Aerial Development Group CEO named a 2014 EY North American Entrepreneurial Winning Woman
Britnie Turner is one of 13 winners in the US and Canada
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nov. 13, 2014 — Britnie Turner, founder/CEO of Aerial Development Group, was named one of 13 winners of the 2014 class of EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women. The North American competition and ongoing executive leadership program identifies high-potential women entrepreneurs whose businesses show real potential to scale and then helps them do it.
Aerial Development Group is a Nashville, Tenn.-based residential and commercial development company that revitalizes urban neighborhoods through renovation and infill. Through its social business enterprise model, a percentage of its profits support orphans in Africa and numerous Middle Tennessee organizations.
“It’s an honor to be named an EY Entrepreneurial Winning Woman and have access to top executives, investors and business advisors the program provides,” Turner said. “I look forward to the coaching and counsel.”
According to an independent assessment by Babson College, the program is working: North American program participant companies’ total 2013 revenue was 63% higher than their total revenues in the years before they joined the program. Individual participants average 20% revenue growth annually; in the second year of participation, however, their companies have been known to grow up to 50%. Winners also report increases in entrepreneurial confidence, growth goals, networks and media visibility, to name a few.
Past winners have included: Jessica Herrin, founder and CEO of Stella & Dot; Alexa Van Tobel, founder and CEO of LearnVest.com; Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer; Kara Goldin, founder and CEO of Hint; and Raegan Moya-Jones, founder and CEO of Aden + Anais.
“The Entrepreneurial Winning Women program has grown into a highly impactful platform that helps female entrepreneurs accelerate key corporate goals, in turn enabling them to grow rapidly,” said Kerrie MacPherson, Principal and North American Entrepreneurial Winning Women Executive Sponsor, Ernst & Young LLP. “Britnie Turner is an exceptional business leader with great potential. We are pleased to honor her as one of this year’s winners.”
Launched in 2008, the program is intended to help women entrepreneurs break through the barriers that keep thriving second-stage businesses from scaling to their full potential. Once selected, the entrepreneurs participate in an ongoing, customized program designed by EY to catalyze their companies’ growth by building and fostering critical relationships, enhancing leadership skills, expanding business know-how and providing increased visibility. They are coached on the five crucial leaps they need to scale up their business:
Thinking big and being bold;
Building a public profile;
Working on the business, rather than in it;
Finding and establishing the right networks;
Evaluating financing for expansion.
The distinguished panel of independent judges for the Entrepreneurial Winning Women program
included:
Cynthia Cohen, CEO, Strategic Mindshare
Mike Cohen, Managing General Partner, VGPartners
Laurie Cunnington, President, Cunnington & Cunnington (former President of Ward Williston Oil
Company)
Joy Taylor, Co-Founder and CEO, TayganPoint Consulting
The Entrepreneurial Winning Women program is conducted in collaboration with several organizations that encourage the development of women-owned businesses, including the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), The Committee of 200 (C200), Golden Seeds, the Kauffman Foundation, Babson College’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership and the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. For more information on the program, visit www.ey.com/us/entrepreneurialwinningwomen.
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