Will Corrente

Connection Optimizer, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Speaker

Will Corrente is the well known “Connection Optimizer™” and Managing Director of Corrente Consulting International Inc. (CCI). For over 20 years, Will has been creating process based solutions for small businesses and entrepreneurs to be connection ready and poised to reach the next level of business success. Will is a regular featured columnist for New York Entrepreneur Week and the Bergen News and blogs at www.willcorrente.com.

For Will, entrepreneurship is a calling, a way of life and a passion. While still in college, Will began his own entrepreneurial journey when he co-founded and ran 2 service oriented small business ventures. On his journey from entrepreneur to employee and back again, Will has held a variety of management and sales positions at well known finance firms including Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney and New York Life Insurance. After his stint in finance, Will became a partner in a telecommunications consulting firm where he was personally responsible for gross sales in excess of $1 million in the firm’s first year of operation.

An ocean enthusiast, Will was inspired to combine his passion for well-run businesses and a love of pets while surfing off of Palm Beach and co-founded Very Important Paws, a company which owns and operates multiple upscale pet hotels in south Florida. Under Will’s management, the company exceeded $1million in annual sales in less than 36 months.

Will founded CCI in 2005 to pay his knowledge forward by helping other entrepreneurs market and run their businesses more effectively, as well as by guiding them to manage and leverage relationships to grow their businesses. Committed to using his business skills to build better communities, Will is active in his community, helps lead volunteer organizations, and even made two unsuccessful runs for city council while living in New Jersey. He currently resides in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Will’s areas of expertise, small business consulting, and strategic resources include: business start up, structuring/organization, sales/marketing strategy, management best practices, operations, customer/client development, growth planning, connection optimization and relationship management, and entrepreneur development and advisory.