Media release from Georgia Highlands College:
The Georgia Highlands College (GHC) Charge Into Leadership conference will celebrate its fourth anniversary this year and wants the local community to take part.
This year’s free event will be held October 18 at the Cartersville site (5441 GA-20, Cartersville) and helps local high school and college students grow their leadership skills and apply them now and in the future.
This year’s event will feature keynote speaker and President and Co-Creator of Renegade Lemonade Alexandra Reiter.
Reiter, who also served as an Associate Professor of Communication with 15 years of teaching at GHC, started Renegade Lemonade with her husband, Brady, during the pandemic. The business, which started in their basement in Dallas, Ga., grew in three short years to be distributed across Georgia and Alabama with plans to expand into Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, Florida and California.
Additional speakers will host breakout sessions that run the gamut of professional backgrounds and careers, such as MaryCaitlin Duncan, COO at All Service Floor Covering; Dr. Nikki Adeniyi, Walmart Pharmacy Manager; Ashley Sutton, also known as “AshTheBFF,” from TLC’s “1,000lb Best Friends;” Shatara Clark, an educator, author, community leader, entrepreneur and philanthropist; Tonesha Smith, a software engineer; and Nancy Grimm, Senior Commercial Marketing Manager at Rheem Manufacturing.
Breakout sessions will focus on topics such as emotional intelligence, taking risks, maximizing one’s value, building resilience and adaptability as well as navigating setbacks and branding.
For the past five years, local high school and college students have taken away skills from the conference, which features speakers from various industries and walks of life with the common goal of planting the seeds of leadership for the next generation.
“My overall impression was that [the Charge Into Leadership Conference] was very motivating, fun and inspiring,” GHC student Catherine Solis-Reyes said of the 2023 conference.
Check-in for the event is from 8AM to 9AM and the event will run until approximately 2PM at the GHC Cartersville site. Lunch will be provided to attendees.
Click here to register.