Creating a greater future for tomorrow, that’s one thing that Harmony Vallejo has at all times needed to do. As a matter of truth, she’s made it her mission to assist help nonprofits and moral companies to allow them to present their companies to communities. Harmony has used her years of expertise in communications and advertising and marketing to develop her personal firm, Universal Events Inc., composed of a group of impassioned professionals.
At Universal Events, Harmony leads a group of social media, communications, copywriting, accounting, and administrative professionals in a collaborative atmosphere that enables them to deal with their most important objective: offering help to nonprofits.
Harmony earned her bachelor’s diploma in communications from Youngstown State University. There, she received her begin working for her faculty’s newspaper and performed varsity volleyball.
Today, we’re asking Harmony about her expertise going from communications to proudly owning her personal enterprise and managing a group.
Q: What was it that impressed you to discovered Universal Events Inc.?
Harmony Vallejo: I at all times had a ardour for serving to others, and realized later in my profession that I might use my ability set to just do that. All that was lacking was an organization and group that might assist me actualize that dream. I discovered that lots of nonprofits and companies wanted assist with branding and back-end administrative capabilities, and that many merely didn’t have the in-house sources or expertise to deal with all of it. That’s why I made a decision to discovered Universal Events Inc. – to assist these organizations get the popularity they deserve and supply them with help.
Q: How do you are feeling your prior expertise benefited you when founding your organization?
Harmony Vallejo: Having the background communications/advertising and marketing data gave me actually eager perception into what a company wants to achieve success. It made it so I couldn’t solely establish what a company would wish when it comes to help, however I might discover the precise folks to fill important capabilities within the firm.
Q: When it comes to constructing a stable group of execs, what do you search for in an individual?
Harmony Vallejo: I feel an important factor you may have that makes you excellent for a place is ardour. When you actually love and care about what you do, you deliver a sort of grit that you may’t discover anyplace else. You have a motive to care about your work and it makes you are feeling good to do it – it’s as they are saying: ‘if you love what you do, you’ll by no means work a day in your life.’ I search for individuals who not solely have the expertise, however the want to make a distinction on the planet.
Q: As a feminine entrepreneur, there are sometimes boundaries in place that may make it tough to achieve success. How would you suggest aspiring entrepreneurs navigate these boundaries?
Harmony Vallejo: I feel that’s query. Like something in life, you’re going to be confronted with obstacles. Working with nonprofits, we see lots of people who’re born going through extra obstacles than others. I feel the important thing to getting previous them is just not solely by staying constructive, however setting practical objectives and understanding when to ask for assist. I is likely to be the founding father of Universal Events, however I’ve a group of people that again me up and assist me obtain objective after objective. I feel it’s too straightforward to assume that you’ve got to do the whole lot by your self, and that merely isn’t true. Everyone on this world wants help – that’s the whole motive Universal Events exists. To assist others obtain their objectives.
Q: For anybody who’s trying to flip their ardour right into a profession, what recommendation would you give them?
Harmony Vallejo: Just preserve at it. Don’t let anybody’s opinions sway you away from what you actually need to do. Take your ardour and discover a approach to make it into one thing greater. And don’t be afraid to make just a few errors alongside the way in which; it’s uncommon that any enterprise, in life or in enterprise, goes off with no hitch.
