Our Team

Shelly Berman-Rubera
President

Founder and President of SBR-Small Business Results, Newton, MA, Shelly Berman-Rubera, is a Certified Small Business Coach, Emotional Intelligence Leader, and Lifestyle Management Consultant.  It is the combination of her credentials and experiences that offers small business owners and independent professionals unique and inspiring business development consulting and programs. 

Shelly Berman-Rubera delivers the inspiration, education and the tools for business development implementation. She is an energetic entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience having started four businesses. Her expertise lies in the ability to recognize where issues and problems arise for small business owners on a daily basis. Within a flash she can come up with an idea, a strategy, a tool, or a program, that will bring Small Business Results.

Shelly’s strengths include outstanding communication, collaboration, sales and marketing skills. Her hallmark is her belief in people and their companies. She asks the right questions and creates experiences to increase people's commitment to developing themselves and their businesses. Entrepreneurs to executives have benefited from her decisiveness and creative ideas. Shelly's excellent speaking abilities, her credibility and motivational techniques have instilled great learning and change to businesses. Shelly is "extremely supportive," they report, and "instinctively attuned and committed to the success of her clients and audiences."

As a dedicated and passionate entrepreneur, Shelly has created four companies including:      SBR – Small Business Results, Professional Fitness by Shelly, Shelly Berman School of Dance, and Understanding Peri-Menopause. She is the current president for The Women in Business Connection as well as on the Strategic Planning Committee for the Newton Needham Chamber of Commerce. Shelly was also named Ambassador of the year of the Newton-Needham Chamber in 2006, was the former chair for the Newton-Needham Chamber Women in Networking Committee for three years, and past co-chair for Strictly Networking. She has also won trophies as a competitive athlete, while being married and raising two children.

Her programs and presentations have been held at many corporations including Babson College, CIO Global, Omgeo, The Bulfinch Group, Coldwell Banker Brokerage, FEMA, Constant Contact, Society of Professional Consultants, and Women In Business Connection. Partnerships with SBR-Small Business Results include, Small Business Success of Minnesota and Constant Contact. 

Shirin Shahin
Manager of Business Development

Shirin Shahin is highly skilled at the development and implementation of products and services as well as the overall business strategy to maintain and drive business growth. Shirin is quick to bring an idea to conception with a focus on creating and developing the brand, proposition and communications. Shirin is a highly motivated and engaged team player whose passion is to guide entrepreneurs and small business owners to success.

She develops, implements and supports the business activities for the various clients and identifies ways to improve in a particular marketplace. Shirin analyzes new trends and behavior to uncover new business and sales opportunities.

She understands the impact that decisions make on the bottom line and loves the idea of playing a key part in creating something new. She encompasses enthusiasm and confidence and the drive to make it happen.

Shirin is a natural entrepreneur who is always thinking about business opportunities. At SBR, one of our greatest strengths is our ability to move fast and accomplish high level work. Working together with Shelly they have an impressive track record in driving sales and launching products and services from start to finish. As a result there is great collective team synergy.

Shirin has completed her MBA student at Babson College concentrating on Marketing and Entrepreneurship. Shirin enjoys playing tennis, ballroom dancing, as well as spending time with her family and friends!

She looks forward to sharing the exciting tools and programs that SBR has to offer you!

Irina Rosenblit
Executive Marketing Assistant

Irina focuses on the promotional implementation of SBR’s product and service offerings. Irina posses the skills and knowledge necessary to leverage a client’s strategic goals and objectives into a specifically targeted go-to-market plan. She is highly sensitive in identifying a client’s situation in the marketplace and developing a complication analysis, and recommendations.  She is a highly motivated individual, who reacts quickly in a fast paced environment.

Working closely with Shelly and Shirin, Irina is always trying to push the limits of company exposure and brand awareness. Via social media, viral and other non traditional marketing techniques she is constantly making new relationships and rekindling old ones.

Irina truly enjoys working with small business owners and independent professionals due to the level of passion for their offerings. Furthermore she finds the result- driven entrepreneurial environment challenging yet satisfying.

Completing her Bachelor’s degree requirements at Babson College in December 2009, Irina’s educational background focuses on business management with a strong focus on strategic marketing.  Irina also has previous experience working with both consumer and B2B segments as well as nonprofit consulting.  When not working, she enjoys dancing, staying active and spending time with friends and family.

Irina is excited to join the SBR team, and working with you in the near future!