Indeed a very unusual combination. Our founder, Linda Brewster, has a lifelong passion for coffee. Even before Linda fell in love with strategic planning & leadership development while earning her MBA in Finance, she loved coffee. Her grandparents owned a bakery/coffeeshop and her earliest childhood memories are around the kitchen table with family drinking coffee.
Linda was awestruck by a few things about coffee:
So, again, why Coffee? No other reason than our founder, Linda, loves coffee and truly believes that her extraordinary homegrown recipe can help us help you, your family, your friends, your company, and your community.
Our mission is a blend of different ingredients – specially crafted to empower you to identify what you truly need to be happy and what you want to be fulfilled. Through a special mixture of facilitated introspection and interactive goal-setting, we help navigate you in your journey to success by utilizing the Enneagram system, Agile methodology, and data analytics. We believe that by understanding how you think, how you feel, and how you behave….your relationships (old & new) will be enhanced, thus enabling you to become both professionally satisfied and personally fulfilled – in other words: to be happy & feel successful.
For Restaurants & Hotels: Coffee Menu & Implementation Coaching
For Coffee Wholesalers: Business Strategic Plan Coaching
For Businesses: Team Development and Goal Coaching
Individual & Group Programs : Team Building Activities
· 30+ years experience as a cross-functional manager and consultant with the vision and insight to strategically plan and direct business operations to maximize effectiveness and productivity, through a array of leadership development methodologies
· Certified Enneagram Coach by “The Business In Enneagram”
· Co-Founder of the International Enneagram Association’s Engagement Committee
· Masters of Business Administration in Finance
· Contributing Writer, San Antonio EDIBLE Magazine, “Linda the Coffee Lady” article
· Certified Agile Product Owner
· Founder of the San Antonio Coffee Festival, a celebration of all things coffee; its hallmark is the Specialty Coffee Tasting Flights showcasing 25+ local coffee companies featuring 90+ coffee types. Held annually since 2012 at La Villita Historic Arts Village on The River Walk, enthusiastically accompanied by local musicians, artists, chefs, and community groups and supported by the City of San Antonio and La Villita Historic Arts Village Tenant’s Association
· Certified Golden Cup Technician by the Specialty Coffee Association of America
· Founder, Women & Wine on Wednesdays: A Women’s Professional Networking Group
· Wife of 28+ years and mother of two sons
Expertise in providing breakthrough results to:
Achieve corporate goals and objectives through innovative strategies
Manage change to strengthen organizational performance by building relationships
Out-of-the-box creative ideas to amplify core strengths and fortify blind spots, utilizing Enneagram Coach certifications
Applying the Agile framework to support efficiency and productivity leveraging the power of data analytics to enhance adept decision-making
Extensive experience in: strategic planning, coaching, finance, business intelligence, data analytics, IT, project management, accounting, manufacturing, marketing, sales, PR, and more
Very strong leadership record in team-building, collaboration, presentation, and communications. Highly engaged, versatile, flexible, creative, data-driven, goal-oriented, and self-motivated
In 2020, completed ten years with iHeartMedia: A global firm dedicated to driving financial performance through its strong, multiple platform position and unparalleled audience reach, the largest of any radio or TV outlet in America; home to iHeartRadio, iHeartFestivals, and 850 live broadcast stations in 153 markets across the US; over a quarter a billion monthly listeners and 129+ million social followers ). Helped this giant enterprise in leading its data analytics journey, supporting systems 24/7 and big data – serving as the liaison between business stakeholders enterprise-wide for the IT teams.
An early-stage leader in Center of Excellence principles and the Agile framework serving as both Product Owner and Scrum Master .
Certified Agile Product Owner certification in Oct 2017. Founding member in 2018 of the Committee for the annual Hackathon.
Launched the IT Women’s Podcast series in 2018 and led the IT Team’s International Women’s Day and International Coffee Day activities in 2019. Favorite software systems: Tableau & IBM Cognos, 2 leading business intelligence & analytics products.
Prior to serving as the Director of Business Information Systems at iHeartMedia, owned/operated “The Bottomline Consulting”, a boutique consulting for small/medium sized family-owned companies. Specialized in financial administration and accounting, strategic business planning, process and change management, budgeting and forecasting, marketing and sales, manufacturing, pricing and inventory processing, cost accounting, team development, software implementations, and business writing, with specific focus on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of company operations to maximize sales and lower costs.
Provided facilitation of the development and implementation of company and department-level goals, strategies, and actions plans, offering detailed timelines for step-by-step milestones and identification of key success factors. Favorite customer: French Market Coffee.
One of five partners in a boutique venture capital firm. Participated in the financial evaluation of potential investment and merger/acquisition opportunities. Served as liaison with portfolio companies’ management/Board of Directors. Oversaw the accounting departments of smaller portfolio companies and participated in companies’ strategic planning. Favorite portfolio company: Semolina International Pasta Restaurants
Served as Chief Financial Officer for the largest nationwide office coffee supplier, the largest minority franchisee of PepsiCola (a Pizza Hut franchise organization), Al Copeland Investments (founder of Popeye’s Fried Chicken and Copeland’s Restaurants), and Director of Production & Operations for an upscale women’s apparel firm, Margie Darnell, Ltd. Favorite Customer: Neiman Marcus
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