Shawn Boyer will be the keynote speaker at the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce Salute to Small Business Awards Luncheon.
The event is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 3, at 11:30 a.m., at the Best Western Plus Waynesboro Inn & Suites Conference Center in Waynesboro.
Register: augustava.com-Events Calendar.
Boyer is the founder and CEO of DieHappy, an intentionality app that helps you do things for and with your most important people. Prior to DieHappy, he founded and was CEO of Snagajob, the nation’s largest marketplace for hourly workers and employers, from 2000-2013, and then Chairman of the Board through 2015.
Boyer directed Snagajob’s rapid growth from an idea to a marketplace that now has over 70 million members and over 50,000 employers. Snagajob has been named to Fortune Magazine’s Great Place to Work® Best Small & Medium Workplaces list for eight straight years (including five top 10 finishes and a #1 ranking in 2011) and was a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company for five consecutive years.
In 2008, Shawn was named the National Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration and received public recognition from President George W. Bush. Boyer is a frequent speaker regarding building great workplace cultures and rapidly scaling businesses and has appeared in places such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Good Morning America, CNN and in daily newspapers throughout the nation.
He is also the author of Help Wanted & Help Found: The insiders’ guide to recruiting & hiring hourly workers. Boyer is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and the Washington & Lee School of Law, and he received his LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. He has sat and continues to sit on a number of different non-profit boards.
The awards luncheon offers well-deserved recognition to small businesses for their achievements and contributions to the economy in the Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro communities. These awards will celebrate the fact that small business owners make up more than 92%of all employers in the USA – and also more than 80% of the Chamber’s membership.
Awards presented will include: Small Business, Entrepreneur, Non Profit and Community Hero of the Year. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the organization that is awarded the Community Hero award.
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