About Dale Power – Philadelphia Marketing Consultant

Dale Power: The Shoemaker

• Education: B.A. Villanova University, Coach University
• First Job: Tennis Teacher
• Essential Business Philosophy: We’re all here to help each other
• Yardstick of Success: Clients amazed at their own success
• Goal yet to be achieved: Biking cross country
• Best Decision:  To start Big Shoes
• Worst Decision: To take clients I knew were not a fit
• Toughest Decision:  To let go of clients who had potential but no commitment  to it
• Word that describes you:  Innovative
• Like best about your job: Playing in the world of ideas, expanding them,  and making them actionable
• Like least about your job: Paperwork
• Most important lesson learned:  Be your word
• Life Motto: “ The man who thinks it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.”
• Greatest Fear:  Heights
• First entrepreneurial job:  Selling a case of Girl Scout cookies when I was four and not yet a Girl Scout
• Project Most Proud of: The book I wrote about finding help for kids with learning problems
• Most transformational experience: Outward Bound
• Something many people don’t know about me: I’m a former professional clown
• Most influential book:  The Bible
• Favorite way to spend free time:  Lying on a beach with my nose in a book