Ed Forteau

Leader of the Genuine Connections Revolution | Helping Service Providers, Entrepreneurs, and Sales Professionals Build Authentic Relationships | Author of "No More Cringe” | Changing the Way We do Business on LinkedIn

I’m Ed Forteau, Business Growth Strategist, Community Builder, and Creator of The Strategic Ally Method.

I help relationship-driven entrepreneurs attract high-value clients…without chasing, cold pitching, or playing the content hamster wheel game.

If you’re great at what you do, but feel like sales turns you into someone you’re not, you're not broken.

You’ve just been sold the wrong playbook.

Most of my clients come to me feeling stuck.

They’re burned out from outreach that goes nowhere.

They hate the pressure to perform on social media.

And they’re tired of trying to be “everywhere” just to get noticed.

What I teach flips the script:

✅ Start warm, low-pressure conversations that naturally lead to business

✅ Tap into the trust you’ve already earned to unlock hidden opportunities

✅ Show up as a Strategic Ally, not another sales person or content clone

✅ Build “quiet authority” without shouting for attention

✅ Use simple, human systems that work even when you’re not online

Here’s a story I hear all the time:

A client spent months tweaking cold email campaigns.

They saw early wins…until everything stopped working.

Low replies. Spam folder black holes. Endless fixing.

They tried my method. DMed just ten warm messages to mutual connections of people they knew.
Two booked calls. One became a client.

Then came momentum.

They told me, “This just feels…different. Lighter.”

I said, “It’s less work than trying to save a sinking ship.”

That’s the shift:

From pushing and persuading to connecting and converting.

From guessing what strangers want to showing up where you’re already trusted.

You don’t need to become someone else to grow your business.

You just need a better way.

That’s why I created The Genuine Connection Alliance. It’s a private community for relationship-first entrepreneurs.

Inside, you’ll learn my frameworks, build a powerful support system, and attract clients through trust, not tactics.

It’s where my best clients come from, because they experience the method before they ever hire me.

If you believe business can be built through conversations, connection, and real value, let’s talk.

Or better yet, let’s start a conversation that leads to something real.

💬 DM me the word “Alliance” and I’ll send you the Genuine Connection Alliance overview doc. It might be the missing piece you’ve been looking for.

EMAIL DELIVERABILITY EXPERT - Get More Of Your Emails Delivered, Seen, Opened, Read, and Clicked

▶ 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑:
• Any business that uses email to communicate with prospects, clients, or customers that have experienced their emails going to spam, or not getting delivered
• Any business that wants their email accounts set up properly to ensure high deliverability
Why? Nothing has a greater/more immediate impact on your bottom line than fixing email deliverability issues

▶ 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐎:
• Fix any types of email deliverability problems so more of your emails are delivered, seen, opened, and clicked
• Setup your email infrastructure so your emails land in your recipient's primary inbox
• Setup email reporting and monitoring to catch problems early, to avoid lost revenue
• Provide advice on the right email marketing platform to use to meet your objectives

▶ 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐒 𝐖𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐗:
We provide the peace of mind that you are receiving the maximum ROI from emails, because all forms of your emails are delivered. This includes:
• Cold Emails
• Subscription Emails
• Support Ticket Emails
• Proposal Emails
• Contracts via Email
• Invoice/billing Emails
• Transactional Emails
• Marketing Emails
• Contact Us Forms

▶ 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒:
• Email Deliverability Audit - Identifies the source of 90% of email deliverability issues
• DMARC Reporting/Monitoring - Monitors the health of your email accounts and pinpoints the issues that happen infrequently
• Domain Reputation Recovery - Our proprietary method of improving the reputation of a damaged domain in under 30 days
• Email Infrastructure Setup - Ensures maximum email deliverability and protects your domain reputation
• Email Deliverability Repair - Our team has a combined 28+ years in fixing email deliverability issues

▶ 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒:
• 95%+ email deliverability rate
• An immediate increase in email open and click-through rates
• On average, a 200-400% increase in email-related revenue

▶ 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐀𝐘:
• See our LinkedIn Service Reviews

Women's Wealthy Ways

S.A.F.E. Lifestyle Investment Academy is an investment community teaching individuals the skills of self-directed investing for financial growth and security.  

We don’t manage your money, provide you with “hot stock tips”, or pretend to know better than you do what is best for your goals.

We teach how to: 
👀 look at the world with an investor’s eye.
🔎 take advantage of disruptions to be on the right side of the wealth transfer underway.
💰 build a portfolio that grows your assets by double and triple digits while preserving what you have so no crisis can drop you below your current lifestyle.

