Linda Walker

If anyone were to ask me about how to get more clients or increase revenues, the first thing I’d say is work with Linda Walker. She’s a great marketing consultant! She helped me develop overall marketing strategies, supported me when I had doubts about my ideas, and give invaluable suggestions when I was not sure what to do.
I highly recommend Linda! She’s very nice and reliable, very knowledgeable and definitely will help your business grow!

If I had my way, I would gift Linda Walker’s services to everyone considering making the leap from corporate life to self-​employment. Linda’s knowledge is extensive, her ability to quickly brainstorm and problem solve is so rare in part, I believe, because she is one of the most attentive listeners I have ever met.
In our first year together, Linda has coached me through the basics of shifting in mind and practice from being an employee to a sole proprietor. I can’t minimize the importance of having a knowledgeable person, someone I deeply respect, trust (and just plain like) to guide me along the process of creating systems and practices to improve how I work. Linda is that rare blend of knowledgeable, professional, and tough.
What I especially appreciate about Linda is how she leads by example. She comes to our meetings prepared, printed agenda in hand, having reflected on our last session and even email exchanges in between sessions, and is always ready to jump right in.
I don’t make public recommendations lightly and yet this is one I offer happily and without a single hesitation after working with Linda for over a year.

What impressed me most about the three months I spent engaging in what I would call business development boot camp with Linda is her laser-​like focus. She is an extraordinary listener who brings out the issues that need addressing and reflects back your strengths and accomplishments in a manner that is inspiring and sustaining.
I chose to work with Linda because of her background in finance and my need to evaluate the pricing structure and monetary goals for my business. From our very first session and throughout our time together we identified many areas for me to work on and at each meeting we developed a series of concrete steps to move me forward.
We also took action during our meetings, evaluating my business’ operations strategies and conducting exercises that improved my business management skills.
While I’d had an inkling of my to-​do list before we started working together, I definitely needed a boost to move me into action. Linda provided that boost (as well as tea and snacks!).

Linda Walker has twice spoken to my Landscape Design Forum class at Merritt College. She is a truly inspirational speaker — one of the best I have ever seen — and my students loved her. She is articulate, knowledgeable, and experienced, and is able describe small business issues and strategies in a way that motivates and inspires students. She has a wonderful way of being practical and personal at the same time, and after her sessions several people signed up to work one-​on-​one with her. I can’t wait to get her back to another class.

Linda Walker is an excellent business consultant and I recommend her highly.
What you need to know about her is: she has a Masters Degree in Business, she has 20 years experience as a consultant, she has an east coast style of being direct and a west coast style of being compassionate.
While working with her, I have been motivated to look at my numbers and statistics in a very detailed manner and have been motivated to look my fear in the eyes and say, «Well buddy, here we go!» I’ve been in business for myself for 7 years now and analyzing my numbers and looking my fear in the eyes have been huge hurdles for me and I couldn’t have done it without Linda.
She greets me with a huge smile, warm cup of tea, and a basket full of treats every session.

LInda’s creativity and positivity are contagious! I am a hand analyst. Now this is a field with, to put it mildly, no really established business model. That didn’t faze Linda in the least. She is helping me to figure one out, and helping me to see the positive side of being unusual – i.e. with no pre-​established model, the sky is the limit! Linda is doing for me what I do for other people – she’s helping me to see myself it a new way.

I am Diana Cohn of the Corner Office and I wanted to share with all of you my impressions of Linda Walker as a business consultant. I say impressions because, although I had not collaborated directly with Ms. Walker, I have seen the results with a client that we share.
As a QuickBooks expert, I was consulting and training one of Linda’s clients in the art of job costing; best practices and analysis about a year ago. As we progressed forward with specific procedures best suited for his company, employees, and communication channels, I noticed that this person was very cognizant and collaborative with the process. This is not always the attitude small business owners have when they learn there is more work to do in order to help their business grow. I soon learned that he attributed his success and attitude to his business consultant, Linda R. Walker. No matter what you want to do in life, if someone is there to help create a willing attitude — everything is possible! I would recommend Linda as a true giver of practical advice and manageable solutions to small businesses wanting to be a real success.

Linda understands the value of soulful reflection as well as hard-​nosed
number crunching, and the year-​end planning workshop I attended was a
beautiful space for both. Attending was by far the the best thing I did
for myself and my business that year. I was able to get clear about
what I needed, and what my business needed, and to chart a course
forward. I am still grateful for the time I spent, although, at the
time, it felt like time «away» that I couldn’t afford. In reality, it
was the kind of time I most needed. I cannot recommend her highly
enough.