International Women's Day Celebration: Opportunities and Challenges for Women in International Business

Wendy J. English
Box Elder SBDC Director
&
CEO  of Gougco

Wendy J. English is CEO of  Gougco, a small woman owned business with expertise in leadership, change management, marketing, and emotional intelligence training. She has been a contract trainer for the state of  Utah

Bringing 15 years of business and leadership training to organizations and executives,   Wendy is client focused and has developed excellent group facilitation. Her ability to communicate clearly and succinctly with groups and individuals has earned her an overall 4.5 approval rating on a scale of 1 to 5.  In addition, Wendy works to develop an understanding of a client’s industry, business issues, unique culture, needs and expectations. She is known for providing effective and value-added solutions as well as delivering on commitments.
During the last several years Wendy has consulted and coached people from all levels of organizations to leverage their personal strengths, establish goals, and develop effective mentor networks.  She has effectively trained for public and private organizations including ATK, Eimco, Autoliv, iBAHN, Browning, Parker Hannifin, Rite Aide, Associated Foods, Zions Bancorporation, Setpoint, Workers Compensation, Kennicott, Kimberly Clark, Nortel, Comcast, Sears, Invensys, Kmart, Hoover, ABS Group, ASML, Hewlett Packard and Dyno Nobel.  Wendy also mediated and trained in hostile environments. Through her ability to create a calm, friendly and productive climate, she has also worked as a personal coach for executives from ATK, La-Z-Boy, Northwest Research, Chase, Flying J, and AOL, assisting them in achieving their corporate and personal goals. Wendy has personally trained and assisted hundreds of people successfully through transition.

Wendy is a certified consultant for the Small Business Development Center and has served Box Elder County in that capacity for two and a half years.  She has organized and executed the Box Elder Business Summit and the Utah's Own Summit in Brigham City for 2 years with statewide recognition. She served as a contract consultant for Right Management, owner of Transition Life Consulting and Co-Founder and Co-President of a non-profit organization, The Resiliency Institute, a successful training organization for nurses and social workers.  Wendy and her associates established an excellent reputation for delivering cutting edge information in the resiliency arena and assisted many women in overcoming suicidal tendencies, depression, abuse and burnout. Wendy established the non-profit status, non-profit mailing status, set up and organized all of the weekly seminar events in 7 states, oversaw budgets, mailings, enrollments, marketing, trouble shooting, and public relations, and assisted in the training.  During this time she worked with several extremely troubled people bringing them to complete functionality and individual success. She has also worked for The Osmonds, Chapelle Publishing and as a sales manager for a large direct mail company, Valpak.