Charlene Walters holds an MBA in Management and a PhD in Business Administration & Marketing. She is a Business, Branding, Entrepreneurship mentor, speaker, and blogger who developed a Digital Entrepreneurship MBA program and is a featured expert on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Ask An Expert platform.  

In May of 2021, her book, Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity, and Achieve Financial Success, will be published by McGraw Hill’s Professional Trade division. She is also the author of a memoir, Own Your Other,  about overcoming tragedy and loss. 

Dr. Walters writes a blog called Entrepreneurship, Life Enthusiasm & Energizing Your Brand and has taught hundreds of business, marketing, and entrepreneurship courses and workshops for a number of businesses and universities. She also appears in/on many videos, podcasts, blogs, and media outlets.

Books Mentioned: 

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future 
by Hemant Taneja with Kevin Maney

The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd 
by Allan Dib

Top 3 Takeaways: 
1) Overcome tragedy, move forward, evaluate what is important, & pivot.

2) Work hard, find balance, & find time for people and other important things in life. 

3) Be resilient, reframe your thinking, and develop a backup plan.