Lawrence Watkins is a young entrepreneur and owner of Great Black Speakers Bureau, an organization dedicated to helping universities and corporations find speakers for the events that they host throughout the year. Founded in January 2007, Great Black Speakers has quickly risen and has become a premier force in the speaking industry, boasting over 200 African-American speakers and over 100 university/corporate clients.
Lawrence Watkins received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He is currently continuing his education as the Rodney P. Hunt Fellow at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.
I was led into engineering. It wasn't my true passion but everyone kept telling me that I was good in math so, you know, if I'm good in math, what's the right choice for that? Engineering, right? So I chose engineering and that's the position that a lot of you all are in. You chose majors especi...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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