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| Business World Magazine |
October 2012
Before Franchise Development Co-ordina-
tor Jim Olsen joined the organization, he
was a high school teacher in Minneapolis
schools with a contracting business on the
side. He was always looking for a new gig
outside education, and left his job to become
the Director of Training with NOVUS in
1980. “
Thirty-two years later I’m still here
and I’m still enjoying it. They call me the his-
torian,” he says.
Olsen started out working in training,
national accounts, insurance and fleets, be-
fore later moving onto the development pro-
gram, where he helps new people come into
the business. Franchise Development Co-
ordinator Adam Peterson had a background
in advertising sales prior to joining NOVUS.
After working for a number of different or-
ganizations, he was looking for opportuni-
ties to help people start their own business
and found NOVUS. “I was attracted to the
opportunity here, so I hopped aboard and
have been working with Jim for about two
and a half years now,” he says.
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