As we prepare to celebrate African American History Month, we are excited to announce that our Words of Wisdom Keynote will feature Sharon Douglas, President, Potere Construction LLC.
Sharon has received several awards in the industry, including the Luna Construction Award of the year, Luna Rising Star Firm, Black Chamber Business Woman of the year Engle Award, NCTRCA Outstanding DBE of the Year, and the Texas Governor’s Award 2018 among others. Although she has received many awards, Sharon’s greatest accomplishment has been to direct the company’s growth from a construction cleaning company to a heavy highway self-performance company with outstanding experience and financial growth. She was the keynote at our Soft Opening in 2018 and we are thrilled to welcome her back to the VWEC to share her words of wisdom.
As previously noted, we have revamped and renamed our 3rd Wednesdays program to Women Warriors Winning the Business Battle designed to help women veteran owned businesses, military spouses and our surrounding business community apply successful strategies to build:
Personal/Professional Confidence
Business Credit & Access to Capital
Business to Business Sales
The program will continue to offer light refreshments beginning at 11AM, with a new agenda that includes, but is not limited to:
11:15AM - 11:30AM - Structured Speed Networking - Conference A. is set up for you to immediately join the action and get connected.
11:30AM - 11:40AM - 30 Second Business Pitch - Every month we will give you the opportunity to connect with a confidence or business coach to develop your pitch and then battle with your peers for the best presentation and a $60 Gift Card.
Prepare Your Pitch - Sign up for a session with a Confidence or Business Coach:
Holly Caplan is a female empowerment author, speaker and confidence coach. As she climbed the corporate ladder for over 20 years, she learned that advancing meant tolerating discriminatoion in the workplace. This drove Holly to write a book titled, “Surviving the Dick Clique: A Girl’s Guide to Surviving the Male Dominated Corporate World.” Her most recent work related articles can be found in Fox Business, Inc, and Fast Company, CEO MOM and Cosmopolitan. Holly resides in Dallas, TX.
Shirley Staten is a certified life and business coach, specializing in sales and customer service. She’s passionate about working with individuals to help them achieve their personal goals as well as business owners to help them increase sales by leveraging customer service techniques. Her process includes helping clients create an executable strategic plan to help them achieve their business goals by focusing on key operational areas.
11:40AM - 12:00PM - 4 - Three-Minutes Business Pitch for a line of Business Credit - February will feature two series of 3 minutes Business Pitches to cover both January and February. Never miss the chance to get in the game—each month two business owners from our attendees will be selected to showcase their business and make a 3-minute pitch for a business line of credit. We’re not just showing you how to build business credit, we’re giving you the resources you need to get started!
Meet the Judges:
Stephanie M. Broughton, Minority/Women Business Enterprise (M/WBE) Coordinator, Dallas Independent School District, Dallas Education Center;
Christina Mortel , Army Veteran & Business Consultant, Texas Veterans Commission Veteran Entrepreneur Program;
Tracy Irby, Small Business Advisor, Center for Women Entrepreneurs, Texas but I Woman's University;
12:00PM - 12:15PM - Introductions Partners, Sponsors & Keynote Speaker - Get connected to the resources you need to succeed with a brief presentation from partners and sponsors supporting this and other VWEC events.
12:15PM - 12:45PM - Words of Wisdom - Now make the connection as Sharon Douglas shares her entrepreneur journey. Sharon’s drive far exceeds the expectation of many. Her Confident approach has proven to be one of her greatest assets. Her methodology to any project is to ensure customer satisfaction. Sharon developed her work ethics as an officer in the U.S. Army, and she now applies that leadership structure to Potere Construction LLC and employees.
Come, connect, collaborate, and conquer your challenges, so you can win your business battles!
12:45PM - 12:55PM - Questions & Answers
12:55PM - 1:00PM - Selection of Next Month’s Business Pitches & Closing Remarks
Are you ready to take full control of your business, turning contacts into contracts, building your business credit and strengthening your business pitch? We’ve created a venue for you to access the resources your need to succeed.