Podcast: Flight Club with Felena Hanson, CEO of Hera Hub
https://herahub.com/resources/leveraging-diverse-certifications-for-business-development-with-liz-whitehead/
Women-Owned Wrap Up: 2019
As a CEO, I'm wrapping up the year by looking over expenses and categories, finding places to cut costs, and strategizing about the year ahead. If you're the CEO of your business or your household, you too are likely wrapping up end of year finances or at the very least wrapping up the holiday shopping. [...]
Podcast: Accelerate Growth with Diane Heilbig
Diane and Liz had a great time talking certification and tips to leverage it. Tune in here to listen to the episode: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/dhelbig/2019/12/12/leverage-certification-for-bigger-clients-and-more-of-them
Business development: Get to know your target clients
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyoNEhlDU48&feature=youtu.be If you're looking at the video thinking, "That's not Liz." You're right! In talking effective business development, once we get past the process of leveraging their business certifications, the thing I talk about most with my clients is getting to know their potential customers. They have a plan and a list of a [...]
Where to find your next big client this summer: Supplier Diversity Conferences
Photo Credit:Kim Linonis It's Pride month and around the country LGBTQ people are celebrating their successes in achieving equal rights, and gearing up for all the work that still remains. I went to the Pride Parade in DC over the weekend with friends of mine and their kids. We surrendered to the crush of people, [...]
Celebrating Women’s history (and present and future…)
I kicked off a very busy Women's History Month preparing for a talk I'm giving today to help women elevate their professional presence. As I pulled together the information, I had the good fortune of a calendar packed full of events celebrating women business owners. I surrounded myself with dynamic leaders and listened to their [...]
Money and the New Majority Entrepreneurs
Above. (L-R) Meher Rehman, herDomain, Lemaire Stewart and Kyle Miller, Goodfynd discuss traction at Seed Spot's Impact Accelerator. Credit: Seed Spot. As I pulled together what I've been up to over the past couple of weeks since my last post, the through line was money. In the past few weeks I've been a teach and [...]
Women-Owned Wrap Up: 2018
As we close out the year, I've been busy with clients ramping up for 2019. In reflecting on what I've been able to accomplish this year, I'm proud of a few goals I've achieved and am setting some new goals for 2019 myself. One of my WBE clients has closed business with a new corporate [...]
You Had a Matchmaker. Now What? Tips for Women-Owned Businesses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsdLEkAxHxk Last month, I joined up with Cass Bailey of Slice Communications for a webinar titled You Had a Matchmaker. Now What? A matchmaker is a one-on-one meeting between a certified women's business enterprise (WBE) and corporate representative at a national WBENC event or a regional event from one of WBENC's Regional Partner Organizations [...]
Introducing: A Blueprint for Diversity and Inclusion
The vision of 12PointFive is to help companies transform their workplaces and achieve diversity and inclusion goals for greater business outcomes. Diversity is correlated with a happier workforce and higher profits. There is a clear business case for diversity as a business imperative, not just a social one. And yet, many companies are not driving [...]