Some of the most successful companies in the world started in their owner's house. Apple, Microsoft, and countless other now-household names were born in someone's garage.

Renowned marketing expert, author, and educator Roger Blackwell, Ph.D, will give us his take on female garage entrepreneurs. Dr. Blackwell will provide insight into what gives these garage entrepreneurs "an edge" and how they can grow "beyond the garage"?

About Dr. Blackwell

Dr. Roger Blackwell is a frequent speaker on marketing, strategic planning and health care topics for executive and business groups and a seminar leader for non-profit groups in education, health care, and religious organizations. 

Dr. Blackwell joined the marketing faculty at The Ohio State University after receiving his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and undergraduate and master’s degree at the University of Missouri. He was Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Cape Town University in South Africa, and Guelph University in Canada and lectured on six continents before retiring in 2005 from the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State where he also taught Health Care Marketing in the College of Medicine.

Roger received the Alumni Distinguished Teaching award and 26 other awards while teaching more than 65,000 students at Ohio State. He published over 100 articles in scholarly and trade journals and more than twenty-five books and research reports. He is co-author of Consumer Behavior, now in its 10th edition, used in several languages by universities throughout the world. 

Roger served on the boards of Abercrombie & Fitch, Airnet Systems, Applied Industrial Technologies, CheckFree, CheckPoint, Cheryl & Co., CompuServe, Intimate Brands, Diamond Hill Investments, Flex-Funds, Max & Erma’s Restaurants, Symix, and Worthington Foods.  He is currently marketing director for Cooper & Elliott law firm and a Principal of Blackwell Business Advisors assisting entrepreneurial firms. Roger lives with his family in Upper Arlington.

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Tickets

$35.00 Member Registration
$45.00 after 3:00 pm October 1

$45.00 Non-Member Registration
$55.00 after 3:00 pm October 1