Entrepreneur, advocate & mentor for women, minorities and small business owners

Weaving in lessons learned from her experiences as one of the first black children to integrate the private schools in Louisiana, surviving the destruction of Hurricanes Betsy, Camille and Katrina, her involvement in the fall of the Berlin Wall, her experiences as a fourth-generation African American entrepreneur, her role in the construction of the “Freedom Tower” at One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and as the first female head of the General Services Administration (GSA), Lurita’s speaking engagements continue to inspire and empower, using her own life’s lessons and hard earned experience to share techniques and practices that motivate success and excellence.