CNBC Announces Lineup for “Small Business Playbook” on May 5th

April 27, 2022


Virtual Event to Offer Actionable Advice to Help Small Business Owners Thrive

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., April 27, 2022 – CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, today announced the lineup for its small business event franchise, Small Business Playbook, which will take place on Thursday, May 5th at 12pm ET.

This virtual summit will bring together inspirational voices to offer expert advice on how to manage businesses in this new landscape and examine leadership lessons and case studies in crisis management to help small business owners thrive in 2022. Led by CNBC anchors and reporters, Small Business Playbook will feature speakers including:

·    Stacey Abrams, former Georgia State Representative and Senior Vice President, Now Corp

·    Ramiro Cavazos, President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

·    Barbara Corcoran, Investor and Shark, Shark Tank

·    Joe DeSena, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Spartan

·    Roger Ferguson, former Vice Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve

·    Lara Hodgson, Chief Executive Officer, Now Corp

·    Ravin Jesuthasan, Senior Partner and Global Leader of Transformation, Mercer

·    Asahi Pompey, Global Head of Corporate Engagement and President, Goldman Sachs Foundation

·    Bridget Weston, Chief Executive Officer, SCORE

Small Business Playbook will host discussions around topics such as navigating inflation and examining the road ahead, the pros and cons of the automation movement, politics in the workplace, transforming challenges into new opportunities, and the ongoing labor crisis, among others.

Content from the conference will be made available throughout CNBC’s Business Day programming and on CNBC Digital as well as a variety of social media platforms. To join the conversation, use #CNBCSmallBiz.

Staples, Inc. is the sponsor of Small Business Playbook.

To learn more about the event and register to attend, please visit: cnbcevents.com/smallbusiness/.

For more information about CNBC Events, attending, speaking or sponsoring, go to: https://www.cnbcevents.com.

About CNBC:

CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news, providing real-time financial market coverage, business content and general news consumed by more than 547 million people per month across all platforms. The network’s 15 live hours a day of news programming in North America (weekdays from 5:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a mix of new reality programming, CNBC’s highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.

CNBC also offers content through its vast portfolio of digital products such as: CNBC.com, which provides financial market news and information to CNBC’s investor audience; CNBC Make It, a digital destination focused on making you smarter about how you earn, save and spend your money; CNBC PRO, a premium service that provides in-depth access to Wall Street; a suite of CNBC mobile apps for iOS and Android devices; Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Siri voice interfaces; and streaming services including Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Samsung Smart TVs. To learn more, visit https://www.cnbc.com/digital-products/.

Members of the media can receive more information about CNBC and its programming on the NBCUniversal Media Village Web site at http://www.nbcumv.com/programming/cnbc. For more information about NBCUniversal, please visit http://www.NBCUniversal.com.


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