The world is in disruption, technology is impacting everything we do and becoming more invasive, the financial industry cannot be trusted with our money, governments are out of control and monopolies are controlling our data and lives.  

Confusion, fear, and unrest at home and abroad means we can't trust others to make our decisions for us.  But we’ve not been given the tools to make those decisions for ourselves. Instead, they tell us “we’ll own nothing and love it”.  A model for serfdom that we’re marching toward unless we decide otherwise.

There's too much information and noise, with much of it happening on the other side of the world, to figure it all out by ourselves.  This is the value of Women’s Wealthy Ways and our three program tiers.

The introductory tier is a membership that includes a weekly open mic call for discussing insights and connecting dots about the world. It also provides a self-directed training module to assess your financial status and create a plan.

The second tier adds a small group training program for building a personalized diverse portfolio. It teaches key concepts for buying, selling, and asset allocation for maximum risk-adjusted rewards. 

The top tier offers the same instruction with personal support at every step. It uses tools to clarify assets and is ideal for those needing personalized support and private discussions.

Founder and Financial Educator

S.A.F.E. Lifestyle Investment Academy is the first wealth creation program and investment community dedicated specifically to women.  

Women look at work, money, wealth and legacy differently than men.  Our passion and purpose lead our decisions. Today impact investing, entrepreneurship and global community-building opportunities are giving women the resources they need to have a voice in creating a world they want for themselves and their family.

The S.A.F.E. Lifestyle Investment Program is a one-to-one and small group guided financial education and mentoring program. Each individual learns how to leverage her own personal characteristics, natural tendencies, interests, knowledge, and experience to accumulate wealth and create a personalized investment portfolio.

A truly personalized investment portfolio reflects your values. The investments will feed your mission and passions.  You'll create the lifestyle you desire, and it will be there for you, for as long as you live, creating a legacy of good to pass to those who matter to you most.

Monthly and quarterly masterclasses teach the fundamentals in the different assets...how to combine them into a holistic portfolio for maximum benefit...and the different strategies to choose from, to make them work for you.

Then monthly one-on-one sessions give you personally guided mentoring and support to implement the investment and business decisions you make.  

Investing is an emotional activity - whether investing in yourself, your ideas or the markets.  The Women's Wealthy Ways Tribe membership provides access to like-minded women, to share your wins, ask your questions, and gain the confidence and support to continue when decisions become challenging.

The beliefs that investing is too risky, too hard and too time-consuming, are myths we debunk every day so that intelligent, creative, ambitious women can create the life and impact they choose for themselves.

Financial Educator and Mentor for Women

Decades of independent study and experience investing in a wide range of asset classes
Experience applying a large number of investment strategies from conservative wealth preservation in precious metals and insurance to wealth creation speculations inside and outside the stock market.
Accumulated a wide range of tips, techniques and methods for mitigating risk while building a diverse portfolio
Built a simplified method for assessing and tracking investments 

Our financial education includes training in:
👑 Money mindset to embrace wealth creation and accumulation 
👑 Investor Archetype to ensure personalized financial peace of mind
👑 Investor portfolio design to structure investments for asset protection and growth
👑 Specific assets with hand-holding step-by-step implementation of selected investments.
👑 Tips and techniques for finding and assessing the best assets for your personalized portfolio
👑 Personalized investor rules to guide decision-making for when to buy and sell.
👑 Simple tools and processes to tracking and managing assets for easy decision-making.

For more information, visit our website :
https://womenswealthyways.com/

Investor and Wealth Accumulation Expert

Susan Ritter, Founder and Leading-learner, started Women's Wealthy Ways to provide women with a safe, personalized, hand-holding process for building generational wealth and a financial legacy.

What makes us different than any other financial education program?  
We know that investing is more than just about the money. It is about the stories, your values, the impact you want to make in the world. When you work with us we walk with you every step of the way to find, assess and purchase the perfect set of assets to fit your investor archetype and investment goals.

TESTIMONIAL
It was inspiring and life changing working with Susan as she is an absolute wealth of information and knowledge of practical tips and actions that I took away from each session to implement before the next session. The program is structured so I was able to implement in between sessions and move forward building my plan as the program progressed.  Not only was it educational – but I got stuff done!  I have such a sense of achievement – I not only learnt A LOT, I also created and implemented a wealth strategy and plan.  For years I had been procrastinating in my uncertainty and from the first session with Susan I was off and running, straight into action.  Simone H.

