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AWARDS
2005 Caleidoscope of Culture Award, Dedication and Commitment to Inclusion
and Diversity.
PUBLICATIONS
“Promoting Wisdom and Wealth,” an entrepreneurial handbook, co-author,
December 2010.
LECTURES AND SPEECHES
“Financial Considerations in Entering Into Strategic Alliances to Grow Minority
Business Enterprises,” Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council, Michigan
Minority Procurement Conference, May 2004
“Winning Through Strategic Alliances to Grow Minority Joint Ventures Business
Enterprises” Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council, Michigan Minority
Procurement Conference, May 2004
“Capacity Building – A Win-Win Proposition for MBEs and Corporate Members,”
Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council, Michigan Minority Procurement
Conference, May 2005
“U.S. – Canadian Joint Venture in Minority Business Enterprise,” University of
Detroit Mercy Law School, April 2005
“Business Succession Planning,” Michigan Department of Transportation, Twenty-
Sixth Annual Small Business Development Conference, March 2006
“Legal Ramifications for Supplier Diversity,” Council for Supplier Diversity
Professions, March 2006
“Joint Ventures – Doing the Deal,” Native American National Business Association
Business Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo Indian Reservation, Albuquerque New
Mexico, April 2006
“I AM NOT SO SURE THE WORLD IS FLAT, BUT… “Doing Business in Asia Series
Part Two: Partnering for Asian Business, U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of
Commerce Conference, June 2006
“How Set Asides & Affirmation Action Have Served as a Foundation for Innovative
Minority Business Enterprise Business Models,” Western New England College and
Business Center for Advancing Entrepreneurship, Second Annual Conference on
Issues in Community Economic Development, March 2007
“Understanding the Business Case for Supplier Diversity,” Beaumont Hospitals,
Corporate Buyers Symposium, June 2007
“Women’s Business Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances,” Eight Annual Michigan
Women’s Business Conference and Expo, Michigan CEED, October 2008