March Motivation
Connect with students and professionals to explore different career industries and strategies to re-ignite your new year’s resolution through engaging panel discussions and networking.
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Event Details
Date: Friday, March 28, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET
Venue: UNC Charlotte, Cone Center Room 210 (Map)
Admission: Complimentary
Description
In partnership with ProjectSOL, Ascend Charlotte is hosting the March Motivation event. This event starts at 6pm eastern on March 28th at UNC Charlotte’s Cone Center in room #210.
Doors open right at 5pm, for networking with light snacks and beverages.
Ascend Charlotte’s panel discussion includes our Advisory board member, Vidya Raman, facilitating an engaging discussion on strategies to re-ignite and re-align new year’s resolutions and goal for a prosperous year full of achievements. The panel discussion includes our VP of Corporate Relations, Bee Thao and our VP of Community Relations, Ketsana Roberts.
Register to reserve your spot!
Agenda
5:00 PM:
Networking: Doors open at 5:00 PM ET for networking, accompanied by light snacks and beverages.
6:00 PM:
Panel Discussion: Begins promptly at 6:00 PM ET.
Speakers
Vidya Raman
Advisory Board Member
Ascend Charlotte, Executive Leadership
Vidya Raman is an award-winning speaker, coach, and author. Drawing from her corporate leadership experience and early career challenges, she empowers audiences with practical insights to unlock their potential and achieve success. Her book, LUCKY YOU, has earned rave reviews on Amazon.
Ketsana Roberts
Vice President of Community Relations
Ascend Charlotte
Ketsana Roberts is a Validation Engineer in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing industry. She is also serving her second year as co-VP of Community Relations for the Ascend Charlotte Chapter and is involved in other volunteer initiatives that aim to bring Inclusion, Diversity, Equality and Accessibility opportunities into the local Charlotte community.
Bee Thao
VP Corporate Relations
Ascend Charlotte
Bee Thao is a strategic capital markets leader driving operational excellence and creating innovative solutions with over 20 years of experience, specializing in whole loan sales, trading, pricing, diligence, and regulatory compliance. He has a strong track record managing portfolios exceeding $3.5 billion annually. As a Managing Member and Co-Founder of Note-Pros, LLC, Bee develops effective solutions for mortgage lending institutions and institutional buyers, leveraging extensive expertise in transactional legal agreements and asset management.
Safety of our guests is paramount to Ascend. Attendees are responsible for monitoring their own condition and agree to comply with the safety, hygiene and CDC identified pandemic level communicable illnesses (including COVID-19) guidelines established by relevant health authorities. We request that attendees not attend an event should they test positive or if they experience COVID symptoms prior to the event.