TESTIMONIAL
I hadn’t really thought about investing.  Maybe it was the idea of learning about this from a woman.  Whatever the reason, I am so grateful I joined the program.  It was so easy working with you Susan, you are very responsive to individual needs and work hard at bringing and sharing your knowledge to others.  This program has been life changing for me. I am excited to see where it takes me!  Susan M.

TESTIMONIAL
It’s so exciting and liberating to be building an investment portfolio. Since that first session I’ve made a nice profit in crypto but more than that I’m confident and buying and trading now.  Moira M.

Book a call with Susan to find out more:
https://calendly.com/creatorcompass/wealthy-wise-woman-consultation

Founder and Leading Learner

Kidingenius

KidinGenius is aligned with Genius School and the Genius Group - international organizations that are helping young people to discover their genius, their passions and their purpose.
Through individual discovery and focus on leveraging natural talents and strengths, learning to collaborate with others, and finding the courage to make a difference, the next generation will tackle the challenges described in the United Nations 2030 Goals.

Life Coach

Duke Energy Corporation

Senior Project Manager of the Nuclear Fleet Cyber Security Implementation Project.

The project was running concurrent with regulatory development, requiring the team to remain agile as the requirements and regulations shifted from week to week.  Maintaining awareness of the changes in the industry, pulling disparate pieces of data together, and connecting the dots to be prepared for unexpected changes are key to success.  This attention and awareness of the environment is relevant  whether implementing a project or deciding the best investments for your own financial portfolio.

Leading a multi-site, multi-year $100M+ project requires a constant balance of stakeholder priorities at every level, inside and outside the company.   Collaboration is key to leverage both time and money effectively, particularly when the priorities shift.  Creating a vision for the outcome, assessing where we started, and establishing a plan to get us from where we were to where we wanted to be, were the same steps I use today to help women establish a path to their own vision of financial freedom.  

Vision, collaboration, process and systems create the structure and build the guide-rails to accomplish impossible dreams whether implementing a new technology to protect a nuclear plant or implementing a portfolio that creates ongoing cash flow forever.

Senior Information Technology Project Manager

Progress Energy

Information Technology Lead for a multi-utility consortium project to implement New Nuclear Plant construction projects, interfacing with Westinghouse, Shaw, Southern Company, SCE&G, Duke Energy, and Progress Energy.

Senior Project Manager

Supervising Manager of the Robinson Plant Information Technology Unit.

Information Technology Unit Manager

I help empowered women build their self-directed wealth strategy for financial protection, growth and peace of mind.

I find most people only invest their time as a way to make an impact - limiting what they can accomplish.

When you discover how to invest your money as well, you can spend your time doing more of what you love, be more confident in your financial decision-making, and find financial peace of mind now and forever.

A 30-year veteran of technology, leadership, personal finances and investing, I’ve spent decades... 
 	💎  performing intentional wealth accumulation, 
 	💎  acquiring experience in investing,
        💎  mentoring and providing financial education, and
 	💎  creating a legacy of wealth for myself and others.

When I work with clients privately and in groups, they gain insights into the investment products and techniques used by the wealthy - opportunities available to everyone, if you know where to look! 

   1.	We start where you are today, 

   2.	Create a vision for the future, and 

   3.	Build & Implement a detailed plan to take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Applying your new skills, 
       💎  you'll multiply your wealth,  
       💎  it'll be more secure and 
       💎  the lessons you learn will be a model of financial stewardship to pass to your children, so 
       💎  they can have a life of abundance and security too!  

👩‍🎓 Just like Lucy M:
"[Susan] taught me the fundamentals of investing and what I needed to know to manage my money on my own and succeed in business. I'm certain that my investments are safe with Susan's approach, and I'm continually getting up-to-date information."

👩‍🎓 Just like Michelle C:
"Susan understood what was important for me and assisted me in determining why I should invest and what technique I should employ."

👩‍🎓 Just like Simone H:
I have such a sense of achievement – I not only learnt A LOT, I also created and implemented a wealth strategy and plan.  For years I had been procrastinating in my uncertainty and from the first session with Susan I was off and running, straight into action.

It's my passion to show others how much fun it is to engage not just time, but money, to change the world for the better.  

Through the Buy1Give1 charity, your engagement with me results in financial literacy and entrepreneurship education for families around the world.

Stop procrastinating and BOOK A CALL to take the next step to SECURE YOUR FUTURE.  
          💎https://calendly.com/creatorcompass/women-s-wealthy-ways-consultation💎

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