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Recognized as a leading tax firm for 35 years, Karen founded Tenenbaum Law, P.C., which helps individuals and businesses facing IRS and New York State tax problems. Aside from practicing tax law, Karen is also the co-founder of Commerce Plaza, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to introducing children to the business community through a simulated work environment.
Katherine Hanrahan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Imagine A Mind. From business concept, creation, and to launch, Imagine A Mind helps women entrepreneurs create the life of their dreams through a profitable online business. Last July, Katherine was featured at Thinkific's, Think In Color 2021 event, a virtual conference for minority women entrepreneurs. In this interview, Katherine looks forward to sharing both her story and knowledge to uplift entrepreneurs of all stages.
Kari Warberg Block, an unlikely disruptor, challenged an industry that by its very nature is toxic. As the Founder & CEO of EarthKind, Kari discovered that 98% of pest control solutions sold were poison & kill methods – so she set out to invent a better solution: plant-based pest control powered by nature. Kari was the first to develop, manufacture, and commercialize poison-free rodent and insect repellents for farm and home use, with a mission to build a purpose led company to create change through business. Once a mom on food stamps Kari started EarthKind with nothing more than a package of garden seeds and a vision, and has built it into $20 million company. Kari was selected as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneurial Winning Women,” and has gone from being a part of her local homemakers club to advising the SBA, Congress and the White House on policy that impacts women in business. She has been featured in CNBC, the New York Times, Huffington Post and Forbes.
Entrepreneur, business consultant, and lifestyle wellness coach Keetria Garner-Chambers has two decades of public relations expertise working with some of the world’s leading brands, media personalities, and entertainers. Co-founder and former Managing Director of the AMW Group, she is currently the host of Style of Business (SOB) on Apple Podcasts, and is the CEO of Hypursuit, Inc. and Style of Business (SOB) Coaching and Consulting. Also a certified personal trainer, Keetria’s deep passion for wellness, vision, and purpose is unveiled in her latest book, Courage is a Muscle—now available on Amazon.
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As an accomplished strategic business development, marketing, and operations professional, Kim Bryden has focused her expertise on the food & beverage industry, and supporting small business growth at-large, for more than a decade. Her management experience ranges from working in and alongside governmental agencies, to increasing sales as Top Fortune 200 retail management, to deploying agile, innovative marketing and partnership strategies at food tech start-ups. Since founding Cureate LLC in 2014, Kim continues to build out this multi-sector, public-private partnership approach. Whether its working with Anchor Institutions in Baltimore City on localizing procurement, to reimagining retail experiences for corner store owners to grocery chains, to developing educational entrepreneurship curricula for economic development agencies, Cureate takes a 360-degree approach — and that growth mindset comes from Kim and her passion for learning.
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Kristin is an activist and conscious investor. She is founder and CEO of Nia Global Solutions, Director of Nia Community Investments and co-founder of Impact Hub Oakland. Always Interested in innovative solutions for leveraging resources in alignment with values, Kristin works as a financial change agent and portfolio manager. She enjoys her work empowering people along their money journeys. Her book highlighting women and diversity in impact investing, Voices From the Field, is forthcoming.
Katherine McGraw Patterson, known as KP, is a brand and business strategist who works with small businesses and entrepreneurs to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. A fourth-generation entrepreneur, KP started her first business in Hong Kong in 1999. Since then, she's helped businesses here in the US, Canada, and across the world build actionable strategies that results in revenue growth, increased clarity and focus, and greater satisfaction in their operations. KP is the founder of WEBO Network, a professional development and networking group for women entrepreneurs and business owners and is the author of a new book on networking, "Lunching with Lions: Strategist for the Networking-Averse" that helps professionals in all industries identify the right groups and connections to achieve their professional and business goals.
Rev. Kate Floyd is United Methodist Clergy, currently the pastor of start-up church Arlington Commons in Arlington, VA. She's originally from Georgia and Texas, married to Kyle and the proud mom to Sam and Daisy.
