Lara is coming to town! Women Wednesdays is excited to continue and expand last year’s conversation with Lara O’Connor Hodgson. Along with Stacey Abrams, Lara co-founded Now®, and more recently co-authored “Level Up: Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back.”
Join the conversation on March 22, 11:30am-2pm at Domi Station for a special Women Wednesdays Lunch & Learn and Book signing. A light lunch will be served at 11:30am, followed by a presentation and workshop by Lara on how you can develop the confidence, know-how and savvy to overcome the obstacles that can hold you back. She’ll talk about the collaborative journey she and Stacey shared in entrepreneurship, lessons learned along the way, and their vision for helping small businesses grow and thrive. Included will be a discussion on how her company Now® has helped millions of businesses expedite their b2b customer payments to just one day.
About Level Up; Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back: Lara O'Connor Hodgson and Stacey Abrams represent the true power of collaboration to learn and grow #togetHER. As longtime friends, partners and serial entrepreneurs, they've amassed a wealth of hard earned knowledge about the hidden forces that hinder small businesses from greater growth. And it is together they share their inspiring and relatable personal story to show how every business owner can confront the forces that conspire to keep small businesses small with their newly released book "Level Up: Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back."
About Lara: Lara O’Connor Hodgson, President and CEO of Now®, has served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School and is an internationally recognized speaker, leading seminars on creativity, innovation and access to capital. Prior to Now®, Lara co-founded Nourish, a patented childrens beverage product, and Insomnia, LLC, a firm specializing in investment, development, and management of complex and innovative “world-changing” projects, both with Stacey. Lara’s background also includes 5 years with Dewberry Capital Corporation, an Atlanta-based commercial real estate development and investment firm, where she served as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Her product experience includes Dunk, a performance footwear and apparel manufacturing / retail company built on the concept of mass customization and founded with Shaquille O’Neal & Mike Piazza, where she served as Executive Vice President. Lara received an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a BS in Aerospace Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Today, she serves as a Trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation in addition to other Boards. E&Y recognized Lara as a 2018 Finalist for the Southeast Entrepreneur of the Year and named Lara to the 2019 class of Entrepreneurial Winning Women. In 2022 Lara was named to Worth Magazine’s Worthy 100 list of leaders having the greatest impact in the world.