#12. How to Use Customer Feedback to Grow your Community with Alexis Dean

Your business should evolve from your customer feedback. ~ Alexis Dean

Alexis Dean is the Founder and Lead Steward of The Dovetail Community, a global organization of women on a mission to advance female entrepreneurship through generosity, collaboration, education, and unforgettable shared experiences like Dovetail Summit and Camp Dovetail.  With seventeen years of experience and education as a professional facilitator, trainer, consultant, educator, and speaker, she has worked in 21 countries with more than 100 corporate teams, non-profits, and school faculties.  She is a lover out of the outdoors and has one of the biggest hearts I know.

Alexis Dean is the Founder and Lead Steward of The Dovetail Community, a global organization of women on a mission to advance female entrepreneurship through generosity, collaboration, education, and unforgettable shared experiences like Dovetail Summit and Camp Dovetail. 

With seventeen years of experience and education as a professional facilitator, trainer, consultant, educator, and speaker, she has worked in 21 countries with more than 100 corporate teams, non-profits, and school faculties. 

She is a lover out of the outdoors and has one of the biggest hearts I know.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

  • Everything is a long game. It’s a marathon and not a sprint

  • Sustainable businesses grow sustainably

  • Business mistakes often come from trying to do things too quickly

  • Everything needs to be in a contract

  • A great community wants to see each other rise

  • Make yourself available for really honest feedback

  • A business should evolve from your customer feedback

  • Live events should be hands-on and experiential

  • If it’s your event, you need to be face-to-face with your attendees, so hire to have people run the behind-the-scenes

  • Nature is the biggest form of inspiration 

  • How biomimicry inspires Alexis’s creative moments

  • Big trees have strong roots, which can weather any storm

  • Allow yourself to be bored

  • You need to say no more than you say yes

Resources:

Being a WILD woman means

To think differently and openly. To not compete with other women. Wildness is openness and the freedom to see the world differently. - Alexis Dean

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