Stu Neal

Stu Neal

 (B) 804-521-4320  (B) 804-730-9125   (Fax) 804-521-4300

Email:   SpeakingBusiness@aol.com

Summary

Entrepreneur, Business Educator, Author, and Professional Public Speaker with over thirty years experience in business and management, both in the private sector and in the public sector with municipal government. Mr. Neal’s background includes business development, sales, and marketing on local, state, and national levels. Business related areas of expertise include extensive experience in business management and marketing as a principal owner (or partner) of twenty separate small businesses since age twenty-one, and include experience in direct sales to both large and small business and governmental entities while working for national companies.

Mr. Neal has an extensive background with education and training which includes curriculum development and teaching of market specific sales programs, market analysis, employee relations, entrepreneurship, and small business startup and management. Mr. Neal has had the honor of receiving numerous awards during his career for contributions to the business education community including the “1990 Award of Merit” by the Maine Vocational Association. 

From 2000 to 2006, he was the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Development with the Community College Workforce Alliance in Virginia.

Mr. Neal was listed in the Who’s Who in Professional Speaking from 1998 to 2003 as a nationally recognized public speaker on entrepreneurial related subjects. Within the last several years he has presented keynote speeches or seminars for over a dozen local organizations in Central Virginia, and has appeared as a local guest expert on CNN’s “Local Edition” and Richmond’s RIC-TV “Business Connections”. Mr. Neal is presently listed in the 2008 edition of the Marquis “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in Business and Finance.”

In 2002, Mr. Neal’s first novel, DISC, was published. He is also author of a newspaper column, Talking Business, which began in 2003 and is published monthly in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. That column is specific to small business related issues and content, and has been quoted nationally from the west coast to Florida.

Mr. Neal is President of Interactive Educational Concepts, Inc.; President and CEO of GearMax USA Ltd.; and Principal of the SMN Consulting Group, all headquartered in Hanover County, Virginia.

From: Fuller, David
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:07 PM
Subject: Central Virginia Small Business Resources Day

Comments from "Marketing Your Business On A Shoestring"

"The type of speaker to wrap up a good but long day. I stayed largely to see him & glad I did!"

"Speaker was helpful, fun, creative, effective and energizing!"

"Speaker gave great and practical information and ideas."

 Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:19 PM
To: Neal, Stuart
Subject: Your Presentation at Peoples Retreat

Hi Stu,