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'Thriving: Conversations with business leaders.'

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'Scaling for growth.'

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Identifying text appears: 'Sherman Wright, Managing Partner, Co-Founder and CEO, Ten35.'

Sherman Wright:

Especially for minority-owned business, there’s three kinds of barriers. That’s access, that’s information, and resources.

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'Creative agency that specializes in transforming brands through culture. Founded in 2016. Headquartered in Chicago.'

Sherman Wright:

Access is just really building a network and relationships. Once you get access to these individuals or information, it’s really building that intelligence and really understanding how that can really benefit your business and then resources come in many different aspects. Financial resources of course, but talent resources as well as support resources that can really help you grow your business. When you do great work and build great relationships, they like to tell friends.

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Identifying text appears: 'Ann Ramakumaran, Founder and CEO, AMPCUS.'

Ann Ramakumaran:

It's so very important to re-invest back in people, process, infrastructure, and innovation to support growth.

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'AMPCUS: collaboration redefined

·        Certified minority woman-owned global provider of technology and business consulting and staff augmentation services

·        Founded in 2004.

·        Headquartered in Chantilly, Va.

Ann Ramakumaran:

That's the reason why today, we continue to be the employers of choice for a lot of employees and continue to be the supplier of choice for a lot of our clients.

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Identifying text reads: 'Robert Shibuya, Chairman and CEO, Mohr Partners.'

Robert Shibuya:

We help companies like JPMorgan Chase manage their corporate real estate.

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·        Global real estate advisor and outsourcing firm

·        Founded in 1986

·        Headquartered in Dallas

Robert Shibuya:

When we acquired the firm almost seven years ago, I said we had a great V8 engine, but supplier diversity was like putting a turbo-charger on a V8 engine. In the last seven years, we doubled the size of the company and we really owe a lot of that to us being a certified minority business. We’re doing most of our business now with other MBEs/. When I came in, our actual annual MBE spend was close to 0. And we just never thought about hiring other minority-certified companies to be part of our supply chain. Our MBE spend is now close to 30%, and ultimately we want to get to at least 50%.

Sherman Wright:

We invest in our employees, our talent, our team members, we invest in our client relationships, making sure we’re building that as well as infrastructure in IT. Somebody once said, “Learn from other’s mistakes because you’ll never live long enough to make ‘em all yourself” and I’m a firm believer in that.

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Business growth is a top concern for most business leaders. From pursuing funding to hiring more talent to increasing supplier diversity, there are many different methods one could take. And in these uncertain times, a guide can be especially helpful.

We asked three seasoned executives for their approach to growing a business. Their answer? Reinvest. But not in what you might expect. Watch the video above, part of our new “Thriving: Conversations with bankers” series, to hear advice on reinvesting in employees, clients and infrastructure from:

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