Speaker | Radio & TV Guest Expert | Dating & Relationship Coach
Master Executive Certified Matchmaker, Science-based Dating & Relationship Coach, Creator of the Get REAL, Get Love Coaching Platform, Founder of AVConnexions
Arlene Washburn is a leader in the Matchmaking Industry, a matchmaker and science-based dating and relationship coach with some fairy tale successes. She is one of only twelve master executive certified matchmakers, the former CEO of the oldest state-licensed school for matchmaking in America, and an award-winning expert voted The Most Innovative Woman in Relationship Matchmaking, 2022.
Arlene founded AVConnexions in 2012 to offer top-level dating and relationship coaching, matchmaking, and singles events for elite singles, C-level executives, and celebrities. Her keen intuition and adept recruitment skills have won Arlene widespread acclaim for her matchmaking and relationship coaching across multiple channels.
Traveling worldwide to inspire other love industry professionals as a mentor, trainer, consultant, and recruiter, Arlene trained and certified hundreds of matchmakers in Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and the US.
Focused on the science and research of love and following the latest dating trends, Arlene provides singles with the resources they need to make better partner choices, stop relationship self-sabotage, and navigate relationships more effectively.
With 20 years as a senior executive in the pharmaceutical industry behind her, Arlene experienced firsthand the struggles of building intimate, personal relationships working 12-14-hour days. From marrying her perfect match to pairing a woman who got married for the first time at sixty, Arlene is the matchmaker who walks her talk.
Having cracked the code herself, she now shares her findings in the Get REAL, Get Love® Coaching Platform, a membership site/relationship school for those wanting to get better at love.Â
Arlene is the resident relationship expert on Latinista Magazine, a former relationship expert on WOR 710 Radio, New York’s #1 Talk Radio Station, a contributor to Change Your Attitude, Change Your Life Magazine, and featured on Cosmo Sirius® Radio, YourTango, Project Eve, Industry Magazine, and Telemundo, the largest Hispanic TV station and other TV channels.
Arlene served as the Board President of The Divorce Support Professionals and past President of the Board of Directors for the YWCA of Bergen County. They awarded her The Essie W. Mayer Award for her devoted service, outstanding leadership to the YWCA Bergen County, and a certificate of commendation from the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Arlene is an honored member of The Continental Who’s Who.
SPEAKER TOPICS
The Big Shift: From Corporate to Entrepreneur
No matter your life stage, it is never too late to fulfill your life’s purpose. Understanding that career choices don’t have to be forever, you’ll learn from someone who has gone through the transformation from being a successful professional in the pharmaceutical industry to creating her premier matchmaking company. Discover how you can reinvent yourself to start a successful (matchmaking) business on your own!
Business 101 for Matchmakers
You’ve completed your matchmaking course and taken the plunge: you’re becoming a matchmaker. Now, what? Don’t get overwhelmed. Learn the basics of setting up your matchmaking business and strategies for building your database, selling, collaborating, and much more.
Divorce Workshop: Getting Ready for Love Again
Don’t let a previously failed marriage make you think you’ll fall again. Not if you learn key strategies to attract and prepare for love again after a divorce. Discovering love takes time and effort, and it’s never too soon after divorce to find out how. Take it from a successful matchmaker and dating coach who has experienced firsthand the difficulties of love, divorce, failure, and success, now happily married, wishing to make that happen for you.
Get REAL, Get Love Coaching or Workshop
Get REAL, Get love is a 12-week live or online on-demand program designed to increase your confidence and ultimately help you be your own matchmaker, whether you’re 35 or 75! When you get REAL, you stop denying your genuine desires, and you can communicate them clearly without being afraid that ‘Mr. Right’ will walk away. During this program, you’ll learn to manifest the love and life you’ve longed for. You’ll swap out and overcome the thinking that’s kept you stuck for new empowering beliefs that guarantee you happy and healthy relationships! When you complete this program, don’t be surprised that all the other vital areas of your life, such as finances, health, and career SKYROCKET!
Online Dating For Success
Is online dating giving you more headaches and stress than true love? Learn from the matchmaker who met her husband through an online dating platform, need-to-know tips for creating an excellent profile, how to trick the algorithm, and stay safe.