#135 –Jeri Mae Rowley - Life Lessons from the Saddle Shop

4 months ago

Welcome to the #ShareYourHotness Podcast episode 135!

Jeri Mae Rowley, Speaker ~Trainer~ Saddle Maker's Daughter, shares precious life and leadership lessons from her family's world-famous saddle shop.

She has been invited to present keynotes and concurrent sessions in 39 states, Canada, and the US Virgin Islands. Provide leadership, communications, and customer service training for businesses and organizations. Jeri Mae's clientele covers an intriguing variety of industries and organizations: from the Federal Reserve to National Wildlife Preserves; municipalities to multi-media; semiconductor to pet cemeteries; drill bit manufacturing to tropical island resorts.

Her resume includes successful experience as a manager, salesperson, state-wide training program administrator, college workforce training director, and college instructor.

She has been president of “almost every organization I’ve belonged to since Lively Livestock 4-H.” She is a past president of the National Speaker’s Association’s Mountain West Chapter, serving professional speakers in Idaho, Utah, Montana, and Wyoming. She has also served as president of her local Chamber of Commerce, Faculty Senate, Convention and Visitor Bureau, Society of Human Resource Managers, and National Speakers Association. She served on the Boards of the National Speakers Association DC Chapter and the DC Metro Association for Talent Development.

She taught Small Business Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, and Hospitality Management for sixteen years at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana. She is a Certified Instructor for the Montana Department of Commerce NxLeveL Entrepreneurship Course, Travel Montana Superhost Customer Service Training, and the American Hotel and Lodging Association in Management and Marketing.

In addition to her teaching duties at Flathead Valley Community College, she served as the college’s Workforce Training Director and Statewide Coordinator for Travel Montana’s Superhost Customer Service Seminar program. Jeri Mae has received regional, state, and national recognition for her success as a leader and educator, including Montana’s Glacier Country Person of the Year, Montana State SHRM “Above and Beyond Award,” and the prestigious “Visiting Scholar Award” from the National Tourism Foundation.

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Leta Greene