Considerations (and Hope!) for Small Business Owners
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Webinar
Join College of Business' Summer Webinar Series to learn about business responses in times of dramatic change. Faculty and guests will explore how current challenges are affecting our world - and how business is responding.
Each of the eight, one-hour webinar sessions will include a time for participants to submit questions, and webinar links will be sent to registrants by 9 a.m. on the day of each session.
Considerations (and Hope!) for Small Business Owners
Natasha Johnson
Instructor in Management
Johnson has built a successful start-up businesses and has served in a variety of chief business officer roles. With more than 10 years of HR and business experience spanning across the health care, public utilities and entertainment industries, her primary area of interest is in human resource management; however, the expansion of her experience includes coaching, consulting and developing HR and other business strategies as well as managing a variety of employee levels.
Rob Touchstone
Director of Business as Mission and Instructor of Entrepreneurship and Business As Mission
Touchstone believes that one of the most effective ways to address local and global needs is through business as mission. Touchstone wrote the vision for and co-founded The Well Coffeehouse in 2012 as a social enterprise that turns profits into hope for those in need. He received the NASBA Center for the Public Trust Making a Difference Award in 2017 and was named Nashville’s Business Innovator of the Year in 2016.
Lauren Pinkston
Assistant Professor of Business as Mission
Pinkston found her real passion in entrepreneurial startups overseas. She is the co-founder of Wearthy (WEAR – thee), an online retail site sourcing ethically made wearable goods from across the globe. She continues to connect students and U.S.-based companies with fledgling businesses and artisan groups in other parts of the world.