel
Gym sweet towel with two padded pockets to hold cell phone, keys, plus miscellaneous items that can easily be left behind when exercising.


Author - Don’t Diet: The Handbook on Kicking The Aging Habit
ISBN 978-1-4116-9463-7
A guide on how to effect the aging process by adapting a positive attitude and taking responsibility of nutrition and physical activity. A chronicle of the process of becoming healthy and fit as a senior citizen.


AccelerProcess.com
A unique focused and flexible method that assists creative minds to clarify and organize ideas, position the outcome, and develop an action plan to reach hte desired goal.

IRATraining.com
Get information and learn the benefits of self-directed retirement investing available to you in the tax code. Guides, manuals, seminars plus much more for self education.

DecideonRealEstate.com
Web-based business with tools to help reduce the huge dropout percentage of new real estate agents in the U.S, and a series of seminars that teach individuals how to become self-directed investors.

Acceler Model
A dynamic economic development template for the purpose of creating a private/public sector platform for sustainable regional economic development.

Technopolis XChange
An international organization for the purpose of cross-pollinating expertise and creating new business opportunities between communities with like technology bases.

TBN (Technical Business Network)
A non-profit professional membership organization that serves technology companies nationally and internationally by fostering alliances and providing access to business resources.


Education
B.S.I.S., Texas State University, Texas
System Engineer, IBM Technical Educational Programs - Flint and Ann Arbor, MI

More About St. James

Over an eight-year period St. James led numerous technology-related initiatives that have had exposure in USA Today, CNNfn, CNET, and regional media. Her background as a corporate executive and system engineer provides her with an understanding of the many aspects of building alliances to successfully develop and implement various products and services.

During her career she has held several executive positions including corporate director, director of management information systems, and founder and director of the first automated advertising interconnect in the United States.

She has served on the Austin Texas Mayor’s international cabinet as a board member of the International Center of Austin (ICA). She is an Honorary Citizen of Lubbock, Texas in recognition of her leadership in the formation of the Lubbock Regional BioScience Initiative for West Texas, and for her ongoing service to the community. She served on the Founding Member Council for the 15th World Congress on Information Technology. In 2001 High Tech Austin named her a Mover & Shaker and, in 1999 she was named trade advisor to the JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization).

Her interests include her art endeavors, European Union development programs, international cooperation and cross-pollination, and international travel.

She is the mother of four grown children, a proud grandmother of seven, and an artist and published poet.