Passport to Opportunity
With kids launched, an empty house and no reason to restrain my wanderlust, the world is my oyster again. I wanted to take my business on the road. But I found not one single reference to help me. So I created one. Thus, the 90 Day Expat Entrepreneur was conceived as a step-by-step system to build a business as an expat.
Origins/Inspiration
I've had a passport since I was 14 for my first caribbean vacation - we were a group of 10 teens with two chaperones. I fell in love immediately. The Caribbean is still my favorite place to be.
The next year, I discovered Europe on a school ski trip to the Alps. A few of these trips to Austria and Switzerland convinced me to spend a college semester immersed in the language, living on my own just outside Munich, Germany. Seeing a country from the inside as a local student instead of simply as a tourist was an education in itself.
After college, I joined the Peace Corps and worked in Benin, West Africa as a high school English teacher for a couple years. I explored all of West Africa during those two years. I had so many visas, I ran out of pages in my passport.
Before heading home, I toured East Africa and a number of Mediterranean countries, solo. That's when I earned my stripes as a World Traveler.
In graduate school, I had two concentrations: Operations Management and International Marketing. At the time, the Pacific Rim was still very unknown, but we had a former US Consular to Malaysia as a professor, who showed us the corporate and entrepreneurial opportunities of the region. It enriched my visit to Hong Kong a few years later and led to many personal and professional connections in the Pacific Rim region.
Kerri Salls
Kerri Salls is President of Breakthrough Enterprise, LLC, a business advisory services company committed to empowering solo-professional achievers: entrepreneurs, solo-preneurs, and consultants with the tools to launch and thrive in the business of their dreams.
Kerri offers strategy programs and marketing products to help you develop and market your business and yourself -- ranging from principles to launch or exit a business to leadership development and business ROI analysis.
While Kerri is best known for her clarity of vision and strategic solutions, clients share that her biggest value to them is a system for designing a business centered on your values and the lifestyle you choose. This, Kerri says, is the key for a business owner to go beyond success to achieve wealth and happiness.
Kerri conducts an annual three-day retreat/workshop in August to help solo professionals regroup and plan the next 18 months of your business. It attracts solo-preneurs, consultants and service providers (accountants, attorneys, financial advisors, medical professionals), interested in developing a plan to achieve long-term goals. Contact our office if you'd like to receive announcements of this event.
Kerri is a 30 year veteran of state-of-the-art technology companies, a solution-focused strategist who delivers on organizational development and effectiveness. She has helped scores of business leaders initiate change and plan strategically to achieve bottom-line revenue improvement solutions.
Kerri helps consultants, solo-preneurs and entrepreneurs work on their business, not just in their business, by implementing a foundation of key strategies from concept through implementation to achieve strategic and financial growth. Kerri cultivates corporate and professional growth, leadership DNA formation, and team effectiveness.