Today we’d like to introduce you to Cori DiDonato.
Cori, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
Prior to owning Silver Tiger Consulting, I held various leadership positions in the high-tech and finance world, including VP, Strategic Product Sales for Washington Mutual, VP, Infrastructure and Engineering/CIO at Medem, Inc., and management positions at Oracle Corporation, PeopleSoft, and Wells Fargo. Most recently, I owned and operated Avalon CrossFit, a gym in Charlestown, MA for 10 years. In the summer of 2016, I sold the gym to Aaron Landes, who owns the CrossFit Lando family of gyms in and around the Boston area. I started Silver Tiger Consulting shortly thereafter.
In addition to owning Silver Tiger Consulting, I keep my passion for health and wellness alive by owning and operating CrossFit Silver Tiger, another local Wakefield, MA business.
Has it been a smooth road?
I’ve enjoyed my work life immensely since I started working for myself about 11 years ago. Although the first few years of owning Avalon were difficult, the experience itself was very rewarding. I especially enjoy what I am doing now, owning both Silver Tiger Consulting and CrossFit Silver Tiger because I am finally getting to do the two things I enjoy most- coaching others athletically and helping small business owners achieve personal happiness and financial success with their businesses.
We’d love to hear more about your business.
With Silver Tiger Consulting, since I owned and operated my own brick and mortar gym for 10 years prior to selling it in 2016, I have been in the trenches as a small business owner employing others. This sets me apart from other consultants in that I can offer real and practical first hand advice. I know what it is like to be responsible for others’ livelihoods in addition to your own and the struggles small business owners overcome to be successful.
Is our city a good place to do what you do?
I think Boston is an excellent environment for businesses, but if you own a retail store or shop, it is difficult, especially in some of the neighborhoods to find parking for staff and customers. I do think Boston could do a better job overall of allowing businesses to provide parking stickers for employees in retail areas. In Charlestown especially it was hard for those working in some of the bigger office complexes there to visit local businesses in that neighborhood because most of the parking as soon as you left the office complex required you to have a resident permit to park. If you owned a small business and had employees that lived outside of Charlestown, it was hard to have parking for both employees and customers that didn’t live right there in Charlestown. It was very frustrating. I was fortunate that we had some spaces in a parking lot, but it was a definite struggle to integrate the business customers and employees into the rest of the neighborhood businesses because of parking.
Contact Info:
- Address: Cori DiDonato Silver Tiger Consulting
- Website: http://www.silvertigerconsulting.com/
- Phone: 781-968-5421
- Email: cori@silvertigerconsulting.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SilverTigerConsulting/
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/silver-tiger-consulting-wakefield
- Other: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cori-di-donato-2443596/
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