KINGSVILLE (January 30, 2020) — The Texas A&M University-Kingsville College of Business Administration will host their 10th Annual Community Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, March 5, in the ballrooms of the Memorial Student Union Building. The event is co-hosted by the Kingsville Chamber of Commerce, and sponsored by IBC Bank.
This event is geared toward providing an additional dimension to fiscal awareness and responsibility to students and residents of Kingsville and the surrounding communities. Tickets are $10 per person or $80 for a table of eight. Online registration is required by Thursday, Feb. 27, and no tickets will be available at the door.
This year’s speaker is Jennifer Kushell, CEO and founder of Young & Successful Media and YSN.com. Her presentation will be Attract, Recruit and Retain the Next Generation of Talent. Technological innovation continues to disrupt industries on a massive scale with no signs of slowing down, join the community to learn why it is increasingly important to change the way we attract and retain the next generation of talent.
For more information about the Community Breakfast or to purchase tickets, visit www.tamuk.edu/cba. For more information, call 361-593-3301.
About Jennifer Kushell
Jennifer Kushell, CEO and founder of Young & Successful Media and YSN.com, has been on a mission to impact the lives and futures of young people globally for the past two decades. She sculpts ground breaking campaigns around youth empowerment, employment and entrepreneurship, bringing educational, government and corporate stakeholders together to impact millions.
Such programs have included piloting the first coding and entrepreneurship boot camps for Job Corps/U.S. Department of Labor; building Exploring Your Potential, a mobile-friendly online career planning course with Bloomberg; creating the first virtual work curriculum in the Middle East for Education for Employment; producing the 100 country Subway Global Challenge; and the International Franchise Association’s NextGen in Franchising campaign to incubate young entrepreneurs with scalable business concepts.
The author of the New York Times Bestseller Secrets of the Young & Successful, Kushell has been called the “Career Doctor” by Cosmopolitan and a “guru” by U.S. News and World Report. She is an advisor to leading global youth organizations, a delegate of several State Department-led entrepreneurship missions and Youth Advisor for the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Committee.
A relentless advocate for ambitious young people everywhere, in 1993, at 19, her Young Entrepreneurs Network was one of the first online communities in CompuServe. In her 20s, Kushell was instrumental in spearheading the young entrepreneur movement in America, garnering 300 million media impressions about the new trend. In her 30s, YSN.com was launched as the first professional social network for young people engaging 25,000 from 160 countries. Today, YSN is deploying game-changing education through online learning to dramatically change the way young people engage with the new world of work and global opportunity.
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