Spend just five minutes with Kristin Slice and you’ll be fully engaged in a fascinating conversation about how important small to medium size businesses are to our state’s economy. You’ll quickly feel how passionate she is about September being designated as Arizona’s Money Month and if you’re like us, you’ll want to be involved!
Research continues to cite capital as a top challenge facing female entrepreneurs (NWBC, 2017). It’s clearly time to change this.
Money Month is an initiative of Empowered PhXX and powered by National Bank of Arizona. For the month of September successful businesses, corporations, associations, organizations, community partners, governments, nonprofits, individuals and thought leaders are all coming together to provide training, resources and facilitating discussions all about money.
Participation is easy:
Sign up to receive emails with valuable tools for business owners.
Follow on social media, participate in the conversation and share using #MoneyMonthAZ
Attend an event or several events. Bring a friend.
Complete the AZ WBO Survey.
For more information and to get involved:
https://www.facebook.com/AZMoneyMonth/
https://www.facebook.com/EmpoweredPhXX/
http://moneymonthaz.com/
http://www.empowered-phxx.com/
http://www.maricopa-sbdc.com/
About Kristin:
Kristin Slice is committed to creating quantifiable impact in organizations through effective proven communication strategies and training programs.
Her education includes undergraduate degrees in human communication and political science from Arizona State University and a Masters in Organizational Communication from Texas A&M University with an emphasis in Non-Profit Organizations and Gender. She has received certifications as a Social Media Strategist, a Business Counselor with the Association of Small Business Development Center, a facilitator with the Kaufman Foundation and an Import and Export Counselor with the SBA.
Kristin started her career in mission based organizations and community organizing while still in college helping found the first resource center for violence prevention and healthy relationships on ASU campus.. Soon after graduating with her Master Degree from Texas A&M, she launched her first business with her business partner Nancy Sanders, the highly celebrated Three Dog Marketing. Shortly after launching Three Dog Marketing, Nancy and Kristin were recruited by the Maricopa Small Business Development Center to help business owner utilize marketing and sales strategies to create new jobs and capital. Working at both Three Dog Marketing and the Maricopa SBDC, Kristin began to carve a unique niche working with women business owners and combining strategic communication with economic development.
Kristin Slice has supported women business owner both as clients and by serving as an advocate for women business owners as a board member with the National Association of Women Business Owners. She founded Empowered Lab Communications L.L.C., Empowered Lab Communications creates innovative training programs and consulting practices to help organizations that support women business owners create a greater impact based on innovate new approaches and globally researched best practices.
Currently, she is a business analysts, with the Maricopa Small Business Development Center, where she helps small business grow and create economic impact in local economies. She also is responsible for launching Empowered PhXX, an innovative community collaborative dedicated to strengthening the future of Phoenix through 50/50 in entrepreneurship.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinslice/
kristin.slice@domail.maricopa.edu
