Who is Dawna Stone?

Whenever I read a blog, the first thing I want to know is, who is the person writing the blog, and why are they qualified to give out information. So I would expect no less from anyone who comes to Winning Nice.

Who is Dawna Stone? Currently I own a national women's sports and fitness magazine called Her Sports + Fitness. I'm also the author of Winning Nice: How to Succeed in Business and Life Without Waging War.

Many people are surprised by my background when they meet me, given my current occupation and my win on The Apprentice:Martha Stewart. They don’t realize that I’m a former Wall Street investment banker with Morgan Stanley, I spent several years with Deloitte Consulting as a C-level strategy consultant or that I’ve been the Chief Marketing Officer for a $700 million publicly traded company. I’ve also been the Sr. VP of a 300 person dot com and the President and General Manager of a $20 million sports nutrition company.

When I received my B.S. from U.C. Berkeley I would have never thought that I’d one day own a media company. I was a finance major and I just assumed investment banking would be my future. It wasn’t until I went back to school to get my MBA at the Anderson School of Business at UCLA that I focused more on entrepreneurship and realized that one day I’d like to own my own company. Although it took nearly 10 years of working in big business after graduate school for me to finally take the leap and become my own boss, it was definitely worth the wait.

I hope that given my background and experience I’ll be able to contribute many insights into how to get ahead in business. But more so than me just giving advice, I want this blog to be a place where others share their insights and experience. Over the years I have learned so much from other professionals and I believe the sharing of experiences and information with other successful businessmen and women is what has helped fuel my success over the years.

My Winning Nice book co-author, Matt Dieter, will also be my co-author on the Winning Nice blog. Matt's an excellent business and marketing strategist and definitely has strong opinions on how to run a business successfully. I'm looking forward to his entries.

I hope you will share your some of your most important tips, ideas and comments in the Winning Nice blog.

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