Corporate Bios
Lori Kiser-Block
President
 Lori Kiser-Block is the President of FranChoice, Inc. the premier network of franchise referral consultants in the United States. FranChoice introduces pre-screened, high-quality prospective franchisees to carefully selected franchise opportunities that best match their needs and qualifications. The service is completely free for consumers and franchisors only pay for a referral when a referred person becomes a new franchisee in their system. To receive full details about the services FranChoice offers consumers, click here.
For almost 20 years, Lori spent her career in various sales and management positions in the travel industry. Starting her career for an airline on the East Coast, she spent significant time traveling the world and learning to appreciate many different cultures. After leaving the airline industry, Lori focused her talent on selling commercial travel programs to Fortune 500 companies for several large regional travel agencies in Michigan and Southern California. During this time Lori also launched a travel academy which specialized in training agents to sell deluxe leisure travel.
In 1993, Lori was recruited by the second largest travel company in the world, Carlson Wagonlit Travel , owned by the Carlson Companies, owner of Radisson Hotels, TGI Fridays and many other national and global brands. Her initial function was to help grow its travel agency franchise group. She spent several successful years as the Midwest Business Development Manager and brought a significant number of new franchisees into the program.
After being promoted to National Director of Franchise Development, Lori's team recruited franchisees throughout the country but focused primarily on building major markets. Her training and motivational skills guided her sales team to selling record numbers of new franchisees to Carlson and her efforts contributed to Carlson Wagonlit Travel's being named the top travel franchisor in the U.S in 1998 and 1999.
In January, 1999 Lori was promoted to the position of National Director for Franchise Services, responsible for all franchise services including franchisee training and development, local and regional meeting management and resolution of legal issues. Lori also helped to govern the Franchise Advisory Board and established programs that improved franchisee profitability and satisfaction.
Prior to joining FranChoice, Lori worked with a start-up technology company to help them implement a sales strategy and build brand awareness for a new concept in small business technology called "Subscription Computing."
You can reach Lori via email at .
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