Rose M. Avila, PhD
The Principal Management Consultant, Facilitator, and Business Coach at RMA CONSULTING, is a highly qualified Strategist and Developmental Specialist. She brings a depth of experience and success to helping people become top performers and achieve quality results. For Rose, it’s all about focus, accountability, and results whether she’s working with a group of people or one-on-one in a business coaching situation.
Experience
- RMA Consulting: Principal Management Consultant, Business Coach, and Facilitator (2002 – Present)
- Time Warner Telecom: Director of Sales and Marketing in San Diego
- Sun Microsystems-HighSoft, Inc: Director of Academic Sales to Higher Education in California
- Pacific Bell: Management Positions in Business Sales and Statewide Corporate Staff Support
- University of Wisconsin-Madison: Assistant Professor
- Substance Magazine Managing Editor
- Random House/Harper & Row: Textbook Reviewer

Formal Education
Ph.D., M.A.
University of California, Los Angeles
B.A.
Santa Clara University
Graduate Certificates
- Duke University Fuqua School of Business
- Executive Program, Total Quality Institute
Business Coaching Certifications
- Trusted Advisors Coaching Academy
- Center for Creative Leadership
- TTI Success Insights Value Added Associate
- Positive Intelligence Coach for PQ Mental Fitness System

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What Clients say about Rose Avila…
“Rose’s work is excellent. She has a talent working with small business owners and is able to get them to see and move beyond their original expectations.”
Senior Vice President,Small Business Financial Institution
“Rose is an exceptional coach with clear insight and the ability to prod the “thinking process”. She helped me to reach out and challenge myself to make difficult and important decisions…always exploring possibilities. During the past year, I worked with Rose during a difficult time personally and professionally and she helped get over some important hurdles.”
CEOSmall Business
“Rose, how can I ever thank you! Yesterday’s workshop was incredibly productive and let all of us who were there recommit our energies to the project ahead of us….If you needed a reference for your resume, you clinched it yesterday–it was readily apparent, though, that you know what you’re doing and do it very well!”
Executive Director
“There are not enough words to describe the benefits I have received by my association with Rose. I had no experience with setting up a business like this and she has been very patient. I would not have made it through the year without….Rose.”
PresidentArts Organization
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