Get to know The Connor Team!

1. Ann Connor
You can learn a lot about Ann Connor from her numbers. In a down housing market, she helped a home inspector’s sales
improve 25 percent and an architect’s sales soar 87 percent. “One of the smartest decisions I’ve made as a new business
owner was to work with Ann Connor,” one client glowed. As a business coach, Ann is an accountability partner, careful
listener and patient teacher. She’s helped more than 70 small business owners identify their goals, steer them around a
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multitude of obstacles, and tackle their long term challenges with a series of manageable steps. Much of the knowledge
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she shares is common sense, but she sees her work as empowering people to be successful.
No wonder she’s earned multiple awards since she began as an AdviCoach advisor in 2008 -- a Rising Star, then Coach of
the Year for two years running. She won the “Buck Stops Here” award for her infectious positive attitude, objectivity
and ability to take responsibility for results. She relates well to small business owners as she’s been one herself, starting
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up two separate businesses with first-year sales in the high six figures. While she works hard to help her clients reach
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their goals, she’s happiest when reaching for her golf clubs, tennis racquet or backpack to explore New Hampshire’s
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natural wonders.
Before running her own businesses, Ann learned from others, through management positions with Sam’s Club and C&S
Wholesale Grocers. Her industry expertise includes strategic planning, profit and loss management, inventory control,
product marketing and product development. She holds an MBA in organizational behavior from Suffolk University and a
BA from Emmanuel College.
Michelle Connor
Successful business owners don’t always share their secrets, but Michelle Connor will. Always the person people turn to
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for help, she channels that talent as a business coach and counselor, applying her years of leadership in retail,
manufacturing and as the co-founder of not one but two businesses.
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“Michelle is a powerful motivator,” said one satisfied client, “an asset to any company looking to increase their profits.”
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Through AdviCoach, Michelle offers relationship
relationship-based coaching. She mentors business owners, giving them a
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customized business education that addresses their specific challenges, mapped out in regular meetings, with a coach
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that holds them accountable with a smile.
For those ready to move from employment to empowerment, Michelle serves as career coach and franchise expert with
The Entrepreneur’s Source, where she helps aspiring business owners evaluate start up opportunities based on their
start-up
skills and life experience. In both roles, she draws on more than 2 years of building trust and delivering customer
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service. She has led project teams and managed million
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Club, Staples and medical device manufacturer FM Corporation. Selected for several leadership development programs,
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she also undertook intensive training at Franchise Source Brands International University.
When she moved back home to New England, Michelle plunged into her AdviCoach work, earning the Franchisee Coach
England,
of the Year award her first year out. She went on to win that same award in 2010 as well along with other prestigious
awards within AdviCoach. She loves the outdoors, and if you want to make her day, ask her about her grandchildren.