Please join us for this event in the LeCraw Auditorium, College of Management, or watch the live webcast provided by our partners at Learn it Live.

More about the speaker:

Mitch Schlimer has been a serial and social entrepreneur for the past three decades. He is the founder of the EPICENTER, which is the home of the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame and is also the host of “Let’s Talk Business,”  which is an award winning radio show that now airs every Saturday from 12noon-1PM on Georgia Tech's 100K Watt WREK, 91.1 FM or on the web at www.wrek.org.

Let's Talk Business is dedicated to entrepreneurship, small business, innovation and youth empowerment. Through his radio show and other Let's Talk Business Live! events, Mitch has interviewed noted entrepreneurs such as Sir Richard Branson, Ben & Jerry, Fred DeLuca (Founder of Subway), the late Anita Roddick (founder of the Body Shop), Earl Graves  and more than 400 other entrepreneurs, business leaders and authors from around the world. 

Considered the “voice of entrepreneurship” and the “entrepreneur’s entrepreneur,” Mitch has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Success Magazine, on CNN and in various other media outlets. He was also voted one of the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America.

More about guest Doug Shipman:
Doug Shipman is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR). Prior to this position, Doug was a Principal in the Atlanta office of the Boston Consulting Group. He has been featured in articles in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta Magazine, Business To Business, and Southern Voice. He was named one of Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40” in 2008, one of Georgia Trend’s “40 Under 40” in 2009, and he received the New Leaders Council 40 Under 40 award in 2010.

Mr. Shipman has a master’s degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a master’s of Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School with an emphasis on religion in public situations and politics, and a bachelor’s degree from Emory University with majors in Economics and Political Science.

More about guest A.J. Robinson:
A.J. Robinson is the president of Central Atlanta Progress (CAP) and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District (ADID). CAP has created and spun off a number of organizations such as Trees Atlanta, Research Atlanta, COPA, Inc. and the Midtown Alliance. In 1995, CAP created the ADID and the Ambassador Force® of downtown to address public safety and cleaning concerns. Mr. Robinson has guided the organizations in accomplishments that include the passage of public space vending legislation, the creation of a City wide anti-panhandling program, the continuing revitalization of Woodruff Park, the successful passage of new legislation involving tax allocation districts Statewide, and the creation of the Atlanta Dream, a WNBA team.

The former President of Portman Holdings, he was responsible for all activities of this multi-dimensional real estate company with offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, Shanghai and Warsaw. Mr. Robinson is a graduate of Harvard School of Business, where he received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. He also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Emory University.

About the Impact Speaker Series

Since 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from "building a venture around intellectual capital" to "successful entrepreneurship in large organizations" and "socially responsible leadership".

The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and the Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit leaders. Events for the series take place in the LeCraw Auditorium in the College of Management building at 4:30 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.

The series is free and open to the public, and reservations are not required.