BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Minority small business owners and entrepreneurs can get advice from experts during an upcoming training conference.
The training conference is being called “EmpowerED Entrepreneurs: Accelerating Success.” It will take place on Sunday, June 14, and Monday, July 15, at the Renaissance Hotel on Bluebonnet Boulevard in Baton Rouge. Organizers said the training conference is being hosted by the Louisiana Minority Business Development Agency Business Center in partnership with Amazon, ExxonMobil, the City of Baton Rouge, and the Southern Region Minority Supplier Diversity Council.
“This conference is focused on empowering our small and minority-owned businesses with proper training and resources to help them accelerate their success – and we’ve got more than 20 different sessions offering knowledge for everyone,” said Charlie Fortson, LAMBDA’s executive director.
The sessions will involve Henry Coaxum Jr., who is the former owner of 147 McDonald’s locations and is now a real estate developer in New Orleans. There will also be lessons from Eric Porter, an entrepreneur and instructor for the Affordable Housing Program at Southern University’s EDA University; Nortisha Kirts Glover, the owner of NRK Construction; Kendra Norwood, the government contracts partner at Reed Smith LLP; and others.
The cost for general registration is $99. The price includes meals, an awards reception on Sunday, July 14, and the actual conference on Monday, July 15. For more information about registering, click here.
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