Opening remarks and special creative kickoff performance:

Speakers:

Jacquie Berger – Executive Director, Lowcountry Local First
Kathryn Budig – Founder, The Inky Phoenix

Clarenda “Farmer Cee” Stanley is a pioneering figure and the respected CEO/President of Green Heffa Farms, an esteemed natural wellness brand and regenerative farm located in Liberty, North Carolina.

Speakers:

Keynote: Cee Stanley – CEO/President, Green Heffa Farms
Moderator: Lindsey Barrow Jr. – Founder and CEO, Lowcountry Street Grocery

Enjoy 15 mins of stretch and refill time.

Danny Caine is a co-owner of the Raven Book Store, Publishers Weekly’s 2022 bookstore of the year. In 2019, he received the Midwest Independent Bookstore Association Midwest Bookseller of the Year award. He’s the author of the the books How to Resist Amazon and Why and How to Protect Bookstores and Why.

Speakers:

Keynote: Danny Caine, Co-Owner, Raven Book Store
Moderator: Lauren Gellatly, Advocacy and Campaigns Manager, ILSR 

South Carolina Federal Credit Union, Presenting Sponsor

Lunch provided by Verde, outside in Hutson Alley (to the right of Charleston Music Hall front steps)

1. Small Business, Global Impact: How to run an eco-conscious and profitable business without greenwashing

           Location: Charleston Music Hall

• • Rick Crawford Founder, Emerger Strategies, Moderator
  • Al Mason, Founder, Plan’td Ecological Design
  • Cynthia Davis, Sustain SC
  • Liza Vilnits, Founder, Beyond Trending PR
  • Marilyn Hemingway, CEO, Gullah Geechee Chamber of Commerce

2. The Great Equalizer: How Small Business Owners can Harness the Power of AI to Maximize Impact

            Location: Upstairs at Rue de Jean, 39 John Street

• • Zach Giglio, Founder, GCM, Moderator
  • Becky Brown, Founder, iWrite, LLC
  • Eric Elliott, President, VIP Marketing
  • George Zwierko, Founder, Rumbo
  • Julissa Nixon, Founder, Social Work Expat

3. Del Sueño a la Realidad: El camino del emprendimiento exitoso (offered in Spanish language)

            Location: Maya, 479B King Street

• • Nico Brown, Community Development Loan Officer, CLIMB Fund, Moderator
  • Adrian Lorduy and Andres Lorduy, Buena Vista Information Systems
  • Lauris Florez, Founder, Hair by Lauris
  • Nahir Sanchez Alvarez, Founder, Monin Productions

Strike the Balance: The business case for radical self-care

            Location: Charleston Music Hall

• • Kat Niambi, Founder, Middleton-Cooke Farms, Moderator
  • Kelly George, Co-Founder, stillspace Charleston
  • Mimi Striplin, Founder, Parfaire Consulting
  • Matt Pardieck, Author, The Bottom Line of Happiness
  • Susan Johnson, Founder, S3LF.co

• Glass Ceilings and Broken Rungs: Why we still haven’t reached gender parity and where we go from here

            Location: Upstairs at Rue de Jean, 39 John Street

• • Micky Lazic, Founder, Elevate
  • Stacey Bailey, The Intention Collective, Moderator

• Expandiendo su Mercado

  (offered in Spanish language)

            Location: Maya, 479B King Street

• • Vanessa Gongora, Spanglish Consulting, Moderator
  • Adrian Lorduy, Buena Vista Information Systems
  • Maricela Guadalupe, Tamales by Guadalupe
  • Mercedes Trambow, New York Life

Join us for happy hour across from the Charleston Music Hall at Sharehouse to connect with your fellow do-gooders.

23 Ann St, Charleston, SC 29403