speaking Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/speaking/ S.O. What! Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:19:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/summerowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-Summer-Owens-S.O.-What.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 speaking Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/speaking/ 32 32 152051023 Annette McNeil: S.O. What! Success Story https://summerowens.com/annette-mcneil-s-o-what-success-story/ https://summerowens.com/annette-mcneil-s-o-what-success-story/#respond Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:30:16 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=22712 It’s never too late to get your degree(s). That’s one of the first thoughts I have when I think of Annette McNeil. Another is how she too was a 15-year-old mom. A third is our connection to the Fogelman College of Business and Economics and how Dean Rajiv Grover played an amazing role in our […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/annette-mcneil-s-o-what-success-story/feed/ 0 22712 3 Lessons From Hosting the 40th Distinguished Alumni Awards at the University of Memphis https://summerowens.com/hosting-the-40th-distinguished-alumni-awards/ https://summerowens.com/hosting-the-40th-distinguished-alumni-awards/#respond Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:59:03 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=22427 In 2019 when I became the president of the University of Memphis Alumni Association National Board of Directors, hosting the 40th Distinguished Alumni Awards (DAA) program was something I looked forward to doing at the end of my term. For me, it was so much more than being able to host an awards program. In […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/hosting-the-40th-distinguished-alumni-awards/feed/ 0 22427 10 Ways the Coronavirus is Forcing 2020 Vision https://summerowens.com/10-ways-the-coronavirus-is-forcing-2020-vision/ https://summerowens.com/10-ways-the-coronavirus-is-forcing-2020-vision/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:51:32 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=14227 Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’re aware of the COVID-19 crisis that has disrupted our entire world in a matter of months. Rounding out 2019, I don’t think anyone (with the exception of a few people) had any idea this was coming. Like with every new year, people are excited about setting resolutions. […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/10-ways-the-coronavirus-is-forcing-2020-vision/feed/ 0 14227 My Journey to the Motherland- Accra, Ghana Day 3 https://summerowens.com/ghana-day-3-journey-to-the-motherland-ghana/ https://summerowens.com/ghana-day-3-journey-to-the-motherland-ghana/#respond Sat, 08 Feb 2020 04:24:10 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=11472 The post My Journey to the Motherland- Accra, Ghana Day 3 appeared first on Summer Owens S.O. What!.

]]> https://summerowens.com/ghana-day-3-journey-to-the-motherland-ghana/feed/ 0 11472 My Journey to the Motherland- Accra, Ghana Day 2 https://summerowens.com/ghana-day-2-journey-to-the-motherland-ghana/ https://summerowens.com/ghana-day-2-journey-to-the-motherland-ghana/#respond Thu, 06 Feb 2020 01:23:57 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=11469 After 24 hours of traveling to get to Accra, I thought I would be exhausted. My excitement must have overridden the tiredness, jetlag, and time difference. The night before when we arrived at the Airbnb space we rented in The Gallery. We stocked the refrigerator with bottled water that my fellow speaker, Justin’s, parents had […]

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