2016 – EmPOWER 2017

EmPOWER, The Grind & Grow Summit, is a Women’s Empowerment Conference targeting women in business, aspiring female entrepreneurs, leading women in their communities and careers and any woman looking to be amongst other women in hopes to gain knowledge, unity, support and resources across a wide range of industries & interests.

The Mission is simple. Unity. Learning, Grinding, and Growing..together.

The number of businesses owned by African American women grew 322% since 1997, making black females the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. according to Fortune magazine.

EmPOWER will serve as a platform to empower & energize women professionally and personally through a variety of topics, assist us in achieving our next level goals and encourage women to work together for the benefit of all women. We are committed to engaging with our attendees through an informative program of powerful & talented speakers along with facilitating networking, vending and potential business opportunities through an interactive exhibition and a dynamic program .

This Grind & Grow Summit is designed to ignite your Grind and promote your Growth!

Kachelle Kelly is founder of Kachelle Kelly International, Inc., a small business & empowerment coaching firm. Kachelle utilizes her creativity and candor as she coaches career driven women & men to not only activate their hustle but faith by providing them with innovative ideas, strategies, resources and empowerment to achieve authentic success, profitability, peace and happiness in their business and life.

Her coaching clients rave about her ability to not only understand them and their struggles but their businesses; knowing exactly how to be “real” in sharing a step-by-step plan to grow their businesses online and offline. Kachelle empowers others to “Activate Your Hustle”, encouraging them to actively go after their dreams and visions by eliminating distractions; adopting best business practices to be successful.

Koereyelle made her mark in 2011 when she founded The Single Wives Club, an education and empowerment organization that inspires single ladies to become better women before becoming wives. She is also the creator of ReadyToWERK.com, a branding boutique that offers classes and consulting for entrepreneurs.

Koereyelle has truly become the voice for single women, representing the “new single woman” who wants love and marriage, but has not detoured her focus from her education and career. She’s been featured nationally by ESSENCE Magazine, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, MadameNoire, Rolling Out and many more outlets for her work with The Single Wives Club. Most recently, she’s added Author to her resumé with the release of her debut title, WERK101: Get-Your-Life-Together Guide.

From coming up with her witty, smart-ass posts to building websites and making things go viral on the internet, the proud futurist @BOSSBABEALEX or otherwise known as Alexandra Wolf is shaping the way we envision the new business woman. Growing up during the 90s in Brooklyn, New York with her Italian, gay dad who was obsessed with tech (and Barbra Streisand) this #bossbabe learned very early how to build digital empires with lots of swag. Alex was using a mouse at two and emailed the spice girls by five. Her dad bought her a webcam (way before they were cool) at eight years old. She would create mock television talk shows and lip-sync to destiny’s child all before she got her homework done. Through her passion for social influence and trends she has developed an intimidatingly impressive talent for spotless brand creation, innovative marketing and analyzing social impact.

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In a previous life, I worked for nearly 10 years in the legal industry, with my last purely legal role being lead attorney for an intellectual property litigation firm. I started my career at one of the top intellectual property management companies in the world that served to protect and defend the biggest brands to ever walk this earth. After a come-to-Jesus moment, I found my true passion lies in the management of brands, their communication plans, and maintaining their reputations over time. #fixer #crisis #reputation I currently lead IGNIS, a litigation communications and public relations consultancy and i write about reputation and image issues on my blog, “The Expert Opinion Giver” at brandinfringement.wordpress.com.

Crystal Grave, a 38-year-old Indianapolis native, is best described as a “tireless professional who chases perfection.” Logging more than 15 years of experience in business and marketing, she launched her own venture, Snappening, in March 2011 and continues to lead its growth across the Midwest toward national expansion.Snappening, an Indianapolis-based event planning search engine startup, offers all the tools and resources needed to plan a picture-perfect event on one simple website. Designed with speed and ease in mind, the resource caters to consumers, seasoned event planning professionals and local venues looking to plan or host successful events. Snappening currently represents more than 40 unique venue types from large event halls to private event rooms and more than 2,500 venues across Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Snappening was a 2014 Startup of the Year Mira Award nominee and Grave was selected as one of 13 global female founder participants for the Women’s Startup Lab Accelerator program in Silicon Valley.

Speaker topic: “Becoming Business Loan Ready”

Entrepreneur, Author, Credit Expert, Speaker, One of Indy’s Top Business Connectors

Owner of Business Funding Elite and Davidson Finch Coatings

Victoria Finch, Indy Top 50 Business Connector, Author, Speaker, Credit Expert who specializes in financing and growing small businesses. Known internationally as a Credit Maven, Victoria is Owner/President of Integrated Credit Specialists LLC a credit education company. She is also Founder/CEO of Business Funding Elite LLC dedicated to securing funding for small businesses

Ms EKlass is proud mother, radio/tv personality, writer, and event emcee. She’s currently the midday personality on both WRWM in Indianapolis and WWKX in Providence in addition to being the afternoon personality on the Westwood One Classic Hip Hop format across the country. Her love of music, entertainment news/gossip, and being an inspiration to others are evident in all that she does! Ms EKlass dishes the latest celebrity gossip, local news, relationship advice, and sports talk and motivates listeners daily with her “Midday Motivation” feature. She doesn’t believe in leaving folks out as she relates to everyone from the working woman on-the-go, mothers, and even the fellas! When Ms EKlass isn’t on the mic, she’s a mom of three and very active in her community from her newly established organization, “Klass Act,” (for young ladies interested in pursuing careers in media) to participating in a wide array of community service events, and everything in between! With everything she does, Ms EKlass promises to keep you engaged, informed, motivated, and entertained!

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