March 9, 2020
George Talks Business at the George Washington University School of Business, Monday, March 9, will feature a Women Entrepreneurs Panel with Kathy Korman Frey, founder and CEO of the Hot Mommas Project, U.S. Army Major Jade Root, MBA ’17, and Anna Stewart, MBA ’14, founder and owner of Gaucha Chica, LLC.
For more information, please email Irina Orlova. Can’t attend in person? Please register below and tune in to the live stream on the GW School of Business Facebook page or YouTube channel.
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Duquès Hall, Room 150 (Crain Center)
2201 G Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
Kathy Korman Frey teaches Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership, a USASBE Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education national award-winning course, at the GW School of Business.
In 2010, Frey’s women’s leadership research venture, the Hot Mommas Project, became the world’s largest women’s case library. The project takes the stories of women in our lives and makes those stories teachable. The project fills a gap that exists in educational publishing: exposure to female mentors and role models. Such access is shown to increase self-efficacy, or the ability to set personal goals and control outcomes. The project has directly reached women from 138 countries with its Women’s Leadership Academies, is the winner of a Coleman Foundation Case Award, and measurably increases confidence from 21 to 300 percent (depending on length of class).
Frey’s background is in the merger and acquisition and venture-funded start up field. She served as managing director for a strategic planning consulting firm and as COO for a venture arm of a major aging nonprofit. She recently served as special advisor to the U.S. Small Business Administration around a women’s entrepreneurship learning platform set to launch in 2020. Frey earned her BA from the University of Virginia and MBA from Harvard Business School.
Major Jade Root graduated from the United States Military Academy in 2008, earning degrees in Civil Engineering and General Psychology as well as her commission in the U.S. Army as a human resources officer. Jade also graduated from the George Washington University in 2017, earning a Master’s in Business Administration. She also holds a Master’s of Military Studies degree.
Throughout her military career, Jade has served in various military organizations at several echelons. Maj. Root served as a platoon leader in the 18th Human Resources Company, 82d Sustainment Brigade at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Later, she served as the Essential Personnel Services chief as well as Rear Detachment G1 for the 82d Airborne Division. During her tenure with the 82d Airborne Division, Maj. Root deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Bagram, Afghanistan, as the Military Mail Terminal supervisor, providing mail services for the entire Combined Joint Operations Area – Afghanistan. Following her deployment, Jade went on to serve as the senior human resources manager with prestigious organizations such as the 81st Civil Affairs Battalion and the 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade out of Fort Hood, Texas, as well as the Joint Interagency Task Force – National Capital Region, where she currently serves as the human resources director in Arlington, Virginia.
Jade’s awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the Parachutist Badge. Outside of her military career, Jade dedicates her time to her business as a health and wellness coach, fulfilling her passion to empower women and cultivate their self-worth by living healthy and balanced lives. Jade is married to Kevin Mumaw, a retired Army officer, and is the proud mother of three children, Jayla, Jason and Bryson.
Anna Stewart is the founder and owner of Gaucha Chica, LLC, a specialized product import initiative whose goal is to identify highly skilled artisans in Argentina to design and craft modern accessories and home products that reflect the native cultural traditions of the country while also providing a positive social and economic benefit to the native craftspeople and their communities. Gaucha Chica sources adventurous styles and exclusive designs made with the world’s highest quality leather and organic pieces to bring them into homes in the U.S.A.
Anna provides over 18 years of collective fundraising, strategic partnerships, cause marketing and Board management expertise from health focused non-profit organizations. Prior to her entrepreneurial ventures, Anna served as the Senior Director for Development at the Cancer Support Community (CSC) – the largest worldwide provider of free psychosocial and emotional support for cancer patients and their families – where she led the direction, planning, execution and evaluation of fundraising strategies for the organization.
Before joining the CSC team, Anna helped lead the development efforts for the nation’s largest public health foundation dedicated to tobacco prevention and cessation, the American Legacy Foundation (currently the Truth Initiative). There she served as an integral part of the planning and implementation of a newly created Development component and subsequently helped manage the development strategic priorities for the organization. During the start-up years at Truth Initiative, Anna served as the primary liaison to external & internal partners on behalf of the CEO and Board of Directors, strategically managing these relationships to enhance partner relations and extend mission visibility.
Anna holds an MBA with a focus on strategy and organizational behavior from the George Washington University and a BS in Business Management and Marketing from George Mason University.
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