Board of Advisors

Petey Parker: Speaker, Author, Consultant

Petey Parker delivers core business fundamentals through keynote addresses, consulting and seminars to audiences of all sizes. She brings an honest perspective as an outside observer, provides strategic insight into challenges facing companies today and helps them discover solutions to achieve clarity for tomorrow.  

In more than 20 years as a speaker and trainer, Petey has addressed groups from a broad base of industries.  Petey has worked extensively with associations, financial institutions, governments and non-profits. Petey's topics are timely and address issues affecting business today, such as the growing Generational Divide.  Wal-Mart recently hired Petey to develop a program regarding this issue for the company's regional managers in Texas.

As a corporate executive for 28 years, Petey has worked within every aspect of a corporation - from communicating with clients, vendors and management to conducting corporate presentations, government affairs and forging business alliances.  As a vice president of one of the nations largest privately held real estate firms, Petey helped establish one of the most innovative relocation divisions in America. She also served as the interim CEO for The Realty Alliance (TRA) while guiding the organization through the selection of their new president.

In addition to her keynote addresses and seminars, Petey currently provides business consulting and sales training for Banking Compensation Consulting, Billingsley Company, K. Post Roofing and Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. Lucy Crow Billingsley, president of Billingsley Company, states, "Petey Parker is the best! When I needed a strategist, a personal advisor, someone who could see into our company in ways that we cannot see ourselves, Petey rose to the occasion. She set new standards and energized our sales and management teams."

Petey is an author of two books, Corporate Kitty Litter and Body Language and Soulful Thoughts.  She has been published in several stories in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.  Petey will also be a contributing author with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard in the book entitled, Blueprint for Success, which will publish in Spring 2008.