Altruistic Leadership Presents...Take-A-Lesson with Maggie Anderson, CEO of The Empowerment Experiment, a business game changer!

SAN JOSE, CA, October 03, 2010 (Press-News.org) Wednesday November 10 Noon EST—Maggie Anderson will share with the listening audience of Altruistic Leadership her career journey, successes, trials, triumphs, and tripping points of an entrepreneur and high profile activist.

During this 45-minute segment, we will discuss the importance of owning your future, supporting your community and the tremendous calling of the nationally recognized The Empowerment Experiment Movement, which was triggered by the Anderson family's historic social experiment living off Black business for all of 2009.

Callers are welcome to join the conversation during the show by calling (917) 889-3394. The LIVE, Internet talk-radio show will stream from the host page at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/altruisticleadership. An archive will be available at the same link immediately following the show or listeners can subscribe to the archives via the RSS feed located on the host page.

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About Our Guest

"The plight and potential of Black entrepreneurs and professionals are virtually absent from the national dialogue. We believe that supporting their businesses is key to creating and stimulating long-term wealth in Black communities." " In most diverse communities and predominantly White suburbs, the dollar is recycled several times, sustaining the neighborhood, funding the schools, empowering the community for 7 - 29 days. The Black consumer dollar stays in the Black community for only six hours!" Those words were spoken by Maggie Anderson, CEO of The Empowerment Experiment, and with those words, The Empowerment Experiment (formerly Ebony Experiment) was born.

The Empowerment Experiment (EE) captured the nation in 2009 and changed dialogue about Black-owned Business. Those amazing, but true statistics are the reasons the black community suffers economically and disproportionately. What would happen if those dollars remained in the community to bolster and beautify struggling neighborhoods, facilities, and businesses? Some of the results would be better school funding, vibrant town centers, cleaner environments, and lower crime rates. What started as an exercise in economics became a movement that is revitalizing communities and inspiring people to spend their money in ways that can improve the Black community and thereby benefit society as a whole. Their sacrifice, journey, and the controversial racial and cultural issues leading to wealth disparities, high failure rates for black owned businesses, food and retail deserts in black areas, and black neighborhoods being overrun by businesses owned by outside ethnic groups was covered by major mainstream and Black media. The Andersons spoke out about the need for increased self-help economics in the black community on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS News, BET News and much more. Several national professional and civic groups have honored the Andersons including the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, George Fraser and Frasernet, the National Alliance of Market Developers, the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the National Urban League, the United American Progress Association, the National Black Herstory Task Force, and a book about the journey, the issues and the movement is expected to be on bookshelves by February 2011.

The Empowerment Experiment (EE) is not about exclusion. On the contrary, it is about accountability, responsibility, fairness, ownership, respect and pride. EE is a strategy. EE is self-help economics. EE utilizes the buying power of a community to save a community—simple.

Maggie Anderson is a business strategist with expertise and experience in the legal, research, communications and business strategy domains. Prior to founding EE, Mrs. Anderson held leadership roles at McDonald's Corporation supporting the C-suite executive in strategy and speechwriting. While at McDonald's corporate headquarters, Mrs. Anderson developed, presented, and implemented influential growth strategies and venture plans in the areas of diversity, emergent industries and global markets, market segmentation, communications, business intelligence, and corporate responsibility. Mrs. Anderson is a respected leader in the Chicago business community.

Mrs. Anderson has a BA in Political Science from Emory University, an MBA in Economics and Strategy from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School

Please join us as we Take-A-Lesson with Maggie Anderson!

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