As of this January, former La Colombe and Department of Commerce staffer Heather Qader is jumping into biz ownership with her new relationship management consulting firm, The Qader Group.

“Think of us as your External Chief Relationship Officer,” she wrote Technical.ly in an email. “We build out expansion strategies for growing businesses that want to enter the next stage of business, whether that’s scaling their influence in their current market or doing the groundwork for expansion in other markets. Our goal is to help our clients build influence with a consequent impact on revenue and profitability.”

Before joining the prominent coffee roaster and retailer as CEO Todd Carmichael’s senior aide in July 2018, the Fox School of Business grad worked as manager of business development for the City of Philadelphia. Those experiences informed her desire to pursue entrepreneurship, she said.

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