Janeen Uzzell, CEO, National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)

Money raised is not money collected. Janeen Uzzell, CEO of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), joins host Stephen Garten to explain how she brought a business mindset to a 51-year-old, student-led nonprofit. She walks through how NSBE recovered unpaid sponsorships after the pandemic, why most overdue sponsors were not refusing to pay, and how NSBE is funding sustainability instead of just the next program year.

In this episode:

• How NSBE grew from a Purdue chapter into a national organization
• Why the board created NSBE's first CEO role in 2021
• How NSBE rebuilt its collections and accounts receivable process
• Separating collections from sponsor relationship management
• Scaling NSBE SEEK with a sustainability grant from Bechtel
• Why engineers, not AI alone, will shape what comes next

Guest: Janeen Uzzell is CEO of the National Society of Black Engineers, former COO of the Wikimedia Foundation, and spent nearly two decades at GE.

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