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Stacey Banks-Houston

MBA
Founder & Chief Entrepreneur Officer
Banks International Group
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United States
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English
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Bio

With compassion and grace, Stacey’s dynamic speaking style connects with her audience, leaving a deep impact that inspires and empowers them to take the next steps in discovering and pushing their purpose with key strategies to effectively build their business.

Award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker, and business coach, Stacey Banks-Houston has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs start and grow successful businesses.  Her mission is to help women push their passion beyond mere hobby, hustle hard to build their business and enjoy the fruits of their harvest.

Inspired by witnessing her father’s own entrepreneurial spirit, when other children her age were selling lemonade, Stacey was harvesting seashells from her backyard, painting them and selling them for profit.   She later owned a teen business and in her early twenties, co-owned a women’s accessory shop with her father.  After earning her MBA in Marketing, Stacey started Occasions Event Designers, an event management company and co-founded with her father Business Builders Unlimited, a shared office space and business support service center, which closed only after twenty successful years of providing support services to attorneys, health care agencies, insurance companies, and educational facilities.

She’s devoted the last 13 years to motivating entrepreneurs to break down the barriers between having a hobby and transforming it into a harvest. She served for 6 years as the Director of the Cleveland Small Business Development Center, which was recognized as the top performing SBDC in the state of Ohio in 2007.  In 2010, she won the Small Business Administration (SBA) Minority Small Business Champion Award. Stacey served as the Director of the Women’s Business Centre in Tampa, Florida at the Helen Gordon Davis Center for Women, where she passionately energized women small business owners to stop waiting for the right time and instead “push their passion” and position themselves for the next level.

As CEO (Chief Entrepreneur Officer) of RSVP Consultants, a consulting and coaching firm for small businesses, Stacey continues to push her own passion for entrepreneurship through speaking engagements, private consulting and coaching sessions, as well as hosting seminars and workshops for entrepreneurs, including youth and 50+ adults exploring the possibilities of small business ownership.  

Author of Seasons of Wholiness: Inspirations for the Seasons in a Woman’s Life and The Passion Plan, Journaling Your Business from Passion to Position to Profit, Stacey is an often-requested motivational speaker because she meets entrepreneurs where they are.  With grace, humor and wit she helps them develop a strategic approach to moving forward with actions that result in a thriving business.

Current position (1)

Founder & Chief Entrepreneur Officer

Banks International Group

Degrees (1)
MBA
Cleveland State University
1994 to 1996

Presentations

Presentations (1)
Hobby-Hustle-Harvest: What are you producing?
Past talks (6)
Is Your Baby Your Business? The Birth of a Baby and Growth of a Business
Sippin' With A Twist
Tampa, Florida
2017
Yes! You Need a Business Plan
Encore Entrepreneurs
Cleveland, Ohio
2017
The Perfect Pitch: A Home Run Presentation
Encore Entrepreneurs
Cleveland, Oho
2017
Go Hard or Go Home!
Black Women Business Owners, Executives and Entrepreneurs
Tampa, Florida
2014
Wear Your Passion on Your Sleeves:Then Roll Up Your Sleeves In Pursuit
Black CEO Conference
Dulles, VA
February 22, 2018
Passion over Distraction
The Passion Plan Book Tour
Linden, NJ, North Haven, CT & Cleveland Hts., OH
March 10, 2018
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Books & Articles (2)

The Passion Plan: Journaling Your Business from Passion to Position to Profit
Passion Publishers,
2012
Seasons of Wholiness: Inspiration for the Seasons in a Women's Life
2009

Expertise (9)

Business
Women in Business Small Business Development Business Planning christian business women Branding and Marketing minority business women Women's Coach Business

Awards & certifications (1)

SBA Small Business Minority Champion
Small Business Administration
2010

Reviews

Testimonials (2)
  • I approached Stacey to be the guest speaker at my Women of Vision Luncheon because she was intelligent, energetic and authentic. She was incredibly knowledgeable regarding the ups and downs of entrepreneurship because she herself is an entrepreneur. Stacey personally helped me start my own business and then inspired and educated many others at the Women of Vision Luncheon.
    Sascha Cherry
    Verified
  • Stacey Banks-Houston is a dynamic, engaging speaker. She has an amazing ability to connect with her audience and stay connected for the duration of the presentation. I have had the pleasure of attending several of her seminars, the material she has presented has had a deep impact on my business and how to build and expand my brand. She has shared her expertise in such a way that when you leave her seminars you feel empowered to take the next steps in pushing your purpose.
    Sonia "Vicki" Steele
    Verified
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Why choose me? 

I am a champion for entrepreneurs and your Passion Pusher!

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