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Vickie Milazzo Institute Makes Inc.’s List of Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America
Inc. magazine recognized Vickie Milazzo Institute on its first-ever list of Inc. Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America. In addition to achieving the Inc. Top 5000 recognition, the Institute ranked among the Top 100 fastest-growing private companies in the education industry.
Inc. Top 10 Entrepreneur Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD pioneered legal nurse consulting in 1982. Vickie Milazzo Institute is the oldest and largest legal nurse consulting education company in the U.S. and has trained more than 14,000 registered nurses to be Certified Legal Nurse ConsultantsCM through nationwide seminars and home-study programs.
Vickie says, “I strongly believe that entrepreneurship is the best way to become rich and happy." She started her company out of her one-bedroom condo with less than $100 in her bank account.
"My motivation," Vickie adds, "is hearing from my graduates that they are earning in excess of $200,000 to $1,000,000 a year and living a passionate life. To give nurse entrepreneurs that level of financial and personal success is my biggest reward."
If you’re curious about what’s on the minds of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing entrepreneurs,
read Vickie's article.
Vickie Milazzo Institute Named as One of the Top 100 Fastest-Growing
Companies in Houston
The nation's oldest and largest training institute for legal nurse consulting,
Vickie Milazzo Institute, is officially recognized as one of the "FAST 100" in Houston by the Houston Business Journal.
It is an honor to be recognized as one of the leading businesses in the fourth largest city in the country. This impressive award has given me the opportunity to educate consumers about what Certified Legal Nurse ConsultantsCM do.
Vickie Milazzo Institute started with a dream. Today I am living my dreams. You can live yours too if you remember: We are nurses and we can do anything!®
Success Is Yours!
Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD
Vickie Milazzo Institute Ranks 3rd Among Houston's "Top 25 Woman-Owned Businesses”
The Houston Business Journal has named Vickie Milazzo Institute as one of Houston's
"Top 25 Woman-Owned Businesses" based on total revenue. Among privately held, 100% woman-owned firms in Houston, Vickie Milazzo Institute occupies third place in revenue. This prestigious award was bestowed on founder and president Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD during the August 24, 2007 awards gala in Houston.
In addition to the "Top 25" award, Vickie Milazzo Institute also ranked 19th among the "Top 50 Fastest-Growing Woman-Owned Businesses" based on percentage of growth.
Both recognitions are momentous in the nation's fourth largest city since there are more than 185,000 privately held, woman-owned firms in Houston. “This year, Houston’s top woman business owners have offered us truthful and valuable insight into the challenges and rewards of running their own companies. Many discovered the path to success through trial and error, innovative leadership or by following good, sound advice,” said John C. Beddow, publisher of Houston Business Journal.
“No problem that entrepreneurs encounter in business hasn’t already been solved by someone else,” Vickie said. “That advice motivated me to seek out and learn from people more successful than I was. It also instilled confidence in me to remember that if somebody else can do it, I can too.
"My biggest reward," she added, "is being able to positively influence so many nursing careers and witness the astonishing changes in their lives as a result of the CLNC® Certification Program. This honor confirms my passion and the dedication of my staff for what we do."
Vickie Milazzo Institute is the oldest and largest legal nurse consulting education company in the U.S., and has trained over 14,000 RNs to be Certified Legal Nurse ConsultantsCM. Vickie is the author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., now in its fifth printing and being published in five additional languages).
Vickie Milazzo Institute Named to Top 100 Small Businesses in Houston for Fourth Year
in a Row
The nation's oldest and largest training institute for legal nurse consulting, Vickie Milazzo Institute, is officially recognized as one of the "Top 100 Small Businesses" in Houston by the Houston Business Journal. We have achieved this prestigious milestone for the fourth year in a row.
It is an honor to be recognized as one of the leading small businesses in the fourth largest city in the country. This impressive award has given me the opportunity to educate consumers about what CLNC®s do.
Vickie Milazzo Institute started with a dream. Today I am living my dreams. You can live yours too if you remember: "We are nurses and we can do anything®!"
Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD
And the Winner Is...
Disney, Microsoft, MTV, Sony Music and Vickie Milazzo Institute
Vickie Milazzo Institute was honored with the prestigious Telly Award, the premier award presented to outstanding local, regional and cable TV video and film productions. The Institute's entry, Preview Your New Life as a CLNC®, won the film/video category for motivational nonbroadcast productions. Other Telly Award winners included Disney, Microsoft, MTV and Sony Music.
"I'm honored and humbled to be among such good company," said Institute president Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD. "We pride ourselves on the quality of our research and development and the amount of time and expertise that goes into all our educational materials."In Preview Your New Life as a CLNC®, Vickie and dozens of successful CLNC®s introduce nurses to the Institute's trademark CLNC® Certification Program and to the benefits of entering the legal nurse consulting profession as a CLNC®.
The CLNC® Certification Program holds the reputation among both nurses and attorneys as the "gold standard" for training and certification in the legal nurse consulting field. "Receiving such a high acknowledgment outside our own industry, in competition with productions from all kinds of businesses much larger than mine, is especially rewarding. It's deeply satisfying knowing the quality we provide to our students matches the quality of Fortune 100 companies," Vickie added.
Founded in 1978, the Telly Award is one of the most sought-after production awards. Entries are judged against high standards for creativity and merit. This year the awards program drew a record 12,500 entries from all 50 states and numerous countries. The chairman of the judging panel, Richard Friley, noted, "The incredible quality and diversity of entries in this year's competition was extraordinary."
To view Preview Your New Life as a CLNC®, click here or email feedback@LegalNurse.com to receive your own copy of this award-winning ten-minute DVD.
Houston Business Journal Honors Vickie Milazzo with
"Top 50 Woman-Owned Business” Award
The Houston Business Journal bestowed its prestigious “Top 50 Woman-Owned Business” award on Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD for a second consecutive year. Vickie accepted the award during the September 9, 2005 ceremony that brought together a Houston who’s who of businessmen and women.
Vickie Milazzo Institute, founded in 1982 in Vickie's one-bedroom condo with a staff of one, now occupies 8,400 square feet of office space with an extensive support staff.
The Institute is ranked 18th among privately held, 100% woman-owned firms in Houston, a momentous achievement in the nation's fourth largest city. "There are more than 90,000 majority-owned, privately held woman-owned firms in Houston," said Leanne Semmel, the Houston Business Journal marketing director who conducts the "Top 50" project.
"Enterprise is in a woman's DNA – just look at what we accomplish," said Vickie. "Women understand enterprise. Whether they choose to use their enterprising strength to start a venture of their own, manage a family or build a corporate career, enterprise is already inside them.
"The biggest reward for me is being able to positively influence so many of my students' careers and witness the astonishing changes that result in their lives," she added. "This honor is a tribute to the dedication of my staff and confirms my passion for what we do."
The September 9, 2005 special edition of the Houston Business Journal also featured Vickie's article "Mentors: When the going gets tough, help is around the corner." In the article, Vickie discusses the value of mentoring and cites the Institute's formal mentoring program as the core of the company.
The Houston Business Journal is owned by American City Business Journals, the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers.
Vickie Milazzo Institute, a division of Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc., is the oldest and largest legal nurse consulting company in the U.S., and has trained over 11,000 RNs to be Certified Legal Nurse ConsultantsCM (CLNC®s). Vickie is the author of Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now (Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., March 2006).
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Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD (center) and Institute team members celebrate Vickie's receiving the Houston Business Journal's "Top 50 Woman-Owned Business" award for a second consecutive year. |
Vickie Milazzo Named to Inc.'s Top 10 Entrepreneur List
The first private businessman to launch a human into space, a Hollywood superstar who made a groundbreaking film about Jesus Christ and Vickie Milazzo, an RN who is changing the face of nursing, were named Dec. 30th to Inc.'s Top 10 Entrepreneur list.
Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD, was honored by Inc. along with the Entrepreneur of the Year and nine other national newsmakers. Recognized as the pioneer of the legal nurse consulting profession, she turns traditional hospital RNs into entrepreneurs.
