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Meeting Preference: Email, In Person
Languages: English
The value I can bring to SCORE clients is focused on government, private and public sector contracting:
1) How to do business with the government, private and public sectors
2) How to leverage Supplier Diversity, Small Business, Minority/Women Business Enterprise and Disadvantage Business Enterprise Programs
3) How and Why - Obtaining Small/Local Business designations, Minority or Women Business Enterprise certification, and Disadvantage Business Enterprise certification
4) How to write a compelling capabilities statement
In addition, I can assist SCORE Clients with establishing and sustaining a value-driven equity, diversity and inclusion program that addresses the following areas:
1) Customers/Clients
2) Workforce
3) Workplace
4) Community
5) Supplier Diversity
Towanda R. Livingston is a successful and award-winning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Supplier Diversity Executive and expert with almost three (3) decades of strategic and tactical experience in the government, public and private sectors. Advocating and leading from within, Towanda has held C-Level positions inside government, public and Fortune 1000 organizations/companies where she led and transformed supplier diversity, economic inclusion, DEI and EEO efforts.
She is an innovative thought leader in diversity, equity, inclusion, and supplier diversity leader of this era. Towanda’s career has been focused on equipping, empowering, and enabling minority, women, and other marginalized groups and businesses in the workplace and marketplace with practical solutions and tools that advances their positions in the workplace and marketplace. Daily, Towanda delivers strategic, tactical, and innovative solutions to small, diverse, and women-owned businesses to help start, sustain, and scale their businesses in various industries and marketplaces. Towanda supports marginalized businesses with bottom line-driven business development solutions that includes, coaching, certification assistance, accessing contracting, accessing alternative capital sources (grant scouting), achieving operational effectiveness, and strategic planning and implementation.
Towanda is also a widely respected international public speaker, facilitator, a highly sought-after executive coach, an author, and podcaster. She has been a volunteer with SCORE Delaware since 2017.
Areas of Expertise
- Business Plan
- Customer Service
- Funding/Loans
- Government Regulations
- Human Resources
- Management & Operations
- Product Development
- Strategy Development
Industry Experience
- Construction
- Mining, Quarry, & Utilities
- Professional Services
- Transportation
- Waste Management & Disposal