This workshop is a partnership between SCORE Greater Hartford and University of Hartford Women’s Business Center. 

Presenter:                                                                                                                     Eric Lopkin                                                                                                                                       President, CEO and Founder

Eric Lopkin founded The Modern Observer Group in 2002 as a name to promote his freelance communications work. Wanting to use his skills and talents to help small businesses and executives achieve their professional as well as personal goals, Eric reformed The Modern Observer Group in 2009 to bring in a greater range of coaches and consultants to enhance the services available. Eric spent the earlier part of his career working in the communications field as a creative director in advertising, an operations manager at media companies, and other roles. His time working in communications taught him to manage people, keep projects on track and on budget, and streamline the organizations for which he worked so that they ran easily and profitably. He wanted to impart these same skills to his clients, and so Modern Observer Group was born. Eric’s philosophy as a coach is based on the idea that one cannot separate oneself from one’s business. A business owner or executive’s personal life is inexorably connected to his or her business – one cannot succeed while the other flounders. Eric takes into account the whole person – both their personal side and their professional side – when developing a plan to help a client. His evaluations are impartial, and his solutions are practical since he has learned how to successfully run a business the hard way so that his clients will not make mistakes that could be easily avoided.