About Linda Sherman

An international multi-cultural marketing pro, Linda Sherman comes from a background in traditional marketing as a successful marketing executive and CEO with multinational subsidiaries including Club Med, Coors, and Barilla.

Linda Sherman co-founder Courage Group head shot

She devised and implemented an innovative guerilla marketing plan for ZIMA in Japan that produced a lasting, profitable success. Linda has herself made the transition to incorporating social media marketing and she understands how social media fits into a strategic marketing plan. She is familiar with the hospitality industry that is so crucial to our economy here in Hawaii.

Not only does Linda know strategy, marketing and business but she also has hands-on technical skills in building and optimizing WordPress websites that are integrated with social media platforms. Linda has an influential on-line presence, consulted to businesses and taught social media marketing. You can find links to Linda Sherman on her blog It’s Different For Girls, on the right side of this page or just “google” Linda Sherman Gordon.

Currently, Linda is Chief Marketing Officer of Marine Biology & Environmental Technology and is not taking on clients.

Linda Sherman has taught Social Media for Business at KCC-OCET the local campus of University of Hawaii and has had Social Marketing columns in The Garden Island newspaper on Kauai.

Linda and Ray have owned a home on Kauai since 2004. Following twenty years as an executive in Japan, Linda finds great synergy in the strongly Asian influenced culture on Kauai. Linda enjoys tennis, swimming and outrigger canoe paddling.