Dreams and passion are not enough to build that business you’ve been wanting for a long time. Executing the actual work, having the fire to serve others and uniqueness is what you need no matter what age, uncertainty and doubt you have on your mind. You gotta do it!

Why should you consider the time and season of your life when starting your business? How do building your network, staying connected and getting out of your comfort zone affect the whole process?

Passion and purpose can spring from many different sources; words heard as a child can spark
a life-long quest to right the injustices in the world.  Motivated by an experience of racism as a young girl, Dr. Roberta Wilburn has dedicated her life to promoting cross-cultural understanding and overcoming the hurdles of stereotyping and prejudice to build a successful business.

Be encouraged and moved by Dr. Wilburn’s story of how she built her business through passion, desire and faith, and why she is intentional about using her business to empower other people and make a difference in this world.

Thriving Points:

• Our business is about believing in building authentic relationships between diverse groups of people in order to promote cross-cultural understanding and help people to excel in a diverse and inclusive world through our diversity training, cultural coaching, courageous conversations and cultural events.  - Dr. Roberta Wilburn
• Sometimes people want you to give up your cultural heritage and that's not a good thing but rather, we want to help by fostering respect, dignity and the celebrations of all dimensions of human diversity.  - Dr. Roberta Wilburn
• We don't want to just survive, we want to thrive, we want to be able to do well.  - Dr. Roberta Wilburn

Get to Know the Guest:

Dr. Roberta J. Wilburn is an award-winning diversity and inclusion expert and the President and Co-Founder of Wilburn & Associates, LLC. Co-founded with her husband, Wilburn & Associates focuses on diversity training, coaching, courageous conversations, and cultural events. Dr. Wilburn recently retired as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in Education and Diversity Initiatives at Whitworth University where she served for thirteen years. She believes in building authentic relationships between diverse groups of people to promote cross-cultural understanding. Through her work, Dr. Wilburn helps people who want to develop and increase culturally sensitive practices as well as learn to excel in a diverse and inclusive world.

Dr. Wilburn has been widely recognized for her diversity efforts and her major areas of research have focused on empowering women leaders of color, and various aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion.  She is married to James Wilburn, Jr. and they have three adult children and two grandsons.

For more information, go to the Wilburn & Associates' website or you can schedule a free 30-minute clarity call.

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