Linda R Walker

Linda is a fantastic business consultant. I look forward to my meetings with her, often feeling lighter afterwards. Her insightfulness is spot on, both personally and professionally. She makes the hard work often necessary in running a small business tolerable and sometimes even pleasant.

Linda has been an invaluable asset to my business. She has guided me from a dysfunctional partnership happily back to a sole proprietorship. Her business knowledge and understanding of relationships provided a clear path forward; a path that I was unable to see on my own. I am excited about the business that has emerged from our working together and consider her contribution an important part of my future.

I have met on and off with Linda over the past few years with her and my now business partner. We have successfully transitioned from an employee type role to a partnership role through collaborative discussions, both in private and group settings. Her attentive listening, brainstorming and problem solving skills are impressive and valuable. Our business is complex to say the least, and she understood and added value across every subject / business discipline from accounting and HR to operations. I would highly recommend Linda to anyone considering any type of business or career transition

Linda is an amazing consultant and her experience and expertise has helped me navigate through many ups and downs in business. She is always well prepared and brings value into every meeting. I highly recommend Linda, especially if you are going through any transitions in business.

Linda's business development services are invaluable. I was connected to Linda by a colleague who had previously worked with her, and who was equally impressed by her many talents. Linda is a keen listener, was quick to understand the structure and needs of my business, and showed an impressive capacity to tune into my unique personal values and goals so that they could be reflected in business decisions. She brings a wealth of business experience which she is able to distill into easily accessible concepts and concrete action plans. Within a brief time period working with Linda, I was

Linda has been a wonderful sounding board for me as I have gone through several transitions in my business. She listens very carefully and tracks progress on those items that we all want to ignore. She has also been very encouraging and happy to celebrate successes along the way. Linda provides a thoroughly professional service with a warm heart.

I'm a freelance development consultant who started seeing Linda to help me figure out a way to maintain a more consistent and stable work load (especially when raising two small children!). I just finished a six-month business consulting project with Linda and I have walked away with a clearer sense of myself as a businesswoman and business owner - two terms I would not have used before working with her! Linda really looked at my business and my life with a wide lens, helping me develop a clear marketing strategy, build stronger relationships with my clients and referral sources, manage my

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)

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

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

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

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.