Experience

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  Toni Gattone

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Speaker and Author

    • Jan 2014 - Present
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    My mission as a speaker and author is to educate, inform, and inspire people to grow their resilience so they can continue doing what they love to do. Whether in-person or virtually, I deliver informational how-to seminars with the goal of empowering change. And as fans of my book, The Lifelong Gardener, testify they always learn new ways to get things done with grace and ease, whether in their life or their garden. I am available to speak at your next conference or event. Don't hesitate to get in touch with me at 415.505.6340 or email at [email protected] is a proud member of GardenCommunicators International. Three years in a row, Toni has been honored with awards from this extraordinary organization. In 2020, her website: ToniGattone.com won the Silver Media of Achievement. In 2021, she won the Gold Medal of Achievement for her speaking, and now in 2022, her newsletter has been recognized with a Silver Medal of Achievement. Thank you, GardenComm for this prestigious recognition. See her speaker reviews at: http://greatgardenspeakers.org

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  GreatGardenSpeakers.org

  • Featured Speaker on GreatGardenSpeakers.org

    • Oct 2017 - Present

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  GardenComm

  • New York, United States

  • Member and Regional Director of GardenComm International (formerly Garden Writers Association)

    • Sep 2015 - Present
    • New York, United States

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  Timber Press

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Book Author

    • Jun 2017 - Present
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Timber Press approached me to write a book based on my seminar: You Can Garden for Life with Adaptive Gardening. The Lifelong Gardener, Garden for Ease and Joy At Any Age was published in August 2019 and quickly went into second printing. Buy it on my website www.tonigattone.com/book and I will autograph it for you. Also available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and bookstores across the country. Sign up for my award-wnning (Silver Media Award 2022) monthly newsletter at: ToniGattone.comOr follow me at: YouTube.com/ToniGattoneFacebook.com/ToniGattone

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  Toni Gattone & Associates

  • California, United States

  • President and Owner of Toni Gattone & Associates

    • Sep 1990 - Nov 2018
    • California, United States

    As Road Reps, we had the privilege of representing some of the best garden and gift products on the market. Our clients: nurseries, gift stores, hardware stores, mainly Mom and Pop independent stores, were our friends. We exhibited at the San Francisco International Gift Fair where we had as many as twelve booths. (We were a lot younger then.)

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  Learning International

  • San Francisco

  • Sales Account Executive

    • 1986 - 1990
    • San Francisco

    As part of the sales process, I went through all of Learning International's sales, customer service, and management training programs as a student. Then I taught many of the programs, which greatly enabled me to be successful selling their extensive training package to the top ranking San Francisco based corporations. After the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, I no longer wanted to work in downtown San Francisco. More importantly, I realized the sales, management and customer service training I learned at my last two corporate jobs gave me all the skills I needed to start my own business. I applied for an equity line, quit my job, created my wholesale rep business and never looked back.

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  Decker Communications

  • San Francisco

  • Key Account Executive

    • 1982 - 1986
    • San Francisco

    As an Account Executive at Decker, I learned so much about sales and it proved to be an exciting and lucrative job for me. I worked with high level executives who recognized the need to hone their own presentation skills and those of their employees. I sold and co-trained Decker's two day training and one-on-one consultations.While at Decker, I joined the National Speakers Association and served on the Board of Directions for their Northern California chapter as Program Chairman, booking speakers and being the mistress of ceremonies for their monthly chapter meetings.Those were fun days!

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  3M Company

  • Chicago and San Francisco

  • Sales Representative

    • 1973 - 1982
    • Chicago and San Francisco

    As my entry into Corporate America, I worked for the 3M Business Products Division in Downtown Chicago and then in the San Francisco Bay Area. I sold business equipment and supplies to corporations through public presentations I made to executives throughout Corporate America, which changed my life and opened new doors for my profession.