Janice Bryant Howroyd

Founder, The ActOne Group, 1st African American Woman Owner of $1B Company

Speaker fees:

In-person: £20k+
Virtual: £20k+

Topics:

Adversity & resilience
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Entrepreneur
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Inclusion & diversity
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Innovation
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Inspirational women

In May of 2016 she received a key Presidential appointment by President Barack Obama as a member of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Businesswoman, entrepreneur, educator, ambassador, author, mentor and Presidential Special Appointee, Janice Bryant Howroyd is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The ActOne Group, a global leader providing customized cutting edge solutions in the human resources industry.
The ActOne Group is a multi-­‐billion dollar (USD) award-­winning, international Talent and Talent Technology enterprise with multiple divisions that each service unique areas of employment and provide talent management solutions.

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If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, the good news is many of the barriers to starting a business have come down since forty years ago. Janice shares the model she lives by and continues to represent: that of a Leader who works for good, for growth and innovation, for her family values, and for the same ideals upon which she founded her company. Janice will help you discover the Leader inside yourself and show you how to use your uniqueness to conquer the business world.

Janice’s Personal Story from Rural North Carolina to Building a Billion Dollar Company: Growing up in the segregated South in a family of eleven children and nurtured by a loving mother and father, Janice Bryant Howroyd faced racism and sexism in addition to the challenges faced by every new business owner. None of that stopped her from becoming the first black woman to own a billion-dollar business.

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