May Meeting
Thursday, May 15, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Topic: Follow up to "Successful Marketing Plans Begin with SWOT Analysis"
Speaker: Kathelen Weinberg
Where: Gammelgården Museum in Scandia, MN
June Meeting
Thursday, June 19, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Robin Culbreath - Branding and Marketing
Robin Culbreath Limited
Place to be announced
Robin Culbreath specializes in designing brands, products, residential and retail environments. She is passionate about design and color in all forms.
She has been designing brand identities and images for more than twenty years.
Robin seamlessly merges her intuitive understanding of lifestyle trends with strategic processes, creating powerful, experiential brands and products.
With a degree in Art History, Robin loves to write about what she sees. She recently launched her magazine, Savvy Hip | Smart | Aware.
Robin routinely writes for:: Fine Furnishings International, Midwest Home, Midwest Home Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine.
She is an in-demand speaker and authority on consumer lifestyle trends and color forecasting. She has been quoted in numerous publications.
She is a member of the Color Marketing Group and US Green Building Council.
Robin founded the OverAchieva Diva Alliance of high-octane women entrepreneurs with go-getter attitudes, helping each other achieve success.
When not designing, Robin enjoys a lovely life in the award-winning conservation community of Jackson Meadow with her husband Mitch, their yellow-lab Rembrandt Van Rijn, and three cats, Lily, Tom and Mila.
Robin is currently writing a home furnishings book.
Meeting Coordinator - Heidi Gemuenden
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