Congrats to the participants of the Business Plan Workshop!
Closing Presentation: "Pitching Your Business!" (by invitation only)
Guest Speaker:
VR Small, Founder/CEO VWEC
What You Will Learn:
How to Pitch Your Business
How to create your Pitch Deck
The Importance of Social Capital
MEET THE SPEAKER:
VR Small, knows how to turn vision into reality. As the founder and chief executive officer, for the Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center (VWEC), a national initiative to empower entrepreneur women associated with the military to scale for success. VR is driving social, and economic change across our nation.
She testified for the original House Bill to make June 12, Women Veterans Day in Texas and participated in the Texas “I Am Not Invisible” Campaign. In 2020, she launched the first annual, statewide “Women Veterans: The Pitch” in celebration of Women Veterans Day, highlighting the innovations, and economic impact of current/potential women veteran entrepreneurs across the state of Texas.
VR is an active member of the Women Veteran Business Coalition, serves on the Advisory Committees for the 30th Congressional District Veteran and TWU’s Center for Women Entrepreneurs. Advisory Committees. She is a fellow of SMU’s Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity—Inclusive Economy, Dallas Public Voices, and the Bush Institute Stand-to-Veteran Leadership Program. Featured in Dallas Innovates 2020: The Future 50 North Texans to watched, VR is SBA’s DFW District 2020 Veteran Small Business Advocate of the Year, a Women Veterans 2030 Commissioner, a Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), Center for Women Veterans (CWV), 2021 Trailblazer “Women Veterans Leading the Way” a Dallas Business Journal 2021 Women in Business Honoree; featured in the Dallas Morning News, Veterans Day 2021 Special Veteran Edition and on the cover of the 2022 Winter Issue of AVOW, a magazine by and for Women Veterans as well as the soon to be published 2022 Marquis Who’s Who in America®.
VR is a Navy Veteran, proud stepdaughter, and sister to U.S. Army Retired Vietnam & Iraq Veterans, respectively. Living her personal slogan “Changing the way we see the world and do business,” as a motivational speakers, moderator, educator, and resolute advocate for long lasting impactful change.