ASUMH launches Women’s Business Leadership Center

     Local women business leaders met at Big Creek Country Club Tuesday night to launch a Women’s Business Leadership Center at ASU-Mountain Home and welcome the first class of ASUMH student leadership interns. Dr. Kathy White Loyd, Executive Director of the center, says the mission of the program, which began late last year at ASU-Jonesboro, is to cultivate confident and capable young girls and women setting and achieving high goals on their paths to college and careers.
Twenty-five young women make up the first class of interns at the Jonesboro Center and in Mountain Home there are nine. Three of the 30 founders of the Women’s Business Leadership Center are Mountain Home residents Charlotte Razer, Kim Worlow and Tera Payne. White Loyd says the women speak to and mentor women of all ages, starting in middle school to get them to think about setting goals and going to college.

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An Arkansas native, White Loyd is a retired Executive Vice President of Information Technology from Cardinal Health, an Ohio based global, integrated healthcare services and products company.

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White Loyd says they are hoping to recruit 100 women in the Twin Lakes Area who are willing to help promote the work of the Women’s Business Leadership Center outreach by becoming mentors.

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For more information or to become involved, call White Loyd at 919-923-7199, Worlow at 870-421-0481 or visit their website www.astate.edu/college/business/COBWBLChttp://www.astate.edu/college/business/COBWBLC.