It was not all clear from the beginning – just like anyone else, Vivienne started with a few random projects that helped her reshape her career and build her character.
Her first successful project was with Skechers – at just 17 years of age she worked the front desk late shift at the corporate office which was across from their founder. Vivienne was inspired by the innovative and dynamic founder and organization and moved into the founder assisting the team during the companies exciting IPO.
In the brand’s drive toward always being on-trend, Vivienne conducted research surveys for the CEO on brand feedback. This was her first exposure to market research that would help shape her future success.
At the young age of 23, Vivienne had intense exposure to marketing, branding, business development, executive-level administration and more.
Vivienne’s experiences and ability turned her into a prominent marketing figure sought after by many businesses. She established a large, diverse portfolio of clients who engaged her for her unique ability to quickly identify and correct marketing, administrative, and personnel issues that would recover and boom a business with speed. She develops turnaround programs for a business that led to her being retained by renowned organizations like Wells Fargo, Fidelity, and many more.
Further on, Vivienne’s career pushed her towards a company that provided growth opportunities. The next venture in a security company was completely different from what she was used to. Her job was to administratively restructure the company and its offices throughout the country. By 20 years old, she managed to establish 13 successful offices.
Spotting an opportunity for her business senses, she joined a law company. She worked to ensure scalability and position the company to achieve its expansion goals. In other words, she hired and trained its teams through her innovative creation of automated training programs that revolutionized their ability to attract and retain top talent.
From that point on, Vivienne left the corporate world and went to work for herself focused on marketing. Realizing the true need for great marketing to catapult a businesses success, she began to study all things marketing. She studied market research techniques, competitor research, brand development, advertising and honed her skills through projects for renowned ad agencies and market research firms that developed many large brands you know today. She established and ran teams for national market research studies and field brand research that covered everything from senators to anti-virus software to farmers in South America.
You will find many reasons to give up…but dedication to the mission and the incredible team that joins you in the journey creates a drive where success is the only option.
That’s entrepreneurship.”
Vivienne’s varied ventures exposed her to a series of different fields – such as the medical industry. She took note of successful neuropathy treatments, but the high level of bureaucracy and the lack of a solid medical system kept many doctors away from such innovations.
The irony hit her at the height of her career. Her stepfather passed away after complications caused from third degree burns in his feet. He could not feel his feet, because of his struggle with neuropathy, so he accidentally got too close to a fire that caused this accident. Although he had some surgeries and an amputation of his leg, complications eventually took his life.
Focused on her medical approach, Vivienne is currently involved with reputable doctors in the industry to ease connections between clinics and people bringing innovative products closer to patients and making medical treatments more accessible.
Currently, Vivienne is spearheading two clinical research projects with renowned medical doctors across the country. These groundbreaking studies will give way to the next chapter in Vivienne’s journey in entrepreneurship and edge her closer to her ultimate goal of doing her part to help mankind.
The neuropathy treatment could have saved Vivienne’s father’s life, hence her dedication toward this field.
She aims to bring people closer to such medical innovations and overcome limitations of access to such treatments or lack of technology in the field.
Her ventures in medical management enterprises bring patients and doctors closer.
She amassed a large medical management company that used an innovative system that has helped thousands of people already.
Her work with medical doctors and developing processes paved the way for other medical systems throughout the country.
Moreover, Vivienne’s clinic management systems made therapeutic devices more accessible to people for in-home treatments. Things are definitely moving in the right direction, but the successful entrepreneur agrees there is still a long way to go.
