ENTREPRENEURIAL INSIGHTS PODCAST WITH

DAVID ANDREWS

David Andrews is the Principal and Chief Executive Officer of City Enterprises, LLC. City Enterprises is the managing company of several businesses, many auto-related, including City Auto Sales, Chief Automotive Group, Pace Financial, City Auto Finance, and Dealers Auto Auction Group. Andrews launched City Auto Sales more than 35 years ago. Since then, he has grown the business to seven auction sites, multiple franchise and used car showrooms, eight City Auto Finance branches, and a nationwide forwarding company.

City Enterprises, LLC managed companies employ more than 850 people. Andrews says his employees are like family and believes in rewarding employees who work hard. He points out that they take care of customers, just like they take care of their employees, and if they are doing their job right, customers should feel like buying a car is fun.

ENTREPRENEURS ROUNDTABLE:

"Rounding Third and Heading for Home"
with Jay Myers

June 10, 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
The Crescent Club

Tech entrepreneur, business author, and speaker Jay B. Myers will share insights from his newest book, "Rounding Third and Heading for Home: The Emotional Journey of Selling My Business and the Lessons
Learned Along the Way", which will be available in print on June 15, 2021.

Myers founded Interactive Solutions Inc. (ISI), which was sold to AVI-SPL in 2018. As CEO for 22 years, Myer innovated and energized the video conferencing, distance learning, telemedicine, and audio-visual support fields, building ISI into a $25-million company. INC magazine named the company to its list of fastest-growing privat companies in the US on seven occasions in eleven years.

In Rounding Third and Heading for Home, Myers explores the intricacies of knowing if your business is ready to sell and the journey of making sound business and emotional decisions to determine when the time is right.
“What I realized as I was writing was that the journey of selling my business was as much of an emotional journey a it was an important business process,” said Myers. “Selling to an outsider is a pragmatic transaction, but the personal feelings I had selling something I had put my heart and soul into was an unexpected process that I really had to navigate.”

His newest book is the third in his collection on small business and entrepreneur experiences, following Hitting the Curveballs: How Crisis Can Strengthen and Grow Your Business (2014) and Keep Swinging: An Entrepreneur’s Story of Overcoming Adversity and Achieving Small Business Success (2007).

ENTREPRENEURS ROUNDTABLE:

"Erasing Isms" presented by 

Gwendolyn Tucker

July 8, 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
The Crescent Club

Gwendolyn J. Tucker serves as lead consultant in the areas of: Performance Management, Leadership Development, and Diversity & Inclusion.

She is a trusted advisor to leaders and created Leader Who Leads to equip leaders, aiding their growth and development. She is an avid writer and has published posts such as: Ill-Equipped Leaders, Managing & Measuring Work, Lead With Style and Leadership & Listening.

Gwendolyn has experience in Human Resources with a concentration in Diversity, Inclusion and Sensitivity Training. She is a skilled facilitator and created the Diversity At Work Series. Directly related to this series, she has created eLearning courses and published the following: The Pink Elephant, Let’s Talk, Candid Conversations.

Gwendolyn facilitates solutions to maximize return on investment (ROI). She has developed a proprietary method for calculating contribution at the individual level to measure return on investment in human capital.

ENTREPRENEURS ROUNDTABLE:

Lunch and Discussion with Art Gilliam

August 12, 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
The Crescent Club

Art Gilliam, a young, progressive-minded, Yale-educated black businessman bought WLOK in 1977, making it the first black-owned (and the first locally owned) radio station in the city of Memphis.

Under Art Gilliam’s leadership, the WLOK Stone Soul Picnic was organized and professionally managed, drawing tens of thousands of people to the Martin Luther King Park each year. By the mid-eighties, the station had changed its R&B format to a full-gospel format, and by the late nineties, WLOK had won honors and acclaim from every major gospel association in the country, earning for several consecutive years the title of #1 Gospel Station in the nation by Religion & Media Quarterly.

In February 1997, twenty years after WLOK became the first African-American owned electronic media outlet in Memphis, the station was recognized by the Tennessee Historical Commission as a Tennessee Historical Landmark.

Most recently, WLOK has worked with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office to reduce drug use among young people. The station presents numerous on-air programs that help youngsters.