Could 21, 2025
4 distinguished enterprise leaders can be honored on the BLACK ENTERPRISE 2025 Black Males XCEL Summit.
The 2025 BLACK ENTERPRISE Black Males XCEL honorees have been introduced, with Dr. George Fraser, John Hope Bryant, Larry Fitzgerald, and Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson set to be celebrated for his or her groundbreaking contributions to group progress.
The annual celebration honoring influential Black males in management returns to the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida, from Oct. 15–17. On Could 20, BLACK ENTERPRISE unveiled this yr’s lineup of trailblazers acknowledged for his or her contributions throughout enterprise, sports activities, and group influence.
“We’re thrilled to have this chance to pay well-deserved honor to males who’re items to the world,” says BLACK ENTERPRISE President and CEO Earl “Butch” Graves Jr.
“Their examples are a correct tribute to previous XCEL Award honorees and highly effective motivation to aspiring honorees to come back. They’re dwelling embodiments of the Black Enterprise mission of elevating excellence.”
NFL legend Larry Fitzgerald Jr. can be honored for his impactful work throughout sports activities, philanthropy, and finance. Regarded by many as one of many biggest receivers in NFL historical past, Fitzgerald continues to point out his prowess past the sector as a founding normal associate of Trenches Capital, a personal fairness agency investing throughout various sectors.
He additionally serves as president of Larry Fitzgerald Enterprises (LFE), his platform for values-driven enterprise and charitable efforts. In 2005, he established the Larry Fitzgerald Basis in reminiscence of his mom, who handed from breast most cancers in 2003. The basis focuses on empowering underserved communities worldwide, supporting youth improvement, and offering assets to households affected by breast most cancers.
John Hope Bryant can be honored for his enterprise, finance, and group empowerment management. He’s the founder, chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, the nonprofit he launched in response to the 1992 Rodney King riots to advertise financial uplift in underserved communities.
Hope Bryant additionally leads Bryant Group Ventures and The Promise Houses Firm and co-founded International Dignity. A trusted adviser to high enterprise and authorities leaders, he has authored a number of bestselling books on monetary empowerment. His public service consists of roles below Presidents Bush and Obama, the place he centered on monetary literacy and financial inclusion for underserved populations.
Dr. George C. Fraser can be honored for his visionary management in networking and entrepreneurship, specializing in uplifting Black professionals. A prolific creator of influential works like Race for Success and Success Runs in Our Race, Fraser has remodeled how professionals construct significant connections.
As founding father of the acclaimed PowerNetworking Convention, hailed by Forbes as one of many “high 5 conferences to not be missed,” Fraser has championed range, fairness, and inclusion whereas creating areas that elevate collaboration, management, and group empowerment. His newest e book, The New Flex: The Artwork of Being Unapologetically Black, highlights his continued affect and unwavering dedication to empowering Black professionals.
Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson can be honored for his lifelong dedication to service and transformative management. He started his pastoral journey at Rising Mount Zion and St. James Baptist Church buildings earlier than turning into Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in 1975, the place he has led the congregation into turning into one of many nation’s most progressive religion communities.
A world servant, Rev. Richardson has traveled throughout 5 continents and championed group empowerment by way of founding the Coalition for the Empowerment of Individuals of African Ancestry. His advocacy helped Mount Vernon elect Westchester County’s first predominantly African American faculty board in 1997.
BLACK ENTERPRISE 2025 Black Males XCEL is the place excellence meets legacy. Be a part of us in Orlando, FL | Oct. 15–17, 2025, on the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress. For a restricted time solely, use code MEMORIAL25 to save lots of on registration.
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