Paintsville to host 22nd Women’s Organization Symposium

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – The 22nd Yearly Large Sandy Women’s Business Symposium is Tuesday, Aug. 24, at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Centre in Paintsville.

It is offered by the Kentucky Modest Business enterprise Progress Centre locations of Jap Kentucky and Morehead Condition University. This year’s concept is “Do Some thing Remarkable.”

Registration commences at 9 a.m. The value is $35, which contains all keynotes, workshops, lunch, and leisure. Although the occasion is targeted to gals entrepreneurs, all are invited to show up at.

Opening remarks start out at 9:45 a.m. from Emcee Trish Adams, agency ambassador, board and marketplace liaison for the Jap Kentucky Concentrated Employment Application.

Attendees may well pick out involving two concurrent breakout sessions. Periods will contain “The Client Journey,” offered by Amanda Kelly, modest-organization coaching director for Southeast Kentucky Financial Improvement Corporation, and “Generational Distinctions in the Office,” presented by Mercedes Maness, senior extension associate with the Community and Economic Advancement Initiative of Kentucky and Melody Nall, extension specialist and the engagement director at CEDIK.

Early morning keynote speaker will be Jessi Robinson, founder, model strategist and artistic director of Print and Pixel in Mt. Sterling.

The afternoon keynote will feature Jessica Lawrence, director of Cairn Assistance in Morehead, with lunch entertainment presented by the Kentucky Faculty of Bluegrass and Technological New music.

Robinson, an Jap Kentucky native, is passionate about branding and style and design. She figured out to benefit a perfectly-planned, strategic technique for design and style from her grandmother.

What began as a freelance facet-hustle has grown into an award-winning, complete-assistance company. Robinson serves as innovative director, top a group dedicated to empowering meaningful manufacturers to notify their tale and have their digital footprint with intention.

Robinson also works to amplify the voices of females carving their own paths, sharing their tales and struggles as the host of her podcast, “Pursuing Fearless.”

Jess Lawrence is a New Englander living in Eastern Kentucky following 20 several years in Portland, Oregon.

In 2006, Lawrence begun her possess organization as a countrywide school and neighborhood health and fitness guide. Cairn Guidance has been in business for 15 years, and her staff works with condition departments of training, together with Kentucky Section of Training, as nicely as Departments of Public Wellness, the Facilities for Sickness Control and Prevention, philanthropy organizations these kinds of as Robert Wooden Johnson Foundation, large city college districts and nonprofits doing work to create much healthier educational institutions and communities. She is proud to possess and run a nationwide lady-owned organization.

Lawrence will share  the experiences of her 4,197-mile solo bicycle journey across the United States in 2013 at the age of 38. She thinks that when persons devote the time, generate the challenge and dedicate to performing one thing extraordinary, folks can collectively develop a far better globe.

The Mountain Heritage Band consists of collaborative talent from the Kentucky University of Bluegrass and Traditional Music. Director Dean Osborne joins recent and previous pupils, Kris Preston, Natalie Tomlinson, Joe Goggins and Stephanie Rose of the Hazard Group and Specialized Higher education primarily based faculty situated in Hyden.

Event  sponsors contain AAA Serious Estate, Appalachian Wi-fi, American Electric powered Energy, Appalachian Regional Healthcare,  Bluegrass Care Navigators, Neighborhood Belief Bank, Daffodils Boutique, Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Work Plan, Floyd County Tourism, Foothills Communication, Mountain Apothecary, Mountain Affiliation, Len Tan’s Boutique, Paul B. Hall Regional Health-related Center, Peoples Lender, Q95FM, Southeast Kentucky Economic Advancement Company, Shaping Our Appalachian Area, Toyota, Women’s Business Center of Kentucky  and WSIP.

Registration is accessible at https://wbs2021.eventbrite.com.

The Kentucky Small Enterprise Progress Centre has been helping the commonwealth’s tiny-organization community considering that 1981. By means of its statewide rising community of centers and an expert and educated personnel, the Kentucky SBDC provides unparalleled company coaching and instruction products and services that assistance existing company homeowners and possible entrepreneurs succeed. Our expert services incorporate 1-on-just one business coaching, training workshops, sector investigate, mortgage packaging help, aid with fiscal projections and information required to make informed organization choices. Kentucky SBDC is co-sponsored by the U.S. Compact Business enterprise Administration and is administered by the College of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture, Food items and Ecosystem in partnership with regional academic establishments, financial growth corporations, the non-public sector and the commonwealth of Kentucky.