Meet Our WEGG Contributors

It is with great honor and excitement that I introduce our lineup of Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global (WEGG) contributors – all considered consequential thought leaders in their respective fields — who will be generously sharing their expertise and knowledge with us.

Please join me in welcoming …

Sharon Barner, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Anita Campbell, CEO of Small Business Trends LLC

Raman Chadha, Executive Director of the Depaul University Coleman Entrepreneurship Center and on the faculty of the highly ranked academic program in entrepreneurship

Linda Darragh, Director of entrepreneurship programs for the Chicago Booth’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Adjunct Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Marsha Firestone, Ph.D., President and Founder of the Women Presidents’ Organization

Suzy Fox, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, HRER, Loyola University Chicago — primary research interests center around the well-being of employees in the global workplace

Dawn Harris, Ph.D., Director, Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, Loyola University Chicago

Mary Joyce, Network Director, U.S. Department of Commerce, Midwest Export Assistance Centers

Karen Kerrigan, President & CEO, Women Entrepreneurs, Inc.

Steve King, Founding Partner, Emergent Research

Carolyn Ockels, Founding Partner, Emergent Research and Small Business Labs

Leslie Schweitzer, Senior Trade Advisor for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Creator of the TradeRoots Initiative

And special thanks to Rosa Berardi, Program Manager, The Coleman Foundation (a WEGG partner), for her support and guidance thus far.

Watch for future posts from these contributors and stay tuned for more new thought leaders as we build out WEGG.