{"id":81307,"date":"2022-04-28T16:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=81307"},"modified":"2022-04-28T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:49:42","slug":"top-business-expert-dr-velma-trayham-honored-with-bidens-presidential-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/top-business-expert-dr-velma-trayham-honored-with-bidens-presidential-lifetime-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Business Expert Dr. Velma Trayham Honored with Biden&#8217;s Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, Texas, April 28, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Honoring her remarkable leadership and service, Dr. Velma Trayham was recently awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award by President Joe Biden. The annual awards honor a select few who \u201cexhibit outstanding character, work ethic and dedication to their communities.\u201d Dr. Trayham is the CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkzillaconsulting.com\/\">Thinkzilla Consulting,<\/a> one of the nation\u2019s fastest-growing diversity, equity and Inclusion consulting firms, and founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/millionairemastermindacademy.org\/programs\/real-estate-accelerator-program\/\">Millionaire Mastermind Academy<\/a>, a leading nonprofit organization that addresses the barriers to economic mobility for women who have been systemically and historically underserved and excluded by providing entrepreneurial training and mentorship programming to help women minority women rise above poverty through empowered entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0428-s2p-velma-trayham-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Velma Trayham Honored with Biden\u2019s Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0428-s2p-velma-trayham-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0428-s2p-velma-trayham-800x600-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0428-s2p-velma-trayham-800x600-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award was presented during the Gathering of Queens Economic Empowerment event, hosted by the Millionaire Mastermind Academy in Houston to share new strategies and dynamic leadership principles for success. Recipients of the award must have completed a minimum of 4,000 hours of volunteer service.<\/p>\n<p>According to presenter Dr. Verna Caddie, \u201cDr. Velma received The Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for all of the hard work she does to help so many people change their lives, by ending poverty through entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trayham was honored with the award based on her career of supporting more than 8,000 women to excel in diverse small businesses while launching a $500,000 scholarship fund to move women out of poverty through entrepreneurial training and mentorships. Likewise, through Dr. Trayham\u2019s leadership, Thinkzilla has helped more than 200 prominent public and private organizations expand DEI initiatives, enjoy exponential growth and reach new audiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am\u00a0passionate about breaking generational curses and equipping others to rise above poverty,\u201d added Dr. Trayham, who is recognized as one of the nation\u2019s top business experts and motivational speakers. \u201cI am also incredibly fortunate to love the work I do, the people I work with and the communities we serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Dr. Velma Trayham:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Velma Trayham is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker and economic empowerment specialist who believes in the power of inclusive, equitable businesses to create community and spark change. The CEO of Thinkzilla Consulting Group, which brings greater awareness to initiatives that support underserved communities, Dr. Trayham also founded the Millionaire Mastermind Academy, which has mentored more than 5,000 minority women business owners in its first three years.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velmatrayham.com\/\">https:\/\/www.velmatrayham.com\/<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkzillaconsulting.com\/\">https:\/\/www.thinkzillaconsulting.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MULTIMEDIA:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE link for media: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/22-0428-s2p-velma-trayham-300dpi.jpg\">https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/22-0428-s2p-velma-trayham-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, Texas, April 28, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Honoring her remarkable leadership and service, Dr. Velma Trayham was recently awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award by President Joe Biden. The annual awards honor a select few who &#8220;exhibit outstanding character, work ethic and dedication to their communities.&#8221; Dr. Trayham is the CEO of Thinkzilla Consulting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9017,"featured_media":81306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,12804,13632,1,72,55,10939],"tags":[18103,18104,18102,9806],"class_list":["post-81307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-honors-news","category-ap","category-black-owned-business","category-business-news","category-houston-news","category-texas-news","category-woman-owned-business","tag-gathering-of-queens-economic-empowerment","tag-inclusion-consulting","tag-presidential-lifetime-achievement-award","tag-women-leaders","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4214,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}