Fred St. Laurent, Man of Contacts
1. The biggest issue facing our business is similar to the issues facing many other businesses: 2. The advice I'd give a young person entering our business today is: 3. To what do you attribute your success? 4. The one thing I want to do before I die? January 22, 2003 Fred St. Laurent joined the Leasing News Advisory Board. He has written articles, covered association conferences, and as important, lets us know "hard news" that he runs into during the course of his day. Many of his clients know he is on the advisory board, and ask him to send us "news" without their attribution. It is the readers, and people like Fred who gives us the "inside" stories of what is really going on, and what is happening in the equipment leasing industry. To say the very least, Fred has a lot of contacts. He is very well known in the recruiting field. You may not know it, but Fred was a lease salesman and also a "free lance" equipment leasing broker. He has a special viewpoint, also brought from his deep spiritual religious feelings, his family going through 38 serious operations on his 10 year old son Isaac, and the entire family's attitude to wanting to help people. They are "givers."
Fred with his wife Nora, Today, Hilary 17, Luke 13, Isaac 10. One of his best attributes, that has kept him going through all the tough times, is his great sense of humor. Most people do not know that Fred was a comedian in Florida while he attended Palm Beach Community College. He also worked professionally in the theater for years in Florida and in Film in Los Angeles.
Above is a picture of Fred captured from the movie “Naked Campus” shot in 1980. He even had a speaking role. He played an accountant. To help makes ends meet, he also worked as an electrician on the film. The film was about three young men who graduate college and are thrust from the sheltered university lifestyle into the unprotected world of business and hard knocks.
Fred St. Laurent pursued his early theatrical career, working at the Burt Reynolds’ Dinner Theater in Port Salerno Florida as a Technical Director. He also was a I.A.T.S.E. Union Tech when Burt Reynolds opened the dinner theater in Jupiter, Florida. In fact, he met his wife Nora in Jupiter. She was on an all woman lighting crew, which he says was something to see! "Once married I settled into being a husband and a dad. I supported our growing family by using my talents to sell and manage people. A friend of mine (Greg Sale) recruited me into MRI of Melbourne to support his Leasing desk and I have never looked back. I am blessed with a wonderful wife (Nora) and three awesome children; Hilary, Luke and Isaac. (If Nora ever leaves me I am going with her.)" My family website: http://fredstlaurent.com IMDB (movie database) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1381703/ Leasing News Advisory Board Member Biography
Fred St Laurent Website: http://www./mribigcreek.com Member of Eastern Association of Equipment Lessors Fred St Laurent has been recruiting in the Equipment Leasing industry for over fifteen years. His focus has shifted from direct recruiting to accepting engaged/ retained searches. “The economy is such that many firms are laying off, and I get excited when I hear that a firm is not hiring. One client put it well when they said ‘80% of the workforce just shows up for work, the other 20% can do it all.’ My people have signs on their desks that read ‘we do not make placements, we make re-placements’ because we have a long term goal of getting to know the top 20% of the workforce in our industries.” Fred Said. “We also have been and will continue to be a source for companies who have issues with Succession Planning. With the baby boomers retiring and many senior managers being a part of this group, we have developed a track record of success in assisting small to medium size finance companies replace those employees with grace and confidentiality.”
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