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The Leveraging of Gratitude Principle Wisdom for Today Average individuals, if asked for an honest personal assessment, would agree that they are not completely content with what they have and where they are in life.  Most of us desire bigger and more-a bigger home, a nicer car, a better-paying job, more recognition, enhanced prestige and power.  "Constructive discontent" can be good, and indeed it is necessary if entrepreneurs are to push the envelope of opportunity.  But if that attitude is allowed to get out of hand, entrepreneurs will lose sight of the wonderful assets they already possess. Wallace, R. (2000), Soul...

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September 25, 2016 (Baltimore, Maryland) ---Ten successful local minority business owners (MBEs) flew to Nashville Tennesee, courtesy of Southwest Airlines, last week, to explore new business opportunities. This was the inaugural trip of the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council’s first Get on the Plane Business Tour, a program designed to help make minority businesses more profitable through introductions to corporate decisionmakers and MBEs in other parts of the country.  “Relationships and access to decisionmakers are key to business success.” says Sharon R. Pinder, President and CEO, CRMSDC, who created the concept...

April 18, 2017-  Robert L. Wallace, President and CEO of Bithgroup Technologies served as the moderator for the Presidents Round Table (PRT) 2017 CEO Briefing. Robert Wallace who is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for PRT, led a discussion along with 4 other panelists on Trumponomics: Accelerating Your Business Growth Under A New Administration. The discussion explored how Donald Trumps presidency provides opportunities in certain industries and how companies can tap into those opportunities through pivoting their business structure to the changing political landscape. Hanover, MD- The Hotel at Arundel Preserve graciously provided...

On March 8th 2017, Robert L. Wallace received the 2017 Maryland International Business Leadership award from the World Trade Center Institute. The event was held at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore Maryland and was attended by hundreds of guests and anchor institutions throughout the sate. This renowned award honors leaders who have taken their companies as well as the State of Maryland to new global heights. Wallace accepted the award on behalf of the work performed by Bithgroup Technologies Inc. and Bithenergy Inc. overseas, in Asia and Africa. International business accounts for over 15% of the current business portfolio...

Robert L. Wallace, Chairman of the President’s Roundtable (PRT) and Founder and CEO of Bithgroup Technologies, Inc. cancelled his scheduled business trip so that he could escort his three granddaughters to see the hit movie, “Hidden Figures.” The blockbuster movie portrays the stellar Black women who pioneered careers at NASA back in the 50s/60s. They were phenomenal and played an integral part of NASA's success. Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains...

Who is this person? Christopher J. Williams is Chairman, CEO and founder of The Williams Capital Group, L.P. and Williams Capital Management, LLC.  A 1984 graduate of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Williams began his career on Wall Street working for Lehman Brothers where he assumed senior management responsibilities in debt capital markets, over the counter derivatives, and taxable fixed income trading.  Chris later left Lehman Brothers and formed a derivatives division of Jefferies & Company before he ultimately started the Williams Capital Group, L.P. in 1994.  He is a proud and dedicated husband and...

This month our country celebrates Black History Month. Rather than praise the same leaders and trailblazers we have all heard of and know well, I want to lift up my own minority heros. My first hero for Black History Month is Mr. Robert F. Smith. Who is this person? Robert Frederick Smith is an entrepreneur, business leader, investor, and is chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, an investment firm with over $26 billion in assets as of September 2016.  Mr. Smith was ranked by Forbes in 2016 as the 274th richest person in America, the second wealthiest African American on the list after Oprah Winfrey.  Robert was the second...

Robert Wallace explores the notion that you should live every day like it is your last. He introduces three aspects that we all must focus on daily. #1 Intensity of Purpose, #2 Intensity of Preserving, and #3 Intensity of Perspective

In June of 1966, Senator Robert Kennedy visited South Africa at a time when that nation was experiencing major unrest over the system of racial segregation known as apartheid. Kennedy decided to visit upon the invitation of NUSAS, the anti-Apartheid National Union of South African Students. Senator Kennedy arrived to deliver the Annual Day of Affirmation Speech at the University of Cape Town. Senator Kennedy’s journey to South Africa was enormously important both symbolically and practically. As the Civil Rights Movement continued to gain momentum in the United States, Senator Kennedy drew powerful parallels between the systems of racial...