Teresa Szczurek
is interviewed by host Brad Swift
On the Living & Working On Purpose show

Szczurek works with firms worldwide in strategic planning/execution, market and sales development, people/process alignment, and organization/leadership development to produce extraordinary results. Szczurek is also author of the Amazon-bestseller, Pursuit of Passionate Purpose, which provides her proven, step-by-step formula for success.

She is an award-winning speaker, author, consultant, Gazelles® business coach, and entrepreneur whose Colorado-based technology firm, Radish Communications Systems, sold for over $40 million. She started her career as a Member of Technical Staff for Bell Laboratories and held management positions of increasing responsibility at AT&T.

Dr. Szczurek helps ventures and leaders grow to new heights. Working over the last 25 years with established and emerging firms, government entities, and non-profit organizations in strategic planning/execution, worldwide market, sales force, and economic development, and organization/leadership development, she generates triple bottom-line results. As a management consultant and process facilitator, she uses her skills in growing organizations to help clients build revenues, transform customers into loyal champions, and build a passionate workforce.

For five consequent years, she was in Denver Business Journal’s Who’s Who in Tech and Telecom. She has helped guide economic development and entrepreneurship through business incubation. For her passionate work to help entrepreneurs, she received the Colorado Technology Incubator (now known as CTEK) Model of Excellence and Board Member Service Awards. Szczurek is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants.

As a public speaker and seminar leader, she has reached hundreds of thousands of people. Recognized internationally as a guru in entrepreneurship and business incubation, she co-authored Financing High Technology Ventures with executives from the Polish Chamber of Commerce. Her first book is Champions of Technological Change: How Organizations Successfully Implement New Technology. An awarded professional, she was selected Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Women (BPW), YWCA Woman of Achievement, “Woman Who Lights Up the Community” by Boulder Chamber of Commerce, and Denver Business Journal’s “Real Women, Real Business” winner. She is a professional member of National Speakers Association.

She works relentlessly for the underprivileged. For her efforts to help women be competitive in worldwide trade and to raise international educational funds, she received the Spirit Award of BPW/Colorado and the National Issues Management Award of BPW/USA. For raising the Colorado BPW Foundation $300,000 endowment to help women attain economic self-sufficiency through education, she received the BPW Visionary Award. She received the Rotarian of Year and Quiet Hero Awards from Boulder Rotary Club for “Service Above Self.” She is a member of the prestigious International Women’s Forum. She is truly living a Purposeful and Passionate Life.