MIKKI WILSON
Mikki Wilson calls herself “the chief energy officer” for her company, Dot Connector Consulting, and it’s an apt title. Her energy for helping women entrepreneurs “connect the dots” between their passion and profits, and make their businesses as successful as possible, is absolutely limitless.
“We partner with purpose-driven women who provide services to connect the dots between their marketing strategy and their business to identify pathways to profitability,” she says. “I’m a social-impact entrepreneur, and I discovered that the majority of women entrepreneurs hit this five-figure revenue glass ceiling… so I decided to tackle this problem because usually marketing is the key to unlock this. And it’s particularly important to me because I personally believe by investing in women and helping them achieve profitability, that money then gets reinvested into their homes, their families, the community, and the economy at large.”
WHAT MOTIVATES YOU?
I think people motivate me. I’m a people person. I just want to support and encourage people to be their best, whatever that looks like for them. I have this energy that I don’t know where it comes from, and I think that energy is purely to motivate people so that is reciprocated in return. Because if I can help someone, if I can connect the dots for someone, that is my ultimate motivation to keep doing what I do.
WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT THE NORTH SHORE?
Oceans! I’m a stand-up paddleboarder, so I love the access that we have on the North Shore throughout the season, but particularly from late spring until late fall, you can find me, probably, on any body of water between the actual ocean to the Ipswich River, to the Merrimack and everything in between. Riverhead beach in Marblehead, the home of SUP East Coast Style… that is my summer office. So when they say you can’t work at the beach? You actually can.
WHAT DOES COMMUNITY MEAN TO YOU?
I grew up with that philosophy that it takes a village to raise a child, so community means to me that we’re all responsible for what happens in our backyard. So community is when everybody is in it together to bring people together and to really uplift each other within the community. That’s all our responsibility.
WHAT MAKES YOU PROUD?
I’m really proud that I started this business. I think that’s what I always go back to. It was never in my plan; that thought was never even introduced to me in the first half of my life that I couldn’t be a successful business owner or just own a business. So this business is probably the thing that I’m most proud of in my life to date.
DR. ANNA PETROPOULOS
During her youth, while visiting Greece with her family, Anna Petropoulos, MD, FRCS, was captivated by the beautiful statues and the lovely proportions of their faces and bodies at the museums she visited with her mother. Now, a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon and founder of The Center for Classic Beauty and The New England Facial Cosmetic Surgery Center, Dr. Petropoulos carries with her those principles of harmony and natural, classic beauty in her industry-leading work with patients.
“Even though I’m a facial plastic surgeon, my philosophy is to avoid surgery whenever possible, and focus on noninvasive treatments. I feel we are really blessed that in this age of technology, we have so many options,” she says. “I can create very similar results or sometimes even better results than surgery by combining multiple different modalities… to give a wonderful appearance of youth, vibrancy,
