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Jennifer Stevens \ BOB Wingo
Mentorship. The time spent investing in employees and mentees—teaching them, learning from them and collaborating with them—is time well spent. Successful people and businesses are built on good relationships. It’s all about creating powerful connections, working hard and creating your own luck. www.jhlcompany.com
Jennifer Stevens \ Leslie Wingo
Adapting your marketing and advertising strategies, how to launch a new project or brand right now, how to promote your product or mission without being tone deaf and more. www.jhlcompany.com
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An important "how to" talk on the important conversation we all need to have Leslie Wingo heads up Sanders\Wingo. Her unrelenting attitude and her propensity for success make Wingo an integral principal in the company’s growth and success. Under her leadership, the Sanders\Wingo team, located in both Austin and El Paso, TX, emphasizes 1. understanding humans, 2. understanding the (irrational) choices humans make and 3. giving clients quality, viable, right-on marketing strategies through the magic of storytelling. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
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Despite the progress black families have made in civic and economic life since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, they face systemic and cumulative barriers on the road to wealth building due to discrimination, poverty, and a shortage of social connections (including role models and mentors in their communities) as both mechanisms and results of racial economic inequity. Here are a few books, essays, and articles that we find relevant and interesting, and recommend adding to your shortlist of interesting reads.