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Lisa Apolinski is the CEO of 3 Dog Write, a digital consulting agency. She works with businesses who want to accelerate revenue and take market share using digital means. In the last eight years, she has helped her clients create nearly $1 billion in revenue growth. Her first book, Weathering The Digital Storm, is used [...]

Silverback Beverage was created by Sara Stender Delaney, a global activist, and social entrepreneur. She is a working mother in Asheville, NC, who was looking for more healthy but fun nonalcoholic options in the land of a thousand breweries. She began experimenting with her looseleaf tea at home and had an idea to carbonate the [...]

Melissa Priest is the Founder and CEO of Alexandretta Transportation Consulting, the only female-owned transportation consulting firm in the U.S. She is a recognized subject matter expert parcel shipping and global leader in parcel, trucking, ocean and air freight consulting and has saved clients over $1billion dollars since starting in the parcel industry nearly 25 [...]

Marissa Levin is the co-founder of Successful Culture International, which applies a proprietary Culture Development Lifecycle (CDL) to help organizations move from current state to desired state, and helps leaders reach their greatest personal and organizational potential. As founder of a 23-year old, multimillion-dollar business that pivoted seven times in response to market shifts, Levin has [....

Kittie W. Watson is President and founder of Innolect Inc., a global leadership and organization development firm that prepares executives and their teams to succeed in high-performance, high-integrity workplaces. With over twenty-five years of strategic change management experience, Kittie has been a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 C-suite officers seeking to accelerate positive business results [...

Karen W. Hertz is the founder of Holidaily Brewing Company. In her early 30 s, Karen survived both melanoma and thyroid cancers, leading to a treatment regimen including a gluten-free diet. After adopting a gluten-free diet, Karen struggled to find a great tasting, 100% gluten-free beer. With an MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies from the University of [...]

Jenn T. Grace is a nationally recognized business strategist, speaker, and author. Guided by the mantra, Change happens in business, Jenn believes social change happens first in the workplace before spilling over into mainstream society. She has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. Jenn passionately believes the more [...]

When she was younger, Beatrice Dixon suffered from bacterial vaginosis for eight months. One night, an ancestor gave her the ingredients to heal herself in a dream. From that insightful dream, she created the formula for a healthy, clean feminine wash. In 2014, Dixon launched The Honey Pot Company, a plant-based feminine hygiene line created [...]

Amanda Gianotti is a recognition specialist. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Loyola University in 1986. She spent a few years selling medical supplies before being recruited into the family awards business. Amanda worked closely with her father, a Harvard MBA, learning every aspect of running the business. In addition, she [...]

Fabi Preslar is the owner and president of SPARK Publications, a national, award-winning, independent publishing firm specializing in the design of niche magazines, and independently published non-fiction books for print, digital, and interactive media. Preslar has been honored as a 2020 FOLIO: Top Women in Media, was inducted into the 2019 North Carolina Women Business [...]

Christi Powell with 84 Lumber. Christi is the WBE Commercial Sales Market Manager for 84 Lumber and works directly with their over 250 locations. She has an extensive background in commercial and residential sales as they relate to construction and building. She shares an exciting vision with owner, Maggie Hardy Knox, for growth of the [...]

Hannah Kain is President and CEO of ALOM, a global supply chain company she founded in 1997 headquartered in Fremont, California. ALOM operates out of 19 global locations to support its Fortune 500 customers in the technology, automotive, medical, financial, and energy sectors with brand enhancing supply chain management services and solutions. Hannah was born [...]

T. Renee Smith, CEO of iSuccess Consulting, Inc. is the secret weapon behind many small businesses and top corporations scaling and positioning themselves as an industry leader. Her super power is strategy. T. Renee' has helped raise more than $30 million in capital for small businesses and managed multi-million dollar budgets for diverse programming with [...]

Ellen Segal-Tacher, founder and CEO of Prime Sunshine CBD, is a native Of Charlotte, graduated with a BS in Investigative Journalism from the University of Florida and an MBA from The University of Miami. Prior to her career in CBD she was the top sales person for two fortune five hundred companies. Ellen is a [...]

Bernadette L. Harris is an award-winning Tax and Forensic Accountant, TEDx Speaker, bestselling author and podcast host committed to Keeping Small Business in Business. As President of By The Book Accounting, she has helped thousands of entrepreneurs across the country start, operate, and grow thriving ventures. Bernadette, a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), earned a B.S. [...]

Tina Weede is President and CEO of Peerless Performance and has a proven track record of more than 30 years delivering award winning and successful solutions that drive positive results. The research and experience at Peerless Performance, a woman owned, WBENC certified Performance Improvement, Engagement, Culture Engineering and Incentive Agency, is focused on the workplace [...]

Secondary Solutions CEO Tina Stevens grew up at a time where women knew their place in business and that was being at the top of their game in everything they did. With a military school education at Vermont s prestigious Norwich University, Tina s earliest influencers taught her the importance of thinking differently especially as it related [...]

With an extensive agency background in digital advertising and branding, our founder Charday Oldacre honed her creative and strategic skills working on projects for global brands like Coca-Cola, Sea World, and AMC Theatres. But after spending years working in other agencies, Charday recognized a gap that needed filling. She noticed there was a shortage of [...]

JoAnne LaBounty is President/CEO of Spartanburg Meat Processing Co. Inc., a USDA inspected meat processing plant providing fully cooked pork ribs and BBQ to both retail and foodservice customers domestically and globally, allowing them the sumptuous taste of slow cooked, restaurant quality ribs in 10 minutes or less, at a price that fits with today s [...]

Jill Rose is President of Perceptive Recruiting, a technical recruiting company focused on Information Technology and Engineering positions. Jill has a Bachelors Degree from Michigan State and 25 years of IT recruiting experience. She started Perceptive Recruiting almost 7 years ago and has been recognized by Inc 5000, as one of the Fastest Growing Private [...]

Tammy Cohen (SHRM-CP, PHR), a background screening pioneer with three decades of experience, is a nationally honored entrepreneur, a successful businesswoman, and a recognized thought leader. Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of InfoMart, one of the top 10 largest background check and identity screening companies in the industry, Cohen is known professionally as the Queen [...]

Rose Battle is President and CEO of Ultimate Model Management Inc. (UMMI). Now UMMI AGENCY, located in the heart of Atlanta, GA with offices located in 5 major cities to include Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York with its home office and headquarters located in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Rocky Mount, N.C. she [...]

Jessica Lowery is the Founder & CEO of The POWER of Elderberries. Years ago, when she found herself curled up in a ball on the waiting room floor of the doctor s office desperate for relief from her flu symptoms, she never imagined that moment would lead her to discovering the natural alternative that has completely [...]

Cornelia Shipley is the founder of 3C Consulting and a sought after speaker, professional development and diversity consultant and strategic planning expert who works with clients to expand their capacity, increase their capability and drive clarity in the organization to ultimately increase the retention and advancement of mission critical talent. As an executive development strategist, [...]

Heather Eason, CEO of SELECT Power Systems, is an entrepreneur, blogger, board member, and author. She has an electrical engineering degree as well as masters of business administration. She truly believes that we have the #powertomakeadifference. Connect with Heather on LinkedIn. About GWBC The Greater Women s Business Council (GWBC®) is at the forefront of redefining [...]