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Lemons 2 Lemonade brings you access to senior leaders in corporate America and business for an engaging and interactive speaker series. In this masterclass series, you'll have a front-row seat to learning how to level-up to management and become an effective leader. You will gain insight into managing your money and setting yourself up for financial wholeness. You will also get a lesson on how to navigate scaling a six-figure business with social capital while operating other businesses.
Jewel Burks Solomon, Head of Google for Startups takes us through lessons learned from being one of the early Black women to raise over $1 million for her startup, to selling her business to Amazon and and now funding other minority owned businesses.
Shark Tank alum, Keisha Smith-Jeremie, Chief People Officer at Tory Burch and CEO of Sanaia Applesauce has scaled her company to a six-figure business and hired employees to help her run it. Keisha also created retail distribution deals while managing a C-Suite position. Learn her tips for climbing the corporate ladder while building a business. This masterclass is brought to you by The Glenlivet and Pernod Ricard NOIR.
Candi Castleberry- Singleton of Twitter schools us on a different way to think about managing your career and decisions that affect you. She highlights the importance of relationships and existing networks on hiring decisions, promotions, and career opportunities. It’s all about influencing decisions when you’re not sitting at the table!
Esi Eggleston Bracey, EVP & COO of North America Beauty and Personal Care at Unilever discusses how to create equity in the beauty/grooming space beyond consumerism and how her leadership has led to the Crown Act's legislation. She shares how to manage the stresses of navigating appearances in virtual work culture.
Dia Simms is the CEO of Lobos 1707, a new independent spirits brand. Over the past 25 years, she has established a reputation for driving innovation and diversity while developing some of the largest marques globally, including building a billion-dollar valued spirits brand.
Hear from this mastermind on how to navigate male-dominated industries, how she launched two spirits brands in the pandemic, and how to build a reputation in your industry that goes beyond your employer. This masterclass is brought to you by Women in Spirits and Lobos 1707.
Maya Watson went from intern to VP at OWN Network by age 30 to overseeing Netflix's #StrongBlackLead among other things. Now she is the Head of Global Marketing at Clubhouse. Maya shares her lessons in leadership, taking the leap into a senior level role, navigating imposter syndrome and motherhood at our first Making Lemonade masterclass.
Panel Discussions
Get a front-row seat into the mastermind of today’s business leaders and high-performing professionals. Lemons 2 Lemonade offers intimate conversations around the everyday challenges we all experience at work and in business. We invite leaders across multiple disciplines to share their knowledge and tips for dealing with life’s lemons to strengthen our community.
Networking
Access can be the key to opening doors for your career and business. Lemons 2 Lemonade offers virtual & in-person opportunities to connect millennials to senior-level professionals to support their endeavors. Our community is expansive, with attendees from across the US as well as Canada and the Caribbean. Past attendees have increased their salaries, gained job opportunities, clients, and started exciting businesses through this exciting experience.
Speakers
Our speakers are powerful leaders, guiding award-winning teams to execute business objectives that impact our everyday world. Notable past speakers include Dia Simms, Keisha Smith Jeremie, Jewel Burks Solomon, Maya Watson, Charli Penn, Joi-Marie McKenzie, Minda Harts, Julian Mitchell, Mark Clennon, Erika Woods, Ty Heath and Marvin Hamilton, Codie Oliver, and Kellee Edwards.
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Some of Our Past Sponsors
There is power in collaboration. There is impact in empowering the leaders of our future. By partnering and sponsoring Lemons 2 Lemonade events, these brands were able to get exposure to professionals of color who are influencers, creatives and entrepreneurs.
