Rabiah Sutton is an American best-selling author, speaker and entrepreneur
Rabiah Sutton is an American best-selling author, speaker and entrepreneur, but above all else she is a female boss disrupting the status quo in the entrepreneurship and influencer industry. Sutton represents thousands of clients and leads them to achieve high-growth. Amongst her peers and clients, Sutton is described as having the “Midas Touch” as many of the strategies employed by her firm achieve critical growth and produce significant results for her clients’ business ventures.
Always a visionary, Sutton is a devoted professional with a mindset geared toward helping her clients attain massive success. Sutton has extensive connections in technology circles and is laser-focused on building the next big brand. Over the years, she has amassed a solid contact list of friends, partners, confidants, mentors, and mentees from the C-Level to administrative staff. As a financial influencer with a popular podcast, Sutton discusses her process extensively as well as the challenges and risks inherent in business, the simplicity of getting started and how to live life wide open to possibility. She also mentors aspiring entrepreneurs, many of whom are women. Sutton uses strategy, connections and her personal philosophy of focusing 99% on the solution and 1% on the problem to help her own businesses and her clients’ businesses grow.
After completing her M.B.A at the prestigious John Hopkin’s University, Sutton left her corporate position in 2010 to found FWDthink, an award-winning, multi-million dollar company specializing in information technology services. This industry leader is now focused on using her expertise as a growth strategist to help individuals and businesses achieve their goals through her personalized coaching platforms and her signature “9-5 to CEO” online course. Noting a lack of female representation among prominent entrepreneurial influencers, Sutton is seeking to fill that gap through her own podcast and sharing her tips and strategies with her following on social media.
In an interview with Sutton in she describes her approach to business, illustrates how her approach has achieved results for her clients and predicts how businesses can not only survive, but thrive during and after the coronavirus crisis.
Q: Describe your approach to growing business for your clients?
Rabiah Sutton: Our business is about three things: relationships, solving problems and leverage. My clients expect my team and I to help them identify what they either cannot see for themselves or opportunities for which they lack either the right contacts or enough leverage to execute and they need a third-party to strategize and facilitate on their behalf. Our approach is quite simple: we focus 99% on the solution and 1% on the problem.