Quantum Leaps releases The Roadmap to 2020 -- Fueling the Growth of Women's Enterprise Development
Baltimore, MD, June 23 – The Roadmap to 2020, an unprecedented collaboration of the nation’s major women's business organizations and entrepreneurial thought leaders, was released today, launching a comprehensive action plan to achieve exponential revenue growth and job creation among women’s businesses over the next decade.
“Roadmap 2020” recommends nothing less than a paradigm shift in women’s business development – from early entrepreneurial education to policy support to capital availability – designed to enable the creation of at least 6 million new jobs over the next ten years.
Quantum Leaps, the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and the National Association of Women’s Business Owners (NAWBO) jointly released Roadmap 2020 at WBENC’s 11th Annual Women in Business National Conference and Business Fair before some 2,500 corporations and women business owners in attendance. It was presented on behalf of the 10 women’s business organizations and 20 companies that were supporters and collaborators in the creation of Roadmap 2020.
“Roadmap 2020 not only tells us how to create more jobs – but also how to improve the quality of those jobs, with higher salaries and better benefits, in growing, innovative companies,” said Virginia Littlejohn, CEO and co-founder of Quantum Leaps, the nonprofit that mobilized Roadmap 2020 participants. By galvanizing the leadership of the women’s business community, Roadmap 2020 will drive change on the national and grassroots level, and dramatically sharpen the nation’s competitiveness.
“The Roadmap to 2020 is leading a transformation and connecting women in business around the world," said Marilyn Johnson, vice president of Market Development for IBM. “IBM is proud to be the lead corporate sponsor of such a high-impact global initiative.”
To download the press release, click here.
For the complete Roadmap to 2020, click here.
