What makes networking work? Why should you value networking in both your personal and professional life? Stacy Harris has been an entrepreneur for 15 years, starting out with her own image consulting company, Impressions, and now for the last 5 years, as a franchise owner with Network in Action (NIA). NIA is a professional, membership based, networking group organization. Stacy owns 5 NIA franchises in The Woodlands, TX. She describes herself as a professional matchmaker of business owners. The goal of NIA being to bring together like minded business people who can help refer, build and support one another’s businesses. It is her greatest joy to see her members succeed in their businesses and grow and support one another. In December of 2018, NIA The Woodlands was named Franchise of the Year, in 2019 Community Builder of the year, and she has just recently been named as the VEL Institute 2020 Community Leader of the Year.