| Topic | Speaker | Workshop | Date/Time |
| Sales |  Stephen Rezac |
Selling In A Virtual World Whether you are a one-person enterprise or a leader of a larger organization, this impactful sales training session will provide you with key skills on how to prospect better and sell more effectively in today’s virtual world |
Thursday Dec 3rd 11-11:40am |
| Leadership |  Ron Harvey |
Topic: Developing Crisis Resilient Business Leaders Abstract: Learn how to identify and optimize the key leadership strategies needed to successfully influence and set your organization up for future success |
Thursday Dec 3rd 11-11:40am |
| Legal |  Bobby Robinson |
Topic: Strategic Partnership, Joint Venture Best Practices This workshop will provide an overview of strategic alliances such as joint ventures and M&A, and how Minority Business Enterprises can leverage strategic alliances to aid in their growth and scale to remain competitive |
Thursday Dec 3rd 9:20 – 10:00am |
| Sales |  Kade Kimber |
Topic: LinkedIn: The Fundamentals to Posting, Privacy & Content Planning This session will cover the basic information to help you get started in posting & sharing content on LinkedIn, along with determining appropriate privacy settings. You’ll learn what you can & can’t do when it comes to posting, editing, and sharing text/mixed-media content; who will see your personal activity; how you can see access & utilize analytics about your content’s reach—even on personal posts; (A PDF reference guide will be provided |
Thursday Dec 3rd 9:20 – 10:00am |
| HR |  LaSonya Berry |
Topic: How to Improve Your HR Strategy and Function During Continuous Disruption Business owners and corporations need to learn how to safeguard their people and organization in the midst of crisis, uncertainty, recessions and other challenges causing employee disengagement. There is an unprecedented amount of turnover and overwhelmed employees. In this session, leaders will learn 5 strategies to protect and improve your HR operations so you can focus on meeting your goals. |
Thursday Dec 3rd 9:20 – 10:00am |
| Opportunities |  Marjilette Brown |
Topic: Opportunities in the Portal, MBE understanding of certification, MBE Class Revenue levels Topic: NMSDC Central: MBE 2 MBE Search Tool & Collaboration Survey ATTENTION ALL CERTIFIED MBES!!! We are pleased to announce the MBE2MBE Search Tool and the MBE2MBE Collaboration Survey is now available!!! Here’s a summary of the benefits for participating in the MBE2MBE Collaboration Program.
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Thursday Dec 3rd 10:10 – 10:50am |
| Collaboration |  Dr. Kenston Griffin |
Topic: It Takes Two to Make A Thing called Collaboration go Right The focus is on the Power of an effective Collaboration between Corporations, MBE’s, Corporations to Corporations and MBE’s to MBE’s. Listen, Learn and Leverage |
Thursday Dec 3rd 10:10 – 10:50am |
| Owning Your Digital Footprint |  Kirk Nugent |
Topic: Owning Your Digital Footprint Digital was always a major component of Business success and the Pandemic has only made it more pronounced. In this session we’ll discuss the current reality and how you can leverage it. Session Focus – What it means to be intentional about your Digital Footprint Take-aways 1. A 2020 Definition of the Digital Footprint 2. Impact of Digital Footprint for better or worse 3. What it means to truly Own your Digital Footprint |
Thursday Dec 3rd 11 – 11:40am |
| Harnessing Machine Learning |  Kenya Paul |
Session Title – Harnessing Machine Learning/A.I. Abstract/ Description The Future of Technology is the ability to automate as much as possible. By using Artificial Intelligence, we are able to increase efficiency to almost every area of our lives. From Production, information security, climate change adaption, farming, predicting the future, and may other ways that we can begin to imagine – we are only at the beginning of the A.I. revolution. Session Focus – The impact Machine Learning. Take-aways 1. What is the difference between Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2. How it is being used? 3. Do you need it? Is it worth the Risk? |
Thursday Dec 3rd 10:10 – 10:50am |
