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Janet Harris Lange

Janet Harris-Lange is national President of the National Women Business Owners Corporation. NWBOC was the first national certifier of women business enterprises providing certification as well as procurement opportunities. She has been a small business owner since 1972 and is president of Agenda Dynamics, Inc., a meeting, event and association management company in the West Palm Beach, Florida area. Agenda Dynamics, Inc. is certified as a woman business enterprise with the State of Florida.

She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Florida Atlantic University and began her professional career as a French and Spanish teacher.

Among her accomplishments, Janet has been a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) since 1982 and served as its national President in 1991-1992. She was a member of the Small Business Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 1993-1996 and was a delegate to the 1986 White House Conference on Small Business, and co-Chair of the Florida Delegation for the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business.

Her awards are numerous including the 1993 Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Inc. Magazine and the Gillian Rudd Leadership Award in 1994.

She has been featured in many publications, and on television and radio and authored a monthly article for a business magazine for women.

Janet is twice widowed and has an adult son and several stepchildren.

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