BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:38@rnsbdc.com DTSTART:20160324T083000Z DTEND:20160324T103000Z DTSTAMP:20160325T220257Z URL:https://www.rnsbdc.com/events/wen-breakfast-3-16/ SUMMARY:Women Entrepreneurs Network (WEN) Business Breakfast DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator][vc_empty_spac e][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n“Behind ever y successful woman there is an empowering story!”\nThis is so true. The Women Entrepreneurs’ Network (WEN) business breakfast series is a NJSBDC at Rutgers-Newark program started in 2005 and designed for women entrepre neurs to give them a sacred place and space to hear empowering stories of how other women have succeeded in business and career. Attending these int imate business breakfast meetings\, gives women entrepreneurs an opportuni ty to meet role models in business and make contact with professional care er women who are power brokers in their private or public professional sec tors\, as well as network with other women of like minds with the same asp irations for success through entrepreneurship while making contacts that m atter.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator][vc_empty_space][vc_e mpty_space][vc_separator][vc_empty_space][ultimate_heading main_heading="G uest Speaker(s)" main_heading_color="#002e62" alignment="left" main_headin g_style="font-weight:bold\;"][/ultimate_heading][vc_empty_space][/vc_colum n][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="75159" i mg_size="960 × 637"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]\n Angela Harrington\nAngela Harrington is Assistant VP of Communications and External Relations at Berkeley College. She oversees internal and externa l communications and community outreach at the college with more than 8\,0 00 students at nine campus locations\, including an online college. School s include\, Health Studies\, Business\, Liberal Arts and Professional Stud ies\, and a recently launched School of Graduate Studies. Ms. Harrington i s an Emmy-Award winning journalist with experience in higher education\, b usiness\, foundation and community partnerships\, women’s issues\, econo mic development and entrepreneurship. In 2007 she was honored by NJBIZ mag azine as one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business.  Ms. Harrington serves on the Executive Board of the Latino Leadership Alliance of NJ.[/v c_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1458533137278{p adding-top: 32px !important\;padding-bottom: 32px !important\;}"][vc_colum n][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_si ngle_image image="75161" img_size="960 × 637"][/vc_column][vc_column widt h="2/3"][vc_column_text]\nTaneshia Nash Laird\nTaneshia Nash Laird is the founder and CEO of Legacy Business Advisors\, an economic development and social enterprises consultancy serving clients throughout the country. She has been professionally engaged in community revitalization work for over 15 years. Her work includes cultivating hundreds of millions of dollars o f economic activity in the public and private sectors by helping grow smal l businesses\; executing sports\, entertainment and destination marketing\ ; the promotion of affordable and mixed-income housing\; and the developme nt of commercial real estate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1458533137278{padding-top: 32px !important\;padding-botto m: 32px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_r ow][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="75160" img_size="960 × 637"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]\nSandi Webster\nS andi Webster is a principal of Consultants 2 Go\, LLC (C2G) - a certified\ , minority\, women-owned\, management consulting firm that provides market ing and analytics consultants on an interim basis or as an outsourced proj ect to Fortune 500 companies in the Financial Services\, Telecom\, Insuran ce - and now Pharma -- industries. The award-winning C2G is on the Inc. 50 0|5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America list for four of the last five years.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_14585 33137278{padding-top: 32px !important\;padding-bottom: 32px !important\;}" ][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1 /3"][vc_single_image image="75193" img_size="300 x 350"][/vc_column][vc_co lumn width="2/3"][vc_column_text]\nTangela Stewart\nTangela Stewart is the co-founder of Bobbie's Babies Child Care &\; Family Enrichment Center\ , LLC\, a premium child care center in the city of Newark. Tangela has cre ated a successful model and program which serves children from 6 weeks - 5 years old\, children with special needs\, and diverse family populations. Her company's mission and vision is to provide working parents in the Cit y of Newark a worry-free child care solution that will support academic re adiness\, social development and the arts/music through a holistic approac h to early child care.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=". vc_custom_1458533137278{padding-top: 32px !important\;padding-bottom: 32px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_ column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="75192" img_size="300 x 350"][/v c_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]\nDr Syleecia Thompson\nSy leecia Thompson is a full-time Professor in the School of Business at Berk eley College in New York City. Her consulting practice focuses on creating the most efficient and effective brands\, artists and companies that seek to develop vision\, grow and increase their income. She has been developi ng new brands and TV projects for various types of programming and was rec ently featured on R&\;B Divas Atlanta on TV One and Fix My Life on OWN TV. In 2014\, Syleecia launched an entrepreneur network called "The Vision aries" which serves over 60 entrepreneurs in various industries.[/vc_colum n_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1458066507080{padding- top: 50px !important\;padding-bottom: 50px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_b tn title="Register for Event" shape="square" color="pink" size="lg" align= "center" link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fwomen-entreprene urs-network-wen-business-breakfast-tickets-20001382674||target:%20_blank"] [/vc_column][/vc_row] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.rnsbdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/0 3/wenbreakfast.jpg LOCATION:Rutgers Business School Room 358\, 1 Washington Park\, Newark\, NJ \, 07102\, United States GEO:40.7450346;-74.17028219999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 Washington Park\, Newark\ , NJ\, 07102\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Rutgers Business S chool Room 358:geo:40.7450346,-74.17028219999997 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR