Enterprising Women

2006 Enterprising Women of the Year Winners — Up to $1 Million in Revenues

Issue: Vol. 7, No. 3

RITA N. SINGH came to the United States from India 25 years ago with nothing but a handful of certificates and degrees. She started her business, S&A Consulting Group LLC, without money, experience or mentors. With long hours, courage, persistence and unshakable faith, her dream has become a reality. The company specializes in global resource management in the areas of financial management, manufacturing technology management, marketing, information technology, healthcare management, and other customized services.

Rita mentors young girls and women through a number of programs, including the Women’s Club of Cleveland’s Mentoring Program. She participates in the KeyBank Advisory Council for Women Business Owners and was named one of the top 10 business owners in northeastern Ohio.

Rita N. Singh
S&A Consulting Group LLC
Cleveland, OH

SHARON WATKINS is the founder of TSG Enterprises, a company that provides business process outsourcing and expense management solutions for telecom and utility expenses and invoices. From her Memphis, TN headquarters, she has signed and retained a Fortune 50 company in each of the last three years and is now using those clients as references. Her goal is for her employees to be among the highest paid for like positions in her area, and she helped meet that goal by rewarding her staff with raises of as high as 35 percent last year.

A member of NAWBO and WBENC-certified, she is mentoring her two teenage daughters, Jessica and Hadley, as they launch an Internet-based business selling all-natural bath products.

Sharon Watkins
TSG Enterprises
Memphis, TN

KATHLEEN (KATE) REDDY has her sights set on making her business a multi-million dollar company in the next five years. On her way to hitting her first million dollar year, Kate’s company, McKinnon-Mulherin, Inc. provides learning solutions, technical writing, and sales and business communication. The 20 employees at her Salt Lake City-based firm are all given paid time off on a weekly basis to volunteer for local charities. Kate sets a great example: She volunteers for the Chamber of Commerce, NAWBO, the Utah Women’s Alliance, People Helping People, and a number of other organizations.

As the president of the Salt Lake City NAWBO Chapter, she is leading an initiative to encourage women college students to start their own businesses.

Kathleen (Kate) Reddy
McKinnon-Mulherin, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT

LAURA ALLEN is the founder of Vision Education & Media, a New York City company she began seven years ago to provide leading edge technology education. Vision Education and Media assists schools and organizations such as the YMCA and the Boys and Girls Club of America in local and national edtech initiatives. Her company runs after-school technology programs in robotics, digital video, computer graphics, writing, and game making in a range of locations from the South Bronx to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Laura’s goal was to make technology education accessible to middle and low income children.

With a particular interest in carving out a place for girls and women in the largely male dominated technology field, Laura created “Tech Girls” in conjunction with the Girls Club of America. The program became a successful model of how to attract girls to technology and give them the support they need to feel a sense of ownership.

Laura Allen
Vision Education & Media
New York, NY

(This article is reprinted from the 2006 Enterprising Women of the Year edition (Vol. 7, No. 3) of Enterprising Women magazine. Copyright 2006, Enterprising Women Inc. Reproduction in whole or part is prohibited, except by express permission of the publisher.)

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