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Rose Smith

2023 Speaker

Executive Mentor | That’s a Good Question | Getting to the Next Level

ROSE SMITH is a visionary, CEO & Founder of Black Women In Business (BWIB) championing the support and excellence of sisterhood, business women and community. Smith is an award-winning CEO and success coach renowned throughout the globe for her fierce mission of encouragement and empowerment.  She founded BWIB in Austin in 2014, and by the end of 2019 had launched 10 Chapters throughout the state of Texas. At the beginning of the pandemic, Black Women In Business became the first Austin Non-Profit to pivot their organization’s mission to provide free groceries to seniors and residents of Travis County. Smith was awarded the I AM AUSTIN WOMAN Award by Austin Woman Magazine. Smith was also named one of Austin’s 50 Black Women Powerhouses and Best Coach of Black Austin earlier this year.  This ATX gamechanger was also featured in “Elles,” an International Docu-Series, that highlights extraordinary women in twelve different countries.