Diversity Discourse

Ryan Renteria is a CEO coach, diverse board director, public speaker, and the founder of Stretch Five, a leading executive coaching firm. Ryan is the author of a book called Lead Without Burnout: Growth with Less Stress for You and Your Team, which offers A Proven Process for Achieving Work/Life Optimization, Growing Your Business More Effectively, & Enhancing Well-Being for You & Your Tea...

Alleson Tate, a certified financial planner and the founder and owner of Avere Wealth Management in the Atlanta area, is joining the MBE magazine team as a financial content contributor. Alleson will provide financial content to help you do better business in our print magazine, our website, here on Diversity Discourse, and in a dedicated newsletter. In this episode, Alleson talks about what she h...

In our Winter 2024 installment of Beyond the Logo, Brooke Foley chats with Nicole Middendorf, Minneapolis’s financial guru and well-known curator of the “Live It List”. Nicole found herself as a financial advisor compromising all that felt important to her, inside of a relationship that was removing her ability to live life with the basics: security and stability. Once she found her way past that...

For Kai Fuentes, president and CEO of Ebony Marketing Systems (EMS), building a thriving business and providing her clients with high-quality multicultural market research comes down to two key pieces of advice her parents gave her: “Don’t give up,” and “Your word is your bond.”   In this episode, Kai discusses how tenacity and integrity are essential to her business and the entrepreneurship legac...

While some businesses took a huge hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ash Sharma and James Baker of popular travel brand Cincha used this challenge to grow to a multimillion-dollar business and be featured on the latest season of Shark Tank and even made a deal with Barbara Corcoran for their innovative travel belts.

We’re continuing our Beyond the Logo series with Jayne Agency to bring more entrepreneurial insights to the #NEXTGEN. This episode, Measuring Promise Through Impact – Analytics and Outcomes, features Mike Anguiano, serial entrepreneur, and the brain behind SupplyHive™– unleashing his insights on everything from building your career from the ground up, to analytics and data, and leveraging diversit...

Jacqueline Moore is the founder, CEO and chairman of CMRignite, Wisconsin’s largest Black-owned communications agency. The agency is celebrating 28 years of business and Jacque was recently awarded the  Diversity in Business Lifetime Achievement Award  by the Milwaukee Business Journal. The firm also has been named One of the Fastest Growing Private Companies  by INC 5000 for the past three years...

Brandon Calloway is CEO and co-founder of G.I.F.T., Generating Income for Tomorrow, a startup non-profit which grows Black-owned businesses in Kansas City's urban core with a new model for growth. Brandon shares how G.I.F.T. has given $1,237,000 to 63 Black-owned businesses in Kansas City's urban core in the past three years.  SUPPORT THE SHOW: Please Subscribe to help support the show! Share to y...

In this episode of our Beyond The Logo content series with The Jayne Agency, Brooke Foley catches up with Michael Baldini, of Rangam, to talk about how his personal brand and the brands he represents all intertwine and how knowing his audience is his super power as a Power Promise Keeper. Michael also discusses how he regulates his personal and professional brand and other powerful insights.

In another episode of our Beyond The Logo content series with The Jayne Agency, Brooke Foley discusses promise keepers and the power of brand positioning. She’s joined by Pam Isom, founder of ICE Safety Solutions, and they’re going to talk more about the impact their businesses have on the communities and world around them based on promise and impact.

As part of our Beyond The Logo content series with The Jayne Agency, Brooke Foley interviews Jade Melvin. Jade served the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) organization for over 12 years in various positions and an awardee of the Top 50 Women Leaders of Dallas for 2023. Jade shares her perspective on all sides of the buy/sell, and how she sees that affecting so many promises t...

Whether in the workplace or the supply chain, inclusion and diversity are focused, hot-button issues for the majority of corporations. And as the national culture shifts, we aim to discuss some of those issues on this podcast. In this episode, Tanya Isley, publisher of MBE magazine and Brian Martin, the founder of BriStar Collective and a member of the Human Rights Campaign’s National Board of Gov...

In this episode, Jacqueline Hayes, MBA, PCM®, principal and chief marketing strategist of Crayons & Marketers, discusses essential content marketing tips for business of all sizes and with all budgets. She also tells us about a tool her company produces to ensure your business website is ADA accessible. And she provides insight into her firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Marketing Assessment, an enterpr...

William Randall is the owner and chief executive officer of Boateng Logistics. He is also a logistics expert and international business executive with a proven history of identifying innovative “outside-the-box” approaches. William has built a company that focuses on providing transportation and logistics to its customers across the globe. Recently, MBE magazine spoke with him about entrepreneursh...

As entrepreneurs approach retirement, they have important choices to make about the future of their businesses—such as whether to sell, close a business down, or pass it on to a family member.  But for the founders of minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs), this succession planning takes on a deeper significance. Owners might want their business to maintain minority or female owners...

Guests: Heather Cox and Liz Whitehead, Diversity Masterminds. They’ll discuss their joint venture  Diversity Masterminds, an 8-part  series designed to help minority and women business owners strategically leverage their national diversity certification.

Guest: Heather Cox, Certify My Company. Governments and corporations throughout the U.S. often set aside a certain percentage of their contract budgets for minority- and women-owned businesses. However, there’s often a requirement that these businesses be certified as minority and/or women-owned. Heather Cox, the co-founder and president of Certify My Company, discusses what certification is, the...

Guests: Sidney and Saundra Curry, BC Holdings. They have created an online comprehensive financial learning management system that has more than 230 mini-lessons in topics such as wealth management planning, goal setting, and investment education. Today, we speak with them on empowering people to build, manage, maintain and grow their individual bottom lines.

Guest: Ingrid Watkins, IW Consulting. There are very few people who understand all of the various perspectives and nuances of supplier diversity more than Ingrid Watkins, the principal and chief diversity strategist at IW Consulting Group, an Atlanta-based consulting firm, specializing in corporate diversity program solutions to some of the country’s top corporations. Before launching her own firm...

Whether in the workplace or the supply chain, inclusion and diversity are focused, hot-button issues for the majority of corporations. And as the national culture shifts, we aim to discuss some of those issues on this podcast. In our inaugural episode, Tanya Isley, publisher of MBE Magazine, and Brian Martin, the founder of BriStar Collective and a member of the Human Rights Campaign’s National Bo...