Vickie was one of thousands of entrepreneurs from all over the U.S. nominated in Inc. magazine's "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition. Her story and photo, along with space entrepreneur Bill Rutan's and movie star Mel Gibson's, can be seen on the Inc. website where Vickie is honored as a Top 10 Entrepreneur.
This honor is wonderful publicity for the CLNC® Community. Thousands of visitors to Inc. magazine's website (including attorneys) have learned about Certified Legal Nurse ConsultantsCM.
Inc. posted hundreds of personal testimonies about Vickie on their website that were sent in by Legal Nurse Consulting Ezine subscribers, CLNC® graduates, staff members and entrepreneurial peers. Inc.com noted that these supporters "loved her."
"As a nurse for 30 years, I've seen a lot," wrote South Carolina RN Sherryl Scott on the Inc. website. "Vickie promotes nursing even more than Florence Nightingale could have dreamed."
Inc. magazine editor John Koten said the Top 10 Entrepreneurs are, "dynamic company builders who seized opportunities that others missed, worked tirelessly, and brought their dreams to fruition."
"I love training other RNs to be innovative entrepreneurs," says Milazzo. "If nurses can save lives in the middle of the night with no doctor in sight, they can also use that drive and decision-making ability to become winning entrepreneurs."
Donald Trump's 'Apprentice' Salutes "Mentor of the Year" Vickie L. Milazzo
Bill Rancic, "The Donald's Apprentice, of reality TV fame saluted a fellow successful entrepreneur, Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD. In a gala New York City ceremony, Vickie was named "Mentor of the Year" at the "2004 Stevie Awards for Women Entrepreneurs."
The Stevie Awards are the world's business 'Oscar' and are designed by the same company that makes the Oscar® and the Emmy Awards. The Stevies recognize the accomplishments of women business owners – the fastest growing segment in small business today.
Bill Rancic, spokesman for Advanta Bank Corporation, who sponsored this national award competition, said the company is proud to salute Vickie, "an amazing woman who turned her ideas and dreams into a successful business."
Vickie who pioneered legal nurse consulting in 1982 mentors RNs to become entrepreneurs as Certified Legal Nurse ConsultantsCM (CLNC®s).
Vickie L. Milazzo Wins Nursing Excellence Award
Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD was honored to win the 2004 Nursing Excellence Award for Advancing the Profession. Selected from among the thousands of nurses in the South Central region, Vickie's achievements were heralded in October at NurseWeek's gala ceremony attended by more than 200 nurses and their supporters.
"It was the first time I've ever nominated anyone for this award," says Carol Hartwig, RN, MS, CNAA, CLNC. "I don't know another nurse who has done so much for nursing on her own. She has helped and guided thousands of RNs as they discover a new direction for their nursing skills and experience. In my 34 years of nursing, I've never met anyone else who so truly deserves this recognition."
NurseWeek's print publications and nursing website reach over 800,000 nurses.
Innovator Vickie L. Milazzo Awarded Most Innovative Small Business
Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD was recognized as the Most Innovative Small Business because she pioneered a new profession for RNs, the profession of legal nurse consulting.
The innovation award and Vickie's story were featured in Priority magazine, the publication that office tech giant Pitney Bowes distributes to 800,000 small business owners worldwide. 800,000 Americans (who are successful themselves) are now educated about legal nurse consulting.
Neal J. Metviner, president, PB Direct says, "of the numerous nominations we received, this business stood out as both exemplary and inspirational."
"Many nurses believe the only way to apply their nursing skills is in a traditional hospital setting," says Vickie. "But RNs possess valuable skills that also make them successful consultants."
Vickie continues, "A large part of my business is training other RNs to be innovative themselves. Innovation isn't just the initial great idea. It is daily action. To innovate, they must constantly question, probe and challenge every aspect of their business, its processes and systems.
"If nurses can save lives in the middle of the night with no doctor in sight, they can also use that drive and decision-making ability to operate successful consulting practices."
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