Bea Wray

Bea Wray

Entrepreneur, Investor, MomSC, US
Bea will ignite your company's sales and bring positive energy to your executive leadership.

Bea Wray has dazzled audiences for 20 years speaking about entrepreneurship, leadership, and women in business. At age 27, she had the title CEO of a $5M Silicon Valley company . She has launched several high-tech (and non) companies. One exit which afforded Bea 6 years off on a resort bridgeless island where she dedicated her time to raising her three (then) small children. Bea serves as a founder, mentor, investor, and board member to several companies. She has also served as the Executive Director of the entrepreneurial non-profit The Creative Coast and was the Chair of the ForbesBooks Entrepreneurship Practice Group. She holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Emory University. She is blessed with three incredible children.

Bea Wray has dazzled audiences for 20 years speaking about entrepreneurship, leadership, and women in business. At age 27, she had the title CEO of a $5M Silicon Valley company . She has launched several high-tech (and non) companies. One exit which afforded Bea 6 years off on a resort bridgeless island where she dedicated her time to raising her three (then) small children. Bea serves as a founder, mentor, investor, and board member to several companies. She has also served as the Executive Director of the entrepreneurial non-profit The Creative Coast and was the Chair of the ForbesBooks Entrepreneurship Practice Group. She holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Emory University. She is blessed with three incredible children.

What Harvard Taught Me But My Kids Made Me Learn

Business is done with people not things.  Our children can be our best teachers of critical people skills like:
-Focus
-Communicating
-Goal Setting
-Negotiation
-Strategic Planning
Learn from accomplished author Bea Wray how parenting can be a break through for your career, not a break from your career path.
Entertainment-basedEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny

Entrepreneurial Advice in a Jar

Being an entrepreneur is lonely and mistakes are costly. 

Learn the most helpful nuggets saved from 30 years consulting with hundreds of successful start ups and high growth companies.

A jar is where preserve sometime we need for later.  So, this presentation brings you the best:
- technology hacks
- efficiency tricks
- communication skills
- foundation for building a great brand
- team alignment strategies
- sure fire...
Entertainment-basedEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny

Can't Make This Bleep Up: BIG Mistakes Real Companies Make

We sometimes hear "government should be run like business."  Well, even successful businesses can be poorly run.  Find out why and how.

Learn to avoid the mistakes others have made.

Explore common themes including:
- misaligned incentives
- personal insecurities trumping corporate success
- relationship choices over relevant experiences

Many thought Time Warner and AOL would make a great marriage.  But one layer deep into...
Entertainment-basedEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny

When Faith is All that is Left of Family

This emootional and inspirational presentation cuts to the core.

Hear how grit and perserverence can be powered by God's love.  Peek into real life stories and challenges around living with mental illness in a broken world.

Leave feeling empowered, grateful, and ready to take your life to a new height.
AttitudeEntertainment-basedEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny

Scripture Backwards

"Scripture Backwards" (book coming in 2019). This is an invitation to dive into scripture on a personal level. I explore how not every story is or should be read in the same way. For example the story of the Good Samaritan is often read to teach us to "Be a Good Samaritan." However, if we read it "backwards" from the perspective of the person beaten on the side of the road, we may see that God is showing us how help often doesn't come from the expected sources like the priest or the...
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Designed by God (even if not) Desired by Man

"Designed by God (even if not) Desired by Man" is the head and heart challenging look at deteriorating cultural norms conflicting with quality character standards.

How do we follow what we know is right?
How do we stand strong?
How do we see through societal temptations?
Where is the honor in business?

This presentation inspires and engages great leadership with a deep dive into the questions above and more very salient to today's environment.
Entertainment-basedEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny