Leanna archer biography templates

The United States Army used to have a saying: “We do more by 9:00 am than most people do all day.” I bet you could say the same for Leanna Archer.

Archer is the 13 year old CEO of Leanna’s Inc., a hair care product company she started when she was 9.
Looking at the press page on her site: http://www.leannashair.com/PressRelease.html, you see an impressive list of interviews Leanna’s given, speeches and lectures, and newspaper press she’s received.

Leanna has been featured in Ebony magazine, Time magazine for Kids, and USA Today.

And not only has she founded a successful business, but Leanna also founded the Leanna Archer Foundation. In her words “I have taken the initiative to start an organization in Haiti and the USA to help underprivileged kids, Kids that are without any hope of becoming somebody that they can be proud of. My goal is to build a school in Haiti, provide all the kids with an education, a place to sleep and at least two meals a day. I will also be providing extra help for talented kids.”

Leanna was even invited to meet with the President of Haiti when he was at the White House.

In reading Leanna’s bio on her site, I was especially amazed by her Do-It-Now attitude. She says when she first introduced the idea of creating a business, she was told she was too young, to wait until she was older. Instead, she devised a plan to convince her parents to help, and presented them with overwhelming evidence that she was ready NOW!

Congratulations to Leanna on her many accomplishments. She is exactly the kind of person Kids Who Inspire wants to focus on.

Part Two:  An Interview with Leanna

Leanna Archer is the successful CEO of Leanna’s Hair and Founder of the Leanna Archer Foundation. This young entrepreneur has met with the President of Haiti about her initiatives to help Haitian school children, and has been interviewed by numerous magazines, tv and radio shows. She cares about helping other yo

One of America’s teen business prodigies says the characteristics that make a successful entrepreneur are determination, tenacity, hard work and discipline.

Adding, “running a business is not about what you like, it’s about what makes the customers happy,” she tells ghanabusinessnews.com in an exclusive interview via the internet.

Leanna Archer is only 13 years old and still in school at Our Lady of Providence school in Long Island, New York – she still does her home work, but she is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of her own business, Leanna’s Inc., a hair and body care company she started in 2005.

“I was eight when I initiated the idea of starting the business, it became official after I convinced my parents when I was nine,” she told ghanabusinessnews.com.

Asked how she got the idea to start her business at that tender age, she said, “I heard my parents always saying that the only way to get rich in life is to own your own business.” These words from her parents motivated her to start thinking about and eventually trying her hands at her business.

She started a business selling hair products made from a home-made recipe that her grandmother used on family members’ hair before she was born.

Leanna makes approximately $5000 monthly selling her products and she has been featured at number 12 in Inc. Magazine’s “30 under 30” entrepreneurs in America.

She has also been interviewed by most of the major media in the US, including ABC News, New York Daily and MSNBC.

On October 16, 2008, she rang the bell to open the NASDAQ Stock Market and on that day the market went up 400 points!

But Leanna didn’t have it easy starting her business.

“My very first challenge was convincing my parents that I was capable of following through on my idea to start a business,” she said.

She recounted her parents’ reaction when she told them about startin

Ilwad Elman was born in Somalia but spent her childhood in Canada - her family moved there after her father was assassinated when she was three.

When she was 19 she decided to return to Mogadishu. "There were only about four districts that were controlled by the government - the rest was taken over by al-Shabab at that time so the crossfire and the front lines were literally in my backyard," she says.

She became a social entrepreneur working with her mother to set up Sister Somalia - an organisation that provides counselling, medical services, education and business starter kits to women who have survived sexual violence.

She has helped 1,600 women set up their own businesses including shops, courier firms and food import companies. She has also helped former combatants to start afresh.

"It was really difficult for some people to see a young person in a position to lead… I even at times had people walk out of meetings just because they couldn't handle the idea of a young person trying to convey these messages to them," says Elman.

"There is life beyond the bullets… people are very entrepreneurial, people are very motivated and there is opportunity for change," she says.

The entrepreneurs featured spoke to Newshour on the BBC World Service.