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Cheri Renee is a Private Business Consultant and entrepreneur with over 20 years of combined business management and non-profit leadership experience. She has a BA in Psychology, MBA’s in Management and Marketing, and an MSW in Non-profit Organizational Management earned from Washington University St. Louis.

After working in leadership and

Cheri Renee is a Private Business Consultant and entrepreneur with over 20 years of combined business management and non-profit leadership experience. She has a BA in Psychology, MBA’s in Management and Marketing, and an MSW in Non-profit Organizational Management earned from Washington University St. Louis.

After working in leadership and Director roles in non-profit sectors the first half of her professional career, Cheri took the bold leap to launch her free-standing retail store. Surprisingly profitable after only 2-years in business, she received a number of awards and a proclamation from the United States Senate for her entrepreneurial achievements. This resulted in her being invited to speak at professional venues in addition to a number of aspiring entrepreneurs visiting her store to seek advice about how to successfully launch their businesses. She loved it! It was at this time that she realized that business consulting was her truest calling and that she became passionate about providing entrepreneurs with their “Own MBA’s” (Many Business Answers) to help start, expand, and maximize the potential of their business ventures, inventions, and/or non-profit organizations.

After closing her retail business many years ago, Cheri has served as a Private Business Consultant providing many comprehensive, on-call professional and emergency services to entrepreneurs and non-profit managers and has developed custom business/program development workshops for community organizations and professional groups. Leveraging her MSW experience, she provides non-profit entities with grant/ RFI/RFP proposal writing, strategic planning, grant research, and new social program development to aid in the increase of their organizational outreach, participation, and funding opportunities. Applying her MBA skills, she offers business development planning, competitive analysis, feasibility examination, competitive research analysis, and emergency restructuring services.

And if that weren’t enough, she is currently putting her own advice and skillsets to the test by finalizing the development of two patent-pending inventions she aims to bring to market in 2021!

Contact Email: inventstlorg@gmail.com 

     An Eagle Scout and Army brat, Chuck has lived in St. Louis for over fifteen   years. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree from   Notre Dame in 1990, Chuck served in Germany with the US Army engineers.   Working as an engineer in Kansas City, he earned the professional engineer   license in MO and three othe

     An Eagle Scout and Army brat, Chuck has lived in St. Louis for over fifteen   years. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree from   Notre Dame in 1990, Chuck served in Germany with the US Army engineers.   Working as an engineer in Kansas City, he earned the professional engineer   license in MO and three other states. Drawn east, he graduated from St. Louis   University law school in 2001 with a Juris Doctor degree.
 

 Chuck has had a private law practice for over twelve years. The practice   includes patents, trademarks and related matters.
 

 Chuck ran for office in 2002, 2010 and has served as treasurer for three   political committees. Chuck is also an active Rotarian and past president of   the Clayton Ladue Club. Chuck has been a Pachyderm Club member for at least   eleven years, club president, and board member. Chuck is treasurer for the   local inventors’ association. Chuck holds memberships in the Missouri Venture   Forum and Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce. Chuck is married to Ann.
 

 Joan Brennan is the parent of 4 sons, middle-school educator, business owner and patented inventor of 2 customizable tools for challenged readers of all ages. Her physical Reading Focus Cards (Patent 7,565,759) and the Reading Focus Cards desktop app (Patent 8,360,779) for Macs and Windows PCs can be especially helpful to children and ad

 Joan Brennan is the parent of 4 sons, middle-school educator, business owner and patented inventor of 2 customizable tools for challenged readers of all ages. Her physical Reading Focus Cards (Patent 7,565,759) and the Reading Focus Cards desktop app (Patent 8,360,779) for Macs and Windows PCs can be especially helpful to children and adults with ADHD, dyslexia, autism and other issues that often impact reading success. Both her low-tech and the digital Reading Focus Cards’ tools have and continue to help thousands of challenged readers here in the U.S. and around the globe each year since 2007.
 

A graduate of the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) with K-12 teaching certification from the State of Missouri, she has taught grades 6 through 8 for more than 18 years. She is also the founder of Brennan Innovators, LLC, which manufactures and provides her reading tools (made in St. Louis) to parents, teachers and others in the U.S. and around the world. Her company also visits schools and other organizations to provide presentations, consultation and other professional educational services for those interested in addressing the needs of challenged readers.
 

Mrs. Brennan is an active member of the Illinois Innovators and Inventors networking group for inventors in the Greater St. Louis Area (2003 to the present). She is also a member of the Gifted Association of Missouri (GAM), the St. Louis Association of Gifted Education (SAGE) and the St. Louis Suburban Council of the International Literacy Association (ILA). Since 2008, she has been an instructor in the College for Kids Program (St. Louis Community College-Meramec Campus) for gifted and talented K-8 students in the area.