Monique Hayward is an author, speaker, and expert with more than 15 years of experience in marketing, communications, public relations, business development, and entrepreneurship and is a highly sought-after media contributor. She's appeared on CNN and in a wide range of local and national media outlets, including _The Oregonian, The Denver Post, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and Restaurant Startup & Growth. You may know her from her debut book, Divas Doing Business: What the Guidebooks Don't Tell You About Being Woman Entrepreneur, which includes a foreword by Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman, in February 2009. Monique also was a winner in the 2008 Make Mine a Million $ Business, Portland Business Journal's 2009 "40 Under 40," and DiversityMBA's 2010 "Top 100 Under 50" awards.