VT Global Change Center Distinguished Lecture with Leigh Kathryn Bonner (CANCELLED)
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Global Change Center at Virginia Tech
Date: Friday, March 20, 2020
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Miscellaneous, Speaking Engagements, Business Related, STEM Events
Cost: Free

Description:
UPDATE: This event has been cancelled.

Leigh-Kathryn Bonner, Founder and CEO of Bee Downtown, will visit Virginia Tech & The Lyric Theatre as the 7th Annual Global Change Center (GCC) at Virginia Tech's Distinguished Lecturer on March 20, 2020 starting at 4:00 pm.

Leigh-Kathryn Bonner's talk is titled "Moments that Matter: Effective Leadership Through the Eyes of a Beekeeper." Bonner is a storyteller, environmental steward, and empowering leader who was recently named as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs.

She is a fourth generation beekeeper and a dynamic leader who started her entrepreneurial journey at just 22 years old. Raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, she spent her younger years on her family farm where she fell in love with agriculture. As the Founder and CEO of the rapidly expanding company Bee Downtown, she has made a name for herself in a historically male dominated industry.

Bee Downtown began as a school project during her junior year at North Carolina State University. The buzzing company keeps bees and creates one-of-a-kind employee engagement and leadership development experiences at many of the largest corporations in the world. The programming is facilitated at beehives which are placed and maintained by the Bee Downtown staff on corporate campuses.

Leigh-Kathryn’s enthusiasm and authenticity has earned Bee Downtown contracts with over 50 partners including Delta, Chick-Fil-A, COX Enterprises, Invesco, AT&T, SAS, Burt’s Bees, and Georgia Power. Bee Downtown’s 200+ hives house more than 12 million honeybees creating hundreds of thousands of acres of healthy pollinator habitat. The company has been featured by Forbes, BBC, Inc. Magazine, The Weather Channel, National Geographic, The New York Times, Southern Living Magazine and more.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

The Global Change Center’s Distinguished Lecture series brings some of the world’s leading scholars to the Blacksburg community to discuss critical environmental and societal issues in an open forum. The GCC seeks to raise awareness about climate change and other global problems that threaten the environment and society.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/BwWDw7F.jpg.

For more information about her talk, visit our website at: https://www.globalchange.vt.edu/distinguished-lecture-series/ or https://www.facebook.com/globalchangevt/ or call 540-231-5400.

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